In fairness it’s strong plastic, but I wish they’d used metal. Curse you Timberland!

I definitely haven’t had the same experience. Anything I get that is pleather ends up breaking down sooner rather than later (especially thrifted pleather). Hell, my favorite pair of pleather pants recently lost a dish sized area by the crotch, and those were bought new from a brand I trust. Virtually every pair of pleather boots has ended up in the trash, and I currently have a long pleather skirt that basically ripped from floor to waist that I’m still deciding whether to fix or not.

I will add the disclaimer that I’m an experienced leatherworker which affects my bias

I rarely get real leather new, and when it fails it’s rarely the actual leather. I have a jacket I thrifted about a decade ago that is still going strong, though I’ve had to replace the buttons a few times. My most recent leather boots survived multiple camping trips and heavy use, until the plastic zipper broke. Even my leatherwork mainly uses repurposed scraps. At this point my partner and I refuse to buy/use a daily purse that is anything but leather because of how long it lasts. It’s worth repairing leather, it’s not worth repairing pleather.

And it’s fucking terrible compared to real leather. It’ll start flaking or cracking after a year, it’s fucking dangerous around fire, it offers no fucking insulation or protection, it’s shit.

A problem in the fire performer community is that novices will grab it thinking it’s the same as real leather, or because they oppose real leather, and we always have to pull them aside and give em a stern talk about how dangerous it is

They specifically don’t require a free hand

Instead of using a weapon to make a melee attack, you can use a punch, kick, headbutt, or similar forceful blow. In game terms, this is an Unarmed Strike

D&D isn’t a real world simulator. It values them all equally.

An Unarmed Strike without modifier would also be literally 1 point of damage, barring Monk or Unarmed Fighting Style

So there’s a few issues here:

• Unarmed Strikes do not require an open hand. Punches, kicks, and slams all count as the same Unarmed Strike
• If you were to allow this, there would be no reason to allow someone with two Shortswords or a Greataxe to do a BA strike
• …which would then render the BA attack from Polearm Master moot since they no longer need a feat to do that
• I’ll also note that the fighter with a sword in one hand and nothing in the other is likely using the Duelist fighting style, so that sword attack is effectively two die sizes larger. A Duelist Longsword is roughly equivalent to a Greatsword to put it in perspective

At the end of the day, allowing martials to perform a BA Unarmed Strike wouldn’t be game breaking, but it needs to be applied universally which has secondary implications

There are other games with fewer mechanical rules where you can go crazy with this kinda stuff. D&D is one of the most mechanically crunchy ones out there

Unarmed Strikes are not just punches, they have nothing to do with how many hands you have. You can even Unarmed Strike with a weapon in each hand. If you want to “dual wield” Unarmed Strikes, go Monk.

I’d rather have no subtitles than subtitles in different languages. I hate watching Amélie on streaming because the subs are always in English

Apple and grape are the same

8oz of Welch grape juice has 35g sugar. 20oz of classic coke has 65g sugar. Adjusted for volume, that’s 26g/8oz. Somehow fucking coke has less sugar. Apple is ironically the same as coke at 53g per 16oz

C’est un crazy rod là

Bruh we’ve been on the front lines our whole lives. Its your turn

We really need more cis people to speak up because no one ever listens to trans people. Everyone assumes we have some sort of bias (our bias is “we want to continue living”) and ignores us until it’s way too late.

I’ve been out for over 11 years. I’ve literally gone on stage and read off bills. it’s been nonstop and has only gotten worse

I fled the country and now have to renew my passport. Having a really fun time with that right now

Yeah US sales tax applies to everything. It’s not like HST that varies by product

This is a human rights violation akin to chemical castration

The problem isn’t necessarily the workers, the problem is management. It’s an extension of class warfare. Copying an old comment of mine

I left one of the big tech companies this year. AI perverted absolutely everything. The only thing worse than vibe code is having to maintain someone else’s vibe code on a codebase you spent the last 7 years nursing. Vibe code is absolute trash, but it’s management’s shiny new toy so they make it everyone’s problem.

Expectations changed because of it. A project that would normally take 3 months to plan and implement was expected in a week, quality be damned. We racked up over 500 bugs in a year for a different unreleased application. I would get deadlines in the middle of my vacation days.

And I haven’t even gotten to the moral and humanitarian issues

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