In particle physics, a hadron takes on attributes like charge, up/down, or left/right by simple addition of the attributes of constituent particles. But in biology, there is not a simple correspondence of any sex chromosome pattern to anatomical sex presentation. X, XX, XY, XXY, XYY, chimeras and more are viable patterns and none of them guarantee presentation as anatomically male, female, or intersex. Different rules at such vastly different scales.

Liar says what

sometimes nothing is a real cool hand

As a DEI hire of the pedo-shield con-artist regime, Pete Hegseth is about as credible as a meth-addled mynah bird trained on a dramatic reading of the complete works of James Joyce

The word “love” is used in a number of distinct senses. Some aren’t a matter of volition - I love a nice glass of Merlot or a mug of ale with dinner, and I can choose day-to-day whether or not to indulge that taste - but I didn’t choose the preference itself. It just is.

In another sense, love is measured in the time and effort you spend on someone’s happiness. If I say I love my kids but I don’t ever make time to bond with them and demonstrate what it means to be the parent they want and need - then yes we should question if that’s really love.

Trump talk nonsense? Is it a day ending in “Y” again already?

“according to Israeli security officials” is worth about as much as “according to Trump”

MSN “Raw Story” link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-slapped-with-310m-lawsuit-alleging-epstein-identical-trafficking-operation/ar-AA1Rzjid

There’s a historical cycle where the helping professions rotate the terminology out, as the wider culture overloads the old terms with insulting usage. Eventually the new vernacular leaks out into general parlance and the cycle cycles. “Retarded” was once acceptable clinical terminology because "idiot, “moron”, and “imbecile” had accumulated cultural baggage. The latter terms were, themselves, once politically correct alternatives to even older terms.

I think it’s naive to think that THIS time is special, and today’s politically correct terminology won’t ever leak out into common usage as a slur too.

“mistakenly” wink wink

Not an honest mistake, not under this regime

Falling out of windows is all the rage this decade

How’s that work, everyone gets some capital? If not then I’m pretty sure he’s just pitching more corporate welfare without calling it that.

How shocking, the tax preparer middleman parasite industry has successfully lobbied the the most openly corrupt federal government in my lifetime to block direct file again

I wish I could believe this but the reality is fascism drives away competence so we have an executive regime that can’t figure out how to have a top secret meeting on discord without accidentally inviting random journalists

I had to use Reddit a few days back because apparently that’s the only place DuckDuckGo looks for search page bug reports

It felt bad

I used to spend a lot of time there but yeah fuck spez and the oligarchy dicksuckery he’s blatantly committed to

To address your original question more squarely - I might use such a resource if it was free. First because the rarity tiers are poorly thought out and second because even if characters are networking through factor/dealers instead of browsing a shopkeeper’s dispaly case - you still have to assign a price.

The 1st Edition DM’s Guide gave every wondrous item its own specific gold piece value. The relative valuations weren’t perfect but I was shocked when I came back to D&D in 5E to find per-item valuation was abandoned. If I was going to tackle the problem myself, I’d refer to the 1E DMG valuations as a starting point for consumables like potions and scrolls, then consult a few of the most popular “magic item tier guide” articles to supplement 5E’s overly broad and internally flawed valuation by arbitrary rarity tags.

Classic example, the merely “Uncommon” Weapon of Warning is arguably a keeper all the way to endgame. Many DMs even nerf away its party-wide benefits entirely, because making the whole group reliably immune to surprise is game-breaking. You could gain the same personal benefit, and free up the attunement slot, by spending a precious Feat slot to take the Alert feat - but even that doesn’t compare with also making all allies within 30’ immune to surprise.

If you survey the 1E magic item valuations, it helps to be aware that a) attunement slots weren;t a thing - you could equip a lot more magic! Also, b) wands in general and many other “spend a charge” items did not regain X number of charges every day. A Wand of Fireballs with 50 charges was worth about 50 Scrolls of Fireball - and when you spent the last charge, it was just a nonmagical stick again.

I didn’t question the trope of magic item shops back in the 1E/2E days. I wouldn’t run it that way now. For anything more wondrous than healing potions and +1 weapons/armor, the characters have to network through patrons, quest givers, guildmasters, mentors.

This isn’t a big problem in less experienced/more casual groups, but some players (myself included) do like to pore over articles like “most powerful wondrous items for bards”. I don’t think it’s good for the game to feed an expectation that characters can acquire any item they can name if they just save up enough coin and search enough magic shops.

The story where YHWH declares He handed over His people to captivity to chasten them for falling away from His commandments to comfort the poor, the foreigner, the widow and the fatherless (Jeremiah 32:25-29, Hosea 10:10)?

Must have been carrying a lot of Epstein files!

The only Kingsolver I’ve read was “The Bean Trees”, which I loved. Didn’t realize it was her debut novel at the time.