It’s not about identity as much as it’s a very poor way to try to convince someone.
Don’t base your line of argument on a statement you know the other person will likely disagree with.
For example “You should play Pathfinder because DnD sucks”, holds no weight to people who don’t think that DnD sucks. In fact if they happen to like DnD, it undermines your argument, because if you disagree about DnD, aren’t you also likely to disagree about Pathfinder?
If they play a system, they probably like that system and find its shortcomings acceptable. You can’t convince someone that a system isn’t enjoyable when they have first-hand evidence to the contrary.
Asking people to stop being comfortable doing something they like, so that they can be uncomfortable doing something you like, isn’t a good value proposition.
If you lead with “Thing you like is actually bad”, their immediate response will be to disagree with you and start defending the thing they like. And if you want someone to listen to your arguments, rather than just try to poke holes in them, you must avoid putting them on the defensive.
To get through to people, find common ground and build off that. “If you like FEATURE in GAME, you’ll probably love SIMILAR FEATURE in OTHER GAME because…” is something that’s actually going to get someone interested, rather than start a pointless argument :)
Well there are no crits on checks in 5e, so a nat 20 +0 is no different from a nat 6 +14. And someone with a +14 can’t fail a check with a DC of 15 or lower.
Having Degrees of Success built into the system in PF2 is really neat though. And seems like something DnD could easily incorporate if Wizards had any vision.
“if Republic of China want to become Republic of Taiwan, they probably should publish the declaration of independence”
They don’t have that choice. While independence is quite popular in Taiwan, the PRC has made it very clear that they see any movement toward Taiwanese independence as cause for war. Going so far as to fire literal warning shots over the island in 2022 and 1996.
Depending on where the burn is you can just put the burnt part in a container with cool water instead. It’s much more practical to walk around with your hand in a cup than to be standing next to the faucet.
But the PRC is not a direct continuation of the Qing.
The USA can’t lay claim to Great Britain just because they used to part of the same country before the revolution.
“shouldn’t be too hard”?!
A regular lich is CR 21.
For comparison, an adult red dragon is CR 17 and the most powerful demon, the balor, is CR 19.
There are almost no creatures more powerful than liches. Even ones that are not Vecna.
There’re a lot of privacy enthusiasts who seem to view privacy as a binary. So because Mozilla isn’t perfect, it’s as bad as can be.
They also commonly have little understanding of the underlying technology, law, business, etc., which I guess is why they can’t do any threat modeling. They’re just really scared of a nebulous threat they do not understand. Which I can sympathize with.
But privacy then becomes more about “staying pure” in some abstract sense, rather than about avoiding concrete threats.
(As a tip to those who want to do better, any real security starts with threat modeling. There is no such thing as perfect security, it’s always a tradeoff. So you must do threat modeling to make sure you’re putting your resources where they will make a difference.)