As someone who hasn't been tracking these UA updates at all, how are the new classes? Are they way more balanced and more fun than the base classes? What makes them better?
Kind of, but not really. You were equating Hamas and all Palestinians together. They're not all the same. Lots of Palestinians want peace, including ones that have been in governing positions. I'm glad you crossed out the one sentence that did that but you've still got this one:
Here is a list of peace offers which would grant the Palestinians a country of their own, they refused all of them
That's a very ambiguous "they" up there and seems to refer to all Palestinians and not just Hamas.
Hamas has been a great excuse to break off peace negotiations, though. I can see why Bibi propped them up to prevent a two state solution. It's worked wonders, although hopefully the blowback of this past event takes him out of political life forever now.
That doesn't sound right. One of those was stopped by an assassination. One was stopped by conservatives gaining power in Israel. One was stopped by a war between Fatah and Hamas.
The PLO offered peace in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014 and were stopped by Israel.
Many were stopped because of a Hamas attack or Israel refusing to stop taking West Bank territory.
It seems like you were saying that because Palestine didn't give in to Israel's demands every time that it's always their fault.
This is from some quick research, though. Someone feel free to correct me.
Right? It's something you usually wouldn't think of compared to the bombs and stuff, but it really would be terrible, living under that constant noise. It's like some accidental mental torture.
I'm guessing drones. This was from an article in September, before the recent conflict, talking about the constant noise of drones flying overhead is an ever present source of fear and anxiety in Gaza.
Some excerpts:
"Unmanned surveillance aircraft have become an integral part of Israel's 15-year-old blockade of the impoverished enclave, and 2.3 million Palestinians endure their incessant hum."
"Gaza teenager Bissam says she has trouble sleeping and concentrating as the buzzing sound of Israeli military drones above the crowded Palestinian enclave drives her to distraction."
"Sometimes I have to put the pillow on my head so I don't hear its buzz," she said, adding that the drone noise gives her headaches."
"He told AFP that "the buzzing of the drones and the intermittent raids of the F16 (warplanes) have become an integral part of our lives"
At least strikes have been increasing in the industries which have unions. We just need wider union participation and that would be one more avenue to political participation normal workers could be involved in.
Nah it's pretty bad lol. They just slowly crank up which people are impacted, as fascism tends to do, so maybe you personally haven't noticed. Or plenty of people have noticed and aren't sure what the cause is (so they support fascists instead). But if you're a woman, LGBTQ, a teacher, a student, poor, disabled, or tons of other things you will have noticed quality of life steadily getting worse. It's just a lot of people aren't sure what the cause is or how to fix it because political knowledge and participation is so low in this country.
Oh definitely, I agree 100%. Player's fun above all else. I had to defend it because I'm the kind of person who wouldn't mind this, but with a DM and party who uses it for cool story purposes, not to screw me over.
(Rest of this post is just me reminiscing lol)
For an example, one of our old group's favorite sessions of all time, one we would talk about for years to come, was when we were imprisoned in an anti-magic field prison without weapons or equipment and had to escape. Sure we lost our spells and equipment, but it was only one session, it let some players shine who hadn't in a long time, and the spell caster(s) still had ways to contribute (the DM dropped interactable pieces of the environment they could manipulate to help us escape during battles and the followers that came in to help spring us had a relationship with them, so they were controlled by them, too).
Or another time, a DM had a paladin's god threaten them with falling when they kept doing evil stuff. She never actually lost her powers, but the fear of it pushed her to do a solo atonement quest when we split up during downtime where we she could get more fun character story spotlight and she came back with a cool sword or armor or something.
Well the wizard loses his spells of he loses his spellbook or spell components, or at least that's how it used to be.
Got nothing for the Artificer. It would be cool if they had tools or something like that they used. But I don't think it's about fairness as it is about immersion. Depending on the patron, especially the ones all about planning or intelligence, it breaks some people's suspension of disbelief that they would make such dumb contracts that allowed the person to keep powers or gain new ones after betraying them.
Not to mention services like Netflix cracking down on account sharing. I will keep it if I can share it with my parents and they can buy a streaming service and share it with me. But if it's just for me, it's not worth spending the money on. I'd rather just pirate the one or two shows I want to watch on Netflix, or sign up for a month, watch something that looks interesting then unsubscribe.
As someone who hasn't been tracking these UA updates at all, how are the new classes? Are they way more balanced and more fun than the base classes? What makes them better?