No, it's a joke about dinosaur taxonomy. A statistics joke would still fit though, this is science memes, not dinosaur memes.
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He reprised his original appearance in The Chats' video for Dine n Dash, too.
Understandable - I prefer lovecraftian and fey creatures for alien thought processes, and use devils more as a foil/mirror to the lawful god of cities, merchants, and wealth, whomst I hate and will take any opportunity to drag.
No, the joke is that crocodiles aren't dinosaurs despite looking like them and being around at the same time, just closely related, while birds technically are dinosaurs, just not the big lizards of 64 million years ago.
I'd argue Devils, by their nature of being lawful as well as evil, are often interesting villains because of their "species", but it's kinda different when it's a creature literally made from the primordial essence of Evil rather than just a bad dude.
Go into the notes of almost any of their releases and you'll find borderline schizophrenic screeds full of hate and bigotry. Racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, thinking the Harry Potter series is good, all kinds of shit. Also, at least once she said she was going to jail because she was caught cracking something but kept putting out releases without any disruption. Here's one from the time she was accused of being a trans woman (cw: all of the above)
Counterpoint: The overwhelming majority of curses are either crippling or a complete nonissue. Something like mummy rot will quickly kill a character, and curses that impose penalties on stats or rolls either affect something they use, making the character almost useless, or doesn't, so doesn't matter. If you don't want the party remove cursing a specific curse, just make it more powerful than them.
Counterspelling is bad for a similar reason curses are bad, not remove curse - the overwhelming majority of counterspelling mechanics make it either too easy to too hard. Too hard and it's just not worth trying, and too easy makes combat a matter of who has more casters.
The only thing I could find in the "context"'s source was this:
this suggests that a Russian car rallying fan had their account hijacked and repurposed as opposed to a Russian disinfo op
which wasn't even about the source of the claim, just one of the accounts that amplified it.
Maybe we can just accept that Britain has a dangerous number of abhorrent racists instead of blaming it on those sneaky foreigners?
It's ridiculous that the author thinks they can tell other games to follow D&D when they've only looked at D&D. Not only does this update lag well behind most TTRPGs, it doesn't actually bring it up to date - species has its own issue of being inaccurate in a game rampant with half-lineages, which is why other games moved to terms like lineage and ancestry instead. These are discussions people have had because of the problems of D&D, it hasn't been a trailblazer since the release of 3.0.
Not sure why you'd interpret validity as applying to the concept of it being an idea rather than the idea's relation to reality.
I know they're both called classes, but martial arts and higher education aren't remotely comparable in their content or methods. Also you seem to be arguing against yourself by saying martial arts classes (or debate clubs) won't help you in a real fight (or argument).
This is exactly why I say ideas don't have to be treated as valid because they exist - your ideas exist but are just a mess of half formed, contradictory assumptions. The only reason to show your ideas at all is as a demonstration of really terrrible ones, and nobody needs to be forced to defend them to prove their lack of validity.
No, equating alignment and morality makes them both meaningless. Morality should be tied to outlooks/philosophies etc, a personal matter of how the individual acts in a situation, while alignment with the forces of good/evil/law/chaos should be a matter of absolute determinism. It's easy to look at D&D and say it's wrong, but just because something's bad in D&D doesn't mean the idea itself is bad.