Surenho

So... Everyone is John? Dnd players keep reinventing the wheel and patting themselves in the back for it.

You can see this is clearly fake when the crab is shown having to be literate to run for office.

This rings so much for nordic countries too.

Not necessarily the topic itself, but many factors affect IQ tests performance. Our perception and assessment of the world around us is strongly biased by our culture and education. The one factor you mentioned being the language is amongst many but its relevance should not be downplayed.

I admit I wrote that comment being reductionist. Mostly because IQ tests and the conversation around them is often reductionist too, and lends itself to western elitism. The history of the study of intelligence is terrible and we should be better at dealing with the topic these days.

Some examples of bias: https://neurolaunch.com/many-intelligence-tests-are-biased-in-that-they/ https://www.science.org/content/article/what-does-iq-really-measure

In any case, people should start viewing IQ testing as "cultural testing". We know it doesn't really capture "intelligence" but a western way of thinking about things. So basically some twins are more educated in western thinking than their siblings, and it has to do with their upbringing into the culture. Not surprised.

I call BS, no mention of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 and 2 and no Cyberpunk. They fail to give a clear idea of what qualifies as a rpg, but I guess the definition itself is a bit too broad.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 & 2: 👌🏻

Bad bad google! Spanky spank for you! (Google revenue)

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Amazing game, just like its predecessor. Clunky movement and combat as usual though, kinda sad that it did not improve that much. Still improved though.

Does Wilfred count?

Nowadays it is Dropout's Game Changer and Make Some Noise

I play cis males only, but not as a rule. I just generally will make male characters, likely in part to feeling better prepared at interpreting them, and in part that I feel like I would not play another gender correctly. I understand that it is an illusion, as I could simply play them as any other human/non-human being, especially as I've played other species without issue. But I feel like I would not be able to give them the nuance and characteristics they deserve, and would end up defaulting to cis male attitudes.

I also tend to want to play old characters, as I feel like young ones are too boring. They tend to have too short of a history to have an interesting identity and lore behind them, and I love the idea of facing large challenges later in life while struggling with the decisions of the past and our own will to change. I played in a one-shot where I made an old farm veterinarian that would roam the lands helping people with their animals, who had a fall-off with one of his sons for joining the army of an oppressive despot, and a merchant daughter that traded in stolen artifacts. Rumour had it my character had killed his own wife, and in reality what had happened was that he poisoned her because she was sick and suffering but the religious fanatics did not want to let her die while she suffered. I love characters with personality problems, dense pasts, and a complicated family.

Proud of you. Now going for an all-technocratic party game?