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The whole "evil" side of alignment is stupid. "Selfish" would be a better choice.

Eh, not in D&D/pathfinder/etc. universes, usually. Evil is, like, an actual thing there, with its own pantheon of concept enforcers, physical manifestations, etc., etc. It generally is kinda' stupid, but that's usually true for just about anything in those settings that actually adheres to an alignment -- anything that does that is going to be mono-focused to a degree they start missing things. A pure expressions of any of the alignments is basically full blown insanity.

You just have to think of those settings as, beyond the general hellworld thing, what amounts to battlegrounds between conceptual, lovecraft-style, eldritch gods that just happen to take a less immediately mind-destroying form in favor of a more insidious insanity dispersal method. You're not really dealing with stupid, per se, as you are with Other. Stuff that, when you get right down to it, is fundamentally inimical to life as we generally know it. You'll note well that most of the alignment planes in those universes don't manage to support a baseline human population :V

Selfish Chaotic character would not go and randomly do evil stuff that would certainly cause his/her death, for one.

Well, sure, but what we'd consider lolrandom evillulz of self-destructive attention-grabbing in a sane, stable universe, is stuff that can very much literally provide unlimited cosmic power in these places. Capital-E Evil is something that has significant metaphysical and magical backup in these places. What would be guaranteed death in a sane world is very much not in the hellscapes that most P&P RPG settings consist of.

At least I'm not as bad as the wizard, who is a dark, broody type necromancer with an intense hard-on for murder and violence.

... is, uh. That being a necromancer. How literal...?

Now now desc, I've been to LA and it's not what you'd call irredeemably lost. Has its problems, but not the worst of places as cities go.

Might be a shame if it started sharing a diminutive with labour, though...

Harem in itself is not bad, but its introduction tends to apply a negative modifier to likeability for me, as they tend to detract from just about anything else more interesting and/or 'here is the protagonist with all the love interests after them, please relate yourself to the protagonist'.  Obviously I'm not the demographic being pandered to.

Mm... me, it's romance that is the baseline negative modifier more than what form it takes. I actually kinda' enjoy well constructed romance plots, but by default I'm notably more leery of a piece of media that includes it than one that doesn't. Tends to lead to really lazy character interactions or incredibly unhealthy relationships, even outside of anime. That said, it's a lot easier to initially hook me with an attempt at polyamory than it is with something more mundane. S'more exotic, y'know? Frumple likes the OT3+.

Even most harem setups in anime tend to functionally be monogamous with jealousy gags and fanservice thrown in, though. It's unfortunate. I mean, I generally like the fanservice but I could do without the jealousy, heh.

... actually, can anyone think of an anime that's full-on polyamorous? Not polygamic or polyandric, but something with more than one of both genders. Stuff's freaking rare period, not just in anime. Usually you get threesomes or one side going solo at best...

They shut down a rehabilitation center not far from where I live for no other reason then "Ohhh, criminals shouldn't be treated well" in spite the fact that it was actually so successful it paid for itself.

Like... hold on, here. The center was literally paying for itself? Providing full funding through its own activities? And they shut it down?

... this is definitely the right thread for that, if so. That's some sincere nose chopping, right there.

They appear to be. Unfortunately >_>

I've been hearing a bit about that for a while now, I think. Apparently some folks in canada are having issues with sex ed programs that are actually worth a damn? From what I recall the ones they're trying to implement are genuinely decent, for ruddy once. May be thinking of a different region, I'unno.

Which is, like. I'm from the states. I feel canada's pain. Huge swaths of this country act like they're allergic to a functioning sex ed curriculum.

... I have no intention of actually watching that, but I will say the creators' nom de guerre are amazing.