Well, I don’t know about you, but I came here to make such a reference

Currently replaying The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD. Also have a save going for Stardew Valley and Baldur’s Gate 3 (well, I have a few games going for BG3; I have my solo game, I have a game with my partner, I have a game with my partner and a friend, and then I have a game with my partner and two of his friends). I should also get back into Pathfinder: Kingmaker, but I think at this point I need to restart my save because it’s been so long.

I do video editing myself in Linux and Kdenlive does pretty much everything I need. The UI is a bit odd to learn but I’d imagine any new editing software is gonna have a learning curve of some sort.

I would as well

Show empathy towards those that have different experiences than I do

Ah, gotcha, didn’t see that

Also didn’t Jenny and Madame Vastra kiss or am I misremembering

Yeah, it does look like it’s dead, pretty much. I’d love to start something but between my two jobs and moving soon, I don’t really have the time

The only thing is the comments that he’s found have been from that subreddit…

I know it’s not perfect, but it seems to be pretty prevalent based on the things my partner is searching (as he’s coming upon the negative comparisons a lot).

That’s fair, and I personally like PF2E better than 5E. After having GM’ed PF2E for about a year to a year and a half (this was from about 2021 to about 2022), I don’t feel like I could DM 5E again because it puts so much pressure on the DM to work (rulings over rules) and while some are okay with that, I personally don’t like it.

Perhaps, I’ll try recommending them to him as well, although I think I may have before

I mean I know the Internet is often a toxic place, but I don’t think telling him “oh well the Internet is just toxic, deal with it” would help the situation. I suppose one thing I’m looking for here is potentially an alternative to Reddit for searching up questions about Pathfinder such that he would avoid D&D comparisons in a negative light (I say a negative light just because Pathfinder was born from 3.5E, so comparisons are going to happen regardless because the two games are related).

Maybe the simplest way to do this is, when your partner tells you, “I read someone being mean about 5e” you just ask, “Do you agree with them?”

I mean I know he doesn’t, mostly because I’ve known him for a little over two years at this point.

I think the main issue is that people online are stating their opinion as fact or talking about PF2E and ignoring their biases against 5E. Asking people online to check their biases is a tall task I suppose, but I guess that goes back to my main question of this post of finding a knowledge center for Pathfinder that doesn’t include negativity towards 5E.

Hiya, I sent you a DM but the long and short of it is that I’m also in the southeastern Louisiana area and am queer and would be down to get more queer friends in the area

I’ll share it with him tomorrow as it’s pretty late for me and I have work early. I’m simply just not super confident sharing the analogy with him will stop him from quitting the hobby altogether or at least stop him from playing Pathfinder

Just a note that Proton VPN doesn’t allow P2P on their free plan.

That’s such a great analogy, I just wish I felt more confident about sharing it with my partner.

Exactly, my motto is let people enjoy things if they’re not hurting anyone

if he wants to continue browsing the Reddit community for Pathfinder

I’ve tried talking to him about this and he’s said that that’s how he got into 5E, by trying to ask questions and finding answers online for them. And since PF2E has such a smaller community than 5E does, there aren’t many place to go find answers to questions.

Yeah that’s fair

By imager, I just mean when installing an OS