“ Oooh something amazing happened yesterday. A bunch of guys were watching 'Naked and Afraid' in the lounge yesterday which, as you may know is a reality tv show where they drop a guy and a girl off naked in the woods or desert or some random place and they have to build a shelter and survive and stuff for 21 days before getting rescued. So we were watching this one episode and the guy was this 52 year old retired marine from Brooklyn with a thick Brooklyn accent and he was trained in the marines for jungle survival in Panama and he's like "I hope whoever im paired with is okay with taking orders because im good at taking charge, and blah blah blah." And then the chick he was paired up with was some 25 year old girl who is like a wilderness EMT and also a vegetarian and is like "I'm not good with taking orders from people... im an independent woman and do my own thing, I'm really just looking to spend some time in the wilderness and get in touch with nature, etc." And of course, the guys in berthing immediately turned on the girl like 'oh, she's a vegetarian, that's not going to go well in this survival situation..." So, as the episode progressed, that paradigm quickly shifted and turned right on the guy. He accidentally cut himself with his machete and she's like "Oh hey, that's probably going to get infected....want me to make a bandage for you, clean it out?" and he's like "Nah, real men don't need bandages." And she's like "...well are real men immune to infection too?" and he's like "Yeah, pretty much." And then he just threw some dirt on it to stop the bleeding. Everyone in the lounge was like "Wtf? She's a wilderness EMT. This guy is a moron...." and then they found a stream and he's like "We can probably just drink this water," and she's like "Um... maybe we should heat it up in our fire first..." and he's like "*drink* guess we'll find out if it's good if I get sick tonight." He didn't but everyone was just appalled. This guy also kept talking about how he needed meat because he's a big man and needed protein and this chick is running around like "Oh hey, I found a ton of edible water cabbage and these flowers," and he's like "This tastes like a leaf!" And as more people were coming to the lounge and started watching they immediately turned on the vegetarian, free spirit chick because... well, dudes, I guess. But everyone who had already been watching was like "Oh, no. that chick is awesome. This guy is such an idiot." And I just kept talking her up and ridiculing this guy, much to everyone's delight. It ended up culminated in this guy like super hungry and mopey and whiny and like oh god we're never going to make it, and this chick somehow ascended to like this lvl 18 druid forest spirit or something and so she was just walking around fine with a giant staff wearing a little grass skirt she made for herself, and this guys like at camp about to pass out, and she's like "oh hey, I found this frog...i don't believe in killing animals and ive never done it before, but Charlie really needs some food and he's in pretty bad shape so...." so she kills and catches this frog and gracefully strolls into their camp with this frog she killed like "Oh here, cook and eat this" and this giant Brooklyn former marine guy literally almost breaks down in tears, and then it cuts to him cooking and just greedily eating this frog like he's about to die and then keeps cutting over to this chick who's like, just lying out on the rocks, tanning. And everyone in the lounge is talking about how she's some sort of survival goddess and she's going to come back riding a giant crocodile she's tamed with a who deer and like a pair of jeans and a hoodie she's made out of leaves and stuff. Just greatly building up and praising this chick and it was just such an interesting and amazing shift in viewpoints from the beginning of the show. Anyways... yeah... that was a pretty long rant about something, but honestly, that was probably the highlight of my day. I think I'm going to make a druid npc inspired by her for my game. It was pretty amazing. “