My understanding of 5e's adventures is them being almost exclusively rehashes of 2e and 3.x adventures, so it really won't be that different.
who apparently plays D&D with "30 or 40 people regularly"
This man has never once played a ttrpg in his life.
who thought that getting a cheesy splatter film director was a great decision?
Honestly on paper that sounds pretty good, Borderlands should really work as a bit of a campy gorefest. Just... not Eli Roth.
Yeah, the foreskin has a mucous membrane similar to the inside of your eyelid that keeps the glans moist and prevents infections.
There's a handful of abilities that can turn a specific build up to 11, but it's as much a way to replace an ability you don't like with something you will use as anything else. I don't think I have any in my level 300+ builds - the one I use most is the ability that autosolves the next lock you encounter to speed up spy missions even more, and that comes from the helminth itself instead of a frame.
The Lore's always been kinda murky, but I understand the original frames were made by infecting people with the helminth strain of the technocyte virus (e.g excal umbra, some of the primes), which are what the tenno connected with, but then they were used as blueprints to mass produce frames without the person. The ones you build in your foundry are copies, so you're just returning a lump of infestation to the original mass for it to reabsorb and learn from.
There haven't been many major updates since the new war, so you're not actually all that far behind. Lots of hot fixes, QoL, and updates to bring the content islands closer together. Nothing earth shattering, but some improvements.
Seeing as you're coming back, might as well start with the veilbreaker content that follows on from the new war - archon hunts are the new sorties and Kahl's missions are mini new war sections with various challenges, both weeklies. Zariman kinda sucks as a hub, but the missions are trying something new. Albrecht's lab is similar, but better executed, and has an extreme difficulty weekly if you're into that kind of challenge. Duviri offers a new version of open world without dailies, but the cool stuff from steel path does require a daily rep grind from the Zariman.
This is completely standard, Paizo have always given the rules for free and made you pay for the stories and lore.
It's not even a starter set, it's the playtest, so you already need to be familiar with Pathfinder 2e in order to use the rules. Definitely not a place for a group to test the waters, they're looking for serious dweebs to obsess over the maths and mechanics so they can refine it - the playtest adventure(s) are just playgrounds for them to do that it.
Just try and prove me wrong
Dungeons & Dragons
D&D isn't even a good TTRPG for it's niche, nevermind actually good.
I can't remember for the life of me where I read it, but I remember reading a kinda sci-fi/fantasyish novel in my teens that had universal ai controlled cars, and the main character asked how they didn't get into accidents sometimes and the other characters were like "are you stupid? It's one centralised ai controlling them all" and that stuck with me as an obvious requirement for driverless cars.
Anyway I don't think any current driverless car creators read that book.
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)
I should have realised something was up when I saw his coat is black after they specifically said Grey.
Look at this shit, he doesn't even sleep right:
Bonus: Teaching the parent's Border Collie pup to sleep wrong
If you're gonna make jokes about niche internet personalities in public you're gonna have to get used to explaining the joke.
No, that's illegal under gender. Plenty of men feel that way, and are allowed to quietly discuss it with one or two other men in a sufficiently relaxed and emotionally open environment, but under no circumstances can they publicly state that they have feelings.