And of course, super props to Pandey for putting it out there. He knew he was gonna get some really nasty responses and he didn't let that deter him from speaking truth.
@Derpy They did make a followup post linking to a longer article on Medium. (It shows examples of the death threats they got as a result, and explains/defends their own approach to the situation.)
> If we don't unleash our imaginations to tell our own sf and fantasy stories, people like Mike Resnick will tell them for us. And if we don't like the way he's telling them, it's up to us to tell them our way. - "Why Blacks Should Read (and Write) Science Fiction" Charles Saunders
Theoretical Optimization - "TO" - is 'what can I do to this system assuming a permissive GM and a strict reading of the rules'. This is where famous and silly builds such as Pun-Pun, Bear Bearington the Bearbarian, and the Dream of Metal come from
This remains true, but it was especially true in the era defined by AD&D and later AD&D 2e. The rulebooks were/are full of null-pointer exceptions, unmade or half-made rules, and the culture of DM authority meant that every table was sharply unique
As in, perfectly valid sentences but accounting for them in linguistic theory sucks and everybody mostly just avoids them outside of repeating them as a joke
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I think that's the point at which--rightly or wrongly--I stopped seeing "Words written by WotC about 5e" and just saw "Grognard grognard, grognard. Grognard! Grongard grognard. Grognard--grognard? Grognard."
"Major Bugbear, reporting for duty, sir!" [salutes] "At ease, Major. I'm General Mayhem, I've got a crucial mission, and I think you're just the one who can pull it off. I need you to hijack an ideology from those who are holding it hostage."
The sheer ridiculousness of insisting that the Chamorro people aren't yet assimilated into America to be full citizens under the Constitution is perhaps best demonstrated by pointing at the fact our straw poll for the presidential election regularly gets more voter turnout than any State's actual presidential election.
But if the safety tool is tied into the game mechanics and is presented as part of the balance of the game, the disruption--and thus the social cost--is reduced.
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whereas, in police procedurals and murder mysteries and such,... needing a warrant seems to often be portrayed as a needless inconvenience for the cop seeking the truth. that is a pretty unhealthy way to look at the warrant itself, and the need for it
If astronomers were software devs they'd have just deprecated the term "planet" and come up with a new term that contains no Pluto or contains a bunch of other stuff.
The Corona Virus thing is going to be big, it's the "most significant thing going on" around the world for at least a while. There's going to be a lot of discussion about it. Meanwhile, lots of people will get fed up with the volume of discussion around it. Should we create a separate room for discussing the corona virus pandemic so we can enjoy more normal topics here and on main?
Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm are (is?) the same person, which makes makes The Inheritance - an anthology from both personas(?) - interestingly co-authored
