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It's one thing for a game to rely heavily on eg. using two analog sticks at the same time, and another for the game to have been made for the four-button + d-pad NES controller

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica I mean, people are not likely to mean that as a blanket statement

The name should've clued the European sailors to the preventation of the disease ;)

This one time I googled what "ascorbic" means, in the longer-form name of Vitamin C "ascorbic acid". It comes from Latin "a-" (negation) and "scorbutus" --- so literally "anti-scurvy acid".

@BESW Yeah, I've understood the "acid" theory was quite popular: some other sour foods like sauerkraut also worked. (And I mean: vitamin C is a type of acid, so it's not 100% wrong!)

More than that, there's also everything BESW said on the topic. RAW is just a very convenient conversational tool compared to alternatives, for DnD-like games. Perhaps games with a more pronounced design philosophy could offer better alternatives

But thankfully for this particular case the rules do feature a snippet that explains rather clearly (not quite perfectly, but still) what attack is intended to mean in the context of the game: the intent is explained in RAW but only if you know where to look

My favorite example is attack. Without even getting into the "Attack action" vs "attack" case which adds a new layer of obfuscation on its own, it's very reasonable for a newcomer to assume that a Fireball counts as an attack, or a Magic missile. The game recognizes neither as attacks even though in natural language, both of them would obviously be attacks.

That is, they contain a chunk of terminology that appears frequently and is fertile land for confusion due to counterintuitive definitions, while also being relatively clear with their definitions for the most part if one knows where to look.

@Powerdork I guess that'd mean what specifically is meant by discussions about RAW. With DnD 5e in particular I've often found it a useful way to convince people that the rules don't mean what they think they mean, if only because they are somewhat unclear despite being rather explicit.

I only do emulsion of disbelief

Welcome

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I am and I think I'm qualified to vote, technically, but I don't use the site often enough to have any sort of opinion on who should be moderating it.

And we have an exceptionally good culture of friendly discourse, not entirely without its lapses of course but still way better than most open online communities I've seen.

If I had to moderate something (apart from this chat which I kinda do, pretty nominally but still) RPG.se would at least be nice in the sense that it's a fairly low-traffic community

or four, it feels like too little.

I would find moderating a site a bit stressful in the first place, but especially if there were only three of us

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@Trish Seeing the poor spambot was framed, it's likely they are in a place with a shady court system ;)

Wouldn't that depend a lot on the locale

@Trish Magic potion involved?

Yea. Plays into the usual good themes of evil destroying itself

Him having been lowered from the wise, powerful and cunning wizard lord to a mere thuggish warlord, who then gets offed by his miserable toady.

It's been a very long time since I last read the LotR books but the Scouring had some really nice memories to me because it extended the denouement a fair bit, it showed in concrete terms how half a year of waging guerilla war against almost-literal Satan has hardened our heroes, and it gave Saruman a nice send-off that somehow reminds me of the works of Dante Alighieri

One of my favorite parts of the LotR novels is one that made it to no film: how Frodo et co, after saving the world, return to the Shire and have to do one last adventure to kick out some bandit warlords who have set up shop there.

@KorvinStarmast Na, this was another jab at Redux ;)

@KorvinStarmast I think LotR did at least better in the sense that the only sex scenes weren't extended edition additions

Yeah, based on what I've heard, the original is better-paced and just .... better.

My understanding is that Redux is generally considered to be mostly padding that'd've been better left on the cutting room floor.

@KorvinStarmast Extended version. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now_Redux

I've only seen the Redux version of Apocalypse Now, it was both too. More long though.

@KorvinStarmast Yes. Its origins do show quite abundantly. It's not really that focused on the war itself, for a large part it's like a road movie

"Think of the children"

>:[

"Causing problems" for sure.

"Causing confusion" alright.

...this instance, and all other instances mentioned in the article, were motorists not following their rules, at the tram's expense.

A couple of months back there was a news story headlined something like "Truck drives into tram's overhead powerlines --- not the first time the tram has caused problems in Tampere"

the news coverage of the tram also riles me up a bit

The discussion took well over ten hours and judging from the opposition to the initiative it sounded almost like a tram is like the worst thing that can happen to a city

There's this video from a few years back where she presided over a meeting concerning Tampere's project to create a light rail transport system

@AndrasDeak Sanna Marin was formerly the chair of the Tampere City Council, and she has an awesome temper

Luckily they're confined to a few hot spots

We don't have anything quite that bad but I still get the cringes walking next to tourist shops

Ugh, yeah. I can relate

@AndrasDeak Seems quite contrived :/

@AndrasDeak Wack. Vote thresholds at play?

@AndrasDeak this is very distressing :(

@AndrasDeak they were overall the major political winners of this election, yes. It's municipal though, which means YMMV can vary even more than usual