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[haakon1]

Because it has wargame roots. But you can tell, quite easily, from the very earliest rules that combat was just one aspect of play. Possibly even the least desirable aspect. It is ridiculous and silly to maintain that D&D is "all about combat" based on its rules word count given its origins in war gaming. Just read the AD&D DMG. It is explicit about not being just a game about combat.

Also, the original RPG, Braunstein, was Napoleonic, but not all combat.

D&D, imho, began as the union of wargame (Chainmail) + Fantasy + the Braunstein concept of role playing a single character.

Braunstein (game) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[MGibster]

Depends where you are. I'm in the Greater Los Angeles area, and it seems like there's mariscos places every four feet.

It's been a long while since Red Lobster was a "fancy" place you went to on your birthday or a special occasion. For a lot of people, Red Lobster, Long John Silver's, and Captain D's were the best choices available for seafood restaurants for a number of years. It's a lot easier and more affordable to get decent seafood in landlocked states like Colorado in 2023 than it was in 1989. It's really crazy how the supply chain increased the availability of food in the United States these last few decades.

 

[Scribe]

Consoles will never be good enough. Get a gaming PC.

You know thank god that predication fell flat. I have been hearing about the 'death of pc gaming' for decades it feels like.

 

[haakon1]

Hunt’s is better than Heinz

McDonalds ketchup is better than either.

 

[Autumnal]

As I understand from actual scholarly studies, it’s not that Americans all were into super-bland food but that the specific strata from specific parts of the country - particularly parts of the Midwest, for sometimes complicated reasons before World War II - were taste normalizers for a lot of the 20th century thanks to mass media leverage. Various factors exposed people accustomed to blandness to more interesting food, like mobility during and after the world wars, and preexisting regional cuisines popped into visibility. And things kept rolling from there.

About those pre-WW2 reasons. Hollywood had a lot of Jewish and other immigrants in the ‘20s and ‘30s. A fair number of them looked for new roots into the culture of their new home. Institutions like fraternal orders and lodges were more influential then, and so were others. There’s several Looney Tunes cartoons having fun mocking square dancing because one of their producers was super big into it as an acculturation thing and the animators saw comedy in it. Stereotypically Midwestern bland food was another part.

In conclusion, people are weird.

 

[Pedantic]

It's been a long while since Red Lobster was a "fancy" place you went to on your birthday or a special occasion. For a lot of people, Red Lobster, Long John Silver's, and Captain D's were the best choices available for seafood restaurants for a number of years. It's a lot easier and more affordable to get decent seafood in landlocked states like Colorado in 2023 than it was in 1989. It's really crazy how the supply chain increased the availability of food in the United States these last few decades.

As you get to the higher end of cost/snobbery, Denver specifically has exceptional seafood, especially compared to it's neighbors, thanks to the international airport.

 

[Jd Smith1]

To be fair, that's true for pretty much every war movie ever from Saving Private Ryan down. Casting directors want soldiers to look like hard-faced manly man grizzled veterans rather than pimply and often-terrified 19yos.

Yeah, its a constant failure.

 

[Jd Smith1]

It's been a while, but wasn't Michael Douglas the bad guy in Falling Down? Robert Duvall was the good guy who was making an effort to stop him.

Not really the bad guy. At least, the older get, the more I understand him.

This is an unpopular opinion. Aliens is a sweet action nougat covered in a delicious candy coating of science fiction-horror.

It was the best of the series, IMO. And a beautiful change of pace when it came out.

 

[Jd Smith1]

It's been a long while since Red Lobster was a "fancy" place you went to on your birthday or a special occasion. For a lot of people, Red Lobster, Long John Silver's, and Captain D's were the best choices available for seafood restaurants for a number of years.

I routinely drive an hour one-way to eat at LJS after the local one went belly-up. They are without equal.

And I live less than 500 miles from the Gulf coast.

 

[Guest 7042500]

Overanalyzing games accomplishes nothing good.