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[overgeeked]

It's my belief that any old ruleset will do if you're willing to put in the work (some require much less than others, obviously). I wouldn't say that any particular rules set is required, though, which is why none made my list.

Write a 100-word description of your character, grab 2d6, and you're set for as long as you want to play. You don't need any books, especially not rule books.

 

[MGibster]

It's my belief that any old ruleset will do if you're willing to put in the work (some require much less than others, obviously). I wouldn't say that any particular rules set is required, though, which is why none made my list.

I mean, sure. I could theoretically haul 500 pounds of manure in my Porche 911 if I was willing to go through all the trouble. It'd be a lot easier to haul all that horse hocky if I used my pickup truck instead. I mean you're right, technically speaking, which is the best kind of right, but this truth isn't particularly useful.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Playtest updates are now called patches? Doesnt bug me.

Patches? We don’t need no steeeenkeeng patches!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Excellent autocorrect moment

DAMN YOU, AUTOCORRECT!

 

[Bedrockgames]

DAMN YOU, AUTOCORRECT!

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Been meaning to read the book that is based on forever

 

[Bedrockgames]

(Incidentally, the problem with Rotten Tomatoes is its methodology tends to overemphasize slightly positive or slightly negative reviews, depending on whether a given set of review leans into one or the other. Look at a case where a movie has gotten 20 slightly positive reviews and ten really negative reviews some time and look at the score. Its instructive).

I know I have had the experience of seeing a review labeled rotten or fresh, gone to actual review and found it to have been completely mislabeled due to a single line of text or something

 

[Bedrockgames]

I deeply wish this wasn't an unpopular opinion.

I just wish people would stop controlling what other people like, who they like and stop with the moral panics

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I just wish people would stop controlling what other people like, who they like and stop with the moral panics

 

[Willie the Duck]

I just wish people would stop controlling what other people like, who they like and stop with the moral panics

Who's controlling what other people like?

• People saying they do not like a thing you (the proverbial you) like is not you being picked on.
• People saying they do not like what you say is not you being picked on.
• Having a right to have an opinion does not negate other's right to have an opinion about that opinion.
• People seem to rarely be able to come up with scenarios where someone has actually been stopped from liking or partaking in so-called problematic media (certainly not to the level of the amazing ability of people on social media to complain about this supposed phenomenon).

On the creator side:

• People declining to spend their own moneys upon something they do not like, or made by someone they do not like, is not the makers of that thing being picked on (it is instead the free market and free market of ideas working as intended).
• There have been individual instances of panics, rushing to judgment, and the odd individual losing their job over 'problematic' positions. These individual instances are wrong and should be (and frankly are) called out as such. This is not a new phenomenon (see: the Red Scare), and something against which a society should be ever vigilant. It is a disservice to these occasions that there has been conflation of people exercising their right not to partake in someone else's creative works as somehow the same phenomenon.

Last time I checked, I was perfectly capable of reading the Lost Mines of Solomon while listening to To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With with a DVD of Birth of a Nation playing on the tv in the background (the first two of which I might actually do, although I won't be buying any new Cosby material until he passes away). My rights have not been trampled if (upon hearing that I might do so) someone were to voice a negative opinion about those works or my partaking in them.

The free market of ideas is one of our society's greatest assets, and one that will see us through the major social changes that constant connection brings. That includes the ability to critique and criticize and challenge the positions, preferences, and opinions of others.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Who's controlling what other people like?

• People saying they do not like a thing you (the proverbial you) like is not you being picked on.
• People saying they do not like what you say is not you being picked on.
• Having a right to have an opinion does not negate other's right to have an opinion about that opinion.
• People seem to rarely be able to come up with scenarios where someone has actually been stopped from liking or partaking in so-called problematic media (certainly not to the level of the amazing ability of people on social media to complain about this supposed phenomenon).

On the creator side:

• People declining to spend their own moneys upon something they do not like, or made by someone they do not like, is not the makers of that thing being picked on (it is instead the free market and free market of ideas working as intended).
• There have been individual instances of panics, rushing to judgment, and the odd individual losing their job over 'problematic' positions. These individual instances are wrong and should be (and frankly are) called out as such. This is not a new phenomenon (see: the Red Scare), and something against which a society should be ever vigilant. It is a disservice to these occasions that there has been conflation of people exercising their right not to partake in someone else's creative works as somehow the same phenomenon.

Last time I checked, I was perfectly capable of reading the Lost Mines of Solomon while listening to To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With with a DVD of Birth of a Nation playing on the tv in the background (the first two of which I might actually do, although I won't be buying any new Cosby material until he passes away). My rights have not been trampled if (upon hearing that I might do so) someone were to voice a negative opinion about those works or my partaking in them.

The free market of ideas is one of our society's greatest assets, and one that will see us through the major social changes that constant connection brings. That includes the ability to critique and criticize and challenge the positions, preferences, and opinions of others.

We have had this conversation before, and I have laid out my arguments before, but I think it is quite obvious there has been an issue with people trying to control, bully and cancel (and have been on the receiving end of it myself so I know it is real). Beyond that I am not going to get involved in another flame war on the issue. Needless to say I disagree sharply with the above characterization with what is going on. I am not opposed to people saying they dislike something, critiquing it, etc. That isn't what this is about