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Gonna be a long stressful weekend. Company laying off 1000 people next week.

There’s a side discussion in the Settings of Hope vs. Settings of Despair thread about whether or not the fantasy genre looks back on...

Oh yes. In Lord of the Rings Risk, I choose green and proceeded to collect the Elven lands with no interest in actual winning...

When playing strategy games like Total Warhammer, Stelaris, or Conquest of Elysium, I imagine what the commanders are saying to each...

Thank you so much for that, @Staffan Very much appreciated. I have only ever played WHRP the one time, years ago. I couldn't even tell...

I'm assuming you're talking about 1e or 2e seeing as you're mentioning bonuses and 4e doesn't have that in the same way. So you mean the...

I wouldn't call it naive, I think its just a positive fantasy. For example I think every queer author who pushes for queer friendly...

Empathy is the ability to perceive and understand the feelings of others. Empathic-altruism is the act of helping others because you...

Folks in the midst of natural disasters -- real ones, not ones in movies -- tend to be incredibly empathetic and helpful, even toward...

Actually, that tends not to be true? Empathy is about understanding somebody else's internal state and tends to be correlated with...

Thinking more about it, outside of my current moods about the real world, a reason I might like a “despair” setting is that I can give...

The nice thing about the empathy framing is that it means that not everyone has to have it in a setting, but those that do function as...

I got to get college credit for taking a Science Fiction literature class in college. The prof's definition was basically "Science...

I've always looked at fantasy as the "how we got to this point" and sci-fi as "where do we go now" with a healthy dose of optimism...

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