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As Jedi mind tricks go, was Rey's use of same to escape the Chair of Interrogation moral? The faceless storm trooper wasn't really...

I am an engineer now, but long ago in another life I got a degree in English Literature. Once of things that I have always carried...

For a silly little semantic tangent for fun, where does mind control start? Sure, just directly replacing their thoughts with yours is...

Mind control is a tool, and the degree of evil it is depends on what you use it for. But that doesn't mean it's entirely neutral. A...

To which extent, though? Jedi mind tricks, sure, but it can be worse. Would you prefer being necromancer's thrall to death? What if...

I'm willing to accept a rather broad definition of mind control that includes deception, directly controlling someone's physical...

Good, evil, bleh. Above everything else, mind control is hot.

You've kind of touched on what I was going to say. I use different techniques depending on the game I'm running to try to evoke more of...

The idea is to not give any necessary details, and focus on miscellaneous things until the last mic-drop line. Technique works by...

I see, this makes sense. Now I wonder about, say, a mecha game where all the descriptions are aggressively condensed and even directly...

I think setting up the mood is very important, kind of like there's a reason Warhammer people generally play with nicely painted...

I wave my hands around alot...

I don't think I have a formalized technique, but there's a few things I try to do. I have a cinematic mind. So I always try to have a...

Team Fortress 2 has a very evocative "spy-tech" setting, where retrofuturistic doomsday doodads are hidden in rustic rural environments...