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I strongly disagree with these two points. Other than Equal Rites, the first witch book and a crossover with an early version of Unseen... -
Mannahnin reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
Haha.
You're not asking the really important questions: Is the Torment Nexus blue? -
Mannahnin reacted to prabe's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
Sad.
I'm saying that most literature classes--especially below college level, but also including 100 and maybe some 200 level stuff--feature... -
Mannahnin reacted to Ryujin's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Sad.
Nope. High school teachers, then college instructors. In both if you didn't accept their particular grade of "truth", you didn't get the...
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Mannahnin reacted to RealAlHazred's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Haha.
Really, if you really read the source material, the Torment Nexus is meant to be a symbol of progress and prosperity!
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Mannahnin replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.Sorry, what isn't how literature is mostly taught? Are you suggesting that MOST literature classes are teaching students to make...
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Mannahnin reacted to Ryujin's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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The problem enters when you have people who state absolutes about such analysis, which is what I dealt with in both high school and... -
Mannahnin replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.What kind of analysis? A single sentence taken out of context obviously is really hard to analyze meaningfully. But that's not how...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.Yes, it depends on the author. SOMETIMES they just randomly chose blue, but certainly not always. Even leaving aside unconscious...
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Mannahnin reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
I'm so deep in Poe's law on this.
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Mannahnin reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
The lazy author doesn't emerge from an egg and start writing with no context. They're putting their worldview -- examined or otherwise...
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Mannahnin reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
The author might tell themselves that they don't mean anything by an inclusion, but they're a product of their environment and, a lot of...
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Mannahnin reacted to Voadam's post in the thread Dungeon Crawl Classics What is cool to you from a player perspective? with Like.
I had the second game a little while ago. It went well. I embraced an old school dungeon crawling ethos. When exploring around the...
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Mannahnin reacted to Tony A. Rowe's post in the thread D&D General When We Were Wizards: Review of the Completed Podcast! with Like.
That was Joe "The Maverick" Scoleri who outbid me for the Metagaming materials back in March of 1999. I was able to confirm the date as...
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Mannahnin reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+] with Like.
I agree. I'm just not sure "this is how combat works in Shadowdark" is necessary to put on the screen. Kelsey updated the post, so now...