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"My group is playing 5th Edition, and I have this question about the 5th Edition rules, so I posted it in the 5th Edition forum and...

These days I'm reading something like twenty novels a month, mostly from local libraries. Sometimes I'll grab something that's dreck...

I suspect it's reflective* of what life is like for a certain class of folks in Manhattan publishing circles, who are the gatekeepers...

I like a lot of literary fiction, but what I was really put off by was the 1960s (perhaps even earlier) through 2000s weird quasi-genre...

I have a noted tendency to completely fail to enjoy "literary" fiction, especially of the award-winning kind. A) Genre awards don't...

To be fair, even many American politicians and officials seem to be unclear on who the FBI is and what they actually do.

Both the poetic and prose eddas are well worth reading, but the poetic is wonderfully readable (at least in a decent translation) and...

Thanks for the interest, the courtesy, and for adding a moment of surprise to my day. :LOL: Fair point that it's not necessarily...

It was the language, mostly, and the thinking isn't wildly off from at least some of the thinking in Proverbs. It's plausible that...

Proverbs, I'm guessing. What chapter/s? (also clearly not King James, so what version?)

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt." ... but they didn't have the ability to type on...

So went to a place. Old building bit run down. Haven't been there for a few years. Hole in wall hasn't changed much since 1999. It...

Unrelated to the above: Your biases and your inability (unwillingness?) to consider other people's viewpoints--they're showing badly...

The internet making everyone believe they're experts on everything is absolutely going to end up destroying our species eventually.

Absolutely. Unrelated to this post, or that thread. ---