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I should be clear, this is on my fortnightly-ish trips to the local library of my choice. I don't go shopping for books often enough...

There are people who interact with--get to the fiction of--games through the mechanics. I have been and am still sometimes one. This...

For the unfamiliar: Law 1: Everyone always and inevitably underestimates the number of stupid people in circulation Law 2: The...

Re: integrity The Texas Bar Journal judicial action section is full of sanction announcements clearly involving attorneys who either...

Uh huh. Here's the thing, though. If we used the term "jerks," to describe certain behavior, you can be certain that there would be a...

This reflects my experience as well. As a kid, I certainly had issues with people building ridiculous overpowered characters and...

I'm less interested in specific terminology than I am just making it clear that MOST optimizers are decent people who share the...

(Again, bouncing off what you said ...) One of the things about (though not exclusive to) most versions of D&D that's kinda...

Yes. This is why games where optimization is barely a viable thing (like default CoC) or where the range of potential optimization is...

This is as far as I got in the thread before feeling a need to respond. Anyone who I'm repeating, please accept my apologies. (Also...

'Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly & live quietly in a world designed to prevent all four.'

The anthropomorphizing is strong.

I'm going to try to put this properly. The legal profession has a high barrier to entry- undergraduate degree (four years). Law school...

Yeah. The one I posted was of either my wife or son, can't remember which and both would do something like that, making me wear one of...

I should start making a point to find nonfiction to read, at some point. Of course, by the time I finish browsing the fiction I usually...