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Methinks you have a definition of "optimizer" that nobody else on the planet is using. Or understands.

I never got through Heat. Too naughty word long. “No good movie feels too long. No bad movie feels too short.”

While it can be a lot of work, it's part of the gig. Where I worked, the narrators didn't get paid to fix things, it was on them to get...

One of the audiobook readers did such a bad job with one of the Walter Mosely books that apparently Audible has now removed it from...

Degenerate optimisation is a system matters problem, specifically it's either a user error by the group/GM in selecting the wrong system...

Optimization is a tool, and like any tool, it can be used for good or ill. My own feeling is that I usually go into a game with an idea...

A lot of the errors I have heard are old fashioned terms in historical fiction, or English characters using US/Australian...

That’s just what cowardly shunners of taste discussions think, when it’s obviously objectively true that… [Burly men thrust Bruce into...

I didn't say someone saying they dislike a playstyle (though that is also fine), I said, "Expressing a preference for a different...

Learning your character so your lack of knowledge of what you have chosen to play doesn't cause slowdown at the table as we all have to...

This feels way too far off the deep end in an otherwise polite conversation.

You're correct. The GM doesn't work for their own ego at all, their own fun. They work to make the game fun for everyone at the table...

My inclination is that as you move negative on the axis, you aren't making intentionally bad choices--making an intentionally bad...

It's a good question. What does "-5" look like, on the -5/+5 scale someone proposed a while back? Is it strictly having very low stats...