Recent content by seebs

If you don't think slavery is morally wrong, you've screwed up. You don't need to interrupt everything you do every five seconds to remind people that you know which things are good and which things are bad. It's actually pretty much okay to depict a thing without specifically going out of your...

Yeah, this is a very good point.

I mean, sorta? But also we had long histories of "you can portray X, but only if you show explicitly that it's evil" or whatever, and... I just don't think that has historically worked out well as a rule to have in media. I don't object to people saying "yeah we are in fact depicting this as...

Not a huge fan of the emphasis on "but the work has to portray the bad thing as bad". Hays Code actually really bad. Things like it sort of bad in general too. I think sometimes it's okay if the book doesn't explicitly handhold you through whether things are good or bad. Like, I don't really...

Okay, I don't necessarily disagree with you, but why don't you think this is an argument against bounded accuracy in full generality? "If you have an expert warrior, hitting armored enemies shouldn't pose a challenge to them. Armored foes are a challenge to other people, but that player has made...

why would we do that? i don't see anything in the rules about requiring a particular intelligence score for speech and literacy.

the spell doesn't mention any issue with moving through a space, but it doesn't need to, because the spell isn't what would be blocking movement, the animal is. and animals are just creatures, so they use the same rules they do the rest of the time, including that if they're hostile they block...

I traded email with Gary once or twice, and like, I personally liked him but also disagreed a lot with some stuff he said. That seems normal to me. I don't really see why this is a big deal. When I'm gone, if I have fans, I hope they are honest about my flaws and don't try to paper over them...

I just feel I should point out: Having had a housekeeper for a while and watched the expertise that goes into that? I would honestly not call maid "unskilled" work. Honestly true of a lot of labor in general, really.

Maybe consider, by analog, Apollo Robbins, who does a pickpocketing show. People who are aware that he's doing it are watching him, and he can at least occasionally pull off tricks like "getting the cartridge out of someone's pen, then returning the pen to the pocket it was in". What I'm...

It seems to me like the big difference is that if you're using hide to "become invisible", then when you are found you lose the invisible trait, so, you're no-longer-invisible. If you're using invisibility to become invisible, the spell doesn't say you lose the condition when you're found, so...

One thing that's worth knowing: We've done a lot of research on human productivity, and the fact is, people doing 80 hours a week are getting less work done than people doing 40 hours a week. Lawyers don't work long hours because it gets stuff done; they work long hours because hours are billable.

I misread the subject line as asking about the basic archetypes for today. You know: Business, Technical, Social, Academia, Labor.

This makes no sense whatsoever. Imagine, if you will, six characters. Each has an 18 in one stat and 10 in all the others. Are you seriously telling me that you would expect "exactly the same personality" from these? How does personality even relate to or come from stats? This just doesn't make...

Someone elsewhere in a chat pointed out many more red flags in the filing, including a company that has income all of which is in whole dollar increments reporting total revenue that's not an even multiple of a dollar.