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For me this falls under "not paying attention". If during some role playing some detail is discovered, I'm not going to 'remind' a...

A campaign I play in is centered on a particular Cannith (rather traditional) family. Basically, it was something like you said: if...

I saw a vlogger recently (that I now can't refind) that summed up the difference between TV shows pre-streaming and post-streaming...

As much as I loved Alien: Earth, it took a huge gamble on getting a second season with its storytelling. Heck, I recently re-watched...

Agreed. The trouble is the demand: If people stopped buying tickets/subscriptions to sequels, they would vanish in six months.

So much agreement. Stories should end and new stories should begin.

I do not mind repeating information, clarifying details - especially if I believe their characters would know the information. Having...

Actually, page description is not the "whole point" of the format. PDF's point was to make PostScript more robust, by including some...

HTML might be better for some people in actual play at the table, but PDF works great for reading and reference, which are the main...

Me: "Thank you for this high-level Visio diagram, which looks very pretty, but I wanted to ask about the cabling matrix, and to get a...

Having played online for a long time, yeah, it's not unreasonable. I used to be a "hey, you want to play? Come on in?" kind of host...

It's a newer term encompassing anything data heavy in the sciences and elsewhere. In biology it goes by "bioinformatics", in chemistry...

So do many industrial processes. Data centers now are getting a lot of attention. Back in the Manhattan project, Oak Ridge drew about 1%...

I like Thanksgiving better than Christmas, actually! When I was a kid, our Thanksgiving dinners were bland and stressful. My dad was...