Recent content by Umbran

Combat as War is a duel to the death, no holds barred. To the point that if you can get your opponent to drink arsenic so he dies before entering the ring, all the better for you. Combat as Sport is rugby, American football, or martial arts sparring for points. There is a serious test of...

So, the thing to note there is that the game isn't the relevant bit. Some folks are flakes whatever they are doing. Flakey about going to game. Flakey about meeting you for a dinner reservation, or a movie. I am saying that it is about general personality traits, not about how they play RPGs...

In physics, there's a famous descriptor for a bad argument, "Not even wrong." It's means you are so off the mark that it doesn't even relate to the subject. In the above, you are not even wrong. I see posts claiming that the forms of combat (War, Sport, and Theatre) are about the GM's "thumb...

I think it is a useful analogy for discussion - for example, when someone fails to understand people having individual restrictions in how they play, pointing to allergies or other food restrictions can be useful to help them understand. No. I use the analogy often enough in discussion, but I...

Yes, Pro Wrestling has kayfabe - the fiction isn't limited to the combat. But for the combat scene, they are asking how to make it compelling character and drama. The combat is Combat as Theatre. This aligns with our games - because our games aren't limited to combat. We want our combat to...

Mod note: Hey. We do try to keep this a family friendly place, and safe to view at work. While you didn't use foul language, I wouldn't exactly call that appropriate, either. Keep it clean, please and thanks.

Pro-wrestling, meaning WWE, is theater. It is scripted theater depicting a violent combat sport. Those people are athletes, but they aren't engaged in an athletic competition. They are stuntperson-actors, performing on a stage, and we kindly suspend our disbelief for the show. Real sports...

I think you need not just a legend on that chart, but a full explanation of your classifications. You seem to have... 26 different classifications, which may mean you are splitting hairs in ways that can skew your interpretation. I also think 200 people is probably too small a sample size to...

No. Anti-proton or antiproton is the accepted term. Way back when, "negatron" was a term used for electrons that came out of beta-decay, but it was an outdated use even when I was in grad school. These days, "Negatron" sounds more like a transforming robot character.

It could be - if the fact that it was a OHKO was a dramatic turn of events. For example, if there had been previously massive hype about how this was goig to be the "Fight of the Century!", and it turns out to be an instant knockout that makes the entire audience gasp, that's theatrical.

It is about enough to raise one microgram of water one quarter of one percent of a degree Celcius, I think? I'm doing that math in my head, so I might be a bit off... But... no. Not a lot.

Increased use of renewables, efficiency improvements, and carbon offsets (which are not capture) are often used to claim reduced net emissions.

I think Sport and Theater are two different categories, with different broad goals.

Only China and Russia have built operational small modular nuclear reactors. There's like 120+ designs out there, but only a couple of implementations. I don't think that likely. There aren't many industrial scale carbon capture plants out there, and only like half a dozen are associated with...

Nope. "...whether the end result is my creation or not," is a legal question of ownership and rights. The provenance of the tools, and the nature of the creation with respect to other works, very much bears on who gets those rights, and has done since before generative AI.