Recent content by Umbran

Mod note: It seems like just a couple days ago, I said, and I quote: "4e went out of print over a decade ago. The Edition Wars are over. It is past time to get out of the trenches." The war being over does not mean you can say any old thing. The normal rules continue to apply. It means that...

Why you callin' him a butt?

<Citation redacted for security reasons.>

I always saw it as an expression of his anxiety. He lashes out at Pippen because he's scared, and has been telegraphing it for a long time. He's pretty sure of what class of thing the dwarves uncovered, and that if it shows up, he's gonna have to try to deal with it, and probably die. He just...

I mean, it is and it isn't. Business should the customers what they generally want, in a mode that makes financial sense. From that angle, it is a fine argument. If they don't lose a lot of customers over it, it is a fine business approach. Except in terms of accessibility, they don't owe...

Pippin is much maligned. He didn't push an obvious button or throw a lever without knowing what it was. He touched something that had been stable for decades to centuries. If it was going to fall apart, it should have done so long before then. Not his fault. Heck, Gandalf had already...

Yep. I don't believe I suggested otherwise. shrug - Look, I don't actually give a fetid dingo's kidney about the tech entrepreneurs. I am not defending them. If you wanted your country to regulate, or even block all, social media, that'd be no skin of my nose. I mean, EN World might cease...

Quite the opposite - in a modular system, the "load bearing" bits are the framework and interfaces that allow the modules to interact smoothly. If you take them out, you have two modules, and no clear idea of how they'd work together in play.

It is not just you. Loads of 502 errors. Morrus and Darjr know about it...

I am like a regular guy. The question is how much am I like a regular guy...

I have to admit, I am no longer nearly as concerned as I used to be about whether I have a "permanent" version of content. I already have a house full of stuff, and more gaming content than I can really use in my lifetime. More importantly, it isn't like I'm going to re-use gaming content a...

So, we can also note that adding words to a language is relatively easy. If I need a new noun or verb to stand for a new thing or activity, that's fine. Changing fundamental grammatical structure? That's much harder. Those new words will be forced to fit into the established grammatical...

Sure. But, that also means that format was less profitable - print magazines and periodicals of all sorts are a hard business to keep afloat these days.

For Constitutional reasons, that's very difficult to do in the US. We talk about restricting access to minors because that it known to be acceptable in case law in the US, where government restriction of what adults say is usually not.