Recent content by Umbran

Not much into the splatter, so I'll wait to see what else Keery ends up doing.

Mod note: Guess what? Your insistence on being insulting probably means that your statement won't change a thing, either. So, really, resist the temptation. It isn't helping.

How about a couple of more basic arguments: 1) Efficiency, in and of itself, is not of value. Only with a plan to usefully use the savings does it become valuable. If you don't plan what to use it for, you will waste it anyway. 2) Generative AI, in general, has not been shown to raise...

Not really. It was technically correct, but value is not generally found in technical correctness. Let's face it, absolutist arguments are almost always unserious in rhetorical terms. Finding the one single item that dispels them does not make your overall argument serious, or move the...

Mod note: Hey, RE? You can have this argument without breaking Wheaton's Law in the process. The site rules pretty much require it. So, be better to people, or walk away, please and thanks.

Well, not really. If you really want your argument to be taken seriously, it should show (not just assert, but demonstrate with evidence) that the benefits not only exist, but that they outweigh the detriments. Given the list of detriments, that seems a tall order.

Don't you ever complain about anyone misconstrued you again.

Shortly after that post, my wife went up into the Kitten Vortex, where the kitten was on my desk, hiding behind my monitor. My wife started to give the kitten some treats, and apparently between one treat and the next, a switch went off in her little head, and shy went away. Now, she's a...

And, life does go on. Our other cat was showing signs of being lonely, and my wife admitted to feeling a bit of "empty lap syndrome". So, there is now a kitten. Just picked her up today. She's 14 weeks old, and 1.96kg (so, about 4.3 lbs), a shorthair, dilute calico. We have her cordoned...

Luis, so you are aware - use of "they" or "them" as an individual, non-gendered pronouns in English goes back to the 15th century, at least - William Shakespeare made use of it, for example. It is not some new evolution by some small group.

You can reskin the entire game, sure. The result will not bear any resemblance to what happens in Pride and Prejudice, however. Making something that matches a genre is more than just having words from that genre in the rules. You cannot change "hit points" to "emotional resistance" and...

By this logic, you can intermingle chess, Monopoly, and Settlers of Catan and say, "just use the rules for the game you want," and have the result be coherent. Technically, we should be able to put all the rules for every RPG ever written together in a big blender, and have what comes out be...

We can approach this with a more extreme example: Would you use the same mechanics to run a game that's supposed to make players feel like their characters are in a Robert E. Howard/Conan novel as in a Jane Austen/Pride & Prejudice type novel? Given that Mr. Darcy never swings a sword...

I don't think that "beer and pretzels" specifically ties with tactical wargame play, though. It isn't like the world isn't completely filled with pulpy goodness adventure stories that are full of tropes and cliches and not given a whole lot of serious thought. A beer-and-pretzels narrative...