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Bladesinger wizard you say, I will finally be able to play something approximating one of my favourite table top characters.

It had less to do with childish things and more with the culture of the time. The slurs referring to homosexuals were out there but no one was willing to explain it, it was literally a thing not spoken of directly. Hell, people did not speak of straight sex openly and the country went from that...

When I was young, we believed and said homophobic things without even an understanding of what a homosexual even was. Totally agree.

There are a number of issues with criticism, we live in an age where there are many vested interest that was us to be mad, angry and not willing to take things like criticism as an honest opinion or to that it in good faith because if we regard a message, a posting, blog or video as that persons...

I really have a hard time seeing the warning presented as telling one how to view material.

Well, I do not read it that way and as far as I know it does not mention Gygax in the passages I have seen quoted. I still do not understand, what specifically about the text seems like an attack as distinct from a statement of fact about some of the material produced at that time?

Why do you think that the foreword is an attack on Gygax?

Ok, I do not use a camera, but I would recommend a headset and mic. The headset does not matter much but the better the mic the better you can be heard. I use Maps on D&DBeyond and FantasyGrounds. You could use D&DBeyonds maps as a system agnostic mapper but you would probably better off using...

I am inclined to agree that it is not always bad faith, I think that many people (and I have been guilty of this in the past) have been trained to "win" arguments and also that they are not carefully reading the statement they are responding to but on seeing trigger words respond to what they...

If the misogyny statements are true, and Gary does not seem to be shy in making these utterances, why should pointing this out be a slight? Furthermore, why are they defending Gary's honour in this? If Gary freely admitted to being sexist, why should anyone be attempting to defend or deflect.

Thanks for the response, it was more than I was expecting. However, on the topic of civil discussion, that would be fine if it was a discussion of the topic at hand. This thread started about a report by Elon Musk on the foreword of the book. The thread rapidly shifts to a discussion of the...

Why engage on those debates? they are not really pertinent to the original topic, create more smoke than light and not really necessary since Gary was not shy about stating his opinions. What Gary really believed has no current bearing on anything. Did you? I must have missed that then.

Actually no. That is what you are debating, the original topic was Elon Musk's reaction to a foreword in a book that reproduces texts from early D&D and related documents.

I think it is easier to handle crunchy systems with exception based design. In 40 years of gaming noting can prevent some rules lawyering except shutting down rules lawyers. I spend many years trying to decipher rules by Avalon Hill wargame designers meant to shut down rules lawyers and...

What has that to do with the price of spuds? The foreword is to warn readers that there are texts reproduced that are sexist among other things. A text has been produced that was sexist. Why do people keep reading beyond the text? What Gary did in reality in the presence of women is not covered...

Unfortunately old PC OSes do not port directly to a phone. The kernel has to be written to the hardware and the UI has to be specific to mobile. That is why Windows phone OS failed. Gates and Balmer wanted to have a mobile UI as close as possible to the desktop UI and Apple ate their lunch with...

I think that declaring tracking data derived from user behaviour (which is - as far I know - the basis of most of analytics) as owned by the users, might be a way contain it, or at worst make it provide a bene to the users.

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Musk's genuine achievement is the persuading of investors to ignore the trail of exploding booster rockets and burning teslas, I think he has some genuine achievements under his belt and those centre around his ability to attract an investor following. I agree that the engineering is being done...