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I sometimes kind of want a TV series where the set-up each week is that a number appears on everyone's forehead and no one knows what it means. Maybe it is a measure of how lucky they are, how bad of a person they are now, what the worst thing they ever did was, how hard they work, how...

Our State Fair isn't until October, and ours usually isn't quite as adventuresome as the ones in the middle of the country. The full list for the MN one is at https://m.startribune.com/minnesota-state-fair-new-foods-2024/600379332/

Tangent... This kind of makes me wonder if there are any approachable books out there discussing the process by which a long discriminated against group starts moving against it. Is their something like the Stockholm syndrome where discriminated against humans adjust themselves to accepting...

Right, and I mentioned those. So if I were writing it I would have focussed on those instead of the one that might not have been. I think it would have made the case more strongly.

RE: Bedsheets I think my son still gets my old Star Wars pillow case sometimes when we visit my dads.

In any time, I think there are some things particular to that time that people just don't think about. And I think when people are told the stuff their society/friend group/family do is bad they react defensively. And I think it takes time for groups to change. (None of which justifies doing...

I think folks trying to show off their sexism for their audience will find ways to do so - and the women's lib remark does. That Tiamat is literally a Dragon of Chaos makes it hard for me to buy that choice itself was due to it. On the other hand, making Bahamut a dragon seems a D&Dism, and...

I mean, it isn't hard to find examples in old D&D of sexism (he mentions some, like the Harlot table, Snarf gives one above, and EGG left around some doozy quotes as noted by the author and Snarf). And that EGG made the women's lib remark is somewhere between childish and insipid and fits as a...

I'd certainly take Jaxxon over Jar Jar! (In the live action ones anyway, some of the Lego ones with him were amusing).

Better than at least three (maybe six) of the movies?