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I expect my DM to dance a jig for my amusement.....

To each their own but the Paramount+ era seems to fly in the face of that. You have Discovery (which I can't stand) which is wildly different from any Trek before it, so much so that for the few seasons I watched it I rarely felt like I was watching Star Trek. There is Lower Decks, an animated...

I'm going to have to disagree with you here, biology matters. As we age our brains shrink, it starts in your 30s - 40s and the rate increases in your 60s. The area of our brain most affected is the prefrontal cortex which is where executive functions like impulse control, reasoning, problem...

To be fair, we haven't really seen other Starfleet ships in SNW. Starfleet isn't primarily a "military" organization, it's an exploration organization that also fulfils the role of a military. Even so, that doesn't mean that Enterprise is a pushover. To paraphrase Captain Kirk, they were "caught...

The entire time I was watching this episode I kept thinking about the TOS episode Balance of Terror, it's one of my favorite episodes and it also evoked submarine combat. Wrath of Khan also did that really well. La'an is rapidly becoming one of my favorite characters on the show, second only to...

I just rewatched the first three episodes and have really grown to like the new take on Nurse Chapel. At first she just seemed "off" to me, just too different than the character from TOS but I am really enjoying the more upbeat but very confident version we are getting in SNW. La'an is another...

Sure, language and concepts change over time, and I have no problem with that which is why I find it helpful to provide a definition so others know where I am approaching something from. However, if the definitions become too squishy they become useless. If Star Trek is hard sci-fi compared to...

As someone who primarily DMs I definitely feel that one of my primary duties is being responsible for running an entertaining game, and consequently, entertaining my players. However, it does run both ways and my players are also responsible for being engaged and making the game fun for me and...

Hard sci-fi, as I understand it, is a type of sci-fi that tries to make the science credible and does it's best to adhere to actual scientific concepts with some level of accuracy. Obviously, sci-fi generally can't be a slave to actual scientific accuracy since some story concepts may be needed...

You're right, it's not. That's why it always amuses me when someone calls Trek "hard sci-fi".

I agree that while it was a good episode but it was the weakest of the three so far. I didn't care for it turning out that Number One was an Illyrian and an augment, it just felt forced to me. I also didn't care for the reveal that M'Benga was keeping his daughter in the pattern buffer...

I bought Pathfinder for Savage Worlds as part of the Kickstarter and even when I bought it I was pretty sure I would never use it. I played 3.x/Pathfinder for longer than probably any other game and when I got burned out I moved to Savage Worlds. I was really curious to see how PEG made the two...

Some I've run in the fairly recent past (spoiler - they all hold up). As a side note; all were campaigns I ran that were converted to Castels & Crusades in case that matters to anyone. GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders - I've run this twice, the first time was only the Against the Giants portion and...

Because with a little salt and pepper every edition is tasty :)

I had no idea this was a thing. I'm generally not a fan of sketch comedy but I love The Kids in the Hall. Need to check this out

Why do these people have to poop on all of my fond TSR childhood memories?

Ok, I think we are having two different conversations here. If I reference a meta-analysis that looks at dozens of studies and is the consensus opinion of the scientific community to support my stance on a topic I am appealing to authority (small case letters intentional), a group of experts...

I didn't mean to imply there were exceptions in the way you took it. What I meant was that, as I stated in a prior post, is that not everything that sounds like a logical fallacy is one. Appealing to authority isn't always a fallacy, sometimes it's referencing expert opinion.

This is why pointing out fallacies is bad argumentation. They are meant to help you to reason better, not to toss in peoples faces.

And this is kind of a variation on the point I made earlier, arguing fallacies isn't productive. With a little effort it's not hard to find an exception to any informal fallacy, it's kind of built into their nature.