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I wish to point out that the historical objection to "old" threads was mostly "they stop being relevant and things have changed since then", which is true in some contexts but not in this one, so it's fine. I think my intuitive answer is that there are quite a few commands which I think would...

It will be news that can be taken out by a single 1st level wizard with Chill Ray, or whatever that stupid trick was.

Apparently the reason Mister T picked that name is that it was a way to make it so the first word people said to him would be "Mister". A pretty cool dude. He's also way more thoughtful than the impression I formed of him when I was a kid.

My personal favorite "why is this artist being political" is people getting mad because they think Rage Against The Machine "got" political. Implying, apparently, that they think there was ever something non-political involved. Hint: The band is not named for disliking an office fax machine.

Reminds me a bit of a quip about Putin vs. Ukraine: "They're fighting a war. He's playing 1D checkers."

I think about people I've seen reading stories to children in ways that engage the kids, I think about drag queens, and I think "gosh that actually makes sense, that is exactly the right skillset". It's not a sexual thing to kids, they're just seeing someone reading flamboyantly. They don't...

I can't make any sense of the numbers here, I don't see how .2 can be "100% of +2" and .19 can be "99% of +2", or why ".09" would be "1% of -1". Explain in more detail how this is working?

Note also that you usually don't need to take square roots, because if you're comparing distances for magnitude, you can also just compare the squares of the distances, which were easier to calculate.

Some of the research on "harmful effects of screen time" is vulnerable to a correlation/causality problem. If you verify that two things seem to be correlated, that doesn't mean one causes the other. For instance, depressed people don't go out much, so many researchers concluded that "not going...

I see the appeal, but I think you may underestimate the harm to victims of being told that their accounts don't matter and aren't real and there's no reason to do anything about the harm done to them. Context only gets you so far, and the consistent pattern in our society of assuming that...

There is nothing you can do that will prevent people from testifying to your good character, though. Nothing. As long as you didn't do it to them, it won't matter. So the interesting question, to me, is always "did these things happen", and in particular, do I have reason to think that they...

I had this same conversation when I asked about the massive power spike in 3E of giving mind flayers unlimited psionic blasts, and was told by Sage Advice that it doesn't matter because monsters are only around briefly so why model it.

3rd edition/PF: Wizard: Hey, Summer, could you put a glibness in my ring? Bard: [does so] Wizard: [six seconds later] Hey, Summer, could you put a glibness in my ring? Bard: Didn't I just do that? Wizard: No. [rolls 57 on bluff]

The practical answer is that everyone gives information if tortured but the information is extremely unreliable, so it doesn't do much good. I wouldn't call it a charisma thing, or much of an anything. People break pretty easily and say anything-and-everything, but they're completely unreliable...

Uh. I think that's narcissism. I know a few people with BPD, and none of them do that. The only people I've seen do that have been classically-presenting narcissists.

In my experience, people are not super hyped about denying things that are in fact true, because judges get real mad about that sometimes. The point of the admit/deny process is to let everyone save a lot of time and money. If you naughty word around with it, that's a good way to signal to a judge that...

Does anyone have a link to or record of the actual first usage of the commoner railgun? I've managed to narrow it down to, probably, somewhere in late July of 2001. Around July 25th, I see examples of things like "a relay race of people carrying halflings", and on the 31st, I see a reference to...

I thought BECMI was Basic, Expert, Companion, Master and Immortals.

We have one cat who does not consider the red dot a valid target, and who will sometimes watch other cats playing with it, then walk over and smack them for being wrong.

I'm going to be using that phrase, I can tell.