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My Scottish literature professor in graduate school was very emphatic that Scots is its own language.

Pssst...it's a super power. Get out of here with your "facts" and "science." ;) Not that you're wrong.

Okay, so this headline from their release makes me very disinclined to buy from them: "How We Can Help Support Your Transition to USA-Based Manufacturers, and Our New Factory!" Why should I want to support jobs in a country that is currently basing its tariff policies around cancelling jobs in...

This is just not true. I have read through many, many psych-ed reports in my decades as a teacher, as well as doing a required minor in psychology with a focus on adolescent development. It is just not true that brains are all an equal tabula rasa with identical capacities. And the assumption...

I don't agree. I do think that hard work is the most important thing. But I also know that, however hard I work, I could never be as good as my cousin, a very talented and successful musician. Even when we were kids, he could pick up any instrument and play a tune on it almost instantly. I don't...

Same. Plus, probably like most of the folks on this forum, I tend to be the guy in the group who knows the rules, so it's pretty easy for me to step into any class or role.

I think Babylon 5 is massively overrated and DS9 moderately so. I watched and enjoyed all of DS9, but it’s not especially groundbreaking. Babylon 5 is just bad IMO.

In a very condescending way, yes.

Huh, you're absolutely right. Somehow I've missed it and been playing it like 1e this whole time. Eh, I think I'll keep doing it that way.

No, you still need the identify spell. Maybe a super high arcana check depending on the DM, but a character with high arcana probably has the identify spell. In our 1e games we just said identify was happening during the plentiful long rests while we waited on the cleric, which meant it was...

Yeah it’s in with other age modifiers near the start of the DMG.

On top of the tariffs, it's also a question of quality: and also: These companies are stuck with almost no way out. But I appreciate that they are looking at as many options as possible, including shipping directly from China to countries other than the US, so that their international...

Yeah, I'm not sure where this series is going with Fisk's strength - in Hawkeye, he was obviously superpowered. This final episode gave him that moment (which I loved, but I enjoy a good gore shot), which is definitely superhuman, but not to the same extent (i.e. it seemed like he really had to...

There is definitely art that I was originally dismissive of but have grown to love, and often because enough people wax poetic about it that I decided to give it another chance. In fact, I hated the first episode of Severance so much that I haven't watched another, but so many people on this...

Another thing that 5e would need in order to feel more like 1e is way more magic items, and those items should be more powerful. No attunement slots, and bonuses up to +5 and (in certain circumstances) beyond! In 1e, magic items were a primary means of character progression, whereas in 5e they...

Okay, then. I, on the other hand, can only speak to my experience of having actually played through 1e for years, because I am, sadly, old as dirt. Of course choices and consequences matter. In fact, they matter more. In 1e, we all rolled for ability scores, with consequences that lasted...

"Life sucks" so your game that you play to have fun should also suck?

Yes, but this was just as true for monsters (especially higher level monsters and characters), so you'd have to change this as well. We seldom used it either. Wasn't fun. Same. I was both, but more of a DM. Monsters, like players, had far less HPs but also had some scarier abilities, like...

This trailer made me get off the fence and decide that I do, in fact, want to see this movie in theatres if the reviews are strong. Definitely not an opening weekend film for me, unlike Fantastic Four.

This is hard to take seriously. First, it makes me doubt that you actually know much anime - if you are familiar with even just Miyazaki's work and dismiss it out of hand, then...yeah. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, I guess. Secondly, doubting the sincerity of anime's fans and...