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I've pretty much mastered the art of not responding to everything that seems insipid. Now if I could just stop rubbernecking the insipid posts like they were a spectacular traffic accident. I guess on the plus side it only slows me down and not everyone else reading them...

Finally got back to this tangent... "Causal Inference" is currently one of the hot topics in statistics and related fields. The big focus is examining what can be done if you don't have an experiment, but can make some other assumptions. Like most things in statistics it will probably be...

I'm almost a bit envious of folks who have all the original books and copies of the pre-published version, fanzines, and correspondences. Except this fits perfectly on the bookshelf next to my other D&D books and I don't have to worry about damaging a collectible when I read it. In any case, I...

I am all aboard making that vol 3 (or 4 if we need an AD&D one)!

I really want a book in 2027 (or so) that follows up the recent OD&D history book and includes full reprints of Holmes and Moldvay Basics, Cook Expert, and maybe B1, B2, and X1. I would settle for a hardcover book that was just a reprint of Moldvay Basic and Cook Expert.

I preordered mine (there was a part refund from Amazon later, so it was only about $90, which is what I think they are charging for it now). Given the size, it feels like it compares very well price wise to both ttrpg books and comic reprint books.

RE: "Focused on". In terms of the book it was a few paragraphs in the introduction, and somewhat like the disclaimer on cartoon DVDs with an example given? It strikes me as strange to try read into a company celebrating an anniversary by wanting to focus on the start of the game - especially...

My guess is that it is literally the only thing listed as a dragon to do with chaos in whatever myth book he was using*. (If someone knows which one, please don't tell me for another week - I have work to catch up on instead of library diving). I am guessing the original was never portrayed as...

If I'm trying to avoid work and am pondering things like this, I sometimes try to imagine what percentile of badness I would put them at relative to their contemporaries. I generally put active policy making pushers of bad things as the worst. The discussion on EGG above covers a wide range...

< Insert rant on participation rates in primary voting in the US and tangents that don't belong on here >

Something, something, didn't fall far from the tree apparently, something.

If enough voters cared we could easily have laws about production of those necessities by monopolies and ensuring they were more ethical. :-/

Two out: Swimming and Minecraft

Say you weren't around for the edition wars without saying you weren't around for the edition wars...

Just to double check, responding with a laugh emoji to be dismissive and deride the poster is a bad thing, right? Discretion might be the better part of valor, but it isn't always as immediately fulfilling.

Just the other day my FB memories had a quote I think was from someone o ENWorld. Something like: "Sometimes clouds need to be yelled at!"

I don't need to reply, I don't need to reply, I.... (Or, alternatively: Nitpicking isn't always a virtue, nitpicking isn't always... )

Kind of disappointed that adding context to statue signage might not help... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-just-adding-context-controversial-monument-may-not-change-minds-180976583/ ... but I've been happy that our University is at least trying to add some new plaques in various...

Nevermind (should have left it at my previous post and taken my own advice).