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I... liked New Coke.

I didn't vote for him.

NuTSR cannot fail; it can only be failed.

Pleading insanity in a civil matter is really dumb. So, on brand.

I would play in that game and so would many of my colleagues.

Venom is metabolically expensive to produce, which is why venomous snakes do not bite anything that is not seriously threatening it. So a snake furry should be ill for a few days after actually expending venom.

Ahem: ISBNs are not registered to books. ISBN ranges are assigned to publishers, who basically use them as they please. I know of two cases where a publisher has issued different titles under the same ISBN, and all that happens is catalogers get annoyed. LC doesn't send a spec ops team after...

2300 CE already uses the Mongoose Traveller chassis. TW2K probably won't follow suit as long as Free League have the license (and, as commented, nobody is in any hurry for that to change).

Yeah, in use if I want to generate the population mantissa of a world I'll call (values (floor (expt 10 (random 1.0)))). But a bunch of dice tables is traditional, dammit!

But the more dice I use, the closer I can get to the probability distribution I want...

Robert and Virginia Heinlein once spent a weekend working out an orbital trajectory (on a sheet of butcher's block the size of a tabletop) just to inform a single sentence in Space Cadet. Now that is dedication to one's art.

Wikipedia, where lies go to become the truth.

And also let us be crystal bleeping clear about this: arithmetic is not mathematics. Not in any sense of the word whatsoever.

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