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I believe he's referencing a recurring bit he has about not saying the name of He Who Shall Not Be Named Whose Name Starts with a T.

A thing can be done frequently despite there being a very low percentage of people who are willing to do it. Millions of people can run a marathon each year, and it can still be true that less than 1% of people have ever run a marathon. Heroic rescues are more newsworthy and exceptional than...

On initial read I thought that with "steady pace of combat" Aramis was referring to its frequency/incidence rate. RPG characters tend to get in a LOT of fights, and this necessitates the odds of dying in one being relatively low if we're going to have ongoing character continuity. Although now...

Indeed? Or is this more selection bias, because such events are noteworthy and more likely to be reported on? I do appreciate that it's still a common ideal, at least. "Men are not ants", as Juan Rico argued in H&MP class in Starship Troopers (the novel). This desire to be heroic and save...

I got to see him two or three times at Ozzfest in the 2000s, including with full Sabbath in, I think, 2004. Bill Ward and all. A great show and cherished concert memory now.

Could not fit in a workout last night, in part due to car issues. And rose a bit late this morning and couldn't motivate to squeeze in my morning exercises. Going to see if I can rally tonight.

Sadly that'll tend to happen if you wait a couple of weeks after release to see a movie. :/

Definitely not! My 33 year old "circles of hell" Nirvana t-shirt I wear to sleep in sometimes is far too threadbare to offer much padding. Ja. He clearly seems to be referring to the Hickman Revolution, when TSR's primary design orientation shifted to more heroic arc focused and less...

Just like how people are named Bob the Smith and not Bob Smith nowadays.

Yuppers. Even the scant examples he gives don't support his thesis. He talks about bullet point / control panel layout being examples of 5th gen design, but he seems to be talking about 5th gen as a product of the OGL threat crisis, when of course OSE had those things back in 2019. I guess...

Selection bias is at play there. We call these people heroic because they are exceptional.

Names matter.

This does feel really D&D-focused. While he's not entirely off-based with his first few gens, they're really D&D gens, not encompassing most of the TTRPG market. Other folks have already mentioned how he's completely overlooking the universal systems in the 80s, like GURPS and Hero (which...

Not "real" fries as they're not deep fried, but speaking of recipes, I really like these ones for making at home. They get beautifully crisp.

My heart. Sabbath is one of my all-time favorites. Favorite is underselling it, really. They were foundational. Everything I love in Metal and huge amounts of what I love in Rock is influenced by them. And Ozzy was the perfect voice for it. I'm glad he was able to have that final goodbye...

I read the first four of this series. They're pretty good. Some of Larsson's writing comes off a bit... "fan-service-y"? Lisbeth gets a bit superhuman.

Yeah, I always figured/understood that he wasn't an option for/interested in The Avengers and committing to the whole MCU deal. I don't mind Ruffalo at all, but I agree with Ruin about his performance in general. I like him, but he doesn't sell super genius or carefully controlled anger very well.