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The problem is that this is a doylist fix to a watsonian problem. It's deus ex machina. (Or perhaps even worse than deus ex machina, because deus ex machina at least implies some in-world explanation, however contrived.) EDIT: Rather than even being deus ex machina, it's closer to something...

Has anybody commented yet on the 2-axis alignment system's similarity to this diagram: from the Principia Discordia in the late 1960's

That's what I heard too. A gamist answer to a narrative question that solved nothing narratively and merely raised fi=urther questions

I've got a couple of half formed christmas adventure/story ideas. One of them is jamming christmas memes into an Army Of Darkness esque adventure ("This is my boomstick! It's An official Red Ryder Carbine-action 200 shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing that...

In Born to Be Wild when they say "fire all of your guns at once" do they mean 'simultaneously' or 'immediately'? I want to say they mean simultaneously but it could plausibly be immediately.

"You are, Number Six"

For my money the most well executed series finales I've ever seen are the Aqua Teen Hunger Force finale, The Greatest Story Ever Told* and the Young Ones finale, Summer Holiday** *It starts by briefly taking the piss out of the maudlin fake series finale that aired the week prior. Then The Aqua...

More than for 1000 Worlds and the Githyanki?

I think it would look a lot like AI Dungeon

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Treating it as luck makes it silly in the other direction "you fall into the volcano but are prevented from hitting the lava by the leidenfrost effect"

And if it doesn't remain the game we just switch to Pathfinder again like during 4e

The trick to cooking good vegan food is that you need to pack it with salt, corn syrup, and artificial flavorings (cf. Oreos and Sweey Spicy Chili Doritos)

Can't they emulate the old hardware? I'm pretty sure a touchscreen could trivially be turned into a touchpad Until that time we can fight it on our end by using ad blockers. Blokada and Netguard seem to work well on Android And also tampered with to prevent removing Google's bloatware and...

Maybe Tabletop Simulator

Was it just a musical with explicit graphic sex, or was it pornographic in the sense of being about the sex? Because I have seen movies before that have done the former; the musical comedy Live Freaky, Die Freaky has two explicit (albeit animated; but we still see everything, so still explicit)...

An excellent example would be the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series, which consists I would say mostly of plot-irrelevant exposition from the titular book-within-a-book