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Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in accounting (the equivalent of a 'major'), and while there were no 'minors' did a lot of economics as part of it. Also took as many linguistics courses as I could with the credit hours I didn't have to devote to business courses, for...

Pretty sure that most people would call the DM re-rolling a result they didn't like 'fudging.' You're using an awfully narrow meaning here.

So you're saying to mind the slope, it might be slippery?

Given that people really enjoyed playing many 90s RPG systems, I don't see how this is an issue by itself.

Indeed. The apparent need to provide objective-sounding bases for your subjective impression of subjective experiences is widespread. It's most pernicious in discussions of films online IMO, but you see it everywhere to some extent. It seems difficult to simply say "it's not to my tastes" and...

That's a shame. Judging something based on the fact that it's another iteration of an earlier work rather than on its own merits will make you miss out on lots of good stuff.

"Because it's very comfortable, matches my decor, and why should I shell out $$$ when I can just do a little DIY?"

It"s more commonly used in relation to music, that's all.

Wait, you tell your players every time you roll for wandering monsters? Since that's what I was referring to. That or they think your explanation was insufficient.

But in situations where a die is normally supposed to be rolled, choosing not to is the same as fudging, because you're deciding on the outcome as DM rather than letting the dice decide.

My first DM (in 1986ish I guess?) tried to enforce it. It didn't work.

I think you're being too narrow in your use of certain terms, especially scam. You can be 100% truthful about the technology and still be scamming people, by misleading them about the implications of the technology or by manipulating the market with sham transactions, for example.

It's directly analogous. Party A does bad thing, Party B, who only deals with Party A in a limited respect, defends Party A because Party A has always been nice to them. Party B has never seen the bad behaviour, because it's not within the purview of their relationship with Party A. Very common...

Has anything like this been written in a DMG since the 80s?

I suspect a lot of it has to do with how damaging NFTs are to the environment. Supporting them causes actual, demonstrable harm due to their energy use. I think hostility is called for.

Don't pretend I actually suggested that they are equivalent.

Which is like the unfortunate behaviour you often see in response to the #metoo movement, for example. "He can't be an abuser, he didn't abuse me!" It's fallacious reasoning. If you don't know all the details, you ought not be inserting yourself into the discussion like that.

The limits of human physical ability have a wider range in this fantasy world, and someone who trains physically (like an athlete) can do things in this world that people in our world cannot, because of this wider range of physical ability. People who train to do other tings obviously cannot...

If there are rules for how far a fighter can jump, and it's further than a real human can jump, then that's how the game world actually works.

Nope. They said "The thing is that you don't have to assume that they need magic to do whatever extraordinary, supernatural things they do." There is nothing explicitly in the post to say they're talking about literally anything. You can choose to read that to mean they're talking about...