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Yep. Fiduciary duty to shareholders can actually force larger companies away from serving smaller markets.

I think if you tell the small business owner who will lose their home if their business tanks that they can take bigger risks because they have "less riding on it", they would be justified in laughing at that suggestion. I expect that, more often, you have it backwards backwards. Large...

We can also note that Umberto does not seem to have been entirely aware of his bias. Uhura had to point it out to him. I, myself, had a little problem with Umberto's logic: So, yes, Starfleet was transporting a weapon for a non-Starfleet member. That world was at war, fighting the Kasar...

Let us not pretend any of us really knows how many people are actually playing in any given month. We don't.

I think that's kind of the point. We, the audience, are set up to know there's more depth to what's actually going on. That is implicitly contrasted with the documentary format, in which we don't see that depth. The message being - reportage does not tell you the whole story, and those missing...

You having a problem or frustration with different people, in different contexts, having different opinions is not fair to any of the speakers in question. It isn't like someone here should have to go to that thread, read it, and take on its position for your benefit, or something. And that's...

(emphasis mine) One tiny, tiny quibble... Mining, especially that done with non-powered tools, does not generally result in high ceilings.

I was fine with what you were saying, until you got to this. To my understanding, there is no clear evidence this is generally true.

That is unfair and condescending.

I don't know that's what they feel they need. What I have seen stated is not that they need to have always-evil things to have conflict. It is that they want conflict and its resolution to be simple, unambiguous, and stress-relieving. The real world is complex, and nuanced, so they want to be...

More importantly though, it would be moot in our gaming context. Why? 1) That's the real world - we are speaking about fantasies. We don't know that orcs have "genetic material" of any sort, much less specifically have DNA and genetic patterns that precisely match real-Earth's. 2) Saying...

You need 3D dice rolling, but don't need 3D minis?

"A pass" is so broad and poorly specified that I will not agree to it. As an example, there are some games (like, say, F.A.T.A.L.) which I find offensive, in whole or many parts. But I am not offended by how its mechanics will encourage future human ethical breeches in the real world if it is...

They may be wrongity-wrong, with wrong sauce, but the snarkiness doesn't help. The snark may feel good. You may feel they "deserve" it. But it usually acts against your own interests. It will, in all likelihood, be an impediment to their accepting their error. This bit is key: if you...

Now. Didn't start that way out of the gate, though.

I should add - this is for a game in which positioning matters, like D&D with its dependency on range in 5' increments. If I'm playing a Fate variant, that only cares about zones? Don't need a map there.

Same here. My players can use paper sheets and real dice, if need be. But having a shared idea of who is where is necessary.

Who decided that a game was "meant to have arguments", and how did they make that determination? Well, when you can clearly tell us what those effects were, and cite sample sizes and such, then get back to us. Weird. My example used a whole whopping two minions. And I set that up before...

I believe you would still have the "correlation does not imply causation" issue to contend with there. If we accept that our culture justifies mass slaughter to itself, one still has to establish that the game is used for that same justification, and that the game's justification then causes...

Yeah. Back in the days of the FASERIP Marvel Super Heroes game, I had a character whose primary powers were shrinking, density control, and flight. Ten ton, bullet sized, and flying at about the speed of sound.... Punching holes in vehicle engine blocks or villain gear was a major passtime for him.