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I have it on the table in any game I'm running for folks I don't know. For my "regular group", we don't have a physical card on the table, but it is understood that anyone can call a halt at any time. One group has a variant, specifically for volume control. A couple of the players have...

Yep. And I am also the one realizing that we are going to far, and ought to pull back.

And he has computing power beyond our imaginings at his disposal. That means tools to automate all that work.

Why? He likely knows the stardates of all the major events he might want to reference, and can cull down to the times just around those. "Computer, show me camera 3 stardate xxyyzz.aa to xxyyzz.bb".

He's been hanging around with two of the most chatty people on the ship. Even if they didn't tell him directly, there can easily be a moment when the public stories and the records he does have access to imply a gap.

That is terribly far off the topic of this thread, which is supposed to be about CR and the game it is using.

It isn't bonkers to think that it would carry on for a while, at least. I don't expect it is a runaway train, but it has some momentum. Plus, it is a hypothetical, as we know that WotC is doing new products.

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...