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There are problems. The 2024 text says... "You grant the semblance of life to a corpse of your choice within range, allowing it to answer questions you pose. The corpse must have a mouth, and this spell fails if the deceased creature was Undead when it died. The spell also fails if the corpse...

I would also like to say (while trying to stay within the rules) - I am not passing any judgement on folks who don't cancel Disney+. No large company is perfect, of course - Disney's approach to extending IP is questionable, and their track record on paying creators isn't stellar. But Disney...

The world moves fast, so my household is waiting a little bit to see what shakes out of the mess (that we can't really speak to directly, due to the no-politics rule). But, if there's no real change by Monday, we are apt to close our Disney+ and Hulu off as well. In the meantime, we aren't...

Hey, @payn ? The memeage is making it so that others don't get what you don't get. Maybe use your words, please.

Mod Note: Hey there. What's more puzzling is the implicit positioning that in calling others obnoxious, you aren't being obnoxious yourself. Hint: you arne't holding moral high ground this way... Folks - Keep it civil. Be kind. Please and thanks.

Sure. But, for our purposes, the real question is whether the game category is more similar to a modern historian's view, a HEMA practitioner's view, or a media/literature/movie view. The authors of the game have never been, as I understand it, particularly great historians. Modern HEMA...

I did say stuff to that effect, I think. There is no direct evidence in the text for it that I know of, so I think the point stands - Tolkien isn't a guy who thinks of humans as supreme and awesome, finding out the secrets of the Universe for themselves. That's not his ethos. He's much more...

Guys, you seem to be arguing against a position I am not taking. I didn't say there's "no knowledge or people doing magic anywhere except for the wizards". That is nothing like anything I have said. So please stop. My argument is far more limited - that there is no *evidence in the text" for...

With respect, you are now interpreting the text. Which is fine, but does not carry the weight of what is in the text. Even if there are others who use magic in the world, it remains that there is no support in the text for calling them "wizards".

Mod Note: Hey. In the future, please don't do that. A (+) thread is called such because the moderation rules in it are a little different than normal. The moderators do not, and will not, support a (-) thread. We do not support threads that amount to concerted efforts to badmouth stuff. The...

A wooly mammoth clocked in at around 4.5 to 6 tons, while modern estimates for average T-rex is between 5 and 8 tons. So, the T-rex was probably a bit bigger. Note that no single human likely won out against a healthy adult mammoth either. Mammoths were hunted by larger groups of humans who...

The only entities called "wizards" in Tolkien's work are Maiar. Humans/Numenoreans using magic are referred to as a "sorcerer", and all of them, as I understand it, are connected to Sauron. I don't know that there's much or anything in canon to suggest there's "spells the mortals came up...

People also think that Tolkien's "wizard" is the same as everyone else's - what he isn't is a D&D wizard/M-U.

Mod note: Hey. It is okay to disagree, but there's no need to be rude about it. Please be better.

Also, you can make a system foolproof. You cannot make it damnfoolproof.

With respect, we have been living in a post-fact world for a while now. Humans are more than willing to allow their fears and frustrations to stunt them, no AI required.

To make it clear, if one of the moderators, upon reading it, sees the direct reference, that is a problem. The point is to allow some space to breathe on the general, common frustrations of life in the internet age, not for folks to badmouth specific targets where they might not get caught...

Mod Note: Hey. Guess what? Putting a little halo on it doesn't mean it isn't insulting. You seem to have developed a bit of a habit of taking jabs at people. It is time for that to stop, please and thanks.

That is more work than just deleting the "https:"

I broke the link for you.