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They aren't acting like bad caricatures. How can you tell? Pike's hair. No, I am not kidding. What they are showing you is the effect of pure logic - unless you are careful, like Spock, it magnifies one's base assumptions and preconceptions, like it magnified Pike's hair. Logic takes you to...

Mod note: Intentionally or not, this assertion is inflammatory - either you mean it seriously, which is going to make people very uncomfortable, or you aren't serious, and then it looks like trolling. I'm going to ask folks to back away from this, and not engage with it. Your continued...

Let's not get into the politics of it, hey, what? Plus, sounds like they've moved to end that particular problem. Go check your favorite national news source for details.

The song also refers to being a queen, and a ghost, none of which make literal sense. But, folks, really - songs use metaphors without explanation all the time. The audience will take it figuratively, and not worry about it. "Take your baby by the wrist, and in her mouth an amethyst." -...

Mod Note: If you want red text, you'll call them that. Need we have the discussion of how gatekeeping insults are still insulting after you say, "But it was only a joke!"? No? Good. Feel free to indulge in your fandom. But maybe don't position it as looking down your nose at others, hey...

But, Celebrim, talking is also a railroading technique. Calling something a "railroading technique" suggests that's its primary use. And in this case, that's not true. When you hand wave the part the players actually want, that might be railroading. When you hand wave to get to the part the...

Um... no? Here is a map of the light-rail service in the Boston area, that I ride several times a week. Clearly, it doesn't just go to one place. It won't get you absolutely anywhere you choose, door-to-door, no. And your choices for stopping to pick up donuts on the way to work are...

Mod Note: Hey, folks! You see this analogy to scoring points in an internet discussion? It tells me that folks in the discussion are becoming more interested in scoring points, in "winning", than exchanging ideas or learning. That may feel good to you, but it isn't of much value to anyone...

You take all the noobs off all the doors in the house, and take them to a local pawnbroker. You can usually get a great price for antique brass or cut crystal noobs.

Mod Note: ... that EN World has a no-politics rule, and you are expected to follow it. No more access to this discussion for you.

Mod Note: Hey, you two. Cut it out, please. If you can't have a civil conversation, please use this post as an excuse to break off, before one of you say something that'll get more than this warning.

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...