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That there is true or false discussion is an imaginary, artificial dichotomy of your making. I find your image of discussion to be horribly limited, encompassing only a subset of all good discussion. I don't have to disagree with someone in order to have an interesting and useful conversation...

Except, I don't think it really came back for 5e, which seems to be doing better than 3e or 4e. I don't figure many of the new players of the past decade think much in terms of GNS divisions.

Similar for Steve Harrington. Originally, the "redemption arc" was planned for Lonnie Byers, Will & Johnathan's estranged father. Joe Keery was just too darned charming, though, and they adjusted.

That's not what we mean by "Great Cleave".

The look that says, "I'm not wearing proper padding under this chainmail, and my boy here is a prisoner of his facial hair"?

No, I look at you weird because in New England an axe is more appropriate than a machete.

I'm worried for Steve Harrington. At this point that boy will step in and take the hit for just about anyone, and his redemption arc has made the audience love him so much....

More "Wild Boys" I think... "The wild boys are calling On their way back from the fire In august moon's surrender to A dust cloud on the rise Wild boys fallen far from glory Reckless and so hungered On the razors edge you trail Because there's murder by the roadside In a sore afraid new world...

Could have been worse - they could have chosen Oingo Boingo, "No One Lives Forever". "...it's the hour of the wolf and I don't wanna die!"

My wife and I have been doing a rewatch of the entire series, in preparation, and last night we got to Season 4, Episode 1. Hooray Eddie!

R2 isn't subtitled, because: 1) He's got quite the potty mouth (lack of actual mouth notwithstanding). 2) We can all tell what he's saying anyway.

There's a famous speech by George H.W. Bush that popularized the phrase "thousand point of light", referring to scattered positive elements of culture - in fact, Bush used the phrase in two speeches, and even had a "Points of Light Foundation". The phrase was used by Arthur C. Clarke, William...

Well, yes and no. Yes, he is selling something, and that does inform much of the video (which I have watched - other than the pricing stuff, which I skipped and is probably not relevant to this conversation. And it means that some of what he says isn't relevant to most of us, or ought to be...

He's kind of talking about how to spend a budget of time and personal effort, instead of money.

There isn't a singular, simple answer available to us. I mean, if there was, we'd have already deployed it, and it would be answered, and no longer a problem, right? So, the fact that it happens tells us we don't have an answer. So, maybe a different question is in order. And not, that's...

Now, ask yourself - what does being snarky get you at this point? And everyone else can ask themselves, "What is A_Carrington going to get out of being snarky at this point"" I mean, aside from the side eye from the moderator you're being snarky at. That's a given. Anyone who has watched...

The analogies.... Hammers and forges. Weapons. Dueling... Of course you will generate conflicts, instead of community, if your basic metaphor for talking to someone is a fight.

The only thing you can "produce" is changed minds? I can produce understanding, without having to shift people's positions. I can learn about a book, movie, game, system, technique, etc. without trying to make someone change their opinion of that thing.

Here's an important point to remember in large online spaces: To any given reader, in some ways you aren't an individual. The generic reader has their family, their friends, and a bunch of people at work that they keep track of as individuals at some level of detail. Eventually, their ability...

You can. But not if you frame it (even if just to yourself) as an attempt to sway folks from their starting position! Not all discussion has to be about changing other people's minds!