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On a more cheerful note, written or in film, the scene at the end of the Two Towers where the cock crows and the horns of Rohan can be heard in the distance always brings a tear to my eyes. (ok in the movie they leave out the cock crowing but keep the horn call).

Not quite the same but also similar, this reminds me of my experience with Krzysztof Kieślowski's film "A Short Film About Killing". An arthouse movie I went to in a small theatre in Dublin. It is an unrelentingly bleak movie. There is a murder scene in it, where half the audience (of admittedly...

Used Skype for one group up until a few months ago, finally switched them to discord. And to OP, no, I have no other suggestion than Discord. Used Teamspeak years ago but no idea if: it still exists or supports video.

Actually so, would I, now that you mention it.

I would love to play in Wild |Beyond the Witchlight

This is what i believe is the central weakness of the Skynet premise. It is really a human fear. Humans (at least some) seek to horde and control resources, it is a way to ensure one's offspring have access to resources. I am not sure AI's will do that. An AI that is self-aware and...

This, more or less.

Do try other hobbies, I think in part that the game you imagined in your head could not be reached in practise. The fact that playing is boring you and running the game frustrating, seem to me to indicate that.

If you read my previous posts you would realise your repeating back at me things I said or implied. electronics may degrade in the radiation environment of space but not as much as biological cells.

From an engineering perspective AI might have a lot easier time of it than us squishy humans

The short answer here is we do not know. I have heard some estimates that a stable generation ship or colony would need a population of a million or so, just to have the range of technical specialists over the time frame. we know even less about keeping a stable ecology over anytime frame. This...

Or everything would have taken longer. The steam engine allowed deeper mining because it could pump water in location not suitable to wind power and without the intermittency issues. electricity could also have done it, but we had not really discovered that at the time the early steam engines...

I also would not order contact but not for the reasons you provide. I am reasonably that human civilisation will survive, perhaps not any current one. If you want aliens to learn of us, put the archive on the moon and perhaps other moons where they aliens that come here will find it. Beaming...

Maybe maybe not, who knows what the future holds but I think if we get stable asteroid colonies then we will get Oort Cloud colonies and then hopping to a neighbouring system may not need much in the line of special technology. I really doubt there will be high C starships, too much stuff in...

We cannot build one of those either. We do not what would give it a stable ecology and we do not know enough about biology to know how to keep anything healthy in space long term.

So, you are using the words with different meanings to the ones I assign to those words. I also disagree with you about 5e but see little value in arguing with you about it.

Unless you are using a very different meaning of optimization than I am, this is nonsense. Balance nothing to do with optimization and DM fiat does not prevent it. At most DM fiat just restricts the available tools and scope of optimization. One can build the most effective character one can...

Optimisers play everything. Everything can be optimised and optimising the difficult to optimise is often more fun than the broken or easy to optimise.

Don't know, I will have to look at it in more depth at some stage, but I have, since the beginning of the current version decide to go with "What makes narrative sense".

Time outs, I think, not that I am the best at it, I am as a prone to doomscrolling as anyone but time off the sensory input, more exercise and more long form reading. Comprehension is as much practise as anything else.