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But zipper-merging is hard!

This is part of how my wife got our EV up to 106 MPH unintentionally. In ECO Mode. Someone just didn't want to let her merge ...

One of these days, I'll read that trilogy. It's on my shelves, I have no real excuse for not having done so.

I was about to make a joke about this being the internet, but my heart just wasn't in it. Mutual respect seems more sustainable than sarcasm. My gawds, who am I?

I always kinda thought Socrates' problem was that he was too good at that approach.

Yeah, I wasn't slagging on the quotation or disagreeing with the general point, just kinda ... bouncing off.

Oh, same here. I haven't touched an instrument in a few years, and I almost entirely played by ear when I played in garage bands.

I usually go around the table (or down the user list) asking each player how their character knows the character of the player to their ... left (say). Then I ask that player if they're OK with that (if they're not we negotiate, but that hasn't been necessary). I also have a tendency to just...

I have read, or maybe heard, that there are people can read a score and hear the music in their head, a combination of absolute pitch and musical education, I have to believe. This is not me: I was never any good at sigh-reading, and my sense of pitch is ... kinda approximate.

Oh, I was steelmanning. I almost always include the last comma.

Sure, omit the last comma unless you need it for clarity and/or style.

I'm thinking stuff like Oxford Comma, to be honest.

Oh, I wouldn't say they're the low end of stupid arguments, just that they're in like the lowest quartile or something. There are some that are stupider.

Wow. Star Wars arguments set the bar so low it's practically in a ditch ...

So, "people getting talked into playing something they don't want to play" is a table thing, not a game thing. It can absolutely happen even in a totally classless system, and it absolutely doesn't have to happen in D&D--at least, not in the versions of I've been GMing the past seven years...

What I need mostly from publishers is rules, and at least some mechanical implementations of those rules (In a game like D&D, that'd be player options, monsters, spells, items) that A) give me some sense of the general expectations of the game and B) give me ideas I can fold, spindle, and...

I've had the PCs show up at a specific place, at a specific time, all having received letters suggesting they should be there, then. The contagious cultists appeared like fifteen minutes into the session, and we were off. These days, I tend to have the PCs starting as long-term residents of a...

Yeah, fats all melt differently, that makes sense. The dumplings at least might not be so seaonal-specific, I'd think you could get suet other times of year, maybe just with more lead time? (Clearly you've found a butcher who'll know. Huzzah!)

All right, so now I'm going to ask what you're using it for. What are you using it for? (I know it as a bird feeder thing, we get it regularly for that, I'm not suggesting you use bird food.)

Not related to the above, really not even this site: I do not think I can say I'm happy those people found fun in a game I wouldn't want to play in, without sounding as though I'm crapping in their cereal; I'd rather say nothing than be misunderstood.