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    D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book

    Sure, I agree, but if that's the standard (and it probably should be) I don't think Central African Forager is going to fare much better. If you're talking about the real ethnic groups only their own terms are likely to be acceptable to them (and rightly so). Whereas when talking about the...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book

    Yup but as it says: "There is no clear replacement for the term "Pygmy" in reference to the umbrella group." - hopefully one is generally adopted in the next few years but I doubt it will be "Central African Foragers" as that's just not accurate. Specific ethnicity obviously wouldn't help here...
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    Highly-Anticipated Star Wars Movie Becomes Disney+ Show — Report

    For the actual HotE story with pregnant Leia and so on, that you referenced? You missed that chance in 2014 when the books got fully decanonized. And realistically it never was a chance at all because Lucas didn't hate the books but also didn't value them as canon and thought he could do better...
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    Highly-Anticipated Star Wars Movie Becomes Disney+ Show — Report

    I love his animated work but every live action show he's made has been a disappointment to me. Mandalorian started strong and got weaker season-on-season. Ahsoka was just deeply mediocre and not a story well-told at all (so unlike his animation). Andor also really ruined things for me in that...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book

    I guess I should go back and look at the 2E depictions of them and see what I think. The left pictures are obviously not racist or stereotyped in any way, they're almost Giger-esque and pretty cool. But the right ones definitely make me uncomfortable!
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    Highly-Anticipated Star Wars Movie Becomes Disney+ Show — Report

    First off, this is a report from Superherohype.com, so we should not take it terribly seriously. All they do is quote various "leakers", all of whom have spotty records. In this case it's DanielRPK, who has spectacularly wrong on many, many occasions. If you're very generous, he's right more...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book

    Presumably he's referring to the fact that, for most of history, slavery hasn't been seen as an inherent ethnic trait, but rather something that could, theoretically, happen to anyone, with the ethnicity-justified chattel slavery of the USA, Caribbean and part of Latin America being an...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book

    Were they? I'm not saying they weren't, but what's the position here, that they were explicitly and/or obviously based on say, multi-level racist depictions of, for example, Pygmy ethnic groups in Africa (surprisingly Pygmy is still the correct overarching term)? That's a case where local...
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    Video Games and Music

    Nah, I had basically no idea that fight was coming, I really thought I was getting out of there, so was totally unprepared and barrel-free at the time, but Lae'zel was able to dispatch the pillars shockingly quickly with the right weapon (I forget what). I had to do the whole thing legit - which...
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    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    I don't think you deserved to be jumped on for disliking a popular game, but I am somewhat surprised that these are you specific critiques. I don't think you're even wrong per se, it's just that these aren't things that stood out as major issues to me or most people (except the path goddamn that...
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    Which team will win Super Bowl LX?

    Team: Seahawks. Reason: We've already had a bad year and it's only January, the Pats winning is only going to make it worse, so I gotta hope. Ugh I was watching that match, I remember. I usually watch the Superbowl, as a sort of hangover of the brief period in the late 1980s and 1990s when NFL...
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    Video Games and Music

    Oh okay one more - and this isn't one I heard at the time, but Wolverine: Adamantium Rage, a fairly mediocre side-scrolling beat-em-up from 1994 kinda accidentally prefigured the entire Grime sound: This is perhaps a little less surprising when you consider the guy who did the soundtrack was...
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    Video Games and Music

    I always love "OH MY GOD THEY'RE GOING TO SING!!!!" moments in games, and that is definitely one of the peak ones, especially as it's full pipe organ and choir backed. And yeah when the boss comes in, that's just Sephiroth boss fight level "Omg what is this YES YES YES" musically. (Possibly...
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    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    The extreme forms are, but there's huge overlap in the increasingly large middle. "RPG" in a videogame sense is quite a complex packet of traits. Like, mechanically, FFXII (the one where you can basically "program" the characters) has the potential to appeal to exactly the same sort of person...
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    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    You're seeming so mad about this lol, and it's just your vague and insubstantial explanations that have got you here!
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    What kinds of games do you like, and why?

    It's kind of like, what games don't I like is maybe a shorter list than what kind do I like? And in any given genre, there will be loads of exceptions for me - like, I mostly don't like Eurogames, except the dozens and dozens I do like (which don't even seem to follow a pattern that I can...
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    Your top 5 movie trilogies of all time, and why?

    Yes. BTTF2 is why we still talk about BTTF. If there was only the first movie, it would be like a minor '80s classic that a few people remember but was really Boomer/Greatest Generation nostalgia bollocks ("we invented the world"-type rubbish) even at the time. But BTTF2 was something much...
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    Your top 5 movie trilogies of all time, and why?

    I feel like this is a distinction without a real difference when you're including Indiana Jones and The Dead, Mad Max and so on, all of which were essentially made as stand-alones with no specific intentions of further sequels or even exploring that subject further, and which all work as...
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    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    Yeah, it used to be a pretty common opinion, not one I personally held, but I think for a long time there was a pretty clear distinction between Western RPGs, which could be, as you correctly identify, boiled down to: WRPGs typically let you create at least one character (even if they had some...
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    What are you watching in (late 2025 and) 2026?

    He's an actor I've really turned around on. My initial reaction was "Ugh I hate this guy", because he played a series of intensely annoying twats and made sure to make them REALLY annoying and frustrating. But it was as an intensely annoying twat role he turned me around, which was The...
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