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Yes . . . which is my point. Sorry if I'm not being clear. "Terraforming" Earth won't be easy . . . but compared to colonizing other places in the solar system, it'll be a cake-walk.

Not what I'm arguing.

You're kidding me, right? Are you playing semantics? That the Earth itself isn't dying and will survive whatever humanity throws at it? Which is true, Earth will survive. We may not. If you are denying the reality or severity of human-caused climate change . . . .

Colonizing Mars or another body in our solar system, or beyond, is not happening before unchecked climate change risks our extinction. Not even space station colonies. Colonizing the solar system will not save us. The research, the exploration, the knowledge gained has value and can help us...

Oh good lord. Of course, not all who support funding space programs wish to "abandon" Earth. But looking at the colonization of other bodies as a way to "save" humanity is not only a theme in sci-fi stories, but a belief many hold . . . including a not small percentage of the oligarchs who...

Magically forget the greed, corruption, and incompetence of our fellow humans? Especially those in charge? Sure, okay, we all "magically" forgot that. And none of that affects our space programs?!?!

Yes. Medical and scientific research also, but yes, social spending.

I'm not arguing against funding crewed and robotic space flight, but . . . Yes, we spend plenty of money on our problems here on Earth. But enough? It's not really about the amount of money spent (money is fiction), but HOW that money is spent. There's a lot of corruption and incompetence in...

I didn't think it was clear on the Backerkit page, but you can just get the digital core book for about $30.

Obvious. Simple. You have a disagreement with the authors of "The Making of Original D&D", WotC, and some folks in this thread . . . that's okay . . . but your viewpoint is neither "obvious" or "simple", at least not from the point of view of other folks.

Eventually, most threads do. Welcome to the internet!

It's blowing my mind, the enormous leap some here are making that Ayoub is apologizing for WotC's prior statements, disclaimers, and notes in books like "The Making of Original D&D" on the racism and sexism in classic D&D books. We see what we want to see, I suppose.

Yes. The pattern is . . . management changes. Shocking, I know. Under some management teams, the various D&D novel authors were pretty happy and had good relationships with their editors and others on the team. Under other management teams, well, the opposite happened. Like that relatively...

Who's that? Melf's sister?

Cool. But not my assertion. It's certainly true that Tolkien's work is more complex than that, and also the mythology that inspired it. Nonetheless, the trope picked up and carried by D&D is that "good" elves are light-skinned, and "evil" elves are dark-skinned. It was never 100%, but it's a...

Have you bothered to read the thread? It's been covered. But you do you man, keep on believing what you want to believe, evidence not withstanding.

Several of the novel authors have had rocky relationships with first TSR and then later WotC. Weis & Hickman, Salvatore, probably others. And?

Heh. Nope. I'm assuming you are referring to "The Making of Original Dungeons and Dragons (1970-1977)" . . . although that was Jon Peterson, not Ben Riggs. I don't think Riggs has written any books in partnership with WotC. But either way . . . Nope. Gygax was what he was. A guy who captured...

Yeah, Ayoub certainly did not apologize for that!

Did he though? I haven't watched the video, but I got the impression that Ayoub was apologizing that there has been a long rift between the GAME and the Gygax family (including Gary, of course). Beginning with TSR, and continuing with WotC. Has WotC treated Gygax poorly? In what way? Initially...