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Dude, we are not engaged in a battle for the soul of gaming.

What the game has isn't the relevant bit. What the world has is important. I am not sure the experience system means much, in that former activity explains attaining all the knowledge required to have a PC class at all, not levelling within that class. Having a PC class at all is a lot of...

But "seeking fortune" wasn't "go on adventures into unknown lands for treasure". It was "get a job." He first went to sea as an apprentice on ships trading coal along the coast, about as unglamorous as it comes. He spent nearly a decade on merchant ships around Europe before moving to the...

Well, the issue there is as much a matter of expectations. Rambo is not a starting character - if you want a "veteran" to automatically be a high-end Hollywood action hero, you're going to have an issue. But one can play D&D such that anyone with a PC class has notable stats and skills...

My first RPG was Tunnels and Trolls. I honestly don't remember it as a "campaign", just some dungeon delving without any coherence. The most vivid memory I have is thus: After narrowly avoiding a trap designed to shove the party into an adjacent pool of tar, what amounts to a tar-elemental...

Yes, but Cook had been on the seas for 20+ years before the famed "First Voyage of James Cook" started in 1768, and he didn't initiate that voyage himself - he was commissioned by the Royal Navy and Royal Society. So, that voyage was not a snot-nosed young adventurer jumping into hazard. It...

For reasons of UK regulators threatening them with a fine for how they do age checks, and use children's personal data. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

Mod Note: @Yaarel & @Necropolitan You two are not sheep or goats, so the headbutting isn't good for you. If you cannot find a way to resolve your issue, it is perhaps past time for you to disengage, for the betterment of the overall discussion.

So, it isn't the same spot, but you meant the same spot? You meant the thing that you say it obviously cannot be? What? And you know the "only way"... how, exactly? I mean, if you are a time traveler, and know, then tell us - we all stand to be able to live quite better using your unique...

But, did you, really? In the same sense that a player pays a cost? Please tell us more about the cost you, as a GM, paid in this situation, if you don't mind.

Note: this is an artifact of playing a tabletop RPG. As soon as you move to live-action, bets may be off. This holds especially for combat. There's a popular class of live-action games in which combat is simulated by players hitting or shooting each other (lightly) with what amounts to nerf...

Not precisely true. We do not ban people who just wander away of their own accord. But there are people who choose to have their account banned.

So, here's the issue, right here: "same spot". The universe doesn't actually recognize an absolute "same spot". All spots must be measured relative to some rest frame and chosen center of a coordinate system, but the laws of physics do not recognize any grand universal rest frame. Any time...

That sounds likely... So, the problem is that this... isn't a thing. That's not a "principle" of cosmology. What I really think we have here is a misunderstanding about what is important in Einstein's Special Relativity. That there is an inertial frame in which we might observe the Cosmic...

I don't spend a lot of time in cars or in stores with music playing, so I generally get through the season unscathed. I wind up preferring the alternate game: Whamphilia - the person who inadvertently hears the song the most time wins! I also find this version a bit more in the spirit of the...

Do it yourself. If you can come back with it in hand, verifiable, you get to win the point of being right. If you can't... well, then you look like you made it all up.

Mod Note: Rude. If I said, for example, you had a misguided sense of superiority that led you to think you could be a jerk to folks, you'd be furious with me. So, it is not at all clear why you'd do it to anyone else. If you cannot be kind and respectful, you will not be posting in this...

You know what? I have a holiday, and a cat full of cancer to deal with. I have no patience for your picayune wordplay. I'm done.

The cat got her first dose of chemotherapy back on Monday. She seems to have tolerated it pretty well. Her food intake dropped a bit, which was expected, but it may be heading back up already, which is nice. But, we have to do it once a week for three or four weeks, which is a lot, and she...

No, it is still a relative one - it would only be absolute if physics changed in that rest frame, which it does not. As far as has been measured so far, the CMB rest frame is not special. Choosing the CMB as a rest frame is the same as choosing a frame in which the center of the Milky Way, or...