ScarletEmerald

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by ScarletEmerald 4y ago
That wasn't First Edition, it was the parallel Basic, Expert, Companion, Masters, Immortals (aka BECMI) D&D line that had 36 levels and came out between about 1980 and wrapped up in the mid-90s. AD&D First Edition did have a fe
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by ScarletEmerald 4y ago
I was recently catching up on Dark Horse's Conan the Avenger , and sure enough, Conan and his companions of circumstance end up facing a monstrous beast from the outer dark. Conan's plan? "Hit whatever attacks us, man or bea
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by ScarletEmerald 4y ago
There have been a lot of versions and revisions of D&D over the years. Amongst players of the earlier (or "classic") versions of the game, 'B/X' stands for play based around the Basic Set edited by Tom Moldvay,
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by ScarletEmerald 4y ago
> People should treat others the way they want to be treated if they happen to be on the "wrong" side. How should someone be treated who has made it clear that they will never follow the Golden Rule, no matter how they'
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by ScarletEmerald 4y ago
I haven't read the dissertation yet. But just reading the cartoon you linked put me in mind of a friend who's spendt the last year headed down various cult/conspiracy theory rabbit holes, despite the efforts of their friends
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by ScarletEmerald 5y ago
The bean counters got their salaries and bonuses. Why should they care what happens next? It seems to me that historically the real controls on our business models were social, not regulatory. And with ethics and conscience removed, we&#x27
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by ScarletEmerald 5y ago
Would you trust a source of medical information less if it declined to present or link to information that breathing CO is healthy, drinking mineral spirits is fine, and handling mercury with bare skin is safe and fun?
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by ScarletEmerald 5y ago
The solution doesn't fit the problem though. Sure, in theory bitcoin-style cryptocurrencies can replace centralized financial systems. But, as keeps being demonstrated, including by this very example, in practice what you end up wi
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by ScarletEmerald 5y ago
Graphic design played a large role, I'd guess. Warcraft imagery had this unique mix of cartoon, fantasy, and realistic in a way that most of its successors (and even later versions of WoW itself couldn't match. Plus, the open worl
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by ScarletEmerald 5y ago
One sheep rancher I knew back in college was a huge fan of wolf reintroduction. According to him, the wolves killed a few sheep and almost all the coyotes, which meant he wasn't losing any sheep to coyotes. Which worked out to a major
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by ScarletEmerald 5y ago
The core problem American society is facing is bad faith participants . When a significant number of participants in a society/organization/government are operating with the goal of destabilizing or destroying the system there
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by ScarletEmerald 5y ago
Not even a mention of the issue of bot networks? Is that because they're seen as a very real, if unmentioned, problem? Or is it a pretense that they do not exist and have no impact?
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by ScarletEmerald 5y ago
It doesn't sound quite like the story the previous poster was thinking of, but Hannu Rajaniemi's Jean le Flambeu series (beginning with The Quantum Thief ) has uploaded, edited, and copied human minds as a significant component
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by ScarletEmerald 5y ago
> from Apple to ... I can't think of a company name starting with Z Zeppelin? :) https://zeppelin-nt.de/en/homepage.html
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by ScarletEmerald 5y ago
Available evidence strongly suggests Trump and his campaign coordinated with representatives of Russian government interests that involved both significant lawbreaking and a targeted media campaign that resulted in a victory for Trump that
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by ScarletEmerald 5y ago
Along these lines, there is a wonderful quote from James D. Nicoll from back in the days of Usenet: “The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just bor
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by ScarletEmerald 5y ago
Nope. Foundation was first published in 1942, and is something of an alternate take on the Space Opera w Evil Empire genre, which came earlier, with the first prominent example being E.E. "Doc" Smith's Galactic Patrol in 19
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by ScarletEmerald 5y ago
>> Common people had almost no sports, no games (beyond precursors to Bocce or backgammon), no literature! >No literature, sure, because they were illiterate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_literature (I k
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by ScarletEmerald 5y ago
All with no mention at all of Neal Stephenson's 1992 novel Snow Crash , which included a quite detailed equivalent of Google Earth (called 'Earth', iirc).