"Consistency issues can usually be fixed with wizards." Yes, the old "well...a wizard did it" DeusExMagic-User. Sooo useful for the DM, especially if you are the sort who keeps tweaking the map, and have players puzzled…
Sorry, we will have only binary & atom-thick appraisals of historic figures in the US today. John Calhoun == Bad; Grace Hopper == Good. And that's all you need to know. The ones doing the renaming have no independent…
...who got his money from his parents and uncles. Moe Brown was also a quaker && robustly antislavery, but that did not stop him from bailing out his brothers during the war. Trying to extricate the triangle-trade money…
In fairness to JCC, I'm sure he'd look at the sort of things that go on at Yale these days, and insist that all mention of his name be removed from anything on campus. The South, the South...God knows what shall become…
If nobody's brought it up, "Castle" by David Macaulay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_(book) (also made into a PBS program in the '80s) Very nice book; also he has ones about building Cathedrals, Pyramids, Roman…
As mentioned upthread & here, yes, the early Fieros did have a habit of catching fire. There were primarily two reasons for this: GM refused to budget for a new engine for the car-it never really wanted to have a…
I can respect them for their ability to control a classroom, to empathize with, and to motivate young children. I cannot in any meaningful way respect, the breadth, rigor or quality of undergraduate ed-major programs in…
A few hours of work...on the first day of use. How many more hours of engrossing touchpad driver jiggerypokery will any person need to do over the course of ownership before the cost of their wasted time adds up to the…
This. This. THIS. Federally-backed student loans, undischargeable and given to all and sundry, to be spent wherever on whatever, is a gigantic short in the moral-hazard circuit. I would throw an actual party for any…
Kevin's side of the story has been told by him, by Littman in 'The Fugitive Game' and by Eric Corley. Any reasonably broad-minded person who wants to see the law deal evenhandedly with the accused can find places in…
"Consistency issues can usually be fixed with wizards." Yes, the old "well...a wizard did it" DeusExMagic-User. Sooo useful for the DM, especially if you are the sort who keeps tweaking the map, and have players puzzled…
Sorry, we will have only binary & atom-thick appraisals of historic figures in the US today. John Calhoun == Bad; Grace Hopper == Good. And that's all you need to know. The ones doing the renaming have no independent…
...who got his money from his parents and uncles. Moe Brown was also a quaker && robustly antislavery, but that did not stop him from bailing out his brothers during the war. Trying to extricate the triangle-trade money…
In fairness to JCC, I'm sure he'd look at the sort of things that go on at Yale these days, and insist that all mention of his name be removed from anything on campus. The South, the South...God knows what shall become…
If nobody's brought it up, "Castle" by David Macaulay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_(book) (also made into a PBS program in the '80s) Very nice book; also he has ones about building Cathedrals, Pyramids, Roman…
As mentioned upthread & here, yes, the early Fieros did have a habit of catching fire. There were primarily two reasons for this: GM refused to budget for a new engine for the car-it never really wanted to have a…
I can respect them for their ability to control a classroom, to empathize with, and to motivate young children. I cannot in any meaningful way respect, the breadth, rigor or quality of undergraduate ed-major programs in…
A few hours of work...on the first day of use. How many more hours of engrossing touchpad driver jiggerypokery will any person need to do over the course of ownership before the cost of their wasted time adds up to the…
This. This. THIS. Federally-backed student loans, undischargeable and given to all and sundry, to be spent wherever on whatever, is a gigantic short in the moral-hazard circuit. I would throw an actual party for any…
Kevin's side of the story has been told by him, by Littman in 'The Fugitive Game' and by Eric Corley. Any reasonably broad-minded person who wants to see the law deal evenhandedly with the accused can find places in…