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I dunno, there are parts of goblinscomic that I've really enjoyed

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I think once you equate "accomplishing interesting things" with "power fantasy" you have officially taken the argument into la-la-land.

Fuck it, we're all playing Bunnies & Burrows.

How does this interact with Androids?

I have a suggestion to that might fix it. How about this. The use of supernatural powers disrupt radio frequencies in general. I was a multichannel radio operator, and a off time sat com operator when I was in the military. There are a lot of things that can jam signals locally. I kind of hate this...

Yup, welcome to "guilty until proven innocent ... like ten times over"

The way you show things are true is by making and falsifying every counterargument. The ones that don't falsify are new science. Presenting counterarguments, especially ones you don't agree with, is literally the most important part of science. The null hypothesis is the ur-"thing you don't agr...

Basically, the assumption is that anyone's brain can be wirelessly hacked, even if it doesn't have any 'ware in it. I know this might be someone's cup of tea, but it is emphatically not mine. I am actually ok with wirelessly hacking someone's cyberbrain Ghost In The Shell style...if they've plugged...

hyzmarca wrote:It seems to me that the Olympics could probably have a game every year if they just settled down into one city instead of moving around all the time like sports hobos.

But then how would the IOC squeeze money from the countries bidding to be the next host?

Let's look at the actual definition of caster level again: A spell’s power often depends on its caster level, which for most spellcasting characters is equal to your class level in the class you’re using to cast the spell. You can cast a spell at a lower caster level than normal, but the caster leve...

Please note, I originally started this trying to prove Frank right . It's not my fault I convinced myself it works the other way. Quoting the relevant text: A spell’s power often depends on its caster level, which for most spellcasting characters is equal to your class level in the class you’re usin...

The most important failing of Die Hard II is that John McClain is not alone or isolated. A requirement to be a good Die Hard movie is that John McClain has to rise to the challenge because nobody else is available . This is most explicit in Die Hard, where he's the only person who can make a differe...

I haven't had good luck with video game/TRPG podcasts. I've been listening to Nerd Poker. It's fascinating because because it's a very "real" table with nonsense houserules and a batshit storyline that involves spelljamming, clones, a mind-controlling space wizard, and recently introduced ...

Order determined by the semi-nonsense way my podcast app organizes them: Common Sense with Dan Carlin BBC Global News NPR On the Media The Bugle Science Friday RadioLab BBC Discovery BBC Science in Action NPR Planet Money 99% Invisible The Memory Palace BBC Documentaries Intelligence Squared Judge J...

I never said the theoretical Fighter using scry had to be swords only, fighting all the time, no items, final destination. I simply don't see any more thematic dissonance between Scry and Black Tentacles than I do between Scry and Spiked Chain Trip Monkey. I mean, it's Divination , there's not much ...

Great, but all those skills already exist and are already open to everyone. None of those need to be added to classes. 2 ranks/level and cross-class costs does not make something "accessible". Pretending full-classed paladins can sneak worth a damn is just being facetious. Also, as previo...

I think I figured it out. They have a fairly clever idea on how to do AOE on the diagonal without making weird diamond gaps or having diagonal lines affect 40% more squares. If the origin of the effect occupies more than one square (such as an ogre mage casting lightning bolt), the creator of the ef...

Isn't that the root of the Joker Problem though? I don't follow comics but to my knowledge, Joker doesn't have any particular in-world ability that allows him to repeatedly escape prisons - that would change the dilemma significantly. ... Meanwhile, the way to fix that in a non-comic book medium is...

I don't want to play in a game where the Teleport Attack Rogue can't teleport us around because he took the Diplomancer subclass, so the Wilderness Ranger teleports us around and the Paladin tracks shit. I would much rather play a game where the Paladin diplomacizes, the Teleport Rogue Teleports ov...

With the amounts of coke and heroin the police are always confiscating and then needing to destroy, you'd think they'd solve two "problems" at once there. I'm not in favour of the state deciding to kill someone who is already incarcerated and no longer a threat to society, but if they're ...

A lot of that is just human nature. I just heard a guy lamenting the fact that he's cursed to be a Buffalo Bills fan because he grew up in Rochester. To me it's beyond bizarre that he'd remain a fan of a football team that has actively disappointed him for his entire life. But that's just the way a ...

These brutal and insane economic decisions are from Germany. They are not from other places. They are demanded by German political leaders and supported by German academics and media outlets. The only question is whether German economics is sincere and insane, or whether it is in fact deliberately ...

Objectively that is absolutely bonkers. How is God in control of his son's recovery, but not in control of his son getting sick in the first place? Lay people don't really believe in omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence. You have to be heard by God, and then God has to spare some power for you...

Because really, when you get right down to it, humans are social animals who like to congregate and party with other like-minded individuals . Religion is just a justification. Religion seems like a particularly bad justification for social interaction, seeing as you keep believing all the stupid, ...