Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Made it. Was torn about whether to use my Reddit handle, or one of my normal handles, since I was never on The Motte that much.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Some of the Lutheran churches might fit the bill, but they range all over the spectrum, so you may have to try a few different ones.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
I didn't realise baseball was changing any rules. What's the sum-up?
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
How does your 100IQ player or GM portray an INT 25 Psychic super genius?
Hah. That's easy. You cheat (within the rules of the game). The DM might not be able to predict the actions the players are going to take... But the genius villain would have, so the DM makes up some bullshit and throws in an extra trap or minions or defensive spell or escape route or whatever.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
That's my preferred method. "I try to persuade the king to spare the captive by appealing to his sense of justice/diplomacy/humour/whatever." It's like how you don't just "attack", you attack with a weapon.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
You can also change reality (with agreement), which makes it easier to fake genius.
There's also the option to go, "yes, I obviously noticed the conclusion of this intricate riddle/web of deceit, but couldn't be bothered to care because I assumed everyone else did as well, and was busy focused on 'insert esoteric topic/grand unifying theory here'.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
But these memes, like the "human rights are not politics, so therefore if you disagree on what I think are human rights than you're human garbage," are pervasive
It's annoying, but I have yet to encounter any good counter-argument to this.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
the whole word learning answer was to have every student keep a dictionary to look up any word they didn’t know how to pronounce at all times.
Let me tell you, as a child who was once caught reading the dictionary for fun rather than doing my assigned homework, I am god-awful at pronouncing new words from reading them or reading phonetic keys, if I haven't heard the word.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Was that really twerking, though? The clips I saw at least were reasonable flute playing (certainly not to the level of Lindsay Sterling).
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
People who like their jobs and take pride in their work usually like the status from their jobs. Over time, the association between their occupational role and its status / social effects become so ingrained that they grow to love their work. But this doesn’t indicate that they would not find enjoyment from a different preoccupation of time in the absence of work.
That seems to contradict a lot of people I know who, upon retirement, immediately return to their previous company as a contractor. It can't be just about the money, and it's certainly not about the status.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
I did poorly, as I wasn't used to having to work hard in a subject I didn't like, having relied on either natural ability or passion to carry me. That was... An eye-opener, to be sure, and an important one.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Amusingly, I can think of a major space opera that does exactly this (ok, black girl as queen) and the author is 100% not woke or blank-slatist.
Honorverse, I presume?
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Adults: You know what? I go mythological. Maybe Greek, maybe Norse, maybe Gilgamesh, maybe the Ramayana. Or perhaps Journey to the West, to appeal to the Chinese market. Is there a good myth cross-over IP? And don't say Fate/Stay Night.
Family: It's got to be Pern. That or Redwall. Broad appeal across demographics, plenty of action and memorable characters... yeah.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
BG2 is always going to be my favorite (Irenicus is just so damn good as a villain), but I've been enjoying the modern Pillars of Eternity games. Gilded Vale in the first is one of the finest CRPG setpieces I've encountered, but the rest of the game doesn't quite maintain that high point (understandably).
I also enjoyed Torment: Numenera, but I have a soft spot for the setting, and the game is not consistently good in play or writing. Some of the companions have fantastic ways for their stories to end, though.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
They've killed off Celeborn
I mean, they just say that he "hasn't been seen again" after a battle. Obviously still around.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
You have to play it safe. Have to stay on the road, run away from scary things. You're not the Lord of Murder at level 1. Unlike a lot of other games, there is no handholding here.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Grey's Law, right? "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
The way I think about it: If Rohan had the state capacity of an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Numenor was Rome at its height, or mythological Trojan-War era Greece, complete with a thousand ships.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
What are some good eccentric and evocative (but fairly tame) curses to pick up? There's always "Damn/blast your eyes" or "God's little fish in trousers" or "Blistering barnacles", but what are some other good ones?
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Same with Crazy Train, really.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
If you're the US and you have the will, you conduct FONOPs during the blockade, and dare China to enforce it.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
We demand that leadership does not discriminate against workers on the basis of their race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or political beliefs.
Aside from the last one, isn't that just literally the law?
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Bowie’s fascist-sympathizing period has not really dinged his rep.
I'm assuming thats probably in large part because it doesn't really get mentioned much.
I mean, that's how the saying goes, right? If you're not the paying customer, you're the product. And the users were the product.
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