[-] wordman@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Geezer Butler is the most important member of Black Sabbath.

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At the risk of triggering one or more unanswerable RPG discussions that occur over and over without end, here is a terrific post about unanswerable RPG discussions that occur over and over without end:

https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/ten-unanswerable-evergreen-discourses/

[-] wordman@lemmy.ml 197 points 5 months ago

Yao Ming (an NBA basketball player) has, nearly single-handedly, saved the lives of tens of millions of sharks by simply asking citizens of China to stop eating shark fin soup. Since he started doing this, the price of shark fins has tanked, and 90+ percent of people surveyed in China support a ban on selling shark fins.

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[-] wordman@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

I’d put down the Browns trade for Watson the same year as slightly worse.

[-] wordman@lemmy.ml 27 points 6 months ago

I sold a bunch of 70’s and 80’s tabletop roleplaying stuff when I went to college. A few years ago, I reacquired many of those titles at collector’s prices. Not my most brilliant financial move.

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Rascal News is a subscriber-funded source of RPG-related independent journalism: https://www.rascal.news

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D&D branding to get both more irritating and delicious.

Anyone want to guess which six “classic” adventures will be in the Staircase thing?

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Arcology in planning stages (www.newmurabba.com)
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If you need plans for an arcology as big as “20 Empire State Buildings” for your cyberpunk game, look no further.

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Hasbro lays off 1,100 (techcrunch.com)
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Hasbro is shedding 1,100 jobs. SEC filing doesn’t say if they will continue renting Pinkertons.

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In its 2024 lineup of #stamps, the US Postal Service is including stamps commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons.

[-] wordman@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Third and long, Denver. Time for another ineffectual screen pass.

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Researchers who recorded direct neural signals from people listening to “Another Brick in the Wall” have reproduced a recognizable version of the song from the neural data.

[-] wordman@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

The Mile High PA guys are seriously playing “Shake It Off” right now.

[-] wordman@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

Every year, I dream that the NFL will come to its senses and realize that Thursday night football sucks for everyone involved.

[-] wordman@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

You might actually want to look for RPG systems that are a particular kind of bad.

Some systems with decent math behind them fail because they are too fiddly. They might have tons of modifiers to track, cumbersome rolling, lots of traits based on averages of other traits, and so on. Those types of systems can often be great for things like MUDs, because the computer can hide most of it from the player. And, maybe a roll takes 10 times as long, but that just means the software can do it in 10ms instead of 1ms, so who will care?

If Earthdawn was open licensed, I’d suggest it as being “the right kind of bad”. It’s weird exploding pool step system is interesting because the dice for each step are set up such that the average roll of the pool is approximately the step number.

[-] wordman@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Something that crocodiles do has made them one of the longest lasting species on Earth, specifically by allowing populations to explode after massive disasters.

The way it works is: about 90% of baby crocodiles are eaten by… adult crocodiles. So, when a natural disaster (say) wipes out huge quantities of adults at once, baby crocks find themselves in world mostly without predators that eat them, this living long enough to become adults. These adults go back to eating new babies, preventing the population from running amok.

If you imagine the “evil humanoid species™”—kobolds or whatever—does this, you can imagine why the “good guys” are always surprised at how the “hordes” replenish so quickly after being “culled”. You can also imagine the “culling” of adults erodes and annihilates any culture that might have existed in an endless downward spiral.

But, oh, “that’s OK because they’re cannibals”.

[-] wordman@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I’ll take “new life form designed to eat plastic evolves to produce waste products worse for the ocean than plastic” for 200.

[-] wordman@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

For decoration a basement, these would do:

  • Action/Adventure: Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Comedy: Airplane!
  • Drama: The Seven Samurai
  • 3D Animation: The Incredibles
  • 2D Animation: The Iron Giant
  • Science Fiction: Blade Runner
  • Mystery/Thriller: The Third Man
  • Fantasy: The Princess Bride
[-] wordman@lemmy.ml 93 points 1 year ago

While most of the states with zero are searching for both equally, I get the feeling that Wyoming is zero because no one searches for either.

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