jpmoral

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by jpmoral 4y ago
This is a bit of a tangent to my original point but picking up a different game because D&D doesn't do the setting you want isn't the counterculture I was talking about. As an example, say your group decides they want to play
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by jpmoral 4y ago
Subcultures can have countercultures, though. An example would be tabletop RPGs. D&D would be the mainstream within the and outside of the subculture. There's a counterculture that rejects that games should be a power fantasy (as i
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by jpmoral 5y ago
Did you mean 'hysterics'?
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by jpmoral 5y ago
> The need to make money modifies the artistic process. Some expressions will be modified or straight up suppressed if they are perceived as unprofitable or offensive. But that's always been true, the creator economy didn't cre
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by jpmoral 5y ago
I don't understand all the hand-wringing in the comments that creative people being paid somehow makes them a sell-out or will otherwise ruin the hobby/field/employment landscape/whatever else. Are there people churning
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by jpmoral 5y ago
I'm with you on the fashion bit but I'm a recent immigrant (to Australia, as it happens) and the driving culture here feels a lot saner than where I'm from. Being asked for bribes, ignoring pedestrian lights and crosswalks, q
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by jpmoral 5y ago
Early 40s. Muay Thai. It started as a casual interest to help me get in shape. Learning about the technical, historical, and cultural aspects and nuances really hooked me. Wish I'd started much earlier. If you're interested, the b
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by jpmoral 5y ago
> Mayer sees it as more of a quirky marketing tool. Mayer emphasizes that the micronation should be seen as "tongue in cheek," and that while they might bring in their own rules when they are on the island (such as no single-us
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by jpmoral 5y ago
Doesn't seem like it to (untrained) me. Maybe if it were ham-handed and on-the-nose.
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by jpmoral 5y ago
> I'd love to get to a system where your tax id was assumed to public knowledge
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by jpmoral 5y ago
> Basically, there’s no reliable way for users to get vetted weather information on their phones. Browsers should work, right? I check the (Australian) Bureau of Meteorology website all the time on my phone. We use it to plan family trip
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by jpmoral 5y ago
I'm in my second role in Australia. Can't say whether it's a thing but people from my previous role (people still there and people who have moved on) definitely keep in touch with each other.
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by jpmoral 5y ago
I have not read the book but what about the campaigns in China, the Philippines, and Latin America? I don't think it's controversial to say commercial interests were a significant (if not the main) driver in those cases.
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by jpmoral 5y ago
I might have missed something but it seemed to me that the author neither stated nor implied that Tolkien was in any way inaccurate. He praises the writing, illustrating how Theoden's,Saruman's and the others' actions made se
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by jpmoral 5y ago
The author goes into problems caused by the inherent differences between writing a book and making a movie. >I think there’s one question left to be answered here, and that’s why Peter Jackson? Why? And I think we can answer this questio
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by jpmoral 5y ago
Reading this brings back childhood memories of reading Two Centuries of Warfare (Chant, Holmes, and Koenig). I think this is why I've always both been attracted to and deeply disappointed by RTS games. The resource gathering, materiel
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by jpmoral 5y ago
>It completely ruined my respect for authority figures. It looks like they realised they were out of their depth and found someone who could help. Were they wrong to trust you? Edit: I may have misunderstood your post. Did you mean: A. T
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by jpmoral 5y ago
I started with a Pomodoro timer and walking a few steps and doing some stretches during the break. I gradually added stuff and now on weekdays I do: - At least 1500 steps after breakfast - At least 1200 steps after lunch - 15 minutes of car
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by jpmoral 5y ago
I see the Runequest and Mythras rulesets mentioned a lot in Bronze Age RPG discussions. There's also a GURPS Greece and the AD&D 2e Age of Heroes sourcebook. I'm sure there are heaps more.
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by jpmoral 5y ago
The North Korean claim that the wall is only visible from their side reminds me of the Ha-ha: >A ha-ha (French: hâ-hâ or saut de loup) is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier (particularly on one side) whil
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by jpmoral 5y ago
Which ones in particular do you disagree with and why?
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by jpmoral 5y ago
This is only true where the system at least somewhat works. In other places you get police press conferences where they say "The president/governor has already given us orders to investigate the crime".
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by jpmoral 5y ago
The idea is that if it holds for n = 3 then it holds for n > 3. The way to show that it holds for n = 3 is to show that it holds for n = 2, which it doesn't.
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by jpmoral 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crhU-pg7Rvw Skip to 12:48 for the start of the commentary, 32:15 for the start of the game.
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by jpmoral 5y ago
I agree with the article though that the letter borders on threatening and is misleading. Nitpick: Angst != anger
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by jpmoral 5y ago
>Saying "yeah, someone else SHOULD pay for their non-necessity"? I can't imagine thinking like that. >Just because someone runs into financial difficulty doesn't mean they can just stop paying for things. Nor does
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by jpmoral 5y ago
1) You don't know that. And there may be emergency situations where you're on the phone with someone other than from the emergency number. 2) How rental cars do it doesn't seem to have anything to do with this. >By the way
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by jpmoral 5y ago
In Australia, I like: - parks - museums - libraries - free primary and secondary education - subsidised tertiary/vocational education - a (relative of course) functioning public transport system - healthcare - worker protections - othe
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by jpmoral 5y ago
This doesn't sound right. It's a pretty big claim.
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by jpmoral 5y ago
Why not?

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