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By: Ialdabaoth

Ialdabaoth — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 02:22:07 +0000

I honestly doubt they would check your IP if you socked and stuck to Open/D&D.

While I’m not a strict deontologist, I deliberately avoid such tactics on principle. They requested I not come back; I choose to honor that request because I have some respect for them.

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By: Oligopsony

Oligopsony — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:59:53 +0000

No rpg.net for $REASONS

I honestly doubt they would check your IP if you socked and stuck to Open/D&D.

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By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:57:10 +0000

I made the mistake of not zoning out the commercials on my commute home, causing me to pick up on this gem from the Maryland Highway Safety Administration (or something to that effect):

“Speeding is aggressive driving. And that’s why the Maryland state police are out ticketing speeders and aggressive drivers….” (PSA continues, but at no point is the idea that aggressive driving puts people in unnecessary danger mentioned)

My initial response is to mock the iron logic at work here, but the paranoid cynic in me wants to think this message is meant to inure the populace to the idea that law enforcement can and should harass them for arbitrary reasons at any time.

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By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 04:03:13 +0000

Could try http://www.talking-time.net/forumdisplay.php?f=20 though you need an invitation.

Availability bias also hands me this http://forums.shamusyoung.com/

My overall point being there’s lots of options. Fail your way forward?

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By: Ialdabaoth

Ialdabaoth — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 03:23:24 +0000

Hey, where’s a good place with a reasonably large viewer-base for discussing / showing off / playtesting tabletop games and RPGs?

No rpg.net for $REASONS, and boardgamegeek is a little too frenetic.

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By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 06:13:47 +0000

Do you feel predated upon? (Subjective world.)

Are you being asked for material sacrifices, like $10,000 donations? (Objective world.)

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By: Through the Microscope at a Well-Manicured-Bug | Aristonothos

Through the Microscope at a Well-Manicured-Bug | Aristonothos — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 02:34:44 +0000

[…] notably bellicose comment from ‘Well-Manicured-Bug’ on his Open Thread ruffled feathers, and I can’t help but think some additional response might be useful. All quotes […]

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By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:48:34 +0000

Scott, thanks, that’s the kind of answer I was looking for. It seems clear enough that it feels utterly redundant to re-state in my own words.

I’m not entitled to an answer, but I do have to mention I still don’t know your views on coercion.

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Anthony,

Note that by making the claim of impossibility, you’re open to being falsified by a single counterexample.

Yes, I do such things on purpose to make it hard to defend.

because, among other things, they’re not exactly the same act.

Did I make it clear I’m talking net-jerk, not gross-jerk?

I don’t see how you get away with calling an increase in utility ‘being a jerk’ without a serious contradiction. If we’re talking some net decrease, then there’s no problem.

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By: Army1987

Army1987 — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 11:04:08 +0000

I notice the published academic paper mentioned in the tag line never uses the word “sleep”, though I’d expect sleep deprivation to be a major confounder when comparing reaction times of people today with those of people before the internet, television, radio, and electric lighting.

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By: Nornagest

Nornagest — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 23:58:58 +0000

I used to read Making Light semi-often, although I never posted there. It got too heavy-handedly political for me sometime late in the Bush years and I stopped, but it did have one of the better commentariats I’ve seen. Fewer cog-sci nerds, more writerly types, but still very bright.

I still miss John M. Ford’s stuff.

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