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  • But, sometimes it’s more fun to let the players go. Especially if they keep the game and the table separated.

    Cross lines in game, but keep the table clean? Then keep going.

    Cross lines at the table, and the game ends until everyone has talked it through. And sometimes the game is just over.

    This story sounds like it stayed in game enough, but may have been scratching at the table. Enough to pull back and talk for a moment, but not enough to kill the game.







  • I’m not denying that Finn and Poe had an interesting chemistry, I just think that Poe should have stayed dead.

    The lingering question of what could have been would have been a way to deepen Finn’s character.

    And if you want to keep the actor, well. When Poe comes in to land after rescuing Finn and the group, his first words to Poe are “why are you wearing my brother’s coat?”

    And now you have another interesting character dynamic to explore.










  • Interestingly, no. It’s not the same as if you ate a chunk of lead.

    Lead binds to calcium channels, and then blocks them. This makes it a bit of a neurotoxin. It also accumulates in the bones.

    Uranium on the other hand is one of the heavy metals that the body is good a filtering out of the blood. The body is not as good at expelling the uranium. It accumulates in the kidney. This can lead to kidney disease, and other related issues. And that’s just the chemical toxicity of Uranium. Add in the radioactive side of things, and you have a truly distinct form of metal poisoning.



  • Except the Ironman style reactor is pure science fiction, whereas hydrogen fusion is real, but still has issues of energy capture, which several groups are working on.

    There are two promising avenues, one is a direct physical capture, as in fusion is initiated with huge pistons that are physically moved by the fusion explosion,

    And the other cool one is direct magnetic coupling.

    I expect both to take off long before the tokamak style does.

    But fission power is already here, and much easier to set up. Molten Salt Thorium is also promising. And once some corrosion issues are solved, could power the earth at current levels for the next thousand years.

    All while producing an isotope of actinium that produces only alpha radiation. Which is super useful in killing cancer cells.