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.

Tankies, the original meaning was to refer to those who cheered when Stalin sent tanks in to crush the Hungarian communist party because they wanted independence from the Soviet Union. The term was revived when China literally crushed a student protest using tanks.

I’ve just not had the excuse to look yet, my life is currently a bit too chaotic for a regular game, let alone one in another new system…

I am working on an open game setting over at https://ttrpg.network/c/Canyonlands but don’t have anything like a plan for actually running a game.

Racist woman saying that because Kanye West has adopted what are basically Nazi talking points, Jewish people can use a specific racial slur.

And skis before skates.

I need to read up on Pathfinder 2e.

I know the “joke” was that 1e was basically D&D 3.75… which was a bit too powergamey for my tastes, so I never even looked at 2e…

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.

I’m waiting for that inevitable margin call. Followed by Twitter being repossessed. At that point it will probably be sold off for parts.

New dishes are invented all the time.

But the reason who these two are so ubiquitous is simple.

General Tso’s chicken was featured on 60 minutes. The guy being interviewed showed how to make the dish with each ingredient. After that, it quickly showed up on every Chinese restaurant menu.

Orange chicken was specifically designed for American tastes by Panda Garden, which then spawned imitators.

Go even further back, lifting your helmet’s visor to show your face.

Naan is safe.

General Tso’s chicken on the other hand, is another 1960s invention.

Same with orange chicken.

In fact, most “Chinese” food that Americans or Brits eat was invented in the 60s or 70s.

Veritasium’s latest videos. Like the last 4 or 5.

11 years ago… I wonder if he’ll revisit the topic with his current deep dives into relatively…

You say “too” here, but it’s doubtful that Trump has actually read his book.

He famously had it ghost written, but fucked up the deal hard enough that his ghost writer got full writing credit on the cover.

Fission. As in uranium and Thorium.

We’ve had energy positive fission since the 1950s.

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.

We’re actually running into shortages of Plutonium 238. Which is seriously compromising deep space missions.

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.

Well, security through obscurity never really did work

Another distro that’s easy to get going for gaming is Garuda.

Also, the easiest way to switch to any distro is to get a USB drive and install a program called Ventoy. Then you throw your install iso onto the Ventoy drive, boot from USB, and you’re good to go.

As a tip, pick up an external drive large enough for your Steam library. Then in Steam, you right click on each game and select Manage/Back up game files.

Doing it this way will save you days of downloading.