I've been playing since I. Everything up through IV was reinventing the wheel a little worse each time, in my opinion. V was a breath of fresh air, by far the most fun of the lot.

Yeah, but Solas is a douchecanoe.

Played two things lately:
Eclipse. A 4x galactic strategy video game rendered as a tabletop game.
Tharsis. A sci-fi themed dice-rolling game rendered as a video game.

NOT OK…

NOT OK.

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Here's a hint: when the forum's editor has an avatar that looks like J. R. "Bob" Dobbs in a Christmas hat, you can be pretty sure that some trolling is going on.

Find? No, I cooked that up myself. Took me a couple hours, but it beats working.

They're like twenty pounds each, so it wouldn't surprise me.

What are you talking about? The Moon and Sun are flat disks facing toward the Earth too. That's why you see only one side of the Moon. The planets are just dots with your naked eye: if you trust telescopes, they look like fuzzy disks too. We've got spacecraft that claim to have seen them from all sides, but can…

Night/Day cycles

It's actually pretty hard to see that without a telescope. Sailing ships are just little dots by the time they get out to the horizon: most of the photos you see are taken with a zoom lens.

if you go too far in one direction, you end up in the same place coming from the other direction?

Okay, here's a fun challenge for you. Prove to me that the Earth is a sphere. You're not allowed to use anything you can't see with your own eyes.

Even the one that says that the world's secret billionaires encourage people to believe in crazy conspiracy theory bullshit because it makes them easier to control?

Oh, have I got a book for you:

It has some draggy bits in the middle

I can't see a way to confine the plasma stream to a fixed length, or make it "solid" the way a light saber is.

… and when the authors *are* conversant on some element of the historical world, boy do they let you know it. (Katherine Kurtz, for example.)

I'm a planetary scientist, so I've spent more time than I like to admit thinking about the seasons in Game of Thrones, and nothing really works IMO. I'm perfectly happy with "shut up, it's magic" as an explanation, but a half-assed scientific explanation that's wrong would annoy me.