Yes, yes, you’re very counter-cultural and independent in your tastes. We’re all very proud of you.

The difference is that orcs, goblins, and so on are filling a narrative role traditionally filled by racial minorities. They’re the “savages” that you’d find in an early Western or pulp adventure story. Saying “They’re orcs, not real people, so it’s not racist” is just kinda transparent. Any person of color playing…

I imagine with the Forgotten Reams drow they’ll lean into the “People suffering under a malicious godless, and driven to cruelty by that suffering” angle, over “They’re evil elves, you can tell because they’re black”.

Tolkien explicitly described orcs as “mongoloid”. Goblins are big pile of anti-Semitic tropes. Drow are literally the black, evil version of elves. The visual signifiers used to code D&D races as evil are definitely rooted in racist caricatures, even if those signifiers were probably adopted without intentional malice.

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...you really think innocent people never go to prison?

Club sports—as opposed to school sports— generally have fees associated with them that can be prohibitive.

I mean, sure, but if you’re a white person you have to be aware that there’s a very real chance you’d be in prison if you were black but otherwise lived the exact same life.

The fact that club team sports are extremely beneficial to a kid’s development is exactly why they perpetuate inequalities. To be clear, no one is saying that you, as a parent able to afford such opportunities, shouldn’t enroll your kids in sports. It’s a list of privileges to be be aware of, not things that you need…

Standalone expansion, maybe?

Yeah, it was. Notably, it includes both Yellowstone and Bryce Canyon, which are almost six hundred miles apart.

One thing I don’t think is getting emphasized enough is to bring hand sanitizer. For a multi-hour protest in the June heat, it’s not viable to never take your mask off; you need to drink. At least at smaller protests it’s not hard to find somewhere six feet away from anyone to have a drink, but if you’re taking your…

Well, donations from rich people and corporations are tax deductible. The donations of people who take the standard deduction aren’t past a certain very small amount. Which isn’t awesome.

On the other hand, it’s worth emphasizing that the tax savings from donations are substantially smaller than the amount of the…

Consumer-grade 3D printers aren’t generally food safe, so it’s probably not a great idea unless you’re carrying a medical-use-only water bottle.

You realize that faster load times doesn’t just mean less time on loading screens, right? Stuff is getting loaded and unloaded during gameplay. At least under some circumstances, twice as fast load times means you can load twice as much stuff into a scene.

Considering the amount of data being thrown around in that demo, it seems quite likely it’s reliant on the PS5’s faster SSD. Which isn’t to say you couldn’t make something equally impressive to run on the XBox, which outperforms the PS5 in most other categories.

While RTSs are terrible with thumbsticks, turn based strategy games work just fine. Mario: Kingdom Battle, for example, does a variant on the XCOM formula perfectly well.

One of my favorite things about Pandemic: Legacy is that the rules start off very simple and easy to teach, but the game gains a bit of complexity each time you play. As such, you get all the depth of a complex game without having to explain complex rules in one go.

Role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons work beautifully over Zoom. If your kids are too young for D&D, there are similar but simpler games designed for younger audiences like Hero Kids and No Thank You, Evil, though in that case you probably want an adult running the game.

I’ve never heard of a fan going to GDC. It’s very expensive even if you’re a local, and ninety-five percent of what you see won’t even make sense to you. Virtually everyone there is either a working dev, a student/jobseeker, or media.

But, ideally, you shouldn’t need to pay down debts or add to your retirement fund using windfall money. Ideally you already have an emergency fund,don’t have debts besides a mortgage, and are on track with retirement savings due to monthly contributions.

Now, obviously a lot of people aren’t in that situation. But a…