Encumbrance makes a lot of sense in the context of old D&D, progression was tied to how much treasure you could get out of a dungeon. It also works well in survival-type games where resource management is a key mechanic. But like many facets of old D&D it is applied widely with no consideration.

It’s very important that we find a healer or we’re going to die! But also, you can only get one camp interaction per rest so take your time~

This doesn’t bother me at all. It’s kinda weird that games are often expected to give 100% of their content to average investment players. Leave some meat on the bone for the tryhards!

The explanation I heard was that “ghost” stuck around because “Holy Ghost” was in the printed bibles and people didn’t question that authority.

At least use thorn AND eth to distinguish the unvoiced and voiced (respectively) if you’re going to bother at all.

Many Native American cultures did not know about alcohol before it was introduced by Europeans, same in Australia and New Zealand. The many deleterious effects of colonization are certainly “a significant element in their cultural development” but maybe not in the way you intended.

Have we collectively lost the ability to detect a shoop? The alteration is glaringly obvious—the right side is clearly clone stamped and it’s blurry at the join of the C and u.

AI crap is worse than not commenting.

they’re not public

This is a huge issue, honestly. Discord’s search function is awful and you have to find the right server before you can even try to find the information. Any standard search engine can find a post in a classic forum.

Also, scrolling through giant pages of constantly updating chatter is a miserable interface. Split it up into pages!

ALSO, Discord has poor tools for managing everything. You can’t merge topics or move posts, that should be day 1 stuff.

That’s just the Twitch brainrot. People that want forums back (including me) do not want to be in a room with 13k people. That’s not a community, it’s so much bigger than the monkeysphere.

I was never made to “tutor” but my assigned groups for projects were conspicuously full of problem children I was expected to balance.

I like math just fine up until trigonometry and at that point my brain just can’t hold onto it. Failed college calculus three times. There’s something about the formulas and rules and applications that isn’t intuitive for me at that level. I’m much better at the Earth Sciences and had no problems with chemistry.

“Liking” math isn’t really accurate either. I don’t care about math, I care about things that require math. Geometry and algebra are useful in a ton of other disciplines and activities. Playing with numbers doesn’t make me feel smart or accomplished the way a puzzle does.

I’ve never felt existential dread while contemplating life or death or the scale of the universe so being comfortable with mortality I guess.

Tell that to the Communist Control Act of 1954.

Buckle up, it’s time for Red Scare 3! This time with even more government surveillance!

It combines the normalization of magical thinking with the belief in an absolute moral authority. So you get people that aren’t concerned with provable reality and are sure they’re doing the right thing.

My familiarity with Japanese jazz is very limited to even the “obvious” ones are a treat.

In the interests of fair trade, here’s a scattering of what I’ve enjoyed lately. Some of it has a similar sound but there’s a lot of variance in the “jazz fusion” space and I like experimental stuff:

• Peela
• Lydian Collective
• Giraffes? Giraffes!
  • More Skin With Milk-Mouth remains excellent
• KNOWER
  • Their latest album in particular, as well as the most recent solo work of constituent parts Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi
• DOMi & JD BECK
• Jacob Mann
  • Jacob Mann Big Band is more traditional and I’m a sucker for a good brass section
• the olllam
  • I don’t actually know how to describe this but Irish folk is involved and “with pure crystalll teeth” fills me with dopamine
• Sungazer
• The Fearless Flyers
  • Tailwind is a really good album
• Moon Hooch
  • They’re silly and frenetic but I did say I’m a sucker for brass

Any specific recommendations? I’ve been into prog/jazz/funk for the last few years (thanks to Louis Cole’s various projects for opening that door) and I know Japan has a strong scene.

That’s the spirit!

It didn’t look terrible on Michael Jordan with the matching soul patch. It didn’t look good but it wasn’t terrible.