That’s great. I wish all this stuff was more accessible to watch.

Agree 100%

I agree with that. Looking through, I find understanding the basic rules to be kind of a burden. It took me a while to realize that “Operations” is the rules section.

I think it makes sense to show players the character sheet early, because that’s the nexus through which they really experience the game. I like the demo scene towards the beginning, but I think a quickstart guide to explain basic rules to the players very, VERY clearly is usually a good idea.

Still, I’m continuously impressed at how well this adapts Star Trek to an RPG. I was initially skeptical that an RPG could take all the nonsense we see in decades of different shows and create a cohesive basis for all of it, but this is really impressive. I’d have to play to see if the rules feel balanced and natural, but at a glance, they make far more sense than plenty of other RPGs I’ve seen. I think this looks like a really fun game.

I spent a while reading through this, and I gotta say that this is a really good RPG book. It’s very thorough, it’s well written for suggesting ways to play, it’s attractively formatted. This is a cool book.

Oh wow, thanks for the heads up!

I’m excited to check this out.

This is awesome!

I know it’s natural that your eye can’t help but pick up defects, but overall it looks great, and each project looks a bit better.

That’s a very fair reason. I hope they’re successful. I think very little of the owners of the site.

It’s funny that they have an ongoing joke that the owners of the site are evil, billionaire racists, and in real life the site is owned by G/O Media, which seems to have bought up so much of the internet’s interesting websites and enshitified them.

Are they? Good luck and god-speed to them. The publishers of these companies are awful. I wouldn’t be surprised if they try to just get college students to generate content using LLMs for “exposure”.

These people are the worst, and I fear that they don’t care if their content is garbage. But I hope that if the writers don’t get a fair deal, they make a new site or something.

eh… this is kind of weak for the Onion.

This feels like Babylon Bee-level satire.

It’s not a bad concept, it’s just that it’s more of a starting idea. It’s not really formatted effectively as a parody news article.

Yeah. My first thought was ‘Surely this means the US will stop arming the IDF. After all, they defunded the UN Palestinian refugee agency that supplies all food in the territory last week over allegations that five people among their thousands of staff engaged in terrorism. No choice but to cut off the IDF too, zero tolerance policy and all.’ /s

This whole thing is a terrible disaster.

God that is fucked up.

It’s so painful to read. I’m glad Tawfic’s sorry is getting some coverage in the US. It’s not enough, but it’s more than what most people who die in these pogroms get.

We need an entirely new policy. This is unconscionable.

Did you read the article? I’m not talking about the country of India: I’m talking about Narendra Modi and the BJP. The article is about how he’s a Hindu nationalist and his political coalition has built their political success on persecuting Muslims.

Many see the temple’s opening as the beginning of the election campaign for Modi, an avowed nationalist who has been widely accused of espousing Hindu supremacy in an officially secular India. Modi’s Hindu nationalist party is expected to once again exploit religion for political gain in the upcoming national elections in April or May and secure power for a third consecutive term.

I’m talking about Prime Minister Modi. And I’m not calling him a Hindu supremacist because he’s Hindu: it’s because he’s a supremacist.

I think we might be talking past each other in some way.

Ethno/religious supremacy is very different than religious influence.

You can have a political identity that is shaped by your religion and be fully supportive of the rights of immigrants and other religious groups, etc. That’s advancing the belief that your religion or ethnic group should have sole authority over state power.

Germany’s Christian Democratics: religious, but not supremacist. Germany’s National Socialist German Workers party: not religious, very supremacist.

I’m not really sure what point you’re arguing. I think you might be reading things into my observation that aren’t there.

My point was that it’s unfortunate that non-violence civil disobedience appears to have been found to be highly infective under the conditions within Gaza at least circa 2018-19.

I think it’s weird when someone says “Oct. 7 is proof that Israel was right to ______.” Because while much is up for debate, I think the one thing we can agree is that Oct. 7 showed the overall security arrangement was a failure.

One can argue for any security strategy they like, but I don’t think anyone should point to Oct. 7 to justify any policy that led up to Oct. 7.

First, I just want to say that I don’t agree with your premise (I don’t think Christianity is a common feature of successful democracies), but now importantly, I don’t think your sentiments disagree with anything I said.

I don’t mind if someone’s ideology is shaped by faith. My lament was about ethno/religious supremacy.

That got a laugh outta me.

Christ, this asshole.

It’s a constant source of frustration for me that building your political power on promises to elevate a dominant ethnicity or faith over a minority group is such a consistently successful strategy.

And, like … where’s this going? If feels like narratively, rising ethnonationalism never stops itself. It just gets bolder and bolder until something explodes. This feels like the early years of another of history’s ‘oh shit’ moments.

I wish this was a non-violent resistance movement lead by someone that believed in peace and democracy.

A lot of people don’t know this, but they tried this in 2018. It was called the Great March of Return. Gazaans tried protesting non violently for weeks, and faced a fierce violent response, but it was largely ignored by international news.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–2019_Gaza_border_protests

Both are true. It has always been the case, and yet Likud and the country at large have both definitely shifted hard to the right in the last 10 years.