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• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  That's valid enough but, harking back to the comment you are replying to, if you ignore the law for one person or group that sets the precedent that you can do so for others. This is, in my opinion, not...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Well there is such a thing as a large button landline phone for a disabled person. Maybe there is a good case for a large screen, disability adapted smartphone?...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  Fair enough, where would I find them online. Failing that what should I look for in the library? The first thing I stumbled across is this article https://newrepublic.com/article/116215/was-harry-truman-zionist. However I am not familiar with what the biases of this publication...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  I do have some links about the stuff I have been mentioning but, given they are from left wing sites, I suspect a lot of people would discount them before reading. Specifically Lawrence of Cyberia (about mandate era terrorism) and...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  My understanding is that the early Zionist movement was secular in character and not explicitly looking at Palestine as a homeland. The latter changed on contact with the British empire. The former seems to have changed recently with Netanyahu seeking...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  As I recall part of the basic strategy of terrorism is to provoke the group you are fighting into over-reacting and doing things to radicalise your base and to loose support elsewhere. Terrorism is a law enforcement problem. If it...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  Hamas and it's actions are wrong. Understandable but wrong. However, what of the founders of the state of Israel? Amongst them the terrorists of Lehi and the Irgun. Members of those organisations went on to become senior political figures in...
• Commented on Do my Laundry
  Are the New Management now in power for eternity? Or does entropy do a number on them as well and what happens afterwards? Obviously this would be a more fitting topic for the new series. Alternatively, did the Senior Auditor...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  The only fantasy that isn't set in an feudal society that immediately comes to mind is the Commonweal series. Given the starting condition of low tech and some level of (non-theistic) magic what sort of society could work that isn't...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  No, he's a smuggler. When you meet him he is in trouble with his boss because he dumped a load of product to avoid getting busted by the Imperials. He's also ex-Imperial military. Having joined up because he had no...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Some years ago a friend of mine ran a campaign using the West End rules. I was a bounty hunter with a peculiar notion about droid rights and a never memory wiped snarky astromech named R2FU2. We found out why...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Fair enough. I remember hearing that West End Games had access to a ton of George Lucas' files on the Star Wars setting when they did their version of the Star Wars RPG. That did lead to some odd interventions...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Are they using the same authors for the second edition? I ask because I think they nailed the general tone of your earlier Laundry books very well. I gather they made some mistakes around their depiction of Deep Ones though....
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  I will play AD&D. One of my group has a, currently in hiatus, Iron Kingdoms game. But I wouldn't run it for all the tea in China. I will plunder the system's worlds and scenarios for stuff that I am...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Trashing your old 3rd Edition books seems like a bit of a waste. They often seem to turn up in the bring & buy sections of gaming meets so someone would pay you for them. And, as I said, tastes...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Tastes vary. If that approach works for you then fine. My first serious campaign as a player was in Glorantha under RuneQuest 2. I still favour RuneQuest 3 as an easy enough to set up fantasy system. My cinematic system...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  The problem with levels as per old skool D&D is gaining hit points with each level. So a weapon that can kills you a L1 tickles you once you are high level enough. Even if the weapon in question is...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  What they said. I've always felt that D&D/AD&D are very much the ZX81 of TTRPG systems. There are better ones these days that avoid the trap of character levels and the like. That said I am not a fan of...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  To quote "There's a name I have not heard in a long time." One of my first jobs was coding for a company called IMTEC that did most of their business with microfilm readers. They had, I believe, a license...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  I think part of the problem is a lot of people advocating violent solutions have little experience of violence or the consequences of it. They see it as a way to win a contest with their political opponents and think...
• Commented on Finding true love in the cosmos
  The first thing that comes to mind here is, what sort of love is the story about? Romantic and/or sexual love might be problematic but would it be that odd for two intelligent beings to be friends, regardless of biological...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  For a system that is less software engineering and more straight up engineering there's the magic from Michael Scott Rohan's Winter of The World series. There all magic is through items made by mage-smiths. It also has an interesting inversion...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  "YES! That's the whole point. Vegetables are supposed to be cooked soft. The idea is to destroy the unpleasant texture, that all vegetables, whether they taste good or bad, have simply as a result of being plants. Whatever kind of...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  I live in central London, near Mornington Crescent tube. Google Is suggesting using the Piccadilly Line or the Elizabeth Line, depending on which terminal you are going to or coming from. And the times you mention still check out. As...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  So, I have a fair bit of the material produced for the game. What, exactly, did they get wrong? I'm curious about how to run a canonically accurate version of the game....
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Oddly what he usually brought up in anti-Semitic rants were a couple of pre states actions in mandate Palestine. Namely the bombing of the King David hotel and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sergeants_affair. What particularly ground his gears about that was booby trapping...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  No, not true. My father grew up poor in 30's London. He then went to sea in the merchant navy in WW2, transferred over to combined ops and ended up following the 8th army into Italy as part of their...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Yes, I saw that as well. I suppose from an anti-vaxxer POV it's true and it is a slang dictionary so......
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Plus. For every user associated with a corporate machine you have a separate set of folders for downloads, pictures and so on. All that eats up drive space on the machine. Even if most user data is held in a...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  That depends on the setting. I play the MMO EVE Online were the characters are humans cybered to connect to a starship and replace the functions of the bridge crew. The ship becomes an extended body and the real body...