This sounds like a spy codephrase

Yoy-lir

You made that one up.

That’s actually stylish as hell

It’s possible that they specifically won’t in order to get info on others. But that’s me being optimistic

I decided to read all of Joyce in order, which I think helps ease you into his head.

I got to chapter IV, flipped through it to estimate how long it would take to read it properly, and dutifully put the bookmark in it.

This is how I generally read books, so there are dozens.

If you only count books I’m more than a couple chapters into, then in descending order of how long they’ve been on the list:

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson

Finnegan’s Wake

Gravity’s Rainbow

House of Leaves

They’re all great books, but they require a bit more dedicated reading time than I generally have.

Six sigma is literally a methodology based on reducing defects on the production scale of millions. Not every business is a high-volume manufacturer, and there’s no reason to treat them that way

Why do people born on June 28th so often have a spirit shape that looks like people born in early March?

You really should dive into GURPS. Chris Normand has a good YouTube series in the basics, but the gist is that it’s both the simplest and most intricate system out there. Basically everything is a 3d6 skill check, but there are thousands of pages dedicated to figuring out exactly what modifiers apply. The modularity is delightful, basically every rule is entirely and explicitly optional

I don’t know much about anything before 4e, which is my reference here. But yeah, it really should be. I jumped ship on D&D because they were just getting so lazy on mechanic content.

I think it might be more widespread than WotC, but my only experience is a distant smattering of PF2, D&D 5e, and GURPS 4e ever since. But I wouldn’t be surprised if the lack of attention to detail for actually running the game is a broad problem.

We can’t really put all the blame on the devs though, I think GMs who forget that it’s their table, and some rulebook isn’t the boss of them, make devs feel pressured to not “impose” rules and features in their sourcebooks.

Like homie, give me tools. You’re not holding a knife to my throat, I can chill on the nitty gritty if I want to. But give me the nitty gritty so I can decide for myself.

I dunno, I made my choice, I think it’s the best possible choice for my play philosophy. I think if more people considered my play philosophy, it would be the best possible choice for a lot of people.

GURPS has an official GM Control Sheet for you to fill out with your PCs base stats and things like Perception. This supports their recommendation in the rule books to secretly roll any check where the PC wouldn’t really know if they failed. It’s fantastic.

Glad that I didn’t have to, because I was totally going to

There are centuries of religious thought by mystics developing upon the texts inspired in part by those stories. The parts based on common ancient legends comprise a relatively small part of religious texts.

And still, if anything that’s supportive evidence. The ancient legends that pop up again and again, that survive centuries of canonical revision, probably reflect deep and spiritually apparent features of reality.

They contradict each other on many aspects.

Yes, which is why I said to compare them to see where they don’t contradict each other.

So either only is from God or none of them are.

Never said any of them were from God. They’re all from humans attempting to describe God.

The gift being that he was old and white with a proven political track record.

Politics isn’t just about policy, you have to appeal to enough voters to get elected if you want to implement those policies. Unfortunately, right now in the US, “kids deserve food” is a wild progressive idea.

The Bible, and the Quran, and the Vedas, and every other religious text are human attempts to describe God. None of them are going to get it quite right in every detail, but you can learn a lot by cross referencing them to see what they agree on.

That’s Charles Manson

Did SubGenius use it? It definitely started as Discordian.

It’s super useful as a tabletop GM.

It’s great for illustrations (like a character or shop interior or something) where I want to give players a gist of the vibe, but it’s not something significant enough to commission an actual artist.

It’s also great for generating story beats, NPCs, names, encounters. Generally I make a lot of changes, but I’m way better at modifying something that exists than coming up with something out of thin air, so it works well for me.

The important factor is that I use it purely for entertainment content. Confidently incorrect misinformation isn’t really a problem for strictly fictional applications.

The prevalence in non-fictional, non-entertainment applications is somewhat concerning.