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I know everyone says to be all traditional and Instagrammable and carve up d20s, but times have changed, it wastes too much material, and I don't have that kind of time as a busy triple mom! I know d6s are heretical if your grandma is anything like mine, but surely the flavour won't be too affected if I cut them down to d12s?

Also if you want to suggest walking backwards I tried that. Just ended up in pre-Caesar Rome instead.

I didn't understand the concept of the Sun-In-Rags. Why is there a Winter aspect to noon? What can be ragged about the sun? What does this Hour even do? But I've been thinking about it recently, maybe because I've been sleeping in lately, and waking up only when the Sun-In-Rags shines through my window, and I'm starting to feel a certain sort of way.

The sun makes no demands on me, not anymore, not really. I wake up long after sunrise, and sleep long after sunset. I see the sun only out the window, often through glass, while going from indoors to indoors. The sun is annoying when it's not being irrelevant. Time marches on without it.

And yet. We are the kind of creatures meant to respond to the sun. We were meant to wake as it wakes, sleep as it sleeps, to work under its watchful eye and shining splendour. It was once right by us, taskmaster and supervisor and tyrant and king. And now, whatever the benefits of the sun's abdication from that role, its absence is an absence that gapes.

So I look out my window and look at the sun, and wonder at what happened to the sun. If it wasn't once kinder and gentler, or harsher and prouder. If it was ever anything but a shadow of what it could be.

Anyways, I'm trying to get rid of a Fascination, how are you guys doing?

This is the last of the mainline principles, but it's been a fun series! I enjoyed hearing all the suggestions for the various principles, and I think the best part of being in a community like this with ecletic interests is to share in others' knowledge.

In any case, I nominate the notable figures of the Transhumanist movement, specifically Donna Haraway, the author of the Cyborg Manifesto.

My nomination? Lockpicking Lawyer.

I'm reading Quevedo's El Buscon, and upon the protagonist's encounter with a supposed fencing master, he uses the above description to describe him.

I'm wondering if someone familiar with this period in Spanish History would be able to explain if this has some especial meaning? Google directs me to a Bible quote, though I'm unsure if that's the sense in which Quevedo is using the phrase.

So I'm a relatively advanced occultist, have an established cult, can enter the Mansus no problem. I normally pop in through the Peacock Door and go to the Worm Museum to hang out with the Colonel and hear some war stories, right?

Well, anyways, the other day I decided to go through the White Door instead, because I wanted to ask something of the Baldomerian. And who's there but Ezeem?

And you know what he says to me? "Do you get to the Mansus very often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't."

I would have yelled at him if the White Door hadn't taken my speech, I can tell you that. And he said it in Phrygian too, so he doesn't even know I understood his insult! Anyways I hate him, can someone help me plot elaborate revenge?

Reposting this since it didn't get solved the last time.

Dancing nuns, impossibly lucky survivors, and relentless optimists, oh my!

To go against the conventional choices here, I'm going to say Stanislav Petrov, whose sensible optimism and refusal to end the world saved us all from nuclear winter.

Hint 1: >!It is a sequel.!<
Hint 2: >!Not first-person.!<
Hint 3: >!It's top-down view.!<
Hint 4: >!It's not a shooter.!<
Hint 5: >!It's set in an undead apocalypse, but you never actually have to fight the undead.!<

What I mean specifically is that 'Asia' or 'Asian' as a term seems to do a poor job of delineating a real difference in cultures, especially when the existing area has such a great population and landmass. It seems to me like there's roughly regions around South Asia (India, Bangladesh, etc.), East Asia (China, Korea, Japan), Indochina (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam), and the Malay regions.

Given this grand area, how did the term come to be used in this way, and why haven't we replaced it? (I'm interested also in the context behind America using Asian & Pacific Islander as a category - isn't this so broad as to mean nothing?)

This might be trickier than others, but I'm looking forward to suggestions.

I think there are winter tones to the story of Hayashi Tadataka, a samurai who surrendered in a battle during the Boshin War of 1868. He would go on to live a relatively mundane life. As he was nearing his death, he was asked for a jisei, or samurai death poem. He said: "I had one in 1868. Not now."

To be clear, I'm not asking what science was like in the medieval period by our understanding of the term, but how they would have understood the term at that time.