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(Quote) Sounds interesting. I went through a Lovecraft phase in my teens, but his hideous racist and sexist rants destroyed it for me - and I have a fair tolerance for such things. Someone more modern writing Lovecraft style might be far more palata…
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I am. It's tough sledding for me, though I have much more time now that my year long project is done.
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I was throwing the book out there for reaction, actually. @Richard Abbot said April. Is there a change?
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I knew where the Wendat lived, and so guessed Georgian bay was the Great Sweet Water Sea. I am very familiar with the Iroquois - I'm actually playing an Oneida NPC in Elizabethan England in my Elizabethan Supers game. The tribe near Syracuse New Yor…
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Kindle is fine for me, but I don't think that it is for Apocryphal. He prefers audiobooks I think.
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(Quote) I know, right? Me too! My RPG co-designer and his wife gifted me with The Guns Above by Robyn Bennis, and highly recommended it. Haven't read it yet, but I both love and loathe steampunk. Looking at reviews, this one seems to tick all the ri…
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I am thinking steampunk.
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I'm an original Crim Head - from when Court of the Crimson King was released. And I agree - it's when the song gets lost in the performance that I get testy. B)
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(Quote) Like I said, no one else is mad enough to attempt it... :D
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(Quote) I have no idea. Never thought about it once. (Quote) I love prog rock. Unfortunately, in my opinion prog rock bands have a point at which they tend to fly up their own asses and the songs become just showpieces for their superior musicians…
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I had a tremendously awful year for reading, due entirely to my year long musical experiment, in which I released an album of 12 original songs each month, recorded within in that month, for the 12 months of the year - this yielded 12X12 or 144 song…
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Oh, definitely! My son's masters thesis was on disassociation when interacting through technology. It's a real thing, but text seems to be somewhat different - possibly because we have used text to communicate for thousands of years, and our culture…
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(Quote) This is true of all audio interfaces I have used. Zoom works best when one group is either physically together and zooming in or alone zooming in, and the rest are not. the two audios are much more natural that way. with multiple separate au…
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(Quote) Not really. Not just quicker - it is as instantaneous as voice if the player is not away from the keyboard. There are also side channels for one-on-one communication, if needed. Also, every PBEM or PBP game I have ever been involved in quick…
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We play (in-person + Zoom) for 3 hours, and there is a lot of extraneous chatter, which is half of the reason playing is fun! Our totally internet based games are 6+ - 7 hours is not unusual - hours (the 2 games over IRC) or 3 hours (the game over…
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I only play one of my four current campaigns in person. During the worst of the covid problem this year and last, I used Zoom to replace being together. It has some limitations which we worked around. Now we are mostly together again, with one or tw…
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The pace is fast, yes. The pace of a typical D&D game.
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The Himba in Binti are not the real Himba. I was actually familiar with the Himba before I read Binti. Okorafor took some aspects of them - Otjize, mixed matrilineal and patrilineal authority, the Namibian desert location - and mixed in things from …
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(Quote) Yes - Okwu could be typical Meduse at the beginning, hard to tell, but I agree in the end he had become an individual. Dele! I forgot him. Whether he is a type or an individual, he is very different to Binti's family.
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(Quote) Yep! Me too!
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If this is 2001, are we the apes? :D
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(Quote) Disappointing, I thought. It's like the answer to parochialism is parochialism in a different place?
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(Quote) My thought it they don't. Himba make one astrolabe at a time, which is different from any which came before. Factories then make copies of that Astrolabe as a model.
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(Quote) Bingo!
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(Quote) Agreed!
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(Quote) THank you Richard! I found that very interesting!
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(Quote) I also think the Himba only adopted certain technology deliberately
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(Quote) So - a political statement. Thank you, Neil!
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10(pi) ;)
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(Quote) I liked Artemis. A lot! But it took some getting used to. It's very different from The Martian. You might like Project Hail Mary better.