Traveller Spaceship Combat

Traveller Spaceship Combat

On the one hand, the Squadron Strike variant for Traveller is not out yet, but even that, which explicitly went for fleet-ship combat rather than player-scale combat, is a completely different beast from old-school traveller [http://www.castaliahouse.com/traveller-space-combat-is-different/]. > Traveller was created and conceived before blockbuster space movies. It’s a product of the ethos running through a great many science fiction novels from the fifties and sixties, so things just don’t pla…

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Choose the Nature of Your Doom

Choose the Nature of Your Doom

I almost laughed at the latest periscope “Darkstream” [https://www.periscope.tv/w/1lPKqwmXblNJb]by Vox Day. I had just mentioned the other day [https://thelastredoubt.com/2017/09/not-quite-cognitive-dissonance-aka-teh-stoopid-burns.html] that people familiar with actual narcissists and their inability to admit fault, their utter unwillingness to be seen as less than perfect, would never mistake Vox for one insecure in facing his failures – and in a marvelous bit of synchronicity, Vox does a bit…

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More NFL Stuff

More NFL Stuff

Dave Rubin often gets it, but being the dedicated – if reasonable and honest – liberal that he is sometimes has his blind spots. I left this as a comment to his recent video.> Everything you said, I generally agree with. However, I think you missed something. The sacred. It’s an aspect that appears to be a blind spot of yours, and per Haidt, is a common blind spot among those who self-describe as liberal. If they were JUST protesting police brutality, and systemic racism, say by making comment…

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