I’m not saying it does, but the evidence presented here isn’t showing that it doesn’t. Consider a toy model in which most children are “good” and never misbehave, but some children are “bad” and often misbehave. Parents physically punish misbehaving children, and physical punishment does reduce misbehavior. This model would show the same “physically punished children behave worse” outcome that the article describes.

The article doesn’t mention how they’re ruling out the standard “bad behavior causes physical punishment” interpretation.

Where does this guy work work that has him in a position capable of “saving the company” but without either correspondingly high pay or stock options?

This sounds like police carelessness rather than a problem with the technology - they just decided to arrest the closest person the system could find who had the same rare car.

What’s the problem here? This course of events seems both predictable and necessarily permitted by the freedoms that we have as Americans.

Weird how people keep saying things like this despite the clear inverse relationship between income and fertility.

But White Wolf VtM vampires aren’t.

Ah yes, vampires, those symbols of liberalism.

I don’t know if Tolkien’s notes support this, but I always assumed that Treebeard’s Entish name was something completely unpronounceable for anyone who isn’t an ent, and “Treebeard” was a nickname that he picked for himself. Maybe because he finds it funny that other species think he looks like a tree. (I’m sure that ents look clearly different from trees to other ents.)

Edit: he says so himself.

Hrum, now, well, I am an Ent, or that’s what they call me. Yes, Ent is the word. The Ent, I am, you might say, in your manner of speaking. Fangorn is my name according to some, Treebeard others make it. Treebeard will do.

I don’t get it. Obviously hobgoblins don’t think hobgoblins are ugly.

“No” needs to be said before the roll, IMO. Then If the player insists on doing something impossible anyway, just role-play the failure. With that said, actions that are in a narrow sense impossible can still have positive outcomes and if there’s the potential for that then I’d say roll for it. The proverbial dragon seduction attempt can still possibly flatter a dragon with a big ego enough to benefit the PC even if it doesn’t get the PC laid.

Who could have known that a demigod as old as the world would be really powerful?

Well technically the barbarian can only rage for a limited time without having to rest too (although he’s a lot more dangerous without rage than a caster without spells is). Would a rogue have no limited resource other than hitpoints?

When I played GURPS we had a guy in our group with OCD (officially diagnosed). He had most of the rules memorized and he knew right where to look up the rest. It was very convenient for us. The one catch was that he had to keep a log of everything that took place in the game so he asked us not to do anything without him present. It wasn’t a big deal since he had perfect attendance.

You Caves of Qud character has just two arms? Mine fires four guns at once while high on Sphinx Salts.

I miss 3E’s sexy mephits.

IRL I’d be worried that she would still be angry about this after she got sober. I’ve never dated anyone who liked being picked up at all and the one woman small enough for me to have carried easily would have been so mad.

They’re the “Say Friend and Enter” runes. Gandalf couldn’t figure them out but Merry (accidentally) did.