In #SavageWorlds, the rules wording "Wild Cards can take three Wounds before they're Incapacitated" is confusing. One might think, "It takes one Wound to Incapacitate an Extra, but three to Incapacitate a Wild Card." In fact, it is the *fourth* Wound that Incapacitates a Wild Card.
@RollingStone should have written:
"ExxonMobile left #NewYork in 1989, three decades before #LetitiaJames assumed the role of attorney general.
Yet today, during a break in the closing arguments of his New York civil #fraud trial, Donald #Trump claimed that James was responsible for forcing the oil and gas conglomerate ExxonMobil to leave the state and move to #Texas."
#FactsFirst #LeadWithTheTruth #TruthSandwich
#TrumpLies #Journalism #Journalists #Press #Media #News #USA
My reimagining of Harmonia Station from the Eris Beta-V adventure from the Savage Worlds Last Parsec setting. Spin gravity works properly.
Ships dock at the north (naval) or south (commercial) end of the station, where they need only match rotation (roughly 1 RPM). Cargo can be loaded and unloaded without the interference of gravity.
For extended stays, enormous cargo arms carry ships out and attach them to the north or south side of one of the rings, tail outward, so that spin gravity aligns with the ships' usual thrust gravity.
What are the directions in a spinning space station or hollow planet? North, south, east, and west can be defined in the usual way in terms of rotation, but up and down are reversed.
Intriguingly, the directions in Mah Jongg have an equivalent issue (east and west appear "reversed") because the table corresponds to a map of the sky, not the earth.
Physics problem: Harmonia Station spins to generate gravity. If the rings are a mile in diameter, how fast (in RPMs) does it have to spin to generate 1g?
We might not be so fucked after all. https://jalopnik.com/american-carbon-emissions-are-down-to-1991-levels-no-t-1851156352
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about where the current “AI” craze goes in, say, 12 to 18 months’ time, and I really appreciated seeing how @pluralistic gamed that particular question out. https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.