frezik

What are you even on about? If there's a flaw in the system, the best that can be done is make it clear to the group that we shouldn't abuse this, and hope the official rules are changed at some point.

Yes. People die bumming around at 20-30mph without a helmet. People wearing a helmet have slid at over 100mph and got up, brushed themselves off, stood the bike back up, and rode away.

If nothing has happened, then nothing needs to be done. I sometimes float exploits in the rules past my friends for various games, but make it clear I have no intention of playing that way.

I even tested something in Terraforming Mars this past weekend. I made it clear with the group ahead of time that I wanted to try something, what the strategy was, and how I would be playing. They were all fine with it, and it turned out the strategy was broken as hell. Won by 12 points against a fairly experienced group. It's also a boring way to play that game and I wouldn't care to do it again.

That's also how I know that it's fruitless to expect rules to avoid these situations entirely. They must be handled socially. Any other tool is inadequate.

I know you're joking, but I wanted to take this opportunity to make a side note. Nuclear test ban treaties have been effective enough for long enough that we don't have to scavenge old shipwrecks for low background radiation steel anymore. That's a huge success, and we shouldn't squander it.

No, it's cities. Many cities have their own ordinances that clear out homeless encampments. Rural folk didn't institute those ordinances.

Under the new Florida law, any citizen or business can sue beginning in January if they feel the anti-camping ban is not being properly enforced.

This is pants on head stupid. We could probably count on actual police and DAs understanding the situation and not enforcing this law in extraordinary circumstances. We can't count on every HOA board member doing the same. Even if a judge grants an immediate motion to dismiss, it's still a complete waste of everyone's time and money. That's the best case scenario.

What we infer from it all is that someone is using a rule in a way that's detrimental to the group. We may want to change the rule, or it may be time to have a talk, or it may be time to kick them out.

As far as assumptions go, that cuts both ways All I'm saying is that we don't take any of the options above off the table.

Yet ostracizing people is a more acceptable position than a rules patch?

Yes. If you can't get someone to knock off bad behavior, the rules do not matter.

If the rules aren’t something to be changed, why do they charge so much for the rules revision they just put out?

There are good reasons to change rules. People breaking social norms is not one of them.

DnD isn't just a set of rules, though. It is inherently a social activity, and that means there has to be a certain level of expectation for social norms. If your group has toxic people in it, they will be toxic while playing tic-tac-toe.

The solution is to employ social pressure or ostracism for those people. We can certainly modify rules that have proven abusive in the past, but enforcing rules of conduct must always be the first line of defense.

It's going to be hard to verify every detail about a personal interaction on set, but we can say Bermann's version doesn't match what is verifiable. The shows were shot out of order from how they were aired. Crosby's chronologically shot final scene was in Symbiosis, where she's seen waving goodbye in the cargo bay.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Symbiosis_(episode)#Cast_and_characters

The context was a Rick who worked with Lucas on the prequels. I dunno if he was a POS, but he was one of the guys who couldn't tell George that his ideas were bad.

Oh, yes it would. The global economy flows entirely through the US dollar as a reserve currency. If it goes, everything goes. China can't sell anything to Europe, Europe can't buy oil from the Middle East, and the Middle East becomes a power vacuum. Given time, these could be worked out, but not before their governments collapse.

That's why BRICs have been looking to disentangle themselves from the USD, even to the point of floating the idea of their own currency union. That's a terrible idea for other reasons (it'd let China put a noose around the other three), but there's a reason behind it.