Insane to think that all through the 90s we were told we absolutely had to let the Klan march in American cities to protect free speech and now they're withholding diplomas, firing people, imposing travel bans, qmd running weekslong smear campaigns for saying the word genocide.
The sorts that’re all in a huff about Emily Wilson are happy to praise Anne Carson’s translations, which are just as tonally informalised/irreverent/modern/every other quality of Wilson’s that they despise, simply because no one’s instructed them to hate her yet.
Dice in DND is asking the universe for an impartial decision to inject spontaneity into a scenario neither player nor DM can predict.
The mental cost of a bad role after great RP feels like a punishment, and the table now has to react to a number rather than the narrative.