I use R at work for lots of things that aren't really analysis, but within that subset I'd say it's probably 70% causal vs 30% predictive

And turkey sucks too, but try the deep fried bird one day (with proper precautions) and you'll never want to go back

Thanksgiving food is easy to make but hard to master

You're right and wrong. Stuffing sucks, but Ive seen people elevate it to delicious specifically as a reaction to that. Cranberry was a terrible tradition until my mom found a recipe with cranberry + jello + cream cheese that is now the thing we look forward to. Pumpkin pie -> sweet potato

The core was essentially taking shame as the means to gain supernal power (like how vamps drain vitae). It's hard to seperate character embarrassment from OOC - you wind up feeling it. You need that shame to be useful, the more genuine the more effective, and the more thoughts of revenge creep in

This wierd fuckin broken thing.

Somehow we Homebrewed the rules enough to make it work and the result was somehow this amazing synthesis of role play and system that made me realize how those things could feed into each other. Also how a game that wasn't 'fun' could still be very much fun.

I've always wondered about this too and would prefer the alternative most of the time, but I do feel like for many systems you need at least a few sessions before everyone is familiar with it enough to let it shine. Also people like gradual progression

Smoking Kills

youtu.be/HkgV_-nJOuE?...

See this one yet? What's one more hobby right?

Exactly. To some extent thats always been exaggerated for plot, but not that much, and we lived in a world where those stakes were believable just last year. Some Black Mirror come to mind. SCP foundation and Co. Random but what prompted this for me was the cover art for Jurassic 5's new album

I really enjoyed this. Even just reading it. Well done