They retweeted me, called me a bigot, and then accused me of saying that the British “treat BAME like property.”

Which I feel is simultaneously a misreading of what I said and a funny thing for a Brit to take offense at given, y’know, British history.

There’s probably some truth to that. I think we default to “American” as well for the most part but I don’t want to speak to the experiences of PoC which are likely pretty different from mine.

Ah, what an intolerable slur to the famously kind and fair-handed British Empire.

I think I hedged my response as best I could to show I don’t really know the answer. You’ll notice key words like “shot in the dark” and “nominally” scattered about.

This is a complete shot in the dark but I feel like it might be because the British Empire defaults to owning its subjects and uses corresponding language while the US nominally treats folks as different kinds of citizen.

Feels like it might be worth going over again given the whole endless war thing

This field is *so* broad and rich. I read way too much golden age sci-fi as a kid and there’s so little I’d bother recommending to anybody but a scholar.

Does feel like after a certain point you’d rather buy bullets.

This is what I really needed in middle school to captivate that table of adolescent murder hobos

My favorites would have to be:

Mage The Ascension - Coming out of D&D, the flexibility of the magic system and reality itself was exhilarating.

7th Sea - Hands down some of the most entertaining games I ever ran used 7th Sea. It had a way of encouraging people to stop fearing death and have fun.

Just out of curiosity, what parts of STEM do you think Dune and Foundation convey?