Yao Ming (an NBA basketball player) has, nearly single-handedly, saved the lives of tens of millions of sharks by simply asking citizens of China to stop eating shark fin soup. Since he started doing this, the price of shark fins has tanked, and 90+ percent of people surveyed in China support a ban on selling shark fins.

While most of the states with zero are searching for both equally, I get the feeling that Wyoming is zero because no one searches for either.

I sold a bunch of 70’s and 80’s tabletop roleplaying stuff when I went to college. A few years ago, I reacquired many of those titles at collector’s prices. Not my most brilliant financial move.

Something that crocodiles do has made them one of the longest lasting species on Earth, specifically by allowing populations to explode after massive disasters.

The way it works is: about 90% of baby crocodiles are eaten by… adult crocodiles. So, when a natural disaster (say) wipes out huge quantities of adults at once, baby crocks find themselves in world mostly without predators that eat them, this living long enough to become adults. These adults go back to eating new babies, preventing the population from running amok.

If you imagine the “evil humanoid species™”—kobolds or whatever—does this, you can imagine why the “good guys” are always surprised at how the “hordes” replenish so quickly after being “culled”. You can also imagine the “culling” of adults erodes and annihilates any culture that might have existed in an endless downward spiral.

But, oh, “that’s OK because they’re cannibals”.

Every year, I dream that the NFL will come to its senses and realize that Thursday night football sucks for everyone involved.

The Mile High PA guys are seriously playing “Shake It Off” right now.

You might actually want to look for RPG systems that are a particular kind of bad.

Some systems with decent math behind them fail because they are too fiddly. They might have tons of modifiers to track, cumbersome rolling, lots of traits based on averages of other traits, and so on. Those types of systems can often be great for things like MUDs, because the computer can hide most of it from the player. And, maybe a roll takes 10 times as long, but that just means the software can do it in 10ms instead of 1ms, so who will care?

If Earthdawn was open licensed, I’d suggest it as being “the right kind of bad”. It’s weird exploding pool step system is interesting because the dice for each step are set up such that the average roll of the pool is approximately the step number.

I’d put down the Browns trade for Watson the same year as slightly worse.

Geezer Butler is the most important member of Black Sabbath.

HexKit

I’ll take “new life form designed to eat plastic evolves to produce waste products worse for the ocean than plastic” for 200.

All of that may be true, but it bears little resemblance to the case the US actually filed against Apple. If you haven’t read the charges, you really should. They are filled with reaches that have long been rejected in similar cases, and a desire for government to broadly micromanage. One type of charge, for example, could easily be brought against any company that makes a videogame for just a single platform.

Third and long, Denver. Time for another ineffectual screen pass.

These critics should drop using letter grades, in favor of Victoria Jackson’s movie rating system:

• ★★★★: Pretty good
• ★★★: The best
• ★★: The worst
• ★: Pretty good

…and then award, like 15 stars to one team, and 3.5 to another.

Armed only with the advice given here, I got 20/20.

An actual AI working for Forbes would have managed to get in a dig at Apple in the headline.

Started playing recently myself. At the start, recommendations have no idea what victory strategy you are pursing, and don’t get that much better at it. They do seem somewhat OK at recommending things that will solve particular problems that city has (slow growth, lack of amenities, etc), though maybe there are better ways available to you. Or, sometimes they notice that your city geography would support a particular wonder or give bonuses to a particular zone. So, if they recommend something that seems weird, maybe check to see if you are missing some mechanical concept. (VI has a lot of obscure interlocking mechanics that can be hard to see, particularly at first.)

As a Shadowrun player, I know that “arcology” is a much worse epithet than “hive city”. Well… unless it’s in Chicago.

Denver can’t even tank a season properly.

For decoration a basement, these would do:

• Action/Adventure: Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Comedy: Airplane!
• Drama: The Seven Samurai
• 3D Animation: The Incredibles
• 2D Animation: The Iron Giant
• Science Fiction: Blade Runner
• Mystery/Thriller: The Third Man
• Fantasy: The Princess Bride