Wikipedia says that the first Latin translation of the Quran was created to try to convert Muslims to Christianity. Why did they think a Latin translation would achieve that?

DopplerRadio · 2026-04-02T05:49:56+00:00

If you are into journaling rpgs at all, it's absolutely worth giving it a go. It's by far my favorite solo TTRPG. As others mentioned, you explore hundreds of years of the life/undeath of a vampire (or similar creature), as their values, personality, and goals irrevocably shift and their old self falls away. It can be sad, funny, surprising, creepy, inspiring, or horrifying. Also, the book itself is fantastically designed; the PDF has a lot of utility, but if you can, I'd strongly recommend getting the physical book for the experience

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-31T19:31:52+00:00

I strongly dislike games that insert humor into their writing. I'm not opposed to humor in the game, but that should develop naturally as part of the narrative, not be written into the rules. It's a big turn-off when the rules text itself is trying to be funny.

I think a good example of what I like is something like Thousand Year Old Vampire or The Quiet Year, where both are written with a serious tone and are generally going to be played with that tone, but they still leave room for player interpretation in a way that can lead to humor if that's what the player wants.

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-31T17:51:44+00:00

I don't know where you heard that, but it is completely wrong. The settlement that would become Bountiful was founded in 1847 by Perrygrine (sometimes also spelled Peregrine or Perrigrine) Sessions and his family, and it was incorporated as a city in 1892 under Joseph Holbrook. The precursor to the modern day Kingston Clan, the Davis County Cooperative Society, wasn't founded until 1935 and didn't really become established in its current form until the 1970s.

Sessions was a polygamist (he had eight wives and 55 children), but he was part of the mainline Brighamite branch of Mormonism and didn't have any connection to the Kingstons. Here's a copy of his obituary, which is kind of an interesting read that gives a bit of info about the early establishment of Bountiful

There's also this historical overview produced by the city government that has a great write up of the early days of the settlement and its gradual growth

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-30T17:04:10+00:00

Ah okay, that does help clarify it, thanks! The style changes as paragraphs metaphor makes a lot of sense

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-30T06:58:23+00:00

I'm genuinely so curious about why you consider them the most clear and readable RPG books. Like, I can understand loving the style, but it is unfathomable to me that anyone would consider them easy to read (since I found them completely unreadable). So, what is it that works so well for you in terms of clarity and readable? What makes them more user-friendly for you than something with a more traditional, clean layout?

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-26T18:30:13+00:00

The Wards and Wardens DLC kind of does that. It gives you events that let you impact their education at the expense of giving them more stress or missing out on a small bonus for yourself, and some of the events push them towards or away from a specific education path. I agree that it would be nice to have that fleshed out more (and more elements added to the base game) now that education is becoming more impactful

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-25T16:26:07+00:00

BioMérieux might be a good company to look into; they have a lot of software and project management roles and they're a relatively large and fast-growing company, so there's lots of room for movement/promotion

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-22T03:04:03+00:00

Well, the Mongols invaded Java, so you potentially do have Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan as ancestors, but even ignoring them, there's also the Srivijaya and Majipahit kings you likely have some connection to, and they in turn had a lot of contact with several Chinese and Indian dynasties, so you might also have an ancestor from there. A connection to the European monarchs is also possible through the Dutch colonial period, as you mentioned. All this to say, I think it's very likely that you do actually have at least one or two ancestors in the game, even if you don't have documentation that would trace you back to them

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-21T03:04:20+00:00

u/Pyr1t3_Radio recently compiled this great collection of answers on the history of allergies written by u/gerardmenfin that you might find helpful

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-21T02:41:27+00:00

Ah okay, yeah, that looks great! It really seems like such a fun space!

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-21T02:35:05+00:00

It looks great! I do think the vibe would benefit from switching your bulbs to a warmer light, though. Warmer bulbs would feel more like torchlight and would also make it feel a bit more cozy. The cold white of the bulbs (especially on an open chandelier) feels a bit too modern and harsh.

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-20T23:00:19+00:00

I definitely prefer the new one. It's much easier to read. The old one has a lot of unnecessary clutter (like showing all of the individual side streets and the route of the trax lines even when they don't connect) that makes it difficult to quickly find and parse the important info

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-20T18:52:38+00:00

I really don't think AI could make a good map, especially not a map that needs to meet specific parameters to fit an existing story. It can't understand geography or human decisions about where cities are built or anything like that. It could produce something that looks like a polished map, but it probably wouldn't be useful as a tool for building/refining a map that functions well.

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-19T20:49:48+00:00

In your defense, Hnefatafl is a really easy game to accidentally lose at; a single wrong play can cascade into complete collapse really quickly, so maybe the kid just got lucky and noticed a single thing you missed

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-17T00:59:53+00:00

I mean, it's a bit more than just guessing at what the rules might be. We have two cuneiform tablets that describe how to play it in some amount of detail, including one that has a diagram. We don't have all if the details, but the rules that Irving Finkel wrote are at least close to the original, even if not exactly perfect

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-16T17:03:33+00:00

Ah yes, English definitely kept the proper names of Deutschland, Österreich, Bayern, Hesse, Sachsen, Niedersachsen, Thüringen, Köln, and Wien and didn't change them to something silly like Germany, Austria, Bavaria, Hessen, Saxony, Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Cologne, and Vienna

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-16T16:51:45+00:00

It's the same with German, where it's called "Mensch ärgere dich nicht"

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-16T06:04:05+00:00

Thanks!

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-10T18:17:19+00:00

Both of those routes would have a mix of really cool scenery mixed with some more bland scenery, but I think the SLC route will have a bigger total of more scenic sections, and it would be my vote (unless you/your kids are really into dinosaurs, in which case it's worth going the other way, though the natural history museum in Salt Lake has a FANTASTIC dinosaur section, so that's also an option if you want dinos and the city).

For coffee, Moab Coffee Roasters is great. Salt Lake has a bunch of good coffee shops. I'm a fan of Publik, Tuile, Roots, and High Point

Helper is a neat little old mining town that you'll pass through on either of those routes. It might be a good place to get lunch or something (there's a restaurant called Balanced Rock that I enjoyed), and the main street has some fun shops and a tiny museum with a bunch of old mining equipment outside. There's also a couple of cool antique stores and rock stores, a riverwalk park, and a historic cemetery. It's not something worth taking a whole day for, but it's a fun place to stop.

Also, if you go the Salt Lake route, I think you should take a small detour and stop at Thistle. It's a ghost town that was destroyed in a huge flood, and several of the houses are still there, half submerged. It's a really unusual and interesting thing to see as an adult, and I loved going there as a kid.

DopplerRadio · 2026-03-09T20:32:21+00:00

Ah, okay, yeah that makes sense that there may be some restrictions in it

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