Yes definitely, in D&D as a player you get all the details about what and where, and you only have to fill in the how. For example, the character sheet is basically a template with slots and points that you can find precalculated examples for. The only thing you fill in is your backstory, and take actions during the story.
The DM is also usually helpful to suggest hints or ask leading questions in case you still are stumped during roleplay.
Oddly enough and ironically, structure and restrictions can open things to creativity. It's kind of like distilling a project to just the creative portion.
Personally I used to do a lot of writing, worldbuilding, and language construction when I was younger before I burned out in school. I wanted to get back to that but couldn't come up with any ideas like I used to. But then I decided to lay down some rules. D&D was mentioned, which is a great example for this: you get a highly developed setting and specific scenarios, but it's up to you to find the solution to the problem.
It's not exactly play as you asked. But maybe you could consider play as part of what I'm talking about. The first part, when you're entertaining all sorts of ideas, before picking a solution, feels like play to me. Although I like the next part more, when everything and everyone clicks on a solution. It feels like a bonding experience ig
They already have anti-China shit in the original show. The part with the Dai Li conspiracy and brainwashing.
Actually even before that, the Air nation being 100% based on Western exoticism of Tibet, which apparently means racially predisposed to being peaceful spiritual nomads (who live in one of several settled places nonetheless for some reason) and get genocided because their reincarnation prophecy challenges political goals of empire.
IIRC in some interview the show creators even pull out the line "hate the political party, not the people" when the topic came up
Interpreting "essential" in the philosophical sense, that it is impossible to find a genuine communist who is not misotheist: no
(btw misotheism is the hatred of God, and hating God requires you to believe in God. I assume you mean aggressively atheist or anti-religion)
You can be a communist and believe in God. You will probably come across inconsistencies somewhere, but that doesn't really disqualify you from being a communist. I'm pulling out that quote:
We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
Being a communist is more about what we do materially. Our actions are informed by our previous and current conditions. These conditions might include religion. This doesn't disqualify us from communism. In fact it might require it in some cases.
Also, our actions are informed by conditions, but that doesn't always mean well-informed. Part of the communist attitude involves improving this so we do become well-informed. This might involve becoming more familiar with religion (eg. if we need to work with a religious community), or rejecting it (eg. we are recovering from leaving a toxic religious community).
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I don't like calling it a "human" achievement.
If it had been the Nazis who made it there, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth to say the same. It's the same with the US doing it for me, if maybe slightly less disgusting. It feels like humanity is doomed to remember it this way: the ones who slaughtered and enslaved their way into global domination were rewarded with the moon.
There is also the context of it that I can't abstract away. It was clearly a political and military move as much as, as well as, or moreso than a scientific one, and one designed to justify capitalism over socialism. It's like congratulating Christopher Columbus for finding the Americas, the British for conquering half the world, or some other superlative divorced from the motives and tragedy that allowed or followed it.
Also I'm just a sucker for the smaller victories that get ignored. Like how the enslaved young Edmond Albius domesticated vanilla for the first time by hand pollinating it. He changed the world and performed a human first in history, but this achievement is not glorified as much.
Phrases like "American Dream" and "Manifest Destiny" are just euphemisms for genocide and exploitation.
No other country has concepts like this. They have stuff like mottos and national ideals, but the people have existed long enough in the land to be their own motivation to exist as a nation. The US was created in order to commit genocide and exploit the land. They justify nationhood and citizenship after the fact.
I think it's just the Anglo colonies that qualify for this, since European colonies "allowed" indigenous people to persist in some manner. Even then, there's no eg. Canadian or Australian dream that I've heard of. So it's just American being exceptional, exceptionally genocidal and exploitative.
This is a risky tip, but if you want to cut acidity without having to add a milk or creamer, you can add a pinch of baking soda too. Why it's risky: if you add too much, and it's too easy to do this, it tastes like soap.
Or just cold brew instead of hot brew
POC. Idk if this counts exactly since it started with bigotry then was reclaimed/euphemized
The part that bothers me is that it feels a little like I'm still being called a "colored person" just in a different phrasing, and later on, in abbreviation. I still call myself brown, white people as white, etc. without issue.
So I think it's more that brown people have always known ourselves to be brown, but not "colored" — that is a slur used by white people against us. Like in our native languages we have a concept of skin shade. But not "coloredness"
Also "POC" sounds a little weird to me, like how saying "people of brownness" or POB feels artificial and awkward.
Not really against "POC" though since people use it broadly already.
The problem with induction is it works while it works, but when it doesn't work it doesn't work. It's all circular reasoning.
A hydrated person is hydrated because they hydrate themselves habitually. A dehydrated person is dehydrated because they dehydrate themselves habitually.
The word water doesn't even come up in the above. And no consideration of what happens if you strand a hydrated person in the desert: they can't hydrate, so are they still a hydrated person?
It's a historical grammatical thing. It's like a "tag" on one word that could be duplicated on another word (agreement of adjectives, verbs, etc. with a noun) so that information is not just preserved but error-corrected in case someone misspeaks or mishears.
Gender is actually a subset of class systems in general and is overblown because of bias towards Indo-European class systems which happen to be mostly along lines of gender.
Yeah I know, not really an improvement if we start calling it a class system instead of gender 😑
To answer your question, I guess a language could break down without this redundancy mechanism of class agreement. But then descendants of European languages like pidgins and creoles often just drop gender altogether and work just fine.
leftists just adopt “capitalism bad and culturally underdeveloped people good” as their core principle and go from there instead of reading the books
This is fucking racist
The Avatar worldview. The James Cameron one, not the good one
Yeah sure ATLA certainly has no black and white message about the consequences of industrialism and imperialism on pre-industrial societies.
What's with the date references lately? How am I supposed to remember all these dates?
9/11 I can understand but why tf would I memorize Jan 6 and Oct 7 etc