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  • I never create a backstory. All my characters had personalities, different ways of solving problems, and I acted out the characters in their own unique ways.

    All my characters are built around an idea. Ideas like “Kobold snake oil salesman”, “Necromancer Child Edutainer”, “Skaven Engineer”, “Communist Dwarf”, “A delusional ghoul named Jeff Bezos”, etc.

    Since, I do a lot of improvisation, not having a back story allows me to adapt my character to the story.




  • Science works best when people are:

    • Creatively thinking
    • Use ideas from other scientific areas for their scientific area

    The book “How We Got To Now” does a fabulous job of showing that science is not a uniform step by step process instead is a tree with different branches.

    AC and refrigerators all started because someone wanted to ship ice to tropical locations for money.

    SETI is another prefect example. A bunch of scientists sat around and said to themselves “We have all these new instruments for space. What if we tried to find alien life with it?”





  • The Beaverton put together a nice, fill in the blank for mass shootings.

    https://www.thebeaverton.com/2015/10/mass-shooting-in-usa-kills/

    Edit: Added the Beaverton article

    __________, USA — Up to ___ people were killed and ____ more injured after a gunman opened fire at a ________.

    There were conflicting reports about casualties, but _______ from _______County Sheriff Department said the number is at __.

    “I heard a popping sound and screaming,” said _________, a _________ at the __________. “And that’s when we all got down. There was ______ everywhere.”

    The shooter’s motive was reported to be ________________.

    Citizens of _______ were ______ and ______ to hear that something like this could happen in their community.

    President _______ and Governor _______ had their _______ and _______ with the victims and their families.

    ____________________________________________________ gun control ___________________.

    The NRA released a statement stating it __________with the victims, but _________ Second Amendment rights and _______________.