The main thing I’ve learnt is to tell your players as much as you can before you start playing. Give them background lore, locations and maps, give them descriptions of well known characters - tell them everything a normal person in the setting would know and they’ll engage with the story far more, because they feel like part of the setting rather than an outsider looking in.
For my most recent campaign I wrote a 9 page guide that detailed mechanical restrictions, backstory requirements, and common themes that would crop up throughout the campaign, and everyone turned up to their session 0 with a complete character whose presence and motivations closely fitted the story, including the guy who was in prison for the first 4 sessions.

B, obviously. It’s a beheading, not a benecking.

free her

Well if you’re already reading a wiki article I’m not sure how you’d have trouble matching the source. As I said elsewhere they got the distribution wrong, but you’re making it sound like you’re just here to JAQ off.

Probably the official CPC figure of 241 killed in total. Most of the serious estimates broadly agree - NSA said 180-500, and the Tiananmen Mothers organisation have identified 198 of the dead.

I think the numbers are a bit off - official Chinese figures were ~20 student protestors, ~20 police and army, and about 200 other protestors were killed.

free him

One of my close friends came out as gay to me in highschool and I said “I know? Everyone knows. Well, everyone except you, apparently.” and nothing changed between us. I don’t advise the first part of it, even if everyone did know, but the second applies - start using their new pronouns and otherwise continue on as normal. That’s all they want, for their gender to be respected and to not be treated as different or strange for it.

It’s not vastly more than every Chinese person planting 1 tree a year. If you pay people to plant 10 trees a day, 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year you only need to employ one person in every 2400 to get close.

A mix of BBC radio 6 and recommendations from my cousin who works in the music industry. I can’t give you my cousin’s details, but radio 6 has a great range of music from some of the DJs.

TTRPGs and occasionally a lil’ crime.

Sure, but I still rate the racism, homophobia, animal cruelty, use of sweatshop labour, and Zionism as worse. Copyright laws are unfair to consumers, while the others cause actual harm.

Charging customers for content they own the copyright to is definitely the least problematic aspect of Disney. They have many much greater sins to answer for.

If you talk about Philip the Greek in the UK on the other hand, it absolutely does not refer to Alexander the Great.

The Youths (20-somethings) at work have a new 3d printer, and were explaining how they were using the printer to print additional parts for the printer, so I said “oh, like downloading Limewire pro” and the blank looks made me feel so old.

I always found it pretty easy - just start speaking french with an English accent and they’ll start speaking English just to make you stop.

After the session the DM pulled me aside and reminded me two other members of the party have also died, and are still with us.

Sounds like you’re probably fine then. Or approximately fine, at least - last time I did that to a player I meant the party had enough funds for a reincarnation ritual, so apart from turning from a halfling to a gnoll the biggest consequence was the other PCs having to explain to the dead PC’s parents that their daughter had been eaten by a Froghemoth.

We invented refrigeration over 3000 years ago, do you really think we’ve just been doing it for giggles this whole time?

Hamas should accept the ceasefire, disarm, and let a Palestinian civilian government rebuild.

Oh come on, it’s been 70 years, do you really think Palestinians never tried this? Do you not understand that there were events before the Al-Aqsa Flood that directly precipitated it?