1. Yes? I’m confused, is there no subject you’re familiar enough with to recognise sources?

2. Yes it does, it doesn’t qualify as a reference, but luckily you’re looking at the Wikipedia page so you can just click it instead.

3. Yes, people make mistakes, but luckily sometimes other people like me are around to correct them.

4. No, I can justify my attributionby the fact that there’s only one (1) source that lists the dead by faction, the numbers just show how they misremembered the specifics of the source.

This isn’t some complex chain of advanced logic, I really don’t understand what you’re having trouble with.

Everything we know about Orwell disagrees, from his review of Mein Kampf to his comments about Jews and Homosexuals. He opposed fighting the literal German Nazis until war actually broke out. The civil was was a few years and a single book, and hardly representative of his entire life.

Correct, as I said elsewhere they got the distribution wrong because they are working off memory, but it’s not difficult to link the numbers - they mistook the police and army as having the same number of deaths as civilian protestors rather than student protestors, but the total roughly matches and there’s only one source that makes that specific distinction between groups rather than a general guess at a total. I don’t understand why you’re so upset about being told the source after asking for the source.

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.

Are their accounts private or have they not posted at all? If you search “author:<username>” you should be able their posts regardless of them having made their account private.

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.

You thought wrong. So back to the question, what cause would he become a martyr for, that the other dead couldn’t be martyrs for?

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.

A martyr for what? There were already plenty of dead to martyr, what difference would he make?

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?

The problem with pissing all over Thatcher’s grave is that you eventually run out of piss.