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Re:Emojis paved the way for UTF-8 everywhere by Sniffnoy on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:17PM (#25129187)
The term "astral plane" is older than D&D, and I would assume they took it from the more general usage, not the specific usage in D&D. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_plane
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Re:Emojis paved the way for UTF-8 everywhere by GauntletWizard on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @06:20PM (#25131229)
I’ve met several of the Unicode standard committee - They’re nerds. The kind of nerds for whom “Astral Plane” is a multilayered joke. It’s not not about the general usage, but nor is it not about the D&D term.
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