Recent content by Swanosaurus

To me, this sounds like pre-orders from the days of yore. Which is great, because I really prefer them to crowdfundings. I'd rather give my money directly to MAC than a share to Kickstarter/Backerkit. Also, if you pre-order, your right for a re-fund is a lot more clear-cut than with...

A first post that sings the praise of an as of yet unknown RPG someone just happened to stumble on, but it's the best EVER, and why isn't EVERYONE playing it? I won't even click that link.

I'd differentiate between being special and being powerful. Okay, if you're more powerful than most people, that makes you special in a specific way. But being special without being powerful is absolutely possible ... Frodo is special, but he's not powerful. Now, in terms of power, I tend...

When it comes to violence and consequences, I must say I have a special beef with car chases. Because most of us won't wield automatic weapons, grenades or katanas, but what most of us will probably do quite frequently in their lives is drive a car. And I actually think that movies projecting...

Well, Morrow has become a lot more relatable by now ... I mean, he tried. Weird how the Eye thing attacked the Xeno ... and how freaked-out the Xeno was by it. I think at this point, it is pretty clear why it is so extremely bent on killing later: It's freaked out by the eye thing, it' freaked...

You're right, I think the Ghorm thing is what stuck with me towards the end. Overall I think there were just two Episodes I didn't really care for that much, and that were the first two of season 2. I just couldn't get into the whole stealing an experimental TIE fighter thing and the weird...

Tangential to Alien Earth, but here's a theory: As far as can be seen from Alien-Alien3, Weyland Yutani isn't an all-powerful megacorp; and they aren't obsessed with the alien. Much more likely, the alien is a side-project to them that's on a strict budget. Look at Alien: The Company knew...

Not sure if it has already been mentioned, but Secrets of Zir'an. Neverly properly read it (partly due to the layout issues), but the premise of a secondary fantasy world that is more or less on our current techlevel sounds really interesting and unique. Also, I really liked Timothy Brown's...

I'm so terribly on the fence about this ... I used to run a long Numenera campaign. Really loved it. A friend of mine is occassionally running Numenera for me now, and I also love it as a player. I own the old Cypher System core book and a few supplements. The supplements are good reads. Still...

I just finished watching Andor, and I'm pretty impressed and moved by it. It has managed to kind of overwrite Star Wars (which I'm generally luke-warm on) for me; Andor is now the "real" story about the fight against the empire, with the OT as a kind of side-plot. It implicitly changes the whole...

And about Hermit: Does he seem weird to anyone else besides me? Not in the "I'm an android!" way, it's more like psychologically, something seems to be really off. When he says "This discussion is over" to the bald guy and turns away, he really walks as if he already knows he has lost ... which...

A few more thoughts: I love the interaction between Aarush and Morrow, but boy, does Morrow's plan suck! "Bring me an egg. Meet me outside." How is that supposed to play out? And then, he makes it even harder, both morally and practically: "Get someone facehugged, hide them for one or two days...

Episode 4 is really putting a lot of things into motion ... Wendy/Xenomorphs echoes Alien Ressurrection, but in a more interesting way. I'm still curious if they'll come up with an explanation for her "hearing" the aliens. The computer scientists (what's his name) pointing out the craziness of...

What's really interesting about Lovecraft is how openly he displays how his classism and racism is rooted in anxiety and ambivalence. It's like he's lying down on the dissectioin table for the reader. Take The Shadow over Innsmouth: The whole raid, the opportunity to symbolically kill what...

I suspect this one might actually be a popular opinion. It's at least popular with me!