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Oh yes. It’s one of the great tips for copyediting. (Another is to start at the bottom of the page and go up line by line. You can use a...

When I was recording audiobooks, we often found errors--some of them were pretty egregious (such as "two-car garbage"). I sometimes...

The objections to generative AI are recent, not "sudden", and are so because the concerted pressure for its widespread corporate...

Aggressive stupidity can be a form of hostility. It was a rough day for my ignore list when I came to that realization, but so much...

I saw Deliver Me From Nowhere (I think they changed it to add "Springsteen" to the title just before release) last night. I am a fan...

Blind spots can be as harmful to discussion as hostility.

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5518215/edmund-fitzgerald-shipwreck 50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank...

My brothers and I started with BECMI when my parents bought us the Basic Set. We played that for years before we discovered AD&D...

It gives you a good wizardly air.

My first rpg was Grailquest My 2nd rpg was Fighting Fantasy My 3rd rpg was D&D My 4th rpg was GURPS My 5th rpg was Rifts so yeah My...

Warhammer Fantasy 1e hacked into a Warhammer 40k dark heresy game before dark heresy was a thing 😆

I’m no longer sure what my second RPG after BECMI D&D would have been. There are some contenders based on publication dates. It might...

I started with The Worm And Its Kings, a novella set in 1990 New York. The main character is a young trans woman whose lover has gone...

I never heard of her tbh, but what you wrote in this thread made me interested. Do you have a recommendation for someone who is new to...

My second was either Traveller or AD&D. I joined as player in both during the same year 1981 (or maybe late 1980), I can't say which was...