Recent content by Autumnal

No. It’s this scene.

They definitely do. I should have qualified that to specify readers who say things correctly.

Manhunter has some of the same problem, and yes, so does Ronin, though Heat problem has it worst.

“We weren’t kidding about enshittification.”

Okay okay okay. Everyone who’s been telling me since 1995 that I needed to be reading Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings serieses: please form a line to my right for your chance to tell me “I told you so”, or any other single sentence of related meaning with a maximum of one subordinate...

I’ve only read it, but it’s got a very intense flavor of early Moorcock, which I love.

Mel Borg comes immediately to mind. The Black Sword Hack might fit, too.

The idea that mechanics don’t matter much to horror is a product of the fact that many gamers have never seen many mechanics that have a significant positive effect. So I’ll point at some that do. (The yellow bar at the bottom is a pop-up table of contents.)...

My arguing with Fred Hicks about powerlessness was a substantial part of the Fate Horror Toolkit existing, so count me as another voice against it as being essential. I follow author, editor, and critic David Hartwell as thinking of horror not as a genre of its own but as a mode you can use when...

One of my favorite things for audiobooks in the history of places and times where there are a lot of names I don’t know to pronounce. That may suggest leads. :)

My reading is about to get entertainingly messy. I make a lot of use of the Audible Plus catalog of books free for subscribers. Books don’t stay in the catalog forever, though, and a bunch I’ve picked up are going to expire in the next few weeks. I wanna see how many of them I can listen to in...