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Works for me. And we don’t evoke Valentino and his amazing gaze often enough in these sorry times.

After your trip, compare it to your experience, please.

Yup. A lot of would-be gaming pundits taken it as given that 1) a huge fraction of roleplaying books are made by soulless hacks just cranking them out and 2) they themselves can very reliably identify the books that way. Neither is true. I don’t think most game buyers consciously recognize it...

Well, that and romancing, and dealing with the kids.

Glad to help! Having more names for things enables goofiness about more things.

There’s collapse before the biggest and then the last of the wars. Mad Max makes brief but explicit mention of escalating resource depletion. The absence of innovative tech is part of the point - it’s no longer feasible, at least for social edges like Max’s (We don’t have enough to guess what...

The original Mad Max is a story of near-future society in the midst of collapse, an unusual moment to capture on screen and very much science-fictional.

I think of Silent Running as the last big af deal before Star Wars, but then I’m not fond of Logan’s Run. Like a lot of others, it’s no worse than ones o do, it just didn’t click for me.

Of course I am! The soteriology of RPGs is not to be taken lightly!

Really true about Stygian Librery. It’d fit most World of Darkness games, other modern strangeness, would liven up a lot of spacefaring games, the whole deal.

The kids have good taste! Guardians 3 is no worse than a bunch of films I love, and objectively better than a bunch of them. No criticisms.

Buckaroo Banzai would easily make a favorites list for me. It’s a latter-day pulp classic with an awesome soundtrack. Taken on its own, Iron Man is definitely an sf adventure.

I’d gladly buy a trimmed It like that.

Seconds has Evil Will Geer! Stunning little movie. And Kafka! I love that movie, and almost nobody ever saw it. The bit with Jeremy Irons and Ian Holm facing off is so great. And Stalker! Mmmmm. This is a great list.

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