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There was an infamous student at my college who allegedly had some sort of breakdown in a Classics class because other people were...

I think it's been long enough that I can say without hurting anyone's feelings: The people of Pompeii were not good at playing the floor...

There's a world of difference between RPing your character's traits to the point of irritating your fellow players and RPing your...

D&D Honor Among Thieves would easily be my favorite, so I hope it's not cheating, then again TTRPGs do get into the slippery slope edge...

Given that the series naturally ends with Pike leaving the Enterprise and the existing ensemble (partially) dissolving, but his...

I think they have to show it. It's the defining event of who Pike is, and all his optimism and humanity that we see in SNW exist in an...

Both elements are crucial to the plot as well.

The opening day screening I went to of this well-promoted, well-reviewed, big budget film was at was in a giant theater but I was...

The Strange New Worlds season three finale specified that they were firing both ships' phasers in tandem at that space magic-infused...

Fundamentally its just a joke about how stupid the end of St. Elsewhere was. Endings that recontextualize a whole series, season or...

I genuinely dislike the rules-lite, OSR-adjacent games that use inventory slots as health and spell slots. I'm continually irked by the...

Like many things, it is all Tolkien's fault. If Sam Gamgee had not asked for rope from the elves, we would not be having this...

But wait until episode 7 and we redo the plot, but with a whole death planet.

At least this way you know at a glance what is in the rooms, which helps easily adjudicate things like "did the monsters next door hear...

I agree, wall-of-text is a big turn-off. However, many modules go too far in the other direction. When everything is just keywords...