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The note that DIE is less about RPGs than it is about trauma is pretty darned relevant.

No it is not. DIE is a well-crafted comic, no question. But it is essential reading for RPG people in about the same way as being in...

She does!

Finally got around to finishing Andor Season 1 (on the plane; we haven’t had D+ for ages) and my God, the last four episodes are...

Wasn't the word I was thinking of.

ironic isn't it.

That's not my reading of him at all. Exactly when do we ever see him motivated to "cause others pain"? Syril is a man living a fantasy...

Just read Sarah Beth Durst’s cosy fantasy The Enchanted Greenhouse, set in the same world as The Spellshop, and it’s a beautifully...

Not sure if it's the same but I think the key issue I have with SNW is that I am not 100% convinced that the showrunners fundamentally...

And honestly without that it’s not a very good shiny pew-pew show.

For me that's the main draw of Star Trek. Without that, it's just another shiny pew-pew show.

Just watched Badda-Bing Badda-Bang, which is a pretty good episode and IIRC the first one of those I haven’t actually seen before...

Ok, let’s do characters with different actors. It’s worth noting that I mostly started watching Trek as a child with the TOS films, so I...

In the real world the courtesy title for the (non-lord) children of lords is "the honourable."

I think you will be surprised at how well it holds up - I saw it last about 10 years ago and was surprised it was still pretty fun. The...