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Someone’s Law: In real life, people do stupid things all the time. In fiction it’s bad writing.

Because Gygax, et al. weren't particularly good technical writers. Remember, the need to say thing in particular ways so they'd be...

Some cats and dogs can understand the threat of future action, understand the vague concept of "guilt" (as in future punishment for a...

Mechanical abilities aside, in the end, I always go for a character with whom I can identify (even if it takes a bit of wishful...

its because they are trying to capture entirely different traditions. On one hand the original gnome is the Paracelsian elemental -...

Perhaps they were on orders from the queen.... Ha! Was almost able to type that with a straight face. Seriously, though, Aliens is one...

Kirsh appears to be doing this on purpose, per the most recent episode. Well, the human adult in question is a robotics engineer, not a...

Indeed. I was without power for 6+ hours last Friday. The lines company said it was due to an "animal or bird" damaging the power lines.

True, the queen did seem to understand "back off, or I torch the eggs." I do hope that's about the upper limit of their intelligence. I...

Do hybrids dream of wrong-eyed sheep?

Hudson's not the most reliable character, though. He's assuming it was intentional. In our world, animals are constantly having deadly...

I think that there is a difference between "sapient" in terms of "building cities, and having farms, and playing fantasy xenofootball,"...

I loved the last episode. Although ... I may have had some creepy Octo-eye (Eyetopus?) dreams. Maybe it's because when I'm counting...

They are in an isolated bubble. That's the point. They're disconnected from the world they protect. That is the depth. We're shown...

I just want to make another post about the production design. I loved all the detail and (alternate) world building. Those silver vinyl...