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A big part of the Fantasy aesthetic, and this applies to every genre, is being special in some regard. Not every player wants to win...

D&D is heavily inspired by pulp adventure stories about larger-than-life protagonists. Proto-superheroes, if you will. I expect D&D PCs...

I'd argue Lower Decks actually broke the dry spell. Too many people dismiss it as just a cartoon or just going for laughs. But, IMO...

It was nice of Noah Hawley to make a great hour long Alien movie inside of his fascinating science fiction series set in the Alien universe.

If you want an examination of how Spotify is evil: Mood Machine by Liz Pelly. If you want a slightly-credulous take on orientalism and...

“Of course the Chinese mix everything up. Look at what they have to work with. There's Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoist alchemy and...

I got it and I’m in Philly!

Not sure how it ended up in the show BUT there is a massive local in joke in this episode if you're from Pittsburgh. The recreation...

Ok, wow. So much crazy in this episode. Like, just getting Vulcan physiology shouldn't suddenly switch your personality like that...

Am I alone in not understanding this framing? Do I need more coffee?

We started our current 5e 2024 campaign at 3rd level because it fit the story better. We started our old 5e campaign at 1st. It's all...

The show wants us to ask, “Who are the aliens/monsters on Earth, the xenomorphs or the various posthumans?”. So the show has been...

I thought this was a really strong episode. I loved that we get the characters acknowledging that "downloading" people into a machine...

Probably because the vast majority of fantasy and science fiction stories treat nonhuman characters as people. It’s why they work as...

Well, I'd say in the real world, without any different species (that we know of) on the planet, we still manage a pretty broad range of...