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That might be it or a part of it, but I see this behaviour mostly in the original crew. The new players feel much more "plot-pushing"...

I think the basic shift that happened, starting with the final arc of Campaign 2, was the shift from themes being driven by the players...

I'm on reading week and finished the first draft of my Term 1 reports, so I'm powering through books now. Next up is the first Hunger...

I wanted something short after Anathem, so I grabbed Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, which won the Booker last year. It’s gorgeous, but is it...

Oh yes. It’s one of the great tips for copyediting. (Another is to start at the bottom of the page and go up line by line. You can use a...

When I was recording audiobooks, we often found errors--some of them were pretty egregious (such as "two-car garbage"). I sometimes...

I started with The Worm And Its Kings, a novella set in 1990 New York. The main character is a young trans woman whose lover has gone...

It’s also up to the author what edits they accept. The editor cannot force the edits on the author. The editor’s job is to improve...

Trophy: Dark plays off horror game rules where if you try and face off against monsters it’s a losing proposition.

The obvious model here is Dogs in the Vineyard, though of course it’s not a OSR/NSR game. You escalate through conflict stages (from...

Only watched the first episode yet, but it was already great. The typical great writing and cinematography we are used by Villigan and...

The first two episodes of Vince Gilligan's (Breaking Bad) new show dropped on Friday. Given that he once wrote for The X-Files, it's...

We definitely do not live in a technocracy!!

There is an ignore prefix section in preferences but those seem to be mainly around games and systems though some on them I’ve never...

“How can I re-engineer Xenforo so that it can block specific threads and thread tags?” That feels like a question I could ask somebody...