Recent content by Ryujin

I will only accept SciFi that involves people getting loaded into cannons and shot at the moon!

I had something like 250 albums and EPs, dating from the '60s through the '90s, but got rid of them a couple of years back. Except for the two 78s that I had, ; Heartbreak Hotel and All Shook Up. They were my father's and my sister felt entitled to them, as daddy's girl, so she swiped them out...

The pumpkin spice must flow.

There are times that I legitimately don't recognize songs from vinyl that I actually owned.

So do are personal injury attorneys actual arsonists then?

I was one of three proofers on a book. Every one of us found something that someone else missed but the only errors that got through were ones that we flagged, but didn't get changed before going to print.

If you were actually watching the show, you would know that's a duck.

I would also be willing to wager that there's more than a little self-proofing, given margins. Playtesting likely involves the authors' leading the group, as well, which means their interpretations don't get challenged.

A little from Column A, a little from Column B..

I'm rather surprised that more ambiguous wording isn't caught in either proofing or play testing, but there's so much of it that does make it through.

It was already bad enough that search engines based new results on past requests, meaning looking for new information frequently gives you opinions that already align with what you know. Now it's tailored even further to the point of potentially giving you 'hallucinated' results, that are based...

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” ― James...

As far as I'm concerned, critical consensus means nothing if a thing doesn't draw an audience, for purposes of whether it's a "hit." Also, being a "hit" doesn't imply that something is actually good. Pablum for the Public sells.

I can tell you, from experience, that playing a Fixer doesn't land as well as it should in a campaign where you're working for corps. Our Retired Cop character's player didn't understand that a plasterboard wall doesn't stop a shotgun blast nearly as well as a reinforced door. He also was 100%...

"Sakuku." I'm admittedly biased, though, as I know the author and like his style.