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Want to be even more depressed? Watch "Don't Look Up."

If you want to be really concerned watch Look Who's Back.

So the player characters think they've solved it, they give the evidence to the authorities (which by the way is probably a disclosure...

How does that work? You're playing a traditional sort of investigative game, the players analyse the clues and think they've found a...

We're not talking about cyberpunk as a genre here, we're talking about a specific game. Style Over Substance: "It doesn't matter how...

But it doesn't actually create a new species in the setting. Sure, maybe species ruels are used to model the features of the character...

All good, if I've understood you correctly that's the point I'm trying to make. 'Solving the GM's puzzle' may feel subjectively like you...

Sure! How something feels likely plays a big part in how much they like it. I just think mistaking that feeling for some kind of...

I also think, as a real life investigator, that 'putting together a half-cocked theory that matches most of the available data, and...

I agree that 'solving the GM's puzzle' and 'investigating a real life murder' are very different things, for all the reasons you...

I don’t think it does. A mystery show? A mystery novel? Sure. But I know how you also don’t like the idea of a story, so I don’t know...

Best title, definitely!

For me, I just object to the elevation of one gaming approach as being “closer” to the real thing. It’s just silly. In both cases...

Can we compromise to nothing in pop culture after the 90s? Thanks.

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