Thomas Shey's latest activity

One of the pitfalls of designers (or writers, musicians, painters, filmmakers etc) is refusing to study, even in passing, what was...

Its just that at that point its pretty much tautalogical; if you want everything exception based to the specific context, and aren't...

And honestly, sometimes I've seen "bland" meaning "not exception based to the degree I'm used to and comfortable with."

That used to be common in the BRP-adjacent sphere, but I think there's being some tendency toward taking a blackjack approach now (which...

Reading games and breaking down the design from the player perspective and reading up on designer intent and how that translated is the...

To add to this, when you reinvent the wheel, you almost always end up with an inferior wheel. That's the reason that people use what has...

I didn't question your ability to express yourself. I am presenting a counter-argument - we should not cordon off an entire style of...

Nobody wants to steal your stuff. Trust me, there is enough high quality free stuff on the internet to last anybody a lifetime. What...

I'm afraid you are operating under a misapprehension. The denizens here are familiar, between them, with a large fraction of the...

Not even on CFS. I treat that like schnitzel- one of CFS’s probable progenitors- and have it with a squeeze of lemon, or with brown...

Yeah there is a density to biscuits that is satisfying to me too.

Almost all cornbread is too sweet for me, and I'm not a fan of the degree to which it disintergrates.

At the very least, I don't think that there's any point in continuing in this particular thread.

It does not appear to me that I can properly express my view of a particular position here without it being taken as my expressing my...

I've already mentioned it, but I think after the mod reaction I'm going to step out of this thread.