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Depending upon how deep you want to get into the story. In the novels the Arisians are enacting a plan spanning millions of years...

You'd be surprised at how many people's reaction is "We've seen this before" when encountering an older work that inspired a later one...

Female superheroes who who were not sidekicks of or adjacent to male heroes (Batgirl, Supergirl, Hawkgirl) were actually pretty rare at...

The point stands that Burroughs' Barsoom series was a foundational inspiration to space epics like Star Wars but it being the earlier...

I think you've forgotten what an important plot element Clarissa's position as the first female Lensman and the whole breeding...

Well, to some degree both, but I was primarily thinking in terms of other games. Even though even back then it was the biggest fish in...

Yea, definitely still a relevant distiction. I haven't seen those specific terms before, but I've definitely referenced the idea of...

As I've noted before, I spent enough effort over enough time I'm fairly comfortable making a generality here, though not a universal...

Its less about gamism than the fact modern gamers--and again, I think this trend started a long time ago now--have leaned into genre...

Which is why it can afford to largely ignore the rest of the hobby. It used to be more intertwined with it back before 3e, probably...

There is the sexism element, but probably the bigger issue is the pre-WW2 "eugenics yay" stuff built into the basic premise - the...

Sure. Its the question of what you decide to keep and get rid of that's the question. Do you toss the whole Red Lensman thing out...

Little bit of both. While not as bad as some of his cohort, Smith's handling of women was--not ideal. And I'm not sure we ever saw a...

i saw the hobby as a whole moving away from sim well before the 3e era. I won't speak of D&D specifically here because I wasn't...

Considering the size of their team and their budget, I enjoyed the game. Don't expect AAA writing from a AA game.