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I think I made a pretty clear delineation. Whilst D&D's whitewashing of what has often been essentially colonial violence or even reminiscent of genocide can be troubling at times (and certainly has drawn people who love those things into the hobby), the fact that it is consistently about pure...

All those terms are US terms, and I'm talking about the usage in the US in the 1980s and early 1990s. Nowadays they're absolutely used in the -gate sense described.

What I really, really didn't like about some of the She-Hulk court scenes was that they implied she was absolutely astoundingly bad lawyer, like worse than a trainee would be. In more than one of the scenes, she hadn't done ultra-basic stuff that you'd do when taking a case, or the earliest...

I just don't think it's false, because we've seen what happens when people romanticize something creepy for decades. At first they're joking, and they maybe acknowledge that time was messed up. Then they start equivocating and picking out individual things which they think were better. Then the...

It seems not or they're not very far along if so. The reason we know this is the lead dev working on said recently (post-Oblivion Remaster release) that they're planning on making the guns/combat in FO3 much more like those in FO4. Planning to. And as the gameplay stuff would be worked on...

Literally the only thing it means is that, contrary to what Todd Howard (who is in charge of Bethesda) was saying in 2023, Elder Scrolls 6 will almost certainly use UE5 for its graphics engine, but retain the Creation Engine under the hood. Because that's relatively easy to do, and will honestly...

The Oblivion Remaster has been in the works since at least 2022, because it was initially revealed by the Microsoft disclosures around their anti-trust case when buying Bethesda. So I would be pretty surprised if Fallout 3 Remastered was that soon, even if the technology is sound - they do need...

It's not a certain number, it's entirely down to what they are (and your load order). If you have a whole bunch of mods relying on Skyrim Script Extender, and doing stuff like re-routing NPCs or whatever, that's going to have a significant impact on both CPU load and glitchiness - it's likely...

The problem is B is seemingly not true. Or if it is true, the superhuman sense isn't actually just "super-sensitive touch", it's some far wilder and more interesting. But B not being true is why this was so jarring to anyone who knows what the textures of oil painting are actually like (and...

Like I said, the issue for me is when you whitewash real world settings, not when you have faux-[time/place] settings which don't have the same deep and horrific societal issues. Like, if your characters are in a Victorian-ish, vibes-wise/aesthetics-wise but entirely fictional society/setting...

Nah the Alternity version, which was apparently the 5th edition of Gamma World.

If you just follow a build guide for the characters, which you may want to simply because there are so many options, it's pretty straightforward. That's like the only potentially overwhelming bit. In combat and exploration it's fine, especially if you avoid using the fancy Bladedancer class from...

This is very true. We might moan about some cool older settings being MIA because they've effectively been IP vaulted by WotC, but they're usually at least available as PDFs of the old books, and what we're getting today is insanely more diverse in every possible meaning of the word diverse than...

I'm saying most people who have opinions about genres are not, in fact, "purist fanbois" nor engaging in "one-true-wayism" or "gatekeeping", which are in fact just bunch of cheap and vaguely demeaning buzzwords strung together for effect. Those people do exist, but your implication appears to...

I mean, that's a cheap and rather bitter characterization that I'd think was beneath you. God forbid someone seek to be able to identify a genre, eh? But it doesn't change the fact that I'm right, and I think you know it doesn't. Steampunk was not an equivalent of -gate at the time in the 1980s...

Sorry but no. That's just flatly incorrect. It was absolutely a dystopian genre in the 1980s and very early 1990s. Then it started being used in two other ways: 1) To describe Victorian or early 20th century retrofutures, like HG Wells. 2) To describe straight up Victorian alt-history, which...

They literally are, though. That's why it's called steamPUNK. That's the core of the old conflict about what should be called "steampunk". If there's no dystopia and no resistance to that dystopia, and there's no punk element, and you haven't got steampunk. You've just got some kind of...

Yeah basically this. I have little inherent preference, but I absolutely loathe books that feel like they've been inappropriately compressed down to "digest" format - which in my experience is about 20-30% of "digest" format RPGs, and you never know which until you get them!

Yeah in the early 1990s even most SF nerds didn't have a particularly clear idea of what "steampunk" might entail, if they were even familiar with the term (it didn't even begin to get popularized until The Difference Engine in 1990, though it does technically predate that I believe). And as a...

Yeah this. And it's made incredibly suspicious of Invisible Sun, because it's a "A roleplaying game of surreal fantasy, secrets, and magic that is truly magical.", which is like just a list of things Cook has shown himself to be bad at multiple times now! Especially as the original marketing...