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Counterpoint: It didn't work for him. The X-Files was a hit because it was incredibly zeitgeist-y, and was cool and featured two very attractive leads and snappy dialogue. Cool. But every single show Carter tried since, was cancelled "early" or flopped - Millennium, Harsh Realm, Lone Gunmen...

That's true, and Lindelof has done really well with that in other works (he's actually a good writer, contrary my beliefs prior to The Leftovers). But you have to pick a lane. Either, you're open with the audience that not everything is going to be explained or make sense, and that they...

It lined up with the character's motivations and beliefs, so I guess for me it works. I think it's weird that people read it as the overall message of the movie given with was a badguy turning back into badguy mode when he was saying it (after briefly being helpful/decent). Trevorrow's script...

Respectfully, it absolutely does. But we've all had ridiculous nerd moments, I'm sure. I know I have. I suspect this is likely, but only you know your heart! Like, for me, I "lost interest" in the Star Wars at a very specific point, which was when Jar Jar Binks came on screen, and stayed on...

Kylo Ren doesn't fight Rey in TLJ though does he - only in TFA and TRoS I thought? Or do you mean when they fight side by side vs. the Praetorian Guard-type guys? In which case, wow, I didn't notice that at all.

Yeah that's definitely the "worst of all worlds" - fortunately it's pretty rare now outside of games in Early Access. 10+ years ago though it was pretty common. Same. Different games and different gameplay designs call for different approaches. If there's a mismatch, then you have a problem...

LOL I'm certain because I'm extremely familiar with polling on attitudes to arms-dealing/trading! The vast majority of the public in virtually every Western country, even the US, very sharply disapproves of selling weapons to basically any external country/empire/etc. Like, countries making...

An awful lot of seems to be largely unnecessary repetition, which I imagine is due to how it was formatted in the source (presumably this wasn't all on one page). I feel like you could probably pare this down to 1-2 short-ish paragraphs. I mean, you might not be wrong!

Me also re: forgetful - I need to rewatch all the SW movies sometime, but I'm waiting to get an un-Lucas'd version of the OT first. I think the actual flashback must be in TLJ, but I was under the impression that in TFA we heard the story - maybe not though? Personally I just read it as him...

What is a "traditional RPG"? I'm pretty sure Call of Cthulhu is a "traditional RPG" by any conventional definition, but you seem to have a different one? Do you just mean "D&D-based RPGs"?

And the plot of the prequels doesn't?! Some of the things the Jedi say in the prequels don't? This seems like a double-standard to me. Can you explain how you believe the audience is being "scolded"? I think the vast majority of the audience already agrees. And how are these two antagonistic...

Well, they are. Players don't need to know as many rules as D&D and they work in a predictable way. There's a reason CoC is played by an entire audience who don't play other RPGs in Japan, for example. I would suggest that actually a pretty large number of RPGs are more approachable and...

Being real, I can't see that levels and increasing HP based on level "make the game more playable", because games like CoC are more accessible and straightforward than D&D, and don't have either. They're a particular choice for a particular kind of gameplay, not generally suited to RPGs as a...

Interesting, I've never heard that one before! Also, wasn't Luke really conflicted about it? I guess I'd need to rewatch it (also, isn't this from TFA rather than TLJ?).

I don't think so - I think it just derailed those two campaigns enough that people kind of lost interest. You can try and couch it in negative, loaded, judgemental language like "precious", but the reality is, sometimes something derails a campaign enough that the will to keep going with it...

And as I've pointed out, Spycraft and d20 Modern were missing some of those. You can design a "rules widget" to allow silent takedowns of full-HP enemies in a spy movie/show/book style, as Worlds Without Number (which I believe you are familiar with, no?) shows. You could modify their takedown...

Then what, exactly, do you mean was "antagonistic"? Because literally the only two things I've ever seen anyone point to and claim was somehow "mean to Star Wars fans" are: A) The kid who moves the broom with the force. I'm assuming this isn't it, because that is a laughable and ridiculous...

Two key problems: 1) Allowing players to save/reload at literally any second isn't trivial in all kinds of game. There are plenty of games that do it, but they tend to share certain features and approaches, and you may have to make compromises to make it possible. 2) It destroys appreciation...

The key difference to when we were kids is phones and YouTube/TikTok giving people a way to deliver detailed and consistent messaging and ideas, in a convincing and well-produced way to kids without parents knowing (which they're never couching as "political" - that'd be a turn-off, but rather...

I felt exactly the same way. And I don't think your expectations were too high - everything we were hearing about Numenera was spot-on for proper decayed super-future stuff like Moebius or Gene Wolf. Even within the book, the way the setting as a whole is described is pretty cool. The classes...