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My wife sets reading goals on both a monthly and an annual basis, her goals focus around both content and quantity. Me, I just grab stuff that looks interesting, and I read in the evening when I'm not otherwise occupied.

I try not to post gibberish. Really, I do. Sometimes, though, I look back on something I've posted and realize my brain was generating words my fingers weren't typing. Or something.

Fair. And your OP is a reasonable reaction to someone who keeps getting into fights (online or plausibly otherwise), the problem indeed is probably them.

I was responding to something that seemed to be talking as much about IRL as online, and I was kinda hinting at the really out-there idea that we shouldn't blame victims for being victims.

I don't disagree, but it's probably worth considering that far too many people are stuck in some cycle or other, and victimization is at least sometimes a cycle.

I think there's some amount of expressing frustration with specific posters--but, as you say, without mentioning them, or even (ideally) being clear whom you're referencing.

Not here: You're making a distinction that I don't think is quite so distinctive as you seem to think, but I'm not in a mood to argue with you today. So I guess I'll allow you to continue to be both wrong and unchallenged.

It it's your browser being weird, it's mine being weird, too.

It's Scalzi at his Scalziest. I wouldn't say there's no depth there, but there's not much. I enjoyed it plenty, but I have known susceptibility to at least some kinds of authorial voice. :LOL:

I might go as far as "I've never seen that," but it's aiming at similar points, I think--though I do prefer to deploy that when what I've never seen is a thing someone says is inevitable.

Nothing like seeing people responding to one of your posts, and realizing it's not far from gibberish. Oops and oh comma well.

Seems to me as though good "monsters" can exist for approximately the same reasons as good NPCs.

Nah. I never bought Mean Mark as anything supernatural ... :LOL:

I wouldn't have listed any of those as my "ideal monk fights" before seeing any of them for the first time, here. I'm not convinced any of them is particularly like what either of the players who had monk PCs in my games had in mind what their characters looked like in action; and if I were to...

Yeah, there's that. In my case it's that I spent so much with that as work that I can't do it for fun. I have similar problems with podcasts, and I've never spent any time making those--but just listening to someone talk in my headphones ... it needs to be something I'm really interested in.

I worked recording them. I cannot listen to them for pleasure. It's a me thing, and my own mental block--it's not a judgment on them or the people who listen to them.

The difference between the experience of free-writing a novel is, to me, very like the experience of GMing a TRPG when there's no pre-planned series of events. I presume you would say that the TRPG session is not a story--and I mostly agree--but could session notes be one? How much editing, how...

It appears as though you require "story" to be pre-planned, That'd seem to imply that a free-written novel wouldn't meet your definition of "story.' I'm not saying you're wrong, exactly--this is (or would be) very much an edge-case, and just about all positions have edge-cases that make them...

Yeah, there are almost certainly feedback loops going on. My sense is that the more the players know the game is focused on their characters's goals and actions and desires and priorities and needs, the less they try to screw around with the GM (which usually carries at least a whiff of...

I had a player who wanted to try to push edge-case things. Eventually we came to the understanding that rulings were more likely to go his way if he wasn't trying to extract them in the moment, that he didn't need to surprise me to surprise his opponents. I've also come to a conclusion that's...