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After taking a look at the ALA's Top 100, I'm recommending Vaughn's Saga and Satrapi's Persepolis. Both are timely, in their own way... And for old time's sake, Burroughs's Naked Lunch. It's the first banned book I ever bought (at a mall Waldenbooks).

Ok, so aside from an instance of obligatory unnecessary violence that bore a distinct resemblance to later seasons of GoT, it was very good. A bit flat in the very beginning, but that gets fixed as soon as Matt Smith pops up (sporting the traditional awful Targaryen wig).

I thought I wasn't interested in the prequel series. Turns out I was lying to myself because of course I am. (I'm probably less disappointed in GoT's final season than most of the audience. Whatever mistakes were made, it ended with the same 'punch epic fantasy in the face' attitude that gave...

And cliched.

First reactions: The animal-headed celestial race looks great. Because I’ve wanted to play a character based on those cynocephalic St. Christopher paintings for years. Also because I put an entire city of similar creatures in my latest homebrew. Great minds and all… Moving ASIs to Backgrounds...

I like the expanded role of backgrounds and starting feat. It's a little bit of classic Traveller chargen (with the chance of death removed).

I finished it and I've read the comics (which are excellent). In some ways, Amazon's Paper Girls is better than Netflix's Sandman adaptation, and that pains me to say because I have much more affection for Gaiman's seminal work. Not to say Sandman was bad. There's a respect for the characters...

I think that kind of flexibility shows how the game is best played.

A 2e game sounds great! Maybe 2e will be our next D&D campaign. We’re playing 5e now after a 2-year 0e (Labyrinth Lord) game and I admit it a nice change of pace to be able to do heroic practically from the start. 2e with the common house rules and all the kits/splatbooks would make a nice...

Intradiegetic criticism is a species of fan fiction. Sometimes entertaining, sometimes… not.

The thoughts of a character are a fiction the player authors. Characters exist within the fiction as their players ‘write’ them and as their actions are ratified & reified by the DM and other players.

Always. The metagame level is the actual world, where all character decisions are ultimately made.

I haven’t finished the final episode yet — didn’t notice it was almost 90 minutes long when I started it late last night — but much respect to Seth for going out on a classic TNG slice-of-life episode. Also, the Kaylon Primarch announcing he’s leaving a small contingent to defend the homeworld...

You are not incorrect. A quick right-now ranking: HBOMax (you can watch Our Flag Means Death, Harley Quinn, and Criterion hits, nuff said) Apple+ (best quality/price ratio, Severance, For All Mankind) Netflix (lots of good stuff but too big, the content firehose is bad) Disney/Hulu (lots of...

I see this a puzzle/challenge design issue. Is the challenge in finding the THING (valuable, clue, etc.) or in what the what to DO with the THING once it's found? The older I get, the less interested or perhaps able I am to describe the physical details in an imaginary space. At least with the...

I voted 'no'. As a player in a cooperative social game, you are always justified in doing your part to keep things running smoothly, though. Even if means occasionally ignoring the advantage.

I wasn't interested until I read about the cancellation and found out the directors worked on Ms. Marvel. Now I'm disappointed! Ms. Marvel had the kind of visual style/distinctiveness the Disney/Marvel needs a lot more of. I'm also kinda worried because HBOMax is a great service with a broad...

I think the trajectory of 'woke' is: Black slang --> ironic Black slang (according to Jane Costin and that guy on Atlanta, at least) --> ironic progressive slang --> conservative pejorative --> progressive slang (reclaimed pejorative). But don't quote me on it. Gotta check with my linguist fiends.

It's Babylon 5, Season 4 Syndrome. I think Seth is trying to complete the major story arcs because it's not clear another season is coming. Though with all the good press this season is getting, I wouldn't bet against more New Horizons.

I find most people like that who have postmodernism in mind have no idea what postmodernism is.