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Your wife speaks great truth. :)

Today I encountered three separate usages of “Oh, are we not allowed to criticize X?” on three separate forums, by people being. Rude and aggressive. It seems like the answer to that question 99% of the times “Sure, but your style and thoughts are also up for criticism.” Or, alternatively, a...

I’m enjoying Loner, which now has one compendium with the rules and core advice, a supplement going more in depth on design intentions and such, and guides on world and character building for solo play all bundled together, and an adventure compendium with a ton of rules tweaks and advice for...

What I really want is When Gravity Fails, but only if it’s done well. At the moment, I’m drooling over the possibilities for Straylight.

I know. I’m talking about it as a story viewed now. There’s a bunch of stuff there that’s still quite distinctive and some likely to resonate with a particular freshness now, regardless of what’s been on screen before.

I don’t feel like there’s any need for it to be radical. It’s an exciting story against a cool backdrop, and a reminder that the future isn’t always an impenetrable black box.

Yup.

For your more detailed vindication:

I reread the Sprawl trilogy a few years ago, but I may do so again. I found it had aged very well. Specific recommendation: the 30th anniversary edition of Neuromancer has an introduction by Gibson that is well worth reading. He has some interesting things to point out, like there not being any...

You’re right about the authorial part. Lots of things can be a good time for me. At its most essential: Am I glad we played? Do we look forward to playing more? For me in particular, was it worth all the medical, mental, and physical effort to take part? (For others, other challenges can create...

For me, losing at an RPG is not having a good time. This is 100% unaligned with the character succeeding st their goals. The Dark Side sourcebook for Star Wars d20 was a big influence one me with its presentation of a possible character arc of escalating villainy and power capped by the growing...

With the astronomers, in recent years there’s been a lot of “look at this just in from James Webb/Bera Ruin/wtc - we have no idea what it is! Isn’t this great?” They glow and quiver with excitement. It is great.

I have an essentially drama-free feed, but it took years. I’ve got a mix of horror & related book reviewers, marine biologists, astronomers and a few non-scientist explainers, electronic music makers, and so on. All of these can and have erupted into stupid feuds, but I focused on the ones who...

Looks very promising.

A lot of his performance was improvised. The director sort of shrugged and ran with it, and everyone else caught up as they could. :)

I suspect that it’s mostly a matter of cost, with Audible charging much less for Virtual Voice, but I’ll see if I can find out. I think that Mars is very likely to be lifeless, but I prefer to err on the side of caution. I think it very likely that Mara had life in its first billion years or...

I do? I’m going to have to see about some hardship pay.

It’s been a hell of a month between the US in general, problems with Mom’s care, and my health doing some strange things. My reading has been kind of weird by my own standards. Let’s see if I can get anywhere within hailing distance of brevity. For my 100-book challenge: 8. Liminal Spaces...

https://theonion.com/idiom-shortage-leaves-nation-all-sewed-up-in-horse-pies-1819569663/

I’m relieved to know it’s not just me and that reading of Revelation Space.