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Well , foo. There are times when stress kicks my orthostatic hypotension into gear in ways that mess with my ability to focus on reading, even on the Kindle with font size set quite large. Unfortunately, this is one of those times. Also unfortunately, to Malazan Book of the Fallen audiobooks are...

Handy for many situations these days. Let it work for you.

I have a couple of tips for House of Leaves. 1. Johnny Truant is many people’s least favorite part of the book. If you find yourself feeling thst way, it is okay to skim most of his footnotes. Get the gist of it and move on. 2. A significant chunk of Zampano’s footnotes are a kind of joke...

Yeah. There is some reading I do out of a sense of obligation as a responsible American human being. It does not include vintage genre fiction. It only very rarely includes any fiction at all, and what little it does is usually by Nobel Prize winners or other figures on the world stage. Mostly...

Or Exalted. Or Spawn of Fashan.

My own experience is that when I’m feeling hostile to either a game’s setting or system, things tend to go badly quite apart from what’s in the game, because whenever there’s a range of options, I’m leaning toward the bad ones. At best, I’ve learned to recognize this more quickly and disengage...

FabU looks really interesting' but alas - I run low/no-combat games these days, and from all accounts, there’s not much there for me. If that changes, I’ll definitely want to give it a look.

I think that’s regrettably retro-tacitonarrativist of you, and that someday you’ll have Second Sulla regrets. No, wait, I don’t. Carry on.

Gradine: agh. That’s the kind of day to make one reconsider the merits of axe murder, for sure. All the sympathy from here.

As someone who has been there and often is, I suggest a roleplaying exercise. Imagine a version of you who was more or less okay with yourself - not a self-satisfied snot, just better with themself than you are with yourself. What would that version of you do in this situation? Do that, whether...

He’s great, and has been for a long time. This books and its sequels are in my queue.

I can’t tell if I’m unusually sensitive today or if a bunch of other people here and elsewhere are unusually crabby. But I think I’m going to get the cats and Kindle and go be offline a while before I get too distressed to think straight.

Agreed a lot, and that quality is seldom fully recognized or appreciated.

The Last Jedi is amazing and I love it. Yeah, my phrasing got drunk or something. I love that escalating view of how badly wrong things have gotten so quickly. What I meant to say is that the remake doesn’t have a scene to match the one inside the newsroom as everything goes to hell, and that I...

I will go to the mats for the Dawn of the Dead remake - parts of it are better than their counterparts in the original, and apart from the opening scene, none are worse. And then there’s all the rest of his stuff. Carry on.

Thanks for the reality check. :)

It may even be the case that at the moment it was written, the carrion crawler’s stats didn’t contain a strange loop. Then something changed on the condition description end, and now it did. I have had that experience more than once when working on early supplements for a new game or new...