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I'm not convinced that this happens much. I mean, yes those of us who grew up with TSR-era D&D do love to point out that we learned the words charisma and proficiency long before our peers (and that cloth is measured in bolts, and wine comes in tuns, etc.). That was generally beneficial. The...

My main point was that Some Dude included two categories in his premise, so he wasn't necessarily calling Jaws, Psycho, and The Shining lowbrow. Anyways, you're definitely not wrong. Theoretically, all movies should be called genre movies, since 'genre' is just a fancier version of the word...

Right, but they are genre entertainment*, right? Psycho and The Shining are horror and Jaws is (the first) summer blockbuster.*since the quote was "In general, 'lowbrow' or genre entertainment tends to be more memorable, or at least have scenes that get etched into the collective psyche." I...

That is not the case. The question was whether this situation made 3.Xe's "super crunchy language" look good to us. I stated that it did not. One's preference for rules light vs. high-crunch id based on known understandings of the up- and downsides of each game rule strategy. Rules light...

In so many ways it was (in the U.S., with regards to broadcast television, etc.). The decade started with 4 networks* consistently trying to fill the primetime block and ended with 6. The weekends were a crap-shoot on what they did, and Fox/WB/UPN might have left the 10-11 PM (EST) timeslot open...

Regarding making the potion be permanent and thus all subsequent potions at risk for miscibility as balancing factor: If this only applies for super-powerful potions like these two, this seems reasonable. It seems a little too much of a downside for having the good fortune of rolling 00 on...

I didn't know what to do with bringing up Roseanne (or Married With Children). They are concurrent with Seinfeld (started at the end of the 80s) and kinda found their footing alongside it. Friends and Frasier and such definitely* were built with reaction to Seinfeld's success in mind, whereas...

Y'know what, I think you're deliberately misconstruing everything I said and trying to have a fight where everyone else is trying to have a discussion, but the conversation has moved on and it will serve no purposed for me to try to drag us back there.

TiQuinn -- I know a few other people that have said they re-watch Frasier too. I really meant 'get brought up in discussion' as my metric under examination. Everyone watches what they watch, but people are still talking about Friends and Seinfeld. There are still entertainment journalism...

Add in Fresh Prince and maybe Home Improvement and Everyone Loves Raymond, and it seems like Friends and Seinfeld are the only 90s* sitcoms that get revisited**. In the 90s Friends and Seinfeld were big hits (the biggest, at various points), but so were Wings, Mad About You, Spin City, The...

I am one of those individuals least impressed with the notion that your preference in elfgames* is a protected status, and the self-declared victimhood of various levels of fandom can range from tedious to vitriolic**. That said, that doesn't mean that the complaints never have a point. Along...

For reference, it is from Jason Tondro.'s 'It never occurred to me l’d rouse the ire of the grognards. It’s obvious now that I look back on it, but I just don’t take those critiques seriously even now. I consider those people not worth listening to, so I didn’t anticipate their “outrage". He...

This thread could use some levity at this point. Please go back and reread what you said here. Here's where I see a point of stasis I want to poke at, because I disagree. WotC has stated or implied that (at least some of) their* depictions of orcs are flawed or immoral. And, again for some of...

Agreed. What I mean is that focusing on the canonicity suggests that the officialdom of Greenwood's words are the important part of the story, rather than Greenwood taking a positive stand towards transgenderism. The latter, in my view, is the important part. I, as much as anyone else, love...

As an aside, thank you for putting this in whole sentence format. I keep seeing people online put "[Citation needed]" in actual conversations like they were in the middle of editing a Wikipedia page and it drives me up the wall. Anyways, IMO the whole question of canonicity is a red herring...

Interestingly, if it were just about lifting capacity, we could have low strength halfling adventurers (even fighters). A couple bags of holding, armor weight that is size-dependent, and so on and it works. It is the to-hit and damage that really kill it for things with a strength penalty (or...

Super-yay! Welcome to your new obsession. Random aside--whomever directed this scene has never held fur. He looks like he's dabbing himself with a poofy terrycloth, not dropping the most surprisingly heavy cloth you've ever held onto your shoulders. It's how one defines crunch. Are feats and...

Poul Anderson (of Appendix N Three Hearts and Three Lions fame) had a book about one of those (Tau Zero). I think Star Trek ships supposedly have magnetic collectors on the front of their nacelles. Conceptually (IIRC), it works. It's just no longer considered a likely path to interstellar travel...