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The weight's the big factor, as I understand it, but the way they accelerate--all the torque they put down--makes a difference, too. I think.

So, this past weekend was deeply unpleasant and wildly expensive, and I'm going to rant a little. Feel free to skip. A windstorm blew through here Sunday afternoon about four, and apparently it knocked a tree or a large branch into something really important, because it took like twenty hours...

Unrelated to the above (I think): That looks like a serious category error, I think I'll pass, thanks.

I run entirely homebrew, and I'll absolutely write the narrative situations so they're relevant and interesting to the PCs. I don't specifically aim mechanical things at either the PCs' strengths or their weaknesses, it's up to the players to figure out how to accomplish things. (I will warn the...

Good luck!

It's perpetually surprising how many people are stubbornly wrong.

Unrelated to the above: Well, that didn't take long.

Oh, I know they're real. Not my thing, but real. I was commenting on the grammatical error in the headline. :LOL:

I am not seeing a line through Snarf's name as I write this post. I'm on Firefox, in case it turns out to be about what browser.

There are definitely times it seems like an extensive troll job.

What am I supposed to put inside it, isn't the recipe already set? Oh, did the headline writer want me to give in to the sandwich? They should have said so.

I'm really not arguing, here, but I kinda gotta wonder which would be "aging worse," for (post-)apocalyptic or dystopian fiction: society starts to look like the fiction, or society looks as though the fiction is impossible (or at least implausible)? I can see either answer, honestly.

I'd eat that, but the mushrooms are entirely surplus to my own needs, there.

I'd expect the prosecutors to be talking about defendants flouting the conditions of their bail, not the defense attorneys. Though I might be failing to grok some context, here.

My wife read this one recently. Alas, I think it had to go back to the library, but I can always find it and check it out myself.

My experience is that the trick is to stop arguing without saying you're stopping arguing. Stop responding.

At this point, my preferred approaches to series of novels are A) read a shortish series once it's all published and B) read a longish series in whatever order I find the books, because the novels stand alone just fine. (Longer series that don't stand alone, I don't read. And 'Salem's Lot is a...

As I said, I don't have any strong delusions about my writing, but I think the time I spent recording audiobooks--listening to other people's writing, in still other people's literal voices--shaped my writing, and at least improved my ear for dialogue. (He's right about dialogue tags, or...

Scalzi might--or might not--hear his prose in his head as he composes it. Some writers do, some don't--I mostly do, but I don't claim it means my prose is anything special. It's plausible that I hear my prose in my head because I spent so much time listening to people read other writers' prose...

We recorded several of the earlier novels in that series at the audiobook studio I worked at. Uh ... There were some verbal tics in the novels that practically leapt off the pages when narrated. I know what he was trying to do but I can't help laughing. I have a sneaking suspicion audiobooks...