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Also "Spot the post-breakup song." (Though, to be fair, sometimes that's a vein the songwriter just hasn't played out yet.)

I haven't tried it--or even seen it--but it doesn't seem unpalatable to me (other than the coleslaw, which I find disgusting in any context). It actually seems as though it'd be pretty tasty, if not exactly what most people will think of as "pizza."

I'm sure you already know this, but trends happen. Also, it seemed more likely then that we'd do something (like, as a single event) stupid, as opposed to now where it looks more as though we've been doing something stupid for a few decades and lo!

Upgrade carried me along just fine, mostly. There were some things that didn't work for me while I was reading, and it fell apart for me more when I thought about it after reading it. Sounds as though maybe he's just an author who doesn't work for me, which is at least as much about me as it...

Yeah, you seem like the sort to wear clothes that are more imaginary than real. :LOL:

Yet it happens all the time.

Yeah, the fact you were writing them yourself seems likely to have been the most important thing about them, and rhyme and meter have their upsides. And I agree with you about the difference you're pointing at; I've been known to state strongly that song lyrics have different enough goals from...

Yeah, rhyme isn't inherently bad, it's just not inherently good, either; it's a technique, and it's optional. Well, deciding to rhyme should probably happen pretty early in the composition process, anyway, and maybe you should have a reason other than you think poems must rhyme (which is...

Not this thread, not even this site: You can always tell the non-poets, because they think rhyming is clever.

In the movie The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, said brother refers at least once to his brother "Sheer Luck Holmes." Something something great minds.

Fair enough. At the grocery stores I go to, they're in 1.5-pound bags, bigger potatoes are in 3- or 5- pound bags. Or you can purchase them loose, though not usually the really small ones.

That at least seems plausible. I'm willing to bet you'll find small red potatoes in 1.5-pound packages, though. :LOL:

Oh, I'll admit to my pedantry, I was just putting it here rather than in the thread. There are times it's useful to know the differences between words, but one shouldn't let that knowledge get in the way of communication.

Also unrelated to anything in this thread (I think): That phrase you carefully chose, I do not like what it means.

Not connected to the above: I understand what you said, but I wish you had used the right word.

I'm going to be curious what you think about Dark Matter. I read another book by Crouch (Upgrade) and came away kinda underwhelmed, but I'd be willing to give him another chance.

Absolutely. I figure in some instances those are pitched by GMs to their tables, in some instances they are asked for by the players. I also figure that there are GMs writing their own adventures in similar veins, which might make them killer GMs, I guess depending on other aspects of their...

I've never played with a killer GM, but I think different people will have different ideas of just how anomalous killer GMs are, and how many PCs a given GM needs to have die in their game before that GM qualifies.

I guess in some cases what kills a PC might be the player's decision to sit at that table, with that GM.

I definitely blame Who. It's all his fault. Naturally.