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I mean, the solution is to pay a human with some degree of understanding and responsibility to do the thing instead of entrusting it to poorly considered bundle of code.

While it is true that you can place a lot of the popularity of D&D (and particularly the fantastic rise of 5e) can be placed squarely on the shoulders of Critical Role (the number of people who ever even tried 4e is a fraction of the 5e fanbase, so I doubt any rejection of that edition played...

God damn that makes a lot of sense, because I grew up my entire life having brussel sprouts being the butt of every "bad-tasting vegetable" joke and now they're like my favorite thing, but then it's hard to go wrong with that many garlic cloves and that much balsamic vinegar.

Oh yeah, I was just being jokey. More seriously, yeah, the Forge nonsense is at least trying to be categorically useful for discussing RPGs, to the extent that if you don't agree with the basics of the framework (and, let's be honest, you shouldn't), you can still talk around it in a way that...

Make sure to bite the head off of a winged creature and/or urinate on a public monument in Texas in his honor

Scribe, you cannot answer every question with Shadowdark :p

Precisely. The biggest problem with chronological analyses is that the further you get from the origin generation the muddier everything gets as experimentation gets broader and it becomes harder and harder to confine all or even most of the prevailing zeitgeist to a single definable entity.

I feel like the traditional Fish & Chips "chip" is a steak fry. And steak fries (as well as Jo-Jos) are fries for people who prefer potatoes in general moreso than they like fries. Which is plenty fine but they definitely shouldn't be running away in a best fry contest. The correct answer here...

Lead actor notwithstanding, the Adventures of Lois and Clark is an extremely underrated show; Teri Hatcher was great as Lois Lane, John Shea was a great Lex Luther, and Lane Smith is still as much Perry White to me as J.K. Simmons is J. Jonah Jameson. There's no argument that Smallville isn't...

I mean... on the one hand it's a lot more accurate than all the horrible Forge classifications. On the other hand, it's a lot less useful for modern discourse than horrible Forge classifications, which is... not a high bar at all

In-n-Out has some pretty distinct variance, like it genuinely matters which one you go to. Like they added one to my hometown (right before the cult took over) and it was genuinely trash; the one where I live now is excellent though. Animal style is a trap though.

To me, there is no distinction between the "mumbo jumbo plot resolution" and the "human connections" part, because the latter is meant to be the answer to the former (see the whole "love" speech from Anne Hatheway). Spielberg would absolutely be the guy to nail that landing, if anyone could.

The problem with Interstellar is that it was a Stephen Spielberg film and he would've directed the hell out of it, and due to Hollywood insider baseball shenanigans they ended up having to go with someone else, and that someone else somehow ended up being Christopher Nolan, who I can easily see...

Oh, I don't doubt it. To be fair though, if I'm ever going to set foot in the state of Texas again at this point, it will necessarily involve flying into Austin, remaining within city limits the entire duration of my stay, and flying straight out. Might see some pretty things as I fly over, though.

Trying to play BG3 crossplay has been damn near impossible; the network connection drops constantly

The problem with Tex-Mex from actual Texas is that it isn't even the best "Tex-Mex" because New Mexico has way better food and also the weather is nicer and the views are actually quite beautiful and as an added bonus, I can take a leak without breaking the law. I live like 5 minutes from an...

Well, Karl Urban has short hair, which answers the unasked question as to whether Mortal Kombat is fantasy or sci-fi (it is now officially sci-fi). Incidentally, I am absolutely here for Karl Urban having a blast on screen.