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I love the end of this series. It gives what people want (murder as justice) and yet they are not satisfied. Dany has been torturing, burning and crucifying people for years. And fans have been cheering on. Desiring those murders. Cause they didn't have a problem with murder as justice. People...

The horns say 3.5's Binder to me.

I just finished Glasshouse by Charles Stross. A very human story about memory, identity and post-human brain hacking in a post-singularity setting. Also post-scarcity. Those are a lot of posts. It is clear Stross wants to take readers elsewhere. At the same time as Stross explores current...

Things aren't looking good for PF 2e. The pivot is a sign. If Paizo starts making 5e AP and supplements, it'll make 5e suddenly interesting.

I just finished At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft. It is a re-read. This time in English. I enjoyed the early ancient astronauts who created life on Earth trope. And they get to fight other aliens for control of Earth. I wonder how much influence he had on the trope after the short...

Ew.

Do not care for Star Wars. It is a joke by now.

Forced emotions do not reach me. Black Widow and Hawkeye were tertiary characters at best. Their deaths (well ultimately Widow's) was meaningless and only made the film longer. And the film is full of those types of boring forced moments. A terrible end to a great series.

Too much emotions by actors who want their screen time. The time travelling plot was clunky at best. The action and plot of Infinity War was better. It is a disappointing end to great series.

Star Wars: Forget The Last Jedi Ever Happened.

Charles Stross has an explaination for series on his blog. Money. If the two first novels of a series reach a certain amount of sale, the series can go on indefinately as there will be people who buy any book that comes out in the series. Stand alone novels are thus less profitable. Stross...

I read it a few years ago. It is a pretty bad novel. It is an ad for rail guns and the zumwalt warship by defense consultants. The premice is interesting, China attacks the US and wins because X, Y and Z, but the execution, the characters, the plot are all pretty terrible.

Branding is everything. Quality-wise, this is no better than the Magic book, well it probably is because more effort was probably put into it because the IP is less known, but reception will be worse because the IP is less known.

Angel? The ears, armor, gender, sparkles tell me eladrin.

Reading Makers by Cory Doctorow. It is my first novel by him. 60 pages in and I'm underwhelmed. I wanted to read his new novella collection Radicalized, and wonder if he was worth reading. Makers had been lying around on my shelfs for a while and started digging in. Now I wonder if Radicalized...

Joke items are easier to produce than quality original products it would seem. What a waste.

I wonder what the license for such an IP cost to produce the tabletop RPG. Or the Lord of the Ring or Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future...

There is nothing to get about the Witness. It is just a loop for aesthetics sake. It doesn't go deeper than that. Same for the whole series.

Someone didn't bribe the right people.

Too many of them are pretty much made to please the male gaze or stroke patriarchal models the right way. In that regard the series is a let down. So far, only Yogourt stands out, althought the punk aesthetics of Sonnie's Edge sets it appart too. The reference to the deficite in Yogurt as an...