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As much as Intrusions felt like Compels to me, I agree completely that Cypher does not play at all like Fate. I don't believe I said it did. (Others do seem to be arguing that it does.) EDIT: In fact, I kinda strongly disagree with people comparing the way Cypher's characters are summed up in a...

They seemed more than "superficially similar" to me, but it's probable that judgment is a matter of perception that might legitimately vary person-to-person. I'm more than willing to accept that you found them to be exactly as you describe them.

The primary thing I disliked about it turned out to be the primary thing I disliked about Fate--at least, it felt close to me. When I ran Fate I was garbage at using Compels, so the Fate Point Economy never worked the way it was supposed to. I looked at Cypher, realized I wasn't going to Intrude...

Heh. Looks as though you've contributed to the conversation as much as you usually do. And it looks as though you've been kinda shrugged off appropriately. Good job, well done!

The big problem I have at this point with longer novels is that I've gotten into the habit of reading a novel in the evening between dinner and bed (on nights when I'm not doing something more social). A really big novel will either need a couple-three nights or I'll have to make special plans...

Yeah, I'm very intentionally staying out of the threads where people are being fans of games I have no interest in--even the threads where at least some people are complaining some about those games. I'm genuinely happy people are getting enjoyment out of those games, even if I very much don't...

We have always been at war with Eastasia, yes.

When I worked recording audiobooks, I sat in on some sessions for 1491. I don't remember seeing 1493 go by, but I wasn't always in a position to see everything that came in.

Ya know, I kinda find myself agreeing with you, but you're still a sadsack.

Not here: I don't know that I'd call it all fake; to the extent it's real--or at least reality-based--it's pretty clearly a worst-case scenario.

I dunno, from what I've seen people say about the book, it seems to be more about demonstrating the truth of the opening statement. In any rate, I'm clearly too stupid to get Austen and we don't need to talk about her anymore.

You do realize that doesn't change the smug and smarmy tone?

It was the only book I was assigned in high school or college that I flat didn't read. Even other books that I didn't enjoy, I was able to get through. Not that one, though. People keep telling me that, but the smug and the smarm of that opening sentence don't seem self-aware enough to me to be...

Chuck Wendig's Wanderers is well-written and well-thought out. Owes a lot (like, really, a lot) to The Stand, if that matters.

What I'm saying is I couldn't get into whatever the book was in high school, and these days I find her actively detestable. So, yeah, not to my taste.

I thinks she's "literature" because people are still trying to teach her 200 years later. I personally wasn't able to get more than a chapter into whichever of her novels they subjected us to in high school, and at this point I can't even get past the first sentence of Pride and Prejudice--it's...

Last night I read Russell Banks' The Magic Kingdom, which is A) historical fiction, B) probably literature, or something close, and C) an interesting counterpoint to Hiaasen (and Dorsey) in the sense that you can see the foundations of their Floridas in the one Banks writes about. (FWIW, I...

Not going to argue with anything else, but I will say there are some beautiful places in Texas. You just have to drive through some real ugly to get to them. Especially if you're coming from the East ...

Your choice of example makes me feel as though you don't understand your ideas, there. :LOL:

Not without pointing at some sort of how, at least.