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It also plausibly means they see the kind/s of play they expect, especially if their playtesting group is (or overlaps with) their primary gaming group.

Not everyone who finds looser rules less enjoyable is a jerk.

There's a fairly serious hypothesis that the spike in violence of the 1970s-1990s was at least in part because of kinds growing up with extra lead (and other heavy metals--elements, not bands) in the environment. I just recently read a book that made a pretty explicit connection between how...

Fair: I might be wrong about whether and how our preferences overlap, how compatible we'd be at a TRPG table. I think my bigger point is that someone might prefer to game with people who share their preferences, more than they prefer to game with people they actually like.

Ya know, I get the sense you and I have very different preferences, very different things we want from TRPGs. You'd plausibly enjoy their tables more than you would mine. (I am sincerely not offended, and not intending offense.)

On hiking trails, the rule is that the people going uphill have the right of way. That should not be relevant on a paved path such as you seem to be describing.

This concern is a large part of why we don't use this tech.

No, that's an idiot.

Thank you, ghost of George Carlin!

I find that when I drive cross-country, my habits change--often arguably for the better. It sometimes takes a while for them to change back after I get back to Maryland.

I sincerely hope you were crossing it with ...

I have that anthology from the library, got it the same times as the Lansdale collection I'm working through. The Lansdale is more a priority, because it's an interlibrary loan and won't autorenew. I often read planned trilogies and duologies straight through--it's actually my preference--but a...

I appreciate big anthologies of short fiction, and I also enjoy collections--especially ones like the one I'm working my way through as a side project, Joe Lansdale's Lovecraftian stories. Anthologies or collections of longer works, and omnibus collections of, say, novels, can run into the...

While I was being somewhat flippant, I was not snarking. It's a very effective bassline.

You can get a long way by slapping that open E-string.

I just came into a handful of Leiber's Lankhmar books, which I've not read heretofore I'll keep this in mind for the reading order. Thanks tons.

I have a copy of that anthology sitting in my Library Book TPR pile. It's a chonker, but short stories are easier for me to take as smaller pieces than novel chapters (or whatever internal structural parts) are. I'll probably read it as something aside from my "a novel every night I'm not...

Somewhere I have "Sticks" anthologized. Find that and read it. (I can poke around and find out where I have it, if you need.)

I'll stop using Alex in the format when someone else has hosted as many episodes of the show as he did. Or when I'm dead, which will probably happen first.