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At least here in the United States, we have a fairly long history of relegating stories about gay people into the adult category. Years ago, I remember Roger Ebert complaining about a movie he reviewed being rated R. He noted the lack of foul language, nudity, violence, and explicit sex...

I don't know if they still do, but Walmart used to refuse to sell albums with the Parental Advisory stickers on them. They'd sell the clean version of the album, but not the regular version, and this was back when Walmart was the largest music retailer in the United States, so it really...

Have the bats released a statement yet?

That looks like something that would have fit into Disney's The Black Hole! Nice!

I'm working on getting my group to play in 1920s Arkham, MA or perhaps the Two-Headed Serpent. Hopefully we'll be able to try Japan in the future.

I might be an outlier here, but how strong is the desire to have official D&D or PF2 monsters in miniature form? I realize that might sound rich coming from a guy with the Wizkid's Beholder as his avatar here, but even though I paint tons of miniatures, miniatures I use for D&D, I don't think...

There are more places in Great Britain then London? I'm still recovering from learning there were places other than the United States during the Victorian Era, so I don't know if I'm ready for this kind of mind expanding knowledge.

I'm not completely surprised by this given the Transformers and GI Joe games released in recent years. It's a more appropriate choice for the subject of an RPG than Deathstalker at least. I did not expect PCs to be able to join the Mutants though. That's a surprise.

I agree. It's hard to envision anyone else as Genghis Khan after John Wayne's stellar performance in The Conqueror. As a general rule, I don't have a big problem with replacing actors. At least not most of the time, especially when decades have passed since the original. Would I have...

It's been a few years since I've been to a Red Robin, but I found both their burgers and their fries to be somewhat lackluster. They were serving up endless fries but I didn't bother asking for me.

I didn't either. I was today years old when I learned there were sequels. I've never seen Scanners, but I remember seeing it for rent from the local video store as well as the occasional clip of scenes with people's heads exploding. As someone who watched a lot of bad movies in the 1990s, how...

I think it's hard to go wrong with French fried potatoes no matter the specific style. It's like discussing which is better, Alien or Aliens, Star Wars or The Empire Strikes Back, or Blade Runner or Blade Runner 2049. No matter which one you pick, I'm not going to try to talk you out of it...

A sweet potato isn't actually a potato, rather it's a distant relative. They're in the same order as the potato, but a different family and genus. They don't really belong on this list because they're no more a French fry than tater tots are. Though at least tater tots are made from actual...

I never liked tater tots. I said what I said.

I can't possibly choose one fry over the other. But I can put sweet potato fries at the bottom of the list. Everything else is tied for first.

My sister was in the US Navy, aviation, and when she saw Coop hop in the ship at the end of the movie to rescue Brand she said, "I can believe a lot of things, but don't tell me he can just jump into a brand new spaceship and automatically know how to pilot it." It's always funny how we have...

I took a Gender & Science Fiction class as an undergraduate, and we read some letters from the 1930s about how ill suited women were to writing "scientifiction." For some critics, it was specifically because they found women focused on the human aspects instead of the technical aspects of the...

It's not really a big problem though. The important thing about Frankenstein isn't that you can't revivify a corpse via some chemically induced process, it's the philosophical implications of doing so along with how we treat our created life and really defines the story.

There's a long running debate about what makes a good science fiction story. For some, the science must be accurate otherwise you have a fantasy, but I think that's too rigid. You can make a good science fiction story that has some fantastical elements such as faster-than-light travel or even...

I'm trying to think of any RPGs where combat is an even risk. But then who the heck in their right mind tries to get into a fight when the odds are 50/50? Cyberpunk 2020 is fairly deadly, but the player characters are very often better trained and better equipped than their enemies, so not...