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I really liked The Difference Engine, but it’s really different from anything else I’ve read by either author solo. It goes deeper but not faster. If you’d like to read some 19th century alternate history with super tech that turns out to have a solid physical rationale and radical politics, and...

That’s a very good sign.

I’m not a Sanderson fan and completely uninvested in the Cosmere, but these modifications to 5e are sounding like exactly what I’d like in a “better D&D”. Thanks for rousing my curiosity! If a friend buys in, I’ll have to peer over their shoulder, or something.

I’m this way with so many things. “I don’t know…” “…but I don’t think so.” “…but it seems likely.” “…and I really can’t even guess, thanks to so little evidence[1]/so much conflicting evidence.” [1]: For this purpose, evidence includes personal accounts and other forms of anecdote, because...

Yes. I realize last night that a good companion question would be “How important is your answer to you?” For me, it’s not very important at all. The world is full of things that I personally have no explanation for, and even that the experts have no explanation for, yet. I have confidence that...

Lots of other things are in this condition, too. If you’ve been in love more than once, the experiences probably had some very distinct differences in feeling, but is not feasible (at this point, at least) to render them into anything testable and confirmable. Qualia are really annoying that...

I think a lot of regularly playing rolegamers vastly underestimate the halo of people who have games, may game occasionally, and could game more regularly if something hooked them. I know that among both queer communities and disabled communities, there are a lot of nerds who look forward to...

I’m warming to it gradually. It’s not my favorite, but it works, and when it’s part of an overall good system, I don’t really have significant complaints.

Much thanks! And, um, it’s not like I’m a stranger to imperfect posting, let us say.

Could people please do a little more spelling checking? Several messages have been genuinely incomprehensible thanks to having no solid idea what key words might be.

I would pick an “I don’t know” option. My evaluation of others’ experiences is conflicted enough that I don’t feel comfortable picking either Yes or No.

Some of us trawled the shelves, found the direct-to-video sequels, and put them back, because we respect safety protocols for handling dangerous materials, and because life is too short for movies guaranteed to compare unfavorably to watching wallpaper fade in sunlight when it comes to...

I love both those books. Just fascinating.

For. Wildly different sort of story, there’s Eifelheim, by Michael Flynn. It has two storylines. In the modern day, an interdisciplinary research group pokes at the mystery of how one particular German town got isolated just before the Black Death. The other takes place in the 1340s, as we see...

The doctor says they’re as harmless as freckles on your skin.

Your retinas can have freckles and birthmarks. (My caregiver and I had our annual eye exams today. I don’t have any such retinal features, but she does.)