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For whatever it's worth, I read Agency and it worked well as a standalone, not knowing it was part of a triology. The Pattern Recognition trilogy, similarly, work as individual books, if I remember correctly (it's been a few years).

I must not miss the point I must not miss the point I must not miss the point

You could absolutely curate such a list from the Cypher Core Rulebook, but I admit that'd be some work. IIRC, the Core Rulebook has sections about such games.

We were contractors for the Library of Congress. We were required to use correct pronunciations (where "correct" meant from specific sources).

When I worked recording audiobooks, we played that kind of game with pronunciations.

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.