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Yeah I don't get why beyond that it's very "topical", very pandemic/post-pandemic, and maybe they've never read one of his books that asks the same questions but better? It's genuinely accidentally hilarious at the end because it's downright "The Scary Door"-esque.

I'd blame the pandemic but it was released in 2024, and Ogres, which was released in 2022, much closer to the pandemic, is also much better. Maybe he has a long tail of books he's working on? He is very prolific. And yeah it's striking because it's common themes for him, but just really not...

If only! System Shock is, as fiction, quite superior to this. And System Shock is not exactly amazing, story-wise. Re: SHODAN, The whole thing was wild to me because he told a story with similar themes ("What is humanity, which humanity deserves to exist?") with Ogres (which was also short...

Oh god the yachting crews. That was so implausible I'd mentally put it as being in another book. Yes I found that out later and it did make me ask questions. Technologically most of what's going on seems to be like 1700s at latest, but then luxury-wise, it seems like there's a lot of stuff...

I feel like this is an un-usefully overbroad definition of "use a platform", I think you should have to have at least actively used it in say, the last six months. Like, I have a Facebook account, have I posted on Facebook in the last five years? No. Have even looked at Facebook in the last six...

I must sadly kinda disrecommend Adrian Tchaikovsky's Saturation Point. It's the only book of his I've read that I would say was actually "not good". Not like "average" or "mediocre", but like, not worth your time. And it's not even long! It's sad because the fundamental concept of the book is...

That won't work - it's going to be an ignore thing. A few months ago something broke with two-way ignore and threads. It used to be that everyone could see and post in a thread regardless of who started it (they'd always see the initial post), which served to prevent duplicate threads and keep...

It's unclear. There's no "arc plot" per se - there's significant character development, there are central mysteries of the setting which get somewhat uncovered in the second book, and the world is changing (for the better and worse) - but the books are standalone mystery novels in a very wild...

Indoctrination theory doesn't really enhance ME3 or the ME series for me, but some significant level of indoctrination is the only possible Watsonian (i.e. in-setting) explanation for a lot of strange things that happen in ME3, particularly those relating to Shepard's behaviour. Unfortunately...

My brother has been trying to get us to play this for ages, hoping we can in January maybe. Reading-wise I've recently read finished two extremely good books, and am most of the way through a pretty interesting one. So I read The Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett...

Wild that first edition has like, by far the strongest of those covers, visually and that isn't just nostalgia talking because I'd forgotten that was what it looked like, and had to go check it really was! (Unusually modern-looking for the era) I do appreciate 4th's visual nods to 1st though...

I was skeptical re: the title but in 1985? Yeah I have no doubt whatsoever that that was true. Pendragon was still one of the coolest-looking RPGs when I started buying RPGs in 1989/1990 (though soon beaten out in pure aesthetics by WoD, particularly 2E WoD).

Yeah I was like "But but but...". They were 100% right if they said that! D&D was within inches of at least belonging to a bankrupt company and probably ceasing production for at least a while. WotC buying it and doing what they did was, and I really hate to say this, almost an act of charity...

Not only that, but it was a fluke the studio decided not to follow up on with a sequel. The reasons for that can be discussed separately, but it's almost irrelevant - it just points to how IP licencing has become increasingly unpopular over the last 20 years, and how much difficulty WotC...

I didn't want to derail your thread is why I said that. If you're happy for it to be derailed, I have more detailed ideas on how it could work and what the potential issues might be. The biggest issue is likely that you'd need to support an official app across multiple platforms for the lifetime...

You could definitely have a much more complex TTRPG now if you wanted to now, that ran fast, so long as you mechanically interacted with it via an app/VTT. But that's a whole other discussion.

I think the three seasons of foreshadowing was probably enough.

Only one? Haha. Oh my god there are so many. Let's just do three for now. Triangle Agency is top of my list as "I'd like to play" (don't really want to run, sounds hard!) This is one is easy, haven't presented it to the players, am trying to convince the other guy who DMs to run it lol. SWADE...

That's not actually completely impossible, it's just incredibly rare. I went to school with a kid whose mother was Japanese, and whose father was Welsh, and he had precisely and exactly those features aside from a "copper" skin tone (but I wonder what your source is for that - she's consistently...

I mean, but presumably you do know he's described as having relatively darker skin than we'd consider "white"? And dark hair and initially dark eyes? Or is this one of these "Rue"-type situations where some part of the audience hears "tan skin" or "brown skin" and just thinks he's a white with a...