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All language is jargon, and I'm about to start killfiling people who deprecate it.

I report every one I see, but I doubt it does a bleeping thing.

Is the remake actually about rollerball? Because if it is, it misses the point.

My second will call on you in the morning.

Star Wars may be the worst thing that happened to George Lucas, but it is definitely the worst thing that happened to science fiction film. We'll never get another Silent Running or Rollerball or Zardoz.

"It's the oldest established permanent floating..."

huh huh, you said glory holes

Well, Gary was garying pretty hard that day, so not so much 'advice' as 'a thunderous pronouncement from the Great and Powerful Oz'.

Is it possible yet to have a meaningful campaign without keeping strict time records?

Are Geonee halflings or dwarves?

First you gotta tell me whether or not pizza is a sandwich.

Well, I haven't gurped in a very long time.

Shades of GURPS, where spells are cast from the fatigue system, and a mage has to budget HT as well as IQ and spell skills when building. (In the system from the first printing of GURPS Fantasy. If there are others, I do not want to know about them.)

Along with a metric bleepload of pretentious dicta.

"Do not call up that which you cannot put on hold." - the Necrotelecomicon

Oh man, have you seen RRoO in action? Imagine a bunch of Mensa members playing Nomic and the loser has to buy the next round of drinks. That's how bad it is.

Dostoevsky could spell "imbeciles", too.

Lois McMaster Bujold had a heuristic: "What's the worst thing that could happen to Miles Vorkosigan that he could learn from?". It's not a bad one.

cf. Louie the Liquidator on having a growing share of a shrinking market.