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I never understood why that is a criticism ... I mean, yeah, that was the point. Stripping everything away from Ripley, letting her feel the pointlessness of all her effort, and then find out what she's left with (which is the will to kill the Xeno for good and don't hand it to the company that...

Well, you make a lot of very good points about Alien and Aliens! Of course, I don't agree with you about 3, but I also won't change your mind about that and I can kind of see your point (maybe it's similar to why Aliens doesn't quite work for me - I don't really believe in its characters, though...

Well, they say kill your darlings, right? I think that Vincent Ward and David Fincher weren't really thinking about Alien3 in terms of being the stewards of a franchise (After all, apart from maybe Bond and Star Trek, these sprawling franchises with ten or more movies and a streaming series on...

Wait, hear me out before you shove me out of the next airlock! Alien is a very unsettling movie for several reasons: Mostly for it's gruesome depiction of pregnancy, but also for depicting workplace relations in a pretty realistic way ... the people aboard the Nostromo don't necessarily like...

I'll just say it: Alien3 is my favourite next to Alien. I know that Fincher disowned it, but it's the one that breaks the mould in several ways, and for me it was a course correction after Aliens, which is a great movie, but just a little to feelgood. I re-watched the series with my wife a while...

I was wondering that as well ... though in the beginning, it behaves pretty much the way we are used to, skulking around, waiting for the opportunity to pick off one or two at a time, probably not hunting a lot beyond what it wants for food or as hosts or because it feels threatened. (that's...

SotS is very different from Fronds - it is very tightly focussed on one night and a few urban locations. But it is pretty freeform, as well. You get a mission - protect Mungis Bohn without him noticing it while he enjoys himself at a folk fest -, but how you go about it is up to you. There's...

Which makes me think: I'd love to see the big corporate f*-up that must have taken place between Alien and Aliens. I mean, even before Alien, people at WY knew about the creature and were ready to do a LOT to get their hands on it. Then the Nostromo is lost in space/blown up, WY has lost a...

I think that particular question already has been kind of answered (the boy genius wants to see their reaction and actually doesn't care that much whether they live or die), it's just an answer that doesn't quite ring true to me. Still, I do think you're right; most of the first two episodes...

Still not sure after the first two episodes. I like how it plays with the themes of the series - humans as prey creatures, and of course the whole "crew expandable" thing. I like how it plays into the series canon - I imagine WY won't get their hands on the aliens in the end, but quite...

It's incredible how much play I got out of Fronds of Benevolence - by now, I've run about five wildly different adventures with it. It remains one of my favourite RPG books of all time (I reviewed it here).

Season of the Snail for Troika! written by ... me! Sorry, I'm just too damn proud of publishing with Melsonian Arts Council to not mention it.

I guess it all comes down to that some think that everything unfolds following the inevitable and quasi-natural laws of business, so there's nothing to talk about. While others think that it's a topic worth talking about, worth taking action about, and that it's generally worth helping people.

I don't have a problem with publishers printing books - and I'd prefer GR getting these books back to sell them themselves, instead of Diamond selling them off for a song, forcing GR to reprint and o/orquickly push out more product (if they can) to stay in business. I just prefer the idea that...

I kind of get the sentiment, though I don't share it. I gave (a little ...) to GR, because I like who they are and what they represent, but I'm not very interested in any of their products. I mean, we actually ask publishers to manipulate us into buying their stuff: "If you want me to chip in...

How is asking their fans for help "dumping" it on them? As far as I am concerned, even if you f-ed up, it's perfectly fine to say: "Look, this went really badly for me, can you help me out?" After all, I'm free to say "No, I'm really sorry that has happened to you, but it's not my problem." As I...

Well, I think when someone claims that the only relevant perspective on a problem is a lawful neutral one, they should expect some pushback.

this is ... absurd. The word malicious has meaning beyond its legal definition. There's a difference between legal and legitimate. If there wasn't, criticism of existing law would be impossible, because there would be no ethical grounding for it. You have it absolutely, dangerously backward...

@Thread title: Nothing specific, really, as far as I am concerned. There's an enormous diversity of RPG products, and I can usually find what I want. Play is limited by my available free time, however, I have little interest in material that abbreviates play (including preparation), because...

Millenium had this really weird change in tone - it got way more supernatural in season 2, only to become more mundane again in season 3. I think overall, I'd agree that season 1 st andvery effective as it is, and it feels slightly cheapened by season 2. Still, I do like both season 2 and season 3.