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The GM and the players have different jobs, but the GM creates/decides on the world and all the things the player can choose from to make their characters in my game, and in traditional games in general. Perhaps you don't run games that way, and that's fine, but it's all just preferences at the...

Does the game actually state that the whole point of play is to provide compelling fiction?

You're probably right. I find the best way to find players that suit your tastes is to make them. Provide a good introduction to your interests, focusing on the positives without ignoring the negatives. It helps if you'd rather be the GM than the player anyway. It also helps if you're willing to...

Not sure what type of "uncommon tastes" you're talking about. Can you provide an example or two?

Seemed less intense. I suspect it was the "ghost" of his original personality, or maybe some leftover from the politician's presence in the network.

The Congress women's good-hearted personality was being shared with the mind controlled. Without her, they were basically empty automatons.

Oh, I am. The entire game philosophy rubs me the wrong way. Worse than PBtA for me (I can and have got behind playing that at least, if not running it).

I see no reason why any given player's desire to play exactly what they feel like needs to override setting logic. If I make a setting where a particular combination doesn't work, it's because that's the setting and the campaign I want to run. I can be flexible if it doesn't matter to what I'm...

But it does make logical sense to avoid unnecessary consequences. Seeking such things out doesn't fit setting logic the majority of the time.

Worldbuilding and believability are much more important to me than making sure every possible heritage and class is available and every combination is represented. Players can almost always find something they like in the available options.

Exactly. Subsystems help different situations in the fiction feel different mechanically, and aid in simulation by providing different modeling tools for different situations.

Captain Christopher Pike. Paladin to a fault.

Yeah, I really have no idea what John Wick was thinking with that game. To say nothing of the cluster that Kickstarter turned into.

We have that problem here too. Too many kinds of recyclable materials can't actually be recycled by many existing facilities, so most stuff just ends up in the landfill anyway.

All agreed. Reprints are good (I'm waiting for Starships and Speeders myself), but they could be doing so much more. The line has lain fallow for far too long.

I'd certainly like to more done with the line than just reprints. But it's certainly playable as is. Also curious as to what "updated" means to you.

FFG Star Wars was specifically designed to cover all aspects of the franchise, and I think it pretty much handles it fine. Also, a good 5e derivative with appropriate subsystems can IMO do the same.

Really interested in how that turns out for you!

Eventually, as this sort of thing becomes more and more ubiquitous, I expect everyone is going to have to decide how much AI they can accept in their hobby, and likely the rest of their lives.

Yeah, it's simply more cost-effective, unfortunately. I expect we'll be seeing more and more AI, across every aspect of creative media and beyond.