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I think it’s always been a bit cruel, but I think he’s less sentimental about it. I think Sakai has realised more as he goes along how horrible that era of Japanese history is, and he’s less able to romanticise it as he once did. I’ve got a whole thing comparing Usagi to Judge Dredd about that...

It’s one that’s bare millimetres away from being canon but has never been officially confirmed. The fact that the writers are still struggling with it (and how to deal with Craig Bond being dead) is a sign they should just embrace it.

Most Korean dramas do this pretty well because they’re planned as one season stories and the writers are very clear about the premise and the ending. They can be a bit iffy about the middle, especially if the network wants more episodes. Netflix is actually very good at not doing this. Good...

That is sad, but honestly I think the show was running out of road (as subtly implied in the last episode) and I think I’d like to see Rian Johnson do something else in the same vein if anything. Speaking of which, Wake Up Dead Man is out in less than two weeks! Definitely looking forward to that.

Gotta second Widdershins, it’s fantastic.

Yeah, that’s all fair. The idea that humans are more talented at powers is, of course, highlighted in the Pliocene saga in the first place, though that is used against them to some degree by the Tanu. In RPG terms it’s a little refreshing that humans get +1 psychic power rather than being...

MSH (in 1988); the first was Basic D&D.

Finished Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein, which is about how our author (a Canadian who writes about equality and climate change) sometimes gets confused with Naomi Wolf (an American who went from liberal feminist to far-right conspiracy theorist). She cites a poem from Twitter about the confusion...

The obvious model here is Dogs in the Vineyard, though of course it’s not a OSR/NSR game. You escalate through conflict stages (from talking to fisticuffs to guns) and lethal combat is definitely a fail state - you’re there to resolve the situation and win hearts and minds, not kill parishioners...

I also think this is a good idea - you could definitely take the core of Nimble and do a 4E style game with it, though of course you’d need to do your own work on the Powers etc and so decide what level of complexity and variety you want there. I do think the Powers in 4E are often excellent but...

We’ve now seen Moonrise Kingdom (on Tubi) and it’s excellent, so it’s going in at number 2.

One issue I’ve noticed in restaurant burgers is temperature - everything is well delivered but the only source of heat is the burger, sandwiched between room temperature or colder pickle, lettuce, tomato, and buns, which means that it all tastes a bit cold (and thus less delicious) halfway...

I think a better description of most LLMs would be “small talk simulator”. It’s just trying to predict what the next appropriate sentence should be.

Gosh, that must have been a long time ago - I’ve been eating singles for 45 years. Doesn’t really have a cheddar flavour, more a generically salty orange cheesy flavour, almost closer to a Red Leicester. Edit: apparently individually wrapped singles were introduced in 1965...

Reading it now. It reminds me of D&D Story Mode in its magic system, but I’m not sure about the Perks, which I don’t think are what I’m looking for.

American cheese (or “singles” as we used to call it growing up in Korea) does have a virtue of its own and has ended up incorporated into some Korean home cooking favourites like budae jjigae (“army stew”, which developed from foods you could obtain cheaply, especially from US army PXs, in the...

More like a “I’d like someone to buy me these books, hint hint” list.

I quite liked The Ladies of Grace Adieu, even if it is basically The Witches of Eastwick (but that's no bad thing).

I think that's true of a lot of burger replacements. I rather like the A&W masala burger, it's not a burger in any way but is a lovely curry-flavoured bean-and-potato patty sandwich, halfway to being a vada pav (which are great). I prefer it to any of A&W's actual burger offerings, which are...

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