Search results

If some new pizza joint describes their pizza using a word, do you think it's more likely they're using that word the way people who haven't studied pizza use it, or the way some Pizza Genius on the Internet used it more than a decade ago?

Smugly pretending you don't understand what people mean, and continuing to talk at them when they've told you outright they're not interested: That's a great look.

I've heard decent things about Hero Forge's standees--but if you need the 3D-ness, that'll still be lacking.

The category is almost certainly at least slightly different, but board games are coming with more and more elaborate miniatures--more both in terms of numbers and elaborateness--especially the ones with Kickstarter campaigns. Maybe there's more expectation that a given table is only going to...

I think the most I've been surprised by a recent Scalzi book was when I started book one of a trilogy not knowing it was book one of a trilogy. It came clear well before I was through the book that there were arcs not ending in that volume. (Not the way I prefer to deal with planned trilogies...

Ya know, there are some games where my priority as a player would be to arrange for the most spectacular deaths for my character. That's one--I could even point to the player advice in my own defense. :LOL:

After like five or ten pages, if the thread is still active it's probably no longer about the topic in the title/OP. If it keeps going after that, it's almost certainly going to drift toward one of the standing arguments here, and at this point (or that point) I'm out. If someone has a pretty...

Man, every time I see that phrase in that context, it makes me giggle.

I'm back in something like my rhythm for reading. Last three books: Secret Identity by Alex Segura, a neatly noirish mystery, set in the comics industry in NYC in 1975, when both NYC and the comics industry looked as though they were circling the drain, laden with queerness and feminism and...

I do not believe that what you are positing is plausible, or frankly possible.

It definitely seems like a success on some sort of check--since this is more like pattern recognition (Intelligence, in my thinking) though,I think it'd need to be either under INT(Insight) or INT(Investigation). At my table, I'd probably allow the player to choose. :LOL:

Not connected to the above: That's ... a couple of remarkably reasonable posts, in pretty close sequence. Are you feeling OK? Should we start checking the closets for pods?

Dunno about radio programs, but that's the gameplay of Balderdash. :LOL:

That's "When the Tigers Broke Free," from the movie of The Wall, it does seem as though the name stuck long after muskets had been obviated as military weapons; and "cannonaded colonnades" was a phrase in a song Brian Wilson presented to the Beach Boys when he was trying to get Smile recorded...

True, but it's usually obvious if someone uses a word without knowing what it means--reaching for "colonnade" when you mean "cannonade", for instance. I've seen someone in a published book reach for "mortified" and land on "mollified." (Without looking the words up, "fusilier" is IIRC something...

Use two words together and tell me you don't know what they mean, without telling me you don't know what those two words mean.

Ya know, I'm pretty sure you're responding to something other than what they said.

Again, been a while, because life has persisted in being weird, but the last three books: There Will Be Stars by Billy Coffey: Groundhog Day crossed with Jacob's Ladder in the mountains of western Virginia with an ending that's almost as big a cop-out as What Dreams May Come, attempts at making...

And I am--I hope this is clear--not really arguing with you hard. It'd be nice to live with a language that maintained some of the distinctions I fine interesting and/or useful, but I live with English. :LOL: The fact I worked recording audiobooks for fifteen years, in a circumstance where we...

Maybe. If usage hasn't maintained it, the vast majority of users haven't found it to be worth doing so, yes. But I'm someone who'll make a point of the difference between forte and forte, so I'm almost certainly an outlier on this. :LOL: