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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail had so much great stuff. Their limited budget meant that they ended up with coconuts instead of actual...

Yes, it depends on the author. SOMETIMES they just randomly chose blue, but certainly not always. Even leaving aside unconscious...

My current guilty pressure, by the way, is The Traitors. Always up for Alan Cumming vamping out, and the current season has been an...

College criticism courses ask whether the details are important. Contrary to the memes, they don't insist they are.

First session done. (First with people, I'd already played some solo games.) For now I'm still in my CoM shoes (which is a very good...

The amount of stuff that doesn't tell us about the author is extremely small. The fact that authors might be unaware of it, or actively...

"We'd go out of business if we had to obey the law" is a great line. Tells you everything you need to know about “AI” in one go. A whole...

Absolutely. My local Popeye's starts prepping my order sometimes before I've walked in the door. I went to one in Seattle that was...

I never really vibed with City of Mist. However, I am vibing with Legend in the Mist now that I finally got the chance to read through...

"The author liked the people whose names they used" doesn't really hold water, given what we know about who authors include in the...

Yeah. Analysis like this is a literary Rorschach test. There's nothing solid there to grab onto but you're supposed to "see" something...

My wife and I have a short list of shows that, at the moment, we are going through. When we complete one, we add another. That way, we...

Off the top of my head I'd say Raiders of the Lost Ark as well. I don't know how you do what that movie's doing any better than how it...