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I Rolled A Zero: The SUE Files: Theorycrafting takes A Hundred Skill Checks
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I Rolled A Zero. Stories of awful RPGs. Click Properly Ordered Posts for a more sensible, albeit outdated, list of content. Monday, March 10, 2014. The SUE Files: Theorycrafting takes A Hundred Skill Checks. Really looking forward to being able to quit flying around the country. For now, though, have some more meta-setting drivel. Now how do the good little nightmares-of-the-gods guard against Suedom? Additionally, there's problems with the commonness of everyone dreaming; we might want some kind of filt...
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Asking the Wrong Questions: Embassytown by China Miéville
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Asking the Wrong Questions. Sunday, November 27, 2011. So China Miéville has written a science fiction novel, and it is. well, it is many things, but perhaps we'll start with "Old School." Miéville is the author who took the top off fantasy ten years ago, and his next to last novel, The City and The City,. Another possible reason that the stakes in Embassytown. Never seem as high as they ought to be is that Language never feels as believable, or as thought out, as Miéville and his characters insist it is...
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Asking the Wrong Questions: Ten
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Asking the Wrong Questions. Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Today, July 14th 2015, marks the tenth anniversary of this blog's creation. Just writing that down amazes me. This is where I'm supposed to say that when I started this blog I had no idea that I'd still be keeping it up a decade later, but the truth is that Asking the Wrong Questions. S stats, especially over the last year, and it's hard not to look at those numbers and wonder whether I'm not slowly becoming a dinosaur. The Cabin in the Woods. And the r...
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Asking the Wrong Questions: Watson, I Need You: Thoughts on Elementary's First Season
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Asking the Wrong Questions. Friday, May 24, 2013. Watson, I Need You: Thoughts on Elementary. Last fall, that the show is little more than a more dour version of Castle. With the NYPD inexplicably allowing a civilian to tag along and even take point on all their murder cases. And yet, here we are in the spring, and Elementary. It's almost a physical relief, then, to come to Elementary. It is a conundrum," and "I shall keep you apprised of my progress via email" (there simply can't be enough said in prais...
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Asking the Wrong Questions: "I Thought I Was Alone": Thoughts on Sense8
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Asking the Wrong Questions. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. I Thought I Was Alone": Thoughts on Sense8. You could probably run an interesting poll among genre fans to see which ones find the elevator-pitch description for Netflix's new show Sense8. And tedious ones ( Jupiter Ascending. Was cause for some concern, if also no small amount of curiosity. But Straczynski, best-known for the formally innovative but cliché-ridden and self-satisfied Babylon 5. Defied these lowered expectations. It is a mess, and it ...
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Asking the Wrong Questions: The Revengers' Tragedy: Thoughts on the Fifth Season Finale of Game of Thrones
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Asking the Wrong Questions. Tuesday, June 16, 2015. The Revengers' Tragedy: Thoughts on the Fifth Season Finale of Game of Thrones. Yesterday afternoon, before I'd watched the final episode of Game of Thrones. S fifth season, I read this essay. By Aaron Bady about the show, in which he argues that it has overshot its natural ending point, and therefore no longer has anything to say:. More importantly, in the background of this story, Martin was setting up an epic battle for survival between humanity and ...
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I Rolled A Zero: On Stranger Aeons: Some Thoughts on Cthulhutech
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I Rolled A Zero. Stories of awful RPGs. Click Properly Ordered Posts for a more sensible, albeit outdated, list of content. Tuesday, October 15, 2013. On Stranger Aeons: Some Thoughts on Cthulhutech. I can see, now, why Marty so loves Cthulhutech. That leaves the stupidity. Let's start with a quote off their website:. CthulhuTech is now a truly unique hybrid of genres – cosmic horror, anime, post-apocalypse, traditional horror, and science fiction blended together seamlessly. Despair is another tricky em...
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