I had a nice one. I had a psychic diamond. My players were complaining that the diamond had low ac, and reflex but high will and fort. That's the night I found out one of my players was material science major and works in such a field.

Social media?

Necessary evil and fun distraction. I enjoy it and see its usefulness, but I've always looked at it as a dinner party. Don't say anything on any of these platforms that you wouldn't say at a dinner party.


Also, I just did 100 reps and have a huge boner!

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I'll admit, I'm a much bigger SF fan than fantasy. But, there is some fantastic fantasy out there. Steven Erikson - if you like doorstop sized books - is bloody fantastic, although I felt the last couple of books in the series were not as good. China Mieville is also fantastic.

I really, really want to like classic fantasy like Robert Howard or ER Burroughs, but, jeez, I just wish I could read the stories without feeling like I have to wash out my eyeballs afterwards. Great ideas, fantastic settings then BAM! White supremacist fanfic. Yeesh.

Yes, I realize it's a part of the times. And, if I were studying the works as an academic exercise, I'd probably not care as much. But, I'm reading for pleasure, not a dissertation. And I really, REALLY don't enjoy the bigotry, racism and sexism that these books just drip with.

My personal favorite is ER Burrough's The Land that Time Forgot. Facinating Lost World where the inhabitants evolve thoughout their lifetime - they start as dinosaurs, and as they bathe in these pools around the island, they begin to evolve. So, as you go around the island you move from dinosaurs to megafauna to cavemen to "tribal" human to, you guessed it, white people as the pinacle of evolution. Heck, if you evolve past white people, you become vampiric super bats.

Yeesh.

Burroughs has a LOT of that. Howard not as much (still there) but I can at least pass him off as 'it was different back then'. Burroughs, not so much. He really seemed to be getting of on the great white man thing. Lovecraft doesn't have much but when he does it's pretty bad too. But I hear ya, I have a hard time with it myself.

I'm always surprised when someone recommends Steven Ericson. His books are full of interesting ideas and set pieces, but they are strung together seemingly at random. They are sort of like a novelization of someone’s RPG campaign. Which, from what I've heard, they kind of are.

Is anyone else concerned about how obsessed Chad, John, and Pat are with Chris's Penis?

I'm a little concerned at your lack of obsession.

You've articulated these thoughts much more cogently than I've ever been able to. Well done.

I hate all phones. Including, even especially, my phone.

I fucking love my pocket internet device.