But Why

[Pavel]

@Coin said in But Why:

are actually a consequence of King Richard the Lionheart’s frivolous and obsessive overspending on the Crusades

I think the main driver would’ve been his ransom rather than the Crusades themselves. But both together would make for a very unhappy populace.

[BloodAngel]

@mietze I second this, Gibson is amazing. If you want a good new cyberpunk book, The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel. So great about sports, and cybernetics at start with, than gets all sorts of amazing!

[somasatori]

@mietze said in But Why:

@De-Villefort were you aware that James Corey is the pen name of two authors writing together. One was more known as a fantasy author, the other was an assistant to a famous fantasy author.

If you’re never read any of William Gibson or Octavia Butler I’d recommend them highly. Gibson especially given he’s a (arguably the( titan of cyberpunk. And is still writing.

Seconding Octavia Butler (and William Gibson)! Her Earthseed books are very salient these days.

I also want to plug Ursula K. Leguin, and everyone should read the book This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

If you want good industrial revolution fantasy (or science fiction in the case of City & the City) check out China Miéville.

N. K. Jemisin’s recent-ish Broken Earth trilogy is a solid choice for science fantasy series.

One really interesting (and deeply sad and challenging) take on the generation ship story was Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts

[Coin]

Incidentally, is anyone else amused by someone using the username “De Villefort” going on about how the only good fiction is the one that isn’t about selfish characters?

I can’t seem to remember what the novel that the name “De Villefort” comes from is about.

[snaps fingers]

It can’t have as one of its themes the obsessive descent of a man driven solely by vengeance for crimes committed against his person…

[Duke Whisky]

So umm…

What’s the anime from the first post? Asking for a friend.

[Gashlycrumb]

But why would anybody want to play Star Trek, where so few people in the Federation setting are ever at risk of anything, and the pain of a stubbed toe can be erased in seconds?

But why does anybody like cake when I prefer pie?

Non-rhetorical question: But why did somebody fork a thread without a link to the thread it was forked from at the top?

[Third Eye]

People Sometimes Play Stuff I’m Not Into. I sometimes play stuff other people aren’t into. The people who aren’t into stuff impact games about that stuff very little (unless they get weird about it, but that seems like a waste of their energy).

[Aria]

@Evilgrayson said in But Why:

You can’t rely on Disney for anything. If you’ve ever read Victor Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame, you’ll know exactly what I mean.

Wait, you mean the farting gargoyles weren’t real?!

[Gashlycrumb]

@Third-Eye Well, there was that business a couple years ago in MSB where it was “But WHYYY should I ever run a game if it’s not possible to completely avoid criticism?” Though that was more in response to me saying that you’re always going to have people playing who don’t like every single thing about the game and say so, not that you’ll have people playing who dislike the core premise of the game.

[Third Eye]

@Gashlycrumb
Oh yeah, doing pretty much anything sometimes feels like it’s setting you up to get shit on for…daring to do a thing in not precisely the way some rando wants. This is just the first time I’ve seen ‘Fantasy, why?’ and idk it was a hell of a ride.

[Gashlycrumb]

@Third-Eye

Fact: If somebody throws shit at you, you don’t have to catch it.

I am pretty unsurprised “fantasy, why?” and yeah, I think it’s pretty reasonable to expect that just about anything will draw some critical remark from somewhere. I am kinda puzzled that people take it so very to heart so very often.

I like opera, sardines, and licorice. (not necessarily all at the same time, but hey) Many people, annoyingly, seem to think I give a fuck that they don’t like those things and that I am interested in hearing them expound upon their dislike at length. I’ve liked opera, sardines and licorice since childhood and it now occurs to me that this may have been excellent training for side-stepping that particular brand of shit-slinging.

ETA: I’m on about randos. My ex commenting about his dislike of sardines and Doctor Who every fucking time I tried to enjoy either of those things is another matter. People who are close to you who insist on yukking your yum all the damn time are up to no good and need a kick.

[catzilla]

[somasatori]

@Aria said in But Why:

@Evilgrayson said in But Why:

You can’t rely on Disney for anything. If you’ve ever read Victor Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame, you’ll know exactly what I mean.

Wait, you mean the farting gargoyles weren’t real?!

I’m losin’ to a bird!

[mietze]

@Aria surely there’s a farting gargoyle somewhere!! don’t they pee and barf on some buildings? if there are no farting gargoyles i’m so sad.

[Gashlycrumb]

@mietze said in But Why:

@Aria surely there’s a farting gargoyle somewhere!! don’t they pee and barf on some buildings? if there are no farting gargoyles i’m so sad.

Now I am ANGRY that DESIGN TOSCANO or some such bullshit does not offer a FARTING GARGOYLE dryer-vent cover.

[Pavel]

@mietze I’m no expert, but this one is definitely farting.

Though I can’t tell if it’s a gargoyle or a grotesque.

[mietze]

yay! sadness abated.

[junipersky]

@Gashlycrumb
The thread was forked because it was a topic started in a thread it added no value to (imo) and so there isn’t a reason for a link to return to the OG thread.

[Gashlycrumb]

@junipersky Yeah. Well, the only reason is that people who’ve not read the original thread are bound to wonder.

[Tez]

I actually didn’t think about it. I am not in the habit of editing threads to add a link to the top, and I would not do so. I post on the original thread most of the time when I do fork content off, though, indicating I have done so and linking to it.