The Alpha-Omega rulebook definitely had unmatched production value; but I could never get into the rules-system; which always appeared complicated to the point where my eyes would just glaze over and I'd go back to looking at the pretty pictures.

Fussy as Gibson might sound in his comments, I more or less agree with him. I dig the cyberpunk / heist job aspect of Shadowrun; and I can get behind the magic, too; and the well-intentioned (if misplaced?) nod at Native culture.

Hang on a minute there, CJ. There's nothing wrong with childlike giddiness. I'm just getting used to having mine back, approaching middle-age, after it was taken from me when I was Tiffany Aching's age. The world may often be dreadful, but I'd rather laugh at it than be crushed by it.

I suspect it's due to a combination of factors.

Nice. I really enjoyed Legacy. And I like Kosinski's work in general; so this is exciting news.

No worries. I probably came off snarkier than I intended in my original post. I really don't mean to piss on work that hasn't even been started yet. I guess I'm just kind of jaded in my old age. It's always basically the same 5 or so superheroes / teams. Batman, Superman, Spiderman, X-Men, and Avengers... (which…

No, not if the books have never been adapted for film before. I'd just like to see some different properties on the silver screen, instead of the same 5 superheroes reheated and recycled ad infinitum.

But it was original precisely because it was taking a different spin on well-established tropes. Basically all fiction includes well-established tropes. Originality is in how you use them. Of course, you're right; it can and has been done in the superhero genre as well, which is where you get stories like Kick-Ass,…

Off the top of my head? The Stainless Steel Rat series by Harry Harrison. Or The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester, or any of hundreds of other stories in all sorts of genres. In short, if it were up to me, I'd simply take a chance on something unknown, instead of trying to turn absolutely everything into a…

I really liked Cabin in the Woods, and thought Drew Goddard did an incredible job. But here's the thing: I liked it because it was Original. Because it was quite specifically not a reboot of something that's already been done to death—because it took aim right at films that have been done to death. Spiderman is one…

I... don't know what to say. Rest in Peace Mr. Nimoy. You were a formative influence in my childhood, and you will be missed. I hope you lived long, and prospered while you were here.

Does anyone else love that his last name is Gordon? I say they should make him Police Commissioner...

Not to mention, his heart, and maybe his balls.

I dunno... as a guy, I've definitely experienced the feeling of thinking a woman was attracted to me when it turned out she wasn't, but I also know I've missed a lot of chances for fun & romance when the opposite was true. Now that I'm older, I just tend to assume that women aren't interested unless they give some…

What an amazing man. We'll all miss him when he's gone, but he's absolutely right: faced with impending mortality—a situation that ultimately we are all in—we must live life to the utmost; strip away what is unessential, or which takes us away from our full humanity and the people who make our lives not only…

Fair enough. If only a simple "yes or no" is required, I'd definitely go with a "yes."

I can't say I'm great at math, but just intuitively, it seems like the monk would occupy roughly the same point on the mountain at the same time each day, at 1:00 pm, 6 hours from his starting point and ending point on each day. Yes, it says that he sometimes stops and takes breaks, but you could also assume that…

Hmm. I thought I was done with spy movies, but that does look fun.

I don't think meerkatdon was trolling, or missed the point. As someone who doesn't know a whole lot about mainstream comics, I found his comment really helpful as background. None of it diminishes what Whitbrook had to say, of course; it's just another perspective.

Well said! Kind of a corollary to Moff's Law. Spot on.