Club of two, at least. I really don't understand the antipathy a lot of people have toward songs like "When I'm Sixty-four", "Your Mother Should Know", "Honey Pie", and "Martha My Dear". I think every one of those is quite good. But then, I like that kind of music.

I think I prefer Sgt. Pepper but just by a hair. They're both masterpieces and deserve every bit of acclaim they've received.

I'd join in this little quoting game, but I have to go out to canvas the town and brush the backdrop.

Upvoted because, while there are in fact worse songs, Kokomo is not only truly awful but has the audacity to claim to be by the Beach Boys. The other day a friend put it on, saying "Oh, you'll like this, it's the Beach Boys". Oy vey!

Days of Future Passed is a severely underrated album. It's probably my second favorite album of all time, after Abbey Road. I suppose some people think the orchestral sections are corny; I think they're perfect. It's far more of an actual concept album than most, too, with the songs simultaneously progressing…

2E is my home as well. Its design philosophy is, I think, most consistent with what I want: give the DM a ton of options and tools to let them run whatever kind of game they want. Nowadays there seems to be an assumption that if something is in an official source, you have to use it. That's quite foreign to me. I…

I mean, GURPS is conceptually pretty simple. Everything is 3d6 vs. a skill. That's way more streamlined than TSR-era D&D, and certainly no more complex than WotC-editions where everything is 1d20 + modifier vs. difficulty. GURPS has a ton of options, but they can pretty much all be turned off to give you a light…

Yeah, DMing is a bit like teaching, actually, in that you have to do a lot of preparation, remember a lot, really understand the material/rules, be able to think on your feet and fluently answer questions, and be in charge, keeping everyone focused. One of the greatest compliments I've received was from a high school…

My mom is actually the person who got me into D&D, when I was like 7 or 8. I loved The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and my uncle, who had played D&D in college, suggested it to my mom as something I'd like. She bought me the Mentzer red box, learned the game with me, and was my DM for a good while. All I'm…

I can sort of see the appeal of FATE, but for me, it (and other narrativist-type games) just kind of runs counter to what I want in an RPG. I'm too much of a simulationist for the whole aspect thing to work for me.

4E was fine if you were interested in what it was interested in: long, involved tactical combats. But the mechanics were built around combat to such an extent that running a game with less focus on combat meant ignoring most of the mechanics most of the time - and when you do get into a combat, it ends up sucking up…

I'm still running AD&D 2nd edition in the same custom campaign world I've been using since the early '90s. Well, there was a several-year interruption in there, but I've been running a great campaign for two friends for the past four years.

Other than D&D, the games I love are GURPS (Generic Universal Role-Playing System) and the old D6 Star Wars.

Oh no, they're not going to be fair and balanced anymore! They might let some political bias creep in somehow…

I know! I can't even tell whether I'm supposed to be an angry black muslim or an effete white intellectual. (All right, all right. I'm commenting on the AV Club. I'm an effete white intellectual).

There's little worse than getting excited because someone tells you they're a jazz fan, only for them to then say that their favorite is smooth jazz.

Yeah, for a while now I've been convinced that Trump has no principles, no opinions, and no thoughts of more than infantile complexity, other than the absolute certainty that he is the best at everything. He is a completely hollow shell. There's nothing there. He's not evil, any more than cancer is evil, because he…

Trump is actually a pretty convincing proof of the holographic principle. He's quite clearly a two-dimensional surface with no depth.

Also calling it an "inappropriate comment". It was a misogynistic joke. Call it that.

Perhaps I should have said that I've never seen a leftist who is not obviously crazy praise Putin. But yeah, scrolling down a bit shows me that such people do exist.