I see where he's coming from on writing in other people's worlds. You can't really grow as a writer by taking characters and settings and using them in your own tales. Well, not as much as you grow by creating your own stories from scratch anyway.

Since creating cultures is such a huge part of fantasy epics, I can't really fault a guy for not having a PhD in Anthropology. Getting creative with that sort of thing can only go so far if you don't have a serious background in studying various cultures. At some point you have to start tossing in what real world…

I think that's a superb way of going about writing. I have never had the pleasure of DMing or really even playing a tabletop game, but I would tackle all of my forum RPGs the same way. Know where you want things to end up (but not the end itself; your players are writers too in FRPGs) and the big moments in the…

If that isn't inspirational, I don't know what is.

They say Dwarven women are indistinguishable from the men, primarily because both sexes can so easily grow luscious, full beards.

There were a couple hundred more words in this article than absolutely necessary, I think.

I will say it's good to know that we are now discovering so many within that zone, however. Gives us somewhat better odds of finding a life-sustaining planet.

I always wondered why everyone made such a fuss over exoplanets for this exact reason.

Whoa, that was unexpected.

As long as they don't make it as drawn out as in this episode, totally cool with that.

YOU MISSED OUT ON EVERYTHING

I went the villain route, because the thing that eventually defeats them usually feels like handwavium.

I imagine the layperson knows that it is reflection, but probably does not know how to differentiate that from what is seen in the mirror as being "flipped" other than "words are reversed one way, not the other".

It's fairly recent and was the first thing I thought of when I saw this article. I assumed it was somehow inspired by that strip.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume he was pulling everyone's leg.

EXPLAIN EXPLAIN

Our weather cannot make up its mind, that's what. I'd be ready to get the hell out of here too.

Scott Pilgrim doesn't count because he had an extra life.

More mecha is just fine with me!

Didn't Instagram say "Oops, that's not what we meant!" just yesterday?