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• Commented on New publication dates (and audiobook news)
  The printing out and writing on pages thing was super useful when I was running some of the published adventures for The Laundry Files a few years back. They took quite a bit of proofing for consistency, and I also...
• Commented on New publication dates (and audiobook news)
  Physical RPG books. Gods, yes. So many of the PDFs are such a pain in the ass to use. I tab and flag the hell out of the edges of my 3.5 Player's Handbook, and can easily change my setup...
• Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
  More non-WEIRD tales in Nnedi Okorafor's wonderful Binti stories, and N K Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy which starts with The Fifth Season (a fairly brutal first volume, but a really good read.)....
• Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
  I've enjoyed the non-WEIRD characters in Becky Chambers' 2 books, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, and the sequel. Third one coming mid 2018......
• Commented on Just plain icky
  Not sure why, but this: "What if the practical limit on human lifespan becomes tolerance for pain versus the hypertensive effect of long term analgesics?" Immediately brought Gilliam's Brazil to mind....
• Commented on Sad Trombone Exoplanet Reality Check
  I commend the book Central Station by Lavie Tidhar unto you....
• Commented on What are you reading this summer?
  Oh, yes, please. Especially with an opening like that....
• Commented on What are you reading this summer?
  I enjoyed Snow Crash, and just loved Diamond Age. I've never managed to get through his Baroque Cycle. I think the third part of Seveneves was certainly the weak point of the book. I found the transition from part 2...
• Commented on What are you reading this summer?
  The Foreigner series is trilogies all the way down. I just finished Seveneves, and I remain ambivalent about Stephenson's stories....
• Commented on What are you reading this summer?
  I had a friend recommend the Foreigner series highly, and when I gave him a quizzical look after I finished the first volume, he explained that it was just the first in the first trilogy. I was much happier by...
• Commented on Updating a classic
  When new hires deploy builds, be sure it's after 5pm on Friday....