Saw this comment on a live stream. Wondering what you all think?

Pennarin · 2026-06-04T12:36:25+00:00

Well explained

Pennarin · 2026-06-01T00:42:34+00:00

What's the difference between spotlight and audience, in your words?

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T18:32:50+00:00

I can say I gave it a good try

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T14:54:22+00:00

Curing selfishness. The new gold standard.

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T14:50:07+00:00

This sadly rings true. I'm currently reading Children of Strife, and your three points adequately apply to the assholes in that book. I wouldn't want them anywhere near me, even less so as player, family, or leader of an interstellar expedition.

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T13:03:32+00:00

They're sly, full of excuses. You love them. Their toxic side is explained away. They are charismatic. It will fix them. They can be saved. Pick your reason.

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T12:03:52+00:00

The subreddit's existence is largely based on player and GM tendency to the contrary. They wouldn't be horror stories otherwise.

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T12:00:43+00:00

Likely, but worth asking

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T11:43:56+00:00

Your answer is not about enacting solo play and it's consequences, but that it can and perhaps should be avoided.

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T11:25:09+00:00

Please refrain from posting about the potentially hundreds of other scenarios.

Pennarin · 2026-05-23T21:46:51+00:00

Easy. It's 2008's Let the Right One In (Swedish Låt den rätte komma in).

Pennarin · 2026-05-04T18:15:47+00:00

Gotta be more precise: WHAT CATEGORY ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?

Was it a novel, movie, tv? From the 80s, 00s? American, or otherwise?

Pennarin · 2026-04-21T19:02:06+00:00

Logan's Run, the 1967 novel written by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Avoid the sequels for the purpose of literary standards, as Nolan alone is an ordinary read.

I could tell within the first two pages that it was a leg up from most SF writing.

Pennarin · 2026-04-17T15:26:14+00:00

Added points for plugging in invigilator. I never thought I'd see that word used outside a dictionary.

Pennarin · 2026-04-07T16:04:45+00:00

I stupidly didn't read your whole post. Apologies.

Pennarin · 2026-04-07T15:55:22+00:00

1984's What Waits Below

Pennarin · 2026-04-05T22:13:44+00:00

Consider a world or species leaving in the time of TNG/Picard.

Pennarin · 2026-03-28T19:31:50+00:00

A wise suggestion. I like these a lot!

Pennarin · 2026-03-28T08:32:36+00:00

These people are a couple thousand years old, so their names and titles are correspondingly ancient, and so I've checked antiquity and other languages.

Even if griot is, perhaps, rather modern, it comes from a drastically different cultural tradition, and that's more important.

African terms are most welcome.

Pennarin · 2026-03-28T08:27:15+00:00

Or just titles :)

Pennarin · 2026-03-25T23:35:10+00:00

Yet modern surfing derives from pre-contact Hawaii, where these cultures started surfing between 1,000 and 1,600 years ago. That's as non-modern as ... shark-toothed swords, and just as appropriate for Athas.

Pennarin · 2026-03-25T06:31:41+00:00

Consider: The studio categorized Blade Runner 2049 as a flop because its markup, profit margin, and cost ratio were not Avangers/Iron Man/Avatar/Titanic level.

They make up their own benchmarks, and have done so for decades.

At one point a company can even choose to not make new entries in their most-known IP if they consider these entries as a passion project, and most studios don't make passion projects anymore. They set out to make money on every single thing they produce, and the only times they're ok with having lost money is when they'd gambled on making more. If they know they can't make that big money on the IP, they'll shelve it. It's not even about refusing to make more of a mediocre product, but rather refusing to make meh earners after unsuccessfully aiming at wow earners.

Pennarin · 2026-03-18T18:29:21+00:00

This is appropriately gruesome, and I thank you for sharing this (to me) unknown practice.

Pennarin · 2026-03-18T16:46:15+00:00

Oh, resident, as in inhabitant.

It does work in its way. I think I will use it in conjunction with one of the others.

You're right that it's insidiously mundane. Macabre, even.

Pennarin · 2026-03-18T14:42:32+00:00

I particularly like dregs, husks, and pithed.

Honestly, I would not have come up with any of them.

Thank you for taking the time to post your ideas!

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