Recent content by prabe

Unrelated to the above: I don't think I agree with your definition/s, I don't think my response/s would be helpful. I mean, I think I see what went wrong, but I don't think you want to hear it.

It's funny, the more I read PKD's novels the more I think he should have stuck to short stories.

An even dozen is enough, I agree.

Unrelated to the above: He is not listening to the advice you are trying to give, because you have convinced him that what he wants to do will work. Good job, well done.

Not even this site: What you seem to be describing sounds an awful lot like generals, historically, having been ready to fight the most recent war, not the one they were currently fighting.

Neighbor, you've phrased that question extremely poorly. I will not answer either the question you've asked or the question you've meant to ask, though.

Seems as though if you think those two words are the same thing, the locus of at least some of your problems is clear.

There are so many people like that, here.

Since we're talking numbers, here, I read like 210 books last year, with another ten that I noped out of at some point along the way. (Some of the novels I finished, I might have been happier if I hadn't, but oh comma well.) Most of my reading seems to have been various sorts of crime and...

I have a relatively small stack of library books, and I'm returning a large stack tomorrow. I dunno if we'll walk through and do a browse or not. I also have no idea what book I'm going to read next.

This is intentional, right?

Unrelated to the above (I think): I'm really very curious about how that thread drifted there, but I really don't want to read the process.

As is the tradition in our household, a nigh-miraculous beer instead of sparkling wine. Cheers and all the best for 2026!

If you are wondering if you should leave a TRPG table, you probably should.