Critical Role's Brennan Lee Mulligan ditched D&D's dice in Campaign 4: no roll needed because a PC monologue was "too good." Performance now overrides actual gameplay. This isn't D&D. It's scripted celebrity theater pretending to be gaming. They. Don't Really. Play.

Alanah Pearce has said she worked full-time for four years on God of War: Laufey but left in late 2024 and is no longer involved at all. “So here’s the God of War game I spent four years writing.” When asked how involved she was with the project, Pearce replied: “I worked on it full-time for four years, so thousands upon thousands of hours of involvement. I wrote characters, levels, story beats, dialogue, etc. But I left in late 2024 and the work they’re doing now is much harder. I’m currently not involved at all, and plenty of my work will have been replaced.” I guess she wrote another cook book

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!! WHAT?!!!

''Bro just go read some books'' Meanwhile the newest James Bond book:

Another point about our cultural decline. We started watching the show Widow’s Bay. It’s really good. Fantastic writing. Perfect blend of comedy and horror. Last night’s episode was legitimately one of the finest episodes of television I’ve seen in years. If this same exact show came out in 2002, we’d probably remember it as an all time classic. But in 2026 most people haven’t even heard of it. It’s a blip on the radar. Another piece of content in the endless sea. You see it, or you don’t, and then it’s forgotten. It’s not that good stuff isn’t made anymore. It’s that even when good stuff is made, we don’t have any shared experience of it. There’s plenty of good music you can find on Spotify, recent stuff, but you experience it in your little algorithmic silo. Almost nothing breaks containment to become a bonafide cultural phenomenon. That’s what made Project Hail Mary so unique. Severance maybe also achieved escape velocity. But even in those cases the escape is fleeting. For the most part we experience the culture through the narrow pathway constructed for us by the algorithm. It might intersect with other people’s pathways, but only briefly. When we feel nostalgia for the Before Times, this is why. It’s not simply that we had a “better” culture back in the 90s or whenever. It’s that we had a culture at all.

“Tonight, i become a bona-fide Serial Killer.” I swear my brain gets sent into overdrive as soon as that theme kicks in. It truly is one of the greatest things ever And what an incredible showcase from Patrick Gibson. That is Dexter in every shape & form

This argument about "The best authors ignore all the rules!" is only displaying the ignorance of it's proponents Play any video game yourself, then go watch a professional play it, and you'll understand. They do all kinds of things that look nonsensical to you because they're playing at a completely different level. They understand the game in ways you can't grasp. So much so that if you try and mimic their behavior you'll fail miserably because you lack the basic understanding necessary for those techniques to succeed Writing is the same way. You/me/we cannot mimic Tolkien because we do not understand the fundamental concepts that make his kind of story work the way it does The ability to break the rules and win has to be earned, not copied

Slim or non existent markets even though I want these kinds of books: -Over the Top Optimism. -Space Fantasy without a Cynical bone in its body. -Superhero Novels That DONT CONTAIN Deconstruction or over the top violence to be Adult.