Why?
The question is something of a joke these days, a footnote for philosophy majors and something to mock. The stories about that question in the modern world are frequent and common – the student in class who answers because or why not without ever bothering to really think about the question, the meaning or value [...]

There is nothing in this world that kills my productivity faster than a new Jim Butcher novel.
As far as fiction goes, I don’t think I’ve come across a stronger author in science fiction or fantasy in recent years. At their best, both genres use their conventions to explore rarities of the human condition, of the [...]

You wanna know what I, as a World, have always hated? Alignments.
When you look at how people play their characters they inevitably end up being sociopathic monsters, clinging to the absolute moral codes that alignment systems offer. Even worse are those that cling to the idea that the complexity of human behavior can be [...]

Let’s be frank, you and I. Generally speaking, humans in role-playing games are boring. They suck. They’re usually the median for whatever other species/races are presented at best, or the weakest of what’s available at worse. You look at things on paper and you think to yourself, Self, how exactly did such a pathetic species [...]

Most conspiracy theories piss me off for one simple reason – they assume a uniform following from a selfish multitude. Every single one of them posits a They that work in perfect clockwork unison without risk of betrayal. This may look good on paper but it falls apart in practice. People are simply too varied [...]