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Continuity at both Marvel and DC has become such an incoherent, boring, frustrating, cynical treadmill of bait-and-switch fraudulence and pseudo-drama that the only way for writers to tell a good story is to actively quarantine themselves from the main books. Post-Rebirth GL and GLC succeeded...

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Good article, Allen. BTW, I've been reading your stuff since SPACE GAMER. Remember whe- *BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT* Ok, ok, never mind. Alas, I can't be as optimistic as you are. The cold fact is, the Internet obviates the face-to-face interaction which is the sine qua non of paper & pencil RPGs...

At 41, I well remember the pre-Net world. I started playing video games in the mid-70s, RPGs in 1979 and got my first home computer (Atari 800) in 1980. I spent over a decade with 'stand alone' computers and game consoles, socializing face-to-face in arcades and home parties. I remember...

Hey, Escapist, could you have made that ID bug a little bigger? I could still make out what was happening in the scene.

Except, of course, the distinction between injuring a body vs causing it to stop living - a distinction wholly objective and quantifiable. Show me where I said that, exactly. My point is that "faith" gives us answers rooted in myth and magic or, even worse, proscribes us from even asking...

I'm a student of the Bible - most atheists are, you know - and I know a great deal about what it actually does and does not contain. The fact remains, though, that millions upon millions of sincere Christians over the centuries have in fact bolstered their opposition to everything from...

(R)Amen, brother! The problem is that the "metaphor" approach is something retroactively imposed on scripture as part of a rescue operation by the faithful once literalism becomes untenable in the light of increasing knowledge. Their dilemma, then and now, is that once they admit that any...

Religion is in part born from the search for answers, I'm with you there. The problem is that lacking the ability to properly discover them, humans took answers which were incomplete, provisional or just plain wrong and simply DECLARED them to be true under an unimpeachable divine imprimatur...

Religions are ok with science right up to the point where science challenges their dogma. Creationists, for example, happily avail themselves of technology and engineering achievements in transportation, communication, construction, sanitation, and whatnot untroubled by the fact that the...

It certainly is. And the more anti-religious stuff, the better - mocking religion being both a sign of intelligence and respect for the human species. That said, what the fox (flying, of course) does this have to do with gaming? Are you trying to advance this under the cover of some kind of...

"Summary: The Escapist, make up your mind. If you want to be edgy, the stop with the censorship. If you want to be kid-friendly, don't have a review section featuring a foul-mouthed Aussie. Simple as that. Straddling the fence makes nobody happy." Well said, Czech. Alas, The Escapist has...

I will if that goal eclipses all others. Aesthetics aside... if we're talking business, let me speak as a customer. The whole point - the value for me as a customer - of this "business" was to have a distinctive, magazine-styled site for smarter gamers. Something which evoked and recaptured...

And they know it. The Yahtzee clip is bracketed by adverts, including one which "sticks" for a while EVEN AS THE CLIP PLAYS. Also, just in case you didn't know which website you were on, there is an Escapist URL stamped along the top edge of the frame throughout the entire viewing. Not when...

Thanks for the link. Having caught up... GODDAMMIT. No more PDF. No more magazine-style. So now it looks and functions like every other gaming website out there. Another example of fixing what wasn't broken. Oh well, at least the Yahtzee stuff is funny.