Recent content by SoManyCrimes

We're allowed to speculate about the tricks behind spoiler tags, right? I can't remember the policy on this. A weakness in the Fool Us format seems to be that the best way to win is to do a trick which seems to have a "known" explanation in an unusual way, rather than coming up with...

I haven't played MTG for almost a decade, so I guess it's dimly possible this has changed, but surely an MTG deck is MINIMUM 60 and maximum whatever the hell you like? Isn't there a card that lets you win if you have it in play and over 200 cards still in your deck? I don't really have...

Full-time editor here. I find it interesting that people who work with language are usually the least bothered by stuff like this. The only reason I'd edit this use of "literally" is because it's boring. If someone's using it in a professional piece of writing, then there's always going to be a...

That is pretty loosely written. The subject and the verb don't really agree. He means something like: "With their new game, Firaxis Studios will cease depending on history - Civilization: Beyond Earth will go into space." (Although that's still a bit convoluted for my tastes.) There seems to...

Yes, sorry. I've been trying to do several things at once and there's been some mis-communication. I think we're all broadly in agreement. I certainly wouldn't want to change or revise EXISTING games or franchises. I just think that these legitimate concerns should be taken on board for future...

Completely off-topic at this point, but I will just say this: it's surprisingly hard. Having tried to approach developers, the responses are usually unenthusiastic. Because they think it's a service they don't need. Although editing is a constructive and helpful process, for people who think...

I apologize. I missed part of the point of your original response, with its focus on franchises. I completely agree that trying to change existing franchises is asking for trouble. The sort of changes I'm suggesting would be best made in new IP. But the existing model is so risk-averse that...

Again, I don't necessarily disagree. My arguments in this field are usually exclusively from the writing side, and I think the relative cheapness compared with other assets is important there. Writers and writing are SO cheap by comparison that the fact they aren't better can only be down to...

I think you've misunderstood my position here, and conflated what I said with a lot of other arguments I haven't made. I just didn't understand Deadcyde's argument. I don't have any horse in this particular race, except that I'd like games to be better written, and different approaches to...

But what if someone else wants to have part of that lifestyle? Are you really saying that you're not prepared to sacrifice just a tiny piece of it to include other people? Are you saying that the design of the characters is INTEGRAL to that lifestyle, and that changing them would destroy it...

I don't normally comment on these sorts of things, but this has baffled me. You asked what Dragonbums wanted, as though it wasn't clear. Dragonbums responded, clearly, and now you've shifted the goalposts. When you say "stop fucking with my escapism, you self-entitled twats", why isn't a...

I'm a freelance fiction editor, so most of my time is spent working on genre stuff (mainly sci-fi, crime and fantasy). Because of that, I try to avoid it in my leisure reading. I've been reading a lot of Thomas Pynchon lately. He's not to everyone's taste, and I can certainly see why, but I...