It's tragic

It's probably sad for the people who are connected, but it's not really all that tragic. Some people died doing something extremely risky.

I used to whisper "SLIDERS!" as loud as I can to my husband several times a month, so I made him watch it to know what I was talking about.

I realized that child-me made up that part of the intro, since they definitely don't shout-whisper sliders.
I stopped whispering sliders at him.

The magazine has the same issue as the rest of kbin; a lack of content.

How many unique users out of the roughly 4000 have posted "articles" here, and why is that number so low?

-Is it because figuring out how to make a post is less intuitive than other sites?
-Is there something about the community that isn't friendly?
-Is the community that we have just generally averse to posting?

Andromeda holds a place in my heart that it probably doesn't really deserve. Definitely full of cheese, and the character of Dylan Hunt is awful.

I'll probably still always love it, mainly because it came out when I was a kid.

I think that several Starfinder books can be an example of "we are putting this out because we have to put something out."

I like the intro to TruBlood more than the show itself.

It was my first *WN game, so it could just be the basic system itself. Letting players choose the attribute/Skill before the role had been great for my group.

Things like letting a bruiser use talk+STR to threaten someone lets more players participate in more situations. Also, not having modifiers so high that rolling basically doesn't matter is such a nice change.

The only ones that didn't keep asking "how my main thing works, again?"

This issue is probably the most draining for me. When I ran Shadowrun I warned my players that it was crunchy, and they promised me that they would learn how to play their classes. The streetsam did –the decker, rigger, adept, and technomancer did not.

I am definitely pro-choice, but I often feel like games hit a point where it's just bloat. I read a lot of RPG books and feel that it was released because they are following a schedule or hit a certain number of pages/new things, and not because they actually had something thought out to add to the game.

I assume the game that puts out 3+ books a year is D&D?

I haven't touched that game in a while. I was personally referring to Starfinder and Pathfinder, but D&D might also have that problem now that I think about it.

Things I've said or heard during character creation for these games:

"I know there are just shy of 4000 feats, but...", or "Okay, so your role in social encounters in the group is the face, debuffing-support in combat, in ship combat you're the pilot, so what's your idea for mech combat?"

Cities without number is my favourite game that I've run in the past 10 years.
Highly recommend it to anyone who wants a cyberpunk/ grime-sci-fi game, who also doesn't want to deal with Shadowrun's crunch.

That isn't taking into the next level of complications that I've seen in polycules; relationships of more than 2 persons within the group.

3 persons:
AB, AC, BC, ABC.

4 Persons:
AB, AC, AD, BC, BD, CD, ABC, ABD, ACD, BCD, ABCD

5 Persons:
AB, AC, AD, AE, BC, BD, BE, CD, CE, DE, ABC, ABD, ABE, ACD, ACE, ADE, BCD, BCE, CDE, ABCD. ABCE, ABDE, BCDE, ABCDE, I'm probably missing some.

Then there is the next level after that, relationships between groups within the group:

How does (AB) and (CD) interact?
What about (ABC) and (CD) vs (AB) and (CDE)?

Honestly, it seems like far too much effort/stress.

That's interesting! I assumed it was just going to be a hyper-local thing for that one commenter.

Popsicle never made a product like this, so the Kleenex/tissue, Band-Aid/bandage, Sharpie/permanent marker thing doesn't really apply here.

I wonder where it comes from.

I am assuming that this is a hyper-local thing to wherever you were raised.

Popsicle is a brand that's over 100 years old and makes frozen treats on sticks.