...is moments like this one from a game we played this Sunday evening ( Read more... )

In response to a discussion on worldbuilding and exposition in tsubaki_ny 's journal, because I got longwinded and it wouldn't fit in a comment box.

Some thoughts on the subject from an avid reader and consumer of a myriad forms of fictional entertainment:

It's important to not allow exposition to turn into an infodump, of course, because it causes the story ( Read more... )

*I come into work and relieve the guard before me*
Him: "You know what I need?"
Me: "A drink?"
Him: "I need a droid that understands the binary..."
In Unison: "...language of moisture vaporators."
Him: "And I'm not settling for one that just worked on binary load lifters, either."
Me: "As well you shouldn't."
Him: "But what I could really use is a drink ( Read more... )

So, when I went back for some more sleep after my very long day Friday-through-Saturday, I only wound up getting a couple more hours before waking up unexpectedly. I think it might have been because of hunger. It's early Sunday morning, and I have a few things I wanted to do before my friends show up for gaming anyway, like my laundry, so I decide ( Read more... )

It's Wednesday, which means  new comic books are out. So I went down to my comic shop of choice, Coffee & Comics, where I found that I didn't have very many books waiting for me, but wound up drinking way more coffee than I would usually consume while reading what was on the shelves. My caffeine tolerance is way less than it was back when I used to ( Read more... )