Film Critics should say it: Your own experience at a movie is NOT an empirical measurement of the universal correct reaction to it.
Film critics should talk about how much taste, temperament and expectation make a viewing experience singular, not universal.
I just read a bunch of reviews for a film, almost all describe it as if they were cold observers describing indisputable fact.
It’s a crummy old convention of reviewers, and it should be retired. It’s an anti-art stance, as if the viewer of art is monolithic, or worse, moot.
Dec 28, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I just read Rebel Scum, a ttrpg about a war in the stars with space wizards and lazer swords. It also doesn’t mince words with spacefacists. 1/?
The rule system, polymorph, is so brilliant for one shots, so lightweight, so freeing that it feels revolutionary. I WILL be running an adventure in this (though I will be setting mine in a more familiar galaxy far far away). 2/
Apr 17, 2021 • 38 tweets • 7 min read
Hot take: even a terrible themepark is fucking great. Like even the worst one imaginable rocks.
A terrible theme park is only slightly inferior to the greatest themeparks.
Feb 4, 2021 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
Director’s cut of Blade Runner accidentally shown instead of the theatrical cut. I then mounted a campaign to get it released. And succeeded.
The rule system, polymorph, is so brilliant for one shots, so lightweight, so freeing that it feels revolutionary. I WILL be running an adventure in this (though I will be setting mine in a more familiar galaxy far far away). 2/ 
