Ragitsu

"I'm not much of a morning person." "Ah...it's - *checks watch* - just shy of midnight." "Well, I can't say I'm much of an evening person either." "I'm starting to suspect you're not much of a person person."

In your (D&D) groups, was there ever a designated potion tester?

Dragon Age: Inquisition - The Storm Coast

Pasta before bedtime?

Getting George Martin to write the story for a Souls-esque game (where the details are released in dribs and drabs) is like hiring a world class chef to prepare the club sandwiches and pretzels for your casual get-together; sure, you're getting quality, but it's not very fulfilling (plus, it's overkill).

My odd dream had me evading a bogus murder charge all throughout a mega-tower/skyscraper that catered to celebrities; I was even disguised as a celebrity for a time (Val Kilmer, maybe?).

Heyerdahl is magic, this scene was the most epic moment of my life. Cracks rend tv screens, as though Heyerdahl secretly wishes to blast aside the barrier between realities with one disdainful glance and a gentle lift of his iron hand. Shall mere script chain his inner fire? Or pixels mask his reality? Ahh, they are but a challenge, a trifle, let them retreat, let them serve, let them bow...alive, without measure; he takes the very glass of camera lense in hand and reduce it to glittering dust, sweeping its remnants across the galaxies of our imaginations.

By the way, "watching young reactors" put a cheeky grin on my face; that sounds like the sort of activity physics nerds would be all over. "The power output just increased!" But, uh...back to the thrust of your statement. I hesitate to put any money towards folks who bring home the bacon with exaggerated gaping mouths and wild gesticulation. At least with a film, a fiction novel, a video game, et cetera, I know that I am paying for manufactured creativity...deliberate performances, if you will. Whether an individual is consciously or subconsciously altering their expressions/opinions doesn't matter.

Remember that anyone successful is going to modify their reaction towards that which is profitable (i.e., popular); some will be more honest than others, but "the observer effect" is a real phenomenon.

Will we see the establishment of a cottage-industry for human creativity?

"pre-industrial age alcoholic beverages" They probably have a BPO rating (Bugs Per fluid Ounces).

In my younger days they didn’t. It’s a recent and regrettable development (I speak from a UK perspective). I blame two factors. One is the increasing intrusion of American usages into British English. Many US English speakers have what is by European standards a peculiarly prudish and prissy tendency to avoid direct reference to bodies and bodily functions, and increasing numbers of people in the UK, whether through mistaken pretentiousness or simply oblivious parrotting of what they hear on TV shows and other media, have been adopting American linguistic habits and idioms. The second factor, for which I can offer little explanation or justification, is what seems to me to be a general and widespread juvenilisation of popular culture. I might tentatively suggest that it has some connection with the political drift toward populism and vilification of cultural ‘elites’ – but in my perception it is alarmingly evident that traditional British anti-intellectualism, both in mass media and in people’s conversations on the street and in the pub, is warping into something more akin to pro-crassness and feeble infantility. What with the proliferation of crude, childish hieroglyphics in written communication (yes, that is what emojis are), thus severely curtailing the exchange of any kind of subtle, complex or sophisticated ideas or concepts, we are daily becoming more and more like Orwell’s Proles: ill-informed, limited to banal expression of stereotyped feelings, and pathetically easily manipulable by those holding power.