It has potential, in telling a 9-episode saga in the similar way the original nine-lology (sp?) was planned. But the problem is the time gap was so great between each trilogy, only the "common aesthetics" and "it's all Star Wars" will tie them together. Given the prequel and the final three...

Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Sum of All Fears, Clear and Present Danger, Without Remorse, Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit, and the Jack Ryan TV series.

Tom Clancy wrote many technothriller novels, and Ryanverse is still going strong with help from other writers. But what's the WORST adaptation of one of his novels to movie or TV movie? For me, it had to be the most recent "Without Remorse" starring Michael B Jordan as Kelly. For ****'s...

Whatever you do, don't read more than one of Robert Kiyosaki's books. There are plenty of criticism leveled against it already, so I won't repeat it, but suffice to say, it's really a recruiting brochure for MLM, something he doesn't talk about in the book at all. Yet all the MLM recruiters...

Maybe you meant GRIP? Grid I've played plenty, all the versions, including the latest one with the FMVs.

I just blog, but I wanted to write a book or three for a while. Maybe I will finally get into it this year. :D

Still playing Cold Waters occasionally. Got tired of Hot Wheels unleashed, as the game wants you to learn stunt jumping, i.e. take shortcuts to beat the time trials.

With that said, I'd say the team that did the Reacher adaptation (it's a mini-series instead of a movie, but you get the idea) did a much better job because they only changed the bits needed to make the story work, rather than filed off everything.

Part of the problem, IMHO, is a lot of the books have complex settings and characters that don't lend themselves to adaptations. I prefer thrillers, and I'll point out one example: "Without Remorse", the Tom Clancy novel, and the adaptation starring Michael B Jordan. IMHO, that was a TOTAL...

Once upon a time (read: decades ago) I was a QA tester. In fact, my name is in Mobygames somewhere. :D It's not fully accurate, but not all of my work can be documented so neatly. :) Things only have gotten more complicated since.

I clicked through from Reddit. :)

Given the availability of Unreal Engine or Unity or even HTML5/JS6 to the average programmer the barrier to entry is quite a bit lower than it ever was, esp. when ChatGPT can teach you how to code the simpler games. The problem, IMHO, is that most people who wanted into the game industry...

I've always wondered what XCOM Alliance would have looked like.

The problem here is many writers don't put in enough research. They think asking a few questions on Reddit is enough research to write something. Good research takes months or years or a whole staff assisting. Add in some Dunning-Kruger and you end up with gaffes. I think AI research, like...

I have Scrivener, and I've also tried a couple different ones. Scrivener has a few too many bells and whistles and is a bit too customizable and noobs get lost in it. But once you find the right template it's not bad.