Thanks for the warm welcome!
Of course my actual play experience is shrouded in the mists of memory and I'm sans group at present, so my input here will be novice and entirely superficial. I look forward to sharing my impressions of the games I'm getting back into and having them challenged.
As I say, I have views on fantasy and its myriad illogical tropes, which annoy me only because I think I actually love the genre despite all it does to repel sensible appreciation. I grew up on AD&D 2nd, MERP and Palladium Fantasy, shortly thereafter drifted into a debilitating ether-huffing habit... or was it Rifts? Same difference. Then Heroes Unlimited. CP2020. Conspiracy X. Millennium's End. CoC, Kult, WoD, etc.
Recently Eclipse Phase piqued my interest and is the reason I'm interested in the hobby again. I'd also like to start work on a Rifts-esque pulp-athon of imbecilic proportions (although I'm not sure my prefrontal cortex can tolerate the Palladium rules), and also the western genre has me quite enamoured (Coyote Trail any good?)