Recent content by FormerlyHemlock

And that's why Rise of Skywalker is so beloved, right?

HISHE are followers, not leaders. They hate what most people used to love but now feel apathy toward.

Wow, HISHE really hated this movie. Compared to the HISHE of Captain Marvel (the first one), in which they mostly celebrated Carol Danvers and made fun of everyone else including Superman and Batman, the HISHE of The Marvels does a complete 180, even where it's not necessarily justified. E.g. by...

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Chik-Fil-A around Seattle area is about as common as Arby's. I know of one in Renton and one in Bellevue and they are/were both crazy-busy, especially when I went by during the pandemic. Cars spilling out of the (long) drivethrough into the road and blocking traffic for minutes at a time is what...

The writing was a much bigger complaint. "A plot so entirely predictable and generic that it feels like it was written by an overworked AI, basically consisting of a series of tired and played-out tropes that have been done a million times before; lame attempts at quippy jokes and visual gags...

And yet somehow James Cameron also makes terrific movies without much CG, yes? What I disliked about Quantumania had more to do with the writing than the digital effects. The effects were fine but the story didn't make sense. It wasn't even clear why they were harassing Kang in the first place...

Do people actually come to theaters for CG? Reports are that The Marvels already has a shocking amount of plot happen offscreen already ("tell don't show"), and you don't need CGI for character development. Star Wars IV had a production budget of $11 million in 1977 dollars, which is $57 million...

What they did get though is a release window with absolutely no competition due to the strikes. There's so little in theaters that I even considered going to see The Marvels just for something to do. If they'd made a $40 million movie instead of a $274 million movie they'd be profitable real...

Looks like Marvel Studios is not so lucky this time. The Marvels is on track to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. They spent way too much money making and marketing it.

Can you give an example to help me understand your point? What's a power whose cost cannot be interpreted as an attempt to influence rarity via "market price"? And what do you mean by "outside specific genres" anyway? A given game always takes place in a specific genre, doesn't it? You can...

I disbelieve that "rarity is not relevant." When Kromm says that Steve Jackson says Combat Reflexes is cheaper than other more useful abilities because it's diegetically common in adventure fiction, whereas Warp is expensive because it's an outre superpower, I believe him. That's clearly not a...

I wonder how much of the difficulty you experienced was due to the the combination of horrendous organizational choices of the GURPS Magic book, and the sheer volume of available spells. Like, don't have both a complex system of prerequisites for magic spells AND a non-alphabetical organization...

Kromm says that Steve Jackson denies the utility aspect, at least. The quote is upthread. I think later GURPS editions have tried much harder to align on utility, and the resulting community discourse around trying to find the "right" point values for magic spells or high tech equipment is very...

I think Steve Jackson would agree with you about the point system: it's an artificial market economy intended to shape PC distributions, nothing more. I get the sense that Kromm might disagree, based on his advice to GMs to ensure that disadvantages are triggered regularly, while still agreeing...