Recent content by Clint_L

No, I didn't forget those things. I just thought The Muppets did not remotely capture either what made the original show great, very much including its style of more adult-facing humour, or the things that separately make 30 Rock and The Office great. It did not work for me, on any level, but...

Not reading the thread because spoilers, but my spouse and I just saw a trailer for this (I know, it's been out for ages) and are gonna give it a try. They're a bit more of a Trekkie; I tend to find ST properties hit or miss.

One episode left. It was...so...hard...not to binge this thing, or at least to immediately watch the last episode. But we're forcing ourselves to savour it. My favourite MCU TV show, by a mile (and I really like some of them, like Ms. Marvel, Hawkeye, DD:BA, and WandaVision).

These are good points for campaigns that wish to explore how people saw the world historically.

I go the opposite direction: in my world, deities are metaphysically needless. They have nothing to do with the functioning of the universe, unless they also happen to be entities so powerful that they can interfere with nature on a large enough scale. I figure deities in my D&D world are...

As for D&D archetypes, I'm gonna go with the Murderhobo.

D&D still doesn't have green orcs. AD&D orcs were super porcine - like, literal pig-folk. I think it was Warhammer that basically gave orcs the look most associate with them now; Warcraft was originally designed as a Warhammer game. Warhammer Fantasy came out in 1983; it described orcs as...

My kid has more old tech than I do - he collects old video game systems. He has all the big ones from Atari 2600 onwards, and plenty of games for each. He's been collecting them since he was 10. He has lots of the wierd accessories, too, like the bongoes that you can (sort of) use to play Donkey...

We're up to episode 6 and are rationing it to one episode per evening because it is soooo good and we want to stretch it out. My spouse loves it as well, and most of the time they merely tolerate Marvel Shows to humour me. Ben Kingsley absolutely kills, but the entire cast is great. The MCU is...

The impulse to make beloved family friendly icons more "adult" crops up every now and then, and is typically disastrous - I remember the Velma show from a few years back, as well. Sometimes these reboots feel like they were made by people who don't really get what most fans love about the IP...

I feel you. I financed a good chunk of grad school by selling my MtG cards back in 1996. At the time I thought I was super smart to be getting rid of them before their value inevitably crashed...

Quantumania is almost as bad, IMO, but I’ll give it the edge because of its crazy setting. I think IM3 is severely underrated; I like it, and like that it largely stands alone. Both IH and TtDW are a good time, if kind of forgettable. MoM is pretty lame but, again, some cool scenes. The Avengers...

It's not harsh. It's a terrible film. Worst MCU film by a considerable margin, and utterly forgettable. Also my worst film of the year, though I didn't see a ton of new releases. Best was Hamnet. I've taught Hamlet about a zillion times and seen so many versions of it, but this take on the...

I struggle to comprehend how you can think they are not. If I write a book, should Amazon be able to take it and monetize it while paying me nothing for my original idea, just because they are a big corporation?