Recent content by el-remmen

Folks bragging about being a killer DM (whether they actually were or not) felt a lot more common throughout my gaming experience of the 80s and 90s than post 2000.

And now the child is in bed and my wife and I can begin our own Xmas eve tradition.

Joy is watching your 3-year old’s excitement about getting to drink hot chocolate while watching 1967’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas for the first time (a book she has asked for at bedtime nearly every night since Thanksgiving).

I have some new ideas.

Rereading that thread makes me want to run another one just for fun!

Someone around here’s every post recently makes it clear they need a break and should walk away from here until after New Year’s at the earliest.

I thought it was the Huorns.

Here ya go, this link is to a google drive folder with the PDFs. I will probably change access to them at some point, so let me know if you actually grab 'em. And feedback is totally unnecessary, though not unwelcome. . . i just kinda know what I am aiming for and am not afraid to see that work...

It is called irony.

It is not the act itself, but how it is framed with the build up, music, and reaction that perfectly emulates the christmas miracle pay off. This is not some out of blue obscure thing. It is very obvious. My wife and I literally watch it every every year on Xmas Eve (though last year a little...

Uh, yes? But I think Die Hard does more than that. . . but you can continue to be stubborn about it. The Grinch is part of Christmas tradition too!

Oh and the intentional fallacy lives on! :LOL:

From the use of music, the family unification theme, the date it happens, to the setting (an xmas party), a christmas miracle (the vault being opened is framed - comically - as that), and so on. . . I think there is plenty that comes obvious from multiple modes of analysis. Edit: Seriously. I...