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The first rule of Roko’s Basikisk is… Oh wait. Damnit.

Rare to medium rare. Or steak tartare. Usually no sauce. But the horseradish sauce I had over a steak on vacation in upstate New York last month was quite nice. Ordering a steak well done should be a misdemeanor or a venal sin or something.

Damnit. Brennan is going to get me to watch an entire season of Critical Role. Which I do not do because each episode runs longer than a Tarkovsky film.

Running: 5e 2024 Playing: 5e 2014 with houseruled species

Any? Have you seen his Dutch-language film Black Book starring the actress who played Mellisandre on Game of Thrones?

Canon is the stuff you like. I find this is a much better way to approach the question, "what is true in fiction?".

BK says something to the effect of wanting a weak host. You know, for safety reasons. He says it as he’s… ahem… eying one of his guards.

Better nation-building through paradox.

Was the OceanGate sub implosion badly written?

D&D is heavily inspired by pulp adventure stories about larger-than-life protagonists. Proto-superheroes, if you will. I expect D&D PCs to be like that.

It was nice of Noah Hawley to make a great hour long Alien movie inside of his fascinating science fiction series set in the Alien universe.

I got it and I’m in Philly!

Am I alone in not understanding this framing? Do I need more coffee?

We started our current 5e 2024 campaign at 3rd level because it fit the story better. We started our old 5e campaign at 1st. It's all good. Except when the PCs start setting random things on fire...

The show wants us to ask, “Who are the aliens/monsters on Earth, the xenomorphs or the various posthumans?”. So the show has been blurring the lines between them. I think that explains why Wendy can go mano a mano against a xenomorph and win. Consider the latest episode: Nibs leaps across a...