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Mannahnin reacted to MarkB's post in the thread Your most pointless TV/movie/book nitpicks with
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This really is a pointlessly small nitpick about a fairly old movie, but in The Mummy Returns, the scene where they're racing to get... -
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I remember thinking what’s up with their faces…oh it’s to throw off facial recognition and then it’s called out later in a scene by LE...
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Mannahnin reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Your most pointless TV/movie/book nitpicks with Like.
No, it's about marriage, trust, murder for hire, etc. It maintains a pleasant 21st century yuppified veneer, but it's pretty dark...
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Mannahnin reacted to jian's post in the thread Your most pointless TV/movie/book nitpicks with Like.
Turner really holds the show together - it’s a very strong performance, and it’s supported by the fact that she looks like a very...
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Mannahnin reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread Your most pointless TV/movie/book nitpicks with Like.
But is it twee? Everything about it right down to the casting screamed "twee"? And my tolerance for twee is like, negative. A really...
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Mannahnin reacted to jian's post in the thread Your most pointless TV/movie/book nitpicks with Like.
Yes, Steal does this a lot. The first episode with the heist where you start thinking “that’s silly, you can’t just break into a pension...
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Mannahnin reacted to cbwjm's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I will sometimes throw in hidden doors to secret chambers with loot, it's all bonus material though and doesn't really affect the...
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Mannahnin reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I agree with all of that 100%. I think the only difference is the extent to which we rely on random chance to "find stuff".
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Mannahnin reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I don't understand why you describe using randomness as "setting logic" rather than "game rules". There isn't a miniature stochastic...
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Mannahnin reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
This isn't a Fighter-only problem. While the Fighter does have a rather anemic skill list, Backgrounds exist that allow someone to gain...
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Mannahnin reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Does having the knowledge make the game more fun and interesting? Does it offer the players a chance to learn more of the lore of the...
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Mannahnin reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I'm not quite as hard-line as that. If it makes sense that a character's background or upbringing would give knowledge of something...
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Mannahnin reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I still stand by the opinion nothing about either process makes it more one or the other though; prior to that moment there was no...
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Mannahnin reacted to soviet's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
'I would know about that because of my time at the academy studying evocations' and 'I wouldn't know anything about elf-magic' vs. 'Oh...
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Mannahnin reacted to cbwjm's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Yeah, but you have to differentiate information appearing in your head and information appearing in you character's head. The character...