Recent content by Parmandur

A common theme in his ouvre.

Similarly, "doom" here is an archaicism, meaning more generally "decree" or "administrative decision", but Tolkien knew to a modern English ear it sounds badass and ominous.

Not an error, just a bit of an archaic prose flourish.

Terrible marketing, and positioned right between John Wickand Super Mario Bros., perhaps the two worst things for a D&D movie to try and be counterprogrammong for. Also, the pandemic wasn't quite over yet: I did not go and see something in the theater for a full year and a half after HAT dropped.

Yeah, and that is against their business model. Forge of the Artificerstyle book seems likely, rewriting Strahd does not seem likely.

Doubtful: they are already actively selling Curse of Strahd with new ads on social media. With Beyond, they don't need to do reprints that way.

That’s a solid "Maybe", though either way I do think such a book is likely.

Well, no, in this case it is not just empty platitudes, the studio and franchise models are serious and different approaches to hierarchical organization that actually mean something. He is well out of the game, but this is what Mike Mearls had to say on these boards about WotC going back to the...

Anecdotally and locally, maybe: but WotC is spending really serious amounts of money on advanced market research...although, mostly focused on the U.S. most likely.

Which they do have: that's why WotC art in their books is usually on trend.

I mean, employing middle schoolers is somewhat problematic.

My wife and I just finished watching Potato Lab, a delightfully unhinged K-Drama Ron-Com about a potato researcher at a potato chip company that has been bought by a large conglomerate, and a mysterious HR "closer" has moved into her familes local resort to look over the lab and the personel...

Well, since we are fully off the rails now...here is the lecture where Sanderson talks about plot pacing and uses Last Jedi as an example:

OK, brave new world here, using SwiftKey now. So far, the buttons seem to fit my thumbs better at least.

Yeaj, the build quality is fantastic, honestly, but when I had Motorola oto G and prior to that a Windows phone...no issues.