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Particularly if it’s a group of inexperienced players, most of whom probably have video game encounters as their primary reference...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. It's hard. As Dungeon Masters, we meticulously craft encounters, balancing challenge ratings, hit points...

My opinion on Prime is pretty low. I think they have a handful of interesting shows, but they simply dont know what to do with them. Its...

I don't do my streaming rankings anymore (after all, what's the point... more and more it's Netflix and everyone else) but I think that...

Yeap, I was letting Apple build up stuff before subbing up and I just kept forgetting about it. Seems like im ready now.

I need apple TV...

I mean, there's no question early Connery Bond established a lot of super-spy movie tropes, but I feel like after that, as soon as other...

Bond has always done that. North by Northwest of sometimes described as 'the first Bond film', Moonraker was a response to Star Wars...

Folks who cling to potatoes with a death grip because they don’t want to learn a new machine or ever change are a good example.

Yeah, I liked the Craig approach as well, even if the movies became kind of uneven eventually (as each Bond series tends to do).

I just keep picturing the intensity of films like Prisoners and Sicario applied to the more gritty realism of a the Craig era Bond...

Cool, yeah, that makes sense. I guess the cars and the watches and the suits don't really appeal to me, so I suppose that's part of it...

Yeah, me neither. People seem to be acting like the last 20 years of billion-dollar gritty Bond films never happened, and the last Bond...

I dont feel like the Craig era of Bond films fits that description at all.

Fortunately, you are not going to get your wish. Im more of a Tinker, Tailor and Counterpart kind of guy with my spy shows myself. Bond...