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My suspicion is that the talk of a sequel "needing to be cheaper" is probably really about trying to convince stars, directors, etc. to take a pay cut if they want another outing (or at least not expect a pay raise). And Chris Pine's reported $11.5 million to headline the ensemble does seem to...

I mean 75 million is roughly the inflation adjusted cost of the original Star Wars... which seems like a fairly reasonable cost for something that requires fantasy sets and costumes and lots of special effects. It's all the movies that cost 2-5 times that and don't look any better or more...

To a normal businessman the main things Musk got out of acquiring Twitter was an established user base and an established brand. He alienated and drove away the one and has now abandoned the other. So more or less a complete loss. He could have bought some bargain basement Twitter-clone for a...

Unless the various leveled features can be usefully described on those little bits of line, I think an area of lined space for writing "features" freeform would be more useful. I mean I know from experience helping hundreds of kids fill out the "features" section for 5e D&D characters that just...

Personally I'd go straight to the sources. There are excerpts from a lot of historical fighting manuals and other sword texts at https://www.thearma.org/manuals.htm, but I've only glanced at them. I'm sure the internets have other such troves. Whether diving straight into primary sources makes...

Really I consider putting scores you didn't roll on a character sheet a form of fudging numbers. Oh, sure, they're average... but you didn't roll them so they don't count. So, yeah, you should always roll scores for Monks... just like you should for every other character.

It also, I believe, establishes the nature of Pike's relationship with his father. While some 90s Trek shows regularly threw out character stuff like that and never thought about it again, that seems unlikely with this one (if it never gets further development it's only because these seasons are...

The crossover episode is really a heck of a thing. I liked it quite a bit, but I am more astonished than anything else, even being well aware it was coming. As a Strange New Worlds episode, they pulled off an impressive feat. If there was a weak point it was simply that, even though of all the...

I would read the spectral mind ability as applying to the normal distance and targeting of a spell, and the "other creature has to be within 5 feet of you" prerequisite in the main text of the spell as an additional more specific requirement for the specific spell. I don't think it's necessarily...

Oh it's our annual gator-powered necromancy to argue that everything is natural or whatever. See you all sometime in the Summer of 2024 when totally new user Yetanothergator starts it up again out of the blue and insists yet again that Maxperson has conceded some sort of point.

I think the minimum score to multiclass out of a class should be eliminated. As funny as the idea of being too stupid to give up wizardry is, I don't think it makes things more fun, and all the other "low score means you can't switch to another class" cases make even less sense. I think it's...

It was good. I'm sorry, I'd already discussed liking it in another thread. I thought this was just the thread about the great decision of out time: which movie to see. I mean, of the various tensions the movie had to balance it was the one where no balance was deemed necessary, very...

Because he'd gotten to rely on universal translators his entire life.

Well I had to make the great decision last night. I was off to the cinema because it was was hot and I have a subscription pass I'm trying to get the most out of for the last week it will be active. I actually went out thinking both movies weren't out for another day and that I was going to see...

I mean... the episode was called "Lost in Translation". I was surprised by aspects of the journey, but the destination was pretty damned clear.

Not necessarily impossible, but it seems unlikely. It did actually occur to me while watching it when his character was mentioned that since they are leaning into him being commander of the USS Kelvin in this reality as well it would be nice to bring the same actor in to emphasize that people...

Very few American schools still have the sort of easy accessibility to parts other than the office, that their respective walking right into the cafeteria and library involved. It's been a direction our schools have been heading since the Columbine Massacre, but naturally it took a long time for...

Uhura-focused certainly, but notable for as far as I recall setting the Strange New Worlds record in terms of bringing the most of its characters in for something or other. Not only every main character, but almost every recurring character (even a dead one!). Having every character in a given...

I just saw it. I'm also not the target demo, which I think makes the difference of whether this is a good movie that gets a bit too ham-fisted at times or a great movie. In any case it is a work of transformatively creative crass commercialism on par with the Lego movie, which is a hell of a...

Here in the US I have had the ad supported version of Paramount+ through Amazon Prime since it was CBSAllAccess, so presumably the deal currently being made has to do with other markets. I got it because subscribing to and unsubscribing from an Amazon Prime channel is trivially easy if you have...