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  1. MarkB

    Spoilers Lower Decks Season 05x10 "The New Next Generation"

    Yeah, I'm seriously going to miss this show. Would love to see a Starbase 80 series.
  2. MarkB

    Christmas Battle Royale: Frosty vs. Rudolph

    A bioluminescent mutant reindeer seems less creepy than a possessed snowman.
  3. MarkB

    EN World What you thought a thread title said.

    How dare you use dragons in your game?
  4. MarkB

    Spoilers SW: Skeleton crew discussion thread

    Yeah, Neel's new friend showing it to him and giving him a tutorial in activating it definitely makes it feel like Chekhov's Turbolaser.
  5. MarkB

    Spoilers SW: Skeleton crew discussion thread

    Since nobody here is making such claims to my knowledge, such disambiguation seems unnecessary.
  6. MarkB

    Spoilers SW: Skeleton crew discussion thread

    In the in-universe context, the old Republic is simply the Republic that existed in the prequel trilogy, as opposed to the New Republic of the show's current era. I think most people are using the term in that sense, not intending to refer to the out-of-universe nomenclature of the various...
  7. MarkB

    Spoilers SW: Skeleton crew discussion thread

    It's curious, the reaction of the pirates on the station indicated that they thought it was extremely valuable too, so how come it's just pocket change on At Attin itself? Even if not intrinsically valuable in purely material terms, they might be well-known to be collectors' items, and valuable...
  8. MarkB

    Spoilers SW: Skeleton crew discussion thread

    The hazard of watching the episode first thing after getting up, I missed a lot of detail in that opening scene.
  9. MarkB

    Spoilers SW: Skeleton crew discussion thread

    For a 'destroyed' planet reduced to warring factions that don't concern themselves with other worlds, it's a little odd that the people on At Achrann still value Old Republic currency enough to sell a herd of cattle for a small portion of Wim's lunch money. I wonder whether the schools on At...
  10. MarkB

    Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

    Well, I played it a little while on Friday and Saturday. Got up to partway through the Vatican mission (I just rode my first zipline), but did not really find it compelling. The level design is nice, giving you plenty of options, and visually it's fine, but game-mechanically it just feels very...
  11. MarkB

    Spoilers SW: Skeleton crew discussion thread

    Unless the ship had some defence against the barrier. It is a pirate ship after all, and if the original crew knew about the barrier, they may have rigged some countermeasures to get them through. Most likely, though, I think it is just a disguise - something that doesn't hide the planet, but...
  12. MarkB

    Spoilers SW: Skeleton crew discussion thread

    That's the big secret - the people of At Attin were working on the Hitch Hiker's Guide for the Star Wars galaxy. Having been cut off for so long, they never knew that the definitive work had already been completed by the Wookiees.
  13. MarkB

    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Cursed artifact unexpectedly extra cursed.
  14. MarkB

    Spoilers SW: Skeleton crew discussion thread

    And the real reason nobody can find it is that the galaxy's cartographers are the sort of nerds who insist that it's pronounced A-T A-Tin.
  15. MarkB

    Spoilers SW: Skeleton crew discussion thread

    Yeah, the Sith code is one of absolute personal freedom, the key part to understand being that the Sith code only applies to Sith. If a Sith wants to enslave the entire galaxy, they're entirely free to do so (or at least to make the attempt).
  16. MarkB

    Spoilers SW: Skeleton crew discussion thread

    "So, why are we still allocating capital and resources to this world that got blown up five years ago?" "Uh, it's, um, a memorial fund?"
  17. MarkB

    D&D General Baldurs Gate Grand Dukes Post DiA/BG3

    Which makes me wonder what probate looks like in a high-level campaign with resurrection. Do you need to write a clause into your will in order for your assets to be used to commission a resurrection? Is there a time limit (other than that of the spells) beyond which the rest of the will gets...
  18. MarkB

    D&D General Baldurs Gate Grand Dukes Post DiA/BG3

    Have them turn out to all be disguised dragons who don't actually know that any of the others are disguised dragons.
  19. MarkB

    Spoilers SW: Skeleton crew discussion thread

    Yeah, it's kind-of ironic really. The Sith want to impose ironclad order upon the galaxy, yet they're inherently chaotic in that they can't countenance any significant competition - thus the whole Rule of Two, with its built-in expectations of mutual scheming and betrayal. Meanwhile the Jedi...
  20. MarkB

    Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

    I just finished downloading it overnight last night. Going to give it a play through the weekend.
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