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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Y'know what, I think you're deliberately misconstruing everything I said and trying to have a fight where everyone else is trying to have a discussion, but the conversation has moved on and it will serve no purposed for me to try to drag us back there.
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    Overrated/Underrated Geek Media

    TiQuinn -- I know a few other people that have said they re-watch Frasier too. I really meant 'get brought up in discussion' as my metric under examination. Everyone watches what they watch, but people are still talking about Friends and Seinfeld. There are still entertainment journalism...
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    Overrated/Underrated Geek Media

    Add in Fresh Prince and maybe Home Improvement and Everyone Loves Raymond, and it seems like Friends and Seinfeld are the only 90s* sitcoms that get revisited**. In the 90s Friends and Seinfeld were big hits (the biggest, at various points), but so were Wings, Mad About You, Spin City, The...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I am one of those individuals least impressed with the notion that your preference in elfgames* is a protected status, and the self-declared victimhood of various levels of fandom can range from tedious to vitriolic**. That said, that doesn't mean that the complaints never have a point. Along...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    For reference, it is from Jason Tondro.'s 'It never occurred to me l’d rouse the ire of the grognards. It’s obvious now that I look back on it, but I just don’t take those critiques seriously even now. I consider those people not worth listening to, so I didn’t anticipate their “outrage". He...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    This thread could use some levity at this point. Please go back and reread what you said here. Here's where I see a point of stasis I want to poke at, because I disagree. WotC has stated or implied that (at least some of) their* depictions of orcs are flawed or immoral. And, again for some of...
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    D&D General Transgender Drow are Canon in Forgotten Realms! Woo!

    Agreed. What I mean is that focusing on the canonicity suggests that the officialdom of Greenwood's words are the important part of the story, rather than Greenwood taking a positive stand towards transgenderism. The latter, in my view, is the important part. I, as much as anyone else, love...
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    D&D General Transgender Drow are Canon in Forgotten Realms! Woo!

    As an aside, thank you for putting this in whole sentence format. I keep seeing people online put "[Citation needed]" in actual conversations like they were in the middle of editing a Wikipedia page and it drives me up the wall. Anyways, IMO the whole question of canonicity is a red herring...
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    "I think Hydrogen is a rare element" and other science facts.

    Interestingly, if it were just about lifting capacity, we could have low strength halfling adventurers (even fighters). A couple bags of holding, armor weight that is size-dependent, and so on and it works. It is the to-hit and damage that really kill it for things with a strength penalty (or...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Super-yay! Welcome to your new obsession. Random aside--whomever directed this scene has never held fur. He looks like he's dabbing himself with a poofy terrycloth, not dropping the most surprisingly heavy cloth you've ever held onto your shoulders. It's how one defines crunch. Are feats and...
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    "I think Hydrogen is a rare element" and other science facts.

    Poul Anderson (of Appendix N Three Hearts and Three Lions fame) had a book about one of those (Tau Zero). I think Star Trek ships supposedly have magnetic collectors on the front of their nacelles. Conceptually (IIRC), it works. It's just no longer considered a likely path to interstellar travel...
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    A nice little video on shield sizes

    Good to see. My viewing list has shrunk to just Matt Easton and Todd's workshop (both of whom have fewer videos than in years past). Nice to see some new talent in the content pool. I remember that book. It certainly was an upgrade if you otherwise only had the brief PHB descriptions. And...
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    The Naked Gun | Official Teaser Trailer (2025 Movie)

    Comedies in particular are super hit or miss. It's hard to predict what people will latch onto. Attaching it to an existing property does less than it would for something like an action franchise. This one will have to sink or swim based on its own merits. It's not needed in that Boomers/X-ers...
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    "I think Hydrogen is a rare element" and other science facts.

    Hmm. In my experience, the obvious stuff (FTL travel, magic making/destroying matter, no guns alongside plate, artificial gravity, squared-cubed laws and giant fantasy creatures, open-topped castles in a world with griffons, etc.) usually gets called out as part of those "save where noted." It's...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Preemptive statement: being exhausted by continuous complaining is perfectly reasonable, regardless of whether the complaining is reasonable/unreasonable, productive/unproductive, whether the complainers have reasonable other choices or not, and anything else. Negative emotions are exhausting...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    That's why we used to have one tied to our belts. Some people thought they were just fashion accessories of course.
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    D&D General D&D Editions: Anybody Else Feel Like They Don't Fit In?

    Oh, absolutely. This is a worthwhile subject of discussion.
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    D&D General Which edition handled alignment best?

    This isn't any more representative than your own personal experience, but back in the (late) 3e days the alignment and Book of Exalted Deeds/Book of Vile Darkness subforums on the Wizards.com forum were absolutely hopping, and home to some of the most over-the-top vitriolic nerd rage the early...
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    D&D General D&D Editions: Anybody Else Feel Like They Don't Fit In?

    The cancelled user account suggests that this is wasted effort, but here goes. There are undoubtedly and inarguably people who use jargon to exclude or to feel important. Everyone was young once (and some people never grow into well-adjusted social skills), and both TTRPGs and internet...
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    D&D 5E (2014) What is the Deal with the Twilight Cleric?

    This not wrong. However, the same could be said about nearly all spells and abilities that players (and monsters who have them) bring to bear. Most of them last 10 rounds, and few more than 10 minutes (and very few of them have long enough range to affect those that flee). If the enemies can...
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