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My hot SyFy take; for the low budget, RiffTrax-esque made-for-TV slop that it was, the second D&D movie was gourmet slop

I know it was over twenty years ago but still, Sean Bean is like right there

Okay. Um.... no? I mean, you're certainly entitled to think that that's how it ought to be, but it's also pretty painfully obvious that the things that are actually in the books actually matter to an awful lot of people, whether those things are positively or negatively received. I mean, take...

Um, no, I'm arguing quite the opposite. I'm quite expecting that many people will not do things differently than they have for decades. The argument is not about whether what one should or should not be able to do at their own tables; I can't imagine anyone actually cares about that at all...

The beautiful thing is that it's increasingly difficult to build a character that can't do that

Can confirm, as someone who was the bored little brother

My guess is that the zeitgeist is likely to move towards either post-apocalypse (see the success of the Fallout TV show) and/or hopepunk. The way that the MCU manages to remain relevant is that they don't make just "superhero movies" so they can play around with genre a bit more and lean a bit...

The latter quote pretty much answers the former

Hard as it is to say, but this really is what it comes down to. D&D, hell all RPGs, like all media, are a reflection of the popular culture, and there are many people, on all possible sides of all possible issues, that have a vested interest in seeing that popular culture steered in one or...

The biggest problem is that we've convinced ourselves, as a collective humanity, that art isn't worth making if it's not good. Which is, of course, a lie. The only way to "democratize" art is to break free of that paradigm. This would, of course, render generative AI "art" absolutely necessary

I literally just a watched a review that gave it a 8/10, the bottom line was "they're going for Winter Soldier, don't quite get there, mostly because there's some obvious stitching and awkwardness that comes from the COVID blowing up Phase 4/5" A film doesn't need a raft 5-star reviews to be a...

You mean you missed the "both sides"-ing of gender-based Strength caps, somehow, still, in the year of someone's lord 2025? You must have incredible foresight. Or little patience. ...is there a correlation there?

My favorite JRPG trope is completely incongruous science fiction elements. Usually there's like a long-dead ancient technologically superior civilization that died out because of ???. Hell, in the first Final Fantasy there's a dungeon that's essentially a derelict spaceship that you have to...

It was the "bio truths" for me. I know where that kind of thinking leads

Nah, mixed reviews literally means some people liked it and others didn't, which means at best it's niche, and at worst it's niche. Staying in the MCU, two films that got "mixed" reviews were The Marvels and The Eternals. I watched both of them, one of them I absolutely loved, the other I...

What other chestnuts can we tackle in this thread, while we're at it? Death of the author? Transgender elves? Pronouns?

Found this old meme this morning and it reminded me of this thread