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Well said and I absolutely agree with your main point here. I remember in the movie

But Horror is IMO always at least a partial genre if your main conflict is about fighting vampires. Even if its a horror comedy, its still horror.

Most good horror movies have social commentary, because they reflect what makes us in modern societies anxious, what do we feat etc. The plot completely resolves around the vampires, its clearly a vampire movie. The vampire is the main antagonist. Horror movies have fear as main emotion and...

I think I've read somewhere that popcorn is the product with the highest markup right after bottled water (bottled water is especially absurd because most brands have basically just tap water in terms of water quality and minerals)

I never understood this. For the me best a character tries is represented by his ability score plus proficiency score. The dice represent the external circumstances, luck, the weather whatever. For me a character doesnt' need to change something or at least nothing meaningful. In case of opening...

If they just can roll again until they succeed without any cost the roll doesnt matter, not just in my mind, but as a matter of fact. But when I know that the roll doesn't matter I don't even let them roll, so the players don't even know they could've had a huge satisfaction from a nat 20 or...

I absolutely loved it. It tried a bit too much at once ( ), but it was so full of creative directing, editing, camera choices, this move felt INSPIRED. I also loved the slow build up in the first half, made me care about the characters when the catastrophe happens. I loved the music and the...

If a task can be tried again and again until it succeeds without any costs or consequences - don't let them roll, just let them succeed and be done with it. I usually let them reroll, but each attempt costs time and time matters in most of my games. There are also other consequences for...

That or just some sort of connection between the narration and the mechanics. When a paladin multiclasses into a warlock, there should be story implications by that and not just done for the crazy build the player hopes for. No, that would be too much - although I enjoy finding narrative...

I agree with you, but the entire game includes to me also DM restrictions and limitations. I never even played in a game where Volos races were allowed. And usually in my games a build needs to be explained by roleplay limitations and causes too like backstory, world setting etc. As I wrote...

I fully agreed with the rest of the post, but here I have to disagree. Heavy RP and Optimize are not opposites of a scale, you can do heavy RP and optimize. You can have a good, deep, complex character that is very good at their profession. And vice versa building an 8 INT wizard doesnt make...

That is fair, but thats a general problem. Also if you just have "normal" players and bad ones at the table, or "normal" and optimizers, its not the optimizers fault per se, its just the problem of different niveau of player skill. In these cases I prefer games where being good at the crunchy...

Thats also utter nonsense. As I said in that other thread, I consider myself a power gamer and optimizer. Never was I told I disrupt things. I also don't enjoy easier games more, the opposite is the case. Give me hard battles and challenges, so my build and my creative use of the game systems...

That is absolutely not true. You can just design harder fights. But designing more difficult fights is not more demanding for the DM, at least in game with encounter balance design guidelines. With your logic I could also say "Designing fights for bad gamers is harder for me, because I need to...

I completely agree with the list - except for Gone Girl. I didn't like this movie too much. And yes Ben Affleck is a brilliant cast - but Neil Patrick Harris was a terrible cast, he pulled me completely out of the movie. But overall Fincher is definitely one of my favorite directors with a...

Great who controls now that AI companies buy all their books they feed into the AI as training data?

I personally am a optimizer and power player. Although I don't use exploits and interactions, that were clearly not RAI. But I like to play efficient characters. I also enjoy deep roleplay and give my characters flawed and complex personalities and in general I am more on the reserved side as...

I think his Thrillers are a better thing to look for how his Bond movies could look like: Sicario, Prisoners, Incendies were are great movies IMO. I really like Villeneuve although I also don't love the Dune movies, his other works are much better IMO. Arrival is one of my favorite scifi movies...

Nowadays I only watch Dimension 20. When I listen to live plays while doing other stuff I miss 50% of the stuff that happens, I can't concentrate on both. So I only watch my favorite show, D20 - but they use mainly D&D. In the rare case they use another system they use more lightweigted...