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  1. Benjamin Olson

    Disney Closing Star Wars Hotel

    I mean I'm not sure how much it lends itself to luxury resort, but the dark, sleazy crimeboss lair is pretty solid theming for a casino.
  2. Benjamin Olson

    Disney Closing Star Wars Hotel

    There is absolutely no shortage of Star Wars branded products of all sorts available, even if you only happen to see the Grogu ones. I think you must just be tuning out as a given the constant coming and going of Star Wars video games, Star Wars t-shirts, editions of Star Wars Monoply, etc...
  3. Benjamin Olson

    Disney Closing Star Wars Hotel

    That really gets at the heart of the problem. Normal rich people don't want to pay for the dingy, lived-in aesthetic of Star Wars. That is the exact opposite of a premium resort experience to them. So this was exclusively a place for proper fans who had an extra $5k to spend on a Star Wars...
  4. Benjamin Olson

    D&D 5E (2014) Is character creation at higher levels quick/easy or slow/complex?

    Perhaps I'm misunderstanding. Leveling up is really not difficult at all. But if by "character creation at higher levels" you mean starting as a high level character, yes that is a lot of character creation work all at once, and frankly, sometimes it's can be too much. Don't get me wrong, I'm...
  5. Benjamin Olson

    D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Hit or Flop?

    And Lucasfilm did the whole weird Shadows of the Empire roll out in 1996 as basically a dry run for marketing a Star Wars movie in the late 90s, with a novel, video game, soundtrack album, toys, concept art book, comic book, and other merchandise. Basically everything that comes with a Star Wars...
  6. Benjamin Olson

    Trailer for Hypothetical Star Wars by Wes Anderson

    I prefer the Conan show's version of this joke from ten years ago, but the two pieces are clearly working within very different constraints:
  7. Benjamin Olson

    Mando season 3

    She's a stickler to rules and traditions, not to whatever sense is behind them. It's sort of a lot of that character in a nutshell.
  8. Benjamin Olson

    Mando season 3

    Because it sounds better. As I've said before, I think Din Djarin was less a well-thought-out hero name than a Star Wars name generator name purposely chosen to emphasize how ordinary the man behind the mask was on some level in this galaxy of nobles and dynastic jedi, with the intention that...
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  10. Benjamin Olson

    4:45 AM in the morning...GOOD MORNING FLORIDA!!!

    It was a missile attack warning in 2018. There was an employee who had a troubling history of confusing drills with reality who, nevertheless, was in charge of the "alert everyone in Hawaii of incoming missile through unified tv announcement, radio announcement, and cell phone notification"...
  11. Benjamin Olson

    D&D 5E (2024) Is the 2024 rules update a new edition? Argue about it here (not everywhere else)!

    Unless it's Star Wars, in which case most fans seem to only ever do both simultaneously.
  12. Benjamin Olson

    Picard Season 3

    Given that they brought the actress in and incorporated the relationship into the season opener, it does seem unlikely the writers actually forgot about her. My assumption would be that they addressed that in some draft of the finale or even filmed it, and it just got lost on the cutting room...
  13. Benjamin Olson

    D&D 5E (2024) Is the 2024 rules update a new edition? Argue about it here (not everywhere else)!

    It is certainly a "new edition" in the sense the term is used for most things outside of certain rpgs, as in it is a revision of existing material. It is probably not a "new edition" in the special meaning of the term used for certain rpgs where it actually means "sequel game". I voted yes...
  14. Benjamin Olson

    Picard Season 3

    Well, Episode 10. Once again I'll do the spoiler thing just because it only premiered a little over 2 hours ago, but I will say there is a post credit sequence unlike the other episodes, so make sure you stick around for that. [/SPOILER]
  15. Benjamin Olson

    D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Hit or Flop?

    Well it's really a shame this movie hasn't been more successful, because while we can perhaps monday morning quarterback the release timing, or nitpick around the details of marketing or the actual content, this seemed like the most likely version of a D&D movie to be a hit in 2023. While it's...
  16. Benjamin Olson

    Star Trek: Section 31 ... THE MOVIE

    Right, but think about what this is. The premise is that she is the refugee empress of an alternate timeline working for the black ops unit of Star Fleet in a time period that only viewers of certain streaming service exclusive series are familiar with. That's way too complicated a premise to...
  17. Benjamin Olson

    American fast food chain Arby's releases polyhedral dice set (for the third time)

    With a brand like Arby's the logo should clearly take the place of the nat 1.
  18. Benjamin Olson

    Mando season 3

    Right, but she is, in some weird part of weapons research, doing work beyond the comprehension of normal people in the field. I very much doubt that your students are up to that, and in the very unlikely situation that they are I would anticipate that they spend a lot of time on it rather than...
  19. Benjamin Olson

    Mando season 3

    Right, which is why I said it wouldn't bother me if she was older. But no, being skilled enough in something technical, as a teenager, to surpass the best trained professional adults a galactic empire can muster requires a high degree of focus for even a highly intelligent person with prodigious...
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