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An engineering genius, a demolitions expert, an acclaimed artist, and sufficiently skilled in the Mandalorian combat arts to routinely defeat people who just do that full time, all by her mid to late teens, having also spent meaningful time in the imperial academy. One of the weaker points of...

Absolutely agree. Another alternative I like, if the system really can't handle that much damage variation, is to have crits just do max damage. Really all I care about is having the simplest, dumbest rule that gives a nat 20 some excitement without causing confusion. The current crit system...

While I wish it wasn't the Borg again, as an abrupt episode 9 reveal I think anything else would have just been more disappointing. To me the sin lies with the fixation of serialized television with big mystery box reveals, not in putting the most suitable thing in the mystery box. Mutated...

Well, episode 9 is a mixed bag. I'll spoiler my comments beyond that because I'm writing a few hours after it premiered and it's the most spoliery episode of the season.

Every RPG should have a feature to empower your weapon by giving it a rousing speech about its history.

Crucially both of those pieces of art are credited to an artist by the name of J. R. R. Tolkien. While that does not make them definitive expressions of his complete vision in as much as the expression was limited by his amateur skill in visual arts and he may have made slightly different...

Cool. I still think that if it was compelling viewing it would have been released by now. And a D&D session can certainly be a ton of fun without being a good viewing experience. Heck, it might just have technical issues like poor sound quality on their remote DM or something.

Maybe. Or maybe we just saw the salvageable seconds of a terribly unentertaining session. My guess is that is was probably mostly just a little on the awkward side, as games with a new group with new players often are. Probably enjoyable enough for super fans who buy the blu-ray, but probably...

I mean clearly I didn't, because my stance is that it supports slavery, and this needs to be ignored because there is no satisfying resolution trying to tackle that issue and we should just enjoy our space opera.

Because one only involves ceasing to exist in an arbitrary rhetorical construct of what sleep is, whereas the other involves disintegration and artificial duplication. If one accepts every piece of Star Trek official techno-babble I'm sure it comes out as equivalent, but it's pretty obvious...

Which is not consistent with what the can do on any level, and makes no sense, which is why I am so confident that they are disintegrating cloning machines. And even if after disintegrating a person they did create a duplicate of the same person out of the same atoms that happened to be in them...

I mean I do not find it a freshman philosophy question, because that is how one charactarizes a question of seemingly great but really little consequence with no clear answer. I have a clear answer. My answer is resoundingly that the only way I can interpret them is as disintegrating a person...

Star Wars is never going to be ready for that conversation. At least some droids absolutely are slaves. While you can perhaps reasonably interpret the intelligence of an R2 or a BB-8 as somewhere between a high-functioning dog and a personal computer, the only way any of the major protocol...

It does sound like you're right. But who knows what it will actually be if and when it actually makes it to screen. Hollywood infamously has no respect for a project's original vision whatsoever. I'm just reading the news on that production as Daisy Ridley being attached for another Star Wars...

I also think that they are in a similar situation with Rey as they were with Luke at the end of Return of the Jedi where we end on a note of "and now you are truly a Jedi". While we may recognize that the "hero learns to hero" part of a character's story can be much more interesting than the...

Personally I feel any adventure too long to easily read through in one brief sitting (probably anything longer than 16 pages) really needs an apparatus of marginal notes or some such to explain the significance of everything as it comes up to someone flipping around through it.

I can't speak to the later seasons of Discovery, as I never got around to watching them, but this season of Picard is the first time in my experience serialized Trek has actually produced a storyline that seemed momentous enough to justify a ten episode treatment. It also doesn't suffer the...

Thousands of people fail to make money or otherwise see the success they want on RPG products they put insane amounts of work into. Very few of them feel their lack of success requires conspiracy theories to explain.

I think that's almost certainly how this series ends. I'm guessing it won't happen until the very end, because I don't think they really want to incorporate Mandalorian armor visually into his baby yoda look.

Um, in a technical sense I suppose. In a "having a pretense of being a coherent piece of art" sense the person that we assumed from the beginning is the title character should be the title character, and while an "in a sense it was the other main character who was there from the beginning whose...