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Good advice in general. However it is worth noting that Steam currently has it on sale for a $2, whereas over on GoG it is presently a full priced $6.

I mean, on a lore and world-building front that's certainly true. Heck, it makes more sense that the dying Q of some far flung future should want to go back to screw with Picard one last time than that Q, a virtually timeless being, declined so much in the several decades since we last saw him...

Interesting, but "going to a well too often", which is the accusation I made, is not a matter of the absolute number of times gone but rather of the number of times gone compared to what the well supplies. The well of courtroom episodes provides Trek with opportunities to do a lot of dramatic...

I loved this episode. The memory loss plotline worked great, in a classic Trek way. I loved that the rogue Starfleet officer just outright made himself king, as it's such an obvious plot-point for Star Trek, but I feel, at least, like it hasn't been overused, and yet was sufficiently familiar...

Per the adventure's character creation section: "The characters are seasoned adventurers researching the disappearance of Cientia Tower. They should have an interest in uncovering the secrets found in the wizard tower. For example, they may have a connection to one of the missing scholars or be...

The joy of the internet is that you almost never have to be the only one. But this franchise was founded on Nazi-punching, and whether or not they've gone to that well too many times, it should end with Nazi-punching. And it is at this point a character trait of Indy that he despises Nazis...

My money, based on how Star Trek tends to go, is on it all being run by evil future La'an, or a somehow alive evil future version of one of her family members. Which is not to say that that is necessarily currently planned to be the explanation. Rather I think that they left some threads open...

I would guess that the reason de-aging Mads Mikkelson was dodgier than de-aging Harrison Ford is that they had an extensive library of vintage footage of his character they were using to paint an 80s Indy face over Mr. Ford and/or his stand-in, whereas with Mikkelson they probably just used the...

Well my own experience of the multiplex being mostly empty whenever I visit, despite a potentially consumer favorable subscription model, and the indy theater with reasonable every day ticket prices and no such plan having a healthy crowd the one time I went there recently (for the D&D movie, so...

Well, your exhaustive survey of everyone you know's current subscriptions aside, I don't think it's clear how many people have these subscriptions. Cinemark reported a million subscribers last year, but it is $10 a month, which is a lot easier to get your money's worth on than the $20-some a...

Yeah, I was sure that there was a "so ya going to return my watch, or what?" conversation coming up right until the episode actually ended. And the close-up of the watch had what I would consider a "foreboding" musical sting. So I think they intend to follow up on this plot thread in some...

It's a pretty good deal if you actually use it. They do require you subscribe for 3 months at a time though, which means that when I started it in May there was every movie that had been released since March to choose from and it was an amazing deal (I saw Guardians 3, the D&D movie a second and...

My local Regal multiplex is $15.50 for a matinee now. That is a bad enough price that I considered going to see something in the theater for the first time in years last fall but saw the prices and decided it wasn't worth it, and didn't go to a movie until this spring. Part of the issue is that...

Oh most definitely, which also astonishes me as someone who only saw the very forgettable first movie, but my understanding is that the franchise has reinvented itself several times by now. The reasons the number of Police Academy movies is extraordinary to me is because a) each one made less...

Surely if some combination of weapons and armor did not generally exceed the performance of being unarmed an unarmored, people would never have bothered with the stuff. It seems to me like the basic "problem" here is that Fighter is just a much more conceptually broad and flexible class than...

A spell list thematic to the class that borrows from the contents of the other spell lists represents exactly what I want. Choosing to be a bargain basement cleric, a store-brand druid, or yet another arcanist with the same set of arcanist spells as three other classes, would be the terrible way...

I guess you took my saying it "suffered" from Cannes to refer to it's box office. I was just talking about why the critical reception was so oddly negative. On the financial point, I think the value of the franchise in the 1980s really has only tangential weight on the value as a nostalgic...

It seems it suffered quite a bit from a Cannes premier, which basically meant it disproportionately went straight to the section of professional critics with high brow pretensions and minimal tolerance for franchise fare, the consensus of which then influenced other critics.

Well, just got back from seeing this one. I really liked it; didn't love it. If, like me, you go in just hoping it is a reasonably satisfactory send-off for the character and not terrible, I think it delivers on that. Sighs of relief all around. I don't think it has the iconic action scenes or...