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    Black Adam – Official Trailer 1

    I wish I were more excited for this movie. I love the Justice Society so that alone should have me all over this movie but I'm not a huge fan of Dwayne Johnson. He's an ok actor but every time I watch one of his movies I feel like I am watching Dwayne Johnson, not whatever character his is...
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    D&D General What did you think of the Stranger Things D&D game?

    That's usually what I was doing during class instead of paying attention. I sat in the back with my face buried in my book :)
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    D&D General What did you think of the Stranger Things D&D game?

    Not everyone will have the same response to phenomena. People aren't identical and don't react in exactly the same ways, they tend to react along a spectrum. Assuming someone is making a conscious decision to overlook a perceived inconsistency is not a fair assumption, they may just be more...
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    D&D General What did you think of the Stranger Things D&D game?

    My grades in high school SUCKED. I was a slacker who barely did any of the work required except for the few classes that interested me. I barley had passing grades and was primarily the DM so while what you say may be generally true there are people like myself who were exceptions to that.
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    Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

    Another really good episode. The whole mind swap thing was so TOS and I loved it. We got more La'an and Chapel goodness, which is always a treat but I'm still finding it hard to care about Ortegas. I've been surprised with how little of Hemmer we have seen so far.
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    The GM is Not There to Entertain You

    I expect my DM to dance a jig for my amusement.....
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    Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

    To each their own but the Paramount+ era seems to fly in the face of that. You have Discovery (which I can't stand) which is wildly different from any Trek before it, so much so that for the few seasons I watched it I rarely felt like I was watching Star Trek. There is Lower Decks, an animated...
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    Mercedes Lackey Ejected From Nebula Conference For Using Racial Slur

    I'm going to have to disagree with you here, biology matters. As we age our brains shrink, it starts in your 30s - 40s and the rate increases in your 60s. The area of our brain most affected is the prefrontal cortex which is where executive functions like impulse control, reasoning, problem...
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    Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

    To be fair, we haven't really seen other Starfleet ships in SNW. Starfleet isn't primarily a "military" organization, it's an exploration organization that also fulfils the role of a military. Even so, that doesn't mean that Enterprise is a pushover. To paraphrase Captain Kirk, they were "caught...
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    Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

    The entire time I was watching this episode I kept thinking about the TOS episode Balance of Terror, it's one of my favorite episodes and it also evoked submarine combat. Wrath of Khan also did that really well. La'an is rapidly becoming one of my favorite characters on the show, second only to...
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    Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

    I just rewatched the first three episodes and have really grown to like the new take on Nurse Chapel. At first she just seemed "off" to me, just too different than the character from TOS but I am really enjoying the more upbeat but very confident version we are getting in SNW. La'an is another...
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    Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

    Sure, language and concepts change over time, and I have no problem with that which is why I find it helpful to provide a definition so others know where I am approaching something from. However, if the definitions become too squishy they become useless. If Star Trek is hard sci-fi compared to...
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    The GM is Not There to Entertain You

    As someone who primarily DMs I definitely feel that one of my primary duties is being responsible for running an entertaining game, and consequently, entertaining my players. However, it does run both ways and my players are also responsible for being engaged and making the game fun for me and...
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    Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

    Hard sci-fi, as I understand it, is a type of sci-fi that tries to make the science credible and does it's best to adhere to actual scientific concepts with some level of accuracy. Obviously, sci-fi generally can't be a slave to actual scientific accuracy since some story concepts may be needed...
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    Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

    You're right, it's not. That's why it always amuses me when someone calls Trek "hard sci-fi".
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    Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

    I agree that while it was a good episode but it was the weakest of the three so far. I didn't care for it turning out that Number One was an Illyrian and an augment, it just felt forced to me. I also didn't care for the reveal that M'Benga was keeping his daughter in the pattern buffer...
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    Buying to not use

    I bought Pathfinder for Savage Worlds as part of the Kickstarter and even when I bought it I was pretty sure I would never use it. I played 3.x/Pathfinder for longer than probably any other game and when I got burned out I moved to Savage Worlds. I was really curious to see how PEG made the two...
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    D&D General Dungeon Magazine's Top 30 Adventures: Do they hold up?

    Some I've run in the fairly recent past (spoiler - they all hold up). As a side note; all were campaigns I ran that were converted to Castels & Crusades in case that matters to anyone. GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders - I've run this twice, the first time was only the Against the Giants portion and...
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    D&D General Why TSR-era D&D Will Always Be D&D

    Because with a little salt and pepper every edition is tasty :)
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    I’m crushing your head 😂

    I had no idea this was a thing. I'm generally not a fan of sketch comedy but I love The Kids in the Hall. Need to check this out
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