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My limit is determined by: A) have I started being an ass (like, more than normal)? If yes, time to leave. ("Look around the room and spot the d*ckhead. If you can't spot them, it's you.") B) is it basically the same handful of folks arguing with each other now? C) am I just repeating myself...

We can teach them well, but I guess we have to let them lead the way. Let their laughter remind us how we used to be, and stuff.

I think Superman making mistakes is an awesome plot point, as long as they're honest mistakes. In fact, that's why I describe him as structurally ironic: his simplistic values will inevitably put him in situations where there are unforseen consequences, of course with the best of intentions...

I'm experimenting with testing the parameters of ChatGPT and NotebookLM in various ways - bear with me; we're all doing it in my field of work, and just had another pro-D session on it all day yesterday. Anyway, I asked Chat+ to comb through my Internet history, using my Google login (this one)...

I think Morrus already made this point, but I just don't see Superman's ethics coming from his godlike perspective. I see them as coming from his adoptive parents, who have always been presented as completely salt-of-the-earth, this is right, this is wrong, kinds of folks. Like, he's completely...

Got around to watching episode 4. Vast improvement! Felt much more like Season 1.

That trailer actively irritated me. The "job interview" hook manages to be both a cliche and incredibly stupid, and the rest of it looks like predictable superhero plot, but we've tried to make it for the youth.

See, I really liked this. My Superman is a massive Boy Scout. He dosn't really do shades of grey. He stopped a war, and those who have a problem for ideological reasons or whatever can go suck an egg. Ethically speaking, he's a hardcore deontologist. Snyder tried to give us the morally...

Sigh. Okay, that is cool, but as a fan of the show who has to wait until it is on streaming, can you please not put massive spoilers in the title of a thread.

Yeah, it's kinda weird. Talk about the power of branding, I guess? I don't get it. Because, as this thread attests, it's not really a qualitative thing. Don't get me wrong, I really like D&D. I still play it all the time! But it's not incredibly superior to the competition; I bet everyone in...

I don't recall ever feeling like official D&D books were overpriced, in any edition. If anything, given the scale of their print runs, they might tend to underprice their books, putting pressure on competitors.

To put in context, I got paid $3.00/hour to start as a teenager at McDonalds just a couple years after that ('83). So...that's a pretty low wage! Edit: In fact, as I recall $3.60/hour was the minimum wage for 18 and older at that time, at least where I lived; we got paid less because there was...

Yes, and I am so there for it! I've been using her that way for a long time now, and Bahamat is kind of a chump in my setting, so this dovetails nicely.

Giving them spiritual weapon would not be just another tool. It would define their approach to combat once it came online.

This thread has me struggling to think of another genre that has been so dominated by a single product as TTRPGs have been dominated, from their inception to today, by D&D. There have been thousands of other games in the genre, many of the best cited in this thread, yet none have approached...

Back to the OP: $16.99 on DDB is a pretty great deal. That's not much more than I paid for a module when I started playing 45 years ago!

Yes, and don't forget the other likely reactions from some quarters, if WotC manages to release a version that completely removes all the slavery and eugenics elements: "WotC releases PG version of Dark Sun for crybabies." "This isn't Dark Sun." It's a lose-lose proposition for them. Best to...

The book is the single most traumatizing work of art I’ve ever experienced. My son was 3 and had just been diagnosed with autism when I read it, and it was overwhelmingly emotional. I had to invent a detailed alternate ending, which for me is canon, to cope with it. So I will never watch the...

Disagree. Generic means “typical of its genre,” and it is a useful term. It means conventional, uncreative, not pushing boundaries, not particularly noteworthy in an aesthetic sense. Wheel of Time covers (and content) are great examples of generic post-Tolkien fantasy.

Gygax didn’t just use ideas that were in the zeitgeist, though. Tons of 1e stuff was originally created for 0e, or contributed through letters, magazines, etc. and then rewritten by Gygax for 1e. Meaning specific rules, spells, monsters, even character classes. One of the primary purposes of...