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  1. MarkB

    XKCD What if: What if the Earth rotated 90 degrees?

    It rotates 360 degrees every day.
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    The Naked Gun | Official Teaser Trailer (2025 Movie)

    The Hot Shots movies still hold up. I wouldn't port Sheen over from them, though - what he brings to the part isn't the same as what Nielson does.
  3. MarkB

    The Naked Gun | Official Teaser Trailer (2025 Movie)

    Well, the opening of the first one has exactly such a wild swing, with him beating up a roomful of evil dictators before falling out a window, so if the bank scene is a similar character intro it would be in keeping.
  4. MarkB

    The Naked Gun | Official Teaser Trailer (2025 Movie)

    Plus he's the face of a different zany comedy film franchise of the same era.
  5. MarkB

    D&D General Sandbox style: Rumors say a +1 sword is in a cave nearby. Go get it?

    Find a rival group of slightly-tougher adventurers in town, preferably ones who have a decent utility item or two between them already. Send in the bard and spread a rumour that the sword in the cave is actually a +2 sword. When the rival party goes to get it, follow them at a distance and wait...
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    D&D 5E (2024) PC Gamer: It's clear Hasbro, the custodians of D&D, have no idea what to do with Baldur's Gate 3's success

    I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with WotC / Hasbro not having done more to tie into BG3 in the time leading up to its release. Its success was far greater than anticipated, with many thinking it'd be buried under Starfield's much-hyped release, so going all-in on it would have...
  7. MarkB

    The Naked Gun | Official Teaser Trailer (2025 Movie)

    It's hard to see why we need a new take on such a classic, but on the other hand I'll never say no to more Liam Neeson.
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    Trailer Star Wars - Tales of the Underworld

    Ventress's scenes in the trailer seem to feature a lot of Clone Wars action, so I'm guessing it's more "how did she get from there to here?" Or both - these Tales stories have a tendency to feature a lot of time skips between episodes.
  9. MarkB

    Gen Con to Convert Gaming Convention to Rodeo and Stock Show in 2025

    Strike to shield or torso: 1 point Strike to head: 2 points Rider is undragoned: 3 points and acquire the loser's dragon Rider is incinerated: 3 points and the winner's dragon feasts well that day
  10. MarkB

    Trailer Star Wars - Tales of the Underworld

    Ventress could be interesting, but I can't bring myself to be curious about a Cad Bane backstory, certainly not based upon what they show in the trailer.
  11. MarkB

    Announcing FATE 5e 2024 edition!

    Don't threaten me with a good time.
  12. MarkB

    Gen Con to Convert Gaming Convention to Rodeo and Stock Show in 2025

    Rollin', rollin', rollin', Though the aisles are swollen, Keep them dice a-rollin', Rawhide!
  13. MarkB

    D&D General The D&D Memes Thread

    You know you've strayed to one of the rougher gaming cons when you notice that the DM's end of the table has chicken wire around it.
  14. MarkB

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Is Almost Upon Us! Discuss What You Want

    Leaked release date of August 1st, take it with a pinch of salt.
  15. MarkB

    Spoilers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    It is at least potentially one. I don't know how much non-Paramount-produced content exists on Paramount+, but my impression is that it's not much. Licensing third-party content isn't really what they do.
  16. MarkB

    Trash TV Secret Shame

    Yeah, my closest thing to a TV secret shame would be Youtube movie and TV show reaction videos.
  17. MarkB

    Spoilers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    It wasn't an official Star Trek production. It was produced by another company, and was crowdfunded.
  18. MarkB

    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    Yeah, none of that worked unfortunately, but it turns out I should've had more faith in the autosave. Although it placed me physically back at the starting point, it kept my progression in the mission and I only had a couple of tags left to locate.
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    What videogames are you playing in 2025?

    I've been replaying Mass Effect 2, but finding some occasional frustrations with bugs. Like, in the Normandy Crash Site mission I spent about 20 minutes digging up dogtags, reliving memories etc., all without saving the game because there's no combat involved, then I got inexorably stuck on a...
  20. MarkB

    Project Sigil Sigils not dead yet. Claim a mimic mini for Sigil at dndbeyond.

    This is also what makes its nature as a 3D tabletop more awkward compared to the various 2D ones. If I want to make a token for a new monster on Roll20, it's literally a five-minute job with 3rd-party tools - Google a suitable image for the critter, paste it to an online token maker, save it...
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