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Alamo Drafthouse is the model. At the very least, theatres need to realize they are competing with restaurants as a fairly inexpensive way to enjoy a night out from the house. You attract customers with atmosphere and food offerings, not necessarily the content on the screen. But most US...

Finally finished book 8! From the end, feels like book 9 will start things ramping up again. Is that the case or does 9 spin it's wheels?

Appreciate the sentiment. Honestly, I've been very lucky in my career the last 20 years and have little to complain about. I'm also enjoying going back to school and getting into a field where my natural aptitude for science and math will get to play a bigger role. And yeah, the...

Beautifully said. It's like you've been following all of these threads being woven together, and suddenly this episode comes (or the moment in the book comes) and you're like, 'OH!' that's the pattern being woven, 'Wow!'

The weirdest thing about the ending is that after all of the supposed 'realism' of people making bad choices leading to severe consequences is that the White Walkers didn't win in the end. I would have totally believed an ending to SoIaF where Westeros ended up covered in ice.

Same thing that's going on in the film industry. I'm a 20 year marketing veteran for feature films who lost his job last summer and is now pivoting into nursing as a new career after I sent out 400 resumes and landed only a single interview for a job way below my level of expertise, that I...

Yes, but I've come to realize that the historical inspiration is just cover for Martin's preference of the fantasy of extreme violence towards women and homosexuals. Yes, Martin, we know that's how our world was (is) but Westeros is your Fantasy world and you are choosing to add those elements...

I've been enjoying S3 overall, but yeah, this episode is just next level, and worth a watch on it's own even if you're not going to watch the whole series. Honestly, I remember how I felt when I read it, and was pretty blown away, but I'd say what I just watched hit me even harder. My brain...

S3E4 is an absolute masterpiece of storytelling and perhaps the best hour of filmed fantasy I've ever seen.

There could be a case for integrating the 3D terrain, map builder and minis into Maps, and ditching the fancier Sigil UI for the existing Maps one (which I think is great because of its simplicity).

Exactly. The problem Sigil was trying to solve was not enough people playing D&D. It was a bold attempt that ultimately proved too expensive given the current economic climate, so now a simpler version that only aims to be a tool for existing players who want to use it is what Sigil will be for...

That’s a really good point, that given current economic concerns as a whole for Hasbro, the ROI on Sigil is too far in the future to continue to spend on it now. In that case, it’s tellingvibthink that they kept any of the dev team. Perhaps they will be willing to expand the team again down the...

In my mind, that's a different issue than a 'a solution in search of a problem'. Again, I think the goal of Sigil was clearly to be a AAA piece of software whose ROI would be realized by attracting new customers to D&D primarily from existing video game players. That is, they knew the only way...

Ha! I just wrote in another thread that Sigil was likely dropping the ambitious (and scope creep heavy) plan to be a driver of new users into the D&D ecosystem and instead focus on being a physical 3D Terrain/Mini replacement system. What Maps has proven good at for DDB is driving up lifetime...

I think it's a weird take that Sigil was a solution in search of a problem. IMO it was pretty clear that WotC wanted 2 things from Sigil. First to be a digital replacement for physical 3D battle maps and minis (a small niche) but secondly and more importantly, they wanted it to be an easy...

You mean the discount sets that bundled physical and digital together with a nice savings and also happened to include a digital mini as a throw in?

Porting over the 3D Monsters/PCs to Maps is an interesting idea, I'd be down for that. And if I remember correctly, maybe a year ago there was an internal battle between the Sigil product owner and the Maps prodcut owner over where to spend resources. And it seems that Maps suddenly began...

Hmmm, either I'm thinking of a different scene or that was a very, very bad composite shot of the practical effect.

Understand the limitations of the TV budget (which is comparatively big) it just irks me when TV directors think they have a bigger budget than they do. Like, so much is good in WoT from the landscapes to the cities to the weave, and then a scene of a road being torn up by magic is so bad it...

The weaves continue to look great, but the environmental effects they create in that battle were pretty bad. Wish filmmakers would go back to using trickery for scenes like that if they don’t have the budget to get the fx looking reasonable.