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  1. Paul Farquhar

    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    But it was set in 1981! UFO was ahead of it's time in so many ways.
  2. Paul Farquhar

    Spoilers Wednesday S2

    We have a suggestion of a Hyde werewolf.
  3. Paul Farquhar

    Violence and (Geek) Entertainment

    Thing with genre films: SF, fantasy, supers, they have an inherent air of unreality. - so you are unlikely to confuse anything in them for reality. The early F&F films, on the other hand, were less obviously unreal, and we have had problems with people trying to imitate them.
  4. Paul Farquhar

    Spoilers Wednesday S2

    Gomez avoided the Nevermore event. Maybe because he considered that also appropriation but didn't want to call it out in the circumstances?
  5. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General This Makes No Sense: Re-Examining the 1e Bard

    And the same situation applies for any dual classed character. The starting age is simply for whatever class you chose first. It doesn't matter if you are outside the suggested starting age for any classes you take subsequently, because you are not starting as that class - clearly starting age...
  6. Paul Farquhar

    Violence and (Geek) Entertainment

    This is one of those things that becomes a bigger issue the better you know the place. So I will have issues if it concerns London, such as when a Thor2 gets the number of tube stops to Greenwich wrong, or Moon Knight has a ridiculous accent, but I wouldn't notice anything if the setting is New...
  7. Paul Farquhar

    Violence and (Geek) Entertainment

    Decent script =/= more realistic. Some really great movies play with reality and expectations.
  8. Paul Farquhar

    Violence and (Geek) Entertainment

    Which is highly subjective. What breaks your suspension of disbelief is probably very different to mine. As a scientist, I have to make a determined effort to switch science brain off for practically every movie I see. Nope, ever heard of surrealism? Ever seen Head? There is absolutely no...
  9. Paul Farquhar

    Violence and (Geek) Entertainment

    Way to point out the bleedin obvious. “Superhero” and “realism” are diametric opposites. But that’s not a problem in itself. Entertainment is not supposed to be realistic, it’s supposed to be entertaining. The overwhelming majority of movies are not realistic, the superhero genre is just more up...
  10. Paul Farquhar

    Violence and (Geek) Entertainment

    Same was true in the original stories. Conan could take enough punishment to kill a human many times over, and still fight as well as ever. That’s where hit points come from.
  11. Paul Farquhar

    Spoilers Wednesday S2

    They did say they regretted killing her character off in the first series, so I can't say I was massively surprised to see her back in some fashion.
  12. Paul Farquhar

    Violence and (Geek) Entertainment

    I remember thinking the same thing about the A Team TV series in the 80s. However, now I'm older and wiser, I can see the other side. Stories need to have conflict without being bogged down by realistic consequences. And it's often the gratuitous violence that is "pornographic". If we consider...
  13. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Heroes of the Borderlands

    I believe some use the same battlemaps.
  14. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Heroes of the Borderlands

    Do we have the art for any of the other potential PCs apart from the female dwarf?
  15. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Take A Look At The Class Boards From The New D&D Starter Set

    I seem to recall Talismsn having something similar 40 years ago.
  16. Paul Farquhar

    Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread

    I’m sceptical - I doubt anything on the island will survive, since it will need to be nuked. If there is a season two, I think it’s more likely to focus on whatever slipped past the crash site containment.
  17. Paul Farquhar

    Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread

    Or it’s a big fat completely harmless red herring. I’d do it! I think five is the one that will jump out and kill everyone, otherwise why keep it hidden?
  18. Paul Farquhar

    Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread

    His chance of survival was zero anyway. The eye has had more animal hosts than human. It attacked Nibs, who is not human, and a significant threat. Maybe we should call her Boo? “Go for the eyes!”
  19. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General This Makes No Sense: Re-Examining the 1e Bard

    Yeah, but he was First edition, man.
  20. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General This Makes No Sense: Re-Examining the 1e Bard

    It’s a powerful class. But it doesn’t have any soul.
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