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No, the hat chooses for him. I've read text just now. He's crapping his pants about it selecting Slytherin, but it doesn't ask him to make a choice, it makes a choice for him, possibly (unclear) because he's crapping his pants re: Slytherin, which makes sense. But the idea he just chose is an...

That's basically a massive retcon though isn't it? There's no evidence, textually, that it has anything to do with the student's choice (with the possible exception of Harry, who himself continues to insist the hat chose for him), until, years after the fact, after years of people, including...

The hardship (which was much more severe for Monroe - Rowling's accounts are demonstrably exaggerated and self-contradictory, and increasingly more dramatic and Dickensian the more she tells them - the earlier versions are much more plausible) may have made more Monroe empathetic and socially...

And yet a wholly correct one! It's right to stand by it! My unpopular HP opinion, also not one to bring up in casual conversation because it makes a lot of people uncomfortable, is that it was increasingly obvious as one went through the HP books that the writer was an extremely narrow-minded...

The big question with a lot of those is whether they actually are in a lane, or are in the lane they say they're in though. Like, what happens to Aunt May when a super-strong (like Dr Doom but not Hulk-ian levels) villain punches her in the gut (not specifically intending to kill her) is kind...

That's the thing. Many groups are sane, even when you're like 12 or 14 or w/e. Like, the worst thing that happened in our groups when we were teenagers was basically just occasionally two PCs/players getting so mad they duelled or something (which resolved the issue because usually both of them...

Ohhhhhhhhh that is interesting! I knew Gonzales left Guerilla (he lead-wrote HZD - including creating the setting etc. - and some of the sequel), but I didn't realize he was back. I see he says he's not working on FO:NV2, but that's kind of a given because it would require Bethesda to not be...

I mean, I don't think there's particularly "adolescent" about either author (who are very different too), and I think that might speak a little more to your attitudes re: sex/sexuality in literary works than what's actually written in the books themselves (I'd be fascinated to know what books...

For sure, but they tend to do so in a different way, and it doesn't get as much purchase. The dedicated D&D-hater community isn't generally hugely interested in individual releases it seems.

At the current rate I'm not convinced we'll have TES6 by 2035 lol. FO4 was definitely on the way to being a looter shooter already (it had literally randomized magic guns from Diablo 2-style random rares with random affixes, as well as the component-based randomization on other guns), so yeah...

I tend to feel the same way but here's the problem. Several books that did not seem very promising for like over half their length turned into some of the best I've ever read. In fact my personal favourite book, Imajica, I think if you had a 50-page rule an awful lot of people would drop just...

If we're wishing for the impossible, I'd love to see an incredibly thorough 5E take on Taladas, which was very true to the setting of the original, but with modern art and mechanics. They could even re-use the Purple Dragon Knight subclass as a the Dragon Knights of Taladas! I would buy it.

I mean, it's an official WotC D&D book. An awful lot of people will defend whatever they do, no matter how bad. So far we've no bottom limit to what will be defended in an official WotC D&D book (but see later in the next paragraph!). We've seen that at great length. The very worst, weakest...

He can definitely override them but his explanation in a previous episode and seeing how much they move without his input suggests most of the time he isn't.

That is true, I did say: So if he did do that, well SMDH as they say, because that + the robot being the cameraman and doing the hard work means he was essentially just a dumbass who hung around the Enterprise for a few weeks asking really stupid questions and then decided to put his name on a...

I mean, call me Mystic Meg, call me Postradamus (or even "More like Postra-dumbass!!!" when I get it very wrong), but I think we can guess pretty much how they screw it up if they screw it up, if we're really real about it. It's not easy though. The main barrier here is that there are so many...

It doesn't make sense that they'd be tadpoles though lol nor that Elder Brains would exist, nor a million other things. There's this extremely lame tendency in fantasy and some sci-fi to make it so literally every race "were human" at some point in the past/future, and this is always supposed...

IIRC just that they're natural half-dwarves and slavemasters target them because they're so strong and have such great endurance, which like, is superficially similar but fundamentally different to "created by slavers, for slavers". I expect any 5E version to cut the slavery angle, which...

I mean, it's just about the most implausible possible backstory given their lifecycle so I don't think that's worth considering lol.

I kind of liked it at the time on a certain level but I feel like Ryan Reynold's schtick is making it retroactively worse every day!