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    Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

    ironic isn't it.
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    Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

    I never said he was motivated to cause others pain. He wasn't doing it wittingly, but it's the only thing he really achieved. When he starts to learn Dedra had used him, his first response is to choke her. When he learns what they were doing on Ghorman his response is to take out his...
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    Trailer Spaceballs 2: Not the Quest for More Money

    Between this, the Spinal Tap reboot and the Naked Gun reboot, I think Spinal Tap is the only one I have any hope for.
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    Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

    I thought his death was perfect. To be taken out by the pacifist leader that he'd been taking advantage of, just as he'd realised he had been used too was IMO, pure poetry. Syrill represented the inherent pathetic cowardice and cruelty of fascism. He doesn't deserve a speech, he was a nobody...
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    Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

    Meanwhile, the post credit montage where we see what happened to various supporting characters was brutal.
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    Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

    The way Dedra uses Syrill wouldn't have as much impact if they weren't in a relationship. Her treating a life partner this way tells us more about her character than if she was just using a work colleague. Without their relationship we also get none of the dynamics between Dedra and Syrill's...
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    Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

    You kinda answered your own question. Their relationship mirrors, or rather it contrasts with Cassian and Bix’s relationship. That’s part of the point. It emphasises how Syrill and Dedra’s relationship is transactional, and based on personal benefit by comparison. There’s a banality to it which...
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    Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

    Exactly, she was a cog in the machine who ended up making cogs for the machine. Her ending was poetic to me.
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    D&D General How Was Your Last Session?

    A few quickies: Wild Beyond the Witchlight - we steamrolled the first Witch, she rolled poor initiative and was dead before her turn. Homebrew 5E - We picked up the game after a bit of a break. During the session we got ambushed by a group that included a Raksasha. BECMI game - I found out...
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    Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

    I thought one of the many interesting things about Dedra and Syrill was that under different circumstances they could have been a part of the rebel alliance. At least, that's what they show hints at.
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    Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

    Just while we're on this tangent, Acolyte always felt like a YA show to me. Anyway, now back to the Andor memes...
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    D&D General 1s and 20s: D&D's Narrative Mechanics

    It's a shame, I really liked inspiration as a currency players could use to effect the narrative (even if it was just a house rule).
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    D&D General 1s and 20s: D&D's Narrative Mechanics

    I was going to mention this in my previous comment. In the groups I play in players do request things outside the rules after rolling a nat 20. It's not something that happens every time, nor is the request always granted. But's it does happen. At the start of 5E I allowed inspiration points to...
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