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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for three years, the thread passed out of all knowledge.

I generally always disliked his vibe, which often struck me as oddly mean-spirited for CR (he was just always steering conversations to weird put-down humor, which I know is how some people express genuine affection, but it just stuck out like a sore thumb a lot of the time in CR content). He...

"Currency" existed, it just wasn't in the form of coin yet. While all sorts of things were used as currency, the direct predecessors to coin were ingots of various metals produced in standardized sizes and shapes, which are believed to have been used by many bronze age societies as units of...

Very true, though I'll note that's significantly after the Bronze Age. But one has to assume that a "Diamond Road" of sorts is likely to arise in whatever part of the world had sufficient protection of and freedom of trade as soon as possible. Also since diamonds don't go bad, such that a load...

You guess correctly, in terms of relatively large scale diamond gathering and early mining. Surface diamonds were gathered in a number of places. But they are distinct in being something that is very unevenly distributed around the world, so there would definitely be diamond "exporting" and...

In a reality where diamonds bring back the dead, people would have figured out diamond mining much earlier. It might be more interesting, to have them be exceedingly rare because they're only found in riverbeds or whatever, or to swap in different components, or to eliminate resurrection magic...

I mean, the first movie had its big guy get blended by a propeller (albeit after cutting away), and ended with all those faces melting. I think the perhaps jarring part is that...

Good advice in general. However it is worth noting that Steam currently has it on sale for a $2, whereas over on GoG it is presently a full priced $6.

I mean, on a lore and world-building front that's certainly true. Heck, it makes more sense that the dying Q of some far flung future should want to go back to screw with Picard one last time than that Q, a virtually timeless being, declined so much in the several decades since we last saw him...

Interesting, but "going to a well too often", which is the accusation I made, is not a matter of the absolute number of times gone but rather of the number of times gone compared to what the well supplies. The well of courtroom episodes provides Trek with opportunities to do a lot of dramatic...

I loved this episode. The memory loss plotline worked great, in a classic Trek way. I loved that the rogue Starfleet officer just outright made himself king, as it's such an obvious plot-point for Star Trek, but I feel, at least, like it hasn't been overused, and yet was sufficiently familiar...

Per the adventure's character creation section: "The characters are seasoned adventurers researching the disappearance of Cientia Tower. They should have an interest in uncovering the secrets found in the wizard tower. For example, they may have a connection to one of the missing scholars or be...

The joy of the internet is that you almost never have to be the only one. But this franchise was founded on Nazi-punching, and whether or not they've gone to that well too many times, it should end with Nazi-punching. And it is at this point a character trait of Indy that he despises Nazis...

My money, based on how Star Trek tends to go, is on it all being run by evil future La'an, or a somehow alive evil future version of one of her family members. Which is not to say that that is necessarily currently planned to be the explanation. Rather I think that they left some threads open...

I would guess that the reason de-aging Mads Mikkelson was dodgier than de-aging Harrison Ford is that they had an extensive library of vintage footage of his character they were using to paint an 80s Indy face over Mr. Ford and/or his stand-in, whereas with Mikkelson they probably just used the...

Well my own experience of the multiplex being mostly empty whenever I visit, despite a potentially consumer favorable subscription model, and the indy theater with reasonable every day ticket prices and no such plan having a healthy crowd the one time I went there recently (for the D&D movie, so...

Well, your exhaustive survey of everyone you know's current subscriptions aside, I don't think it's clear how many people have these subscriptions. Cinemark reported a million subscribers last year, but it is $10 a month, which is a lot easier to get your money's worth on than the $20-some a...

Yeah, I was sure that there was a "so ya going to return my watch, or what?" conversation coming up right until the episode actually ended. And the close-up of the watch had what I would consider a "foreboding" musical sting. So I think they intend to follow up on this plot thread in some...

It's a pretty good deal if you actually use it. They do require you subscribe for 3 months at a time though, which means that when I started it in May there was every movie that had been released since March to choose from and it was an amazing deal (I saw Guardians 3, the D&D movie a second and...