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  1. Benjamin Olson

    If you wanted to catch Star Trek Prodigy but haven't yet, better watch it soon!

    Not only cancelling, but cancelling with a substantially complete but un-aired second season, and removing it from the service seems unlikely to really make strict financial sense. Much like Disney's disappearing of the Willow series, or HBOs of Westworld, it feels like they wanted to make sure...
  2. Benjamin Olson

    D&D 5E (2014) Skywrite: a weapon of mass communication/coordination

    Indeed, and while I might rule-of-cool Message to work like this with the right overall circumstances, Dream is the communication spell that actually has a "interrupt their sleep" option, and Message should not be allowed to generally be more effective at exhausting people than the 5th level...
  3. Benjamin Olson

    If you wanted to catch Star Trek Prodigy but haven't yet, better watch it soon!

    That's 100% what happened to me. I also just found Dal deeply obnoxious. TV teens/preteens are often deeply obnoxious. I think the tropes of them are overly influenced by Hollywood writers who have or had terrible relationships with their children. Also I have the version of Paramount+ with...
  4. Benjamin Olson

    D&D 5E (2014) Skywrite: a weapon of mass communication/coordination

    All of D&D's communications spells become top-tier spells in the right hands and in the right campaign.
  5. Benjamin Olson

    Waffles vs. Pancakes vs. French toast: Which is best?

    I mean, fair enough. Really all I'm getting at is that I believe various waffle making devices very frequently fall in the "seems nice to have, but rarely actually gets used" category of things that frequently gum up people's kitchen cabinets, and of such things seem like they add very little...
  6. Benjamin Olson

    Strange New Worlds season 2 - SPOILERS

    I mean, I completely agree, but I guess I've just come to accept that any extended courtroom scenes on movie and tv will always be preposterous. As far as Star Trek trials go this won points with me simply by having actual legal professionals on both sides. Overall it was fine. Not a favorite...
  7. Benjamin Olson

    D&D General Struggling to get started

    Basically WotC's full book campaigns are bloated messes with too many moving pieces (and little cross-referencing) that make them way more trouble to run as is than they're really worth, and by time you adapt them to work for you, you've written half a campaign yourself. The one you all already...
  8. Benjamin Olson

    Waffles vs. Pancakes vs. French toast: Which is best?

    I mean you do you. To me, having spent most my life in homes overcrowded with too many possessions, appliances whose only purpose is to have the same flavor profile of food in a different shape are kind of top of the list for things to not own.
  9. Benjamin Olson

    Waffles vs. Pancakes vs. French toast: Which is best?

    To me its all about context. Waffles are just a needlessly fancy version of pancakes. If I'm at a restaurant I prefer the former, but I am very much opposed to living in a household that has reached the level of excessive consumption required to own a waffle iron (be it a separate small...
  10. Benjamin Olson

    Rumour that Disney will have to sell Lucas Film and some parks to pay for Hulu

    Well... presumably it will be a very modest remodel.
  11. Benjamin Olson

    Rumour that Disney will have to sell Lucas Film and some parks to pay for Hulu

    Has anyone else heard the rumor that Disney is selling their rights to the Tron franchise to finance a remodel of Bob Iger's office washroom?
  12. Benjamin Olson

    What etiquette rules do we assume is common in the community?

    This thread seems dominated by people who are much more openly opinionated and controlling over other people's odors and eating habits than me or anyone I've ever gamed with.
  13. Benjamin Olson

    Strange New Worlds season 2 - SPOILERS

    And it is thus that we finally learn that he is from the Highlands.
  14. Benjamin Olson

    How I'd fix Star Wars

    What is "broken" with Star Wars is that it had too much time lying fallow during which fans' ideas of what Star Wars is "supposed to be" crystalized around an amazing trilogy of movies that, whatever their flaws, stood so far beyond anything else at the time in scope and achieved ambition within...
  15. Benjamin Olson

    "I will lend you horses."

    Gift giving and guest-friendship are pretty ubiquitous in the early warrior cultures which mythology tends to be set it, whether it be Greek myth and epics, Norse myths and sagas, or a panoply of other examples less influential on Western Fantasy literature. The leaders give grand gifts to...
  16. Benjamin Olson

    TSR NuTSR Declares Bankruptcy

    Indeed. It will of course depend on what a court determines to be the facts, and is far from automatic, but all anecdotal signs point to LaNasa being the type of person who probably kept slapshod books in order to play fast and loose with the money of his various businesses when it suited him.
  17. Benjamin Olson

    D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Hit or Flop?

    The why she was hanging out with Hugh Grant is that she utterly lacked the people skills to put up with running the city, as demonstrated in the scene where she has to explain the arcane seal on the vault, and was awkward and off-putting. The part of the plan that didn't really make sense was...
  18. Benjamin Olson

    D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Hit or Flop?

    Okay, but how did "not-immediately clear villain motivations" contribute to the movie "bombing", which seems to be the thesis of the click-bait piece? I don't think anyone demanded their money back over that, doubt it contributed to any poor word of mouth, etc. etc. Glancing over a list of the...
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