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  1. MarkB

    Video Games and Music

    Shout out to the PS4 God of War soundtrack for being truly cinematic in quality. The vocal performances and animation of the characters is great, but it really feels like the music is doing so much work in conveying Kratos's emotions and presence.
  2. MarkB

    Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord

    I feel like the legs are less impressive than manufacturing himself a new digestive system. Still waiting for the epic tale of Darth Maul's lower half. Maybe it managed to graft itself onto the head and torso of one of the battle droids that got bisected during the fighting.
  3. MarkB

    Spoilers Falllout season 2 discussion

    Hank certainly wasted no time ramping up once he got past the prototype stage. I think the major issue this season is that there's no real sense that it's building to anything. Plotlines are moving, but they don't feel like they're converging the way they did last season, and nobody feels like...
  4. MarkB

    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    Fair enough, but the story is always what discourages me from playing through Fallout 4 again. Then again, the gameplay prevented me from ever getting very far into the story of either Fallout 1 or 2. Not sure how Fallout New Vegas doesn't make the cut, on either criteria, though.
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    D&D General Help with Beholder Eye Ideas

    How about having the eyes have drawbacks or side effects due to them never having been meant to be controlled by mere mortal minds. Like, the Charm eye causes people to randomly become infatuated with you at inopportune moments, or the Sleep ray turns you into that one teacher from Ferris...
  6. MarkB

    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    Sony seems to put a really high value on stories in the games they publish or support, and have done a good job of delivering some very good stories to their platform. Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, Ghost of Tsushima and Spiderman all managed to combine story and gameplay very well to deliver...
  7. MarkB

    D&D 5E (2014) Real Emotions at the Gaming Table

    I've seen too much Konosuba not to find it hilarious. If there's not a Spellcaster with Prestidigitation in the party, my main concern would be how far the nearest bath house is. With some characters I'd feel more sorry for the toad, swallowing all that spiky metal.
  8. MarkB

    Fallout Shelter Reality Show

    Maybe the audience will get to vote on what horrific unethical experiment this vault's population is being subjected to.
  9. MarkB

    Spoilers Falllout season 2 discussion

    This week's episode has sparked up my interest again. A few interesting reveals and twists, some bad news for the planned fate of vaults 32 and 33, and a shake-up at the end. Just disappointing that we didn't get our big Deathclaw fight (yet?)
  10. MarkB

    D&D General The D&D Memes Thread

    And if you gather enough, your hoard can also be your horde.
  11. MarkB

    Star Wars prequel questions

    What, one rule for you, another for everyone else?
  12. MarkB

    Star Wars prequel questions

    Sure, but that one was established (at mod request IIRC) precisely to prevent the proliferation of threads exactly like this one.
  13. MarkB

    Star Wars prequel questions

    We have a thread for this.
  14. MarkB

    Maintaining your secret identity

    Possibly. We do seem to be getting bogged down in the specifics of Superman's power set. Taking that level of invulnerability out of the equation might open things up.
  15. MarkB

    Divinity video game from Larian - may use AI trained on own assets and to help development

    I guess they were persuaded not to commit a Divinity Derivative Sin.
  16. MarkB

    Maintaining your secret identity

    That's one thing I liked about the Fantastic 4 movie. It presented a world in which the resident superheroes had actively taken a role in improving things on a worldwide level and had largely succeeded, introducing new technologies, negotiating peace between hostile powers, establishing new...
  17. MarkB

    Maintaining your secret identity

    Stop concealing my secret identity. You get that this was the bargain under discussion, right? Work as their agent in return for active assistance in keeping one's identity a secret. Not knowing what they can do if you break that bargain seems a little disingenuous on your part.
  18. MarkB

    Maintaining your secret identity

    I'm not sure many government agencies would go all-in on employing a complete amateur as a secret agent just because he has superpowers. Especially if you don't happen to be blessed with that morally-agreeable government in your own nation and are therefore asking them to employ you as a...
  19. MarkB

    Spoilers Falllout season 2 discussion

    The mystery this season isn't as compelling as the one last season, and the juggling act they're trying to do between creating a more general mystery for non-gamer viewers and a "what happened after the events of the game" mystery for Fallout New Vegas players is maybe a tougher line to walk in...
  20. MarkB

    Maintaining your secret identity

    The whole "knowing your own strength" thing is a topic in its own right. If you stumble over a stray shoe and catch yourself on a doorframe it's a nice recovery. If you-with-new-powers does so, you may knock the whole house down.
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