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    Brits United

    Londoner here, born in the sound of Bow Bells so very much technically a Cockney. Still live in London, back in North London (near Tottenham). I have an apparently somewhat transatlantic accent a lot of the time (my wife is American) so get accused of being "Canadian" by people trying to place...
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    D&D Movie/TV There’s a Baldur’s Gate TV Show Coming!

    So does setting after the game, though. They both have the same issue - you have to pick a "canon". Also you're massively overselling how different people's experiences are of the main plot beats of the game (which is all a TV series would likely cover even if they did go over the original...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is WOTC done publishing campaigns?

    You keep making these claims about what people are saying, but include no quotes. Reading the thread nobody is saying what you're claiming they are. So this is on you.
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    Your most pointless TV/movie/book nitpicks

    Okay I watched a TV series called Red Eye, which is a thriller mostly set on an aeroplane flying non-stop from London to Beijing, and I have to bring this thread back. There will be spoilers for the show but I don't think they matter much. It gets a lot of little technical stuff right...
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    What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In?

    Yeah I think this combined with a general late 2000s-era fad for "he's a jerk but he's right!" characters who were curiously almost always about well-educated white men about the same age as their showrunners (I wonder why) and a slightly earlier and less awful trend of "flawed detective"...
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    What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In?

    Holmes in the original stories is most assuredly not courteous, empathic and kind as a rule - at times he is all of those things, re selected people and situations, but he is frequently none of them and it's not always towards people who deserve it, indeed his treatment of Watson is downright...
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    What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In?

    Oh yeah that was season 6. Basically they should have skipped most of S6 and S7 and certainly should have ended the show on the car crash. S8 was totally pointless. I disagree re entertaining, Braugher and Miranda tried but only S8 dragged harder than the mental hospital one (which I see now is...
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    Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord

    Filoni frantically taking notes. Good lord that's somehow far less plausible than I anticipated! Even by Star Wars standards that is kind of a reach! I always assumed the retcon was someone got to him pretty quickly and shoved him in a bacta tank or similar. But no. He fell through a reactor...
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    Video Games and Music

    Great soundtrack but what an accursed cast, only 2 out of 5 of the leads don't have significant "controversies" or "allegations" sections on their Wikipedia pages (lucky they cast Emilio not his brother!). I was thinking "Oh man nobody talks about that movie anymore" but I suspect that may have...
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    What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In?

    I think you have too much faith in spy agencies. They're nowhere near as competently or safely run as hospitals. Hospitals have legal liabilities, and require a degree of transparency and traceability. Spy agencies have legal immunity and total secrecy. And indeed the CIA particularly have been...
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    The pre-P+ stuff was removed from US Netflix and briefly from some non-US markets in 2022. It's now gone worldwide.
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    Spoilers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    It's been a weird one with Paramount+ and Netflix. When Paramount decided they were going to launch a streaming service they ended agreements with Netflix, but then found there would be a big gap before they even were showing Paramount+ in a bunch of markets, so somehow after a few months, older...
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    What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In?

    Sadly Homeland definitely falls into the "basically propaganda" category despite its controlled cynicism re: the US government and CIA, because its portrayals of other people and places are horrifically racist and reflect propagandistic narratives of that era. The easiest example being its...
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    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    I would politely suggest that like, the vast majority of RPG players do not feel that way after they've been playing a very encounter-heavy game on a turn-based mode for say, 20+ hours. That you are quite unusual in this. I mean, it's not only not posing "any real difficulty", it's that...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is WOTC done publishing campaigns?

    Yeah I mentioned that the 6m didn't seem to include digital, and I'm trying to avoid being too repetitious so didn't repeat that there. Also I suspect owning the digital PHB is less relevant to how many people are playing because I suspect that's the book with by far the highest "owns in...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is WOTC done publishing campaigns?

    Care to quote anyone actually saying that? Because otherwise "Facts not in evidence", as they say, and you're in trouble with the judge.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is WOTC done publishing campaigns?

    The US population in 1980 was 226m The US population in 2026 is 341m That's about a 50% increase in population. So a 50% increase in sales would be matching sales. Previous "best guess" estimates (I believe based on figures from Ben Riggs, who is a legitimate researcher and author) on how many...
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