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It's goiong to be really interesting to see what effect this movie wants to have on the MCU,a nd what effect it actually winds up having. Does anyone have a reading on that, because I really don't - I'm staying away from spoilers for this movie, and the cause-and-effect in MCU projects of the...

I rolled nothing but 20s.

A photographer should definitely get better at lighting. A painter should definitely get better at painting. Unless they...don't want to get better? "Creating" is the key, I think. Is the artist doing the creative work? An artists working with an Apple Pen in Photoshop on an iPad is doing the...

There was a Kickstarter project recently that piqued my interest, in part because the art looked amazing. And then I looked at the art a little closer and it seemed almost too good. Everything looked right, technically, but having looked at a lot of art that I know was AI generated I think my...

People with eyes+brain that have been trained to scrutinize and analyze art (and imagery in general) will be better at spotting these things than those whose eyes+brain are not trained that way. I mean, there are people who can't tell the difference between a tv with the motion-smoothing turned...

I GMed SW:EotE for a while. I found the design and use of the proprietary dice to be awkward, and I never got comfortable with it. I think most of my players got used to it, though. Regarding the rest of the system, I'm surprised they didn't use the dice system throughout. Weapons could add...

I feel your pain, @Retreater ! I, too, can't stand when the useful bits are buried in text. With any luck, you can rely on a publisher's previous books to suggest what a new book by them will be like. Together, these are the reasons I backed Shadowdark at the hardback _ pdf level. I had...

Yeah, I canceled my Master-tier subscription for money- and OGL fiasco-related reasons, and now just have the free version. I only use that to make a character when the current DM seems to really want it there. Regardless, I'm using paper at the table now, and I prefer it. If I'm running a...

I picked "soft reset" because my group loves them some D&D Beyond, and I imagine DDB will be pushing the new stuff, so we'll probably segue in whatever way DDB demands. I'm not crazy about this, but whatevs.

If you don't mind the style of TOS, watching Space Seed before watching Khan isn't a bad idea.

I don't know enough about how stuff in video games is generated, and I'd like to know how people working on the creative end of the video game biz feels about the use of AI there. That said, I don't want AI images or writing, and the rest I marked as acceptable. There's some blurring there...

Maybe these repeated failures will bring them to their senses, and they'll sell the rights to Disney. Wait. "Come to their senses"?!? What am I thinking?

#1: KAAAAAAAHN! #2: Where's Spock? #3: TUC Everlasting #4: The Motionless Picture #5: The One with the Whales #6: F for execution Spock and TUC are kind of tied. With TUC, I love the Nicholas Meyer of it all, but Spock is emotional and philosphical and personal in ways I really love. I had to...

That's good to hear - I don't see people talking about this much, just the rules, so I tend to think I'm in a minority.

This book is going to be one of those that I will have to look through a copy in person before buying. One of the people in my gaming group gets the WOTC books as soon as humanly possible, so I'll spend some time with his copy, at the table, and see if it's something I'm compelled to own. A lot...

I have decreasing interest in it, but my gaming group has been playing D&D 5E weekly for 7 years (with occasional breaks for other games), so I suspect we will segue into 2024 D&D - in whatever way D&D Beyond wants us to. We all use DDB, although I'm moving back to books and paper and pencil...

I fell in love with the Smallville rpg back when, and still love the way that version of Cortex is built: your motivation and relationships matter just as much in task resolution as your skills and powers. I backed the Cortex Prime Kickstarter because of that, and although I think the core...

My choices: Slapdash or poorly-written. This is an immediate nope for me. There was a recent project for some game about sentient apes, but in every instance where they should have said "apes" they used the word "monkeys". As intrigued as I was by the concepts, if they can't get that right...