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Did I ever suggest that I liked that take on them, let alone that you should…? All lore is real life lore. Elves are made-up. If someone wants to depict them as “about” the future, the past, the reason they can never find the left sock any of any pair, or whatever else they like, it’s all...

Your preferred elf lore is not everyone’s preferred elf lore.

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Invented is an interesting choice of words for how they gained immortality. You’ve piqued my curiosity, how did they achieve it?

I agree! I’m also not a fan of that brand of… I wouldn’t even call it criticism at that point, it’s uncritical consumption. EDIT: Spoilerblocking my whole rant, because it contains major spoilers for the entire series.

Not really... They said where current edition canon conflicts with previous edition canon, current edition wins.

I think you’re conflating Season 3’s A-plot with Season 4’s B-plot. In Season 3, the mall was a cover for the Russians’ experimentation with using the Upside-Down as a way to sneak troops into America. In Season 4, Hopper was stranded in Russia after they blew up the portal at the end of Season...

Logical plot doesn’t matter one bit. Themes, tension, stakes, these things matter.

It’s not about the logic, it’s about the narrative tension. I mean, there were critiques of plot holes out there on the internet too, but I don’t really care about that. Plot exists in service of themes, and the show dropped the ball on the thematic level. Season 1 was great cinema, but that’s...

Not under Netflix it couldn’t. They have a “second screen” policy, which basically says all their shows have to be able to be understood by a hypothetical viewer who has it on in the background while doing something else on their laptop or phone or whatever. They have internal writing guidelines...

I thought that about season 4 when it first aired too, but in retrospect everything I really liked about season 4 boiled down to Eddy. Eddy was great. The Vecna plot was dumb, but Eddy was good enough to distract me from realizing it. Season 5 was more, equally dumb Vecna plot, without anything...

Sure, the world was ending. But also, we’ve gone from a single demogorgon being a season-long threat, to there immediately being an army of them, to now Mike Wheeler’s mom who has never seen one before can effectively fight one off with a broken wine bottle and a can-do attitude. And also-also...

Personally, I thought the last season was fine. Not great, not terrible, but inoffensive and entertaining enough for what it is. Which is exactly what I went in expecting. I think there were a lot of folks who had much higher expectations for it and were let down.

Oh, I’ve seen an absolute ton of critique of 5. The constant exposition, the degradation of the stakes, the poor use of the characters, the lack of consequences for basically anything… there was a sizable enough contingent of folks convinced that the epilogue in the second half of the last...

There were some r mistakes that occurred in the revisions. Spells that had slight wording changes but no obvious functional changes, except when read very carefully, whereupon it would become clear that the deletion of some seemingly innocuous word or phrase actually had major implications. I’m...

Frieren and Dragon Age are the two biggest influences on me for how I like to depict elves when I DM. I don’t tend to like what multi-centenarian characters tend to do to worldbuilding, so I fiddle with my PC races’ lifespans to put them all in the range of like 80-150 years. Except elves, who I...

A lot of it is almost certainly a case of trying to trim wordcount to make room for all the new art, and the folks doing the trimming not realizing that some of the words they were cutting had important game rule functions. An easy mistake to make if they weren’t involved in writing the spells...

There’s at least a small contingent online (which I count myself among) who very specifically do not want a robust social interaction minigame. Which I think is distinct from the actual play experience of the game in its own way. I think the average player is largely pretty indifferent to the...

On this subject matter, if you want an incredible depiction of an elf character with this brand of alien mentality, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is one of the best, full stop. The second half of Delicious in Dungeon also does it quite well, in a rather different way.

Oh, 100%! The way I talk about D&D here and elsewhere on the internet is completely different from how I talk about it with my friends, family, and colleagues in person.