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Eh, New Jersey at least has the excuse that their team is built for the all trap, all the time style and wouldn't have much success doing anything else. The real crime is the Ottawa Senators, a team with tons of youth, speed, talent, and skill that still plays a game-killing style 80% of the...

At this point, I think RobandAmber's entire strategy is based around being the final two, so I don't think there's any distinction between their only hope and the plan they've laid out. They really seem to believe they can keep on manipulating the vote to bring that about. It'll be interesting...

One factor we don't know is whether there were any rules concerning team selection. For example, if they were required to have equal male/female ratios, then after Bill picked Katrina the teams were effectively set (and Kwame really only made one pick). I don't know if there were any such rules...

Yeah, that's why I think it was Kwame's job to lose. If he'd brought the hammer down on Omarosa after her first screwup, either by firing her or putting her in charge of something trivial, then further screwups wouldn't have weighed so heavily against him. As it was, he kept on making the same...

Looked like he didn't realize that was an option - it certainly wasn't on any of the previous tasks. My pet theory is that the job was Kwame's to lose for a long time (the only way he could get so far is if Trump was protecting him), and the last challenge was largely about finding out if Kwame...

You might also like "Time of Crisis", GR's first adventure for M&M. Very much a four-colour feel, and complete with giant Nazi robots. If you've got players who are attracted to Batman-style characters, make sure they know how to apply the Skill Focus and Talented feats. Coming from a D&D...

I've never sold anything through Cafepress, but the stuff I've bought has been decent (t-shirts for my players when they finished RttToEE). I do know people who have sold stuff through Cafepress, but all of them sold on a non-profit basis so payment wasn't an issue. Many Cafepress "stores" have...

American Chopper is fun, though a bit predictable after a few episodes. Needs better editing, IMHO. The only fix-it type show I watch is In a Fix. I agree with those who say it's all about the personalities, and In a Fix capitalizes on that by having some pretty colourful builders combined with...

Perhaps, but I wouldn't bet money on it. Back in the early 90s, the first time I ever had access to a writing style analyzer, I typed in a couple of paragraphs from the 1E DMG as an experiment. It came out with a low rating because the sampled text was "turgid", which I remember gave me a...

Preparing to survive a nuclear war the day nuclear war breaks out is thinking like an ant, huh? Do the grasshoppers not start shopping until CNN goes off the air?

Glad to hear you got it resolved. If you ever run into a similar situation, one way to resolve dealings with a non-responsive company is to file against them in small claims court. That almost always involves some kind of conciliation procedure where both parties meet with a judge to settle, and...

... "despite having had their ratings drop every week"? OK, stop here, go back, and read my post a bit more carefully. Note that the only reality show mentioned was also cancelled, and for the exact same reason. If a network puts a scripted show on the air and its ratings trend lower each...

East: Leafs in 7 Islanders in 6 Devils in 7 Bruins in 7 West: Flames in 6 Avalanche in 7 Red Wings in 5 Blues in 6 The east will be brutal this year, whoever makes it out (by 'whoever' I mean the Leafs, of course) will likely have played three tough series, the western champ will likely be in...

Playing it Straight (the show about hooking up straight women with gay men) got shelved last week, and for the same reason as Wonderfalls: it wasn't drawing any viewers and thus wasn't making any money. Contrary to the tinfoil hat brigade, most cancelled TV shows get that way because nobody's...

Yes, it does. The complete and utter lack of suspense is a major contributing factor to what makes this movie feel too long. It's hard to see how adding more of the same could improve it. If you want to correct the problems with plausibility and tension (or more specifically, the lack of both)...

The last 45 minutes were very predictable, I don't really see what adding more could do to help. I thought it was an OK movie, competently executed, but there was basically no tension at the end. So thumbs up for the acting, thumbs up for the effects, thumbs in the middle for the action, and...

I caught most of last night's episode because the Apprentice was mostly bad. MMH wasn't bad, but it really needs a more skilled production team. The show could be much improved with more interaction (and competition) among the alts, since that's where the voting power lies. Maybe something like...

I just got back from it. OK movie, bit too long and the last 45 minutes or so are pretty predictable, but a nice effort. Avoid paying full price if possible.

I hadn't seen it, now I have - that was fantastic! I'd say it was extremely well done for a Trek production in general, not just a fan production - nailed the classic feel better than Enterprise has so far.

M&M is the front-runner, and sounds like a good match for the type of game you want to run. Mechanics are good and play fast, Champs/GURPS veterans will pick up character generation pretty quickly. However, the books are a bit pricy because the production values are really high. "Four Color to...