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It’s on Netflix. Now, I’ve only seen the first two Jurassic World films (and the first two JP films), enough to see some tantalising world-building and some really great ideas and sequences*, but honestly the writing was mostly hot garbage. I did like that Dr Wu finally admitted in the first...

I wasn’t sure whether to put this here or somewhere else - it almost belongs in VTT discussions. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had tried this? (For those who watch such things, I saw an ad on blumineck’s YT.) https://fablecraft.riftweaver.com/ ToFC seems to be basically a virtual...

I kind of expect this one to be very far ranging, because people have very different views of what they want from a mecha game. Some want the careful tactical gameplay of Battletech or Lancer; some want the finely balanced mecha creation rules of Mekton or GURPS Mecha; some want minimalist...

Since I don’t see a thread dedicated to my favourite science fiction media property I thought I’d start one, and make it spoilers even though the series is over thirty years old. I just rewatched the first episode, which I remember as being lacklustre, and have realised that 19-year-old me was...

Just saw this for the first time in cinema (and in concert, too) and thought it held up better than I remembered. As a kid, I thought the second half dragged a bit, but that seemed not to be the case this time around. It’s still spectacular, an incredibly seminal and pure superhero story. And...

OK, watching movies at the theater, if you prefer. We went to the cinema this week (to see A Real Pain, which was OK) and because David Lynch had just died, they put this clip on: Now, on the face of it, this is an entirely reasonable thing to say about most films. I’ve never tried to watch...

I’m in the habit of reading and summarising RPGs for my own fun and also to think about GMing, and my latest project this week is Stalwart ‘85, the latest version of the Stalwart superhero RPG by Michael Desing. Desing has been developing neat superhero RPGs for a while - the first one I...

Ah, this is an old question. For those who don’t know, wuxia (martial heroes) is a genre of novels, films, TV, etc mostly concerned with the adventures of martial artists in a version of medieval China that never was. These heroes fight each other, leaping from tree to tree with flashing...

Hi all, Recently* I’ve been on a kick to explore and consider TTRPGs aimed at games like Japanese console RPGs (JRPGs) like Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, Trails of Cold Steel, etc as well as adjacent genres such as isekai manga. *for the last year at least. This is quite a growing genre in...

We’ve had Apple TV (it came free for a month with theatre tickets and we’ve decided to continue with it) for a while and so far there have been some very good Apple Original series such as Ted Lasso and The Afterparty. Severance is a different beast from those two, altogether less amusing and...