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I thought the discussion was whether the two films were sufficiently distinct from each other/the new one had any originality, not whether it was any good/you liked it/which was superior. Touché.

I think people are arguing multiple things in the same thread. Whether such behavior happened. Here the burden is find an example, and personal experience works. So that should be pretty easy and not have much to equivocate over. Whether it was widespread (seen in many places). There, I think...

I'd guess yes. In either case, I would argue that there are differences. Both films do better than the Universal movies (at least the 1931 one) in showing Doctor Frankenstein as evil, but the del Toro version switches it up by making the monster nigh blameless. He is only mistaken for having...

I'm glad to see someone note this. Reddit coverage of the movie has been saturated with self-satisfied nerd-ragers making sure everyone else knows they know a thing (the Dendra panoply and boar tusk helmets, but also that the statues would be painted instead of bare white marble, etc.). It's...

I suspect we are deceiving ourselves if we think anything we love is too obscure for those working in the film industry. Fiction is their bag, just as strongly (or more) as it is to us in the nerd-o-sphere. Certainly there were people in love with Asimov and Bradbury, yet up until streaming...

If there was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle character in my game, the most notable part, IMO, would be the ninja (1985*). *or 1976 if we count the one in Dragon issue #2.

Oh I was much more limited. I stated "Law & Order and the NBC 90s must-see sitcom lineup." So unless one thought I thought it only included comedies and one police procedural, from context it's clear that I was not making an exhaustive list. My favorites part is that people create rules for...

Honestly speaking, I think both of these pale in comparison to the amount of times it is done for the same reason people argue that huge swaths of entertainment are part of the same universe because of a string of cameo or shared fictional brands -- i.e. simple thought experiment/people fartin'...

Depends on what specifics they consider important to keep. At it's heart, it's just another 'American (former) soldier encounters sci-fi phenomenon and finds themself in the future/on another planer' story the same as Rip Van Winkle, Flash Gordon, John Carter of Mars, or Three Hearts and Three...

Re: D&D:HAT -- the movie explained what a bard was (a guy who comes up with the plan) and what a tiefling druid was (an outsider girl who can turn into animals and owlbears). What it didn't do was explain how bards and tiefling and druids worked in D&D (bards apparently not casting spells and...

I think the instant you could trade attribute points to get your important ones up past an important threshold (which is to say oD&D, pre-supplements), the attribute system was no longer a perfect model of the population distribution of the quality measured. Attributes are a relative measure of...

I don't know if it is knee-jerk specifically. However, you don't make comments like "that it had chosen to fully indulge a decade’s worth of munchkin demands for MOAR POWER!" if you did not start with the premise that it was a baby game for babies and kids these days just want everything spoon...

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Chris Tucker channeling Prince?

I know you mean RuneQuest ducks, so I won't make this all about me... ...but I am reserving this as a band name.

This seems like a kind of psionic* Tippyverse. Instead of walking out the door every morning and plowing a field, farmer Joe instead goes to his chalk board and works equations from the 'Food Acquisition' series of formulas. This puts food in everyone's larders (or cuts the middleman and makes...

Sadly, the rest of my main group that does non-D&D games are firmly in the 'we have plenty of games to play while this thing is in development hell. Come back when you have the finished product.' camp. As such, I haven't actually gotten to play the game, which I consider a damn shame.

He's a tiger, not a lion, but it suddenly occurs to me that he's basically the cowardly lion from Wizard of Oz -- turns into a hero with the addition of some c-c-c-courage!

That was what my childhood D&D (a BX/BECMI/AD&D hybrid, emphasis on BECM) was -- everyone traipsing around with a menagerie* of pet dragons, blink dogs, displacer beasts, unicorns, hypogriph, griffons, pegasi, and any other creatures we could convince the DM could be tamed/coerced into joining...

Thri-Kreen, if only to answer the question of how they would deal with the 4-arms question.