Geek Confessional Thread 2024 [NOW 2025!]

[Reynard]

My wife and I decided to watch Jurassic Park Rebirth last night and good gawds above and below, that was the worst movie I have seen in a decade and NOT in a fun way. Just insipid.

DON'T.

 

[payn]

My wife and I decided to watch Jurassic Park Rebirth last night and good gawds above and below, that was the worst movie I have seen in a decade and NOT in a fun way. Just insipid.

DON'T.

Im like 4 Jurassic films behind. Im not itching to catch up.

 

[môrgondír]

I've never played and have no intention of playing MtG.

I prefer Silmarillion to LotR.

I watched 'The Force Awakens', thought it was very meh, and haven't bothered with the other two sequel films.

I've no interest in reading Dune. I think Denis Villanueve is a great filmmaker though (loved 'Arrival', 'BR2049', 'Sicario', & 'Prisoners').

I thought I wanted to try D&D 5.5E with other people. Enough to acquire a couple of the 2024 books and make a character, which was entertaining in and of itself.

Now, months later, I don't believe that is what I wanted - I've had at least two different opportunities to play D&D in two different online-based groups, I even joined a Discord for one of those offers, and yet I've not availed myself of either opportunity.

Perhaps I simply do not really want to play D&D anymore, at least not the TTRPG version. I liked BG3 well enough (although I think I burned out a bit, having stalled in Act III and finding it difficult to push through to the end).

I don't really feel upset, or angry, or sad, or anything else about my (self-imposed) inability to play D&D, nor am I angry/upset/sad about how the D&D rules are different, nor about how the D&D marketing is different in 2025.

Maybe if my old 3.5E group - comfortably familiar to me - abandoned their PF2 game to take up 5.5, I'd try it then. I'm not sure. If I really wanted the social interaction, it seems to me that I'd join them regardless of what system they were using.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

My wife and I decided to watch Jurassic Park Rebirth last night and good gawds above and below, that was the worst movie I have seen in a decade and NOT in a fun way. Just insipid.

DON'T.

I saw it in the theater because I have an unlimited moviepass. As a big screen spectacle it had just enough juice to get me to mostly turn my brain off and have a good time, but I remember thinking halfway through "this wouldn't be worth watching at home, and wouldn't be worth actually paying to see in the theater." And that was before it introduced the ruins of a pre-modern Caribbean cliffdwelling civilization that evidently had teleporter technology offscreen, and before it completely went off the rails in the last act with extra-armed mutant freak dinosaur monsters.

I still like it better than the second Jurassic World movie though, which I hated so much that they couldn't rope me into watching the next direct sequel even with promises of bringing back the cast of the original.

 

[Scribe]

I've never played and have no intention of playing MtG.

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And that was before it introduced the ruins of a pre-modern Caribbean cliffdwelling civilization that evidently had teleporter technology offscreen, and before it completely went off the rails in the last act with extra-armed mutant freak dinosaur monsters.

 

[overgeeked]

It never ceases to amaze me just how toxic some fandoms are. There's a lot of fantastic stories out there to enjoy but the moment you want to talk to other humans about any of that stuff...wow.

 

[Autumnal]

No kidding. I could argue religious doctrine, major party politics, or compiler preferences for this much bitterness!

 

[trappedslider]

No kidding. I could argue religious doctrine, major party politics, or compiler preferences for this much bitterness!

"There are three things I've learned never to discuss with people, religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin." -Linus VanPelt

 

[Autumnal]

 

[Reynard]

More geek things should be stand alone. One season of a show. One movie. One novel. One comic miniseries.