A starter set is a so-so pre-made adventure, with a thin rule-booklet, a set of dice, character sheets that coats like 30-40 euros. It is meant to be exactly what it says. Someone becomes the DM and a group plays a short adventure and learns the game. Absolutely fine for what it is.

They probably keep making new Watchmen content specifically to prevent Alan Moore from ever getting the rights to it

*monkeypaw’s finger curls*

I’m glad that they are bringing in actual showrunners and Matalas is a good choice. He didn’t just do seasons two and three of Star Trek: Picard, he also did 12 Monkeys, the very underrated time travel show.

40k who? I play Warmachine by Privateer Press. PP in their tournament rules comes down real hard on any sort of hate speech iconography etc. The company is very small but very friendly to the LQBTQ community. All the models / stories in the game cover pretty much any permutation on race, gender, sex. I highly…

Nope, canon is not important. Canon is an illusion. All long-running stories are in a constant state of flux and rewrites themselves all the time to adjust to changing social moores and tastes. Warhammer is no exception. It's all fiction, all imaginary. Don't use canon to excuse your own close-mindedness.

Me and mine have been playing 1st edition since it came out in ‘87. We buy used or print our own minis.

I’ve been playing 40K since 1996.

So what? Just watch it when you wake up or whenever. It’s ridiculous that people are moaning about this, just pretend that it’s 6pm or whenever you would normally watch this on Saturday, seriously what is you peoples problem! Just enjoy a fucking thing for a change whenever it comes out, stop gatekeeping and be happy…

although maybe that will turn out deliberate and we’ll get another “This companion is the most important magical special thing ever” arc again.

How? No, seriously, how? We’re going to get a version of Nightwing with zero origin story? Outside of the egg drop Robin at the end of The Dark Knight Rises the last time we saw him as something other than Nightwing was the Chris O’Donnell shiny titty version. Even the TV show dug into his fraught relationship with…

You sound fun at parties.

Yeah, I agree. It’s such an odd omission.

Even if she initially rejected it (to keep with how DV wanted to end it), he still needed to say it to show that connection is there at least for him.

Plus the “History will call us wives” line is iconic.

The change to Chani also does away with the symmetry at the end of the book where Paul, just like his father, makes the woman he loves his concubine, choosing politics and power over love.

For season 1 he was also cribbing heavily from not only Chambers’s The King in Yellow (which was, of course, explicit) but also works by Laird Barron and others—especially Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, from which whole monologues by Cohle are lifted. Accusations of plagiarism got thrown…

NOTHING will ever make me appreciate Chuck Lorre. He's a hack.

Your premise is inherently flawed. Sure, both narrative film and sports tell a story and have conflict, but it’s the scripted, controlled, and contrived nature of film that makes it art and sports not. Sports are objective and skill based while films are purely expression based.

Some might say the purpose of art is to…

How can you love storytelling and not find those stories captivating?

I am not at all interested in seeing a slight variation of the same game being played yet again for the many-thousandth time while cheering for some team simply because they happen to be the nearest geographically collocated team.

For that reason, I’ll never understand anyone who loves film and television but shudders at the idea of a sporting event.