Oh my God, I had that in my damn notes (which I was scribbling in the dark of the theater while sitting next to a guy in literal chainmail), “DM sets up elaborate puzzle trap that PCs immediately break" And forgot to include it here. Yes, exactly, very well-observed.

My favorite bit of working around the DM in the movie was using the Gelatinous Cube to “solve” the maze. DM sets up with complex series of encounters with a puzzle on top of it. Party: “everything is coming from a sub-basement, I bet it’s open, or at least more open than this maze. Since we can survive a cube for a…

The best gaming subtext is in the scene at the bridge in the Underdark: The DM has set up an elaborate environmental puzzle, but one of the players immediately ruins it up by fucking around and rolling a critical fail, so the DM has to decree that the party has been carrying around another way to cross the whole time.

The first time I ever played, one of the other group members spent the first 80% of the session rolling a D12 instead of a D20.

Yeah, Seth says “I dont do voices, you’ll get a DK that sounds like me”
Producers: You’re hired!

I don’t think he was ‘making demands’. He said ‘This is how I do my voice. If this is good for you, then cool.’ Blame the producers, if anyone. Seth was just upfront about how is performance would be and they still hired him despite that warning.

You sound like either a shitty player or a shitty DM lol

Reading your comment is exhausting grumpy pants. There’s nothing wrong with trying to find a connection between two versions of something you like. For a game like DnD, it’s inevitable that those comparisons will happen.

Well what do you call it when he’s banning books, and trying to coerce what businesses do? And more.

Trump narrowly being defeated in 2020 and his coup failing in 2021 doesn't make him any less facist.

I don’t think you’ll find that many left-leaning Americans all that keen on George W. Bush, for what it’s worth.

You need to look deeper into things that DeSantis has actually done and you’ll realize he’s an actual fascist. He unconstitutionally fired a duly elected state attorney, personally redistricted the state (again, unconstitutionally), gutted a liberal arts college because it was a liberal arts college and forced in far…

There’s a reason why attempting a crime can still get you charged with that crime.  Intent matters.  Just because they failed doesn’t mean their beliefs and actions aren’t aligned with fascism. It just means they suck at it.

An attempt was made. A failed fascist policy is still a fascist policy.

Holy shit, I can’t believe I’m seeing the Rule Against Perpetuities used in real life, and reported on in a Kotaku article no less! It was the bane of many a first-year property law student and has been abolished or replaced with something slightly less nonsensical in many jurisdictions. Nice to see it’s alive and…

Your two sides are a hellishly dystopian mega corporation, or literally the fourth reich. Nazis are always the worst person(s) in the room.

Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply cancel the other five?

Way to lean all the way in to wrong direction! So about a month back SNL took a break for a couple weeks and so they aired re-runs from the early 2000s. One of the ones I caught my Dad watching was hosted by Jennifer Aniston and I guess this was during the Friends popularity. The first “joke” Aniston made was how we…

Did national politics make San Fran stupidly expensive?

My people migrated north to Gary, IN from Magnolia, MS in the ‘50s. We still have almost 100 acres our great-grandparents bought way back when. I’m seriously considering moving back, throwing a house on a corner of the property and just being a pain in the ass to Tate Reeves and the rest of the colonizers down there.