In fairness, those guidelines are written so broadly that making a film that follows them perfectly is essentially almost impossible, or make a film so anemic that it’s not worth making (I.E. ‘No violence can mean anything from no blood and guts to nobody dying to phaser blasts depending on how lawyers feel about it).…

I basically got the GearVR for free because it was time for a phone upgrade and navigating apps for it through the Occulus store is pure hell. God help me if I heard about something in particular and want to check it out, because I basically have to dig it out of it’s nested menus. It’s honestly one of the reasons I…

Full D.va teams can essentially do the same things, staggering their E’s to block shots, and just rushing together to soak up the turret with crap tons of HP. Both teams CAN be countered, but gimmick-team comps always have an advantage in pick up games because your average pug isn’t going to react in anything even…

Everything about the language seems designed to give a precedent to kill any fan film they chose, whenever they choose, and point to guidelines as a reason for it.

It wouldn’t surprise me if this was a board-room response to JJ/Lin trying to take pressure off Axanar. In effect, Paramount just fucking decided to…

I personally interpreted it more as Ramsay implying that no matter what she does going forward, what he did to her is going to stay with her forever.

And Sansa’s reply is that, emphatically, it won’t. Remember earlier where he told Jon she knows him? She knows how to hurt him better than anyone. Telling him he’s…

I would watch the shit out of a take on it that dealt with sentient AI in the context of a gratuitously violent fantasy for ‘weekend warrior’ types who are living out their own private modern war fantasies.

I will never understand this weird compulsion by comic writers to bring back literally everything, no matter how poorly received/written it was in the first place.

Guys—we all want to forget the 90s era of comics. You already brought back Onslaught, we don’t need to rehash Maximum Cloneage too. People stopped reading…

I actually feel like I could make a case that one of the neater things it did was demonstrate that kids actually liked their stories more with actual stakes, considering that the film attained its cult status largely by sucker-punching kids who were used to a Saturday morning cartoon where nobody ever died, and the…

It’s honestly not so much about the quality as that it was a shared experience for many kids of a certain age, at least in part because a good deal of them were hit with a story that was (arguably) more ‘mature’ than what they were used to growing up. Well, maybe ‘mature’ is a bad word—It’s just that many kids…

That’s the great thing about board games. Once you get really into them, you find out there are so many games for so many people out there that even if you’re into a specific kind of play (such as co-op) the possibilities are endless.

“I asked to make one and asked to make sure he’d be ok with me taking whatever was in the books. He said yes.”

Which is always a question that should give you pause as a DM, as this almost invariably means the player found something REALLY cheesy and he’s trying prepare for the fact that he is quite probably going to…

So, recently we were doing Death House, which is the new Curse of Strahd adventure for the hardcover. This was adventure league organized play, which tends to skew groups in the direction of the murderhobo and generally more casual play. It’s also very unpredictable. SPOILERS, of course, so caveat emptor.

Said…

“Virtual reality experience Arachnophobia is an application aimed at helping people overcome “irrational fears” of extremely venomous and aggressive spiders. After playing for five minutes, I’ve decided to hang on to my fear a bit longer.”

If that’s true, (and it doesn’t seem like it is) the process it’s doing it is…

That’s the thing about phobias. They are by definition extreme reactions that don’t seem reasonable, so people, socially, assume you’re playing up the reaction intentionally because their own rational assessment says ‘It’s not that bad.’ The disproportionate hysteria can be a part of that.

My own reactions to spiders…

If that’s your criteria for not being damseled than literally, by that same logic, neither is Widow (I mean, they have to stop Ultron anyway, she happens to just be around him at the time). But Widow is, and so is Rogue. I mean, even if you don’t feel that’s a parallel that’s straight up splitting hairs. She is…

I disagree about Rogue, and furthermore: Okay. So Widow was too. And? That Widow was given a crap turn of events doesn’t somehow... make it okay or better that it also happened in this other movie?

She is literally kidnapped, chained to a device and has to be saved by the rest of the cast. She literally has to be…

Oh god. I didn’t even realize that until you mentioned it.

It’s literally the plot of every singer X-flick.

Okay, I was being glib, but we’re talking about a film that includes a ‘jokey joke’ about just how silly the source material is, guyz, so the grim-and-gritty was more of a shot of being vaguely ashamed of its own source material.

I totally agree that Stewart and McKellan bolstered it, but that’s kind of my point: If…

Worth saying that unlike other films that ‘helped usher in the Superhero film era’ (like Spiderman) the first X-men does not hold up at alllllll. In fact, the first X-men film is closer to X-men 3 then 2 in terms of sheer quality: The script is clunky, most characters are half-baked and under-utilized, the action…

And those consequences are? Or are the consequences ‘angry keyboard warriors argue with anyone who isn’t that bothered by a delay, which happens once in a while and doesn’t matter in the larger scheme of things because there is more to life than video games’?