To be entirely fair to the author, he says that this IP crossover was big for kids at the time

Totally normal reply to get at Gizmodo dot com

The best part of writing things for public consumption is finding out where all the typographical errors happened XD

There’s a comment on this article falsely claiming that mRNA vaccines are experimental. When will Gizmodo remove this comment with COVID-19 misinformation from its platform?

It’s 5 o’clock on a Friday somewhere, um, such as at Gizmodo HQ

Your points are correct and I continue to make the observation that the only reason why io9 gives as much “print” space as it does to WotC products is because WotC has a large advertising budget.

Understood; thanks for remembering reptilian systematics better than I.

Basheer Ghouse, a TTRPG writer who has worked on D&D products, agreed. “It’s a move that needed to happen. Paizo’s already removed ASIs from race, but I think this is the way a lot of the industry is going.”

Paizo has a smaller budget for advertising than Wizards of the Coast does.

Image caption: “Triassic reptile”.
Change to Jurassic reptile

p3: “allosaurus nest”
Later in the article the italicized and capitalized form of the noun is used. Change to Allosaurus nest.

p7: “60 million years”
Individuals of Tyrannosaurus rex lived around 67-66 Ma, this new fossil species is around 150 Ma. Change to…

It would be fantastic if The Herb got fired

this comment is MCU gold.

Crossbones! I forgot about Crossbones, who randomly exploded in Captain America: Civil War

Thank you for not financially supporting a socially-abhorrent corporation.

Humans very commonly want to know something that they, and they alone, know. I don’t know if there’s an evolutionary reason why we act that way (presumably there’s a biological advantage to knowing about a resource no one knows about, but how does that social phenotypic variable get so set in the human population?)…

Whenever I see someone reviewing the new thing that Chick-fil-A did to annoy people, I have to see if they buy into the marketing lie that their products are good.

Divisive as Wanda Maximoff’s shift to villainy was in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness this past summer

Kinja was not intended for mobile and it would take ... like ... resources to make Kinja better for mobile. G/O Media does not have resources.

Watched: For watchable media that io9 cares about, in August I watched the first release of episodes of The Sandman (still haven’t watched the extra episodes released slightly after the initial release), Neverwhere, and a little bit of Prehistoric Planet (since io9 used to discuss science, that show is one that io9 at…