There was no settlement. The claim was dismissed.

Bakula's Pride would be a good name for a boat.

Well also the claim against him kinda fell apart and was dismissed.

The most recent claim against Singer pretty much fell apart- I'm not sure anything rumored about him has been substantiated.

Huh. I heard of that one but never made the connection.

What was Cosby a remake of? I knew about Sanford/Steptoe but not that.

The Starter Set doesn't (IIRC) but the Basic Rules are online for free as a PDF from the Wizards website, and they give you the basic Fighter, Rogue, Wizard, Cleric classes and such.

A very strong premiere. I like just how long they dragged out the reveal that they were in a dream, and in retrospect there were some great hints.

The DMG will be the make-or-break for me. If it actually does deliver on the early "modular" promise and they make the math transparent I might be interested, otherwise I'll pass. So it's a little annoying that it has to come out last.

Return to Oz hewed a bit closer to the tone and visual style, and people HATED it. It may be a while before anyone tries that again.

It opened a few weeks later (interestingly enough, the only reason Star Wars had its famous run at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in L.A. was because Sorcerer was delayed), but still close enough to get crushed. Didn't help that critics hated it because it was a remake and the studios didn't know how to sell it.

Finished reading A Canticle for Leibowitz, a really good classic sci-fi novel about a religious order trying to preserve scientific knowledge after a nuclear apocalypse. Starting on Jack Vance's The Demon Princes as I've got a space opera bug.

I thought it made for a good change of pace. A nice exotic adventure among the stars.

Paul is good for a bit then severely goes off the rails around the last act or so- it feels like it was a victim of studio-imposed rewrites.

Last Saturday night a bunch of us got together to play several rounds of One Night Werewolf. It's similar to Mafia and other games, you get a card which tells you your identity, everyone closes their eyes, individuals in order of their role wake up and perform some action, and at the end the villagers have to vote on…

That's almost disappointing.

Sounds like it has the same narrative problem as House of 1,000 Corpses (and many other torture horror movies to boot.) It's hard to avoid a drop in momentum when the bad guy catches the protagonist, and you're mostly just watching whatever freakishness they're supposed to perpetrate until the final escape attempt.

There are no swimming pools as of yet.

High on a hill lived a lonely goatheard

The trailers for this turned me off quickly, which is something considering Tina Fey's presence.