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These are good points. Late at night it’s easy to forget I’m on io9 and not reddit. Read more

Yeah, he’s right to say that those let you add your str, but should have been clearer that anyone can attempt it with no modifier normally. Then again, he was very much put on the spot with a very specific 5e rules question while chatting about more general topics. That is the knds of thing which will happen to any… Read more

Yeah I forgot Maztica, and it’s the worst offender! Hollow World is canonically Mystara though.

The New Mutants as an ‘80s teen movie sounds great! Very close to the early versions of the characters, watching Magnum P.I. when they’re not fighting evil mutants. The fun thing about MCU Spidey is the way that they are teen comedies that just happen to be about a superhero. Read more

Between white guy Sunspot and Storm acting as “a sadistic jailer,” I’m increasingly convinced that Boone never actually read a New Mutants story, or any X-Men comics for that matter. Read more

Here too, the intervention of any police was largely non-existent. Though they had days of warning that a hate group was coming to Kalamazoo, the reporter on the scene, Samuel J. Robinson, noted that cops were no where to be found when the violence erupted between the two groups. Read more

If object to new Star Trek content it’s because I’m confused about how I understood what I really watched when I was a kid? Read more

Now now, let’s not be closed minded. Florida Man ( or Woman ) can be whatever they want to be. He ( or she ) can even be President of The United States of America.

Florida Man is actually a police officer? 

A friend of mine saw CTD back in ‘94, when “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” was charting, and he told me that before the song, Roberts told the audience that the title was a placeholder for “Fuckin’ Shitty,” and that they should sing that in place of the chorus. So ever since, whenever the song comes on, I do just that. (Mostly if… Read more

This is like the THIRD CTD reference I’ve seen today! wtF is going on?? Read more

Comic stores are dependent upon a relatively niche customer. They’re trying to get more and more money out of a declining slice of the population, and as single issue prices rise fewer kids are able to keep up. I don’t doubt that trades sell pretty well, in part because they’re cheaper than buying the monthlies and in… Read more

It is kind of bizarre that comic book properties have become the meat and potatoes of the global entertainment industry, but comic books themselves can barely turn a profit. And it’s not like people don’t read graphic novels. Bookstore sales have never been better. It just seems like there’s something hopelessly… Read more

“Superman never made any money... saving the world from Solomon Grundy...” Read more

I’d always figured that at some point the big entertainment conglomerates would realize that they didn’t need their comic book divisions as research and development centers for new IPs anymore. Read more

So this is off topic, but Seth Rogen should really go with the “Old timey” look. He’s really showing himself up with that vest and glorious beard.

Somebody really monkey paw’ed 2020.

Rivaled only by "Rise of Skywalker." I'm not a JJ Abrams hater, but he has made some real clunkers.

One of the ways that you can tell screenwriters have gotten dumber over the years, in the sense that they know only movies and TV shows, is the bit in the 2009 Star Trek where Kirk meets McCoy for the first time and McCoy tells him that he’s just been through a devastating divorce, adding that his wife left him only… Read more

I know what I’m adding to my D&D playlist