Well, what you are complaining about being as “fan fic” is actually describing how pretty much all open-world-ish RPGs work.

Yeah, that’s been sort of my take, too. In a lot ways Wingspan feels like a more complicated version of “give everyone a big box of dice, shake them up, and count up your score after shaking to see who wins” given that there’s virtually no long term strategy to it and almost all tactical. But that’s part of its charm…

Yeah, it’s a miniature tactics game/campaign with the occasional “there’s a person crying on the side of the road, do you help them or not, it could be a trap!” card thrown in between games as the “RPG” component.

I’m not even sure Gloomhaven is the biggest game of the decade. (I guess it is to geek crowd). But certainly something like Wingspan has sold more copies.

I always got mad when I was a kid watching Looney Tunes, and one of those random shorts came on where something like Daffy Duck was being a waiter at a restaurant serving food to all the caricatures of famous movies stars of that time. Like why should I find it funny that Humphrey Bogart is reaching into his coat…

I’ve never seen Family Guy as adult animation. It’s mostly for 12 year old who want to think it’s for adults because of the occasional innuendo.

To be fair, throughout the history of film, a surprisingly large chunk of movies are adaptions of other works.

And even the music changes to help indicate that it was all a ploy.

At least it felt like the new Ant Man movie is sort of rooted in the Antman sadness for not having seen his daughter grow up from the trailers.

I’ve never played the game, but am watching the show.

For those wondering, its on the CW, and hosted by Aisha Tyler. It’s quite a bit more racy with the sexual innuendo jokes than when it used to air on ABC(?).

Meh. I get the feeling that someone who would buy a Steamdeck is a different market than someone who would buy a Switch. I’m fine with playing game with lower frames rates and lower depth of fields on the Switch.

Well, currently it kind of falls under parody and “homage-ing”, where it’s close enough that everyone gets the joke, but it would be hard for the Seinfeld people to sue them for stealing the look and feel of the original show. When you start mimic-ing voices and using the same names of characters, you will quickly be…

Yeah, I could care less about fear factor stuff. I simply want “you have 5 minutes to talk amongst yourselves, and you may jointly vote to kill remove someone off. after that you “retire to you chambers” at which point the werewolves kill someone off.” IS THAT TOO HARD TO WISH FOR!

I pretty much assume that all emotes in online card games are just sarcastic remarks.

I’ve always imagined a television series like Werewolf for a long time, but really more like an hour long game show, where at the end of each hour there’s a single winner that then moves on to the next episode ( or something like Iron Chef). I can’t fathom a game of Werewolf that gets played out over an entire season…

It happens all the time. As long as the original artist is compensated for it, it’s not a terrible thing. Almost all artforms have a history of remixing and re-interpreting works from previous artists.

How do all these “average” people ever fly on airplanes. I’m 6 feet tall, and overweight with a 36 waist, and can barely fit comfortably in a standard economy seat.

Well...the vast majority of all video games bomb, for the most part.

I’ve always wondered how good Mahommes would be if he didn’t luck out and get drafted on a playoff caliber team (KC was in the playoffs 4 of the 5 years before he was drafted).