Peter Jackson Presents:

That sound you hear is thousands of DMing advice bloggers all slamming their laptops closed and storming off to look for new careers. You summed up what a DM’s real (and only) job is about as beautifully as I could imagine.

This thread inspired me to go back and watch one of our favorite Pocoyo shorts, and I’d forgotten how absolutely amazing it is. If this doesn’t make your day better you’re probably too far gone.

My son (10 now) had a “Peep and the Wide World” birthday party when he was 4 still one of my favorites. Now we’re arguing over why he can’t have Airsoft guns and an iPhone.

My seven and ten-year-olds are completely devoted to Youtube Kids now, and rarely even glance at the TV screen. Meanwhile, I haven’t been able to bring myself to clear Pocoyo or Yo Gabba Gabba off the DVR, just in case they somehow change their minds.

...it’ll be interesting to see just how Threepio shows up.

I actually went to a choose-your-own adventure movie back in the 90's (“Mr. Payback” I think), where the audience had buttons on their arm rests to choose the direction of the plot. After sitting through two screenings, it became depressingly apparent that, in mass, crowds tend to choose the same things over and over…

We need Supertrain now more than ever! And I’m somewhat serious about this- a “b-list celebrity of the week” sci-fi quasi drama could be pretty amazing these days. And the special effects that nearly broke NBC in 1979 could be done in Blender on a laptop during someone’s lunch hour

I remember being home with a babysitter back in the 70's, alone in the TV room and up way later than I should have been- when this came onto the TV screen and absolutely destroyed my 6 or 7 year old brain

Had they done that, I can imagine critics denouncing WotC for finally depicting a black civilization, but ignoring the entirety of African culture and heritage.

A Mind-F*ck of Umber Hulks

My pet theory right now is that Cersei is planning some sort of scheme, but that when they see the threat, Jamie is somehow able to convince her to hold off and form a temporary alliance. Even as I’m typing this it seems far-fetched, but now that she knows Tyrion didn’t kill her son she’s gotten her revenge on…

Arya can’t become the Valonquar, but she could borrow his face...

My 9 year old son accidentally saw the trailer, and refused to sleep on his own for a few nights- until I explained to him that, based on the trailer, Annabelle only endangers girls. That answer totally satisfied him, an he’s slept fine ever since.

Here’s a very good article on the Turbografx and its’ fate: 

Meh- I started out a huge fan, but somewhere a few years into it I started to feel like they didn’t have a point of view on anything, they just ridicule anyone who does have a point of view no matter what it is. For me, it’s become one long nihilistic fart joke. They’re like a freelance sniper on a battlefield who…

...yes, he would have formulated a different plan- and he would have thrown it all away the moment he saw Ramsay toying with their brother, just like he threw away the plan they did have. She told him as much, and she was absolutely right.

True, but in fairness to Sansa, she KNEW Ramsay would set a trap for Jon Snow, and she also knew he’d fall for it. Jon for his part is a pretty crap leader, counting on a strategy of embarassing Ramsay to demoralize his troops, which clearly did nothing, and abandoning a seemingly sound strategy when Ramsay did…

The cast and crew must have spent all last week absolutely cackling to read our theories on the previous week’s episode. The headline covers it, they’re totally fucking with us.

A good episode over all, but I’m a little confused about a plot point: I’m assuming Sansa wrote to Littlefinger for help, but isn’t he already headed to Winterfell with the Knights of the Vale? Obviously Sansa doesn’t know that, but is it all that dramatic as a plot point if she’s asking for help from someone who’s…