I’m pretty sure that the worst part of Borderlands 3 was the refusal to foreground the retired vault hunters from Borderlands 2 instead making the initial quartet (minus one) the most important people in the setting.

I'm of the opinion that Predator 2 was a lot better than Predators and that Requiem was the better AvP feature.

Listen all of y’all, this is arbitrage.

The whole "Shrek food" phenomenon is weird when you consider that the sine qua non of Shrek is "he's gross"and the most identifiable foodstuffs with the eponymous ogre is "onions."

The Orville has transitioned to “doing Star Trek with the labels sanded off under the pretense that it’s a comedy, but it’s mostly playing it straight because Seth McFarlane likes Star Trek“ to “doing what the best Star Trek does and also being funny.”

The two I go with are "red sauce and meatballs with pasta" at an Italian joint and "Pad Thai" at a Thai restaurant, thinking that if you can't get that right there's no hope.

In 1st edition, you would refer to tables like this to see if you hit what you’re aiming at. This is a bad artifact (THAC0 was the simplified version) and it’s fine they’re not replicating it

I think the ship has sailed on “If we release a DC movie that’s too bad, it will damage the brand” since we’ve had Supergirl, Catwoman, Superman IV, Batman & Robin, Jonah Hex, Green Lantern, Suicide Squad, Dawn of Justice, Batman Forever, Man of Steel, Justice League, and WW84 all of which were on the “bad to…

Ah, so they’d just be using the 1e AD&D rules where you had “to hit” tables for specific classes.  But regardless the point is that “low AC is better” was the case until 3rd edition.  Like an AC 10 monster is very easy to hit and an AC 0 monster is very hard to hit.

The sense I got is that it was on Hulu so they could swear as much as they wanted, but this is a solvable problem for broadcast.

Remember, they’d be playing 2nd edition AD&D so they’d be using THAC0 and lower armor class is better.

Cupcakes and ice cream were examples of things where sprinkles are normal.  Sprinkles on pancakes, on a shrimp cocktail, on a hamburger, on grilled asparagus, on oatmeal are all unwelcome.

Vecna’s whole deal in D&D is “he believes everybody has a secret that, if revealed, would destroy them” so the gang defeats him by unburdening themselves of their trauma.

What was the first really successful “corporate stunt food”?  I want to say “the KFC Double Down”.

Basically anytime anything has sprinkles on it when it’s not a thing that normally has sprinkles on it (e.g. cupcakes, ice cream) that’s a red flag.

It's especially weird when your "celebrity voice actor" is The Rock, where something like 50% of the reason you normally cast him is "he looks like the Rock, something relatively few humans do."

My hot take is that a movie called “Dungeons and Dragons” requires a meta-element (like the Lego Movie) because “D&D” is not a setting or a story, it’s either a rule system or a social activity.  You get together with your friends to play Dungeons and Dragons using (for example) the 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons…

I mean, it’s kind of different than gambling because in gambling it’s possible that everybody (except the house) wins. But in trading speculative assets you only win *when* someone else loses.

I mean ultimately when you can’t appease both sides, the corporation is going to go with where the most money is. It turns out the people who are basically okay with gay people existing in public outnumber (and outspend) the people who want them to be driven from public life, to lose their jobs, and to criminalize…

Wait, Peacock costs money?  I just get it free with my ISP which is the local ISP monopoly, a thing I thought lots of people did.  Like I straight up thought this was "back when Hulu didn't cost money, because ads."