Came here to say exactly this, so cheers.

and once upon a time people used to cook for themselves as well, whether they wanted to or not. the main issue I see with literally most groups is, unless one player wants to be a Dedicated DM, someone isnt gonna have fun. also 100$ a session really isnt bad when you consider that 1) they are working on comission and…

Yeah and artists should be paid in exposure too, right? 

Those games still exist. But there are also people who are interested in D&D but don’t have any friends that play, or groups where nobody wants to DM, or nobody who feels like they have the time between work and family to build a great campaign.

I don’t really think they’re related at all. Professional DMs are a solution to the problem of players being adults with limited time. I was perfectly happy to DM for my friends when I was a teenager and had basically unlimited free time to devote to planning and running a game, but as a working adult I just don’t…

What’s the problem with people paying for Pro-DMs? DMing is, as you’ve touched on, a significant amount of work, much more so than just playing a character. If a group doesn’t want to pay an outside DM, then one of them can step up and do it themselves. And if you are a third-party DM running a game for group of…

Every time I see one of these it’s the exact same god damn thing:
“people really like “blank” so what if we made it more expensive and stressful?”

Yup.  If we ignore NFT’s for just a few more months, they will probably go away and in a few years we can all say “remember that NFT thing?  No, I never really understood why people wrote a million articles about it either.”

And I’m fine with that. The cinema business model is ridiculously outdated and simply doesn’t reflect the advances of modern technology, especially in content delivery. Update the business model to make sense in the modern day, don’t inhibit the use of new technology because theaters can’t handle the transition. The…

Sure, but it’s always been that way. Go to the cinema or wait until home release. I’m saying that given the option I would much prefer to watch the movie from the comfort of my own home on release day, like we’ve been doing during the pandemic. I will happily the premium.

I will happily fork over the $30(ish) they’ve been charging to watch their content from home and am honestly irritated that this isn’t the release method for all movies going forward. I’d much, much rather watch the movie from home on a good day, let alone in the middle of a pandemic where I don’t particularly want to…

I guess I’ll miss it, then. Things got really risky again.

I love Din Djarin and what they’re doing with his character. He’s a very simple man with a very simple goal, and although he keeps crossing paths with all these major characters to us, he personally could not care less and just wants his kid back. Consider this ep: he doesn’t question why Bo and Boba are fighting;…

Honestly, Warner probably made the right decision here. Whether or not theaters would have continued to be viable in a non-COVID world, the fact is, right here and right now, they are not. No movie is going to play to packed houses, simply because theaters can’t pack houses safely. Fuck, they’re not even open in many…

Carano and I don't see eye to eye politically and she and I could chat all day about it. She makes a great Cara Dune and I can separate the two.

For all the good this article will do, it might as well be titled “defund Christmas.”

“Miles is the Black, Latinx son of a slain cop and an aspiring local politician whose entire campaign revolved around making Harlem a stronger, safer community for its residents, despite the lack of support and resources it’s historically been afforded.”

The last three, three and a half seasons of Lost weren’t written as they go. That was just the first 2-3 seasons (really only Season 1 was written totally by the seat of their pants; Seasons 2 and 3 were planned out in advance, but just planned out in full right before the seasons started filming, so you can be…

Oh my god, relax.

It’ll come down to how anti-trust laws are interpreted. Imagine you were only able to download software to your pc through the windows store. Is an iPhone a portable pc or is it more like a ps4? Do people have the right to use their hardware in any way they see fit?