No, Venom was a very-mediocre-to-bad movie, even as a popcorn flick, but I’ll agree that awful seems like a touch too far.

Now I just need a series about Sidney Applebaum. 

There’s a fundamental difference here. DND exists as it does because of those other creatives. DND may put out the gaming framework, and some source material, but its success has always been linked to evangelists on the ground.

I... just answered that?

I think they mean that’s how the leak happened. Like, the drafts were released to people for input, and they were subsequently leaked to the public at large.

I gotcha. Kinda impossible to judge what kind of players you’re going up against from that, though. Collection level is what determines what players you are paired up against. 

Split is generally considered a pretty good movie? It’s 78/79% on RT for critic and audience score and a 7.3 on IMDB. And on a budget of $9 million, it made $278.5 million.

If you’re in the 70s, you’re still in the first pool of cards. So that’s still the early, early game. 

Yeah. In any event, it’s a very poorly designed console in terms of its shape. It’s really just terrible, and so much seems like it’s in place to make up for that? Because I’m positive this shape wasn’t for any engineering purpose beyond Sony thinking this is what people wanted. Faux future chic........

Yeah, what’s honestly shocking is how they didn’t seem to expect this backlash?

I don’t like the vertical, but the thing is so freaking huge that it’s just legitimately easier to find space for it that way.

Yeah, agreed. And the nice part about countering with Rogue or Enchantress is that their utility isn’t niche, where Shang-Chi’s is far more limited.

I think there’s also a reality that the vast majority of “Aliens!” people have absolutely no clue about the timelines of antiquity. I think, to them, they are all simultaneous, sort of like thinking all Dinosaurs lived at the same time.

I totally get where you’re coming from. I’m just trying to point out that slave-built structures in regions we have white-washed in our current cultural narrative around race (namely, Grecian and Roman structures) are almost never the subject of the “aliens!” conspiracies, despite also having produced technically…

The motivation is racism from the perspective that these cultures are being extraordinarily under-valued, because they couldn’t possibly have built something so grand.

Also true of most impressive, older structures in the West.

The problem with how snapping is currently implemented is that using snapping any time other than the start means an opponent is more likely to leave and you end up with just 1.

I’ve seen almost no advertising for it, whatsoever.

Yeah. Shang-Chi is absurdly fun to completely shatter a lucky infinaut play. But it’s not enough of a use case to actually use him.

Shang-Chi looks great on paper. But there are two big factors against it.