and then it got played out by that fervent fandom

Yeah, the beauty of tabletop is that any rules that players end up hating can just be conveniently ignored. They’ll either use an edition that they liked before, or they’ll use some alternative that emerges, or if push comes to shove they’ll just make their own home-brew.

Extra! Extra! Optional Service of Great Use to Many People Doesn’t Appeal To One Specific Journalist “Blogger”! Mere Existence Met with Suspicion, Doubt! Allegedly Threatens to “Change The Very Hobby Itself”, Somehow!

ffs “grognard blows new way to play game wildly out of proportion”
you say this may divide the hobby like this isnt already the most divisible group of nerds in existence. every change is treated like a god damn existential crisis while completely ignoring that none of the old ways to play are going away or changing.
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“Frivolous lawsuits” do effect us all. Every class-action suit that’s just a money grab (not an actual ‘fix something bad’ one) sucks money from the economy to the lawyers, adds more layers of crap to selling anything (“ok, how many more pages of disclaimers & warnings do we need to add to everything now”), provides…

You’re right, but I also have a suspicion that you’re very active on Twitter.

This is the dumbest fucking lawsuit. “We’re in the midst of a cost of living crisis and the consumer purse is being squeezed like never before...”

This reeks of lawyers convincing someone to pick a fight with a huge corporation, playing for an off-the-books settlement, and laughing all the way to the bank.

for rich kids, your description passes for “talent”

Pump the brakes a bit on “definitely talented as a musician.”

I mean, if she doesn’t live at home, she could have just not called him for three weeks, and he might not have called her to give her space. Or he might have been exaggerating and it was really like 10 days but it felt like three weeks!  Or maybe she does live at home and you’re right, I have no idea.  I’m just…

Tom Hanks is wondering what he has to do to get Chet to stop talking to him.

To be fair, the DM doesn’t come off as being joking unless it was followed by a ;) or a /s or something.

For once, the AV Club isn’t missing anything (up to that point; a lot has happened since). There was literally the DM and then the tiktok about social power.

I audibly guffawed at that line from her. She sounds like a clown.

“I’m posting it because I don’t want this person who has more social power than me to think that it’s fucking okay to do something like this.”

So the reviewer makes a reductive comment about how the movie is just an advertisement for cleavage, a star from that movie sends a private message joking that if the reviewer had paid more attention to the film than the cleavage, maybe she would have gotten more out of it, and somehow the reviewer is a victim?

I mean, this is riveting stuff, but do you think you guys might find the time to do a write-up on Q Lazzarus passing away?

She wasn’t an A-list celebrity or anything, but her one hit song managed to permeate pop culture in a way that songs rarely do (mostly because of its use in particularly shocking moment in the one…

“and never looked back”