I groaned when he went full-on creepy child rapist at the end, honestly.

The idea of “rules as toolkit” seems to be lost to a lot of newer-generation, younger gamers. A big backlash against the 2020(?) Traveller 5.0 version was that the new edition is basically 950+ pages of narrative-free reference material with which to create WHATEVER STORY YOU WANT and make it workable as a Traveller…

I don’t think it’s fair to categorize this as not being concerned with story. Early game were emergent, for one. Two, we didn’t use half the stuff in the DMG and the author agreed we shouldn’t. It always was a toolkit. Over time, that notion has been lost. That said, I never used the disease table.

What **some** people call ridiculous, others of us call AMAZING and WORTHY and **looks up and rolls on table of adjectives**, PHANTASMAGORIAL!

I tried with this X-Men run but it robbed so many of the characters of what I actually liked about them I just can’t engage with this in any meaningful way. These are not the X-Men it’s a weird death/sex cult where people wear their shape but everyone is a bit off.

Johnny, Sue, Ben, Reed,... and Dr. Doom?

Josh Brener also had a fantastic role in an episode of season 2 of Mythic Quest.

When Joel says the infected are mostly in the city, Sarah says that they take the old woman into the city all the time, for appointments at the hospital.

Holy shit, the talk show host in the 1960s was Big Head from Silicon Valley.

Hooked from the very beginning. The prologue was spectacular and honestly a shock. You just don’t expect that death

Yeah, this site used to be the best for in-depth, thoughtful reviews... Now all we get is this recap garbage. Back when Allison Shoemaker and Alasdair Wilkins were writing for the site, I’d come here just to read their reviews. Now I just visit out of habit.

This review reminded me of the text-box you see on a lot of Wikipedia articles: “This section may be overly detailed.” Listing every beat of the episode’s plot one after the other gets tiring to read, and aside from saying that Bella Ramsey is “credibly American” I have almost no sense of whether the acting is good…

“But in no other industry would it be acceptable to take abuse from a boss or employer in this kind of way...”

I worked at Microsoft in the 90s. You have no idea how magnificently a bunch of arrogant execs with teams of lawyers and a desire for a profitable next quarter can fuck themselves over. Corporations are not in any way inherently smart, and very intelligent individuals in large groups often make very clever,…

when i tell you something, believe me, i got sources to back it up

Was this known before? I can’t find any reference to charges, allegations, or mention of an arrest before today’s articles.

Pretty sure they’re going with the fact that Boorman and Allagash were trying to use the Cuirass for personal aggrandizement while Kit was using it for selfless purposes. Also the fact that Boorman gave into temptation at Nockmaar while Kit resisted the Wyrm’s temptation and had, by this episode, overcome most if not…

To be fair probably like 1% of the audience knows about that given it’s very often edited out for radio edits and so on as well. I’m not sure sure it was even in the MTV version that I saw back in the day.