Sword of Truth was my favorite series, and I loved every minute of it.

I’m with you. I always say Inquisition is a game that’s a mile wide and an inch deep.

The war table was a great idea for all the reasons you mention - giving a wider sense of the world, the conflict, and the role of the Inquisitor & Inquisition.

Has anybody said His and Her Circumstances? Because His and Her Circumstances. It’s the sweetest, most honest romance anime I’ve ever seen, and one of the few that didn’t make me want to rage-quit within 3 episodes from trope-fury.

Yeah, the book just kind of stops. It throws away a bunch of its story threads (Septimus’ hunt and the witch both get resolved in a way that has nothing at all to do with the main characters or the central plot) and then gets to the end and just... quits. The movie found ways to make all the plot points converge into…

Agreed! I read the book after seeing the film, and had to ask my “but the book was better” friends what the hell they were talking about! And I’m a BIG Gaiman fan, but this just improved everything about that story.

I think there are two huge components that make age differences in film uncomfortable.

I love it! As somebody who left DC and Marvel behind a long time ago, Valiant is giving me the shared superhero universe fix I missed, but in a smaller package that’s easier to digest, easier for them to keep straight (and compelling), and comes without the constant string of company-wide crossovers. I’ve really…

I think an all-Bard game could be an absolute blast and a half. Especially if run by a GM who liked the idea and tailored adventures to suit the characters. Like, maybe save the “Magic-immune Orc” for a later session when the players get on a roll, rather than right out of the gate when they don’t have much backup…

I also wouldn’t mind longer games if the journey felt worth the effort. Most times, the only reward at the end of these filler sidequests is some minor piece of gear. Usually a reskin, usually not something that makes the rest of the game more fun. Like you said - grind to get stuff so you can grind to get more stuff.…

gathering shit to craft shit in order to gather more shit

I am also in a situation where I’ve only got an hour to game on any given night, though it isn’t child-related. Two at the most. I actually have the complete opposite feeling about open-world games. The fact that I can only get a few map points checked off before I have to quit and get some sleep leaves me feeling…

Radiohead is an excellent example, and one of the best of all-time, no question - but U2 started over a decade earlier than they did, and I’d say the U2 live experience is still stronger than Radiohead’s.

They’re still magical, and I’ll go rounds on that to the death. They don’t have the bite they did in their youth, sure - few do in their 50's - but show me another band who, four decades into their career, are still taking chances with their music, producing albums with meaningful entries in their libraries of songs,…

This is the live version from Under a Blood Red Sky, not the album version from War. I actually like this version a lot more - this is one of those songs that really took on a new dimension in live performance, and BRS is an album where almost every song is stronger as part of the performance than it was in the studio.

For a while now, I’ve wanted a crying baby gif to keep on-hand for whenever one of these whining knuckleheads shows up. I think yours is better. Thank you.

I was wondering if every show they did was just going to feature them playing their Always Sunny characters in slightly different settings. I love Kaitlin Olsen, but The Mick is unwatchable to me. Seeing the commercials for this one, it looked like School of Rock but with Dennis Reynolds instead of Jack Black, and…

YES Luke. God bless you. Atlantis was the top of what I think of as Disney’s Second Renaissance - Emperor’s New Groove, Lilo and Stitch, even the deeply flawed but almost great Treasure Planet. So few people have seen these movies, but they’re absolute gems.

Yeah, you’re almost better off with them not touching it than using their usual less-than-kind touch. I went in expecting to see the two leads in one of anime’s typical heavily-implied romantic relationships, but walked away not feeling like there was any implication of love, and little of genuine friendship. Akira…