I am going to crap on things which are themselves crap. Roll20 is crap. Even when you’re using packaged shit, the UI is cumbersome, especially if you’re a GM. And find me one GM that never needs a custom asset even when running a canned adventure? Managing assets in Roll20 is a fucking nightmare. Managing piles of…

Tablet support remains horrible- my computer was having issues so I played via an iPad this week and it was… sketch.

Of course, the UX on Roll20 is so bad that I actually will use Google Docs as a VTT before I use Roll20. Roll20 might be good if you’re running canned adventures and aren’t managing the content yourself, but if you’re doing anything custom, it’s a fucking slog.

Well, what do we do now?

Yeah, pinning down how old 001 was supposed to be is awkward- he was 8-10 in “the 50s”, but looked to be early 20s in the 80s. But then again, they did establish that he can do weird things with time.

I mean, Vecna lives in the Upside Down Creel House, and clearly wasn’t Victor, so yeah, it’s a bit of a surprise that it’s Henry specifically, but more because we got nothing about Henry prior to this beyond that he was a weird kid.

In what way is the orderly/Vecna “twist” a “mind-blowing reveal”. I’d say that it was telegraphed, but even telegraphs couldn’t communicate their intent across that much distance.

My hot take: structurally, Logan Lucky and Inception are two heist movies following the same rough pattern, and of the two, Logan Lucky is the better movie.

“Nordic Empire Games”. Oh, they’re definitely Nazis, right?

Honestly, I’d kill for a new game that lifts the best parts from L4D and updates them, instead of layering on progression systems and collectibles. I understand that online games in 2022 need to be goddamn treadmills, but what was great about L4D was learning the maps, learning to read the AI Director spawns, and just…

Blood Quantum is a notable exception, as it positions a very distinct perspective in the zombie apocalypse: turns out (for whatever reason), First Nations people (in at least the town where this movie takes place) are immune. It does take some detours down into more traditional zombie gore and gags, but the core…

I will go to bat for the uniforms from The Motionless Picture. Sure, they look like leisure-ware, but so did the original TOS uniforms. Sure, they didn’t look terribly militaristic, but that was kinda the point. Now, sure, the palette kinda blows, though it fits the 1979 zeitgeist well.

Your Highness was a pretty accurate representation of what happens when an 8th grader says “Our D&D campaign should be a movie!” and then actually makes it happen.

It’s very much got the opportunity to be American Doctor Who. Keep rotating the cast through, maybe get a little more DC with it again (grab them z-list characters- but you can ebb and flow with that), let the tone shift with each season.

That’s funny, I don’t remember when Steam was called a scam. Oh, people resisted it because it was different and who wants to install an extra client to run the game you just bought? But everybody understood the value proposition. And MP3s? Users all instantly understood the value proposition, and so it was just…

See, I know the speculation was Doomsday, but I always assumed it was was going to be Kalibak, and that they had opened a portal to Apokalips. Bizarro is an interesting twist.

The “magic” ingredient is labor exploitation. Same as it always was.

Of course not, it’s in the Dalek’s contract. Davros is a shrewd negotiator, though you might not know it from the character he plays on the series. But that’s why it’s acting.

Wait, Infinity Train was a kids show? I thought it was a substitute for therapy.

Now, I don’t think the writers will be able to resist half-assedly closing out all of the various arcs and setups. But they don’t have to. The TARDIS weirdness could just be a lingering mystery. The weird villains don’t have to be fully explained, just thwarted. It doesn’t need to have a nice bow on it, because it…