I don’t think they’ll start with Calianna. At least that part doesn’t seem big enough to warrant highlighting in the description. I very much want them to start in Trostenwald and spend an entire season, introducing us to the politics, major figures and building up to ... uhm... you know ... uh... everything with the…

As much as I love Vox Machina, the cast really hit their stride with the Mighty Nein. This should be amazing. 

“It’s the people and the adventure that you remember that keeps you coming back for more.”

That’s entirely true. I still have all my stuff. I still have all the memories of the fun times playing D&D. But there’s other systems I enjoy, and other systems I’ve been meaning to get into. And having played every version of D&D thus far, I don’t have to play more, I don’t have to seek out D&D. I can choose to…

I’ve been playing for 40 years, and I still remember the red box I recieved as a gift fondly. It lead to many hours of entertainment, adventure, laughter, and grand story telling. The shame for me is that I was getting a bit excited for the DnDOne changes that were on the horizon. Now, I don’t really care. I have…

Important to note they still intend to deauthorize the OGL 1.0a, based on this.

I was genuinely surprised by how good this episode was. I though huh, this is no longer an “okay” show, this actually “a show I like”. And yeah, Willow has been improving steadily from what was a pretty weak initial episode.

The AV Club clearly doesn’t see what the show is going for, nor is it especially interested in learning, I feel like.

I’m 50 years old and I will watch the Fraggle Rock Holiday special and enjoy it heartily and I do not care what anyone thinks.

You think if he started attacking his wife with a butcher knife, the two policemen present wouldn’t have had a much better chance of stopping him before he killed her? Knives can kill people, sure, but they don’t do it as quickly and easily, and they leave a lot more time and opportunity for other people to be heroes.…

The presence of a gun in itself make the action more likely to happen. The presence of a gun multiply the chance of a woman being murdered by her spouse by 5. Part of it is mindset sure, a person more likely to kill their spouse is also more likely to have a gun, but part of it is that it doesn’t take the same mindset…

Exactly, thank you. As a trained policeman, I can tell you it’s almost impossible to keep cool when a woman is standing several feet away holding up a phone. Last Thanksgiving I joined in for a family photo and there were multiple casualties, it’s almost as bad a trigger as seeing a Black person.

I dunno Rich, I guess I can conjure some snark about it but for the most part that video seemed to be guys trying really hard to communicate the best way they saw to deal with a situation in which one of their friends and business partners destroyed a personal relationship with his family and with them and also abused…

You just identified what happened.  They initiated a car chase with an armed man, and engaged in a shootout with him when he fired back, all while knowing the very person they were meant to protect was there.  And now that person is dead because she got shot.  Whatever else may have happened, there were plenty of…

If you take a step back and ask “What, exactly, do we need the police for and want them to do,” this sort of situation would seem to be exactly it. Armed and dangerous guy with a hostage. And yet, the police’s actions (which don’t seem to me, to display a whole lot of dexterity and skill in crisis management, at least…

No one accused anyone of crimes- but it’s creepy and fewer people are afraid to say so out loud these days. 

Geez, that show was full of perverts and cult members.

Dude definitely had a type*.

That’s actually an idea that has merit.  As long as it doesn’t remove every female officer from the “male police stations” ... because that would turn those into a cesspool of hatred and excess testosterone that could only be bad for the general public.

But we shouldn’t redirect money from police budgets everywhere towards bolstering mental health services and responses? Oh no, that would be wrong. Just like ever even considering a smaller military budget, since you know, we’re not actually fighting in any officially declared wars anywhere.