Just out of curiosity, I checked my old tickets. They were $46, 51, and 59 (plus $6-8 “convenience charge” woohoo), Garden State Arts Center in NJ. But yeah, they’d be a lot more now.

Oddly, the only one of these I’ve actually seen an episode of is Bible Black. But that’s likely due to me watching more anime in the 80's/90's and into the 00's. Not sure exactly why, but as it made the transition from fansubbing to services like Crunchyroll/etc, I ended up watching less & less. (I also stopped…

Huh, weird.  I go there sometimes to look at a movie trailer or two.

Come on, this is 2022! Put it all in crypto!  :D

many, many popular YouTube channels and Twitch streamers

Big Movies aren’t for “the fans”, they’re for a mass audience. The people who have no idea wtf “Critical Role” is. Same with any other licensed film. They’re not trying to bring “the hobby” on to the screen, just tell a fantasy story & sell tickets.

As well as “big government” butting in to their lives with regulations & such.

Yeah, it’s amazing that they came up with something worse than the damned slideshows.

I’m not looking up and joining a new Discord server (or two) every time I have a question on a new topic. That’s absurd compared to just ‘searching the web’.

And once they delete their forums, people searching on Google won’t be able to find all the old “Gearbox/Borderlands sucks” threads!

True, but at least with Reddit, you can Google someone asking about a problem and hopefully getting some answers to it.

Just like the barely-there/absurd-structure cloth swimsuits (and super-platform shoes, etc), these seem intended for Instagram photoshoots, not actually wearing out.

Yeah, my first thought on seeing that header image was “wow, that animation is terrible.”  :D

why not consider a future in which paddles come standard on game controllers?

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....  ._.

I’ve played a bunch of good mobile games. The vast majority of them being paid games from before the whole f2p/monetization thing took off, of course.

Whoops, missed that the “not tradeable” line.  Yeah, seems like totally typical unlockable collectables, from before the whole NFT thing.

Depends on if it’s just another version of the age-old-system of people unlocking avatars/desktops/etc (everyone can unlock it), or if each one is “unique” in some way. And tradable/sellable.

Marijuana Listening to MTG causes psychosis.

Still have my lineup cards from the 97, 98, and 99 concerts.  Those really were great.