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I'll be the contrarian and say I only thought it was "ok." It was sleek and slick. Entertaining just for the great visuals and stylish period set pieces. People have compared it to Mad Men regarding look/feel and I'd agree. They did a good job of moving things along, which made it easy to...

Second season wasn't as good as the first season, but it was still entertaining and worth watching. In this day of so much great tv, I think "worth watching" is high praise. The number of people who return from the second season to watch the third season will be a pretty good litmus test for...

Fantastic spy show. Five seasons. Smart, understated, well-written, well-acted, realistic, unpredictable. If you like stuff like the Night Manager you'll love this. I think this is significantly better than the NM imo. Why have you never heard of it? It's French. Who knew the French had...

Title: The Bureau Genre: Drama Creator: Eric Rochant Cast: Mathieu Kassovitz, Sara Giraudeau, Stefan Crepon, Zineb Triki, Jonathan Zaccaï, Florence Loiret Caille, Aleksey Gorbunov, Jules Sagot, Anne Azoulay, Louis Garrel, Mathieu Amalric, Alexandre Brasseur, Irina Muluile First...

That's the future of ttrpgs imo. Everyone getting around a table face to face but with a laptop/tablet to access a shared digital battle map. Obviously some people will always prefer figurines and battle mats but imo the possibilities/benefits of a digital battle map and character tracker are...

Great review- that's what I was looking for. And, honestly, that's what I expected based on the last time I checked in on the game when it was still in testing. 5e was never meant to have that level of depth. It's very clear they designed 5e to be a simple, streamlined system that's easy to...

I'm sure you know the difference between a tactically heavy and tactically light game and why tactically heavy games generally require a more complex rule set.

Yeah, I'm hoping to change that.

Interesting. As much as I appreciate 5e it isn't quite "crunchy" enough (for me). I find it kind of light on the tactical end. I fully understand that was a conscious decision by the designers to keep it simple/easy to understand, but I like a little more mechanical depth personally. Anyway...

If anyone has played both PF2 and DnD5e, I'd love to hear an analysis/comparison.

Can't say that I fully understand your post, but I can say that it feels correct.

Very possible you went to one of the shows before AiC jumped on board. The first half of the tour it was either Testament or Suicidal Tendencies. AiC didn't become involved until second half of tour. Also possible you just missed them as the opening act. Like I said, they were unknown and...

I went to Clash of the Titans in 1991. It was supposed to be Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth and Testament, but for some reason Testament dropped out. The opening act instead was some band nobody had ever heard of called Alice in Chains. I thought they were pretty good, but they got no love from...

Need more movies like this.

Anyone have a line on nfl streams? My normal go to is down. Much appreciated

I've stated this before, but I was surprised at how well designed the EQ ttrpg was when our group played it. I think we expected something pretty gimmicky, just cashing in on the franchise name. But it was well thought out and we all had a blast fucking around in gfay and CB.

Absolutely you can. But I think we've all played enough games/systems to realize that a system's intended design regarding things like itemization makes a difference. Sure, you can do whatever you want in just about any system, but bucking system design (especially for itemization) is going to...

https://g.co/kgs/4x13Wf Explains WV pretty well

Rewatched the first movie a month or two ago. That first one really set the standard for fantastic movie pacing. Movies were still pretty slowly paced in 85, but this one was way ahead of its time (haha).

I actually took the time to learn the map editor and GM function for D:OS2. It was actually pretty powerful and I created some cool stuff. The issue was that they only provided a really bare bones tutorials about how to use it so it took forever to learn. There were some things I never...

Be advised, if you are going skiing in CO you will have to reserve a spot ahead of time and they only have so many. You can't just show up like you normally could. You will also have to take a back seat to local pass holders who will be able to reserve ahead of you. Also consider that...

Lol I never knew that trick but it would have been nice, considering how long it took to get sense heading up.

Sure, but that all went out the window with Kunark, which was long before in game maps. I had the zone maps fairly well memorized just like everyone did who played EQ a lot pre maps, but I still used loc and direction sense all the time. A lot of time it has nothing to do with having the...

Don't disagree, actually. In his heart, Lynch is an abstract artist. He happens to use film as his medium, but he could just as easily be putting bizarre but evocative sculptures in art galleries. Lynch's movies are always a tug of war between producing a work of fine art and producing a good...

This is why I said it's underrated even though it has an 8 on IMDB (which honestly doesn't mean much, as others have pointed out). IMO it should be in every Top 10 or Top 20 movies of all time conversation. A surprising number of people I know have never even seen it, even friends of mine who...

Was literally just making this argument the other day. I missed it when it first came out and finally saw it a couple months ago. Daniel Day Lewis 100% carries that movie. He was amazing in it, to be sure, but if you take him out of that movie, it goes from "pretty good" to "pretty boring"...

It gets its due from critics, I don't disagree, but it's consistently underrated/misunderstood by audiences. Lost Highway has a higher audience score the MD, for example, even though MD is a significantly better movie. Also, it deserves more than an 8 imo. I admit it isn't exactly an...

Rewatched Lost Highway after 20 years. It blew my mind the first time, but I thought it lost something in the rewatch. Still, I agree it's an underrated/great movie. I'll up your ante with Mulholland Drive though. I definitely feel like David Lynch has been trying to make the same movie...

This is the most succinct critical analysis I've seen of TD S03:

No, I'm the guy who gave up on GoT as soon as they ran out of original source material because it started getting shitty and I suspected it would only get worse as things progressed. I feel pretty good about my decision.

Sure, that makes sense. But if you feel that way it just means that the show isn't doing its job providing you with the information you need. There is a distinction between revealing small unexplained plot points that hint at the deep/rich lore and history of the show's universe, vs. leaving...

Seems like most people here like the show, but I'll be a contrarion. I only watched the first episode but I wasn't very impressed, mainly for the reason you mention in your first spoiler. To me it started to feel like Westworld when Westworld started jumping the shark. Except this show did it...

I love colonialism / imperialism for a setting. A Dune setting sounds pretty awesome too. You can keep the steampunk stuff though. But, to each their own.

Who knows where Orcs= Blacks originated, but it definitely originated many years before modern SJW types took it upon themselves to defend against the idea by making changes to RPG systems. I can tell you the first time I saw the comparison was a few years after Hurricane Katrina when this meme...

For sure. I've played ttrpgs as a GM and a player for 30 years with a lot of different people without having to worry once about things like "racism against orcs." Since I've been designing my own game, I can see how you need to probably at least consider shit like how you are going to...

It's a complex issue with a lot of angles. There are three main "problems" that arise when talking about this issue: 1. It's actually several separate issues that people are trying to reduce into a single issue. 2. Just about everyone, including companies like Wizards, has gotten loose and...

I think their ultimate goal is to expunge the idea that some humanoid races are inferior to other races. Specifically, intellectually inferior.

Agree that the opening credits scene for this movie is perfect and easily one of the most haunting I've seen. Think your link is broken, here's a working version: