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I think the films are exactly what they market themselves to be. That being said, I think the first was the best in terms of being delivered cleanly and to the point. They also wisely didn't give Keanu much to say in any of them and relied on the talents of the supporting cast to carry any...

Season 5 of Black Mirror was "eh," to be honest. Two of the episodes weren't horrible, but it's not "top of its game" stuff like some prior seasons. Still, I found "Smithereens" an apropos commentary on the current state of social media, especially when it can reduce human trauma to simple...

“Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.” “Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down out of the night and carry you...

Yeah, I've had that experience before -- like you want to crawl inside each other's skin. (Glad that doesn't sound creepy. Mua ha ha.) But it's like the Sx enneagram variant urge, basically -- totally immersion intimacy, desire for merging while both of you retaining everything you are. "Sex"...

I thought that was what politics was. or fourchan

It was enjoyable -- Karen Kitsuma directed, look up "jennifer's body" and last year's "Destroyer" with a decent performance by nicole Kidman for her other directorial works. Liked this movie a lot. The writer's written some other notable work as well (Taylor Sheridan) -- for example, both...

John Wick 3 Parabellum -- pretty much right along the lines of the first two, if you're into it. Glad they barely give Keanu any dialogue (because he can't deliver a line to save his life) and instead populate the films with decent supporting cast so he can just focus on a kinetic performance...

I would like to believe and in fact was born into a Christian family, raised as a Christian, struggled through many doubts, spent some long years in church leadership (worship lead, various activities outside church, program writer/implementer), until my beliefs just changed enough over time...

I think it is more about personality type than gender per se. I think most Thinking women I've talked to are more critical of it than Feeling women. I was kinda put off by that moment because it was SO freakin' forced -- ESPECIALLY because Carol just took down a spaceship and smacked up a lot of...

In Covenant's favor, it had a good five minutes (which unfortunately was mostly shown in the film trailers and culminated in another reason why we don't fire automatic weapons haphazardly inside a ship).

Yeah, Fire Bolt is great... if what you are fighting is not resistant to fire. Which starts happening a lot by level 5-6, at least in our campaigns, as it's the most common form of damage. I have already been in fights where my Fire Bolt and my Ray of Frost had no effect. However, that still...

Yeah, the joke of Eldritch Blast is that warlocks are meant to spam it. However, despite how annoying that is, it's essentially the best cantrip damage spell in the game. Force damage, which is rarely resisted. (Compare to Fire Bolt or Ray of Frost or whatever.) it's d10 per bolt you can split...

We don't really have options in this campaign -- we're spelunking into old cave systems to find a meteor of precious metal for a reward, competing against NPC spelunker groups. Our only commerce/NPC resource is an old mining town that kind of got swamped by outsiders similar to a "gold rush"...

Zelda has been uploaded to the Collective.... I guess like tree heaven in Avatar. Oh blessed day, calloo, callay.

Frankly, i find your comments difficult to decipher and have to reread multiple times just to respond in some way, but I'm probably just an idiot too.

HAHAHAHAHA! Maybe I'll stop bitching. That's a little crazy. Only the Strong Survive. Thanks. We play to tell stories and we play to have fun. When either or both of those are stripped from the practice, do we want to continue? It's difficult because I've also had fun in the guy's games...

Not as much a deviation as the Mandarin was in Iron Man 3, honestly. I was okay with Zemo. I've seen a lot of scarred super villains. (Heck, Crossbones was in the same film. Yawn.) They could have called him anything else, I guess, to avoid tying it to an existing character. I found him more...

well, this campaign is still ongoing. We are now level 8. We have a horrid mortality rate -- I'm kinda peeved at our GM. I love the guy to death as a person, and he's damned smart whether in or outside a game. Just because as a player he goes through 3-4 characters during a campaign (he doesn't...

Rewatched Ant-Man/Wasp last night on Netflix. It's not much to talk about but made me laugh regularly. it seems to succeed mostly on the strength of performance, they have a decent cast, Paul Rudd is extremely likable / sympathetic, and there's some genuinely funny bits in it. Dramatically...

This sucks. I saw it on my news feed an hour ago and it was somewhat of a gut punch. 2019's a bastard.

That show was food porn at its finest.

Maybe it's a matter of holistic thinking. Because if you are truly thinking globally, then even if you are detached and more curious about "how" and "can we," you are also going to be aware of the cause/effect chain radiating out from every action you take, like a huge causal web. IOW, figuring...

That's not a bad observation. There's also a wide variety of range within each genre as well, some fantasy is really off the deep end or can merely be fluff, some other fantasy can be more grounded. I think good stories have both character depth while also broader ramifications and we can learn...

Villains aren't really just villains, they are people just like heroes with their own goals. (Heck, the whole Infinity War film is basically Thanos on his own Greek hero quest, triumphing past his obstacles to fulfill his life vision.) They are just seen as villains because their goals are...

I think Larson is a good actress but I don't really much connect with her in films. I remember when I saw Room, I could agree she gave a good performance, but that movie didn't really make me feel as much as I expected from all the hype. She's kind of a "cool" actress in terms of temperature, to...

Right. There was no real character development. The arc for Vers was "can't remember" -> "Oh now I remember" and they didn't really do it in a way that contributed to a real arc. There's just the one little montage near the end where we see that Vers is persistent/stubborn (which we already...

What, showing a mix of different types of people in our collective stories, especially a mix that is representative of the world around us? Sorry, I forgot there is a conspiracy afoot. See my first answer. I can't speak intelligently about Europe because I'm an American who doesn't read...

As far as representation goes, I have mixed feelings...or maybe not mixed, I'm just not that political but rationally I dont get why some folks are anti-diversity. I get why people don't want there to be representation just to have representation....but this isn't about employment or capability...

Yeah, it seems to be a waste to analyze a creative work when some of the people haven't actually watched it and/or have only a vague idea of even the general plot. What's the basis for interaction/communication at that point? I do think details and context matters, all that being said. Wakanda...

"You, dear sir -- you must defend yourself with strawmen, , projection, rationalization, and metaphor. Wield them well. "And as for you, the worthy opponent, I shall give you a choice: This 80lb two-headed battle axe, or this gas-powered chainsaw."

Sorry. I have read this three times and I'm not even sure how it addresses my post or what you're trying to say. Is there a main point here that actually ties it to what I said, expressed succinctly?

Goddam nickelback....what a launchpoint

I think it's because you're clumsy You should try not to talk too loud

I've had a few large "breaks" in my life. One involving when I decided "god" probably really didn't exist; until then, I was choosing to believe because the possibility seemed feasible, but eventually I reached a tipping point and decided it was more likely that there wasn't a singular guiding...

you guys are missing out on the best parts of life. I have two pillows under my head, two pillows under my knees, and I have a full-length body pillow if I want to sleep on my side. Pillow talk. Glad we're having it.

stevie wonder doesn't count

I always think of bananas as "steves" (herbs wear glasses) but I digress...

I have done both. I grew up in a religious environment culturally (rural Pennsyltucky, so to speak). I was always questioning but this was back before the Internet, so it was hard to find legitimate material to step outside the world view until I was older and left the area. I always had lots of...

That's a lot to parse in the OP, but basically you sound like you expect a lot of yourself (being a perfectionist) and do a lot to have a good reputation / be valued by others and you just can't possibly keep up with that for the rest of your life. This is coming from another early-life...

I think you won me over with that tidbit.

Yeah, I haven't dug into it but I've heard of that build before as being very viable. We had a warlock in our last campaign who had Elven accuracy and spell Sniper and was otherwise built around being able to regularly deliver multiple eldritch blasts per round with a high level of accuracy...

Yeah, Hellish Rebuke is level 1 invocation. Eldritch Blast is easily the 'best' damage cantrip out there, due to range and Force not typically being resisted. You can get it as a non-warlock only either with a class dip or by blowing a stat/feat gain on the appropriate feat. About the most...

Oh good grief. Functionally, there is no point to saying "it is something else." You can only test something specific. So mentally, you might think "it is something else" -- but you do not have a testable hypothesis until you pick a "something else" based on your best guess. Anyway, enjoy...

Rewatched Fury Road over the weekend. (That movie makes me happy.) Rewatching "Big" Extended Ed to celebrate the life of Penny Marshall who just died. Saw "The Miseducation of Cameron Post". Not as deep as it could have been, but it was more thoughtful than satire. I was pleasantly surprised...

We started a new campaign two months ago, with GM duties moving back to a prior GM. He started a new rule -- there's a huge 20 sider sitting in front of his screen. Once per night, someone in the group (or the group altogether) can indicate for another player to add the die to a roll ...

Saw Venom. It's not a good movie by any standard litmus test -- but I still really enjoyed it! (Mostly because Tom Hardy did not phone it in, he made the film interesting despite all the crappy elements. And Michelle Williams is typically good, although her part was thinly written.) So I think...

Yes, I agree that in terms of usefulness the problem with explanation 2 (Co-incidence - drinking water is irrelevant to the issue) is that it isn't falsifiable... unless of course explanation 1 pans out (drinking water IS the issue), which you can test. In fact explanation 2 is really just a...

Ha, nice! :) yeah, I think persona / personality drives the story and makes something more than a cookie cutter. The best stories my group tells are the ones with the most unique memorable characters. Their abilities are for game mechanics, and sometimes people pick abilities that don't gel...