Not quite "TV" per se, but...
... Netflix sure seems to be going down fast. Many people are hoisting their colors and sailing the high seas in response to the streaming services fragmenting so much that subscribers are asked to join several of them to keep up.
What's your take on it?
I mean, isn't this the market regulating itself?
And this is why my one character has Composure 8 and Influence 8.
Wait.
Did I do it wrong.
No, unless the general culture of the game is inclined towards not.
That is to say, if you go on a game and everyone is super chill with stats and no one has gone super hard into one of them, then it's pretty poor form to immediately chargen with Melee 1 Billion.
Conversely, if you join a game where everyone is trying to maximize their stats, you're gonna have a bad time come dice time if you don't (which has happened to me occasionally).
Of course there is no game in which these extremes are true; there's always a mix, but tendencies are pretty easy to find, especially if you have access to other people's sheets to check.
@silverfox said in Good TV:
I think a lot of the 'fuck this' from teachers comes from the fact that we feel under attack already. The fuss about CRT, indoctrination, banning books, etc has REALLY had an impact on teacher morale. We have 2 teachers of 15+ years experience getting out of education because of the environment. (Love kids, like the school, but it is everything ELSE getting to them.)
So to see incompetence displayed can absolutely feel like it is going to give even more power to those attempting to destroy public education.
I haven't seen this show, but as an educator, I don't often have trouble watching it. That said, what silverfox said is true; it does often feel like making fun of teachers and educators is often 'punching down'.
@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
@coin It also managed very well (in my opinion) to avoid the 'comic book prose' of a direct conversion from the source material coming off as a bit forced. For example I found Watchmen to suffer from that a bit.
But The Batman somehow avoided doing that. It sounded seemed so cool.
I don't think I need spoilers for this as the scene is in the trailer, but the part at the end of the car chase with the Penguin was just fucking incredible. On its own it's easily on par with the 'oh shit' moments like Cap picking up Mjolnir, Thor's arrival in Wakanda, etc. Yet it was just a normal human dude walking out of a car.
I don't think Watchmen suffered from the narration, myself. But I loved loved the way they did it in The Batman. and he's so moody, lol, I loved it.
The car chase is fucking fantastic, yes.
What I liked best is what I found lacking in Joker.
While Joker was a movie based on a comic book that was trying with wild desperation to divorce itself from its comic book roots and be seen as "respectable", The Batman leans into certain aspects of the comic books, the most impactful of which is Batman's narration during the film which can with I suspect zero editing be put word for word in tiny little narration boxes on a comic book and they would fit in perfectly, their language the flowery, sometimes cliched prose of comic book narration we've all grown accustomed to.
That, and the fucking score.
Holy fuck the score.
@tinuviel said in GMs and Players:
@coin said in GMs and Players:
@tinuviel said in GMs and Players:
For example, if someone calls me mean things I'd probably handle that much better than another person. So what I'd consider abuse shouldn't be the totality of things when a player complains to me about an event.
Poopyhead.
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@tnp said in GMs and Players:
@coin said in GMs and Players:
@tinuviel said in GMs and Players:
For example, if someone calls me mean things I'd probably handle that much better than another person. So what I'd consider abuse shouldn't be the totality of things when a player complains to me about an event.
Poopyhead.
And, of course, one has to consider the source as well.
POOPYHEAD.
@tinuviel said in GMs and Players:
For example, if someone calls me mean things I'd probably handle that much better than another person. So what I'd consider abuse shouldn't be the totality of things when a player complains to me about an event.
Poopyhead.
Ray Stevenson is Admiral Thrawn.
Uh.
"As first reported by our sister site The Hollywood Reporter, Stevenson will play a villainous admiral, but not Thrawn. Dutch Danish actor Lars Mikkelsen (Borgen, House of Cards) voiced Thrawn in Star Wars: Rebels."
Not unless they're trying to pull a switch, buddy.
@arkandel I concur, as their first on screen time it could have been better, but more opportunity in her series.
I think they'll flash back to it in Ahsoka.
I like it pretty well. But I'm notoriously low-maintenance for shows compared to other people. As long as it entertains me for the duration, it's fine.
So it's good. 
@downthespiral said in Luna's Playlist:
@luna Wow,. I haven't seen or heard from you in ages. I think I was Ashton on SI(hermetic type) and we played on another mush with you as Jocasta, not sure if it was SI though.
lol, I don't think Luna's been around here in like five or six years, at least, man.
@caryatid The little we played was always worth it and fun, and while it's sad there won't be more of it, I wish you the best. 
@too-old-for-this said in Good or New Movies Review:
@coin Meh. What should have been a fun romping adventure about a group of mercenaries safecracking a Vegas vault during the zombie apocalypse turned into a whingey whinefest of childish characters that should have died within five minutes of setting foot on zombie turf. There wasn't enough humor to make a satire, it was more like a particularly boring episode of Days of Their Lives, if there also happened to be zombies everywhere.
I mean, okay???
I agreed with you. Lol. You feel real strongly about this, I see.
@too-old-for-this said in Good or New Movies Review:
@alamias Army of the Dead was disappointing, imho.
Army of the Dead was too long, but all right; it was a little disappointing, yes.
Army of Thieves on the other hand is much better.
@sunny said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:
The Mayfair witches are…I don’t even know how you could turn it into something you can show on television. I cannot imagine suburbia is prepared for this. Like. They’re worse, content wise, than her Sleeping Beauty books. The stories are pretty good! But.
I imagine they'll 50 Shades of Gray it up until the housewives are injecting it into their veins.