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Guardians 3 was good.

Mostly because they weren’t trying to shoehorn future movie plot setups into it.

On that note, the Holiday Special was also pretty good.

Shang-Chi wasn’t a bad movie… Not one I’m likely to rewatch much, but a good popcorn movie…

Other than that, no Marvel has started falling into producer interference mode, where every movie must explicitly set up the next, even if they don’t have a full plan for what’s next.

They’ve lost sight of the key to their success; telling a tight, self-contained story made by people who love the characters.

Reciting from memory is a bardic skill, but those “other people” were his dedicated assistants.

Well, possibly. We don’t know when Homer went blind, or if he was ever actually blind.

All we really know is that the two biographies written about him were written at least 400 years after his death. Both are highly questionable, but both still say that Homer was literate, or at least well educated, before losing his sight.

All we actually know is that Homer wrote the Iliad (or parts of it) and the Odyssey.

And we know the works of Homer because they were written down.

Bards aren’t just the run of the mill musicians. They are so much more than that.

And most of that “so much more” requires extensive training. Which requires some form of reading.

Bards are historians and have some magic of their own.

Well, as long as it’s not any smaller than the hummingbird, it’s still possible.

A hummingbird is pushing the limits of the wild shape ability, and would actually not be allowed under some versions of the game

A flea is too small for wild shape.

Low level wizards are a drain on the party.

High level wizards… Don’t fuck with the high level wizards. Especially not ones who have some time to prep for the encounter.

They aren’t on the same level of fraudulent bullshit, but they’re close.

Fingerprint matching is done “by eye” and often involves an “expert” saying that one smudge is a 100% match for another smudge.

DNA matching is the only forensic science that’s worth a damn, and only if it’s done correctly.

I loved that series as a manga. Not watched the adaptation yet.

But it does make sense in a way. Dragon steak has been a trope for decades.

It’s just that some monsters are sentient… That raises questions when you put them on the menu.

I actually say the cheapest option is buying a good quality Safety Razor, and then packs of blades for pennies each.

It’s how I’ve shaved for years, and I’m never going back to the multi blade bullshit disposables.

Adli’s beer is usually locally sourced. I lived in Columbus OH for a time, and the selection was actually pretty good (depending on season).

I’ve also seen Aldi stock horrible beer, both in Columbus and elsewhere.

I see most of the people in the comments here have older model heat pumps.

Newer model heat pumps are quite a bit better than even ones made 10 years ago.

My dad had one put in two years ago for his garage kitchen, and it’s worked quite well, even in fairly cold temperatures. Most importantly, that heat pump doesn’t have an auxiliary mode, and yet it still works in sub freezing temperatures.

It would work even better if it were ground source, but those are both expensive and require digging up the yard.

That wouldn’t work on my system.

Typing apt just opens the man page for pacman.

Thieves cant could be a dialect of undercommon. After all, not everyone would know that cant, even if they know undercommon.

Brother is the go to because their stuff is basic and functional.

All the other companies have “innovated” to the point where their shit is unusable for daily use.

I’ve been itching to play a dragonborn monk dubbed, “the golden god of the fist”.

He would be somewhat of a nudist because of his belief that the physical form is perfection, and perfection must be shared with others to inspire them to seek out their own perfection.

He would have polished, radiant golden scales and a body builder’s physique.

His main camp supplies would be polishing wax, and a buffing wheel.

That was an option, but it was funny to not do it that way.

The guy was trying to do a sort of reverse possession on a prince of hell.

I had a little chart drawn up for all the ways such a thing could go wrong. (And a few ways it would succeed)

The roll ended up being that he screwed up, got killed and the demon prince had no anchor to stay, so thus was pulled back into hell.

I like GURPS as my main system. It’s point based, and higher point values tend to give more breadth rather than depth.

For example, a 500 point character can possibly be killed by a 25 point goblin.

Starting point values are usually 100 to 150, or 250 for more epic games. 500 is usually the realm of supers. As in Superheroes… Those games are a bit rare. Superheroes are just too reactionary. As in, you mostly wait around for villians to start something, then catch them, then wait around again… Now, a supervillians campaign, those are fun.

The survivors of the cult splintered and became a bit of a running gag, but yes, the players were a bit pissed that the big bad of that part of the campaign was dead off screen.

I don’t really do a singular big bad… Just groups and factions and madmen wanting power.

The players run into some of it. And hear tails of other adventurers solving some of it off screen. Which is what they thought happened at first until the wizard made a great roll and spotted an error in the ritual circle.

See, this shit wouldn’t throw me. As a DM I love improve in my plot lines. Hell, I often don’t plan things out past laying out the world and enemy motivations.

Sure my big bad has goals, but they have to work for them just as much as anyone else does. One of the most fun (for me) campaigns I ever ran was where the big bad conducted a ritual off screen, and botched the roll. He ended up killing himself.

The party knew that he had been planning a ritual of some sort and had gone into seclusion. They had decided to dismantle his organization before tracking him down.

So weeks of fighting and taking out little hidden cells of the cult, they finally find info about where the big bad was doing his ritual. Only to find a mangled rotting corpse and a closed hell portal.