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  1. Comment on What's your not-D&D RPG, and why? in ~games.tabletop

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    This is such an incredibly fun idea.

    This is such an incredibly fun idea.

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  2. Comment on Fifteen years after 'Iron Man,' the MCU has lost what made its debut so special in ~movies

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    From the damn rooftops. My biggest problem with comic books was always how insanely interconnected everything was, and everyone had an origin story and built up to all of this... blah. It was so...

    My primary problem with the MCU is that it just requires too much of me.

    From the damn rooftops. My biggest problem with comic books was always how insanely interconnected everything was, and everyone had an origin story and built up to all of this... blah. It was so much.

    And now the MCU did the same thing. I think I checked out about the time of Age of Ultron, which I only really watched because I liked James Spader. After that, I watched Guardians of the Galaxy because I heard it was fun and not really connected to anything else, and it was fine but like... christ, there's just so much now.

    And they burnt the hell out of me when they screwed over the Netflix Defenders shows, which I genuinely really liked (even Iron Fist).

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  3. Comment on BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable in ~tech

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    Is there anything like this that works for fextralife, as well?

    Is there anything like this that works for fextralife, as well?

    1 vote

  4. What's your not-D&D RPG, and why?

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    I nearly made this post a hot few hours ago, but it turned into me gushing about Worlds Without Number for an inexplicably long time. I realized that of all the things that matter, going into the...

    I nearly made this post a hot few hours ago, but it turned into me gushing about Worlds Without Number for an inexplicably long time. I realized that of all the things that matter, going into the minutiae does the least.

    So yeah, I'm just curious what kind of not-D&D RPGs people are into and why exactly they're interested in it. Obviously there's the whole 'Wizards of the Coast is a shithole company' aspect, but I'm speaking more from a broad design standpoint than a moral one.

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  5. Comment on Dune: Part Two | Official trailer in ~movies

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    Unfortunately, a production company has to make it that far. Which means going through the un-filmable task of body-horroring Timothee Chalamet.

    I think they would actually make for fantastic movies

    Unfortunately, a production company has to make it that far. Which means going through the un-filmable task of body-horroring Timothee Chalamet.

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  6. Comment on Dune: Part Two | Official trailer in ~movies

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    The difference is that all of those (except Shadow and Bone and Wolf Hall, which I haven't seen) are complicated stories in traditional settings. Dune not only has a very complicated story that...

    The difference is that all of those (except Shadow and Bone and Wolf Hall, which I haven't seen) are complicated stories in traditional settings. Dune not only has a very complicated story that needs to be told in a very deliberate way, it also has this incredibly unique setting that requires a lot of exposition to explain. It's so incredibly different from anything within the cultural zeitgeist right now.

    Hannibal is a serial killer in modern America, the Expanse is traditional scifi with a twistTM, Longmire is a modern western set in america, etc.

    When books are converted, having the 'heavy lifting' of people already knowing the basics of a setting through cultural osmosis means less time spent having to explain it. The other option is you go full Lynch with it, and well, Lynch's Dune is insanely weird and entertaining, but also the worst literal adaptation.

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  7. Comment on Dune: Part Two | Official trailer in ~movies

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    Dune is such a massive and incredibly dense story that I don't think it'd be viable to any kind of modern TV audience as an adaptation. The fact that Denis Villeneuve is able to convert any of it...

    I agree about God Emperor. It's a fantastic book, but it would just not work on the screen.

    Dune is such a massive and incredibly dense story that I don't think it'd be viable to any kind of modern TV audience as an adaptation. The fact that Denis Villeneuve is able to convert any of it into a genuine blockbuster is a miracle.

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