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Loxbourne posted:The curse of the prequels is that they infantilised their audience. Cutesy side characters, goofy names - Lucas revealed he'd been making films for small children all along. Star Wars nerds really, really don't like being told they're not the target audience - and worse, Lucas rubbed it in their faces that they never had been! Lucas was trying to do big, family-friendly blockbuster stuff that would appeal to kids who wanted to see funny aliens and cool space armour and to adults who'd grown up with the original trilogy and extensive merchandising and tie-in fiction and were now taking their kids to see the new Star Wars films. It's why the films have these big ideas about the fall of the Republic and spend so much time on politics, but also have Jar-Jar and R2D2's factory adventures. e; also slavery is pretty clearly there as an example of the Jedi having lost the plot because they don't care about helping people. It's a problem because Jedi Suck, not because the films want to say anything about slavery. (It absolutely does come up in the films, in the context of the Jedi doing jack poo poo for Anakin's mother in Phantom Menace, which results in her death, which results in Anakin's fear of losing people close to him, which is what Palpatine uses to turn him.) Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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Rise is the only SW film that I actively detested and hated on watch. It was by far the worst SW film I have seen, including the side-films.
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If I want to make my own deck of cards but I want them to look professional quality, what are my options? All cut to the same size, nicely printed, like they came out of a retail box.
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Loxbourne posted:The curse of the prequels is that they infantilised their audience. Cutesy side characters, goofy names - Lucas revealed he'd been making films for small children all along. Star Wars nerds really, really don't like being told they're not the target audience - and worse, Lucas rubbed it in their faces that they never had been!
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Dec 18, 2022 18:59
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In the films, (almost) no one cares about slavery but it comes up constantly. Critics and fans alike pick up on it; if you listen to the We Hate Movies review of TPM you'll hear them be like "why the gently caress does slavery keep coming up??" as a common refrain. Why do they? Well, it was there from the very first movie. Luke meets Obi-Wan in the course of chasing down an escaped slave. So in fact the prequels are a return to form, a corrective.
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Dec 18, 2022 19:20
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Splicer posted:Nothing says child friendly like trade politics. So far nobody has argued that the prequels were well executed. TBH the most interesting thing about the prequels at this point is the at-time nerd backlash against reviewers, which lead to EpII having a higher general reception than EpI, despite being a definitely worse movie, which at this point I primarily attribute to some reviewers deciding it just wasn't worth the headache of dealing with SW nerds to give honest opinions. Cool Dad posted:If I want to make my own deck of cards but I want them to look professional quality, what are my options? All cut to the same size, nicely printed, like they came out of a retail box. Just making sure this doesn't get lost, but the most straightforward but certainly not cheapest option would be to, well, get a professional publisher. If you're just trying to publish a single deck of cards (or like...less than 100) then you won't benefit from the economies of scale, but there are bespoke micro publishers like printify https://printify.com/custom-playing-cards/ that will go down to single runs. If you don't have designs ready to go and you're looking to pay a professional designer, I can hook you up but it's never going to be cheap.
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theironjef posted:I dunno, have you ever tried to talk about any other Spider-Man movie without some horrid nerd coming in to say nothing will ever be as good as Tobey "I'm a 35 year old high school student and my every expression radiates "Did I smell a fart just now"" Maguire? Yes. But mostly when talking about Into The Multiverse. Which is, of course, the best Spider-Man movie.
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neonchameleon posted:Yes. But mostly when talking about Into The Multiverse. Which is, of course, the best Spider-Man movie. Spiderverse. I think it's one of the best marvel movies, if not the best
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Spiderverse is really good but omg everyone, no point you're trying to make about the Star Wars Prequels or MCU fresh or insightful enough that it hasn't already been argued to death in the past 10 years on these forums.Cool Dad posted:If I want to make my own deck of cards but I want them to look professional quality, what are my options? All cut to the same size, nicely printed, like they came out of a retail box. If there's any still-extant office supply stores or Fedex Office type places, you could probably get cards printed on some study glossy cardboard there? I don't know if they offer an option to pre-cut the cards out though. You may need to carefully do that by hand. If you use the dimensions of playing cards or MTG cards you could probably slot the cards into some sleeves to help hide any imperfections if you need to hand-cut them.
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Cool Dad posted:If I want to make my own deck of cards but I want them to look professional quality, what are my options? All cut to the same size, nicely printed, like they came out of a retail box. I've used https://www.makeplayingcards.com/ for the past couple years to print out magic card sized cards (though they do like every size imaginable) as prize supports for some tabletop events I help run. Great quality, reasonable prices, would def recommend
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Is there a SA thread on escape rooms? - the last one i could find was from 2014 and here in TG.
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I do not know of one.
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discount cathouse posted:Is there a SA thread on escape rooms? - the last one i could find was from 2014 and here in TG. I'd be interested in reading this, since I have no idea what these are but my coworkers talk about these all the time.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:I'd be interested in reading this, since I have no idea what these are but my coworkers talk about these all the time. This is not an un-endorsement.
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Cool Dad posted:If I want to make my own deck of cards but I want them to look professional quality, what are my options? All cut to the same size, nicely printed, like they came out of a retail box. If you're just looking for a few, Drivethrucards prints some pretty nice card decks complete with boxes and such.
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Splicer posted:Newgrounds flash pixel-hunt adventure game but IRL. I think escape rooms as a design predate most of the online versions - but their public availability doesn’t. They showed up quite often on children’s game shows on UK TV even in the early 80s. I would be interested in learning more about them and if there’s a standard on design practices. Given the number of them (there are at least four in my medium sized town - four rooms, that is, not four venues) it seems the only requirement to design one is to have money and a sufficiently large ego, which jars with the fact that puzzle design ain’t easy. Given they can use “no spoiler” policies to avoid reviews, it looks a very lemony market.
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I made a thread for it but the downside is, its in GBS. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4019994
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I don't know that I'd ever read an escape room thread. It basically feels like it would be full of spoilers for puzzles that might get reused in rooms I'm in, and that would take a lot of the fun out of it.
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Does anyone have a favorite prompt for Ten Candles? Running it again on Wednesday and I felt like my first time running it the generic "Make it from point A to point B" prompt worked, but I want to try something a bit different since I have a returning player.
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Anyone tried this? https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/store/?collection_id=407042053 Looks cool
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Anyone tried this? I did. Rules wise is your standard attribute+skill using d6. Setting is arabian nights+serenity/eve online. My big beef with this game is that it lacks solid description of various factions, and what exists is mostly coffined to railroady metaplot adventures.
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Countblanc posted:a met someone on Tinder a few months back who cringed when i told her I played in a 4e game and said that she hadnt played it but that it "sounded like a misguided but functional game, like the star wars prequels". she also lamented that 5e made designing encounters too hard, specifically too hard to reliably kill players. Was she wrong? 4e came out of an era where everyone wanted to be "the next wow" and the designers should've just made an MMO instead of trying to shoehorn that stuff into d&d (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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mila kunis posted:Was she wrong? 4e came out of an era where everyone wanted to be "the next wow" and the designers should've just made an MMO instead of trying to shoehorn that stuff into d&d
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mila kunis posted:Was she wrong? 4e came out of an era where everyone wanted to be "the next wow" and the designers should've just made an MMO instead of trying to shoehorn that stuff into d&d  Umm Blades In The Dark!
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In anno loving domini 20-god drat 22, how did you really expect that to go.
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Xiahou Dun posted:In anno loving domini 20-god drat 22, how did you really expect that to go. Some people live under rocks when it comes to RPGs I should know I’m one of them
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I enjoyed playing and running 4e. 
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Podima posted:I enjoyed playing and running 4e.
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Splicer posted:I can't believe you played tabletop wow. I bet you even used that "grid" thing that was directly imported from wow and and never existed in D&D before nor since you filthy degenerate 4e is tabletop WoW because you have abilities in 4e, something that has never happened in D&D before.
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It rules that on a slow work day you apparently can just roll in and drop the limpest decade old bait in this thread and watch everyone stumbledick around about how bad and wrong it is.
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Podima posted:I enjoyed playing and running 4e. I enjoyed playing it. It reminded me of Blood Bowl  Just wish the combat wasn't so darn glacial.
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4e was the first time that Action Points(/action dice/inspiration/etc.) were formalized in the rules, right? I was using a houserule for Action Dice in 3.5 before I swapped to 4e, and my players always thought it was such a blast busting out that extra action in a pinch.
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Podima posted:I enjoyed playing and running 4e. How's those disassociated mechanics working out for you?  Oh? Quite well? I see.
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Mr. Maltose posted:It rules that on a slow work day you apparently can just roll in and drop the limpest decade old bait in this thread and watch everyone stumbledick around about how bad and wrong it is.
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mila kunis posted:Was she wrong? 4e came out of an era where everyone wanted to be "the next wow" and the designers should've just made an MMO instead of trying to shoehorn that stuff into d&d Ironically the 3.5 based D&D MMO had far fewer changes for video game adaptation than the eventual 4th ed MMO. Podima posted:4e was the first time that Action Points(/action dice/inspiration/etc.) were formalized in the rules, right? I was using a houserule for Action Dice in 3.5 before I swapped to 4e, and my players always thought it was such a blast busting out that extra action in a pinch.
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Terrible Opinions posted:I know this point has already been argued to death but 4e's grid dependence and pretty strict turn based setup would translate really badly to mmo mechanics. It should have been adapted into several final fantasy tactics alikes, but sadly there was just one not especially great psp game. yeah it was always closer to an SRPG than Wow also wow was really fun when you were put to a stretch in a small group combat
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The best way to play 4e in 2022 is Lancer, right? A guy in our group had brought it up once our current adventure is over and I'd really like to try playing something like that again.
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Doctor Epitaph posted:The best way to play 4e in 2022 is Lancer, right? A guy in our group had brought it up once our current adventure is over and I'd really like to try playing something like that again. Maybe Icon when it’s done too??? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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