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The first Lovecraft I ever read was The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, which wasn't published until after Lovecraft's death. I didn't read any of the mythos stuff until I was out of college, many years later. It's jarring how different Kadath is from the much more popular Lovecraft.
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dwarf74 posted:He was so fuckin great. On that note, Legends of Tomorrow was the greatest DC TV show of all time (not counting season 1), and this is a hill I will absolutely die on. It suffered a distinct lack of Booster Gold.
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 01:53 |
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Gorelab posted:It suffered a distinct lack of Booster Gold. He turned up in the last season played by Turk from Scrubs. Really it more suffered a paucity of Booster Gold.
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I forgot this Kamigakari expansion was the one with Literally Fate/Stay Night Servants in it, lol. There's something about the way that the fluff text was translated that just makes my eyes slide right off it, though, unfortunately.
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theironjef posted:He turned up in the last season played by Turk from Scrubs. Really it more suffered a paucity of Booster Gold. Just one more reason it was a tragedy that the show was cancelled when it was. Imagine a whole season of Booster Gold. That's what they robbed us of.
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 04:03 |
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Booster Gold in Time Prison! With an alien baby and that alien baby's two moms!
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neonchameleon posted:If you were to say greatest live action DC TV show I might join you on that hill. But DCAU >> DC Live Action. Very true, but LoT was probably the closest it's been. It was an often silly show that had some really good, fun times just messing around but could still hit you in the heart if it wanted.
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 06:41 |
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Legends had a lot of "theater dorks raiding the prop closet" energy and that really helped when they went for full-on stupid gags that would have turned me off from other shows. I wouldn't watch for the plot developments, I'd watch because they had three hammy actors as the villains doing a scenery-chewing competition all season.
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Leperflesh posted:The first Lovecraft I ever read was The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, which wasn't published until after Lovecraft's death. I didn't read any of the mythos stuff until I was out of college, many years later. It's jarring how different Kadath is from the much more popular Lovecraft. Kij Johnson's The Dreamquest of Vellit Boe is a response to this and is great.
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fritz posted:Kij Johnson's The Dreamquest of Vellit Boe is a response to this and is great. Second this review.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:And then there's his parody of melodrama, Sweet Ermengarde. bah bah BAAAAH
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# ? Feb 4, 2024 04:37 |
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Leperflesh posted:The first Lovecraft I ever read was The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, which wasn't published until after Lovecraft's death. I didn't read any of the mythos stuff until I was out of college, many years later. It's jarring how different Kadath is from the much more popular Lovecraft. I guess a lot of Call of Cthulhu players are down on the Dreamlands as being silly. I always really liked the Dreamlands, even though it was pretty clear Kadath wasn't a finished and polished work. It is pretty jarring to try and lump Lovecraft's stuff into a cosmic materialism pile the way S.T. Joshi kind of does. He wrote a lot of stuff, from Greek myth pasthiche to morality tale and a ton of poetry including Christmas poems.
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# ? Feb 4, 2024 18:47 |
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That Old Tree posted:On the other hand, she has defended Jesse Singal
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# ? Feb 4, 2024 19:29 |
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Leperflesh posted:The first Lovecraft I ever read was The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, which wasn't published until after Lovecraft's death. I didn't read any of the mythos stuff until I was out of college, many years later. It's jarring how different Kadath is from the much more popular Lovecraft. I actually just finished reading through Clarke Ashton Smith's Zothique Cycle and it made Lovecraft's Dreamlands stories make a lot more sense. Honestly, I actually think Dreamquest is one of Lovecraft's strongest works. KingKalamari fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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The Colour Out Of Space is Lovecraft's best work tbh. Pretty much pure cosmic horror.
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KingKalamari posted:I actually just finished reading through Clarke Ashton Smith's Zothique Cycle and it made Lovecraft's Dreamlands stories make a lot more sense. quote:Honestly, I actually think Dreamquest is one of Lovecraft's strongest works. Gravitas Shortfall posted:The Colour Out Of Space is Lovecraft's best work tbh. Pretty much pure cosmic horror.
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# ? Feb 5, 2024 18:45 |
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Leperflesh posted:Sorta? It's a thing though, like back in the day, the only thing keeping General Motors afloat was its insurance arm GMAC... so they spun it off. The thing is you can radically juice your immediate balance sheet by selling something, and you can realistically only sell something that is nicely profitable if you want to get a good price for it. So this is one of those bizarre, apparently counterintuitive things that big companies do sometimes. Was interested, so checked some of the numbers according to their 2022 annual report: https://investor.hasbro.com/static-files/96ff1bf8-20ae-446e-8600-cb2158409e56 Page 57: Magic the Gathering is Hasbro's "first billion-dollar brand", with the "tabletop gaming" category of the "Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming" segment (which seems closest to specifically MtG/D&D tradgames with Monopoly, Peppa Pig etc. part of the "Consumer Products" reporting segment) reporting over 1 billion in net revenue, and the "digital and licensed gaming" category under WotC reporting 250 million in net revenue, and the total for Hasbro at 5.8 billion. Balance sheet stands at 9.2 billion, which per page 136 comes to 2.9 billion in assets for "Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming" (don't see just tabletop gaming broken out), 5.7 in assets for "Consumer Products", 6.2 for the "Entertainment" segment and negative 5.7 under "Corporate and Other"; not sure how much of that would be attributable to WotC. That's about as much as I can get out of straining my eyes to read it on a phone... Overall the report seems more interested in discussing the gaming nonentity D&D Dark Alliance than the tabletop RPG. Will be interesting to see how much money Hasbro sees from BG3. PoontifexMacksimus fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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FMguru posted:There's a fair bit of Lord Dunsany in the Dreamlands stories as well. The Dreamlands stories iirc nearly all went unpublished, I think even at the time there wasn't much interest in his stuff that didn't have spooky tentacle beasties. The Colour Out Of Space was also one of Lovecraft's favourites of his own work iirc, and can't blame him, yeah. It's probably one of the most influential of his stories too; quite a bit of sci-fi and fantasy plays with the idea of an alien invasion as a presence that twists and corrupts the land into uncanny alien-influenced forms, and there's so many directions you can take with it. Kinda funny given it's one of the Lovecraft stories with the least connection to other ones, or larger worldbuilding; there's none of the usual religious horror themes, alien civilizations or even a larger context that the Colour exists in, it's not clear if it's even remotely sentient or aware of what it's doing, or is basically some kind of alien dandelion gathering energy to grow and scattering its seeds back into the air.
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hyphz posted:Apparently the most common character made on D&D Beyond is a generic human fighter named Bob. How far this hobby has fallen from the hallowed days of Melf...
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Hasbro Fires D&D Book Team! (Ep 367)]Dungeon Craft. (youtube) The news for this thread that I had not heard before is that Hasbro fired their D&D book team in November. The book is done, the MS CEO is hiring more people from MS to make the game subscription based (and there's a VR game coming out that no one is going to care about). I don't think this will be the last actual book, but Microsoft is going to make D&D as D&DO(rifice) - you WILL pay that subscription, you will NOT own any of the books (because why buy them when everyone plays online anyway so they would want you to play) and the DM will be paying for everyone else to play with a higher subscription because they are whales. Much like Nokia before them, a Microsoft Exec is going to destroy the brand from the inside. Comstar fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Feb 6, 2024 |
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Comstar posted:Hasbro Fires D&D Book Team! (Ep 367)]Dungeon Craft. (youtube) Not an unbelievable scenario, but why is this apparently breaking on some random dude's YouTube by way of Ben Riggs'—lol—hot goss?
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# ? Feb 6, 2024 14:43 |
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That Old Tree posted:Not an unbelievable scenario, but why is this apparently breaking on some random dude's YouTube by way of Ben Riggs'—lol—hot goss? I think the VP of Digital Publishing advert is the wrong job advert to look at - it seems to self-evidently be primarily about videogames. Now, this role looks interesting... https://careers.hasbro.com/careers/job/68739815503
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Comstar posted:Hasbro Fires D&D Book Team! (Ep 367)]Dungeon Craft. (youtube) Is there a source for any of this besides a YouTube video of some guy? No sources in the description unless I missed them.
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# ? Feb 6, 2024 15:19 |
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more like micro$haft
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# ? Feb 6, 2024 15:39 |
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Comstar posted:Hasbro Fires D&D Book Team! (Ep 367)]Dungeon Craft. (youtube) This entire post is a YouTube thumbnail.
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That Old Tree posted:Ben Riggs'—lol— Is Ben Riggs someone I should recognize? I don't want to Google them because last time an unrecognized name came up it was that ultranazi musician guy and I'm on enough watchlists already.
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Magnetic North posted:Is Ben Riggs someone I should recognize? I don't want to Google them because last time an unrecognized name came up it was that ultranazi musician guy and I'm on enough watchlists already. it's the guy who wrote "the golden age of RPGs is over" screed that was obsessed with D&D and had a bunch of misinfo
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Magnetic North posted:Is Ben Riggs someone I should recognize? I don't want to Google them because last time an unrecognized name came up it was that ultranazi musician guy and I'm on enough watchlists already. Thread title guy
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Yeah, I had a sensible chuckle when youtube recommended that first video a couple hours after I asked Comstar whether the source was BS. I guess I should be grateful to Comstar for keeping me from trying to click on a bad DM advice guy #308 video.
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# ? Feb 6, 2024 19:58 |
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Can we somehow make that left thumbnail the thread title
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# ? Feb 6, 2024 20:03 |
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"whelp, I'm an idiot" says an idiot
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# ? Feb 6, 2024 20:12 |
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as someone who is getting back into tabletop after a looooooooooooooooooong time the most unbearable part is how few traditional news blogs there are now. it's all a either a monotone dude droning on for 3 hours or the most obnoxious person you have ever heard what could easily be a 4 paragraph article
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John Romero posted:as someone who is getting back into tabletop after a looooooooooooooooooong time the most unbearable part is how few traditional news blogs there are now. it's all a either a monotone dude droning on for 3 hours or the most obnoxious person you have ever heard what could easily be a 4 paragraph article
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John Romero posted:as someone who is getting back into tabletop after a looooooooooooooooooong time the most unbearable part is how few traditional news blogs there are now. it's all a either a monotone dude droning on for 3 hours or the most obnoxious person you have ever heard what could easily be a 4 paragraph article That's just everything these days. 'Here's a 10 minute video of how to turn on feature x' which could be just 2 sentences.
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# ? Feb 6, 2024 23:56 |
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The pivot to video is nice in some ways. If I have to do something on my car or my dishwasher, it's an incredible resource. For gaming, since it rarely involves that physicality, I think people sometimes feel the need to pad things a bit into a larger premise to suit the medium.
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# ? Feb 7, 2024 01:15 |
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They do it because long videos make them more money and ones under a certain threshold make little or nothing at all. That's it.
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# ? Feb 7, 2024 01:56 |
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Me, huddling in a trench scribbling a letter on dirty paper: "Day 538 on the front lines. D&D is still not dead, but central command is optimistic that we'll be home by next Christmas."
Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Feb 7, 2024 |
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:extremely ken burns voice: my dearest clara, i sometimes fear that this great edition war shall never end
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Waterdeep, poo poo. I'm still only in Waterdeep. Every time I think I'm going to wake up back in the dungeon
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