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.

Gorelab posted:

It suffered a distinct lack of Booster Gold.

theironjef posted:

He turned up in the last season played by Turk from Scrubs. Really it more suffered a paucity of Booster Gold.

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.

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.

fritz posted:

Kij Johnson's The Dreamquest of Vellit Boe is a response to this and is great.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

And then there's his parody of melodrama, Sweet Ermengarde.

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.

That Old Tree posted:

On the other hand, she has defended Jesse Singal

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.

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.

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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.

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.

But D&D's actual staffing is somewhat intermixed with Wizards, so you could sell a license or you could sell the rights to the brand but you probably can't sell it as an operating subsidary on its own. Like I'm sure it has separate designers and artists and whatnot, but it's got the same HR, accounts receivable and payable, actual offices and computers and poo poo as the rest of Wizards. Awkward to sell it like that.

I'm speculating wildly here, I wanna reiterate that. I just think it's marginally less likely that Hasbro would sell the D&D brand including the pen and paper RPG rights without selling the rest of Wizards just to try and juice the numbers, mostly because I don't think it'd really juice the numbers much. I doubt it's worth more than a few million.

FMguru posted:

There's a fair bit of Lord Dunsany in the Dreamlands stories as well.

It's pretty great, but it (and his other Dreamlands stories) often get overlooked because people are so interested in his Nihilist Cosmic Horror stories.

It's also a very solid and ahead-of-its-time work of science fiction.

hyphz posted:

Apparently the most common character made on D&D Beyond is a generic human fighter named Bob.

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-most-popular-character-name-on-dandd-beyond-is-still-bob/

Comstar posted:

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.

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?

Comstar posted:

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 posted:

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.

That Old Tree posted:

Ben Riggs'—lol—

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.

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.

Lumbermouth posted:

Lumbermouth posted:

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

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