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    Dragon Age 4 - now The Veilguard

    Everything I've heard about this game so far seems like an improvement, but will no doubt cause ever-more complaining from people who wish for DAO 2, and have wished impotently for that for 14 years. Not here but I've also seen some incredible double-contradictory-whinges where people have...
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    Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

    One of my friends just said "Omg why didn't you just tell me Manny Jacinto was in it, I'd have watched it straight away" lol.
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    Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

    Ahhh interesting and yes that's right - Peace is a Lie is real Sith.
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    Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

    So I have some thoughts on this: A) Has anyone in-show called them "Sith" or even alluded to it? Because the philosophy the "Dark Helmet" person has offered doesn't really line up with Sith philosophy at all and there are certainly other Dark Side weirdoes out there. There's no "master your...
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    Furiosa

    Saw it today. Absolutely loved it. I found Taylor-Joy's accent decision a little strange but like, that's a tiny nitpick in an absolutely great movie, with had it all - wild action, a lot of heart, actual ideas, amazing characters, incredible visual design. Wonderful performances (including...
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    Star Wars: The Acolyte starts June 4

    Amazingly this is not only literally true but a semi-significant plot point in one of the High Republic novels! (The first one IIRC)
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    D&D General WotC hiring a Principal AI Engineer

    Exactly. If they did it well, I think it's precisely the sort of thing I might pick up. But the odds of them doing it well whilst "Good Enough" Perkins is in charge are basically nil. I mean, jesus christ, the stuff that man has let out the door (particularly the spectacularly "Follow this...
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    Trailer Alien: Romulus | Official Trailer

    It looks like literally just a pastiche of scenes from previous Alien franchise movies, to the point where it's almost a joke - like spot the reference - oh that's Alien, oh that's Aliens, oh that's Alien 3, oh that's Aliens again, and so on, but it also looks vastly better than Prometheus or...
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    D&D (2024) Alternate 2024 DMG Cover features Lolth!

    I hate how much I like this. I don't want to even buy physical copies of 2024 (I never did of 2014), let alone extra-expensive alt-art versions!
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    D&D 5E New Monster Manual Cover

    I'm very supportive of this as you know. Right from the get-go with 5E the apparent lack of art budget was a major complaint for me. It seems to be one thing that is very conclusively on the "FIXED" list for 2024. And yeah this looks great despite me having a very low tolerance for a certain...
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    D&D General WotC hiring a Principal AI Engineer

    Honestly there is a real lack of D&D adventures with the sort of epic sweep and wilderness focus of LotR. I genuinely think a "rip off LotR adventure" would be like, quite a good idea in a lot of ways.
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    D&D (2024) What is your favorite standard 2024 cover?

    Exactly this - MM and not even close. I like Venger on the DMG cover but the rest of the cover looks bad to me, especially Warduke, who looks like a dweeb. Like, I'm normally all for half-naked barbarian warrior types, but put a shirt on Duke! Bare chest does not work with that look. I don't...
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    Star Wars: The Acolyte starts June 4

    Having seen them I am absolutely none the wiser as to the meaning of your comment, I'm afraid. I would say based on these two episodes, so far The Acolyte is considerably better than The Mandalorian or Ahsoka, like an obvious step up in quality in pretty much all regards. It's no Andor but we...
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    What RPG Do You Wish Had A Retroclone?

    Yeah this. It's a glaring omission and it's because it doesn't have the right licensing. And it could clean up so well too.
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    Spoilers Godzilla Minus One [spoilers]

    That wasn't an error, that's historical accuracy, just to be clear to anyone reading this.
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