Recent content by Morrus

Eh?

It was neither of those things. Sorry you didn’t like it!

Correct. We need a “Do you observe Boxing Day?” thread. I suspect it would be simpler to just combine them all into a general “Are you American?” thread, though I can give you those percentages without the need for a poll. :)

I'm glad you're here to to evaluate 'Hreenwood's' writing abilities.

Why would it be? Similarly, Americans don't observe the UK's Guy Fawkes Night, Sweden's Walpurgis Night, or German Unity Day. Or 300 other important cultural holidays across the world. American Thanksgiving is just a local custom observed by about 5% of people.

I haven't watched this, but let me leave this warning: no politics. If you can't talk about it without talking about politics, don't talk about it.

Note that whatever image hosting service you are using, it shows "Content not viewable in your region" for me. It's important that I am able to see content on these boards in order to verify that it is appropriate for the forum, so please don't use image hosting services which block the UK from...

That gets you the tiny D&D audience, and probably makes the mainstream audience think “huh, that’s weird, why did they change Van Helsing into a hobbit?” — I just don’t see a reason to do it from the Hollywood POV. It would come across like those gimmicky comedy rip-off horror films to anybody...

Why wouldn’t they use Dracula, a similar but much better known and more popular—and copyright free—IP? There’s no advantage in using a more obscure vampire in a big gothic castle pining after a lost love in a Transylvania-esque land. You don’t need to use the lesser-known D&D version of Dracula...

No, I mean it was literally based on Joss Whedon's Traveller campaign. Obviously he took poetic license when he made the TV show--he was replicating the campaign setting, not the game rules.

Traveller is Firefly. In fact, Firefly was based on a Traveller game.

You guys are like actual aliens!

Chinese takeaway? Wow! I can't think of anything less Christmassy! You say that's traditional? Sometimes I think I know Americans, and then sometimes I discover I have the most enormous gaps in my knowledge about their culture.

I'm not sure "RPGish" is a draw for me for anything other than an RPG. I like playing RPGs. I like eating cake, but I don't watch the Great British Bake Off. I think I look for something different in my sci-fi watching than in my gaming. :)

GIven that you all have Christmas dinner on Thanksgiving, what do you have for dinner on Christmas day, if not Christmas dinner? I can't imagine Christmas day without the full turkey and all trimmings. It just wouldn't be Christmas!