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I think he was pretty well considered up until Quantumania.

Haven't played Alan Wake 2 yet, but I loved him as Director Trench in Control. I still need to finish the Foundation DLC and then play that last one.

I have to admit that the storyline with the little girl and some of the other emotional parts hit me harder in the original, because they were able to stretch out those relationships longer. But at other times, it stretched too long and that's where I appreciated Brotherhood going to the action quicker.

I'll check them out! Thanks for the resources you linked below, too.

What's wrong with Daggerheart if I may ask? Just not creative or different enough from other games, or what?

I've been more interested in Candela Obscura but I've heard it's kind of meh as well, but we'll see as time goes on. At least they'll be able to add stuff to and play these games without worrying about WotC shenanigans.

To his credit, he brought on outside game designers to help lead design, including ones with quite impressive experience and resumes, like the Scum and Villainy designer.

Why??

I've never played Blades in the Dark, but maybe this will be a good introduction to it at least with a different setting.

Great answer! And from someone who's in the relevant field. Hopefully Lemmy keeps getting more varieties of people from different fields so we get people like you =) It's the one thing I miss about Reddit.

Let me know when you see Republicans try any. I haven't seen it during my lifetime, but hey, there's always this time 🙄

I'm still mad it basically kicked the DnD movie out of theaters. If it wasn't for all the hype for Mario, I think the DnD movie would have done a lot better, but that's partly their fault for choosing a terrible time to release a movie - a week or two before the biggest video game franchise of all time releases their movie.

The problem is no one is ever going to put in the work and prep production effort that Jackson and his team did. It could be made better and more modern, but will it in our current environment? No, all the practical effects would be replaced by CGI, all the armor and costumes for the tons of extras would just be CGI, the extras themselves would be CGI, and it probably would be packed with meta commentary and jokes. Just look at The Hobbit compared to Lord of the Rings. It doesn't work without all the effort and pre-production, and I don't think we're getting a studio to ever make that bet again. It was pure luck we got it the first time.

But Wonder Woman isn't MCU...

Never even heard of this movie, but I'm convinced.

If you didn't love the first one, I doubt you'll like the others. I haven't read all of them yet, but everyone I know who has read them all always started by enjoying the world of the first one first.

Obviously

I've always found the religion excuse to be a scapegoat, an excuse to not try for peace. The fact is that people care about a lot of other stuff above religion, including food, shelter, water, quality of life, self-determination, hope, etc. The Palestinians would 100% make peace if they can have those things. People with differing religions live in the US, the UK, and all sorts of places. Hell, they lived fine together in that same area during the Ottoman Empire and before. There are even plenty of Christian Palestinians, too.

Sure there's a lot of animosity now, but I bet in one generation of living together, they'd be mostly fine. Just look at the differences between the Civil rights in the 60's, where you had various violent black liberation groups, Malcolm X saying the rift could never be healed and black people should make their own place in Africa, etc. And then there's the 70's and 80's, where you started having the black friend in every movie, to today, where we had a black President. It's not perfect, even now, but way better than the Palestinians in Gaza. Just let the kids go to school together for a few years lol.

Now there is a couple religious issues that will need to ironed out, but that's where a strong, neutral hand is required. And i think a one state solution even helps some of those. Such as with a one-state solution, everyone gets Jerusalem and shares it. With a two state solution, you have to do this weird thing where ostensibly no one gets it, even though Israel has all the power over it.

Right now, they want mutually exclusive things in that Israel wants all the land and Palestinians want to live in the place they've lived for generations, as well as food, water, etc. Palestinians will shout from the river to the sea, but they've shown willingness to settle for a 2 state solution plenty of times before. On the other hand, Israel has no reason to similarly bend. But, if Israel didn't have so much power because of the US, their position probably wouldn't be so inflexible. They couldn't afford to be, and then maybe we'd see some compromise.

I agree that the US would probably hurt more than help, though.

I'd love to see this tried in a court of law some day.

"Look judge, people kill each other all the time. I don't know why we're making such a big deal out of this. Geeeesh. Bunch of whiners."

Anyway, people criticize the US for this stuff all the time. The whole idea of the left is to learn from and evolve and grow past those horrible roots.

I mean, preferably. And then give them a vote, too. But then I believe in a one state solution.

It's better than just keeping them all in an open air prison.

Holy fuck. That article has some damning parts 😮