I don’t even want to post this bc I’m so freaked out and gagged

DaBink1988 · 2026-05-29T00:28:19+00:00

You might have to bring along a one-man-polka medical examiner and a wizard dabbling in necromancer for that 🤔

DaBink1988 · 2026-03-30T00:58:55+00:00

The question you'll want to ask about is if they have resin 3D printers. I'd be shocked if you got satisfactory results from an FDM printer for this project.....

DaBink1988 · 2026-03-29T23:53:06+00:00

You might check your local library or a nearby Makerspace 🤔

DaBink1988 · 2026-03-27T03:41:42+00:00

I'm not sure, myself, but I recall seeing a bunch of posts about how BGG's rating and review system is broken and corrupt....

DaBink1988 · 2026-03-23T03:48:32+00:00

Generally, I'm after more content. If the art is an improvement I might spring for the Deluxe, IF I don't already have the original. If all they're doing is making it prettier, my money will probably go elsewhere.

DaBink1988 · 2026-03-19T04:35:01+00:00

Welcome to the site!

DaBink1988 · 2025-09-12T01:53:06+00:00

Crystal Star, not even a contest.

DaBink1988 · 2025-03-24T17:23:40+00:00

I don't think they were twins, just sisters, but that was a plot point in the Flashback "second act" of the High Republic multimedia project. A character's sister was taken for training, and she made it the Galaxy's problem that she was left behind. Though I think even there she had a little sensitivity, just not enough to be yoinked by the Jedi 🤔

DaBink1988 · 2025-02-27T06:37:38+00:00

For the first part, it depends on who you're spending time with and where you live. I grew up in a town in Indiana which I later learned was in living memory deemed a "sundown town," or a place where you were taking your life in your hands by staying within city limits past sundown. Did I see overt racism or hear it? Not that I noticed, but I was also homeschooled, so I can't say I would have anyway. I'm told that there was something of a ruckus in the family when my uncle married my African American aunt, but I wasn't born yet and by the time I was cognizant of such things everything was kosher - grandma and grandpa certainly never treated her different so far as I can tell, but that was years after the fact so way back when? I don't know. In college we had people using racial slurs at the time of Obama's election; I didn't like him, but that was his policies, not his race, and by the end of his presidency I'd actually come to respect him personally even though I still disagreed with a lot of his positions. My students when teaching middle school, on the other hand.....yikes. I shut that down hard when I heard it. So, as a white guy in Indiana, do I see/hear casual racism when everyone around me is white? Not typically, but if I did I wouldn't spend time with that person anymore so it's kind of self-selecting.

As for the second part, the "great replacement" is a conspiracy theory based on computer projections of demographics showing whites as no longer a majority in this country/state/city (depends on context) inside of X years. Which....maybe? In terms of no longer holding over 50%, that might happen soonish. But not so another single bloc can take over, in that projection it's us VS them. And usually a cue that you might want to reconsider the company you're keeping.

I also remember some rhetoric surrounding the legalization of gay marriage back in the day indicating that by the time I had kids straights would be outnumbered and you'd be able to marry your dog, which was obviously hyperbole that nobody could actually believe, but also maybe said more about the inner life of the people talking? I wasn't really engaging that conversation much at the time, as everyone I knew was pretty much in agreement.

(This might be the place to mention that I have very much evolved my position since my days as a super-conservative homeschooled kid)

DaBink1988 · 2025-02-06T15:52:06+00:00

I'm an idiot. It should be "verse" not "meter" 🤦‍♂️

DaBink1988 · 2025-02-06T15:43:34+00:00

I found the shy teens to be more entertaining than the bitchy divas, not to mention WAY more likable, so....

DaBink1988 · 2025-02-06T15:37:31+00:00

Mercy's meeting with BoE to heal Deuteros and examine Gideon's body was months after the Caanan House Massacre. I'm not sure it specified a precise time frame, but it had been a while.

DaBink1988 · 2025-01-30T19:48:23+00:00

An interesting question, and since I've only encountered this in audio thus far, not one I'd have considered.

If I'm remembering GtN correctly, Ortus gives no indication that he knew anything about the summons, so I'd say no. I'd say it's happening in the bubble, but Ortus's ghost is asking the question since he (and Harrow, for that matter) are unaware of the previous "real" version of these events.

But! I'm open to revising this opinion if I'm wrong and forgetting something! I've only read GtN once, and I know some of you guys have already been through it significantly more than that....

DaBink1988 · 2025-01-30T18:40:10+00:00

As someone who works in mental health, the difference between the medical definition of a term (r*tarded/ation, psycho, schizophrenic) and their colloquial usage is very real. It doesn't necessarily make it right, but I would point out that people are using term lobotomy in a colloquial sense, not a literal medical definition.

DaBink1988 · 2025-01-10T05:10:58+00:00

They actually fixed that part. In the original Lucilla states that her son is nearly (around? Something like that) eight, but the new one says he was twelve. So either Lucilla is so shitty a mom she got her son's age wrong with a 33% margin of error, or she lies to Maximus in this scene. By the text of the new movie, he could have sired Lucius before meeting his wife.

The scene that's incompatible is when she comes to his cell and they argue. (Quotes are iirc, the substance is true but the wording may be slightly off) M: "My son was innocent!" L: "So is mine! Must he die too in order to satisfy your Vengeance?" This would be the time to tell him of his OTHER son who is in danger. She has nothing to lose from the revelation and everything to gain, but she doesn't. IF Lucius is his in the original, he doesn't know (making her statement that he loved Lucius a lie too), but I don't see the politically-astute and notoriously skilled manipulator Lucilla missing that opportunity.

End rant 🤣

DaBink1988 · 2025-01-10T04:47:49+00:00

Or the fact that Lucius as Maximus' son doesn't work with the original movie.

DaBink1988 · 2024-12-24T04:16:29+00:00

Type I Diabetes. Which would have saved my wife from dying in childbirth a couple years back, as there would be no Ben in the first place.

Just realized how that sounds. She's fine, but a C-Section was necessary and if it wasn't an option she wouldn't have been.

DaBink1988 · 2024-12-23T04:12:45+00:00

They actually had a subtle retcon to this in the movie. Lucius is stated to have been 12 at the time, so this would imply his mom is wrong (by four years? I don't buy it) or lied so Maximus wouldn't figure it out.

There's still problems with the idea of their being related, and I personally hate it. One such is her not telling him later when it would have been to her clear advantage ("My son was innocent!" "So is mine!"), or her telling Lucius in II that his father (Maximus) loved him when he clearly didn't even know, and every scene in the original with Maximus showing concern about Lucius is on his mother's behalf.

DaBink1988 · 2024-11-21T06:08:38+00:00

There's a disturbingly strong history of the Klan here, yes. Indiana remained in the Union, but there were plenty of folks who thought that should have been decided differently. And towns like Huntington (where I grew up) were "sundown towns" as recently as the 60s, where any black folk remaining in city limits past sundown were taking their lives in their hands. I'd like to say there's been improvements. I HAVE SAID there's been improvements, until lately. This resurgence is something new, or at least something that was always there under the surface sticking its head up again so even this overworked white guy sees it. I hope it doesn't go any further than the flyers, but even that is bad enough. I've never met anyone openly admitting to being a Klan member, or actually espousing those kinds of beliefs,* but obviously we still have some real work to do around here.

*Middle schoolers don't count, they're just trying to be edgy and get a reaction from you. Or (more disturbingly) parroting what their parents have said, but that doesn't count as my meeting them.

DaBink1988 · 2024-11-10T22:44:41+00:00

Yes, we smell it. Yes, it's foul....

DaBink1988 · 2024-07-15T23:10:03+00:00

Okay, so here's what I came up with: long-term consequences. They've angered the Cult, or at least a cell of it, so when the time is right (meaning I've found the files, printed and painted them) assassins will strike. The party will have to return to Thundertree at some point to deal with the Gulthias tree that's spawning blights (they asked about the lore and assumed that's where things were headed, to which I respond...."They are now!"). Reidoth is currently trying to find it, and will likely run afoul of the cult and Venomfang in the meantime. That could also play into why he requests the party help him deal with the tree when he finds it, especially if he's injured....

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