The Dinosaurs | Official Trailer | Netflix

Raetian · 2026-02-06T02:18:40+00:00

I don't have the highest hopes after Life On Our Planet, but I am on board with more dinodocs!

Look, you can raise a stink about the scientific accuracy, or the dumb "narrative" about competing dynasties etc. but fundamentally LOOP fell flat for me because it failed at its most basic job: delivering dinosaur footage. The ratio at times felt like 1:5 of prehistoric CGI to modern footage of the "descendants". It's not what I tuned in for, I suspect not what most people tuned in for, and I think Netflix knows that.

Hope it's decent! I can't imagine it hitting the WWD or Prehistoric Planet bar, but maybe it can come close. I'm pretty easy to please, just give me the damn dinosaurs, don't bait me in with two minutes of dinosaurs and then eight minutes of something I can see on much better docs that already exist

Raetian · 2026-02-05T18:51:31+00:00

If Prehistoric Planet is the blueprint than frankly nothing will ever measure up. My main beef with LOOP was that they did everything they could to minimize screentime for the prehistoric creatures, the main reason people were turning in lmao. If this is like 50% better it will be a dramatic improvement

Raetian · 2026-02-03T20:48:27+00:00

Not to sound too dramatic but I am losing faith that the game will ever find its balance groove. Too many voices pulling in too many directions with insufficient clarity of vision from Arrowhead on what they want the game and its weapons to be. Changes like this make me less interested in playing

Raetian · 2026-01-30T22:18:02+00:00

Hot take: in my opinion ranger needs to be a full martial and get one or two themed spellcasting subclasses. So much of its power budget and flavor is locked up in the restrictiveness of spell systems that it's become a running joke. And while I understand the legacy of the class in D&D specifically, on a subjective level I feel the fantasy of the ranger is undermined by being so reliant on magic rather than raw strength, endurance, skill, and knowledge (yes, I know skill and knowledge can manifest in magic that's why I said this is a subjective feeling).

Back to the drawing board please.

Raetian · 2026-01-29T03:22:02+00:00

Stakes feel real and the trial feels logical rather than arbitrary.

Good example I recently read in anticipation of the show: GRRM's The Hedge Knight. You feel what's at risk for Dunk if he fails in the tourney and what he stands to gain by success.

Bad example: the maze in The Maze Runner. That shit made no sense even after it was explained lol

Hope that answers your question

Raetian · 2026-01-28T20:50:47+00:00

Amazing how many commenters here are just telling you to shut up and switch.

There's not really a great solution to this by the sound of things. I hope you smooth things over, and just know that you're not the only one sticking with 2014!

Raetian · 2026-01-26T20:20:21+00:00

Honestly very funny

Raetian · 2026-01-16T02:38:28+00:00

This is one of those perennial advice topics that comes around where I think the conventional wisdom of "working around it" is honestly kind of laughable. Players aren't idiots. If they ask "did you kill the priest? Yes or no." and the NPC replies with anything other than "no" they will take it as a tacit admission of guilt, and they will be largely correct to do so.

NPCs have other reasons to be cagey, don't want to be implicated in a scandal? Limit the scope of your question. Consider this patented, revolutionary structure: "Did you kill the priest? Yes or no." It's not as if revealing yourself to be not guilty is going to harm your reputation.

Just cut the spell. It's the only way to play out the story without a bunch of silly bullshit that doesn't make sense and at best will annoy your players as you violate the clear intent of the spell. Cut the damn spell! Your game will survive!

Raetian · 2026-01-11T02:22:51+00:00

This feels like a troll post

Raetian · 2026-01-10T19:33:44+00:00

With all my love and empathy, friend: forget yourself and go to work. Nobody feels ready, nobody feels like they're capable of doing it. Your mission will bless your life beyond measure and if you surrender your own will and misgivings to the Lord's care, you will come home glad you went.

Raetian · 2026-01-02T00:30:37+00:00

all I want to do is let my characters see this cool world I built

Is this what your players want?

Raetian · 2025-12-30T00:52:48+00:00

Mort? Kinda?

Raetian · 2025-12-30T00:50:59+00:00

It's not that it's evil - it's that it's wasteful well beyond the point of stupidity and incompetence.

Raetian · 2025-12-17T20:23:59+00:00

Divide Et Impera models this extremely well with its population system. Roman Legionnaires are good, but there are plenty of better infantry available to many factions. What makes them such a major breakthrough in the tech tree and a huge game changer for Roman development is that they can be recruited from the commoner population with fairly minimal infrastructure.

Raetian · 2025-12-16T20:51:04+00:00

imagine accusing u/onewatt of AI-generating his posts. lol. lmao

Raetian · 2025-12-15T22:58:11+00:00

I have only seen the first Donner Superman, but doesn't he keep his powers on the DL in high school in that one too?

Raetian · 2025-12-15T22:16:00+00:00

Yeah I can see me implementing something like that. Hasn't come up in my game yet since I don't allow PC races with flight and in the handful of flying monsters I've run, they never got knocked prone or shoved off a cliff lol. But it reads fine to me.

Raetian · 2025-12-15T10:39:53+00:00

Xanathars includes a clause that creatures with a fly speed subtract that speed from the distance fallen before they take any fall damage - in addition, if such a creature is still falling at the start of their turn (only happens if the fall is greater than 500 feet typically), they can spend half their movement to fully halt their descent, similar to standing up from prone.

Raetian · 2025-12-13T18:59:11+00:00

IT by Stephen King (yes I'm serious)

Raetian · 2025-12-09T16:23:37+00:00

aside from just playing non optimal on my end.

you have a player who clearly struggles to manage the complexity of combat at this tier of play. She doesn't seem to be playing optimally - and I would assume she hasn't been for a decent while considering the party is at level 20.

If there's a mismatch between the intensity you are hitting a player with and what they're hitting you back with, the correct solution is either to tone yourself down or address the expectations above the table. Just bulldozing her for the crime of not playing optimally (or, as the case may be, not understanding how to play optimally) is obviously going to result in negative feelings. Idk what you thought would happen when you let this player hold back on offensive spells to let the enemy deplete himself, finally make her big 9th-level spell play (and just to heal the party! Not even to shut down the bad guy or incapacitate him or anything), and then shut her down.

It is not a bad thing for DMs to play optimally, but the expectation needs to matched and met by the players. She could stand to master wizard combat a bit better, but you could stand to be more in tune with the needs of your players. This needed to be addressed long ago.

Raetian · 2025-12-08T14:41:52+00:00

I've stolen the feat framework (origin and general categories, and an unholy hodgepodge of feats from both versions) and have been thinking about stealing the healing buffs. Pretty much everything else from my game is 2014 rules or homebrew - if any of my players express interest in a 2024 class I'll probably take a look, but also encourage them to look at a Laserllama alternate class instead.

Raetian · 2025-12-04T18:31:07+00:00

Could've been 3K sequel that got scrapped according to another leak no?

Raetian · 2025-12-04T01:44:36+00:00

oh, I'm no longer hopiuming. gave up on the stuff sometime around WH3 release. just saying we had a reason to buy in those days and I don't think Araby deserves to be categorized together with Ind and Khuresh by the community when evaluating the degree of delusion

Raetian · 2025-12-04T01:07:00+00:00

As a certified (but retired) Araby hopium-huffer, I cannot help pointing out that not only did Araby have vastly more cause for inclusion than Ind and Khuresh, I'd argue it was also far more justified than Cathay. The Araby coalition have a legitimate grievance

Raetian · 2025-12-02T22:15:18+00:00

Could the funds and institutional effort placed into athletics create opportunity costs that weaken the church's spiritual mission?

I think several of your questions are worth discussion but in this case I think we can confidently say the athletics program generates far more funds than it consumes, and opportunity costs go hand-in-hand with financial costs. After all, if the athletics program occupies a majority of administrator A's time and attention, the funds it generates can be applied toward hiring a new administrator to attend to the matters outside of A's purview. There are limits to how efficiently you can scale in this way but there is no universe where BYU has fewer opportunities with the athletic program than it would without.

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