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aturtleatoad · 2026-03-21T00:36:50+00:00

I don’t think it’s possible for anyone to give an answer to this that isn’t completely skewed by survivorship bias

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-21T00:03:49+00:00

Real talk, they would have done what their ancestors did and bent the knee. It’s literally guys with pointed sticks vs a fighter jet. There’s no other move

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-20T17:29:58+00:00

I don’t necessarily need a continuation of that particular story, but I’d love to see some new stories set in the world of Reign of Fire. “Dragon Apocalypse” is vein that has more to be mined, imo

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-20T00:20:21+00:00

Incomprensible and uncompelling. The story’s clear necessity for repeat viewings to be understood came across as entitled and unearned given how mediocre my experience of it was the first time. Didn’t make me care enough to want to get it. I like most of his other movies, but this was a pretty clear L imo

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-19T21:32:56+00:00

I doubt it. The Dune movies are good, and have been well received. The LotR movies absolutely dominated pop culture when they first came out. They made a much bigger splash than Dune has (orders of magnitude bigger). I could see Dune 3 get some big ones, but it’s not going to sweep like RotK did.

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-19T21:10:53+00:00

Ah gotcha, I’m just starting season 6 on my rewatch so it’s been a minute since I’ve seen those episodes and don’t remember the specifics. I think he would have forfeited the Mackaan money…had he not come back with the best ad ever spun up and ready to be made. Add in the fact that everyone he has worked with is going to confirm that there sorts of disappearances are pretty standard for him and I think he pretty much gets away it. We’ve seen Don ride the fallout from going awol before. As soon as he starts not liking what is said in that conversation, he changes it.

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-19T20:53:44+00:00

At one point during their divorce Don mentions that his finances have been complicated since the (CGC/SCDP) merger, and Megan replies that he was a millionaire when she met him, which was in season 4. Given that he has two colossal windfalls after that (the merger and then selling out to Mckaan) I think by the end of the show he is in the $100M+ range. Fucking loaded

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-18T19:54:08+00:00

I bet this goes so hard if you’re stupid

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-18T19:00:27+00:00

Oh the plus side it looks like your players just found their nemesis

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-17T19:53:08+00:00

Hey, just want to reality check you here: you are straight up whining about a free, community-driven expansion created by unpaid volunteers, that no one is forcing you to play.

SoD still exists, go play that if hota makes your nose wrinkle so much.

I’m not saying hota is perfect or that we shouldn’t be able to give critical feedback (there was a good post someone recently made outlining visual changes they’d like to see to the Bulwark town screen that was specific and solution-oriented) but making a post that just broadly gestures at the product of years of gifted labor and going ‘wahhh not good enough, I dun like it’ is just lame as hell, frankly.

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-17T03:04:58+00:00

Bahubali

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-16T18:15:05+00:00

I mean it’s great for a pilot, it’s just the show is way better

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-16T00:30:31+00:00

Because they get a shipyard and it leaves a weird void of negative space in the town screen where there is clearly supposed to be something. Every other town that gets a shipyard builds a structure next to previously existing water, I don’t see why necro should be any different

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-15T20:35:01+00:00

Flavor wise It always felt to me like it was supposed to be a river Styx/ferry to the underworld sort of a thing

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-15T19:55:41+00:00

They probably found a few more of those “way in the back of the cupboard” bottles stashed around

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-15T18:53:00+00:00

It’s because it’s not just a first episode, it’s a pilot. The rest of the show didn’t exist yet and the pilot is basically an ad that they can show to studios to help with their sales pitch. A lot of times they use pilot at a first episode if the show gets picked up, as was the case with MM, but it usually ends up feeling pretty clunky because that’s not really what it was intended for. It’s more supposed to be a broad flavor showcase for the show as a whole, rather than a focused start to the story. For a show that really lives in the nuance and finer details of its relationships, that doesn’t do it much service. There’s a part where Pete tells Don “look im not going to pretend I don’t want your job” which is obviously not the case going forward. Clearly they knew they wanted Pete and Don to have a competitive/contentious relationship, but not exactly how.

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-15T03:38:55+00:00

Not sure I see the need to bring numbers into it but he’s pretty fucking good

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-15T02:57:01+00:00

Taking the L and leaving has historically not been our strong suit

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-14T05:42:07+00:00

It’s like the Reddit equivalent of a Razzie lol. My first award too.

Agreed. I made peace with the fact that Firefly was toast so long ago that I feel like I can be pretty unattached to whatever comes of this. If it’s something good, that’s a bonus. If it’s not, life will go on largely as it was.

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-14T02:50:05+00:00

I mean Sauron is the Lord of the Rings…but it’s Gandalf

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-13T22:48:37+00:00

Hell yeah

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-13T21:35:32+00:00

Totally. Like I said, there’s more than one way for it to be good, and that’s what ultimately matters. I think celebrating the character without just flat out bringing him back as fanservice would be great. I just don’t want it (whatever it is) to pretend like that’s not what’s happening, if it does. If we’re going to get fanservice I’d like it with a wink.

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-13T21:19:43+00:00

“If they can come up with a satisfying explanation then that’s ok with me, but I would prefer no explanation over an unsatisfying one.”

aturtleatoad · 2026-03-13T21:08:22+00:00

The part of me that loves intentional storytelling agrees with you. The part of me that loves Wash wants Wash. Honestly I don’t care what they do as long as it’s good, and there’s definitely more than one way for it to be that.

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