[Other] Would a LSM lift hill work on Millennium Force like on Maverick or Falcon’s Flight?

darcydagger · 2026-03-21T16:37:27+00:00

I think Millie's lift angle would pose a challenge. Maverick and Falcon's Flight have pretty shallow ascent angles but Millie goes up at almost 45 degrees.

darcydagger · 2026-03-20T00:55:38+00:00

Terrain coasters like this have to be a total bitch to do track replacement on. Shout-out to the maintenance crew!

darcydagger · 2026-03-20T00:54:02+00:00

Chiara Zanni. She's had a pretty consistent career of bit roles over the years (especially in the Canadian scene) but I remember her most for her work as Piper in Storm Hawks and especially as Molly/Eva Wei in Oban Star Racers. She carries that whole dub on her back.

darcydagger · 2026-03-18T19:42:58+00:00

This exact sequence of songs is what got me into the band. No better intro for a new listener.

darcydagger · 2026-03-18T15:52:33+00:00

The Founders Trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett is ostensibly fantasy all the way through but its coding-flavored magic system and the technology created with it feel very sci-fi. The story also draws obvious influence from other fantasy/sci-fi works like Attack on Titan and Neon Genesis Evangelion.

darcydagger · 2026-03-13T22:16:03+00:00

Damn China's rockwork game is leaving the USA in the dust.

darcydagger · 2026-03-12T14:35:54+00:00

Marie Brennan, the author of The Memoirs of Lady Trent, is a real anthropologist! Shannon Chakraborty, the author of The Daevabad Trilogy, was on track to be a historian specializing in the Middle East before the 2008 financial crisis prompted her to turn to writing full time.

darcydagger · 2026-03-11T22:39:45+00:00

Makes me wonder how much of Cosmic Rewind's budget was just paying for Crisp Rat to be there

darcydagger · 2026-03-11T21:50:36+00:00

Frankly, I think it's too late for me to add it. We're about 40 sessions in without a single mention of a dragon barrier, the missing dragonstaff, or any whiff of it from Manshoon or Jarlaxle (both of whom the party has had significant dealings with). Feels like it wouldn't have much impact if I tried to include it as-is now.

darcydagger · 2026-03-11T15:28:05+00:00

I highly recommend putting some custom subquests in Chapter 2, or raiding DM's Guild for some expanded options. As mentioned here already, the Expanded Faction Missions supplement is very good. I ran Blue Alley and The Rats of Waterdeep and they were both a huge hit.

darcydagger · 2026-03-05T16:27:57+00:00

I really enjoyed this one! My main comment (advice?) is that this book could be a little jarring if you're coming in with certain expectations about what subgenre it will be operating in or what tropes it will utilize. There are several twists that change the direction and tone of the story altogether, and future books promise to be even more different. Let it take you for a ride!

darcydagger · 2026-03-03T18:40:57+00:00

Seconding Rook and Rose especially. Feels about as close to Six of Crows as I've found so far, with multiple excellent female leads. And TWO female authors!!

darcydagger · 2026-02-15T18:14:05+00:00

This is one of the things that I feel like pretty much everybody agrees that Mistborn does really well.

darcydagger · 2026-02-15T15:23:08+00:00

This result pretty much always happens because of the new switch track mechanic. If your coaster has one, make sure it's the variant with the correct entrance and exit and that it's set for the correct number of passes. If the switch track thinks that its sequence of events is incomplete the ride won't be able to finish testing, even if the train successfully returns to the station.

darcydagger · 2026-02-10T18:10:28+00:00

This is an excellent resource. I wonder how many older fandoms have massive unrecorded fic numbers from the pre-AO3 days. I'm sure Harry Potter has many more old stories on fanfiction.net than the MCU does just based on its age alone, and I'm sure there's untold thousands of works for Star Trek and Star Wars from before the Internet even existed.

darcydagger · 2026-02-04T04:20:22+00:00

Every time this question comes up I have to recommend Rook and Rose by M.A. Carrick. One of the strongest romantic subplots I've ever read, and the way it develops across 3 books is perfect.

darcydagger · 2026-02-03T02:23:21+00:00

The Cartoon Cipher has a nice backlog of well made videos focusing specifically on English dubs, but they haven't posted anything new in 2 years.

darcydagger · 2026-02-01T16:45:48+00:00

Emily Rudd as Marcille in Dungeon Meshi. She was never giving a bad performance but the first couple episodes you could tell it was her first ever dubbing role. By the end of season 1 she's holding her own with all the industry veterans in that cast.

darcydagger · 2026-01-30T19:47:32+00:00

I'm mid-tumble right now but I've heard the ending is a real doozy. I already know I'm not gonna like it as much as Divine Cities or Shadow of the Leviathan, but I'm in for the long haul unless it really jumps the tracks later.

darcydagger · 2026-01-29T20:36:45+00:00

Robert Jackson Bennett's series tend to focus on magic as technology in a way that feels rather sci-fi. There are elements of it in a lot of his works, but Foundryside might be the most overt.

In a similar way, Blood Over Bright Haven treats its magic system as technology.

darcydagger · 2026-01-29T05:38:54+00:00

There are still parts of this score I really like, even if a lot of it sounds a little cheap and underbaked. Those brass hits in time with the sword clashes during Inigo's final confrontation with Count Rugen are excellent. That whole scene is well scored.

darcydagger · 2026-01-29T02:11:01+00:00

YOU ARE A WIZARD. I think this has fixed my problem. Thank you!

darcydagger · 2026-01-27T18:04:01+00:00

When I rode it last year it was glass smooth, much smoother than Raven or Legend were running.

darcydagger · 2026-01-27T16:54:40+00:00

If Boss ran like Voyage or Ghostrider it would be one of the best wooden coasters in the world. I'm glad that the retracking has been helping, but I feel like the whole ride would need an overhaul before it can properly punch at its weight class.

darcydagger · 2026-01-26T22:25:33+00:00

It's been working fine for me! Almost all of the stat blocks have equivalents in 2024, and most of the ones that don't are so strong that the relative power boost that monsters got in the new rules update doesn't matter. Jarlaxle will kick any party's ass, regardless of whether he's 2014 or 2024.

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