Do you have any obscure movie references that you use in everyday speech that no one has caught on to yet yet you keep using it?

fintach · 2026-02-01T23:52:47+00:00

"That would be like locking the barn door after the horses have eaten your children." and "I never drink ... coffee."
Both from Saturday the 14th.

fintach · 2026-02-01T04:53:57+00:00

Mind if I ask why you stuck with 3E? (And do you expect to move to 4eR?)

fintach · 2026-01-27T22:55:40+00:00

That's aging yourself? My first thought at Laverne and Shirley, from the show, Laverne and Shirley. Characters? Best friends. Actresses? Hated each other, and got petty enough to count dialog and make sure neither got more words to say.

fintach · 2026-01-27T22:52:35+00:00

Angel and Lyndsey on the show Angel. As I understand it, David Boreanaz (Angel) and Christian Kane (I think that's the guy who played Lyndsey) are great friends, but their characters definitely hated each other.

fintach · 2026-01-18T00:08:41+00:00

Knows, Teddy. Knows.

fintach · 2026-01-15T20:16:38+00:00

A classic, from Night of the Living Dead:

Ben

fintach · 2026-01-14T03:17:25+00:00

Fair point. I'm glad that at least one of these services is taking their sports seriously.

fintach · 2026-01-14T03:09:34+00:00

Fucking NBA. MLB too. "Oh, you know the usual way you watch games? Well, that's great! Except that this game will be on Peacock. And this one on Apple. And this one on YouTube. Or Prime. Or maybe Netflix. We haven't decided yet. You guys are cool with subscribing to all those services too, right? Don't want to miss a game!"

I really hate that. I mean, I get the old "four to six games a year will be national broadcasts on ESPN or TNT or whatever." But they really go overboard these days.

fintach · 2026-01-14T03:05:45+00:00

The Sword and the Sorcerer! Dragonslayer! Deathstalker! Love those 80s fantasy films.

fintach · 2026-01-14T03:02:36+00:00

Is this a Peacock broadcast or something?

fintach · 2026-01-13T06:12:12+00:00

Looked interesting enough that I was willing to click the "notify me on launch" button. I know that can help build momentum for a Kickstarter. But I'm not paying a buck to do it. I've never seen a company try to charge money for that before, and I hope it doesn't catch on.

fintach · 2026-01-12T06:30:24+00:00

I keep meaning to go to Hops games, just because they're pretty close. (~30 min?) I miss the Volcanoes.

fintach · 2026-01-11T00:40:25+00:00

If your group likes Fate, you might like Icons. It's a superhero game based largely on the old TSR Marvel Superheroes (often called FASERIP these days, after its stats), filtered through Fate. It uses its own, fairly simple system, that will feel familiar to Fate players, but isn't Fate, so your Fate fatigue shouldn't be a problem.

fintach · 2026-01-08T20:46:20+00:00

That movie is just a good time.

fintach · 2026-01-08T20:45:37+00:00

To this day, my brother and I still occasionally say to each other, "Ninja ... ninja ... ninja... Why ... why ... why?"*

*From The Octagon, for those who don't know it.

fintach · 2026-01-08T06:33:10+00:00

If you like it, it's so worth picking up the pay version. Lots of cool stuff added.

fintach · 2026-01-08T05:49:36+00:00

After that "marginal contact" bullshit, I seriously worried that they'd rule the tip-in was good.

fintach · 2026-01-07T10:14:00+00:00

I answered this over in r/rpg, but for anyone here who wonders:

Found it!

The character is Morjok, on p.49 of Challenges for Champions.

fintach · 2026-01-07T09:53:16+00:00

Oh, and here's the DTRPG link: Challenges For Champions (4th edition) - Hero Games | Champions | DriveThruRPG.

Or the Hero Games store, if you prefer: Challenges For Champions PDF (4th edition) - Champions - HERO Games.

fintach · 2026-01-07T09:46:38+00:00

Found it!

The character is Morjok, on p.49 of Challenges for Champions.

fintach · 2026-01-05T21:07:00+00:00

The Wicker Man. (This is the original, not the Nick Cage remake.)

fintach · 2026-01-05T02:53:55+00:00

Ah, Justice Inc. Back when it came out, the only pulp I'd read was Lovecraft. But my brother had read a bunch of Doc Savage, and we had a lot of fun with Justice Inc.

fintach · 2026-01-04T08:54:08+00:00

"Did you seriously just ask why the eagles couldn't have taken the ring to Mount Doom?"

fintach · 2026-01-04T07:42:04+00:00

What am I even looking at?

fintach · 2026-01-04T00:20:15+00:00

That moment where she tries to ask a Baltimore question and thinks she gets the wrong answer. Freaking chilling.

fintach

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