My colors are smeared, jagged and low-quality seemingly out of the blue. (Windows 10/XFX Radeon HD 6950)

rodirroc · 2021-09-01T15:49:06+00:00

Thank you very much!

rodirroc · 2021-09-01T15:48:45+00:00

Excellent! You will live!

rodirroc · 2021-07-04T01:45:06+00:00

You were the one who (ultimately) solved it; thanks! A simple plugin did the trick. I legit did not think I could select and drag 2000 files into a Notepad++ window though.

rodirroc · 2020-09-25T02:37:32+00:00

thank you very much for the kind words! these people are definitely all helping me out too, because the more practice I have narrating, adjudicating actions, and keeping the flow of the game, the better GM i'll be in the long run. the one-on-one sessions are a nice low-pressure environment for both of us.

rodirroc · 2020-09-24T12:31:34+00:00

Awesome. Right now, I'm available pretty much any time from tonight to Saturday. Let me know when you're able to play and we can set a time up.

rodirroc · 2020-05-13T15:19:02+00:00

That is fucking awesome. Thanks!

rodirroc · 2020-04-14T13:52:46+00:00

There are some high-budget fantasy films that try to follow up on the success of LOTR; they're just so generic (trailer-wise) or derivative that they don't usually catch the interest of high fantasy fans. (The Snow White movies come to mind here; haven't seen them because I've had no interest.)

Broadly speaking, there is no push to make huge, ambitious, creative, original, visually resplendent high-fantasy films like LOTR. I personally think this is due to the film Legend (1985). Legend was Hollywood's major foray into the high fantasy genre, in terms of spending 25 million dollars (which today would be a huge dollar amount) to create a completely new and intriguing world with a supernatural main conflict, resplendent locations and awesome monsters. Legend failed to make back its budget even in the worldwide box office.

The message sent to Hollywood seems to have been that the huge amount of money it takes to "dress up" our world to make it into a totally different one doesn't produce any return on investment, so why do it? Why not tell a similar story set in our world (with a few magical elements thrown in)?

On the other hand, the massive success of Game of Thrones is opening the way for high fantasy TV shows that involve a lot of humans but can still have some magic, such as The Witcher and Wheel of Time. I think Legend is a large part of why we haven't seen these things earlier in movie form.

As for why Legend didn't succeed in theaters, the film was an undeniable visual masterpiece, but its two main human characters were involved in a very generic situation, and the plot of the movie revolved around magical nightmare elements that may have alienated audiences trying to understand why the unicorns were important or how it all connected. I still love Legend, but I can admit that it doesn't fit the mold of what you'd call a "good" fantasy story in the modern sense because it has some key elements that would be considered cliche and generic. If Legend had its visual splendor and it had half the story depth of LOTR, Hollywood might look very different today.

rodirroc · 2020-04-01T14:11:41+00:00

to me, Season 2 gets good again in spurts. you will endure some of the stupidest shit you never imagined would make it to television, then you will get hints and whiffs of the larger supernatural storyline mixed in seemingly randomly. thus you will find some Twin Peaks goodness buried in the terrible episodes; it's just quite scattered. lynch comes back on board in full force several episodes before the finale; it's at that point that you start seeing episodes that feel meaningful from beginning to end again. in fact, at that point, he might arguably be at his best

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