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Tatterdamillion

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    DUNGEONS & DRAGONS HONOR AMONG THIEVES movie (3/31/23)

    in The Movie Forum

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    Really enjoyed this, and I am a hater of lots of movies (MCU, I am looking at you, directly in the eyes as I say "You stink"). Honestly, I laughed more during this than 90% of comedy movies. It had a million great references to those that know D&D and yet my partner who knows nothing of nerddom also loved it. All the creatures were fun but my favorite nod was including the cast of the D&D cartoon from the 80's getting their silverscreen time. No exposition just some other "party of adventurers" in the background mainly. The creators didn't go out of their way to jam this into the story, which was refreshing.  (SIDERANT UP AHEAD! remember seeing the movie Solo, and going in I was thinking they better not show the damned Kessel run nor how he won the Millennium Falcon. They couldn't resist, They cannot help themselves. The art of storytelling, done away with in two brushstrokes.) I really loved the character Michelle played, and while not totally different than the characters she often portrays, still there was some nuance there. If the studio could avoid Ghostbusters IIi-ng, Minions II-ing this, I would watch another D&D movie.

     

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    Pizza misdelivery!

    in Comics General

    Posted · Edited by Tatterdamillion

    You know when you get take out or pizza delivery and you are effin pumped because in the next few minutes you know you will be imbibing that ambrosia of the gods., cheese and grease, bread and sauce.  But lo!, even as you pull the box open, you sense the wrongness of everything,...blech ,pineapple and ham or whatever your (non)Italian bane may be.  This isn't what I ordered! I know, ...total bullcarp. And now what? You have to drive back forty blocks or wait another forty minutes for that damnable tongue treasure. It feels bad, real bad. You could be eating pizza right now, but instead you are on the phone with some teenager, having to ask to talk to a manager, you might even have to raise your voice.  At best you are getting that pizza forty minutes later. But I ask, is this fair? What if they charge a delivery fee? Do they refund that? Is this bellyachin',? You bet! Is this righteous anger? Likely!  I just wanted some pizza goldarnit, but now it has become a thing. And to boot, there is probably spit in my food now, if I did in fact raise my voice. (which I may have) I myself like saliva even less than pineapple & ham as a topping(its not even on the menu). 

    In this example, the pizza company made a mistake, I got the pizza eventually because the pizza co. answered their elfin telephone... but WHAT IF?

    You take the above example, but in lieu of pizza it is a comic book and instead of pizza company it is a reputable comic auction house. And instead of one receiving the wrong pizza, the right pizza is delivered the next city over. And what if you called(emailed) said pizza company three times asking the whereabouts of your deliciousness, but no teenager answered the phone (three email)s.  And let us say you figure out where the pizza arrived and it has been days since you emailed yet you still have no response. So you take it upon yourself to find that pizza, costing time, money etc etc.  Does that pizza not taste like dust in ones mouth, a dry desolate reward for all that work. Boooo!

    So now you have the pizza, but it is a hollow victory, a bland, cold, lifeless slab of yeasty flacid bread with catsup and velveeta (or that is what it seems). But then! A beacon in the night! A week later the pizza company calls(emails) you and says they are fixing the situation, (this is the first time they have reached out). They have sent their delivery driver to where they delivered the pizza to bring it back to their restaurant so they can reheat it and bring it to you (weeks late). They tell you and send you the tracking number!

    So what in the hell is it that this pizza company now has in route back to their restaurant?

    Should I still have to pay for shipping? Considering I did a fair amount of the work myself?

    Also, does Fed Ex just leave packages at the bottom of staircases of two resident flats without so much as ringing or knocking? Twelve steps down. No actual harm (as it wasn't stolen), but that is some B.S. 

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    The Banning of Earthbind and the Censorship of artistic expression

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    I think we can all agree that this card would not have been printed nowadays (hopefully we can). They are all but saying this. WotC is putting a foot down and saying they didn't recognize that some may be offended by the image on the card, so they are retroactively removing said card from their further releases. Are they not allowed to have free reign of their own business? I would say they are. When Burger King discontinued The Whaler, the Captain Ahabs of the world went effin nuts I am sure. Relax son, that aint even whale meat, it's cod at best. This move is

    A)  not hurting the artist (who has already been paid) -   RIP. #legendstatus

    B) not hurting the value of the original art of said card.

    C) not Wizards using this as a money grab, if so , how? Do they have stockpiles of Earthbind up in the dragons hoard? If so then just keep printing up Moxes and Black Lotus' for days. It would be a quicker road to more riches.

     

    Who is losing out in this situation? If you want the original of this art it is probably more expensive now, I will grant that. But make a big enough offer and I bet you can pry it from someones hands. 

    Is the only place where earthbind doesnt exist, the archives of the MTG database? I actually don't know... 3 seconds later, I just checked. Still there.  I feel like I am being punk'd. Is this a meta-argument?  Like a marvel What if? comic? Color me intrigued. Picture this pitch to Feige, 

    Pitcher: "The multiverse has infinite iterations right?",

    Feige: "Uhh yeah"..

    Pitcher: "One of which is a world where everything is exactly like the world in which you live. The Tigers stink at baseball, blue raspberry is still a flavor, people like the Mandolorian, BUT.... a card called Earthbind from the non mattering game of Magic the Gathering ceases to exist on the internet".

    Feige: "Umm what"?

    Pitcher: "People are still seeing things like Deadpool 2 and other nonsense like that, but one tiny facet of the multiverse has changed...but only in the internet".

    Feige: " So what you're saying is you want to do a Dr Strange Threequel crossover with Oracle from Birds of Prey?" 

    Pitcher: "uhh"

    Feige: "I love it, Im gonna get DC on the horn"

    The Banning of Earthbind and the Censorship of artistic expression

    in Original Comic Art

    Posted

    They were never going to print that card again for one as it is never played, and that mechanic isn't very red in many ways anymore (being an enchantment that causes the loss of flying). While I love Q Hoovers art, this one didn't do it for me in any form. Really all their bans aside from crusade were really non factors in so many ways as none of those cards really saw any play (crusade aside). WotC can always make a different enchantment for white weenies similar or even exactly the same as crusade and just call it something else. Of course they will have to deal with the backlash of all the "in the good'ol days" crowd, demanding their crusade back.:preach:.

    Also, the genie is out of the bottle. The damn cards can be found whenever you want them.  

    While I am not offended by the cards, I am happy that they are exiled (mtg term).  

    Saying you are sorry is better than saying nothing.