The Waxwork remake was a great example of a film where the studio calculated exactly how much they would make back on the film, so knew exactly how much to spend on it to break even.
It’s by the numbers, and just “good enough.” And therefore tiresome.
There’s a weird joy i see in a lot of low-budget bad movies. Like, somehow I can tell the people making it were like “we’ve got $10 and use of my mom’s car for the weekend, let’s just make something insane.” And they go for it, and it shines through.
Doctor Frankenstein technically isn’t a Doctor, because he abandoned his formal education midway to go off and be a weirdo.
To paraphrase an old friend of yours: “who’s the bigger fool? The fool, or the fool who married him?”
Right?
Follow up: so we went back into town and I found a hardware store next to a pub. Stopped in to get some CYA glue to fix the shoe.
To discover there was no wall between the pub and store. The bartender came over to ring me out for the glue.
When we got to Galway, I bought new shoes.
Careful what you ask for. I hiked along the Cliffs of Moher in 1999, and halfway along the sole fell off my boot.
Hijinks indeed!
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Guilty as charged.
I played a bunch of Champions/Hero back in the 80s. It was my group’s go to system after BRP. I still think it’s a great game, and respect what they did with it.
It’s just too much “game” or “prep” for me. Props to those who dig it. It’s just not for me any more.
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Hilariously, I kind of did the same thing. I got turned off by Champions and SuperWorld just being too complex, and somehow hit on using GW's mutations and weird science to do a supers game.
Then I realized I wasn't really into the genre and scrapped it.
Funny, GW didn't appeal to me (I wanted more gritty, dire, Mad Max/Dawn of the Dead-like apocalypse).
But sometime in my 40s or so, I started looking at GW and damn if it doesn't look like a buttload of fun. I get to be a mutant talking carrot with a laser gun? Sign me up!
But all that didn't necessarily inform everything we did in the game. It was neat to have all those details to fall back on. But at the end of the day, we didn't need to know every detail of the mythic history of Pavis to know there were monsters to fight, and treasure to be won in the Rubble.
Oh, absolutely. It was fun playing in a setting that felt like there was a whole living, breathing world out there. Details like how the Devil was smooshed under the Block, which was in sight of Pavis, were neat. But what I guess I'm getting at was that was all the backdrop for the games I played...
I got into RQ with 2nd edition; I must've been 11 or 12 when I discovered it. But I remember as a kid thinking that all that background/history was irrelevant to my games of going into the Rubble and fighting broos and trolls. I still prefer it as Weird S&S than whatever it's turned into.
Thank God. Kyle Reese finally showed up to fix this shitty timeline…
Satan’s Puckered Asshole
I look forward to the day Fox is finally dismantled.
Indeed.
Britt Daniel? That was one of his sayings.
Huh. And she was just given a private jet at the taxpayers’ expense, too…
Coincidentally, I only refer to him as El Pendejo Anaranjado.
Or Chinga tu Maga in the collective.
Winners, one and all.
Old age and treachery beats youth and gullibility every time.
Probably because he’s hiding from you. You know what you did.
Pretty much, yeah.
My posts have been to negative lately. Admittedly because we currently live in a world of absolute garbage. So, positivity: gaming nerds, post your five favorite TTRPG designers. Here’s mine
1 — Greg Stafford
2 — Steve Perrin
3 — Jennell Jaquays
4 — @dorkland.itch.io
5 — @khepera.bsky.social
Go!
A wooden particle board shelf covered in gross stains.
A wooden particle board shelf but much cleaner than the one in the other photo.
Before and after. My coworkers are all impressed with how good I am at cleaning particle board.
Wonder how long it’ll take until they realized I just flipped all the shelves upside down. 😂
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