I feel like they just completely missed on this. They tried to capture the cel-shaded style of the games but everything looks low-budget as a result. Pandora is a backwater, if you’re going to do it live action everything needs to look like it’s been sandblasted and sun-bleached for a decade and repurposed at least twice. Everything just seems too clean.

The dialogue is bad. Can’t really blame the actors for that, but I also struggle with all of them in their roles except Jack Black (I actually don’t mind that casting).

Also, unless this is set between 1 and 2, I’m not sure how Krieg and Tiny Tina ended up on an adventure with Roland and Lilith.

There’s been recent studies that show Millennials (my generation) aren’t getting more conservative as they get into middle age. And while I don’t think I’m getting much more conservative, if at all, part of me wonders if it’s more that the party of conservatives is just outpacing us in their mad dash to the right.

Like, I definitely have some further-left ideals and some more moderate-left ones, but damn if the conservatives aren’t going full auth-right faster than I can moderate my views to even see where they’re coming from.

He might offer them part of the spoils, but there’s no chance they ever actually see any of it. Dude is famous for not paying his bills, why would he start now?

At this table you have:

-DM (OP)

-Player 1 (DM’s friend, inexperienced)

-Player 2 (P1’s gf, experienced)

-Player 3 (P1 and P2’s bf - it’s a polycule, experienced)

-Player 4 (P3’s sister)

Just to sort of pile on, Breaking Bad lasted longer than the Confederacy.

Extra cost for no real benefit

If this ever gets made into like a docuseries or movie, future generations aren’t going to believe that the legal team of a former President in a civil case was this incompetent.

Like there’s no way to make said movie and not have it be a comedy of errors.

Well, to be fair…

A lot of the people that reliably vote for them are (willfully) fucking dumb.

When you’ve built your “platform” on the basis that the people who vote for you are just going to take whatever you say at face value, you might be surprised that only a minority of people work that way.

Just reminds me of the Iago quote from Disney’s Aladdin:

“Oh there’s a big surprise! I think I’m gonna have a heart attack and die from not surprise!”

The kicker is we already do the “price at point of sale including taxes” thing at gas stations. If it’s $3.09 or whatever per gallon, that’s including state and federal sales tax.

We already see the line item thing on most receipts anyway. We basically do everything except roll the sales tax into the sticker price.

To be fair, if I don’t get off on a tangent I usually end up going around in circles.

Shepard-Commander?