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I think the reason that Dimension 20 really scratches all those itches in my brain is that it really shows what you can do with D&D---and TTRPGs as a whole.

Fantasy High, by itself, is an incredibly compelling concept. What would D&D look like in a semi-modern setting? What would a high school that's all about teaching teens how to be adventurers look like? And the way it's done is beyond inventive, especially if you look at all the encounters in the first season---we've got a literal food fight, a high-speed road chase with tiefling greasers, a nightclub brawl with zombies, vampires, and werewolves, a skating match with a bunch of dwarven middle schoolers and a concrete golem, a high-stakes game of football (ish) with undead jocks that give off major teen slasher vibes, a fight done in an arcade where characters can get trapped in the consoles, and the final battle is done at prom. PROM! How cool is that?

And then we get to the Unsleeping City, which takes the urban fantasy elements that Fantasy High already had and elevates it. The way the D&D lore and magic is interpreted in a modern New York setting is excellent, as is the whole take on the "American Dream," magic literally coming from dreams, ideas, and the imagination. I know that I need to actually finish the UC saga, but from what I've seen and experienced, it is truly fantastic.

And the same energy carries through to the other seasons---my personal favorite outside of Fantasy High being A Court of Fey and Flowers, just because I'm a sucker for any Fey Realm content and I've been raised on Jane Austen---where the genre mashups shine through in the best way possible. I'll admit, I haven't seen A Crown of Candy, purely because I know how heartbreaking and devastating it is and I don't think I can physically handle it, but the concept of Candyland Game of Thrones is so beautifully bizarre that I totally get why people love it so much. Escape from the Bloodkeep hitting that workplace comedy vibe that we love to see in villains. Misfits & Magic being a love letter to the "magical boarding school" genre while also calling out all the weird contradictions inherent in it. A Starstruck Odyssey literally being an homage to Brennan's mom and exactly the kind of madcap and unhinged energy I need from my sci-fi. Neverafter perfectly encapsulating the true horror of fairy tales. Mentopolis hitting my noir-loving heart and personifying hyperfixation in the best way possible.

I'm not even kidding when I say that, if it weren't for Dimension 20... I probably wouldn't have even started my own campaign. I'd had snippets and ideas ever since officially getting into D&D and joining a game with some old friends (and getting back in touch with them in the process), but after I saw the Mentopolis trailer, I realized just how much variety TTRGPs had to offer. I could do a time-blending, history-meets-future campaign. I could go out-of-the-box. I could have endless amounts of options available to my friends and still tell the story that I wanted to tell. And when I sat down and watched Fantasy High---and when I got that Dropout subscription so I could consume whatever I wanted---it felt like the show was actually giving me advice. It's fantastic.

Also it helps that the episodes are usually only roughly a couple hours instead of being, like, an entire afternoon long. And that each season is 20 episodes, tops. No offense to Critical Role, but the sheer amount of content literally makes it impossible for me to get into it.

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I've thought of a new alternative dating system for people who don't like AD/BC for the overt Christianity or the BEC/ACE because it's just the first one in different clothes.

Is a 3 era system

BB

BSB

ASB

the best thing is we already measure time this way a little

So BB is Before Bread, a truly dark time in our past

BSB is Before Sliced Bread

And ASB is After Sliced Bread, a time we mention often when we say things are "the best thing since Sliced Bread!!

I think this idea could rise to the challenge!

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I had a revelation watching that scene

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i had three fic ideas.  wrote one.  i still have three fic ideas.  this is not how math is supposed to work.

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Alarm bells being rung by Maureen Johnson on AI and the Big Publishers

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Striking actor Ron Perlman responds to studio executive who said, "The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their houses."

"There's a lot of ways to lose your house. One of them is figuring out who the fuck said that. And where he fucking lives."

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The thing with amateur local theater is it is almost always bad BUT keeping it alive is the most important thing

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character concept: two people who have been reincarnated for thousands of years and have always found eachother but instead of being in love they just fucking hate eachother

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Nimona is a movie about a gender-fluid anarchist punk who wants to adopt a villain but accidentally adopts a disgraced cop determined to clear his name instead. Nimona teaches him that respectability won’t gain him acceptance in a system that is more invested in order than justice, and they work together to take that system down.

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Could you imagine if the vampire/ mirror thing worked both ways?

Vampires can't be seen in mirrors but vampires also can't see mirrors.

Like you leave a big freestanding mirror on the pavement and vampires keep walking into them like birds into windows.

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During a House Judiciary hearing this Tuesday, things got a little heated as lawmakers discussed the role of religion and God when interpreting the Constitution.

According to Steve Cohen (D-TN), the notion that “all our rights are God-given” doesn’t make sense.

“I just wonder, when God decided to give women the right to vote, and why God didn’t give women the right to vote back in the 1700s,” Cohen said. “And when God decided that slavery would be illegal — God was okay with slavery until we had a war millions of people were killed, then God changed his mind? That’s hard to fathom.”

Cohen went on to provide the same analogy for abortion and interracial marriage. He clarified that he has respect for people’s belief in God, but added that he doesn’t believe the notion that every right is “God given.” “God did not decide to keep African Americans as slaves until there was a Civil War, and then God changed his mind,” he said.

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looks like we fired a $500,000 missile from a $300,000,000 warplane to shoot down a $100 hobbyist balloon. It circumnavigated the globe 7 times before it met its end at the hands of the American Air Force and a political imperative to Not Look Weak. You can hardly make this shit up.

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Gimme that interesting fake meat

I want all those food scientists who are making beef and chicken substitutes to do something more interesting.

Like I know what beef and chicken taste like and yeah they're currently pretty good at mimicking it but my brain nearly always flags it as being a bit off and flags a sensory issue.

So make up some shit! Puzzle out what griffon or manticore may taste like and make that as a fake meat!

Cause I've obviously never eaten that and so if my brain goes 'Hey? why's this griffon stakes taste/texture seem so weird?'

I can just go 'Just chill, it's just how griffon is. it's probably the magic or something.'

And I bet my brain wont flag the sensory issue because I gave it a new categorization to fit it into rather than having it panic because it doesn't fit the old one right.

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Source: Screen Rant

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