Notices by Tim_Eagon (tim_eagon@dice.camp)

Ah, Father's Day weekend, a conspiracy by Big Meat to make me grill more.

@jacklaridian Like most of the weaker phase 5 stuff, I felt it was too rushed and too goofy. It needed time to breathe and to properly set-up the stakes; like, why should we care about the Kree?

Since I saw Captain America 4 was coming out on Disney+ tomorrow, I decided to catch up on the MCU movies and watched The Marvels last night. What a really weird movie (from a Hollywood franchise stand point). It wasn't good per se, though parts of it were enjoyable. Interesting that it's villain was basically executing the plot of Spaceballs.

#Movies #MCU #TheMarvels #SpaceBalls

If you've a hankering for some 90s-influenced rock, look no further than Swindon, England-based trio I See Orange (though the lead singer and bassist is from Mexico). Listening to them takes me back to 1994! Here's a video of their song "La Bruja."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR19snwbCo0

Their Bandcamp page has an EP and a few singles (most of which have YT videos). "Fairy," "Morbid," "Mental Rot" and "Feebleness" are strong tracks!

https://iseeorange.bandcamp.com/

#Music #AlternativeMusic #Grunge #Rock #IndieMusic

Andor man, Andor…

#StarWars #Andor #Television

@jacklaridian yeah, I looked it up myself.

JFC, the White House’s official May the 4th tweet is unhinged. Also, a weird flex complaining about Sith Lords when the AI portrait of Trump is holding a red lightsaber.

#USPol #StarWars

The Shadowdark: The Western Reaches KS broke $1 million in about 12 hours. Very impressive.

#ShadowDark #TTRPG #KickStarter #OSR #NSR

I'm getting better at figuring out what music to recommend to my daughter. Based on her tastes, I thought she might enjoy shoegaze music, so I played My Bloody Valentine's Loveless CD in the car tonight and she said she "really liked it."

https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/

#Music #ShoeGaze

Ah, the first day when you can finally turn off your heat and open up some windows!

If someone had told me a few weeks ago that one of my favorite recent albums would be a gothic rock concept album about the love story between a vampire and a human, I would've laughed in their face, but here we are...

It's Sanguivore by Creeper btw.

#Music #GothicRock #ConceptAlbum #Creeper #Vampires

As the father of a teenager I have to say, Kronos may have been on to something when he devoured his children!

#Parenting #Teenagers #mythology

@jacklaridian yeah, I found some weird, almost arbitrary, changes in the book, like lizard folk being connected to the elemental plane of Earth and Efreets not being evil anymore.

I paged through the 2024 MM this morning. At a glance...

The things I liked: the art, more variety of high CR monsters.

Things I'm neutral about: The alphabetical organization

Things I dislike: Lore changes, type changes, alignment changes, elimination of lair actions.

I still can't believe they didn't include any rules on how to create new monsters in either the 2024 DMG or MM.

#DND

Come, watch 8.5 hours of Critical Role with me...

#CriticalRole #DND

I'm going to be really sad that there's no more Skeleton Crew to watch next week. I didn't think they nailed the finale a 100% (it probably needed a bit more room to breathe IMO), but they really sold the kids on hoverbike adventure at its core. Jude Law, the kids, and their parents were great!

#StarWars #SkeletonCrew #Television

While Andor is the best Star Wars series, and one of the best pieces of Star Wars media period, Skeleton Crew is a close second. I'm loving every minute of this show.

#StarWars #SkeletonCrew #Television #Andor

I asked my teenager to clean her room and said no devices until it was done. You'd think I shot the family dog or something.

@jacklaridian I'm back, but I don't think anyone else is here.

@artemis they did try to address it for a while after Endgame.