• Background Noise this week – Better Than Us (2018) It’s been on my Watch Later list for a while, but finally got into the rotation. I’m a little past halfway through and I’m impressed that it’s been engaging in what probably would have been an 80 minute Black Mirror episode (and it might even have Read more

  • It’s a comic book movie so I had to watch it one way or another, catching it on streaming while doing house chores so I can’t swear that it had my full attention. I will say overall, I expected worse but found it entertaining at times despite a number of speedbumps. The plot is pretty Read more

  • New game to my table, would play again (after some down time) I’d heard a lot of talk about Alice is Missing (2020) on various game reviews and top ten lists, so I was excited to get a chance to play it when a buddy offered to run it for a table of us. I Read more

  • Every table has their own take on the rules. Early editions of D&D encouraged making these things up, later editions took more a hardline attitude towards homebrew as not playing the game as intended, and the current 5E has swung back to house rules as dials for customizing the feel of your game. Here are Read more

  • Episode 2.7 – “What If … Hela Found the Ten Rings?” Essentially, what if we took the the MCU Shang Chi and made his mom a power mad Norse goddess with entitlement issues? There’s the classic grade A parenting by Odin when he sees his daughter / weapon of war getting out of hand, he Read more

  • Two very different What If … ? episodes. One is a return to a previous What If … ? character / world and another creating an entirely new one. Episode 2.5 – “What If … Captain Carter Fought the Hydra Stomper?” Up front confession, I’m a fan of Captain Carter, with or without super powers Read more