Woke Up, Mxster Freethem... Woke Up And... Smell The Pronouns

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Hey, there. Rewatching Midnight Mass right now and it's got to be one of my favorite shows of all time. I'm cancelling Netflix soon for budget reasons, and I know there's been disputes and frustration over this, but if there was ever a DVD release, I would buy it in a heartbeat. Here's hoping.

I tried repeatedly over many years to get Netflix to do the right thing and release the original shows on physical media. For a long time they just said no, then they ignored me for a while, then they said no a few more times, then they said they would see what they could do...

At one point, they said they were actually going to do it - an executive told me they were going to package everything into a "Flanaverse" box set (man I hate that word, but I would have lived with it gladly if it meant physical media releases). I was overjoyed. But months went by without any further updates. When I finally followed up, they sent a single sentence email that basically said "oh yeah, never mind, we weren't able to get that going." I pushed for an explanation as to why but never got anything more specific than "physical media just isn't a priority for the company".

Both the outcome and the nonchalant delivery of the verdict were entirely demoralizing. We are seeing more and more movies and series being erased from existence as studios seek to save a little cash. This is only going to get worse.

The fact that Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club, Gerald's Game and Before I Wake (and the upcoming Fall of the House of Usher) are exclusively available ONLY on Netflix, and can disappear from the service at any time and be entirely erased from the world - is absolutely terrifying to me. Physical media is critical. Being available "exclusively" on a single platform is bad for the business, bad for cinema, and bad for all of us.

I used to be vehemently opposed to piracy.

I have completely changed my stance on that issue.

Yesterday's "pirates" are, in some cases, the only hope for archival preservation of a growing amount of shows and movies.

I have purchased several pirated blu-ray copies of Midnight Mass, am very impressed with the quality and presentation, and I am profoundly grateful they exist.

Godspeed, noble archivists.

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A quest! A quest!

In the Court of the Lich Queen alpha playtest I played in, someone triggered the quest minigame, someone else added a riddlemaster as one of the challenges, and the ghoulish principality's champion surpassed the riddle challenge by eating the riddlemaster, and I laughed until my guts hurt and I had to be scraped up off the floor to take my turn. So I knew we had to do the quest minigame in our actual play.

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Tension builds between the Lich Queen’s dread courtiers as their realms crumble around them. The Wraithlight Dominion proposes a quest.

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COMPERE: Matt Boothman

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Representing the Draugr Earldom: Naomi Clarke

Representing the Skeletal Duchy: Fiona Howat

Representing the Wraithlight Dominion: Matt Boothman

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Court of the Lich Queen (beta), designed by Ursidice

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SOUND DESIGN BY: Matt Boothman

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

For too long, the world of indie roleplaying has been beset by ANIMAL CRIME.

It's time to clean up these indie roleplaying streets. And the only way to tackle ANIMAL CRIMINALS ... is with ANIMAL LAWYERS.

I'm making my Twitch streaming debut (😱) on 23 June with Actual Play UK, in a game of Maddy Searle's I'm Not Lion, a game where you play animals who think they're lawyers, and the more animal puns you use, the more convincing the judge and jury will find you!

I'm playing Crawl Newman, an ambitious snake prosecutor who's determined to make partner, whatever that means??

Going live on Twitch now, playing a snake prosecuting a dolphin for stealing a walrus's identity. Tune in to see if I make partner!

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