"Italian Units In Campaign For North Africa Need More Water So They Can Boil Pasta" Is The "Viggo Mortensen

"Italian units in Campaign for North Africa need more water so they can boil pasta" is the "Viggo Mortensen broke his toes in this scene kicking the orc helmet" of tabletop war games.

Yeah, I've got complcated feelings about As Above So Below, and this is speaking from a place that really is best described as "relative unfamiliarity with the subgenre" ([REC] is... on my watchlist.) The fact that it is found footage to begin with sort of both helps and harms it; just thinking through it, the "found"ness of the footage doesn't really make sense- is that good is that bad does that add to the effect does that subtract from it, I don't know. By the time it matters (the end when everyone's dying off and there was no way that that footage could've gotten recovered) it's done its job (given verisimilitude to the trippiness of entering the catacombs.) By then the "found footage" nature offers an objective perspective, thus undermining the is-it-just-inside-my-head stuff and, ???

In the end I do like AASB though— I watched it after having seen Vivarium, and it lives in the same space (literally?) as the climax of that film. So automatically I was partial to it, because the digging bits were the only parts of Vivarium that worked for me, and AASB did those bits better! and made it the whole movie even! So that did it for me. (Now that I've seen Men though, it really makes me want to give Vivarium another go...)

Everyone seems to like “As Above, So Below” but I thought it was pretty mid when I saw it in theaters. Maybe I owe it a re-watch but I suspect it was just really enjoyable to audiences who are relatively unfamiliar with the subgenre

Okay, but was anyone gonna bring up the fact that they have TWO Paramount+s?

Did you know I make cool games?

You know that "inverse indiana jones" thing everyone always jokes about? You want a version of that made by someone actually affected by the colonialism and racism that would need to be discussed? Do you want the pulp adventure with an folkloric fantasy coat of paint? Do you want it as a narrative-tag driven ttrpg that allows you to self define your culture and your relationship to it? I've been developing it for years and before that joke was a thing... I'm about ready to turn it into a book too.

Oh wow, that's awesome! (If it's not too weird to add in on strangers' posts like this.) A couple high school friends of mine were in their own production of that same play just last month, which I had no idea existed till then! So, congratulations on legs well broken, tiny people in my phone.

The final night of my school play I'm in just finished🎉 I played Miss Scarlett in the clue play. It was so fun I hope I can do something like this again!! @neil-perrys-glasses

Always watch... Always watch.

Needle-watch poll

So, I got some vaccinations the other day, and the pharmacy tech seemed unnerved that I opted to watch him insert the needle. And he is not the first to comment on it. I'm willing to accept I'm an outlier and shouldn't be counted, I'm just curious how much of an outlier.