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My soul brotha, dig if you will back in these Movie Reviews and see my review of THE GREATEST Ruday Ray Moore flick, Petey Wheatstraw, The Devil's Son In Law! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1yf4d6rWDiM.html
@@faaaatcaaat76 it gets worse. When she really wants something, she turns on a glamour, where her eyes sparkle and her coat is extra shiny. I'll try to record it, so y'all know what I'm dealing with.
My 70 year old mother was visiting not long ago and I put this movie on. Surprisingly, she loved it despite not being into gore or darkly humorous films. It was hilarious hearing her gush about it to my sister later on.
Hahaha, mom has good taste! It's hard to not admire a movie SO COMMITTED to its premise. It delivers everything a movie so titled promises. Thanks for sharing.
Didn't need to google anything - I grew up in the 60s/70s. I'm familiar with that name, alright. I had a friend whose name was Jim Holmes. Boy did he ever get it...
I'm not an Obama fan, but you can't really blame him for high prices. That's just greed, pure and simple. Regarding the Jersey Shore game...I have been one of those guys in the past. To be fair, I really think the game was not accurately described on the Con's brochure, so it was not what I was expecting. Also, I really hate it when I'm forced to roleplay a female character. Not being a female, I feel I cannot accurately portray such a person. Simply not my cuppa, as it were. The word "conspiracy" has become a pejorative term, these days. It's a shame. The you mention any sort of conspiracy, most people automatically chalk you up as a crazy. I blame Operation Mindfuck - a hoax created by a group of Berkeley students who thought it would be funny to convince everyone that "The Illuminati" were behind all the bad things that happen. Conspiracy simply means a group of people secretly involved in some plan, plot or scheme. Conspiracies are everywhere and the overwhelming majority of them don't affect most of us. Everytime a gang plans a drive-by, everytime some perps plot a heist, when a political group schemes up a coup to take power within the party, it's a conspiracy. Lots of them out there.
Agreed on many counts. The "thanks Obama" is a play in the Internet meme where you jokingly blame Obama for everything, no matter how silly. You add a valuable perspective on the topic of role-playing to the conversation. How can one portray a character one does not truly understand, to really do them justice? A valid point, one I've used in the past when it came to the game Demon: the Fallen. White Wolf put out a number of monster games, but Vampires, Werewolves, etc were at least partially human, so I could try to relate. But a demon who was never human, was eternal, and completely alien to me? No, I didn't think I could do them justice. So good point. And on conspiracies, true. People conspire with each other all the time, and just because something is called a conspiracy doesn't mean it isn't true. I keep hearing it was the CIA after they (possibly) assassinated Kennedy that pushed the narrative that conspiracy theories are all bunk. That's pretty rich coming from an agency whose job is to commit conspiracies. Thanks for the food for thought!
@@stephenclements6158 I enjoy your videos immensely, as I am also a fan of big brain activities. So you keep uploading them and I'll keep watching them.
For a great role-playing experience like the one you're describing at the end of the video, I play DND with military guys or jocks. Their default state of play is teamwork. They don't really even think of individualism.
Good point, civies be sloppy. And especially in games that demand so much physical bravery from the characters, if the player has never had to face physical danger, they're not going to do an adventurer justice. If a PC even makes it to 5th level, the amount of harrowing shit they had to grow through would make most people pass out just imagining!
How refreshing! Someone who doesn't natter on about "the spotlight" and how everyone gets their turn in it. That's just using an RPG as an ego-massage therapy. In my mind, there should be no spotlight because there is no audience objectively viewing the goings-on. The spotlight feeds into that whole notion of ignoring everyone while waiting for your turn.
Agreed. Earlier editions of Dungeons & Dragons were designed to be team sports. No one player could do it all on their own, they needed each other. Sure you can play a TTRPG like it's a solo video game, but it's going to be stale, because the spontaneity and real magic that you get out of TTRPGs comes from the group dynamic bringing the element of surprise. It's those awesome moments you didn't see coming that create memories for all involved, not carefully controlled spotlight seeking.
I saw this movie in an afternoon matinee when I was a young 0:55 teen and was so fascinated with Lee Marvin who spit alot. I would try that when I got home and see how far I could spit. LOL. And was so very infatuated with Clint Eastwood who was so handsome....
I remember watching this show religiously when it aired on television, originally. They did a remake earlier in the 2000s. I couldn't be bothered even giving it a try, because the protagonist is just too much of a pretty boy.
In all my Kolchak research, the remake never came up! It must have been some brilliant work. 💩 For completionist sake, I may put myself through it. Thanks for the tip!
@@stephenclements6158 Here's the wikipedia entry. If it interests you, you can probably find links from here to more information. I enjoy your videos, so thanks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolchak%3A_The_Night_Stalker#2005_television_series It seems as though there are also at least some episodes on youtube. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WYl7_-N5hZM.html
Very enjoyable and well done. Good questions and interesting answers. Looking forward to future episodes. Edit: I want to see young Ernie in his little sailor suit. Edit 2 - Ask him about his Chainmail game with a "younger kid" between hordes of Goblins and an army of Dwarves!!!!!
Baaaaahahaha, now I want to see him in that suit, too! I'll ask those questions and work them into a future episode. It will take a while for that to show up, since we've recorded 6 more already.
@@stephenclements6158 Lejendary AsteRogues and Lejendary Elder Worlds. Both were complete. LEW was just EW before LA and I'm not sure the original system offhand.
So AsteRogues does exist, it was written, but Chris doesn't know who has it. He didn't remember Elder Worlds, but he does remember the Lejendary Earth books. All but Jewels of the East came out, and Jewels is unpublished. The problem is the rights to it are encumbered by the Gygax estate. Otherwise, he would publish it.
I bought this adventure as a wee lad and always loved it. It IS so full of adventure and ways to veer off and expand into a greater campaign. At the time, it was very unique to run because of how different it was to the other adventures. (English not first language). But it taught me there was more that dungeoncrawling in D&D. Unfortunately at the time, my PCs did not undertand that... I still own my copy.
@@stephenclements6158 I never played it through in one go, but my (many) players over the years played about everything in that adventure. I forgot about the Chimera-gorgon... will have to add that again!
@@stephenclements6158 I got a kick out of the sewers leading into different parts of the city where the players I was refereeing for came up in the palace. They totally bypassed a lot of the events about the factions trying to overthrow each other. As for the detail of the module, I personally liked how detailed the town was and the map. I generated a lot of commoner NPCs to flush out the other buildings. The whole of the town is now part of my game world.
@@stephenclements6158 I liked how they detailed where the various sewer caps were at. My players stayed in the sewers and checked each to see if they could find a place to climb out without being seen. They entered the palace behind the palm trees... ...and proceeded to stealthily take out the brigands one by one. Murder-hobo'd the whole place, then took their time finding the cup. They decided to venture out into the town looking for the rest of the brigands and ended up fighting the Mad Dog and his band in the streets. For me, the detail of the town was my favorite...provided many ideas about how to set up a town. I spent some time adding NPCs to the un-detailed buildings and it's a town that's a permanent part of my game world.
I loved reading all that. You definitely made the most of it! While this adventure is in a generic setting, I would love to explore and flesh out this region and the distant lands mentioned.
The chatter around that movie when it came out is a really good example of the force of group psychology. So many people talked about that one scene that I ended up remembering the one scene. But as it turns out, I never even saw the movie lol.
You're welcome! The module has some good ideas and scenes in it, so perhaps you take the best bits and make something new with it. If you haven't seen it already, fellow Vampire storyteller David Hubbard and I talk about this module and kick around how to fix it in our full length interview and the excerpt called, "David Hubbard on Fountains of Bright Crimson (for Vampire: the Dark Ages) (Interview Excerpt)".
I wonder if the intent wasn't to allow the players to explore all those locations after the adventure was done basically integrating them into your world
Oh I 100% believe that it's almost impossible to be a killer DM in 5th Edition, I guarantee they ran themselves through on their own swords, then failed to remember that there are no less than 3 base classes that can have Healing Word at 30ft... Yeah if someone claims the DM killed them in 5th Ed, I take that with great suspicion.
@@stephenclements6158 Honestly, imagine a Yuan-Ti Cleric with healing word, there would be scant few scenarios that healer would be down in, now I will temper this comment by saying that I believe 5th Edition is an excellent foot into the Door into our "Narnia" of TTRPGs, and I weep it's incomplete state, 12 years after the system was unveiled.
My friend I sincerely hope you get more subscribers as your content is much higher quality than quite a few of the channels covering D&D on RU-vid, specifically in the vein of the understanding of the old school game and the smooth storytelling almost conversationalist tone
Such a great movie, couldn't agree more. Such an edge-of-your seat experience that, as you noted, is punctuated with the right notes to keep you engaged throughout in their world.
YES. And with these older movies that I missed when they came out, I find myself wondering if I would have appreciated them properly at the time or if it is better I waited. Either way, it's changed me just a little now!
They come up so rarely in my games I haven't done anything with them. Now that you mention it, it would make sense. If I made goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears fae, you know small medium and large, then you could do something similar with gnomes, halflings, and elves.
@@stephenclements6158 Halflings are my absolute favorite since I was a child and read the hobbit. They don't get much love in old editions and in newer ones elves and gnomes get fae stuff but halflings get left out.
@@Ravum you're right, aren't you, gnomes have been all over 5e and elves have been put almost everywhere in the multiverse. Well, at least in Dark Sun you get cannibal halflings, so there is that.
You got me there. For Dragonlance, the first born were the ogres, then the elves, and then the humans. I'm tracking kinder were basically a wild magic accident in Krynn.
