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The Hitman's Bodyguard: More fun than I expected, it's the story of a professional bodyguard (Ryan Reynolds) who has to protect a hitman (Samuel L. Jackson) on his way to testify against a former dictator on trial for various crimes against his people. (Netflix DVD.com) Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (Maclunkey! edition): A nostalgic watch of the current version of this movie, in 4K and Dolby Atmos. (Disney+) I'm about halfway through the first season of The Six Million Dollar Man, and the stories and production have greatly improved over the three pilot movies. So far, a good watch. (Peacock) More on the subject of HBOmax: I made it about 7 episodes in to the fourth season of the remastered Babylon 5 on HBOmax, before they removed the show from streaming, no reason given that I can find. Additionally, a bunch of Looney Tunes and Flintstones cartoons were also removed from HBOmax, but the reason there is that they are no longer authorized to show them (even though they are fully owned by Warner). Apparently, there was some kind of internal deal between a different part of Warner and HBOmax, and they've decided to save money by letting the rights lapse. Concurrently, HBOmax announced an increase of their monthly fee to $15.99. It's still in the category that I feel I'm getting enough out of it (mainly for DC content), but that's an evaluation I'm now making month-to-month. All of the show removal shenanigans is probably the best argument I've seen for owning stuff you like on physical media. While I own all of the B5 DVDs (except, for some reason, Legend of the Rangers, which should now be delivered on Wednesday from Amazon), it was nice watching them in a cleaned-up, non-letterboxed format.

It's been a while since I watched Night of the Lepus.

I'm not a fan of Deadly Blow either, and most of my players have been around Hero enough to figure out that having the flexibility to swing levels into DCV, OCV, or damage is much better anyway.

There's a few references to it scattered about on the web, and a very bad VHS copy of an episode on YouTube, but it's not something that I remember either. WESH Orlando had a tendency to cut away to sports programming around the middle of the day from what I can remember, so it might not have aired much in my area. It was supposed to be educational, and from the very few minutes of the YouTube video that I could tolerate, seems aimed at a very young audience.

1. Deadly Blow can apply to ranged weapons, if it is defined that way in the special circumstances under which it functions. 2. You would use the instructions in 6e2 99 to determine how many DC are needed for each die of effect on an attack with Advantages. You only have to consider Advantages that directly affect how damage is taken. In your example of the magic bow, you'd count the AP, but not the 0 END. That would give an effective cost of 6.25 points per DC added, meaning you could add a d6+1 to the damage (more or less; I'll leave the actual math to you).

And WotC blinks: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1439-ogl-1-0a-creative-commons

"'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a sharp-tailed grouse"

The things you find from a Google search. https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Corey_Mills

It's not the boycott. It's the rest of Hasbro's business. From the article (bolding mine): The article goes on to note: This shareholder battle is probably where the idea that WotC and D&D was undermonetized came from.

He's rocking a Bond villain look in that picture. If only he was an unscrupulous weapons manufacturer....

I'd recently seen a positive review of the new Blu-ray set of The Six Million Dollar Man, looked up the price on Amazon, and then tried to figure out if I would really watch the set to justify the cost. Turns out that Peacock has put the five seasons on their service, and I've started watching it (probably for the first time since syndication in the 80s). I'm about three double-episodes in, which were all originally released as TV movie pilots for the series. The first one explains Steve Austin's background as an astronaut and covers the aftermath of the accident from the title sequence. Its plotting is slow, with a voice-over by Martin Balsam as Dr Rudy Wells. The second is set as more of a James Bond-styled story, complete with a villain who has stolen several nuclear missiles for sale on the black market. The third has an unnamed worldwide criminal organization that is kidnapping people for ransom. The third movie was the one that I enjoyed the best. There's a lot of stock footage in use to bring down costs, with some odd results, like a commercial airplane changing its livery in mid-air, or an establishing shot not matching the actual shooting location. Lots of voice-overs to place the actors in generic action shots, and even some scenes recycled between movies with different dialogue badly applied on top. Some details were probably not visible on the television sets of the era, like the American power sockets in the Parisian hospital room. I'll probably start the regular series episodes tomorrow.

"Would you like to AppleTalk about it?"

Where's Oprah when you need her? "You get a special counsel! You get a special counsel! You get a special counsel!"

Sorry, yes, on Peacock, not HBOmax.

Maybe he's just holding them for a friend.

The original OGL allowed the use of certain background items of the D&D setting, including the ability to reference specific character classes, races, and spells. The OGL would allow the referencing of Bigby's Hand spell, for example, but wouldn't cover a "Divinyl's Hand of Touching"* spell created by a third-party with different effects and flavor text. If Paizo has eliminated all references to the D&D setting materials in Pathfinder 2e, and replaced them with their own setting, then an OGR license from them would allow a third-party to use that setting material for their own derivative works. *Effect is self-only, of course.

Your location may vary, but in Nevada, you are not allowed to have open containers of alcohol in your car. Sealed containers may be transported in places other than a trunk, which is good news for folks like me who drive a hatchback. Nevada is an open carry state for firearms, which means that the firearm must be visible (otherwise, you'd need a concealed carry permit). That means that holsters, or tucking a gun in your waistband is legal*. It's legal to transport an unloaded firearm in a car, and it may be placed on a passenger seat. As part of open carry, it is legal to carry a loaded firearm, assuming that it is either secured, or is visible (once again, the passenger seat is allowed). There are certain areas/properties that don't allow firearms, including some places of work. I wouldn't personally bring anything to work that could be interpreted as a weapon, but I work for a major casino company, so some people are armed as a requirement of their work, and would obviously carry their weapons on their person. *So long as you don't fall into one of the categories that prohibits gun ownership, but that's a different discussion.

From the temple of Offler, the Crocodile god.

I'm about 45 minutes in to The Last of Us, but it wasn't really what I wanted to watch at the time. So, I switched over to Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons: Animated movie about Clark's son, Jonathan, getting powers, and having to team up with Batman's son to save the world from invasion from space. A good watch. (HBOmax) Violent Night: A good re-watch, now available on streaming. (HBOmax)

Building the Perfect Beast by Don Henley. Today, I noticed that the fadeout of "A Month of Sundays" is blended with the first few notes of "Sunset Grill". Both songs have a certain melancholy edge to them, one firmly in a rural setting, while the other set in the inner city.

It's so real, so real, surreal

Superman and Lois, seasons 1 and 2: Lois and Clark move to Smallville with their twin teen-age boys. Overall, I enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to the next season. (HBOmax) Velma, episode 1: An edgy reimagining of the Scooby Gang before they were a team. It isn't very good. (HBOmax)

There's a Santa hat on my car's back seat right now. It's usually on the passenger seat's headrest for most of the year. My late wife loved Christmas, and it's a pleasant reminder of the time we had together.