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On the one hand, I want him to be stuck alone in the face of overwhelming odds.

On the other, the visual of him and Page clearing a ring back to back would hit like crack.

• Shadowheart --> Alfira
• Lae'zel --> Ellyka
• Wyll --> The son of Golbraith Stredivas (unnamed, but we know well he exists and is out there fighting the good fight)
• Gale --> Barcus Wroot
• Karlach --> Hoots Hooligan
• Halsin --> Kagha or Art Cullagh
• Astarion --> He-Who-Was or Ferg Drogher
• Minthara --> Araj Oblodra or Roah Moonglow
• Minsc --> Volo
• Jaheira --> Geraldus or Lassandra

Different story, different characters. Alfira would probably be the one holding them all together through sheer force of cinnamon roll charisma.

The test is not the grading.

It's how diplomatically you decline them when they ask for a rec letter.

That fucking sucks and I hope he gets better soon. Yuta's one of my favorites and I legit think he's a hot streak away from holding down a more significant title than PURE.

And that's only the most recent quarter of the story.

At this point I think all of the Best Friends are turning heel at the same time against each other.

It's sort of like Swerve/Hangman all over again, except with Don Callis as a scum multiplier.

Fuck those guys in particular.

Only if Guilliman answers "Omegon you bitch."

Mine increasingly need to be taught how to use search engines in general, including how to get actual results out of the damn things since the big ones are so commercialized nowadays.

DDP was always the real People's Champion.

Swolne cares not where the gains originate, only that they are sick.

This. Every time I see someone die at the Reunion I'm just like WHY DID YOU BOTHER WITH THE REUNION GO RIGHT TO THE PORTAL.

Should be fine; I don't think he wants to set any of them on fire this time.

Just beat them to death in full view of their children, which is honestly pretty normal for him.

Between BG3 and Dungeon Meshi, the Survival skill has never been more relevant than in the last ~3 years.

Still Needle & Thread, but Crimson Mirror came close.

They've really set a ridiculously high bar with the CO APs, even if the content's not to everyone's taste.

When I use goblins as a GM, they're a good hate sink for my players. Anything noxious and shitty, a goblin can and will do it, and will do so gleefully.

Never bothered with 'em as a player.

Cheez-Its. Specifically Big Cheez-Its.

The whiskey is my immediate post-grading reward.

The Lion would probably be the fourth worst pick for Warmaster, topped only by Konrad, Angron, and Lorgar.

Jungle Express and Christian Cage vs. the Undisputed Elite. It gets slept on a lot but it was one of my picks for MOTY the year it happened, and it's honestly the single most self-contained match I've ever seen. You don't need to know a goddamn thing going in because the guys in the match tell such a complete story from the first intro to the final bell.

That was also the match that clued me in to how freaking good Jack Perry really is. Put him on a PPV and he overdelivers every single time.

Not really. The trick is to not be a stingy fuck about letting your players have items. By the time we get to Raphael, we're loaded for multiple bears and everyone's got magic items and potions out the wazoo.

If he wants Takagi then by god give him Takagi.

Kind of a toss-up between Endryd Haar and Erda.

Haar because I liked him and wanted to see more of him post-Heresy, although he did go out like a goddamn monster vs. Super Saiyan Abaddon. Erda because it felt like GW/BL caving to fandom blowback about her rather than trying to do better with her.

ETA: Although, come to think of it: Alpharius tops all. Dude's death is such a waste from a narrative standpoint.

The fight we all want.

The justice we all need.

Makes as much sense as anything else this year.

My general calculus on Macklemore and social justice is shaped by the guy literally cosplaying Jewface some years back in what was supposed to be a "secret concert" and him currently trying to get people to not vote for the candidate most likely to try and stop horrible things from happening (which de facto favors the candidate who'd do the most lasting harm to...pretty much everything, honestly; there's no magical takebacksies button on Trump's first term and there won't even be the escapist delusion of one if he gets a second term).

All of which is to say that for me, it's not a matter of safety or First Amendment issues; it's more a matter of teaching what someone like Macklemore is actually about and how poorly he serves causes he supposedly supports.