arch_8ngel

Haven't watched it yet, but I agree, that anything focused on social media as a root cause is missing how at a minimum, the current R-vs-D conflict and winner-takes-all attitude dates to the 90's, possibly earlier. (Newt Gingrich is frequently blamed for having gotten the ball rolling on the true lack of cooperation) That said -- in our present situation, social media definitely doesn't help. The dangers of foreign intelligence agencies engaging in astroturfing campaigns if very real. And those that think they are immune to it are almost certainly mistaken.

From everything I've read it is a remake of the original game (at least if you go by the stats on the character cards, and the fact that they still appear to have movement dice for the player characters). And the miniature count (aside from the "extras") is 1:1, as well as the furniture. Also the game board has an identical layout/arrangement -- so you could very easily download the old rules and quest books and play the original game with this board and miniatures. Honestly, even if it didn't include the extra characters and special enemies, I'd get it just to have the furniture/doors, and to have a version of Heroquest to play with my kids that doesn't put wear-and-tear on my originals.

The VHS tape was with DragonStrike, which was TSR's response to Heroquest. Mechanically, DragonStrike is like AD&D-lite (with the full range of dice). I had that one, too, and my sister and I watched that VHS tape every week until it wore out Heroquest was the "better" game with much higher quality components. But DragonStrike had a wider variety of enemies (included a Man-scorpion AND a Dragon) and had TWO double-sided game boards. Down-side of those game boards was that they were much less "reconfigurable" than the Heroquest board (i.e. the layouts were fixed).

Well, they made their funding milestone in 2 days, so this is happening.

If we're talking about original-era unlicensed (and not homebrew)...no love for Rolling Thunder? Code Name Viper is a pretty decent clone from Capcom, but there is something about the original game that is great, and it is a surprisingly good arcade adaptation. (also, I thoroughly enjoyed Super Robinhood)

Definitely understand the distinction and your interest.

Sometimes a problem runs deep enough that you need to completely reboot the organizational culture.

When it comes to college-level organizations, you typically disband them for major misconduct for at least 4 years to force a clean slate.

I suspect it is pretty widespread. I know at my college the marching band was known for partying harder than any of the fraternities, and got away with hazing in an era when fraternities were being shut down and people being expelled for the slightest implication of it.

Any interest in the demo disks that went with that era of magazine? Or primarily collecting the paper? I have a sizable collection of demo disks I saved from a subscription to one of the off-brand/competitors of PC Gamer. (Computer Games Magazine, maybe?)

I would never sell mine. It is probably the most sentimental thing I own from childhood, ahead of Legend of Zelda and my original NES, and ahead of my classic castle LEGO collection. But I will happily sell the very valuable (even when incomplete) Barbarian and Elf questpacks that I obtained as an adult as part of trades on Bartertown. I did cash in pretty well last year selling my complete copy of Warhammer Quest that I had assembled via Bartertown trades in the early 00's. And I did take advantage of the re-release of Fireball Island to sell a near-complete original for what seemed like silly-money. But the base game for Heroquest has a much more special place for me (to the point that I've been in the process of assembling a "full metal" version with era-styled minis in pewter/tin to make an heirloom quality version of the game)

Yeah, I have my original, complete expansions for Witchlord and Keller's Keep, and partial sets for the Elf and Barbarian quest packs (planning to sell those at some point) -- along with enough GW ogres to flesh out the non-USA quest packs. But I'd be happy to have a fresh set of the game with potentially updated/improved rules and quests to share with the kids without wearing down my originals...

https://hasbropulse.com/products/heroquest-game-system Guess I'm spending $150

I would definitely say this is pretty unique among Burton movies. It strays pretty far from his typical motif.

TV licensing is a drop in the bucket on an $7B+ acquisition, even if they successfully licensed every IP that Zenimax owns Don't get me wrong -- I would love to see a well made show or movie using ES or Fallout. But evidently even the most successful TV shows are "worth" around $3MM per episode, and that is presumably total value, where the licensing is likely a very small slice of the pie.

Just pointing out that Microsoft has a history of paying a lot more than the market expects for some of these acquisitions, because they have deep pockets and can easily afford it. Presumably their play with Zenimax is boosting exclusive content on Gamepass, since none of the franchises that company owns come anywhere close to the numbers that article quotes for Minecraft. (Skyrim has sold a full order of magnitude fewer copies than Minecraft, apparently, and most of the other Zenimax-owned games are a full order of magnitude fewer than that). I think it is cool that Fallout is getting reunited with Obsidian. And I certainly hope that Microsoft takes some of these properties in a better creative direction than they've had in the last couple of generations of games. Will be interesting to see what their break-even horizon is on that size of acquisition.

So what IS your type of movie? Because Mars Attacks was hilarious.

Thousand Year Door is the definitive game in the series. The N64 game feels like a crude prototype by comparison.

As part of the comparison with Disney acquisitions... Microsoft is paying $3B more for ZeniMax than what Disney paid for Lucasfilm. Let that sink in (granted, Microsoft has a history of paying big for studios, since they bought Minecraft for something like $2B)

Big gaming news today was that Microsoft is buying Bethesda. Has the interesting side effect of reuniting Fallout with Obsidian.

It was a favorite of mine, back in its day. Only played through it all the way once, though, due to the length. And then found Xenosaga to be a huge letdown.

Never heard of these guys, so looked them up... they trade at pretty crazy multiples recently. I could imagine that forcibly rotated them out of any "value" ETFs/Funds they were being held in.

I'd be curious to know what year you want to tie to "originally", for this one?

Exactly. That one has been beaten to death over the years and is a shining example of a "backronym" just like you say.

I definitely agree with being in a larger than typical cash allocation, at the moment, because things certainly seem detached from reality, in general. But whether it is to park it in cash as dry powder, or have it in some other investment with potentially longer legs, there is still an opportunity cost in keeping money tied up in GME. (i.e. they aren't likely to fare any better in a drop than anything else, and I don't have any real confidence in their upside going forward) More power to you if you want to keep hanging in there. And I don't doubt that you've done well with higher end games over the past x-years. That is sort of the definition of a situation where you are able to develop a clear edge versus the "average", at least for awhile. i.e. you aren't battling with algorithms and institutions, the fed, or whoever else