Best possible solution!

Would like to post a longer thing, but I can't.  :)  Will wait for Haarmon - that's not a prod, Haarmon!

I consider myself prodded.

Funny you should mention that... anybody want to buy a bantha prod?

Why would anyone need to prod a friendly bantha?  *grin*

Life's too short NOT to give a shout-out to you all for being awesome.  This is a special game, and a special group.  Thanks to Ron and all ya'll for being great. :)

I have always enjoyed this particular game, and continue to do so...and hope to do so for a long time to come.  I've played enough different games to know that the chemistry...or perhaps alchemy would be a better term, since the results can be magical...of the players and the GM can make or break any game.  With the right group, I can have fun playing just about anything...and with the wrong group, it doesn't matter how much I enjoy any particular system or setting, the game becomes a chore.

You all are definitely 'the right group'.  Thanks for being such an enjoyable distraction!  *grin*

Truth!

I've played a lot of fine games.  Many of those were with this GM.  :)  And some, with this GM and the proper players, were absolutely stellar.  This game is on that list.

I wish I had more time these days, is all.  :(

Hi everybody.  Having some family problems at the moment that are disrupting my posting schedule.  I'll get things sorted out ASAP and get things moving again.

Oh dear...I hope everything is sortable.

No worries on my part.  Take what time you need, I'm not going anywhere. This game is definitely worth waiting for.

Hope everything is okay, Big Man. We'll be here when you're sorted.

Good luck!  Been buried in work, but I'm still here. ;)

Oh, Rags. We're all in here debating the limits of sentience and the nature of life itself, and you're over by yourself getting krunk.

Never change. :)

Ossifer, I's not as think as you drunk I am! ;)

We had a "Baby Yoda" first, dammit!

Rise of Skywalker...saw it, liked it, feel like they did a fitting job of wrapping up the Skywalker Saga.

With all of the bad reviews I'm hearing, it's good to get a good one! :D

I've been barraged with mixed reviews...Not as polarized as The Last Jedi, but there's definitely a lack of consensus amongst the people I know.

Best review I read basically said, "There's good and bad in it.  Make up your own mind."

That's a good summation.  And pretty much applicable to any movie...

I continue to be disappointed that there was obviously zero pre-planning or attempts to write out the story of the trilogy beforehand. It seemed like this, of all chances, was the chance to really get it right.

As for Episode IX, it had the unfortunate burden of spending an hour or so undoing everything that happened in Last Jedi, and it was filled with things that would have been great had they been part of the story since the start, but felt tacked on an extraneous here.

But, taken on its own terms, as a single movie, it was fine. Slightly on the downslope of the Bell Curve. Some cool scenes. Some epic set-pieces, Daisy Ridley is so, so, so much better than the material she's given to work with.

Merry Christmas (or Solstice, or Yule, or whatever mid-winter holiday you happen to celebrate)!

And I do have to admit, fond as I am of many aspects of the sequel trilogy, I do feel like there was only the barest bones of an outline for it, overall, and you can definitely see the lack of a single voice providing the primary story, as compared to the original trilogy or the prequels (which had a very unified story, just incredibly ham-fisted storytelling...)

I do think that Rian Johnson tried to tell a more mature story with TLJ...we didn't have the clear-cut Good vs Evil motif, the good guys did some not-very-good things and we saw a lot more shades of gray on the periphery, which reflects the different era in which the film was created (we are more cynical and jaded as a society than we were in the late 70s).  I can see where that turned a lot of people off, because Star Wars is kind of marked by the simple black-and-white morality, although some of the favorite characters (Han Solo!) didn't fit that mold.  But I really liked it.

I didn't feel like ROS was undoing stuff from TLJ, so much as saying, "It's not always that simple..."  I can't get into specifics without starting to drop spoilers, so I'll leave it at that.  And I'm probably more favorably inclined to it simply because I was afraid JJ was going to load us up with another impossibly huge threat that couldn't be justified (like Starkiller Base siphoning energy off a sun, or firing an energy beam that miraculously splits somewhere down the line into multiple beams, and is not just enough to destroy a planet with a single blast, but multiple planets, at the same time...)  He has a penchant for doing that, and it never fails to annoy me.  But I felt like almost all of the threats in ROS were plausible, and the one or two that took me out of the story were incidental to the plot, not key plot points, so I wasn't constantly reminded of just how implausible they were.  So, going into it expecting to be disappointed in that way, and then NOT having it happen, gave me a very positive spin on it.  I don't think it's a great movie...but I think it's a good movie.

Interesting, and thank you both for the views on the movie.  :D

I've been sick, so...let's see what I've missed.