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[DannieB]

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I’ll post one tonight, I promise!

 

[Lmizzler]

Totally been watching Spiderman cartoons on Disney+ this week!!!

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Totally been watching Spiderman cartoons on Disney+ this week!!!

I don’t love the latest one but all Spidey is good Spidey.

 

[PrettyLilPussy19]

I came to say Betrayal but as a backup...

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

I came to say Betrayal but as a backup...


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I don’t know this game!

But I love The Descent. Even if I think it was way scarier before the monsters showed up

 

[PrettyLilPussy19]

I don’t know this game!

But I love The Descent. Even if I think it was way scarier before the monsters showed up

Totally agree!
It's a fun game in the vein of Betrayal. Very stressful!

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

So before we end this I’ll sneak in my wife’s (and much of the board gaming world’s) favorite game paired with this super cute under the radar gem

 

[BornNorCal]

I came to say Betrayal but as a backup...


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Sub Terra is an amazing game. Easy to teach and has a lot of replay ability. Good choice.

 

[CuyValDar]

Old table top I loved to play, back in the day...

 

[CuyValDar]

As well as...

 

[DannieB]

I absolutely love board games and seeing all these that I haven’t played and adding them to my wish list makes me wanna draw it out a little longer

Yesterday, I undertook the dreaded adventure of cleaning out my storage closet

I found sooo many games I forgot I had! The one I’m most excited to play again is Scene It? Also, has the plus of reminding me of movies I might want to watch again or that my kids haven’t seen.



Of course, my kids don’t get most of those references so the one we’ll play is Harry Potter Scene It?


I should really invest in the Disney edition

 

[CuriousRick]

I absolutely love board games and seeing all these that I haven’t played and adding them to my wish list makes me wanna draw it out a little longer

Yesterday, I undertook the dreaded adventure of cleaning out my storage closet

I found sooo many games I forgot I had! The one I’m most excited to play again is Scene It? Also, has the plus of reminding me of movies I might want to watch again or that my kids haven’t seen.

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Of course, my kids don’t get most of those references so the one we’ll play is Harry Potter Scene It?
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I should really invest in the Disney edition

I picked up an unopened copy of

Alien: Fate of The Nostromo. For $5 at a yard sale ​

 

[Whiskeyjack]

I absolutely love board games and seeing all these that I haven’t played and adding them to my wish list makes me wanna draw it out a little longer

Yesterday, I undertook the dreaded adventure of cleaning out my storage closet

I found sooo many games I forgot I had! The one I’m most excited to play again is Scene It? Also, has the plus of reminding me of movies I might want to watch again or that my kids haven’t seen.

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Of course, my kids don’t get most of those references so the one we’ll play is Harry Potter Scene It?
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I should really invest in the Disney edition

We have a closet shelf full of Scene It games too.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Another Monkeyhouse favorite

Castle Panic (we’re big on cooperative games)

Paired with


Which is not a good movie AT all but is very thematic (Side rant, the decision to start the movies with a prequel talking about the parents of all the characters people know and love from the game is one of the most head-scratching unforced errors I’ve ever seen. I’m sure whoever decided that got a promotion)

 

[DannieB]

I won’t draw it out anymore @Whiskeyjack

So, for my next prompt, I’m going with Harry Potter. Surprise!

Some of you may not be big Potterhead nerds like me but I couldn’t not do this prompt at some point. It can be your favorite character, favorite book or movie, all of it, anything.



My favorite character when I was younger while first reading was Sirius Black. Weird, looking back, because he’s only in three (four, with the super brief appearance in the last) books, but his character made such an impression on me. I had such high hopes for Harry and I remember holding out so much hope that he didn’t really die, because wtf?! He could come back out of that damn curtain!

Movie version, my favorite is Professor Snape.



I very much did not like that fucker in the books, but the way Alan Rickman played him brought so much to it that I didn’t see as a child.

 

[DannieB]

Another Monkeyhouse favorite

Castle Panic (we’re big on cooperative games)
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You have some of the best games!

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Which is not a good movie AT all but is very thematic (Side rant, the decision to start the movies with a prequel talking about the parents of all the characters people know and love from the game is one of the most head-scratching unforced errors I’ve ever seen. I’m sure whoever decided that got a promotion)

I only watched this once when it came out but I remember it being awful

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

I too liked Sirius Black for pretty much the exact same reasons you did. Super shitty they killed him for really reals!

And I’d agree with you in the movies, because Alan Rickman, duh. But I’m gonna go with the purple hair and say Tonks

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

You have some of the best games!

I have plenty of shitty ones too. I just don’t talk about them

I only watched this once when it came out but I remember it being awful

It is.

 

[DannieB]

I too liked Sirius Black for pretty much the exact same reasons you did. Super shitty they killed him for really reals!

And I’d agree with you in the movies, because Alan Rickman, duh. But I’m gonna go with the purple hair and say Tonks

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Yess, Tonks!!!

 

[lliicckkss]

one first known board games well exept them made em on rocks but, legit could bet your house, yourself, your wife, like thats wild haha

 

[Whiskeyjack]

I loved the Harry Potter books and movies when I was younger. Then JK Rowling decided to use her money and her soapbox to bash trans people. And I have a trans son. So that's kind of dampened my enthusiasm for the franchise.

That being said, when the first movie came out I had never seen anything like it. It was filled with wonder and possibility and, well, magic. I don't know that I have a favorite character (Hagrid), but I would've given my left arm to visit Diagon Alley. I really liked most of the characters, but the world she created is brilliant. If only there was room for people like my son in it too.

 

[DannieB]

I loved the Harry Potter books and movies when I was younger. Then JK Rowling decided to use her money and her soapbox to bash trans people. And I have a trans son. So that's kind of dampened my enthusiasm for the franchise.

That being said, when the first movie came out I had never seen anything like it. It was filled with wonder and possibility and, well, magic. I don't know that I have a favorite character (Hagrid), but I would've given my left arm to visit Diagon Alley. I really liked most of the characters, but the world she created is brilliant. If only there was room for people like my son in it too.

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I didn’t know this about her until talking with a friend recently. I tend to stay out of social media…maybe that’s me living under a rock or honestly not giving a shit about what celebrities feel like they need to say. Like we discussed, the artist is secondary to me. I can’t not love Harry Potter, no matter how skewed the authors views in real life are.

Honestly, I think your son would definitely have a place in the Harry Potter world, especially in the circle created by Hermione, who could never let anyone go mistreated.

 

[MasterDarcy]

I love nerdy talk!!

looking forward to all the nerdy topics

TMNT was one of those things I always wanted to get into but never really did. But, if I'm choosing a fave...

Raphael. He has the fun knives, the goofy personality, and I'm quite partial to the name

No. No. No.

Michelangelo was the goofy one. Raphael was the angry one.

Talking of, the casting of the OG movie (1990) was all wrong. Corey Feldman was totally Michelangelo and yet they got him to voice Donatello. Donatello was the smart one. No offence to Mr Feldman but... no.

Raphael was my favourite but for some reason my parents got me the Michelangelo stuffed toy.

Raphael has a volcano burning inside him. I can relate.

And yes, I still own the stuffed toy*. I'm just that cool!

*He's lost his bandana and one eye (my brother's a dick) but he's still fighting!

 

[UnquietDreams]

So, for my next prompt, I’m going with Harry Potter. Surprise!

Some of you may not be big Potterhead nerds like me but I couldn’t not do this prompt at some point. It can be your favorite character, favorite book or movie, all of it, anything.

Mad-Eye Moody. But really, we barely meet Mad-Eye Moody in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, as he is mostly played by a guy in a Mad-Eye Moody suit...

I have come to the conclusion that I am a cozy slut. I love coziness, and the Christmas scenes in the first novel are just...hobbit-level cozy. I reread just that part every December.

But my true favorite part of the Potterverse wasn't made by Rowling. There was an off-Broadway play called Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic. It started out as an improvisational sketch but grew into a full length play, taking the seven years of books and movies but from the viewpoint of the Hufflepuffs. It is the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead of the PotterVerse. But while it is an affectionate parody, it also has a strong story in and of itself, a story of what makes a hero. It deals with some themes in ways far better than the original story did, such as it is okay to fail, and that “we’re all unimportant. And we’re all heroes. In some way. To someone.”


Also? It understands that Hogwarts isn't safe for children. "One year there was a sports tournament. Someone died."

But on top of all that, J. K. Rowling doesn't get any money out of it...

 

[UnquietDreams]