My daughter started laughing at me because we’d be playing Lego Marvel Avengers and every so often during a cut scene I would say some variation of “It sure seems like Joss Whedon is a terrible person but the fact that this movie works as well as it does is really something.”

I could spend a lot of time wondering if and how these fit in with the previous Kickstarted seasons.

Or I could repeat to myself “It’s just a show…”

I hope someday someone will be able to explain that game to me. I've gone through the tutorial several times and I never make it past my original king dying.

Safe travels!

Darn it. When I got the email about the newsletter ending I hoped there was a spot for you doing something else. Sorry that’s not the case. I hope that something better comes along.

Should Venue be a factor as well? I like the Keswick a lot but I imagine it costs less to hold an event there than the Miller.

I paid more for the Elwes at the Keswick, but that came with a photo op and a copy of his book.

I've seen Cary Elwes talk about Princess Bride there along with a Cleese showing of Holy Grail. Definitely a good time.

And they’ve done it a bunch of times! At least two Adventuring Academies on Dropout, a recent livestream for Critical Role, the older Critical Role panel with Aabria Iyengar … I really do enjoy listening to smart creative people talk about their craft.

This came up with my AP US Gov students today. What a time to be reading the chapter on the presidency . . .

I remember a Millennium crossover, I think. It's funny. When we started collecting and I'd hear people talk about Byrne's Superman run, it already felt like something old. But we literally only missed it by a handful of issues.

Did you get any later Byrne issues, Metallo or no?

Aug 88 cover date? You just missed it the first time around!

I'm not sure but the angle that I'm thinking about is Congress. If Gore wins, he comes in with a Republican House and Senate, and that probably gets worse in 2002 and 2004. If Bush wins and there's no 9/11, I think Dems keep Senate and make progress in House in 2002 and have decent shot in 2004.

It's been (twenty-)two long years now, since the top of the world came crashin' down . . .

That makes sense to me but then that runs into the problem that neither side is getting the time - either in opposition or in power - to build lasting support for a position. I just don't think 2-4 years is enough time to make big shifts on something that the public has such conflicting wants about.

I genuinely have no idea what the answer is because saying "this is bad" works great while you're out of power, but as soon as you use it to win power, now the other side gets to use "this is bad." So if you can't build up support for your ideas to make the change in opinion stick, what then?

I'm a philosophy PhD/game fan father of a philosophy-and-games fan daughter so I think we're somewhere in the same ring of the bullseye. Which means given that recommendation I have to listen to the interview. :)