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I'm super excited for the D&D movie dropping in a couple of weeks. I think it's going to be one of those flicks well done on the nostalgia front, doesn't take itself too seriously, but also honors the medium. I'm also listening down U2's Songs of Surrender they just released. REALLY love it. It's like a cooler version of MTV Unplugged (pour one out for that series..quite possibly the only quality thing to come out of their studios, save for Remote Control...of course) :)

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Medium will have to convince me they actually care about letting us build without tearing it down for no good reason, before I spend much time on it again

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How was the transition to the domain on Substack? I’m nervous to set it up, for some reason.

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Listening: The dB’s “Like This,” and Hazel English’s “Summer Nights” EP.

Reading: Mind numbing annual recurrent training stuff for work. Every year, I think “this is the year they mix things up!” And every year, they find a new cure for insomnia.

Watching: The Wire (just finished Season 3), and a bit of March Madness.

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That Point Break piece will become a freakin' novel soon, haha.

As for Youtube (if you didn't know this already): If you're using the platform on a computer or laptop, you don't need to pay for premium for the ads to go away just use an adblocker (it's free) and that gets rid of them.

Congrats on the boost! It didn't last long for me (5-6 days) but I was pleasantly surprised that the piece reached more readers than I expected.

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I echo your sentiment about breaking up longer articles. Slate published its “New Black Film Cannon” list, which provides an interesting aesthetic for lengthy posts.

https://slate.com/culture/2023/02/best-black-movies-directors-streaming.html

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This all sounds totally normal to me. You're not dorky...I'm dorky. LoL We just started trying out Pathfinder 2. In all the ogl hubbub we've been trying figure out what we'll end up doing if we want to skip out on on 5e. It's kinda up in the air. Also, we just started my husband's low magic homebrew he's been putting together over 14ish years. It's cool to have a go to for special occasions too.

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Yay D&D! Sounds like a blast. What Edition are you all planning on playing?

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