Penny Arcade

I guess I don't really care who they attach next to the D&D movie because Dungeons & Dragons doesn't exist. Obviously, you can buy a book called that. And that name is apparently enough to make people write about what you're doing; it's been rehabilitated. Even attractive people are said to play it! Even those whose skin is not moist and dry, like a toad. But when a person says there is a Dungeons & Dragons movie, I don't know what that means - and not just…

This week the Penny Arcade League begins Season 5 of our racing journey together. We’re up over 250 people now with races all during the week and an active Discord. It’s a great group that I interact with at least once a week for our Thursday night race. I will also sometimes pop in for the practice races when I need them... I usually need them. I had a great time at the fun race during the "off season" last week and if you missed it I reccomend you check out the VOD.  This…

I had to shift some text into previous panels, but I was able - and pleased to be able - to grant the request. Alien has a complicated history as a soil for creative projects. This is probably the most diplomatic way I can put it. I've softened a little bit on 3. But if I said that the first two were almost perfect films, whose reliance on practical effects mean that they still read correctly to the eye, a refusal to join that grim fraternity of movies whose CG marks them forever as…

Greb sent me a picture of his grandfather, a picture I've seen in his dining room incorporated into a mounted plaque of honor, complete with medals. The main difference is that this person was looking around, in something like wonderment or surprise, tempered by his martial tradition. It was from something called MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia, and there's something about this construction that unsettles me, but it's probably the most incredible marketing tool they've ever…