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  1. Phazael

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    He us lucky you did not go to Legal. SVPs pull shit like that all the time where I work and I have made it very clear that I do nothing without proper vetting. Sure a butthurt suit can fire me for not breaking the rules (or law) but making exceptions like that is how careers get ended.
  2. Phazael

    Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader (CRPG)

    Yeah, the pyro, assassin, Executioner build is the only one that sort of fucks, but as Gav stated the Dot is just there to buff the real damage. Crowd control, as rare as it is in this game, is ten times more valuable than any single Dot effect in it. The notable exception are Necron trash...
  3. Phazael

    Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader (CRPG)

    Snipers are phenomenal in the early and mid game and the Elder chick is one of the best possible setups in the game. But by the end everything becomes about stacking debuffs and building up damaged booths to fight things that have insanely High health bars. Many of the bread and butter triggers...
  4. Phazael

    Star Trek: Picard

    Woke insertions mostly, but Strange New Worlds kind of hinted in this direction in its first episode. And if you really want to get picky, the time travel to past San Fran episode of DS9 was actually eerily prescient, but not done to push agenda specifically. They just happened to accurately...
  5. Phazael

    Avengers: Doomsday (2025)

    Have you watched any of the more recent Marvel content? The stupider the idea is, the more likely it is to be true.
  6. Phazael

    Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (2026)

    Gun and whoever he hired to write this were never going to do a standard classic Supergirl. He would have been better off making a lobo movie given his track record. I felt he had the Golden Touch right up until the second season of Peacemaker. His animated stuff is actually been okay and the...
  7. Phazael

    Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (2026)

    IT is a review from a "male feminist ally". That is the talking point on this now, its men's fault this movie sucked. Not that they had an inexperienced DEI hire writer annd cast Down Syndrom LeeLu in the role. Should have made a fucking Power Girl movie. Thats the version of Supergirl...
  8. Phazael

    Project Hail Mary

    Two things to add to that. First, it was an original story and not a fifth reboot for modern audiences focus tested shit fest of an IP Cash In. Second, it was a character driven movie with a great actor carrying the whole thing with a complete character arc that is earned. Grace goes from a...
  9. Phazael

    Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader (CRPG)

    Starting a new run as a Heretic this time as well. Dovetailing on TJT's analysis: 1. Abelard- He is the undisputed king of the early game for the reasons TJT mentioned and does not fall off too hard towards the end of the game, plus he is not too bad of a skill monkey. 2. Eogunn- Not gotten...
  10. Phazael

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    This shit is rampant in Defense according to my wife. She hates feeling like nothing is getting done, but the job security and bennefits are too good plus we are too old to have her roll the dice on something new. And yeah, my company announced similar incentives for AI use and lo and behold...
  11. Phazael

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    And every Dev from India ever.
  12. Phazael

    Poll Should Mario Speedwagon be Permanently Banned from the Politics Forum?

    This is the saddest circle jerk in Rickshaw history, aside from maybe the big Jugalo purge.
  13. Phazael

    What happened to..........(FoH Poster)?

    It was the mangosteens. He just could not handle the mangosteens.
  14. Phazael

    Masters of the Universe (2026)

    I'm not sure what fucking planet you grew up on but apparently you forgot about the existence of Gobots , Transformers, mask, and oh yeah GI fucking Joe, and a million others that all came around the same time. And that's just the shit they made for boys. There were literally just as many...
  15. Phazael

    Mortal Kombat II (2025)

    This was never going to be Citizen Kane. This was basically Big Trouble in Little China with Johnny Cage in the Jack Burton role. I enjoyed it for what it was, but it's not a rewatch caliber movie. Cage and Kano buddy cop shit was the highlight of the movie and I was happy to see them gank...
  16. Phazael

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Avernus was supposed to be an entire explorable region of the game with additional quests involving Raphael and Mizora. The VA was actually completed on it, but it got cut from development. As for the "someone has to be a Mindflayer" thing, eh You can always Have Orpheus or Karlach take one...
  17. Phazael

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Agree totally and most of the characters do get decent ending options, particularly if you play them as origin characters. The final patch added some depth to the evil endings that was not there, as well. Gale, Laezel, and Dark Urge in particular all had multiple well fleshed out endings...
  18. Phazael

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    The last patch somewhat corrected this, but yeah like many RPGs they started running out of time and money so a lot of things got left unfinished. Its pretty clear that large chunks of story got cut short to meet the release deadline. Karlach and the Gondian shit all have huge gaps in their...
  19. Phazael

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Tempest with Sorcerer combo can be really exceptional, but it takes some time to get rolling, basically coming together when you can cast Call Lightning. Strangely, I found that a Lightning based Moon Druid (with a single level of Storm Sorcery) to be better in terms of versatility, even though...
  20. Phazael

    Dating

    Sorry, you are correct. That was Control.
  21. Phazael

    Dating

    You took your shot and now you know. It sucks now, but wondering what if would have been worse and at some point you will move on. Concur with others who said the "work" is an excuse to not commit. If a guy is truly serious about a woman they absolutely will make the time. The dude is not an...
  22. Phazael

    Disclosure Day (2026)

    Polligamy is their jam, with a pseudo Christian cultish spin to it instead of being just Islam.
  23. Phazael

    Disclosure Day (2026)

    So Mormanism and Scientology and every other newer rebranded faith system... I find that plausible, actually.
  24. Phazael

    What are you playing?

    Mechanicus 2 is a lot of fun. Its not groundbreaking or game of the year material, but its a fun tactics game for the price, with two very different factions to play. As tactical rpgs go, it has a very tight gameplay loop but you can bang out missions in 15-20 minutes at a time once you...
  25. Phazael

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    The entire cloud scam is basically You will own nothing and by happy, but for IT departments. Its a big fucking dependency scam that will forever prevent upstarts from rising up in the future of the industry. AI is just the next logical step down that path. An illusion of choice where the...
  26. Phazael

    The Odyssey (2026)

    What Gavin said. For some context, Zoraster based belief systems were the fundemental building blocks that would eventually form the basis for many aspects of western religions, as well. But like just about everything else in that part of the world, it got mostly stamped out or sidelined by...
  27. Phazael

    Spider-Noir

    Was not perfect, but no woke bullshit (the comments about Harlem fit the period and was not pounded on) and the show just felt good and fun. Nice to see Andrew Robinson getting work still. But the show lives and dies on Nick Cage.
  28. Phazael

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Money is drying up so they are accelerating the time table to get out before the bubble pops. Out company is going to escape this trap thanks to its sheer ineptitude and inability to adopt anything new in a timely manner, which is equally hilarious to me. And yea the MBA non technical...
  29. Phazael

    The Boroughs

    Finished binging this last night. Great acting and dialog and minimal Made for Netflix. The entire series is mostly carried by Alfred Molina and Dennis O'Hare, but the other cast members are solid. And the mystery bits are well thought out and revealed at a good pace with a minimum amount of...
  30. Phazael

    Dragon's Dogma 2

    The Dark Arisen in the original was amazing, but I am dubious. The core bits were in place for DD2, but it just never came together and the story was complete garbage that an expansion won't fix. Also the farm was dumb for the end game.
  31. Phazael

    Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader (CRPG)

    Not sure how much DLC you have, but the Death Cult assassin DLC fights were really nasty (harder than the end fight by the boss of that DLC) and if you can make it through that part of the game, everything else is completely trivial. That and the Navigfator (especially if paired with a psyker...
  32. Phazael

    The Odyssey (2026)

    If it makes money, then they will take that as vindication to make more DEI checklist trash in the future. Ask any decent trekkie if they would rather have no trek vs Kurtzman Trek and they prefer the past trek to remain untainted. Same thing with Star Wars or a lot of other IPs. Sometimes...
  33. Phazael

    The Odyssey (2026)

    Greek music is actually very interesting and Hans Zimmer is good enough to make that work. Thats not going to be what they go with tho.
  34. Phazael

    The Odyssey (2026)

    He will just move on to the next "current thing" and pretend this never happened, like the last hundred times he has sperged out over his NPC programing like this. Its like how the left cannot wrap their brains around how no one gets pissed at Idris Elba playing Heimdel but somehow we are still...
  35. Phazael

    The Odyssey (2026)

    Slow boiled frog effect from watching too much Made for Netflix. Plus making fun of Ellen Page won't get you in the cross sights of a Planet of the Apes level chimpout. Look at how the groids formed ranks around that alien pretzel bitch in wicked. Trannies are toxic enough now that they are...
  36. Phazael

    Star City

    Sorry Ron Moore, you were a good writer on DS9 and BSG but you went way too hard in the lesbian paint ruining For All Mankind. You had actual likable female characters that got killed, turfed, or otherwise ghosted out in favor of all the carpet munchers. Plus having mexicunt Mary Sue Immigrant...
  37. Phazael

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Going to assume that is sarcasm......lol
  38. Phazael

    Dating

    This is an old tactic that dates back to both the passing of the 19th Amendment and prohibition. But they kind of shot themselves in the foot with the whole sexual Revolution thing because the Monopoly is nearly meaningless these days. So they essentially made one of their own oldest tricks obsolete
  39. Phazael

    Buzzheart (2024)

    So.... Shit Test the movie, parents edition?
  40. Phazael

    For All Mankind

    Both of those moons have largely been ruled out as possible locations for life in the current day, but Titan is enough of an unknown that it could serve that possibility. And they went off the reservation the moment the tech in the show caught up to current levels and the NASA advisers stopped...