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Agree, lots of plot holes, too many over-used tropes, basically no jokes or humor, too many characters they try to you care for but feel flat.

Yes, and some argue that rapid/blitz is allowing for more "true chess", where intuition, game sense and gut play a greater part. A true grandmaster of chess needs to balance both fast and slow deliberations. That is why Magnus is the more deserving champion.

One thing they definitely could change is removing the rest day between every two games. That just makes the whole thing drag out and allows for more prep of safe sterile lines.

that's probably why carlsen is playing so tamely throughout, he's just biding his time for the rapid chess.

And god help you if you use emacs.

And it's another Drawlsen and Drawuana draw...

How tower of joy should have been.

So Magnus has been champ for 5 years. Really even matches thus far, moreso than previous years I believe. But most commentators think a Magnus win in the end.

I wonder how much companies like Huawei paid them for this. I guess they are gearing to dip more into the casual asian markets.

seems to be getting quite mixed reviews, will be interesting to see twitch streams of this game later today.

seems to me to be a general misinterpretation of standard chemistry, biology and physics. it's been quite conclusively shown that consciousness is an after-the-fact rationalization of pre-determined responses to stimuli put in a social context. some people don't like it and, like this guy, try...

yeah, much like any stephen king book, it sets up an interesting story, then starts stalling mid-way and ends disappointingly.

then you have speedrunners that when they run "their" game, they get some 1000 viewers, but when they try to branch out because they get burnt out on the game, they go into a couple of hundred tops and can't make it. it seems much harder to become a variety streamer with a solid 1000+ viewer...

that's why successful streamers also get into sponsorship deals, charity streams and convention panels, to be able to put that kind of stuff on their resumes. it's something to building and driving your own media buisiness.

Underrated: Adaptation. Best movie Charlie Kaufman has written, change my mind.

Watched one episode, very meh. Humor is very much modern Simpsons, and falls far short of Simpson pre-season 10 or Rick and Morty. Fairly generic fantasy and character types.

Bosch is a pretty good cop show like the wire (although not as good), and they re-use a lot of wire actors: Marlo, Levy, Gus Haynes, Daniels, Ziggy Sobotka etc.

with this kind of team of AAA game devs and critics how can they fail?

finished watching it, pretty good overall. definitely seemed the only one who truly learned something and came out better was Mrs Stork, the lady with the kids, even though she was pretty crazy too.

watched a few episodes, definitely not what it used to be. characters seemed over the top this time, and interactions just disjointed. like when michael meets the family again was just cringey and not in a funny way.

so far the only mildly interesting game seems to be cyberpunk2077, the rest is basically just IPs that should have been ended a long time ago.

Didn't FOH really start way back in Ultima Online although under a different name? I remember Krurk taking over FOH with Furor quitting for a while, and was summarily kicked out with Furor coming back? The epic flame wars on the original noows forum, especially with Dark Age of Camelot...

I think most of the best ones have already been posted. I guess some honorable mentions are:

Movie was pretty meh. Sound track wasn't too bad, plenty of nice pop-culture references but just doesn't do as good of a job as GOTG weaving them into the dialogue, and doesn't mix seriousness with jokes in a clever way. The seriousness that is in falls flat, and the gags are too hamfisted and...

Finished the game. Felt overall pretty lackluster, the final boss fight didn't really have any build-up and just felt like an obstacle more than an amazing finale. I can only agree with what most people have already said, the game seemed shorter than the first one, and just too easy. The...

definitely seems like one is levelling way quicker than POE1, and there was some challenge up to about level 9, but since then encounters have not been up to par at all. it's really annoying to go through the intro sequence of walking along the spirit path, talking to the pallid knight, the...

but that's how it works in essentially every RPG, one figures out that 80% of the spells are worthless and in the end you use 4-5 of them over and over.

Loot was disappointing in DOS2 as well. This game has way more variety in gameplay, and world exploration. Thus far, playing with only story characters, this game is way harder than DOS2, which was easy on hardest difficulty and lone wolf.

The enemy ship combat AI feels kind of dumb/random, some weird decisions made there. Pillars of eternity 1 and likely 2 is definitely solo-able, even on hardest, but as with BG, it requires quite a bit of detailed game knowledge or will take a long time to solo. There's no "solo option" like in...

another reason to use main story characters is extra exp via companion quests.

Thus far the amount of text-based events seems greatly increased, with the adventure map travelling, the design of the text-event interactions in general gives a feeling similar to the Merecaster system in Tides of Numenera rather than POE1. The graphics seems in general a bit more similar to...

I think Carnage is actually gonna be the first of everyone to play it, others are coming in on Saturday. probably because he's been playing through POE1 the last couple of weeks.