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    1899

    From just the first episode - at first I was thinking - great cinematography, extremely atmospheric, a bit slow. At the end of the first episode I was thinking, 'What the Actual Fuck' LOL. I hope the rest of it is as entertaining.
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    What did you just read?

    Koontz's books are pretty entertaining, but I read about 15 of them in a row and they all kind of blurred together. He definitely has ( or had, possibly ) a formula.
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    Tulsa King

    First ep of this was ok. Sly is as entertaining as usual, but him not being back in prison for life within the first two days is frankly unbelievable.
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    Andor

    Yes. The Star Wars franchise doesn't deserve this level of quality. It's a bit slow to start is about the biggest criticism I could level.
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    Master of Magic (2022 remake)

    Deity Empires has shit-tier graphics, it's true, but it is *much* deeper than it looks at first glance. One the best MoM-likes IMO, well worth a try if you are into that kind of genre. Or just have an obsessive compulsive need to min-max the gear and builds of entire armies of units. Enemy...
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    The Devil's Hour

    After watching all of it, i was thought this wasn't bad. The early episodes are filled with assorted silly cliches but it was interesting enough to get me to watch more. It did not go anywhere I was expecting, and I liked the last few considerably more than the start. I'd watch a second...
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    The Peripheral

    Well, it's definitely not linear time travel, given they call it a 'stub' and the russian gangster had his younger self killed with no obvious consequences. The passage of time between the two also seems to be synched, which is kind of unusual. It being a sim doesn't seem likely though, the...
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    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    I have to agree - although I'd make the distinction that butchering the 'source material' means different things when one of the them is a coherent and well-written story and the other is cliff's notes on background of things that were mentioned briefly in a different story. You are 100% right...
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    Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

    I mean, that's the least of the unanswered questions about that dude - he succeeds in summoning a demon, and then just leaves it there without getting it to actually do anything ? What happened there, he suddenly forgot why he was summoning it ? He didn't actually have any reason to summon and...
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    Doctor Who

    Yes
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    Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

    The moral of the first episode is 'Don't be racist or you'll get murdered by an immigrant'. Wait, that doesn't seem right ;p I agree with other posters that it spend waaay too much time on how much of an asshole he is. The story would have played out exactly the same way anyway - if he hadn't...
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    Battle Brothers

    Yes, it does - a variety of different difficulties for various aspects of the game, as a well as a non-scaling mode where you can outlevel stuff to avoid needing a high degree of skill at the game.
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    She-Hulk

    It's worse than that - I guarantee the production had retained real lawyers anyway, for the various legal stuff required.
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    The Peripheral

    I thought the first episode of this was really good. Definitely watching more.
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    Andor

    No they didn't. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1
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    Andor

    It also makes sense in that planet, and presumably much of the rest of the sector, doesn't belong to the Empire - sure you can pay your soldiers with fund transfer to their accounts, but local resources and suppliers are more of a problem - what incentive to they have to take payment into a bank...
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    Fall 2022 Anime Thread

    Chainsaw Man - not bad, will probably watch more. Reincarnated as Sword - awfully generic, but still entertaining. The eyes on the sword look kind of goofy is my main complaint. Eminence - ehhh, it seems a bit tryhard ( 'In my spare time after school I merged all of Earth's martial arts into...
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    She-Hulk

    That was certainly unexpected as far as finales go. I give credit for originality though, hitting Kevin with some zingers about movie structure, heh.
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    Roguelike... City Builder (Against the Storm)

    Weeell, not so much - roguelike, on the other hand...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

    The main problem with that approach is the interconnect latency and bandwidth is waaaaaaaaay behind what's being used on graphics cards at the moment. It'd be like plugging your system RAM in via a USB port. Potentially fixable with a lot of work, but hampered by the problem that AMD and Nvidia...
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    Rick and Morty

    Banging your clone probably doesn't count as incest anyway. Definitely not legally, absolutely not medically ( not like you are going to have deformed kids ), only question is morally. I suspect people getting worked up about it realized that their answer would be 'yes' if the situation ever...
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    Will Wight

    It'd be easy for Bezos to make you a millionaire, why hasn't he ? He's certainly made some people who work for him millionaires, why are they special ? ;p
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    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    D&D is actually strictly built around exactly that concept, so it's traditional ! ;p For Wrath specifically though, pure dps isn't really where you want to evaluate from - on high difficulty you flat out cannot survive without the mage buffs and CC - your unbuffed melee is going to wander into...
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    Interview With the Vampire

    ...... that is literally exactly what the word means ?
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    What are you playing?

    I got this one as a gift recently and quite liked it - played through it to completion with all achieves plus perfect full endless win. Roughly 40 hours worth. It's uh, roguelike tower defense mixed with a deck building card game. You start with a command center which you an upgrade and buy...
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    3 Body Problem

    Surely not, that wouldn't break the story per se, but it really wouldn't make a lot of sense - given the retro-pub aesthetic, maybe it's Mike Evans ?
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    Ashes of Creation

    Yeah, Vanguard had many flaws, but class design was not one of them.
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    She-Hulk

    Does it matter if their kids make them watch it ? It worked out pretty well for Pixar.
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    Pantheon

    This is actually pretty good, kept me interested anyway. I was surprised that they put some effort into their technobabble, although the crushingly wrong definition of 0-day being a plot point was painful. No-one is expecting a TV show to have the level of care that Mr Robot had, but google...
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    The Dragoness : Command to the Flame homm-like

    I find the bar is actually pretty high for $10-$20 indie bracket if you aren't after cutting edge graphics - that bracket includes stuff like Terraria, Dyson Sphere Program and Across the Obelisk. The other hommlike one was Songs of Conquest...
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    Quantum Leap

    This was... ok ? Didn't annoy me, but didn't really grab me, kind of bland overall.
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    Pantheon

    This could turn it around for... Oh wait.
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    Kick-Ass (2010)

    You looked at this and thought - 'Yeah, 26 seems reasonable' ?
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    RIP Queen Elizabeth

    Reading that link is interesting and doesn't actually support what you are saying at all. Apparently they are paid with 25% of the income from property holdings *that they fully own*, with the other 75% going to the treasury in exchange for not paying taxes. So, not paying taxes is 'true', if...
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    Return to Monkey Island

    Ah good memories. "as I stride through the Gates of Hell, carrying your severed head on a pike !" "Stride ?" "... All right then, roll. Roll through the gates of Hell !"
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    Moonbreaker -- collectible minis tactics game

    Gave this a try given it's open beta at the moment, more or less. Didn't grab me at all, I think this one is a pass from me.
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    Web Serials

    Dawn of the Void - a LitRPG Apocalypse | Royal Road This one is surprisingly good. I ignored it for a while because apocalypse litrpg are a dime a dozen, but this one plays out quite differently - it's much more about the apocalypse part than the litrpg part.
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    Songs of Conquest

    I got around to giving this one a go - it's not bad, but the AI is too braindead for skirmish, and the campaign provides challenge of the 'surprise ! a fully levelled hero and army just materialised out of nowhere in your backlines !', or 'your opponent starts with 3 fully levelled cities -...
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    Rick and Morty

    Not bad, only got one literal lol out of it, but that's still pretty good ;p
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    House of the Dragon

    Looking at that link, I think if anyone is cherry picking there it's you - that's a shitload of four legged dragon pictures. It's a stupid argument anyway, it's not like there's a canonical answer to the appearance of a mythical creature. Probably telling that it's more interesting than...