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    Web Serials

    Random thoughts on recent web serial stuff : Pirateaba is fully revealed to be either a sapient AI or a cyborg. The reason for this will be obvious when the announcement is made for non-patrons. Oooh, a Pith update... ... to announce it's permanently dead. Booo. Planetary Cultivation - this...
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    Wheel of Time

    We heard you like canon, so we put some canon in your canon... and then took a shit on it, threw it out, and went with some random bullshit because fuck you nerds.
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    Fall 2021 Anime Thread

    Yeah, great show. None of the characters are what you think at first, except maybe the shadow's 'step-dad'.
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    Hawkeye

    Plus the way Barton's brain grinds to a halt when she asks him what to do with the mini van was pure gold.
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    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    Credit to this guy Steam Community :: Guide :: Olivia Obscene the (ma)thematically correct Lich for the ideas - I've been comparing it to the neoseeker melee sorcerer suggestions, and this one definitely ends up superior. I'd note that it's written as a solo build guide, but that seems a very...
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    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    Seeker -> Scaled Fist -> Cross-Blood Sorc -> Dragon Disciple -> Eldritch Knight Hey, if you aren't going to use degenerate builds in Unfair, where are you going to use them ? 8)
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    Hawkeye

    Yeah, that guy was hilarious. "I think I missed something here" *shrugs and goes sword fight some dudes - who needs to know what's going on ?*
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    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    Hmmm, the difficulty cliff for Unfair is entirely backwards. You go from getting repeatedly kicked in the balls and desperately trying to work out what combination of dropped scrolls is going to let you live through the next fight, to ROFLstomping pretty much immediately after taking the first...
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    Starsector (formerly Starfarer)

    It's very easy to get into. There's an unbelievable shitload of depth there, but you don't get to it right away, you can more or less pick up a starter ship with drones and let them kill shit for you while you get used to stuff and just cruise around randomly.
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    Hawkeye

    IMO the best person in Daredevil was the fight choreographer, but D'Onofrio was a close second ;p
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    Wheel of Time

    The flashback to Dragonmount fight was actually pretty good. If only the whole show was on that level. So far my general opinion is that it's aggressively mediocre, which saddens me greatly. I do wonder at some of the complaining though - I have trouble with the idea that anyone seriously...
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Cytonic was pretty good, although I was a little disappointed at the ending. For some reason I thought it was the last book, not another cliffhanger.
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    Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

    More fanservice than a decade of fan fiction writers, only made into a coherent and entertaining whole, with genuinely touching moments. Judging from the noises in the theatre, I think several hardcore spiderman fans actually climaxed while watching it. Two thumbs up. Also it appears that...
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    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    My Unfair run is, uh, not exactly progressing smoothly. I have become intimately familiar with the 'reload' function ;p Honestly I think I would have preferred them going with the 'Everything has 10x as much health' approach, rather than the 'You need a 20 to hit, also it has undispellable...
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    What did you just read?

    One exception I find to this - PDF format ebooks - if they have anything other than the most basic formatting they turn out fucked in every conversion tool I have tried.
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    Invasion

    I might have missed something, but was there a reason the redneck militia were trying to kill them? They seemed inexplicably hostile for people in the middle of an alien invasion - I mean, even if you reeeeeeaaaaaalllly hate immigrants, hunting them through alien infected woods seems like a...
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    Hawkeye

    I'd assume she's *supposed* to be terrible at this point - she's a spoiled rich kid that's taken some karate lessons. This show is good fun so far. Agree on Hawkeye's one liners
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    Foundation

    What the fuck was Gaal's plan there anyway ? "OH NOES IT ALL SANK INTO THE WATER WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS?!" "Oh right, I predicted this. I guess I probably should have seen that coming."
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    Wheel of Time

    In the show she actually said that the dark one sent her visions of them in dreams. In the books the various darkfriends they run into can sense them - unclear if it's Ta'veren'ness, Saidin usage or Baalzamon's touch. The former is presumably the simpler version because that chick is several...
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    Arcane

    Holy shit. That was knocked so far out of the park that you can't even see the park anymore.
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    Wheel of Time

    Overall this wasn't that bad - it's no game of thrones, but it's not legend of the seeker either. Second and third episodes followed the book a lot more closely than I expected given ep1. Thom is good. Lan.. is not. He's ok when not talking, but his history of Shadar Logoth was just awful.
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    Wheel of Time

    I admit Perrin is the most boring character of the series, but having him axe-murder a baby is not the way I would have gone to spice things up ;p
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    Cowboy Bebop

    A faithful adaption would result in an entertaining number of traumatized children, but I can't imagine any universe in which it would happen. What would they even... oh - by the guy that did the netflix version of Death Note. Say no more.
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    Wheel of Time

    You are hedging a bit with 'key' there, but it really wasn't. Even some of the most compelling dialogue from the books, e.g. tower of joy, littlefinger vs lysa, was completely changed. Most of the rest of it was, at best, broad strokes - this should be obvious in an adaption that has a...
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    Arcane

    True, the idea that a respected scientist is only respected when he is telling them what they want to hear is entirely bizarre and could never happen in real life ;p
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    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    If you play on the highest difficulties, no-one other than the main character is going to be doing damage anyway, so there's no reason not to increase convenience factor by a thousand times. Zero judgement on cheating them in though, life is way too short to apply 60 buffs every encounter.
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    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    I used a mod for increasing buff duration just to avoid that in Kingmaker. In wrath though, enduring and greater enduring spells should resolve that 100%.
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    Doctor Who

    Clara's storyline finished when she split up. If they had left that as an ending to the character it would have been perfect IMO.
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    Arcane

    I don't know anything about LoL or it's lore, nor do I give a fuck. This was great regardless. I'd watch it for the art alone, even if everything else sucked. Everything else is also top notch though - voice acting, story, animation. Two thumbs up.
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    Fell Seal: Arbiters Mark

    Bats with guns and lich princesses is where it's at for the OP original class builds. If you have the DLC though, there's quite a few extremely strong monster builds possible to add some variety to life ;p
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    Doctor Who

    IMO Tennant was the better actor, but Smith had better supporting cast and scripts. Which is mostly what hurt the last two - I don't think having Davies back in charge is going to matter much unless they find a replacement writer of Moffat's caliber, regardless of who is cast as the Doctor.
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    Web Serials

    Quick shallow look at a bunch from author recommendations because the backlog was getting out of hand : https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/43686/apocalypse-cultivation-jakes-story Seemed ok. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/46532/dawn-of-the-nexus-kingdom-building-litrpg The Engrish is strong...
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    Web Serials

    Doing that at the end of a book that actually has a conclusion is perfectly reasonable IMO.
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    Invasion

    Yeah, this is more 'Signs' than 'Alien'. It's interpersonal drama with vaguely sci-fi things going on in the background. I find it entertaining though, can't really say why. In the tiniest of spoilers though, I find alien invasion significantly more plausible than anyone walking away from that...
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    Web Serials

    https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/46637/soulmonger Read all of this one today - it's really good. Given the author there's a 90% chance it gets abandoned unfinished, but I'd say it's well worth reading anyway given the first book just completed.
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    Web Serials

    Book 2 did take a weird turn into political rants, mass murder and domestic terrorism yeah ;p I still enjoy it, but you are right, it's not up to the standards of book 1.
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    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    Depends on difficulty and what you've got in the party to buff with. Heavy armor does get the shaft something fierce though, it really should come with innate DR or something like that. If you are not the 'slowly creep up in stealth til you see mobs then spend 5 minutes buffing, save then...
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    Web Serials

    Digging through the backlog a bit: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/44132/the-calamitous-bob By the author of A Journey of Black and Red. I liked this one a lot more than journey, the once a week update schedule is a bit depressing though. The backstory is a bit weird, but seems isolated to...
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    Foundation

    Wut ? It's been a while, but IIRC Seldon was dead for everything but the prologue of the first book.
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    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    That's specific to grenades, splash damage does the minimum possible damage, and saving halves that.