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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    There's seems to have been boatloads of nerfs they didn't list in the patch notes that apply in Honor mode, like changing haste back to the 5E version, not letting warlock/paladin extra attack stack, removing damage rider bonuses from almost everything etc.
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    Fall 2023 Anime Thread

    It seems unlikely, the urobutcher was the main thing that made it good ( hence S3 ), although checking what he's been up to recently, he appears to have a writing credit for a pyscho-pass movie from this year ? So maybe. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26224944
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    Doctor Who

    Special was ok other than being painfully preachy. I was a little amused they kind of painted themselves into a corner where standard preachy strategies make them look stupid I can't help but think their workshopping of stuff went something like : "You would never think of it because you're a...
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    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    Strangely enough, that's actually a pretty good place to be for this one. Mostly because creating effective OP builds from scratch requires literally hundreds of hours of study of obscure mechanics as well as extensive testing of exactly how those particular mechanics are implemented in game...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    For All Mankind

    Kelly's only wealth would be inherited Helios shares from her mother ? I don't think you can tell from that - we don't know what her split is, only that she and Dev combined don't have a controlling interest and need to convince a long list of other investors to get a majority.
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    For All Mankind

    You can't really pull something with a rocket though - the exhaust hits whatever you are pulling, which pushes it away from you.
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    For All Mankind

    The asteroid isn't solid; if you push it too hard from one side, it will spread out, and the center of mass will change. The cables are to try and make it hold the same shape while being pushed. Goatface has got the real point there though - the asteroid just coincidentally being stably...
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    Web Serials

    Just finished up A Journey of Black and Red - started it ages ago, but it was slow going at first as the early chapters were kind of overwrought prose that reminded me of an Annie Rice knockoff. It got a lot better after that, with the author getting into more his own style and became pretty...
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    Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

    Probably sensible - I was hopeful at the start where time to first giant monster fight was like 10 seconds, but after that the rest of the first episode was just talking and family drama with some flashbacks to godzilla movies.
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    Rick and Morty

    This season has been ok, but that last episode was legitimately great. Evil Morty is clearly best Morty.
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    For All Mankind

    Glad this is back, with a pretty good first episode too. Sure you can make fun of them for it, but I like the attitude of hope and vision of human progress. There's a place for bitter cynicism and dark nihilism, and it isn't in goddamn everything, which it appears to be these days. Ed being in...
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    The Curse

    I watched the first episode and I think it's safe to say that I didn't 'get it'. Is it actually meant to be a comedy ? There was some vague amusement at cuck roleplay with a vibrator, but nothing I'd actually point out as funny.
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    Beacon 23

    I thought premiere of this was pretty good. On the downside, loool at the beacon being a literal lighthouse that shines a light for incoming spaceships. On the upside, I like the mystery type setup, the story is interesting so far and Cersei is greatly amusing as
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    Invincible

    At that point you are wandering a bit off actual mathematics into more philosophical territory. In the conventional interpretation of the many worlds theory, it would be because any universe in which people spontaneously turning into ducks was likely, would be so different from the Invincible...
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    Invincible

    No, the opposite - the set of universes where he remains human will be larger than the set of universes where he turns into a duck in proportion to how likely he was to turn into a duck in the first place ( unbelievably unlikely ).
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    Invincible

    No, that's not how it works. Infinity is not equal to infinity, it's not a number, you can't do arithmetic on it. Consider that your argument applies to anything, leading to nonsensical results like 'Mark either spontaneously turns into a duck or he doesn't, it's a binary choice, both are...
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    The Marvels (2023)

    6/10 Fun movie, with some decent originality in action sequences, but wanders off into crazy-town about halfway through ( dat Bollywood planet, wtf ). Kamala character was great, very genuine, and actually having fun in the movie, which is rare these days. Samuel Jackson has clearly...
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    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Blindsight certainly isn't a fun book ( it is pretty damn depressing), nor is it an easy read. No shame in not liking it. That said I found it very thought provoking in a way that's surprisingly relevant to the current times - it's main theme is an exploration of what intelligence means and...
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    Billions

    No, no he is not ;p He was found guilty on all of like 300 years worth of charges.
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    Invincible

    Ok, for a super basic example - There's an infinite amount of numbers right ? There's also an infinite amount of numbers that end in zero. If you pick a number at random, what are the chances that the number you picked ends in zero ? It's still going to be 10%, even though there are an...
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    Invincible

    What ? Of course there is. For example, there's an infinite number of integers, the majority of which aren't prime. See infinite sets. Infinity is a concept, not a number, you can't do basic arithmetic operations like infinity - infinity = 0.
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    Gen V

    I was surprised, and then immediately wondered why I was surprised, because obviously that was what was going to happen ;p This was pretty fun overall. It didn't end up having any actors on the par with the boys, but it was consistently entertaining.
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    Blue Beetle (2023)

    This was so bad. It's almost painfully generic, made up entirely of poor imitations of scenes from other, better, movies. Its only spark of originality is the gratingly overdone performance of the family that makes them into a bunch of caricatures.
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Mechanically, combat is relatively similar to D:OS2, but the combat is not why it's getting overwhelmingly positive reviews. It's more the extraordinary attention to detail in like, everything. If you chant 'la-la-la can't hear you', while slamming on the skip key as you run from encounter to...
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    Fall 2023 Anime Thread

    Pluto seems pretty good, if kind of slow ( only 3 ep in, will reserve judgement on that for finish ). Having competent dual audio is kind of interesting - I generally prefer the JP audio, but in this one almost none of the characters are japanese, and not a single one of the japanese voice...
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    Billions

    It was fun, but nothing at all made any sense about their big 'gotcha', or even the season as whole really. Think about it - Prince acquires Axe capital in a hostile takeover to spite Axelrod, and then immediately puts all of his own money into their main fund to be run by dubiously ethical...
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    Bodies

    I thought this was ok, but kind of stumbled on the last episode. There's also a huge continuity problem in the first episode that I assumed was time travel related somehow, but appears not to be. ( She finds the body while on duty in full gear, but by the time her boss gets there she is in...
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I figure it's like someone rating McDonalds 5/10 after going over 100 times - 'would not recommend, but at least it's affordable and open at 3am'. I agree that life's too short to spend 270 hours playing a 5/10 but there's plenty of reasons people would do so.
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    The Fall of the House of Usher

    Finished this up. The plot was mostly non-existent, it was kind of like a tv series of Final Destination. I still liked it though, mostly on strong performances from actors - particularly from Bruce Greenwood as Roderick and Mark Hamil as the family lawyer. I'd never have guessed that Hamil...
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    Industrial Annihilation

    I wonder how much overlap there is between the fans of total annihilation and the fans of dyson sphere program? It'll be tricky to strike a balance between the combat being an aggravating annoyance for your base building shenanigans and vice versa.
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    Gen V

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    Fall 2023 Anime Thread

    The initial dragon fight was great. "Yeah, dragons really are pretty tough. We should run" Her expression, lol.
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    Adult filter on ?
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    For All Mankind

    Iridium isn't radioactive, it's just very expensive ( $4500/oz from today's pricing apparently )
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    Check disk space - the only crashes I have had with it were due to being low on space on system drive, clearing space fixed it 100%. I guess it has fairly large temp file requirements.
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    Wheel of Time

    Goddammit, why did I watch this ? Now I want to rant like a basement dwelling neckbeard. Sigh. On that note, I would like to suggest that Ishamael would bitchslap Egwene so hard that her grandparents would spontaneously cease to have ever existed. This should be as one-sided as Mike Tyson vs...
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    On the one hand, it's worse than that, because you only need to kill like 20 guys per run, and the basic cutter is more than capable in this respect ( with max lasers it's actually probably better than 99.9% of weapon loot anyway ). On the other hand, I kind of had fun with the self imposed...
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    This makes me glad I am playing cyberpunk at the moment, they were already insufferably long, even if you just count the bit that blacks out the screen, and not the further loading it does afterwards ( most obvious when you reload then jetpack off toward your destination, promptly falling...
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    Web Serials

    I actually skipped spiteful healer when it first showed up because I assumed from the title and cover that it was going to be edgelord trash. I checked it out on your recommendation and it's actually kind of the opposite, the 'spiteful' is being used pretty ironically here. Starts a bit slow...