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Rick replacing himself with a robot at the start of the worst episode of the season is an interesting meta commentary.

Huh, you are right - this *is* really good. I can't even put my finger on why - just lots of little things coming together really well. Also, I proved my pro-gamer cred by getting killed in the tutorial* ;p The start with the different characters is an application of 'Show, don't tell' that is...

This was ok overall, but I think it is now the new champion on the 'dumbest evil plan' in any movie to date. How does *any* part of the bad guy's 100 step plan make any sense, or have any reasonable chance of working ?

She asks the cop if she can sever the connection to her stub ( thus preventing the black ceo from stirring shit like setting off nukes ), but cop says no. She then asks if cop can make another stub, but cop says no, because politics, but says that if "someone else" *hint hint nudge nudge* went...

I mean, that's fair, but a game where you have your personal guard executing your majordomo for letting too many needy morons talk to you is *probably* not going to be as fun. ... actually now that I think about it :trollface:

I agree, especially the last one - that scene annoyed me on a number of levels, starting with 'you could at least cut a bit off the edge instead of completely destroying it, you little shit' and finishing up with 'if the villagers have no problem letting the other bear out, you could have just...

Because they supported a cause you didn't like in 2020 ? I mean you can spend your money however you like, but that seems bizarrely out of proportion.

The Peripheral, Person of Interest and Westworld S1 outweighs the rest of Westworld in my eyes, so I am cautiously optimistic.

Is it me or did GPT-3 hack Ossoi's account ?

I thought this was just ok. I'm not a fan of mystery shows in general though, so if you are might be worth a try.

I've enjoyed catching up to current on this one: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/34009/a-practical-guide-to-sorcery Young woman's attempt to attend magic university runs into some snags when her deadbeat dad steals an immensely valuable book and hands it off to her during the getaway...

I like the Peripheral more - your mileage may vary. HDM has the usual HBO advantage of gorgeous costume design and sets, great acting - but the story doesn't really live up to it, and didn't keep me as interested.

Yeah, this ep was pretty dumb.

Eh, economics of prisoners aside, I have a hard time believing the lifetime output of slave prisoners would exceed the amount of effort that went into *building* that prison in the first place, regardless of whether you used prisoners or droids to build it with. Then again, Star Wars economics...

This wasn't bad - main actress was great for the part, and some nice visuals. Not super deep, but enjoyable. Only thing that I didn't like was her dad, he just seemed wrong - strong actor replacement syndrome I guess.

That was pretty much what I got from it yeah - the plot hole isn't really there though. Even if the new stub is created such that the date/time is exactly the same as the old one, the future peripheral can only be connected to one of them - she's effectively on the phone from the old stub, so...

Ep1 wasn't *completely* terrible, other than the entirely outrageous overacting. Probably works as a dumb kids show, but I don't have any burning desire to watch the rest of it.

Pretty much anything even remotely successful goes straight to KU these days, so that doesn't limit you much. Hmm - things that have kept me at least mildly entertained for an extended period of time : https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/42385/an-outcast-in-another-world-subtitle-is-insanity...

I am clearly getting old, I thought she looked young enough that the potential romantic interests were creepy.

The ending seems like it neatly wraps everything up at first glance, but there's a lot of inconsistencies in the story* that suggests something else may be going on. Overall I didn't like the first season as much as Dark, but that's a pretty high bar. I will give them credit for the ending...

Even minor supporting actors were done so well - like the head of the riot police - it's a cliche moment but he totally sold that shit.

That was pretty obviously coming even from as far back as the middle of the earth arc, where some of the chapters literally consisted entirely of posing and trash talking, like it was DBZ filler. Commercial success is a double edged sword I guess - it's hard to say 'fuck it, I'm sick of this...

It's been a while since I read that part, but I suspect that it may be a victim of non-pov editing for the book versions - from memory that guy only pops up for a couple of chapters and then is never seen again. Ogras is a sleazy scumbag, and has no shame about this whatsoever. It's what makes...

Big Blue is the Thea's librarian for the skill library she got as a quest reward. Some kind of tentacle monster.

Yeah, I have been considering that one, as I never played the original. It is so expensive though compared to other competing possibilities. Obviously irrelevant if I like it, but I have too many expensive games with 20 minutes played in the steam library already.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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.

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

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

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