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    Siralim Ultimate - Grindy RPG

    I picked this one up as a mobile game. It's pretty much what it looks like - merciless OCD bait with an entirely bewildering build complexity. Pathfinder Wrath has got nothing on the complexity of this shit. It's also hard as balls, OP combo or bust ;p
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    Cult of the Lamb

    It looks like a lot of fun, going to have to try it out.
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    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    My main problem with this guy's critique of costumes is what he is wearing. It's like a 400lb woman giving dieting tips.
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    Web Serials

    Been a while since I picked up anything new that was good. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57011/industrial-strength-magic New one from Macronomicon, usual madcap insanity but tilted more toward comedy than Wake or Soulmonger. It's a bit like 'The Gamer' webtoon, in that it's a...
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    Farthest Frontier

    Yeah, from watching a few videos on it, I think that while being wholly independent and self-sufficient is a great goal, it's fully intended that trading makes life much easier. The even easier early example is tools - getting to a smith that can make some is a long path with many steps where...
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    Westworld

    Who could have predicted making a robo William would come back to bite you in the ass ? ;p Also - who the fuck makes an 'Ascended' robot form that not only doesn't have a dick, but also doesn't have hands ?! No wonder the robots hate black Dolores.
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    It's friends and family - mostly positive is: "So, mom, did you like my new game?" "It's, uh, nice dear".
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    Siralim Ultimate - Grindy RPG

    Given it's on mobile platforms, looks like it could be a good pointless time waster that isn't a thinly veiled attempt at picking your pocket.
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    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    I am assuming it's the 'not read it' option then - that's fine, it's not a very interesting book. You may be surprised to know that it really doesn't clearly outline much about anything, let alone skin color. There's a few people that are mentioned as being 'fair of skin', but for the most part...
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    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    I suspect you are being deliberately obtuse here, although I suppose it's also possible you have never read the Silmarillion and have no idea what he's talking about. Here's an example that might make it clearer How would you go about faithfully adapting that to a TV show ? You could do...
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    Farzar

    Humor is inherently subjective, but this just seems dumb and unfunny to me. Zero laughs and zero snickers from three episodes.
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    The Orville

    This season hasn't been great, but the last episode was aggressively terrible. Mercer brings in the ghost of Dolly Parton to teach the militant feminist rock monster a valuable lesson about... I'm not actually sure, because what the fuck am I watching.
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    Westworld

    This has managed to surprise me after a very boring start. Interesting ideas, unpredictable plot, and some original thought. Overall this season is actually pretty good so far.
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    LitRPG

    Oh yeah, also on the Ugland books - on a litrpg number crunchiness scale, they are about a 2/10 : the few numbers that come up are inconsistent and make no sense, and rarely mean anything to the story ( exception Strength stat for good guys MC ). Whether this is good or bad depends on your...
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    LitRPG

    Got around to reading these - they are pretty fun, nothing too serious but solid entertainment. The main character of the good guys plays life like I play Skyrim - step 1, cheat inventory constraints, step 2, loot absolutely everything that isn't attached to the ground, and most things that...
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    Resident Evil

    The first point is entirely fair, the second is terrible because Wesker is not only *not* a loving father in any way, he's also the best thing about the first episode, and entirely obviously evil. His threats to the kid's father were the highlight of an admittedly underwhelming first episode.
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    Westworld

    I still wonder what Heroes could have ended up as if Fuller didn't walk out on them near the end of S1. From memory he did the same thing for Dead Like Me, American Gods and Discovery, which makes me suspect he might be a hard person to work with, but given the trajectory of all of them after...
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    The Terminal List

    Now see, stuff like this makes me wonder if you have actually read any of the Jack Ryan books.
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    Ms. Marvel

    Overall this was a bit too kid's show for my preference, but it was well executed with interesting characters.
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    Westworld

    Aren't they on a satellite ? I seem to remember something about groundstations and receivers and shit about that.
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    Thor: Love and Thunder (2021)

    You are reading too much into the connotations there - think more 'The most Fabulous' of the MCU movies if that makes it clearer.
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    Moonhaven

    No way - the biggest barrier to 'fixing' Earth is other people. Step 1 would be fighting a war over what 'fix' means. The first episode of this was pretty boring, although it picked up a bit in the last 10 minutes. Not sure if I'd continue.
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    Thor: Love and Thunder (2021)

    This was, in a one word review... tedious. I suspect it's Waititi's equivalent of the Phantom Menace, where he has unlimited budget, and is surrounded by yes men that think everything he says is a great idea. Valkyrie actually seemed in physical pain at how bad some of her lines were. Jane and...
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    The Boys

    On the one hand, a lame lack of resolution of anything. On the other hand, SB's speech about raising Homelander was some A+ ice cold shit, heh. His face.. Anthony Starr is just absolute gold in the role.
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    Ms. Marvel

    If it was wearing Lederhosen and traveling to Bavaria, would it make a difference ?
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    Stranger Things

    Excitement level for live action of source material = 0. There's been, what, 8?, live action remakes and all of them have sucked. Excitement level given the people doing it = 4. Overall mildly pessimistic.
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    The Boys

    I give Prime credit for funding a lot of crazy shit that no-one looking for sensible returns would touch with a 10 foot pole. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but TV as a whole is better for it existing. It's kind of the role Netflix was filling before they ran out of money.
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    Night Sky

    Eh, it's not any more mystery box than, say, Stargate, but the end part and suggested direction for a s2 was more interesting than s1 was.
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    The Time Traveler's Wife

    It has a reasonable ending point for a series end, it doesn't leave any real cliffhangers.
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    The Time Traveler's Wife

    Going for more than one season was always kinda greedy, still a shame though.
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    Westworld

    Ep1 review: 3 snores out of 5. I don't care about any of these people. Also, I should probably have watched that recap video because their flashback clips in Ep1 just highlighted that I can't remember anything that happened in season 3. I don't even remember s3 being offensively bad or...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    It's actually really hard to detect processes faking mouse input, I wouldn't be surprised if there are a lot of heuristics in anti-cheat designed to identify a real mouse from simulated mouse input. Using an actual mouse makes that completely impossible to detect.
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    For All Mankind

    If you are going to fly to mars, why not do it in a luxury hotel ? Haha.
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    The Boys

    Homelander isn't previously shown to be racist, he's exasperated more than anything at Stormfront's attempts along those lines - he just thinks that he is better than everyone else, which is honestly hard to argue with ;p
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    The Boys

    I'd agree there - Homelander really should be shit at fighting someone of equal power - how could he have practiced ? Being invulnerable isn't much help at teaching you to deal with the pain and disorientation from being punched in the face.
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    Blizzard dies and Bobby rides

    They weren't being charged with sexual assault, they were being charged with running Blizzard like a frat house.
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    The Boys

    Wait, it wasn't ? But that heroic delivery guy got the box right there in perfect dramatic timing without even having an address to go on ? What else would it be about ?