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    Rimworld

    The rimworld devs probably never asked to get classified, on the basis of not actually caring if they can sell in stores.
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    Our Flag Means Death

    This was ok, but wasn't very funny. I think I got about 2 laughs out of 3 episodes.
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Authors get ludicrously shitty royalties from traditional publishing in most cases. He is certainly not getting 12 mil but he is going to be getting a metric fuckload more than if 12 million worth of books sold in stores.
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    James S.A. Corey - The Expanse

    I thought that was a pretty fitting wrap of the series - Holden's ending was the most Holden thing in the whole series, which is great. Only this time he knows exactly what the consequences are going to be, accepts them, and does it anyway. There was some serious cognitive dissonance with...
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    Web Serials

    Some other stuff checked out recently : Newish ones -------------------- Mark of the Crijik - this is fairly typical isekai/litrpg as a baby stuff, but has a certain amount of charm to it. I quite like it so far. Technomagica - also isekai/litrpg as a baby, but this time with more Russia. This...
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    Web Serials

    Maybe - but remember his only sources of info so far are the mage equivalent of yahoo answers, and a random girl that wants to teach herself with unrestricted general knowledge stuff from used bookstores. There's also no confirmation that he's actually right about healing - it could easily be a...
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    Reacher

    What do you mean? I was expecting tranny dick and dimly lit long distance side boob from this description, not A+ nudity from the main chick plus gratuitous strip bar scenes. Sure, it's not Spartacus, but what is?
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    Peacemaker

    They were on fire with the lols this episode. Show and tell, haha.
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    Archive 81

    Samuel wants to get the demon into the real world. Speculation, but Samuel probably wants to exit in 1994, not 2021. In 1994 he's a wealthy cult leader with a comet, a secret lair and a blood sacrifice - in 2021 he's got jack shit.
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    What did you just read?

    I liked it. The setting is weird as hell and doesn't really make any logical sense, but it's a pretty original story. Gideon's a pretty relatable and realistic character. Harrow is utterly batshit crazy though, which made me enjoy the second book less. I mean, I can appreciate the crazy, but...
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    Web Serials

    Shirt's numbers are public, he's getting 26k/month at the moment. Glad to see Inadvisably doing well, Paranoid Mage is quality shit, and wrapping up your reasonably successful ongoing series to start a new one is a ballsy move.
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    Peacemaker

    The whole list of people he should have framed instead was pretty good stuff - the episode overall was pretty damn funny. "Okay you're right. I just forgot women had fingers for a second." Heh.
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    Archive 81

    This was pretty good, I was kind of annoyed at how retarded Melody was though. Supernatural mumbo jumbo is one thing, but she makes the worst decisions for the mostly mundane things. I.e. Checklist for getting a sample of toxic mold that she is trying to prove causes psychotic breaks 1) Mask -...
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    Web Serials

    Paranoid Mage - looool Spatial magic has limited combat applications and is mainly used for transportation - aahahahahahahahahaa. While it's possible all of GAR are fucking idiots, that they are scared shitless of the spatial archmage suggests that there may be some minor disinformation going...
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    Peacemaker

    I admit, this show is the hardest I have laughed at a sex scene for a long time ;p It's pretty uneven but delivers on the lols, which is all I could ask for.
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    The Expanse

    Love interest's kid vs the little fucker killed 5 billion people, including your extended family ?
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    Web Serials

    Unlike regular psychic powers, thoughts&prayers™ works through TV 8)
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    Web Serials

    He said he's publicly re-reading and then posting the prior patreon chapters to get in the right mindset for continuing the story. I was actually surprised at how positive the RR comments were on the return, but I guess it still has a lot of fans.
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    Web Serials

    With a bit of extra reading time over the xmas break, I've read through a few more serials. Stories in early days, for when not having an seemingly insurmountable backlog is a plus: Paranoid Mage - Urban fantasy type setting - successful architect gets caught up in a supernatural shootout...
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    Wheel of Time

    I think you overestimate how much influence a creative consultant has. If they tell him to fuck off, he has no option but to do so.
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    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    Yeah, as far as I know, all of the bite attacks stack. There's only two downsides I can think of - first is that if you use a reach weapon you have to move into close range to bite them, if you attack at max range it'll just skip biting. The other is that most (all?) of them count as secondary...
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    The Witcher

    You are, to some extent, at the mercy of the sound mix, but if you have a 5.1 or better system, all dialogue should be coming from center channel, so you can just boost that.
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    The Expanse

    Mmm yes and no. I quite like the series, other than book 4, which almost made me quit reading it. Season 1 of the show was a very good adaptation though, you won't get a lot of extra from the book I think, which leaves it in a kind of odd place. I can't see any way that the book series end...
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    Wheel of Time

    Apparently, in the show, the whole giant thing on the floor was the 'seal'. Moiraine picks up a broken bit of it and has a discussion with Lan about how it shouldn't be possible to break it. There's some cognitive dissonance for book readers, as the seals are small, hand-held things.
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    Necesse -solo dev indie Terraria style settlement survival builder

    Eh, it's $5, threw it into the queue, it will probably be out of early access by the time I get around to playing it ;p
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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.