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Yeah, with how many are about, it's easy to mistake something like the writing and characterization of DoF as being average for the genre, but there are literally hundreds of them that you have never heard, for very good reasons. The ones that get recommended here are like the Stephen Kings of...

They do have flying cars though ? They show up multiple times just in the intro for corpos, you ride one to the bar, one shows up to medevac the woman etc.

IANAL, but I think you could make a reasonable argument that consistent deliberate modifications run into the material difference exception to first sale doctrine. Not that I think anyone would bother, unless they are feeling particularly spiteful and are unaware of the Streissand effect.

Presumably the hero summoning took some effort - you'd at least make sure you knew what unknown abilities did before going, "Here's $500, now fuck off" Of course the Isekai summoned hero genre has always had a bit of a suspension of disbelief required for the setup - can you imagine it in...

Campfire Cooking was kind of fun - dismissing interdimensional express delivery as a useless power is even more ridiculous than Shield Hero though ;p The king was a land whale, he would have trampled over the other heroes in his haste to get to him if he knew what the skill did, heh.

I don't mind Disenchantment, I wouldn't say it was a lot better than this one though, so your fears are probably well grounded.

1. Absolutely true, but this is probably because Vess has less personality than Alinity does. 2. Now that you mention it, this would be the most awesome possible way for this series to end. 3. The ones you did read are the most similar of all of them, so that probably did not help. Path and...

They proved that pretty well with Hex - the wotc case had no merit, and the makers 'won' that lawsuit with making a few cosmetic changes, but the FUD and court costs sent them into a death spiral. It's pretty clear that any medium to small company is not going to survive risking it even if the...

Apart from 'muh politics!', this is pretty mediocre. The plot is ridiculous nonsense, but so was National Treasure, so it's not like that is unexpected. Sad as it is, Cage probably did carry the original, and none of this cast is anywhere in that league.

The linked video is just the summary - he's got individual videos on each class too which have all the details.

That's a nice roundup, although it's worth noting he does start with 'I'm not a min-maxer, I don't play on unfair, I don't do multi-class because it interferes with my class fantasy and they aren't ranked against each other, but against how well they fill their 'role''. ( Which is probably why...

That is some seriously pretty visuals there - I'd be interested to know your thoughts after playing it a bit.

I've been pretty underwhelmed by tactics ogre overall - most of the things they changed or updated suck - especially green cards, even knowing they don't make *that* much difference, still seeing enemies eat them or have to stall while running around picking them all up because they vanish at...

Why the hell would you want it to be sapient ? Decades of anime aside, the real kill-bot is almost certainly going to a be cheap micro-drone with a shaped charge on it. About the only thing sapience would be useful for is passing the buck from whichever police force deployed it ( It's not OUR...

This was like two different movies stapled together, the eco-terrorists vs the cartoonishly evil mega-corp and the national geographic magic of the ocean special. Both of them were actually not that bad, the national geographic special half in particular had the most convincing alien animals I...

That is a very weird video - "Ok, I know I corroborated this story but now the author has retracted it I look kind of stupid. *Obviously* when I said 'Guys, I can confirm this is true', I didn't mean the *bad parts*, just, like, other bits." It's probably the biggest disconnect between title...

I've always thought that The Breach would make a great movie or TV show. It's already got the big-action blow things up energy that usually gets awkwardly shoehorned into adaptations, while still maintaining a tightly written, clever story. The ending of the trilogy gets a *chef's kiss* from...

It's not, even a little bit. Probably just the trailer cut to be 'exciting'. I liked this overall - Alfie Allen did a really good job I thought. I am a bit questioning of a second season of it though, in mild spoilers, a bunch of crazy people doing insanely dangerous things in a warzone don't...

Fire Ember builds are based around specific items that you probably haven't gotten yet. She's actually really good on almost any difficulty, although at the high end she's going to spend 99.9% of her time cackling and the rest of it giving your tank luck buffs. Which is kind of boring, but the...

Never thought to try that - 'Write an episode of Rick and Morty directed by Michael Bay' was startlingly plausible and went on for some time before getting killed by 'Error in body stream'. It would be nice if it at least left you what it had done so far before getting cut off.

The crystals really don't make any sense, especially with them changing size when you remove them from sockets - what even is that ?

It's not clear, because they don't show the new stub at all. If it is at the current time of the old stub, it doesn't need anyone to tell the new Flynne that she is a copy though, as only the old Flynne is connected to the Peripheral in the future - the new Flynne would only remember the future...

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...