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    Lovecraft Country

    I was optimistic after the end of the first episode, but after that it's just been a downhill slide. Entirely apart from the surprise buttsex, the most recent episode was just boring. Who cares about Ruby's department store job ? Also, what's up with the girlfriend ? She decides she is fine...
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    The Boys

    I think you are reaching there - Stormfront is racist privately but not publicly. There's no indication that her fans are racists, she's whipping them up about Homelander and Vought. She's also not getting elected to anything - even if she was, would that make Homelander Obama or Biden ...
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    The Boys

    That and the fights were just downright fucking brutal. No 'winner is casually unhurt with the losers neatly and conveniently unconscious' here.
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    Raised by Wolves

    I am liking this show a lot so far. I couldn't say why specifically - none of the particular parts are amazing but it all seems to work together really well.
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    The Boys

    Wait, what ? You are going to have to explain your reasoning on that one.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    They are ranked in order of how much they believe that they are going to have their whole family killed if they don't look happy.
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    Tenet (2020)

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    What did you just read?

    Bumped that one up on the queue and read the first few chapters today. Good recommendation. "You aren't wearing pants either you know." "Neither am I wearing a cape that makes me look like I got a participation prize in the local special needs comic con, Carl." LOL.
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    What did you just read?

    Yeah, Pirateaba is more than that now I think too ( numbers no longer public, but patrons are up significantly ). Even $1 a person adds up to quite a lot if you have thousands of readers, and $1/month is dirt cheap for the amount of entertainment you get. Still, it's like most stuff I think...
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    What did you just read?

    I have that on my list, but haven't started yet. Good to see a recommendation. Royalroad is good value yeah. Saved me a lot of money on books so far, even with me donating to a few patreons. Let's see - what have I looked at recently. Books ---------- Dispel Illusion ( Impossible Times 3 ) -...
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    Raised by Wolves

    Yes. The first episode started a bit slow, but went nowhere where I expected, leaving me wanting to continue watching. The second two twist what you think is happening around some in interesting ways. I'm looking forward to the rest of it.
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    Raised by Wolves

    Well, that was certainly not what I was expecting from the first episode. That is an admirably hardcore approach to problem solving ;p There may be some subtle hints that Mother is not 100% open and honest there :oops:
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    Tenet (2020)

    It's just skin to skin contact apparently, remember the chick tries to get him to wear the suit to avoid it. Overall I though this was pretty good. It was more technically impressive than enjoyable for me though, so not up to the level of Inception or the Prestige. It's certainly not like...
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    The Umbrella Academy

    I actually like the dad. I am not sure why, he's obviously a huge asshole and a terrible father, but something about his no-nonsense take-no-bullshit approach entertains me.
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    What did you just read?

    I am glad to see He Who Fights is back, the new setting has some entertaining possibilities and I like what I see so far.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Pretty much everything is known about the first tier of the expansion. There's a lot of stuff missing, but the basic mechanics and outlines of things are all there. Given development pipelines, it's pretty much impossible to change course at this point - reworking major systems or creating a...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Someone coming into the game now isn't going to be able to do 5 mask runs. There's some benefit in gearing up before expansion, but not much. At ilvl 400 ( 78 'new' ilvl ) - depending on class, some quest mobs and rares are dangerous, and it takes a while to chew through 'kill X' quests. At...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You can't even complete the night fae introduction quest on beta at the moment. ( For the third time mind you, they've already fixed it and subsequently rebroken it twice ). Everything is covered in 'Insert cool cinematic here' and 'Awesome in game event happens now' banners, Torghast loot is...
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    Altered Carbon

    Kovacs was wearing a black sleeve in Broken Angels, so you can't blame that one on wokeness, it's faithful to the book. Whether Mackey did a good job or not is another issue entirely. I didn't think S2 was all that bad, but you can't lead with S1 of tits and ultraviolence and then go pg13 for...
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    Lucifer

    The original parable about the goose that lays golden eggs is about the drawbacks of short term thinking vs long term thinking. I don't know how cows wandered into it ( confusion about the biblical golden calf maybe ? ), but there's no implication that there's only one of them - if you have...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Be fair, this is clearly a fantastic much sought after feature which will absolutely not be instantly switched off in raids due to the fps hit.
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    Star Trek: Lower Decks

    It's... not very funny.
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    Lovecraft Country

    I found the first half of ep1 a bit boring, second half was good though, will watch more.
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    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    I was curious so: https://starcitizen.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_ship_and_vehicle_prices Survey says : over Yikes.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Metrics are always a management thing, not a developer thing. In fairness though, you need *some* way of judging how much people like things to know what to make more of. If you ignore that aspect completely in favor of your 'vision' you end up with Brad McQuaid, which has it's own problems. I...
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    The Umbrella Academy

    "Another apocalypse ? Is it Vanya again ?" "Hey !" "Come on, it's always Vanya"
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'd probably never take them off ;p
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You can create a level 50 premade of any race/class combo so that's not an issue.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The talent stays for the same reasons Momentum still exists; so the people that think they are hot shit can delude themselves, and so that the dev whose baby it is doesn't get all butthurt.
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    Utopia

    Still on my list for one of the best ways to do a plot twist. When you see the reveal and then suddenly everything beforehand suddenly makes so much more sense.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Beta is too unfinished to tell at the moment, but probably. There's still a chance to fix some pants-on-head retarded decisions like locked in covenants and soulbinds not changing per spec, but they seem pretty attached to them, along with the 'build the same legendary 10 times' idea. Bastion...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    implies otherwise.
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    Another Life

    This show only wishes that Sackhoff's acting was the worst thing about it.
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    Fell Seal: Arbiters Mark

    Finished up new game+ on this. Overall great fun, and a good recommendation. I was a bit iffy on monsters to start with, but after some experimentation, they are actually super strong. Even average monster builds are competitive with all but the strongest human builds, and strong builds like...
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    Summer 2020 Anime Thread

    Story wise I like it, but I really dislike the art style of the bots. Hopefully they stay on the other side mostly, the art is just so much more appealing.
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    Dark

    The time travel shown in this series is different from Back to the Future in literally every way other than it being time travel ?!
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Covenants confuse me - the idea is inherently extremely difficult to balance - even if the abilities were literally 'shoot red laser for 50 damage' or 'shoot green laser for 50 damage', they are probably going to throw in some boss with 5 mechanics all of which are red on red against a red...
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    Patrick Rothfuss Kingkiller Chronicles

    Well yes, but the alternative is that he has no value to them at all, and they don't care if he dies regardless. This is the case for pretty much the entirety of the world population, whinging about it makes you look stupid and entitled.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Sometimes what's inside the outer layer is much more important than what the outer layer is made of.
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    What did you just read?

    Oh sorry, I think I was unclear. I meant from if the rules were an actual game that people played - having a skill that is 'absorb x% of lifetime experience from a target' in a game where people 'spend' experience on stuff would be so laughably broken. It can work in a story for the same reason...