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I caught Under the Silver Lake after the folks at RLM reviewed it and thought it was fine. It had this "David Lynch reimagines Slums of Beverly Hills" thing going but with hipsters. Sorta slow, sorta long, sorta weird, decent soundtrack.

There's always

In a vacuum I don't hate the idea but the game itself feels almost plagued by its own impermanence. Things change frequently. Those changes are sometimes big enough to reorient a big chunk of the game. Between the introduction of The New and the discarding of The Old over and over again it's...

Soma is a hell of a drug. To go even further there is an Island where people that don't fit in with modernity are sent to pursue their interests. Vanilla Island we'll call it.

"But I like the inconveniences." "We don't," said the Controller. "We prefer to do things comfortably." "But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." "In fact," said Mustapha Mond...

The first couple batches of EQ progression servers were just full to the brim with big egos and big ideas. Tons and tons of people thought they were way better than they were and way more hardcore than they were. Most of them are old hat now but there were tons of tricks and techniques being...

Kripp (you know, the Hearthstone guy) has talked about snipers a few times. There's a guild of sorts of dedicated snipers organized through discord that work together to grief streamers. The WoW streamers are big enough, Classic is popular enough and interference easy enough that I expect to see...

I really liked watching them playing the Friday the 13th game but nothing else. There was enough downtime to fit in stories, the subject matter I felt was RLM appropriate and they were competent playing it. Something like Jack playing a five dollar wing suit simulator, on the other hand, had...

That's the point though. The power of addons necessitates high end encounters having tons and tons of shit going on.

I leveled a rogue for a while because I thought mace spec looked really cool. Maces! On a rogue! EVEN MORE STUNS. It taught me that trash exp mobs benefit from diminishing returns on stuns. I was very disappointed in my lesson.

Pet Semetary (the remake). The first half is a lifeless xerox. The second half is pretty awful but I wasn't bored. John Lithgow did a better job than I was expecting but all of the pathos of the original film and the book is absent. Best part was the cover of the Ramones "Pet Semetary" during...

Setting aside the accident and the pathological society built on lies the miniseries demonstrates the incredible willpower of the Soviet Union and its people. If you look at this and see Donald Trump because of the negatives (an allegory that wouldn't and doesn't make sense) than you're not...

I love Divinity Original Sin (and am halfway through my Nth play through as I type this) but I didn't like the sequel at all. I went through it once and found it a frustrating experience with numerous gimmick encounters and that goddamn fucking squirrel. The first game had a problem where you...

He's streamed mythic progression as a ret paladin for many a night. He retribution limit has been reached.

Stannis makes the offer later but earlier Robb just went ahead and did it. That decree never turns up again in the show and has yet to turn up again in the books.

Having Cersei parallel Mad King Aerys and then having Jaime kill her at least fits the trajectories of both characters.

In the books and in the show as well Robb Stark sends out an official decree legitimizing Jon Snow as Jon Stark and releasing him from his duty at the Night's Watch. The legitimacy of that decree and its implications would do all the same things and it's all right there.

Jon Snow's true identify is something that was only hinted at for five books spanning over two decades and that's all we get out of it? That is a long walk for a short glass of water.

I hope it's good. The Long Walk is one of my favorite of King's stories.

North loses versus the Army of the Dead, not many get out, Cersei is a gigantic cunt to the few survivors, overconfident even when the Army of the Dead is claiming more and more territory and when she gives the final idiotic commands that would doom humanity Jaime stabs her dead. We then have a...

Noon Friday to Noon Tuesday is a pretty big window to get your grind on.

People were starting to theorize that Jon himself was The Song of Ice and Fire (a poetic way to describe union of the Starks and Targaryians) at least as far back as the early 2000s with all kinds of guesses about the implications of such a thing. I legitimately feel bad for anyone that picked...

Daze has consistently been one of my least favorite WoW mechanics from 2004 onward. It only comes in to play when you're trying to get from point A to point B without a hassle and then it shows up and hassles you.

That's another theme that's just entirely missing - winter. We're told a bazillion times that in Westeros winters last years and that once again winter is coming. The War of the Five Kings has destroyed tons and tons of shit, fields were burned, harvests stolen, the North has a massive refugee...

The return of dragons has heralded the return of magic to the world. The Red Priest, regarded as a drunken sot and joke for ruining swords by lighting them on fire, performs the burial ritual upon The Lightning Lord Barrick Dondarian and the son of a bitch returns to life. He then tries to bring...

Boy, do I not understand the story he was trying to tell at all then.

Did Jon volunteer or was he sent?

When your placeholder name ends up making the final cut.

I'm still baffled this turned in to a "tune in to see who is going to end up sitting the Iron Throne" bit of musical chairs for the ending as if that's been what people have been tuning in for season after season.

It's not a bad mini series!

When he was dead there was a fine opportunity for him to go on a small vision quest in which he gets to talk with Ned. His character is moved forward and Ned's past is put to rest but that didn't happen. In the first book getting Ned's inner thoughts (and later Catlyn) we see how that period of...

I've read it twice. The first time I did not have many good things to say about it. The second time I skipped every Dany and Tirion chapter and I was very happy with it. They're both just so much fucking deadwood. Dany is in Meer! It's not going great! Tirion is traveling across the narrow sea...

In the last book it's definitely winter in the north and people are definitely fucked. Ramsey wrecked or burned every part of Winterfell that could be wrecked or burned and they're down to eating horses. The Boltons and related allies are only there to project power but they're completely...

In the finale we learn that the magicks of R'lor were used to bring Robb Starke back from the dead. The results were...unfortunate.

His chapters in book five were boring filler. I'd hate to think that he's peaked for the whole rest of the series.

Best part of this last season is getting neat stories from @Screamfeeder

It's my favorite Star Trek series but it's always rubbed me the wrong way that in the second part they waste a bunch of time on a montage. All Good Things, the final episode of TNG, is an A+ 10/10 finale.

Do we know if the Mythic Tour thing that uses Arena is actually going to work?