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Having seen the reveal of the toys for tomorrow I am most dissapointed with the "Resistance Bomber" seen in the trailer. The B-Wing was always my favorite Rebel fighter and I had hoped for its return in this movie...instead we get something bigger and significantly clunkier looking in the...

I just moved out of Somerville (was living with a good buddy of mine the last few years). I really wanted to stay in the 'ville but there was just no freaking way I could justify paying that much for a place. I also have to think that Somerville has to be reaching a property value plateau...

This might be exactly why they dropped that scene in the edit. That effectively never happened now and the viewer can easily believe that Sansa / Arya were in on it from the start. Hell they may have seen the response to the earlier episodes and made that edit to turn the fan theory into reality.

I've spent more time thinking about this than I care to admit. Through it all a few similar conclusions as above have occurred to me, mostly involving that we are just a spec on the outskirts of nowhere but also that we as a culture just now rang the doorbell and so it is somewhat unreasonable...

So in my house we spent the entire episode mostly yelling at the screen. I had claimed a couple weeks ago that we had entered 'fan fic' territory where we go a step beyond fan service into total ineptitude, but I clearly hadn't seen this week's episode yet. I understand that they have a...

Saw a Twitch bit on the combat system. Seems very Horizon Zero Dawn / Monster Hunter with fewer weapon choices and no magic / psionics stuff. I'm underwhelmed.

I would like to know more about the overall combat system / weapons / classes (if applicable) but their website seems bereft of info

I think anything other than purely mechanical deadbolt / latch counts as a smart lock. Definitely want something that has a mechanical component as the last thing you want is getting locked out of the house after the EMPs start bursting overhead (or like an ice storm)

Just thought about locks (closing soon) and remembered the discussion from a dozen or two pages back. Does anyone have an experience with / opinions on Smart Locks? Was considering that as an option to simplify things when having house guests / etc.

Law-wrangler is required in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I grew up in the midwest and while I was aware of the distinctive difference between there and the gothamite land of NYC I did not fully appreciate the fundamental different nature of government in New England. This is, afterall...

Fair point. This is in Massachusetts which, as a non-state, already has many quirks all its own like registered versus unregistered land etc.

Closing -- Lawyer's office or Registry of Deeds? I'm leaning towards the Registry of Deeds simply because there's been a couple of typographical oopses on the title paperwork already in the process and I'm having shit delivered the day after closing.** ** this was originally 4 days after...

The fin fixing reminds me of my aunt who went to the trouble of smashing all the fins on the condenser so that they made a smooth flat surface. She was worried that the sharp edges were a safety hazard you see. I tried to convince her otherwise, but who is going to believe a 9 year old talking...

If, by this, you mean the devices that place a fine mist of water around your compressor then please do not do this. The best case scenario is using this in a very arid environment where you can gain a benefit of evaporative cooling that bleeds excess heat off the condenser. In most cases...

The warhammer was pretty badass and he's bound to be crazy strong after all those years at the forge.

Ahh I had indeed forgotten... no one else seems to be mentioning it though whereas in the books it keeps coming up.

It always struck me that there's no mention of the Red Comet in the show. Its the appearance of the comet that heralds the return of serious magic to the world and seems to portend the coming apocalypse.

It does bum me out that the last few Children died protecting a kid whose powers are, basically, being the most creeptastic peeping Tom ever. "Yeah I can toss fireballs at will and performed ritual magic that created this problem in the first place... but its more important that you be able to...

I've said for awhile that Tywin was actually pissed off that Tyrion was a Targ bastard and so killed his wife rather than admit the shame of being cuckolded like that. He's probably the illegitimate son of King Aemon, which brings balance to the whole original discussion between him and Jon...

To the extent that the Night King and his ilk truly are the 'Ice' in the Song of Ice and Fire we really have very little information or reference points for him/them. We have his origin as a WMD created by the Children to deal with the human problem and a few segments each season showing them...

I know they have very few episodes left in which to cover a ton of stuff... but last night felt like fan fic in places. Not only are people teleporting around the continent now, but the various plot threads are coagulating as we slam whole plot lines together. I will say seeing the Tarlys get...

He has to ditch the armor to get out of the water and in the process, with heavy-handed baptism allegory, becomes reborn after being reunited with Tyrion. He's now armed with 'proof' that Tyrion was indeed railroaded and is only truly guilty of killing Tywin who, really, deserved it. Given...

Well if you are going to create / identify a massive stockpile of the weapons designed to be used in a future apocalypse it makes sense to leave behind an instruction manual

From a storytelling standpoint Dany had to swing back to winning at this point. Having the Dothraki AND Drogon involved to eliminate the Lannister force was a pretty serious blow. Significant in that this was an army on the march and thus a purely military target. If I'm a smaller house on...

Buddy of mine who has cracked the shell of 'social media influencer' got a press kit with preview episodes to review. The series definitely has been updated to express more 2017 sensibilities but these are modest changes and done very well. Having Donald around is really quite jarring at first...

The JJ Abrams reboot likely started out as an attempt to do just that.... but then quickly ran down the time travel + future Spock + Enterprise legacy rabbit hole. Part of it was to justify the new futuristic aesthetic, but that really didn't need to be justified.

The more I see of this the less I want to see if it... TNG was inspired in that it made a big leap forward in time and this allowed the stories to reflect the very different society that existed in the late 80s as compared to the 60s. A argument could be made that it need only be a 20 year...

The level of magic and acceptance of such in the series is highly variable. They seem to be very aware that things like Warlocks and Alchemists exist and obviously various people, not westerosi, are aware that the faceless men can make use of magical shapeshifting, but ever since the Children...

This is what I'm starting with (the Fridge and Stove will be replaced). The walls are much more yellow than they appear in this photo, in fact the whole house is that same color of yellow which I am not globally a fan of. Thoughts? I feel I should do something with the space over the one row...

Yeah. A buddy of mine said to me 'oh, why not rent for awhile and save up...?' Rent prices in Boston are insanely high for even a 1 bedroom place anywhere near a T stop. The only way you are getting under $1600 a month is if you move out to the burbs and take the commuter rail in... well if...

I wonder if the new ethereal models in PTR for Argus stuff is a precursor to having them as a new neutral race in the next obviously Void-ish expansion.

If only someone knew a person that had omniscient powers to see all things... By the way, do we really know how old Varys is? That whole scene between ancient woman Melisandre and Varys seemed loaded with extra subtext. Is it possible that the whole sacrifice of his genitals by warlocks is...

I actually thought it was a joke post at first... Methinks they read too much into a story about a bitch and her dragons.

I assumed that the treatment took many weeks, but then I recalled the whole 'since you are a knight you can have until the morning...' business.

Welp...gotta go to MickeyDs now. I feel good use of marketing campaign should be rewarded.

The confusion arises because the 'modern' great houses do not actually align with the '7 Kingdoms' that existed prior to Aegon's conquest of Westeros. At the time of Robert's Rebellion there are 9 distinct main districts that are led by a great house. The biggest confusion comes from the...

Rationally I know the political Game of Thrones needs to be over so we can get to the Ice and Fire bit for next season, but even still the whole notion of super army Lanister and naval genius Euron is a bit much. The Lannister army had been pretty fucked up when we last saw them after all the...

Anthony Rapp is lookin old in that cover shoot... I was semi-okay with the setting, despite disdain for continually mining the past instead of actually moving the story forward, but this whole 'secret daughter of Sarek' bullshit is just too much. Then again Star Trek never has been able to...

So much strife has been caused by the incredibly terrible licensing of 'macross' to Harmony Gold. Not only for Battletech, but also for the release of any 'macross' sequel series in the U.S.

We have entered the era of the Jock Nerd. Normal well-adjusted people can be seen at PAX and playing D&D on streams. Board game night is now Scythe and Tera Mystica rather than Scrabble or Pictionary.