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Still seems silly to release one new class like this. Just like with the release of RoS and everyone wanted to be a Crusader we will have groups of friends who are tripping over each other's undead minions.

I feel bad for just this moment realizing that Avasarala's minion is Captain Boomerang from Arrow who is also Ashur from Spartacus.

This was an Amazon deal the other day and I picked it up for $35. I'm a magic-user type by nature so I was a bit skeptical of this, but damn if it isn't satisfying to cleave the hell out of a bunch of soldiers. I do like how the setting readily acknowledges that this is all batshit insane...

D&D was always good for practicing basic arithmetic skills. Woe be unto you if you were a magic user of any kind and couldn't add up the damage from your 10d6 attack spell in 3 seconds or less.

Finally got caught up. Amos is just plain awesome. I like the slow burn they are doing with character development, it seems that ever since BSG/GoT people are more willing to take full advantage of the long form narrative afforded by a series. It is refreshing to not force movie-going the...

Hmmm from looking at the leaks on the Reddit (which are obviously very early and premature ideas) it looks like they are monkey significantly with the base skill system. This is very risky as one of the genius aspects of the whole deal was the complex interweaving of synergistic abilities that...

Just saw the first of the new episodes (backers get it to stream today only) and it was good. Fits nicely with the original sensibility of the show and the riffs were high quality. It is clear they are going to have quite a few genre cameos from various actors in the framing sequences.

Just finished watching The Judas Contract. Was quite good and a more faithful rendition of the classic storyline than the Teen Titans animated series managed with its season-long version. Obviously there were some alterations on account of the New 52 nature of the DC Animated Universe what...

So I finished this last night. Before I go into spoilers I will say that I was pleased overall with the experience. It isn't the transformative experience of the original trilogy, but it does the nearly impossible task of moving the franchise forward following the ME3 ending. Most of my main...

Mass Effect: Andromeda’s improved eyes make a big difference Good lord... that is a stark difference and massive improvement.

When Dan Stevens left Downton Abbey I thought he was crazy, but his career does seem to be going well. He was great in "The Guest" and currently has a big TV genre series in "Legion", Mass Market appeal as the Beast in "Beauty and the Beast" and indy cinema cred in "The Ticket".

Ahh one of the joys of summer. Remember when TV used to just be repeats during the summer months? Now we get completely different seasonal fare! I still maintain that Joeseph Gilgun was put on this earth expressly for the purpose of playing Cassidy.

It has often been said that the Uber of today is just a stopgap measure until the technology matures to offer completely autonomous vehicles owned and operated by Uber as a complete end-run around Taxi laws. Based on the NYTimes article, however, I don't think that is the case. Right now Uber...

That echoes one of the more interesting things about the prequel era that is often overlooked: How readily everyone accepted that the Separatists were 'bad' when fighting against the Clone Troopers and yet the Rebels fighting against Stormtroopers were 'good'. Now obviously Palpatine was...

We really enjoyed this series. Aubrey Plaza just chewed up the scenery, but did it so well that it was a treat to watch. I'm also happy anytime that Bill Irwin and Jean Smart can get more screentime.

Diego Luna does not have a French accent!! The man couldn't be more Mexican if he was hawking tamales from a truck. He's also one of my favorite characters from R1 simply because he is a good guy who does really bad things to get shit done. Anyway re-watched it this weekend (so I could...

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I still use singularity + throw + backlash and just never bother with cover. Whenever I am not actively attacking I throw up backlash and let trash kill themselves on the reflect. It is also handy to reflect the big attacks that the bosses and minibosses toss at me and has saved my bacon on...

Much further in the game now. Still have not touched 'favorite' loadouts or indeed branched much beyond my core ability set. I may need to respec at some point just to reallocate my stuff around a bit in terms of abilities I put points into to level my profile but not actually use. I had...

Well this seems very different. Looks like any remnant of the original vision is gone and what we are left with is something that is a cross between Borderlands and Halo. Perhaps as a result of eradicating the Ghosts / Travellers Light / etc. they will reboot the whole thing into something...

This looks pretty interesting. Like a geek intensive somewhat less dark and more visceral Black Mirror, or perhaps a nerdy Twilight Zone

Dimension 404 Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy First Aired: Overview: Inspired by the Internet’s “404” error code, Dimension 404 aims to evoke that 3 AM feeling of wandering onto the weird side of the web, stumbling upon stories that cannot be explained in the world that we know.

They certainly backloaded the content for this title. After starting out on a very linear and uninspiring path I've reached the point where I finish one mission and I have email / messages / etc. piled up with everyone REALLY wanting me to go do their thing like NOW. This has been the case in...

That trailer seems like a mega spoiler. There's a lot of detail packed in there AND there's elements of enough story beats to fill three acts.

I have not had any luck with the LFG tool. Even right after launch people were wanting to 'link achievements' and other stuff. Then after 30+ mins of looking I'd get accepted into a group only to have the tank/healer go AFK for another 10 minutes before starting and then die on the first...

I might come back and play some of this just to see the new zone and get flying. I'm more than a little annoyed at the mechanism they have in place for 'Mythic' dungeons since there's no good way for you to jump in and do even low-rated Mythic content unless you have a guild / larger support...

Destiny's gameplay was extremely good in terms of running around and shooting things. Not knocking that aspect at all, but it could easily have met with WoW type success had their storyline/content plan been up to snuff. They changed the item system a bunch of times and never really met the...

I use an Assault Rifle with the "auto targeted" plasma bolt thing. (Weight is a major issue as a Space Wizzy Biotic). You might think this would be a really useful weapon against the Cardinals... you would be wrong. The 'seeking' bolts happily impact on his shield and even dodge out of the...

I hope to god they do something with the dumpster-fire that is the current story. I rewatched the original opening cinematic and still think I want to play THAT game... not the game where you bippity boop around for awhile and then do some weird timey-wimey stuff with the Vex. I mean Crota...

Part of me actually likes elements of the Research and Development system, but they fucked up by having the 'augment' research produce only the one augment and not giving you a way to use Development resources to make more of them and instead add those to the Loot Table of things you defeat. As...

We came late to the party in my household but have been skipping around and watching whichever episode struck our fancy because anthology. I do think there is a persistent need for such an anthology in the social consciousness in order to explore ideas like these. San Junipero is very close...

Ahhh no I'm not playing on insanity as I immediately recognized that without Companion Ability Control playing on Insanity seemed ludicrous.

I'm pure Biotic but never seem to have much of an issue getting rushed / into melee combat. Then again I tend to stay pretty far away in general just stand there with Backlash active when I'm not actively attacking. The Ket, in particular, are super good at killing themselves with the...

The most annoying aspect of this is that they added a lot of new abilities to the game with ME:A, but I'll likely never see but a small fraction of them unless I do so in multiplayer. I also find myself completely NOT using the 'saved profiles' business as I've chosen to max out my existing...

Took me ages to realize that Lexi (the doctor) was Margaery Tyrell. I actually remembered, after the fact, that she was doing a voice but it did not immediately occur to me that it was her.

I don't care for how the 'dynamic' cover works as Ryder seems very prone to standing up from cover in the middle of combat for no apparent reason. As frustrating as 'Division'-style sticky cover is on occasion I find this version even more annoying, especially when my nuts are being chewed off...

Last night I got through the end of Eos (or OREOS as I started calling it) and by the end it actually felt like a Mass Effect game. It has picked up a whole 'oregon trail' kinda vibe and that isn't a bad thing. They have added quite a bit of political subtext to the machinations of the Nexus...

I thought I was just being especially retarded when trying to figure out how to fill out the rest of our group for APEX. I'm still not entirely convinced that there is no way to queue as a private group and get matched with other people. How often do you have exactly 3 other people online...

So I finally got past the point I stopped the Xbox trial and went a bit further before deciding that this wasn't worth losing sleep over and shutting down for the night. Here are my additional observations. 1) Character Builder -- I had, naively, assumed that since at the end of customizing...

As i mentioned earlier I spent some time during the preview checking out the background characters talking amongst each other and their low-rez textures and more primitive animations work and work well. I have to therefore put some faith in the rumor that they had much better facial animations...