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S4 annoyed me because the premise was unbearably stupid ( Helios recruiting unqualified desperate chumps and paying them minimum wage to work on mars ). It was still watchable though if you don't think about it too hard.

Uh, no ? That's not even a little bit accurate. That is though. I'd never complain about people not liking the same things, and the book definitely isn't for everyone.

I've been working my way through goodreads winners for 2025. So far : Not Quite Dead Yet Winner for mystery Girl is attacked and develops a more or less inoperable aneurysm that is going to kill her within the week. Spends her last few days trying to track down her murderer. This was...

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/118891/new-life-as-a-max-level-archmage With a name worthy of a c-grade budget anime, and a degree of creativity that can be fairly summarized as 'Overlord, but a chick', this story really should have been an easy skip. There's only one problem though - it's...

Actually, after watching the second episode, I clearly spoke too soon. It is, in fact, unbearable. The level of cringe in the episode is so high it could cause physical injuries, scenes like 'were you just using me !?!' need a surgeon general's warning about permanent vision damage from...

Apples for apples, this one is considerably worse. The start of discovery was actually pretty good, with a lot of things people were complaining about were part of the plot. For academy, ignoring the running in circles screaming about woke perspective - if that's you, all you need to see is...

There's a few things, though they aren't as developed as they could be. - Survival game mechanics like food/water/toxicity. These are tuned as mostly a nuisance currently, rather than being a significant driver - mixed feelings here, not the biggest fan of survival stuff in general, but if you...

You'd think that, but you should read some of his other series, talk about cognitive and tonal whiplash. "Goofy fun" is a deliberate style he's going for for Chrysalis.

Gave this one a go. Shamelessly rips off satisfactory, although that's obvious to anyone who looks at a screenshot. It's tilted a bit more toward the combat part than satisfactory is, you need to hunt down various blueprints for items from other failed outposts. This isn't bad even if you suck...

Why not ? They want money, it seems reasonable people would like to know what they are getting for said money. I could see an argument for wiping early access reviews on official launch, but even then, how is that any different from games that released in a shitty state but fixed everything in...

That makes no sense at all, mods have nothing to do with steam ? Unless they meant steam workshop, but that also makes no sense, because you could just not use it.

It's not just you, or people who aren't familiar with the game, the Caesar thing was very much slapstick comedy and totally out of place. For once though, I don't think it's the writing - it was the tiny size of the split camp, the number of people involved and the generally casual attitude to...

Nancy 'Leeroy' Jenkins, master tactician. Just start shooting it while everyone is standing there, it's cool, they can teleport to the top of the cliff or something. Not to mention the idea that bullets would even register to something that size, or that it'd try and stick it's head in there...

I've found this more 'ok' than 'great' in general, but I have to say the last episodes wizard fight was some damn fine wizard fighting.

You joke but

Come on, just because you can understand it doesn't mean it is not stupid. 'You can't handle our stupidity !' is probably the ultimate neckbeard comeback though. As such I salute you, continue the good work :)

This is kind of why there are groups of people that get seen as groups of rabid retards though. AI is a big area, even if you are talking specifically about LLMs, and there isn't anyone who can tell that, for example, you used AI code review tools to check for memory leaks and code...

It wouldn't work anyway I think. I'm no ship expert, but what's the range like ? A couple of hundred miles right ? Where is he refuelling ? Is he going to make it there before fuel runs out ? If he doesn't, is he paddling ? Someone with no clue what they are doing taking a sailboat instead...

Yeah, I think that's a place where the story constraints collided with gameplay design and the gameplay design lost. Most of act3 is what would normally be post-game content, but having it continue on to that after the ending would make no sense at all.

Damn, I haven't seen someone get that fucked on a contract since the guy that invented CDs.

Yeah pretty much. D:OS 2 has more intuitive mechanics than BG3 does, but otherwise BG3 is a better game in every way. It helps to be familiar with D&D rules, but BG3 normal difficulty is not aimed at min-max poopsockers in any way, and you have so little you can do a low levels in DND you get...

The drones they use have a top speed of 40mph - they have to be pretty close to get anything to her inside an hour, let alone a specific flavor of gatorade. I was mostly joking though, it could actually take hours for the drones to get to her, it's not like you'd film that.

Over Michael Caine ? That's crazy talk ! ;p There's a reason 'Some men just want to watch the world burn' is a whole thing.

Actually, that one kind of checks out, given the unreasonably fast drone response times ;p

Bah, I lol'ed hard when they panned over the entire studio dressed like mimes. Some well deserved wins for E33 there, although I felt bad for the entire best debut category - obviously E33 deserved the win there, but that's like having a NFL linebacker play in your middle school football game.

As a general rule, people don't write huge walls of text unless they are emotionally invested in something. Nitpicking and arguing about trivial shit is the nerd version of approval. Genuinely bad stuff leaves people too apathetic to even bother talking about it.

Sure it does - if it is a doomsday weapon designed by politically correct enlightened liberal sensibilities. Sure, we are going to kill everyone, but there's no reason to be *rude* about it, everyone will be happy and get along, there'll be no violence, just a slow, happy, peaceful end, hell...

Probably yes, give them time to watch it first ;p And, as much as pains me: Sorry, you were pretty much exactly right, about everything other than it being a plot hole or bad writing obviously. I was joking about 'plants are living !', but apparently not. Lack of grass a benefit of filming...

Like most of Sky Pride, it's an interesting take that makes considerably more sense than the common tropes. The common fantasy of being 'boss of everything' is all power and no responsibility, but that's not a structure that actually works in reality. If the boss doesn't know shit about what's...

Well - I have to give the dev for this one credit. After getting way better than expected sales he announced three expansions for next year - for free. That's surely someone that loves their job.

Interns are mostly paid in 'valuable real world experience' and 'opportunity for advancement', so that doesn't surprise me much. I dunno on the commie/capitalism front though - CEO takes money from his peasants valued employees for personal gain is pretty peak capitalism ;p Jokes aside, they...

Someone here recommended this one from memory - fun time waster, it's a super fast roguelite kingdom building /auto-battler. You build up various buildings and hire troops to help your hero defend against giant waves of enemies, and then level and gear them up. The trick with that one is that...

Yeah, the aliens knowing enough about human genetics and psychology that this plan worked is almost as implausible as the FTL comms needed for the hive mind to work. Maybe less so on the signal frequency and encoding - there's nothing to say this was the only broadcast they were doing - they...

True, if they wanted people to know what's going on, they should have made a powerpoint presentation explaining it in 6th grade language and shown it to Carol, so the audience got to see it.

Uh, they deliberately recreated the nucleotide sequence the aliens broadcast to them and injected rats with it to see what it did ? I though that was pretty clear from the first episode ?

As a response to : "So, you are vegetarian ?" "That would be our preference." you seem to have gone off the deep end, kept diving, found the ocean floor and started digging. "We can't purposely end life" is a lot different in the context of 'Can you go kill something for me to eat'. The...

I finished caves of lore recently - nice oldschool rpg with controls that work well with mobile. Pay up front, no mtx of any type.

Uh, TV show only guy I guess ? It depends when the game is set, but post Laconia has as much realistic grounding as Halo or Mass Effect. I am not sure where you're going with it in any case - it's pretty close to 100% certain that whatever storyline the game devs come up with won't be as good...

It wasn't 30 seconds though - the initial takeover lasted long enough for Carol to panic, steal a truck, load wife into the truck, drive her to hospital and then explore emergency room. Seems more like 20-30 min. Even the scene we saw on the show was more than 10 minutes. For Helen - there's no...

Ep3 is some quality comedy: "I'm very independent'. looool.