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Saw that Cengage and McGraw-Hill are now merging. US education groups McGraw-Hill and Cengage announce an all-stock merger Looked at the financials and it would seem that Cengage is treading water which is amazing in that industry as everyone else is sinking like a rock. I'm using a Cengage...

Well there might have been at one point, but the books now are (besides late) so chock full of characters that I doubt they even have time for the Song of Ice and Fire part of the story.

The uptick in magic level was a huge part of the novels (where the red comet has been seen much more than the 15 second or so we saw it in season 3 or whatever) and with that some flavor of 'its a new age' type of crossroads added to the epic nature of the story. After all without all the...

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So the raid will drop GS 500 items? Well what the hell. I suppose the raid will have the new set which may be nice enough as a GS 500 to warrant using over the existing stuff and/or some more ideally min/maxed items but overall that seems like a weaksauce cop out if the raid is at all challenging.

I am starting to wonder if we will actually get a real ending. There needs to be the sort of 'aint no coming back from this' sort of ending that cements things in place versus just being the status quo until some other claimant to the throne / whatever comes along. Irrespective of the whole...

Note that the release schedule solidifies the shift in the start of the Summer Movie season. For the longest time it was Memorial Day that kicked things off and then it ran to Labor Day. In more recent years we've seen big blockbusters released earlier and earlier until now we see that May 1st...

For more Matt Berry fun check out IT Crowd seasons 2+ or the aforementioned Garth Marenghis Dark Place. The former is on Netflix, the latter only you tube piracy.

This really was quite exceptional. I'm impressed by what they did with this.

I'd actually be more forgving if Qyburn had used some magic in making the things as the world is really really low fantasy when it comes to magical stuff.

Disney's commitment to the Avatar pentad is commendable given that no one fucking cares about Avatar at this point. Seriously Avatar 2 will have to be the second coming of amazing 3D and cinematic bliss in order for people to have any desire to go see it.

That was very much a 'fuck, who needs gunpowder / cannons??' moment. I guess also Qyburn should be thought of as the smartest man in Westeros given the various magical and engineering miracles he's performed.

Renewed! Yay!

They also could be doing that 'always darkest before the dawn' redemption arc where the hero is sorely tempted to compromise their moral center but manages to rekindle their spirit or whatever at the end.

Sony is not dumb. They have their wagon hooked to the MCU gravy train and aren't about to endanger that sort of lucre flowing their way. Disney is in the driver's seat here from a revenue point of view but they really need Spiderman to flesh out the narrative portion now that Iron Man and Cap...

Saw the mass market Hasbro action figures at Target yesterday. Not nearly as big a display as the Fortnite section, but still substantial. For a kid of the 80s who grew up with Star Wars / G.I. Joe / Transformers / Masters of the Universe the idea of gaming being the source IP for an action...

Where's that nano tech in non-super hero applications? At least Wakandan tech is fairly ubiquitous in their city, why wouldn't Stark have been making at least some bank off this stuff or at the very least providing it to first responders etc.

Watched it. Was standard disaster movie fare. Have to immediately suspend disbelief at the entire premise as well as everything even remotely 'science' in the whole movie, but it was enjoyable enough to sit through. Worst part was that it stretched out what was essentially a pretty tight...

Clone Wars and Rebels proves that storytelling is very much alive and well in Lucasfilm... The Mandalorian looks great and even Resistance, while on a very slow burn, is starting to come around as a pretty in-depth piece with a lot of great characterization. Get Dave Filoni to take over the...

I love that people are now talking about the Bucky Paradox inasmuch as they reference 'Hot Tob Time Machine'. Since Sebastian Stan was in that movie does that mean that there's a Sebastian Stan in the MCU along with Bucky?

When he was first cast a bunch of us said "wow...this is bad. He works as Johnny Storm, not Captain America". Very glad to have been proven wrong. Hell at this point Chris Evans IS Captain America in a way that will be with him for the rest of his life.

Ahh the good old days when you could have a cross dressing character without it being a hate crime...

I have a sneaking suspicion that whether by Lord of Light or Drowned God that Rhaegal is not as dead as everyone seems to think he is. It would fit with their tendency towards Deus ex Machina to have another different resurrected dragon show up. Regardless him getting shot out of the sky in...

Been having fun with this. The cadence of the missions is certainly a departure from the pacing of Diablo, but it's kinda nice to have something you can fire up and know you have a max 5 min chunk of content. Be interesting to see what their longer term plans are with respect to content...

I did notice that Claptrap's voice sounded a bit off for the new lines in Borderlands VR... His voice in BL3 sounds even more different as I suppose the new guy is making the character his own rather than just going for pure mimicry. Sensible but still a bit unfortunate given that the shrill...

I'm enjoying the character arc for Guillermo a lot. In the premiere he's 10 years in and so very enthralled by Nandor but owing to the lens on his life afforded by the film crew he is getting progressively more jaded and it's a joy to see. I'm surprised they got as much Doug Jones as they...

Nazjatar is up on the PTR and it looks... very dull. I cant imagine that someone came up with a concept painting that actually looked like boring retread of same crap.

Associate professor after 20 years? That seems a bit odd.

I finally got around to watching this and enjoyed it. It wasn't Endgame by any means, but it wasn't meant to be either and that's fine. I have to give them bonus points for having the balls to set up Mr. Mind as the big bad for a potential sequel.

The 'broadcast' cable was far more compressed than the streaming apps/devices. That is what makes this extra fucked, people who haven't yet cut the cord are getting a terrible quality presentation and that might be enough to send them packing. Given that this is the biggest thing HBO has...

Having him as one of the funeral attendees would have been appropriate at the very least.

Yeah I thoroughly expected that the last stand would be at the Aerie after the undead had blitzed everything else including King's Landing. The natural defense choke point nature of the Aerie would make it the only viable place to serve as a base for the anti-undead resistance who could sortie...

Can we talk for a moment about how fucking dumb it was to put the artillery right behind the sacrificial cavalry? Why didnt they place that shit as far back as they could so it would continually rain down fire from above? Hell for that matter they know they are fighting a mindless undead...

I think my biggest problem with this is how incredibly localized this "apocalypse" was. No one in Essos knows this even happened, no one south of Winterfell in Westeros would believe it was anything more than a silly story made up by drunk northerners to explain why part of the Wall fell...

Well thanks to Spider-Verse there are many such realities. If any property is perfectly fine to have multiple narratives running parallel it is this one thanks to that movie.

Does the massive revenue haul of this movie convince Sony to re-up their alliance with Disney to continue sharing Spiderman after Far From Home? Id think they'd be nutso not to as having Peter Parker in the other movies can only serve to increase their own brand value.

Be funny if Dorne just sits back and let's all this happen and then happily establish their independence. 'Yeah we knew about the ice undead...why do you think we are all the way at the other end of the fucking continent in this desert??' Also amusing that Old Towne, which is the biggest city...

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