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    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    He absolutely could have gotten that to work, it's all a matter of perspective. Consider the original obtaining of the unsullied - that was 100% deranged psycho behavior, but readers/watchers cheered, because 'fuck them slavers!'
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    Spider-Noir

    Lots of money left to loot in the cabins while the passengers run for the lifeboats ? 8)
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    The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin

    I am pretty sure I read the book, and I still wasn't sure what was going on. It's not awful or anything, just a bit boring. It didn't help that whoever was doing the sound mixing learned everything they knew from watching Tenet. "whisper whisper whisper BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...
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    The Beauty

    I thought the same thing, or at least it wasn't an improvement.
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    StarRupture

    I am pretty sure there are bugs with long distance rails - one of the first things I did at the beginning of the game was run a rail from a quite far he3 mine back to the starting area, and that line often has huge gaps in the throughput, even though it is buffed by l2 storage at both ends. It...
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    StarRupture

    Fuuuuuuuck. I only just realized I'd been accidentally playing nightmare mode because I expected it to work like Satisfactory. For those who may be in the same boat - the basic level 1 rail junctions come with automated smart switchers built in. In non-Satisfactory terms, that means you can...
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    Winter 2026 Anime Thread

    Noble Reincarnation - Anime isn't short on amazing, genius, super special boys. The MC in this one though is in serious danger of his dick actually falling off if they suck it any harder. It's actually a little sad, makes you want to give the writer a hug and tell him that his dad is never...
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    Ball x pit

    First free expansion is out now. New building that enables endless mode ( just continue after killing boss ) New classes, equipment, balls, etc. Nothing that changes the game much that I've seen, some of the new combos are pretty cool though - landslide in particular ( when it hits something...
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    Look, expecting the writers to know anything about the lore of what they are writing is clearly unreasonable, and probably racist.
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    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    I'm having some trouble believing that no-one remembers him after that scene. That guy 100% spent his life with women huddled together giggling as he walks past.
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    Dust Bunny (2025)

    I really liked this one. It's very Bryan Fuller with a fairy tale style tone, kind of like a storybook version of The Professional. The reactions to the FBI busting in, yelling 'Get down on the ground' were classic.
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    DS9 also has episodes where Sisko and son build a sailing ship.. in spaaaaaace.
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    That's the main cast for s2, not s1, and obviously not the full crew.
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    WorldBox - God Simulator

    Looked interesting enough to wishlist it, but you should have gone with their store page image https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1206560/extras/1d45579da9a721f5c7193aa9af62cdcb.webm?t=1727687171
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    I think you are proving Hoss' point there with 'I didn't actually watch it, but a ragebait video I watched said it, so it must be true'. The show is terrible enough already, you don't need to invent reasons to hate it ;p ( Also, obviously there were white men in S1 discovery, starting with...
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    The Beauty

    The similarities are mostly superficial - the Substance is about cloning and consciousness transfer, where this one is about a virus that makes you younger and hotter ( metaphorically and literally ). The bad guy of the Substance is the main character's vanity and self-loathing, and the bad guy...
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    For All Mankind

    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.
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    What did you just read?

    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.
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    What did you just read?

    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...
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    Web Serials

    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...
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    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...
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    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...
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    StarRupture

    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...
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    LitRPG

    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.
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    StarRupture

    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...
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    Hytale

    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...
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    Hytale

    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.
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    Fallout

    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...
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    Stranger Things

    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...
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    The Legend of Vox Machina

    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.
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    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

    You joke but
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    Divinity

    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 :)
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    Divinity

    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...
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    Pluribus

    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...
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    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

    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.
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    Winter 2025 Anime Thread

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

    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...
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    Pluribus

    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.
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    Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (2026)

    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.
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    Pluribus

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