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  1. Phazael

    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    That was in Season 2 and it was indeed a low point of the show. Most of SNW is decent. But every once in a while the terminally TDS captain actor or writers put some major cringe into the episode. The biggest issue is they have to treat STD like it actually occured.
  2. Phazael

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    He has definitely made some questionable decisions pate in the game
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    It's worse than that, with the patriots every n.F c team remaining is one , they've already beaten in the super bowl. That's all we're gonna hear on a loop for the next couple weeks
  4. Phazael

    Worst movie you've ever seen?

    Valarien in the City of 1000 Worlds was exactly this. That opening sequence with Rutger Hauer narrating and Space Oddity playing was one of if not the best openings to a movie I have ever seen. Then nothing but frothing shit followed for two hours. If they had made the opening five minutes...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Man was I off on this weekend with my predictions. I guess 17 guys on IR was too much for the Packers to make it through a game, but even with that we basically lost because our place kicker completely fucked us again and left seven points on the field. Rams Panthers game was the best one to...
  6. Phazael

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    More detailed: Round 1- Packers squeek past the Bears, Jags pants the Bills, Pats edge out the Chargers (this could go either way), Texans defeat the Steelers and both teams beat the fuck out of each other in the process, and the Eagles sneak past the corpse of the 49ers Round 2- Denver eeks out...
  7. Phazael

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    The only team that looks dominant late in the season in either conference is the Jaguars and they are the most complete team. Denver is just too damn inconsistent on Offense for my liking. At least three teams going are cooked due to injuries (Packers, Chargers, SF) and every other team in it...
  8. Phazael

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Regarding the Packers, all things considered (this was supposed to be an off year) despite the disappointing end we exceeded expectations. We made the playoffs (and will probably get bounced by the Bears) and had a decent showing on both sides of the ball until injuries decimated our entire...
  9. Phazael

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Vrabel won't get coach of the year with Ben Johnson making the Bears look like contenders. Pats were already on an upward trajectory starting last year. Johnson took a team that was expected to finish last in the division and will likely get all the way to our customary NFCN Championship loss...
  10. Phazael

    Pluribus

    The location shooting is part of the logistical challenges of this show, too, I have to imagine. Stupid overly elaborate sets that need to be built for one time throw away scenes not only drive production costs up, but they consume valuable time. Slow Horses, which has a larger cast, action...
  11. Phazael

    Depression

    Congrats on getting the pipes blasted out. Take it one day at a time and see where it goes without being too positive or negative. A good schlonging can do wonders for depression in the short term. Hope things keep going your way over the long haul.
  12. Phazael

    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    I am "I read this comic book when it came out" years old, actually. I am in the rare group who actually prefers the movie ending. And of course that had to be one of the most perfectly cast movies of all time.
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Work and choir bullshit finally died down so did some movie watching the last week, just taking in random movies I had not seen. Palm Springs- Good romcom if you dont try to overthink the sci fi part of it. Has the lonely Island guy and the girl from Penguin, who may not be the most attractive...
  14. Phazael

    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

    Remember who AI is mostly being developed by. And lets not even talk about the AI thats really just a building full of poo slingers pretending to be AI...... AI derives its knowledge from human knowledge. Once people stop knowing how to do anything themselves anymore, the fucking wheels come...
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    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

    1 Shot Maelle is semi workable fairly early, if you get her weapon at the first chance in the bush people village by using her in the final Arena fight. The main thing are the Pictos from the secret Arena, that weapon, and Stendahl/sacrifice HP skill combo. All are fairly easy to have by that...
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    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

    There are two optional bosses that require perfect parrying, but you can get around most of the rest without being perfect. Simon just one shots anyone he hits, even at L99 and is there for the asians and twitcher players. His windows are very narrow and reads are deliberately misleading...
  17. Phazael

    Fallout

    Enclave had a small base and mostly got their shit pushed in by House, if I recall the game. The young gay doctor guy who was at the Mormon compound (want to say Arcade?) would be the only one potentially still alive.
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    Fallout

    IF this is after the game, Boone is gone one way or the other. Plus with only an eight episode run (and seemingly a focus on the House arcs) there is only so much time to go around for side arcs.
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    Fallout

    No, schlomo. The real game here is lubing people up for commercials to be added full on to streaming services, including Prime. That and to obfuscate when the creators dump all the money in the first two episodes so they can keep people watching in the hope that the show stops sucking at some...
  20. Phazael

    The Game Awards 2020

    Valid point and in general I am not a fan of the whole Telltale Games style. But.... this, when viewed as an entertainment experience, was well written with excellent voice casting and a very satisfying game loop. It also was inexpensive and had some replay ability. I guess if you do not...
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    The Game Awards 2020

    The sad truth is that this was mostly a shit year for games with a couple of outstanding exceptions. E33, Silksong, Dispatch, and..... maybe the FFT Remake if you want to count that? Rest were holdovers from wokified studios recouping costs before they get gobbled up by other companies or...
  22. Phazael

    The Game Awards 2020

    A required button press with precise timing in what is otherwise an entirely turn based RPG that impacts the combat mechanics. How else would you classify that? Again their own text box in your screenshot expressly labels them as such by excluding them being affected by that setting.
  23. Phazael

    The Game Awards 2020

    That is only for attack timings which are super easy and never change. Parry, Dodge, Jump, Super Parry QTEs stay on no matter what and only get slightly larger windows by dropping the overall game difficulty. The defensive QTEs (especially in engame and higher diff) that are the issue...
  24. Phazael

    The Game Awards 2020

    FIrst of @Lanx You cannot turn them off (you are thinking of Dispatch), just increase the timing windows a small bit. And @Noodleface Git Gud is not the issue, as someone who has burned through every single Souls game. Its not that I can't do the timing windows, it is that I don't want a turn...
  25. Phazael

    The Game Awards 2020

    I personally avoided it until very recently for this exact reason. For the most part, the combat is fun but I really hate QTEs especially in my old age. That and all the end game balance seems to revolve around either being able to perfect parry for literally over an hour or around one shot...
  26. Phazael

    2025 Asshat Contest Ride, Roast, and Last Minute Campaigning Thread

    Don't worry. He had it on lockdown last year too so they held open the vote forever until they had enough mail ins to push Foler past him.
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    2025 Asshat Contest Ride, Roast, and Last Minute Campaigning Thread

    Your ratio is impressive, for sure. But nothing compares to the sheer volume of work that the Putin agent has put in when it comes to shitting things up and riding the fine line to Rickshawland. He has gotten a lot of people who should know better to engage with his trolling over the years...
  28. Phazael

    2025 AssHat FINAL ROUND VOTING!!!!11!!1!

    nirgon vs. Araysar Nigron alienating everyone in the Incel thread make him the easy winner...... if the slav troll did not exist. Araysar has multi year history shitting up multiple threads even when on ignore. No mere mortal with the tism can hope to compete with the tracksuit Lord of the...
  29. Phazael

    2025 AssHat Voting FINAL FOUR!!!

    Araysar vs. wellijustdontknow nirgon vs. Tasty the Treat There was only ever one way this year was gonna end......
  30. Phazael

    Pluribus

    No starvation takes longer. But the complete dietary shift for those eating healthy food (even us fatties) and process corn suryp is a system shock. This is especially true if you are being physically active in the fasting time frame, like say reconfiguring your entire food infrastructure to...
  31. Phazael

    2025 AssHat Voting Round 3!!

    Araysar vs. Lightning Lord Rule - I mean, really? Sanrith Descart vs. Lanx - A Shekel for the good goyim. Also Lanx, we may need to get the Axis Powers thing going again the way things are headed..... Gavinmad vs. willijustdontknow - Two worn out jokes to riff off of here. Going with the new...
  32. Phazael

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Have you given any consideration to finding some other nerd activity you both like that could involve other people? Like a board game or TTRPG night? Or maybe a good old fashioned movie night?
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    Pluribus

    This all assumes that all life in the universe is governed by nucleotide RNA sequences (which there are strong arguments for that I won't shit up the thread with) and they can locate another life bearing world (which we are getting pretty close to that in the modern world). But if we want to...
  34. Phazael

    Frankenstein

    It got the "Modern Audiences" adjustment, which is all it took to sink this on its own. Del Toro has flirted with that shit (I am a misunderstood unique snowflake subversive) bullshit forever, especially in anything from Hellboy 2 onward. His unique cinematography and strong casts have carried...
  35. Phazael

    Pluribus

    If their strategic interests allowed them to end life in selective situations, they would have deleted the last 11 dipshits who ended up immune...... unless they are worried about the idea of other immunes popping up in future generations of pod people, in which case they may be hanging on to...
  36. Phazael

    Pluribus

    I think it is pretty clear they are doing a big population cull in the background somewhere. They literally do not give a fuck about the well being of any individual hive members, outside of playing pretend with the immunes. Note they never said they could not kill themselves and we have seen...
  37. Phazael

    2025 AssHat Voting Round 2!!

    Araysar vs. Goatface - You did 3am Ballot Drops to push Foler past him last year. Nothing will stop him this year. Besides I hear his people are fond of hats. Lighting Lord Rule vs. Siliconemelons - Down with Fake Tits. Sanrith Descartes vs. RQB - A thinking man's Asshat. Vuuxo vs. Lanx - Hard...
  38. Phazael

    2025 Asshat Contest Ride, Roast, and Last Minute Campaigning Thread

    So just to clarify, does this mean the brief one liners after individual votes are off limits too? Because we have been doing that since this whole thing started? Does Cad think he is the NFL commissioner policing touchdowns now?
  39. Phazael

    AssHat 2025 Voting: Round 1. Cast your votes!!!

    TomServo vs. Goatface - Coinflip Lightning Lord Rule vs. Kuro Close call, but blackpilling for updoots gets the win. Siliconemelons vs. Denamian - Don't know a thing about either of these guys, but down with fake tits. Caligula the Cat vs. RQB - Another coinflip. Vuuxo vs Blazin Gavinmad vs...