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Dunno your class, but if you are warrior you can just stun her to prevent the spider summoning. Slam is a pretty handy skill.

That's not true, even all the way up to current time. The non-human bit is doing a lot of carrying there as well, given that 90% of all the characters are non-human. That, on the other hand, is a completely fair criticism.

There's two different dismisses - if you dismiss from their portrait ( red cross ), then they just go inactive in tavern, they still stay with all their gear etc and you can hire a new one for that slot. The second dismiss, the gray skull on the merc screen, permanently deletes them and, as far...

Path of the Deathless is kind of the ADHD of litrpg, it's pretty much a relentless onslaught of ridiculously over the top action and progression. Central conceit is that the MC gets stronger against whatever killed him each time he gets killed. If you thought DotF was too slow to ramp up this...

Normally 'super powered beings can't come up with anything better than punching for a fight' is a lame cliche, but that opening uppercut gets a pass from me ;p

That's probably actually a best case for a show like this - don't have to run the line between having no content if you are renewed and spinning wheels going nowhere in the current season. 'You've got a season to wrap it up' is pretty generous.

Sure, you can dislike stuff for whatever reason, I think Seananigan's point was more that it's not always obvious if something you don't like makes a story worse or not, even for you. Like compare the 'I read this story but character x fucking sucked, I hated everything about them' and 'I...

People can mean different things when talking about animation quality, sometimes it's just about whether it looks good, sometimes it is about appreciation of the amount of work that something took to do, or of clever tricks that people hadn't done before - it's kind of like cinematography...

It's been like 20 years, but I remember liking it. Obviously don't expect modern animation standards.

Fucking around with the timeline like they wanted to be Westworld was certainly a choice. It's probably money though - the anime financing world seems murky and incomprehensible even by hollywood accounting standards, and how good something was/how many people watched it don't seem to have any...

but the feeeeeeels ! This was mawkish self-indulgent rubbish, if they just left it at the end of the previous episode that would have been fine.

I don't do audiobooks, but that sounds like a great idea. Particularly for chrysalis actually, author made the rookie mistake of using adjectives instead of numbers in mutations, so it gets increasingly ridiculous as the MC picks between things glowing-hyper-dense-ultra-compact-compound-plating...

S2 seems pretty on par with S1 - spots of amazing giant monsters and interesting story, interspersed with painfully pointless family drama. It did set a new low bar for unintentionally hilarious casting though when their 'elite hacker' wasn't able to use an ipad because her fingernails were too...

That bugged the shit out of me. Not to mention what the fuck the reactor cooling towers had to do with the main doors being open or closed. The 'oh if there's low O2 then the doors will automatically open' I can buy sort of ( though this 'feature' is pretty pants on head in a sealed bunker...

They did, but they never successfully sued anyone over it. Although I guess 'success' there should be 'patent was challenged and upheld' rather than 'opponent ran out of money defending against our lawsuits'. The latter they managed pretty effectively.

You can't patent game rules and mechanics - adding 'on a computer' shouldn't make any difference. That's one thing going for US patent law I guess. I'll agree that changing that is stupid, and will end up in disaster when no-one can make anything without getting 300 separate licenses from...

I have no clue what's going on with Daemons of the Shadow Realm, but I am all in. I am a big fan of the apparent genre (spoilered in case you were like me and had no idea what it was about going in) and the execution seems pretty good.

In fairness, 'start with something simple then scale it up a lot' is the leading explanation for human intelligence. I agree it is unlikely though, but despite grandiose claims from Altman, I doubt anyone is seriously expecting or wanting AGI out of the LLMs. 'Why should I do anything for you...

No, the approach for coding tools has changed quite a lot - they don't work the same way that the chatbots do anymore. Individual steps do, but there's a much larger shift in terms of orchestration and mixed-in non-llm tools, as well as changing ways that context inputs work to avoid the...

Nah, the 'it's just a chatbot!!' is not even remotely accurate. In the coding 'game', it is now a fantastically valuable tool. Is it replacing expert humans ? Not yet at least, but most people drastically underestimate the amount of expertise in any given field. Is it replacing offshore...

I don't think you need a more sinister explanation here than 'money'. Why sell someone something when you can rent them something indefinitely instead ?

A dirty secret of the stock market - no-one has any idea what the fuck is going on either, it's bullshit all the way down. The winners are the people who correctly predict how other people who have no idea what they are doing are going to react to things.

So I have mixed thoughts on the ending for Territory Defense -

There's not much of a common theme with that list, so not sure on similar to the existing ones. Hmm - the other ones by Blue Core author are pretty good if you haven't checked out Paranoid Mage or Systema Delenda Est, both of those were good and are finished. Similiar to Chrysalis - Syl maybe...

Zero interest, because after watching the bodycam video the jury would laugh so hard that he'd need to pay THEM damages as well.

I thought the pilot was ok, but the second episode was so bad I stopped watching.

It started pretty well, flailed around in the middle and then abruptly ended without going anywhere interesting. As far as the trans thing goes, it turns you into what you want to look like, so there's no deeper message there - unless you want to also intuit some deeper meaning into Kutcher's...

That scene was in 1997; introducing time travel is close enough to supernatural that the same complaints would probably apply. It would also be painfully stupid because after inventing time travel you decide to be pointlessly cryptic - not even no name, or no gender, it doesn't even say what...

No, but that dude being just normally crazy is still a reasonable explanation. I.e. instigating incident for the mother being a cunt, and no deeper meaning. We'll see I guess. I was a little disappointed at them for the kind of casually upbeat portrayal of the bunker buddies though. 7 people...

First one was pretty fun, entirely apart from the inherent entertainment in the modern military vs swords and sorcery ( I don't know why there are so few examples of this ? ). It's played mostly straight, but it doesn't take itself too seriously, and there's a fun sense of humor through it...

Yeah, there is just so much stuff, even just the basic gear let alone the set bonuses. I only just unlocked the throbbing domain, which appears like it has a whole new tier of unique items. My cat collection is kind of a mess now though, pack of deformed mutants ;p

Hell mode is more fun than I anticipated. The edgelord/wholesome meter is pretty much the opposite of what I was expecting. I lol'ed at the MC's defensiveness about being a degenerate multiboxer.

This just has so many funny interactions. Just had a tank with wrestlemania and preemptive counterattack. Stuff runs in to attack and he suplexes them, leaving them to attack empty space in the wrong direction, while also covering his back against backstabs. Wrestlemania is great in general...

What does that actually mean ? That article says only one person has been cast so far, and the picture of her obviously isn't in character/costume for the show.

I lol'ed. Dunk looked like someone hit him in the head with a hammer.

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!'

Lots of money left to loot in the cabins while the passengers run for the lifeboats ? 8)

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...

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

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...