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I think the global box office totals will be just a bit lower than they might otherwise be. Why? There are some members of what should be the core audience who wont see this because they feel they fell too far behind with the movies. One of my best friends missed Dr Strange, Black Panther...

Remember that in the MCU Wanda is not a mutant but rather a living product of the Mind stone. Since her power derives from the Mind stone itself it makes some sense.

I've always disliked master looting. I get the general concept and can see how it would be beneficial for a tightly woven team, but in practice there always was a lot of social engineering and drama that got folded into it, especially when you ML to gear up a dude who then skips town for...

I decided not to undo any of my deaths and power through and it is really costing me. My repair budget / time spent is crazy high and the monthly financial statement reads like a horror story... oh and I seem to get and kill a red shirt every damn mission.

The directors do an excellent job of emulating the 'style' of the different element franchises. It really feels like a crossover event as a result with different parts played out in different comics with the same creative team only giving a different side of the bigger picture.

I do say that given what I saw of Ashes of Creation at PAX I would be very much on board with Intrepid acquiring Daybreak and rebranding Ashes of Creation as Everquest 3. Of course what with having that huge booth at PAX and all the other marketing to date they have been aggressively working...

I have faith in Filoni. From the sounds of it its going to be very much like Rogue Squadron (the comic that is) just set a few decades later and dealing with Black Squadron and the whole shadow cold war between the Resistance and the First Order... basically the setting info it would have been...

Correct. Once you have 2 Tier 1 abilities selected then those levels for other skills just become dots. Sensor Lock seems pretty vital and is good to have on your scout-type person who can zip around and make sure that your target doesnt have a stupid number of Evasion ticks active.

I would like to say that I find the little vehicles with the LRMs to be incredibly annoying. Especially given that they are able to fire from waaaaay on the other side of mountains and just rain death down upon my poor squad. Also thank goodness for the 'realistic' travel times. My peeps...

That's Studio Mir and they are a South Korean studio, which isn't all that unusual given that a LOT of 'American' animation is actually done in South Korea.

Man oh man they do a terrible TERRIBLE job of explaining the rules of the game / how the combat system works etc. If I didn't already know how to play the tabletop version and have extensive experience with other Battletech Universe games I would be very confused.

I feel they don't get why Mistweaver was a fun class to play... Being able to move while channeling soothing mist was a core part of the enjoyment of the class as that steady stream of healing served as a nice buffer in quick paced events. It blows my mind that they keep ramping up the degree...

I feel that the biggest error of the Sequel Trilogy is the lack of scope of the whole thing. We go into TFA knowing less about the state of the galaxy then we did in A New Hope and that's a problem. If, and only if, you read or follow the ancillary material do you learn what happened after...

I was initially puzzled at the statement that there would be no DLC given the existence of the map room (even though is specifically says soandso will never be open). Then I realized they were likely gonna do the old fashioned 'sequel' rather than a DLC expansion and would be able to re-use...

Arcane Mage has only two Artifact Traits baked in. Both of them are talent options and so not only do you have to sacrifice something else to get them, but they are the same in name only as the actual effect has changed dramatically.

like terrigenesis?

I thought they said they would be baking in lots of the Artifact Weapon powers into the specs once they were yanked from us at the end of Legion? (Well presumably at the start of the patch where the whole engine shifts to the new one) They have stated that the difference between daily questing...

Metacritic on this is a decent 84 at the moment with most of the criticisms being aimed at some rendering issues more than the gameplay. Very much looking forward to this. I pushed to finish the core narrative of God of War last night just so I could dive into Battletech this evening.

I feel our boy Sanderson has been slacking... I've gotten too accustomed to multiple releases in a given year and it seems his Apocalypse Guard novel has become whatever the novel equivalent of vaporware is; Vapor...text? *shrug* Anywho I guess there is just Wax and Wayne 4 to look forward...

Thank you! I knew he looked familiar but the scratching at the back of my skull hadn't reached the level of looking him up on IMDB to figure out why. *edit for new episode* Holy cripes Errenwright is a total sleazeball. I mean I knew he was from the moment his smarmy face appeared, but good...

Looking at the spoiler-ish previews for the next expansion and the burning of Teldrassil it seems as though they have given up on the idea that the two sides merely represent cultures in conflict and have gone all Snidley Whiplash moustache-twirling evil for the Horde. I mean it was already...

I think the MSRP for Gloomhaven is ~$140. I actually paid $125 at PAX to a vendor there who sold out quickly. Also kudos to vendors who stick to regular pricing and don't try to price gouge like a lot of listings I see on Amazon

Who here has taken any sort of Astronomy course? What sort of a course was it and how much 'math' was involved?

Board Games are on the Amazon Gold Box today and some deals are 40-50% off! I picked up a copy of Terraforming Mars and the Venus Next expansion for $53

I feel bad for Teddy... I don't think he is capable of quite understanding what the fuck is going on.

My main combat technique is.... (very minor ability related spoiler)

The lack of advance ticket sales and non-existent merchandising confidence is very telling. I went looking for the new SOLO toys over the weekend and they are just not there. Very small release (much smaller than Rogue One) and fully half the characters in the yellow-striped packaging color...

I love the game, but the voice of Kratos keeps causing cognitive dissonance for me. I keep expecting him to say 'Jaffa KREE'

They have always been real could about how the guns work in general. They clearly have an impact and can break objects easily enough, but are more like a supercharged air soft gun when used on humans. The best theory was that they had a highly variable firing profile depending on a decision...

So been playing Gloomhaven.... I think I may have a slight addition issue. I don't even really know why I'm enjoying it as much as I am. In principle its actually a pretty basic game of D&D without a GM and yet....

God damn I love this show... Amos continues to be the soul of the main cast and Wes Chatham's portryal of him as calm yet undeniably powerful is on point.

I feel like the overall plot of WoW has reached a point where it no longer makes sense for the player character to be a player character. It works still as a game if you are playing as the apprentice of your former character or some other conceit but otherwise it demands too great a suspension...

I did notice at PAX that the mage felt... clunky? It certainly felt slowed down compared to Live Legion. I think the time to kill was about the same but it felt like I was spending a lot more time casting things / waiting to cast things. *edit* I know its a conceit with each expansion that...

Are Legendary items going to still be a thing in Battle for Azeroth or will it just be Azurite powered regular armor?

I do like that "Dr Smith" is a true sociopath. Very much a student of how people interact mostly because she seems incapable of such feelings herself. The robot's story and the whole nature of the Xmas Star and how Earth stole the technology for the ship in the first place is the main draw...

Part of the charm of the original was that there was no way anyone would tolerate Dr. Smith and his evil plots never mind leave their kid with him...yet every week that is precisely what they did.. All the flashbacks to Earth and the X-mas star situation that brought them here is rather...

It comes out in that video as well, but when trying it at PAX I was turned off a bit by the animations. Obviously this is early going and the animations are probably just placeholders, but they still felt very much like skating across the world and doing the generic Troll 'pool cue' animation...

Watched first episode, seems decent enough. Cool Bill Mumy cameo towards the end that had me cackling.