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War of the World (2025) I don't get the reviews. When you're sitting in front of your TV, looking at Ice Cube sitting in front of a green screen that is reflected in his glasses, the correct choice is to review and enjoy the film for what it is. The wrong one is to review it as if it would be a serious work of art, because if there's one thing the reviews are right about, then it is this: War of the Worlds (2025), which was originally filmed during the 2020 lockdown, is an utter disaster. From the terrible cinematography, to the forgettable sound design, to the incredibly bad acting of the entire cast and digital effects on the level of 2003 game cinematics (the arrival of the tripods basically looks like it was copied and pasted from the arrival of the Burning Legion in Warcraft 3), one can only come to the conclusion that even Uwe Boll movies are better. Now, the techincal aspects aren't Neil Breen level terrible, but if you've ever seen a The Asylum film (I would recommend Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies if you haven't and are interested), that's about what you're getting - just that everything looks like found footage because most of the cast filmed their scenes with their phones' selfie cams. With that out of the way, what an enjoyable silly ride this was. The premise, the acting, the cinematography, the editing, the effects - combined everything is so bad it breaks the laws of physics and becomes a stunningly enrapturing mixture. Plus it has Clark Gregg, and let's face it, anything that has Clark Gregg in it automatically gets taken up a notch. If you don't agree, then fine, but know that you're wrong. Spoilers from here on out. I'll not mark them, because, well, what would be the point? The film features, of course, Ice Cube sitting in a chair, cast in the worst role you could think of for him, a high ranking intelligence officer. His daughter Faith, a genius biologist, is dating an Amazon delivery truck driver so Ice Cube can get a thumb drive at the end of the movie. He keeps a really close tab on his family, down to checking what Faith eats during her pregnancy, but he's completely oblivious to the so-obvious-it-hurts fact that his son Dave is the hacker and conspiracy theorist Disruptor that he spends the first fifteen minutes of the film trying to find. Shortly after yet another failed raid, meteors rain from the sky. The Burning Legion tripods arrives on Azeroth Earth. In what is a fun little twist and about the only interesting thing the film really does, the initial counter attack by various militaries around the world is highly successful. These tripods are not invincible, and they're taking down easily by concentrated missile and tank attacks. Ice Cube is swivelling on his chair yelling BOOYAH at the green screen - you know, like any seasoned intelligence officer would. Who could blame the guy. Alas, all that was just a diversion. Some tripods manage to locate data centers, and that is where the film really goes off the rails. See, the tripods in this version grow tentacles and start injecting tiny cybernetic insects into the data centers - insects that feed on data, and the more data they consume, the smarter they get. All the world's data gets eaten from the data centers. Power plants fail everywhere, Facebook pages disappear, the military is now completely incapable of fighting back as fighter jets and commercial airliners just fall from the sky, tanks stop dead in their tracks and not a single digital gizmo keeps working. Except Ice Cube's computer and Faith's, Mark's, Sara's (NASA friend of Ice Cube's) and Dave's smart phones, plus all the apps running on them. The internet is still working fine too, in spite of a global power outage. The tripods also forgot to attack or deactivate all the US drones cruising about. After Ice Cube finally finds out that Dave is DISRUPTOR, Dave's hacking collective develops a computer virus to drop the enemy mothership's shields infect the tripods, but it fails. Why? Well, as Eva Longoria puts it, the insects are part biological and part cyber. A couple of seconds later they got it all figured out, they combine Faith's research into anti-viral agents with their computer virus (DNA is just a sort of code, after all). Now all that is left for Ice Cube is to plug in his thumb drive, download CANNIBAL_CODE.EXE and upload that to the super secret government surveillance programm GOLIATH - which will infect all the aliens once they consume it. Only hitch in that plan? Ice Cube doesn't have a thumb drive. Top secret military installation, he says, ain't allowed to bring one to work. Makes sense. On the other hand, he's using Facebook at work and has Zoom and WhatsApp installed. Well, can't be perfectly secure in all aspects, can we. Anyway, now's Mark's time to shine, because Ice Cube just needs to buy a thumb drive from Amazon - which still works, by the way, even after the world's data was eaten by cybernetic insects - and out comes the Amazon delivery drone. Dave covers Mark with a leftover Predator drone and shoots down some aliens and crashes the drone into a tripod. Meanwhile the tripods are converging on Washington D.C., and a couple of B2s take off to carpet bomb (nuke, maybe, they are talking about a blast radius of five miles) them into oblivion. Well, them, the residential area of D.C., and most importantly, the GOLIATH data center hidden beneath Ice Cube's workplace. Please don't wonder how there's still working military equipment at this point after it all failed without data, and also don't think too hard on how and why the military would not constantly fly sorties against the alien invaders. They just knew they'd need to be on standby to bomb the ultimate goal of the alien invasion. Mark saves the day by successfully delivering the thumbdrive to Ice Cube, who barely makes it down to the server room. He plugs in the thumb drive and poof, alien threat vanquished. Yep. CANNIBAL_CODE.EXE does the trick. While writing this post I've racked my brain trying to find a worse film that I've seen, and somehow I come up short. Not even 80ies B-movies are this bad. Definitely a "so bad it's good" sort of film. A+, a 10/10, five stars. Will be shown at film schools all over the world in the future as an example of how not to make a film.

We could have the overall feel be a “mist” so the majority of the water droplets aren’t anywhere near dew droplet size. We could still have some larger raindrops fall to create the challenge mentioned. How much are we going to say it impacts the world? How fast will the world dry? Would the time of day impact that? Will things become slippery? Will we create gear that negates the slippery effect? Will it fill water collectors and max out dew droplet webs? If water is going to pool in the valley areas of the map, perhaps the AI pathing could have alternative routes during and right after it rains so the creepy crawlies don’t walk too deep into water. Flying insects would need to change their behavior. There are a lot of tunnels but many have enemies. Flooding the tunnels with enemies creates a problem balance wise as after the rain (or during it with swim gear) you can explore/loot the area enemy free assuming that Grounded 2 has the insects coded to die in deep water like in Grounded 1. Many of the insects in the game could be coded to swim/float or just stay alive even when submerged as their real life counterparts can do that so we just might face some submerged nightmare fights. It would be neat if a lot of cracks in the ground became creaks/rivers for a period of time during/after rain.

OK yesterday after work, I downgraded to 577.00 and the game worked and did not crash often. I did get one crash after playing for a couple hours. So it sounds like it has something to do with the latest NVIDIA driver. Crash report

I’m pretty sure mushroom blocks are already planned and just locked behind a chip that is not in the game yet. I’m with you on the paint. There are so many things we collect in Grounded that we should be able to come up with various paint/dye colors. They can make the other flowers that are in the game also drop petals and the different colored petals could impact the color of paint. (I just don’t feel like there’s enough recipes that utilize flower petals.) I have more mite parts than anyone could ever need so those could be ground into dust and used in some paint colors. Any materials we collect that are only used for few recipes should be prime consideration as a paint material. We have an ice biome so we could potentially to make a freeze dryer. Things you wouldn’t normally think to put in the grinder could be freeze dried first and then become a powder/dye for paints via the grinder. I’ve mentioned it in a couple other posts, but I wouldn’t mind some of the spray cans littered across the becoming spray paint cans, and we can collect paint directly from those.

PS: here's the list of permanent effects: https://pillarsofeternity.fandom.com/wiki/Status_effects_(Deadfire)#Permanent_effects

There is no general rule like "if you want to get the best stuff you have to be cruel" like in PoE (Gift of the Machine, Effigy's Resentment). Instead it's more diverse. There are some interactions where you can only get some stuff if you have a certain reputation (or if you don't have a certain one), like Nature's Resolve where you cannot have the cruel or agressive reputations (because then the fitting dialogue options won't show up). Nature's Resolve only lasts until the next rest though iirc. I cannot give a general direction to which reputation/disposition nets the overall best rewards because I don't remember. I can only say that the rewards are so insignificant (unless you are doing a n-rest run) that it's noth worth bending over backwards in order to get them (imo). There are also very few permanant effects in general. If I think about it: none of them requires a certain disposition. For certain nice unique items you need to get a bad reputation/relationship with a certain faction (see Gipon Prudensco for example).

Mutations: On log out max mutations are not saved. only 2 mutations are remembered. you do still get to pick the other 2 mutations.

Using the free time I have to get back to reading. I started with The Silmarillion, been a long while since I read it. May read the Hobit and LotR again afterwards.

I've tried everything. It's stuck in a little dip in the ground. It doesn't even move slightly.

Plz it's awful to build you can't place correctly when you try place a palicade gate you can't correctly place the other one cuz of the build assist and it doesn't even propose the correct place next to it wen build assist so please I beg you make it better

Multiplayer: Ant Buggy for non-host (multiple Ant buggies), If the non-host player dose not store said buggy in ant nest the buggy will not re-appear when the host loads the world. The buggy dose not seem to be deleted. My friend's game crashed, so I did not store my ant buggy. Once he loaded the save, I had to run back to base to see if my buggy was gone. It was not. I was surprised to see one of my other 3 ant buggies had come back. making it so now I have 2 ant buggies. I should have 3 any buggies.

I would hate it id it was like “honey I shrunk the kids” rain/sprinkler lol

Me and my friend were collecting them from day one, we reached about 15 in one little area, until a couple days ago where they all just disappeared, I think the in game days was maybe like 30-35 at that time?

The public roadmap shows that crickets and earwigs will be added in the winter, maybe you could use their legs to make the jump boots and earwigs have pincers on the back of their bodies which are similar to the shape or a boomerang. here’s an idea for the crafting recipe lol cricket spring boots: 2 Cricket legs 4 Crude rope 4 Cricket parts 2 Cricket antennae Earwig pincer boomerang: 1 earwig pincer 2 earwig parts 2 crude rope

Now with the latest (sneaky) update, I was able to complete the quest — the bee spawned correctly. tks

Scrambled, not whisked is the superior method. Very much am on @ShadySands' daughter's side here. You can vary the degree of doneness until you find one you like, I personally prefer them to not be too dry, but unlike sunny sides up, the yolk isn't supposed to be runny on scrambled eggs. Salt them a little in the pan. Lard makes for the best eggs (guess also the highest cholesterol ), followed by butter. A neutral oil works too if you have nothing else. Season liberally with paprika and add some freshly ground black pepper, but I can see how crunchy garlic with chili oil works perfectly fine too.

Hello, to get the snail eyes, shoot at the base/stalk of the eye with arrows and it should drop them, I had this problem aswell lol, so I just tried shooting at the eyes and now I get them a lot!

That looks very simple, I will try that tomorrow

I had the same thing happen to my son and i yesterday in our session on xbox... he fell through the map and his game crashed once he hit a certain depth. When he logged back in his inventory was completely wiped no armor weapons milk molars nothing. We found most of the milk molars. We were hunting wolf spiders throughout the map since we got the spicy staff He had fully upgraded scorpion gear, with scorpion Trinket, weaver daggers, red ant club including gloom skewer and the unique staff you find at the fire pit all gone. Tried soft reset, game repair recover back backs in case that was an option. He checked his buggy inventory because he was riding his red ant buggy and nothing. We even tried soft resetting his console maybe it was a software glitch etc but nothing. I just hope theres a way to get his stuff back he was pretty bummed last night, especially the unique items as they dont respawn in the world.

Give it whirl and see how you like it. I found you an actual recipe for them. https://thecookful.com/hard-scrambled-eggs-the-american-method/ Everyone in my house will eat those "rough" scrambled eggs but then they start differing from there and I like to tell them I'm not a short order cook. Wife likes sunny side up, son likes sunny side up, over easy, or over hard and smashed, daughter only likes scrambled and not whisked. LCD wins 90% of the time so we typically all eat what my daughter likes.

like the style

love the suggestions, Ladybuggys (love that name lol) perfect hauler tank The ability to see your buggies inventory when mounted would be nice, like it appears next to yours when you open the Sca.b The qa wheel, personally, i want the G1 version, adding the categories instead of just the items, once you add an item you're locked in until you change it Speed build multi prints sounds perfect, go harvest a cr*p ton of grass, then just hold the button as you move along the floors Agreed, but, what if you have a shield, your charge attack actually blocks with the shield while charging, only power attacks can stop your charge Oh, i love those free for alls (sarcasm btw) its worse when a mosquito and stinker get involved I think, quote me if I'm wrong, the mounted archer is actually planned

Hi there I had a quick search to see if anyone else was having this particular issue to no luck, and it may just be me, but the option to buy the Pebblet Foundation item from the Science Shop keeps reappearing every time I load in a save. I have access to it and the game has allowed me to buy it 3 times (the second was by accident) and the 3rd was testing to see if I was going mad. I'm running the game on PC, through Steam, it's been updated to the latest patch. Is this the best place to report a potential bug?

i want my mushroom bricks back, maybe we could make some paint from grub goo and use it on decals, graffiti etc

The Hot Deposit is kinda buggy, it keeps putting my bow away, but only if I haven't used it for a while, but yes it deposits all resources that currently have a matching item, unless the chest is full, but you just hold the key on one chest and it sorts everything, everywhere