Blarghagh

Agreed. The orcs look like ten tons of muscle, and the humans seem like... humans. Not WarCraft, Arathorian Vrykul-descended humans but regular humans. Malc: Yes, this is all first war era. What exactly happened with the Frostwolves has always been unclear, they just expanded on it a little. Edit: Surprised they didn't announce some kind of RTS remake at BlizzCon. The movie would be a perfect way to reboot the series and carry on with the lore without having to deal with the clusterhump WoW turned it into.

To be fair, Bruce has a point and in fact Zoraptor and I continued our Star Wars back and forth in PMs two days ago, before he ever posted that to prevent further thread derailment. I do apologize, I would have steered it on topic even before that but I usually open up a bunch of topics at the same time to read in order and the amount of Star Wars talk confused me into thinking I was actually in the Star Wars topic and I responded accordingly. My bad. I don't consider it a big problem, since this thread always has ebbs and flows about other topics and it reached Star Wars rather organically through the "Disney is erasing the chainmail bikini from history" bit but I should have stepped in sooner. However, just because he was right doesn't mean he was in the right. The thing about it is that moderation is not the members' job to do and if you have a problem with something and think a moderator should step in, then send a PM to a moderator or use the report function. This even applies to when a moderator is already in the discussion - we're totally capable of disagreeing with each other. What he was even less in the right about is the naming and shaming of the members involved, and obviously people are already starting to respond in kind - which is exactly why we have moderators to do this. Now last time the discussion turned this way, I was more subtle about turning it away by just grabbing an already disproved scandal about holding back reviews to let a developer fix bugs, but honestly if this thread starts becoming a mass of ad hominem again I'm going to be less patient with it. As we moderators here like to say, tackle the ball and not the player. First Rami Ismail and now this. Why is this lie being perpetuated? There isn't a Fallout game where you can't play as a female. Hah, people patting developers on the back for changing nothing. Diversity success!

Dungeons as a plausible alternative to raiding as end-game content? Sign me up! Most of the WoD dungeons are awesome, it's just that we've got no reason to run them after we're geared up.

Overwatch pricing set. You get all the heroes and game modes but the base game costs 40 USD. Not too bad.

Just Durotan and the Frostwolves, though, and lorewise that is accurate if the timing is different.

Trailer just debuted. It looks... weird, and not all that true to the lore. Also baby Thrall... godammit.

I always feel like the worst missed oppertunity in the actual movies is the red herring Dooku throws out. When he goes like "the senate is under the control of the Sith Lord, join me and we can save the universe". That should not have been a red herring, that should have been the turning point. Obi-Wan should have joined him and taken a sizeable group of Jedi with him. Obi-Wan and Anakin driven on a collission course, both convinced that they're saving the Republic? Now that's tension and emotional stakes. That is the one moment in the prequel trilogy where I thought things were going to start getting awesome.

Have to disagree there. Both aotc and rots were good movies potentially and would have been so with some moderate retooling, TPM on the other hand had so many bad ideas and implementations that you'd have to start from scratch. The problems of the latter two movies were that almost always whenever people talked and particularly whenever emotion was required- especially Anakin and Padme- it was stultifying garbage of the highest order. Lucas desperately needed a script and story editor who he would listen too and who wasn't a yes man. The general stories of both were more or less OK, but the general story of TPM was illogical and incomprehensible requiring fundamental revision as well as having the same dialogue problems. RotS I'd actually defend as being a good movie overall, despite its faults and I'd happily watch AotC again so long as I can fast forward picnicking on Naboo and suchlike. TPM... I guess there is the Maul duel, although even that is a convoluted illogical mess if you think about it. I want to go into how much I disagree with what you're saying, but I'm afraid I'll end up writing a wall of the text the likes of which nobody has ever seen. Like, War & Peace. I'll try to be quick. - The Phantom Menace may have a convoluted plot, but it does consistently set stakes and goals. If Anakin doesn't win the pod race, they'll be stuck on Tatooine without resources. If the Gungans don't distract the droid army, they can't take the city. If the Jedi don't defeat Darth Maul, he'll kill the queen. There are no sequences like that in the other two movies. There are no stakes, even at it's most "dramatic". If Obi-Wan can't defeat Anakin at the end of RotS, what happens? He'll kill all the Jedi and take over? He's already done that. Obi-Wan already lost before the fight begins. Sure, he could kill Obi-Wan and Yoda and then "the dark side prevails" or some such bull****, but that's not really tangible. It's not really established what the stakes are, or what Obi-Wan's goal is other than killing his former best friend. - What sequences in the prequels are good, do you think? For me, this list includes only the Pod Race and the Darth Maul duel. They have problems, but they're consistent with the universe and look pretty cool. I'm lukewarm regarding the Jango vs Obi-Wan sequence in AotC, but the rest of that movie is filler except for the sequences even you wanted to fast-forward through. Even the climatic fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan is terrible - like I already said, there are no stakes (whereas Phantom Menace just has stakes we don't give a **** about) but moreso than that until the very end they spend twenty minutes swinging their lightsabers without either of them gaining the upper hand in some way. Where is the tension in that? At least Maul was kicking the Jedi's ass. - Why would you say RotS is defensible as a good movie overall? It consistently sets up a scene that looks like it's going to be good and then absolutely ruins it. I don't think there is a single scene, let alone sequence, in RotS that I think is good. - Why do you say AotC and RotS would only need moderate retooling? I feel they would need less retooling solely because the basic story is in place through what we're told in the original trilogy (whereas TPM mostly deals with an unrelated story). The actual plot of AotC and RotS, in my opinion, needed to be entirely scrapped and redone and so would every sequence and line of dialogue. Not to say that the same isn't true of TPM, but that's kind of my point. They're equally bad, plot wise. - I consider the performances in TPM to be better than those in the other two movies. Other than kid Anakin, a child actor, who is truly awful, I find that everyone either seems bored (Neeson, Portman, McGregor, that guy who plays Maul) or gives a performance with character (Schmi, Watto, Jar Jar). Note that I'm not saying they're good characters, but while Jar Jar is annoying I can honestly say that I never felt like he was phoning it in. The bumbling bad guys are ridiculous, but I felt their characters were ridiculous, I didn't feel that they sounded out of character. Even the shadowy Sidious feels suitably threatening and it is the one time in the prequel trilogy that he does. On the other hand, with the exception of McGregor who gives it his all but fails, everyone in the other two seem like they're not even trying. And I can't blame them, because who can say that horrible dialogue, but they are truly more awful. - I feel like people got tricked into thinking AotC and RotS were better because their expectations were lowered and because they didn't have Jar Jar. I truly cannot find any other reasons why anyone would like those movies more than TPM. It's like the anti-nostalgia. TPM ruined something people thought would be amazing, when the others just about conformed to already shattered expectations. Sigh, there's the wall of text anyway.

Arrow was made much better by an unexpected (to me) guest.

That was my first thought too, could have done it for the 1/10th of the cost then But that isn't good enough for the UK banks anymore. You need to drag the landlord to a solicitor then and have the solicitor to co-sign and rubber stamp the agreement as genuine and then it's still questionable if they would take it (more likely if you are a UK citizen). A signed piece of paper from an accredited real estate agent they have no issues with. Edit: Just for good measure, it's not a legislation thing, it's something the members of some bankers association all agreed upon this year, so it wasn't much of a problem earlier. Now, even returning UK citizens can't open a bank account (hope they hung unto their old ones before leaving). Exemption are those working for the Crown, that is armed forces personnel etc. Also not a problem if you are wealthy enough, then they still want your money. Just deposit 25000 pounds and prove that you have an annual income of more than 150000 pounds. Then they send the business to the overseas branches and circumvent the local rules that they all agreed upon (yes, I checked all the major banks, they all have similar rules in that regard). That is messed up. There are seriously no exceptions or somesuch for people who are immigrating? What a system.

Why not just skip the prequels alltogether, then? It's not like II and III are any good. I actually agree with you. Of the three movies, I also feel Phantom Menace comes closest to capturing the feel of adventure that the others had. And while I realize why people find Jar Jar annoying, he never bothered me quite as much. Probably because I was really young when I saw it the first time and I had no expectations of this movie being a serious space drama like some people did. I didn't have a history of growing up with Star Wars, so it was just a movie 11-year-old me saw with spaceships that happened to have a silly alien. I didn't start to appreciate the other Star Wars movies until after.

Pretty much verbatim what I was going to say Myers-Briggs always pegs me as INFP and this was no exception. I'm a "turbulent" variant according to this website.

That's what you get when your lead writer is a former Hollywood animation storyboarding artist (in animation, the storyboard artist is second only to the director and the storyboarding process is where the movie really gets made).

I played "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" with my friend and he is no longer my friend.

+1 to Volo. The Star Wars prequels printed money, especially the first of them which is generally considered the worst.

I feel like my memory banks prioritize the wrong things since for the life of me I can't remember important things like appointments, phone numbers, or even people's names but I immediately realize that you did Zenn Foulhoof's quest in Teldrassil. -_-'

If it turns out it did get edited out...

Yeah, that article pretty much says what I did. They're Pacific Rimming instead of delivering a satisfying story. Now, I loved Pacific Rim and I really enjoyed the StarCraft II campaigns so far. But they were all so freaking stupid. The movie will be the same. Fun but in a really stupid way.

The Cistern is the third out of four hub areas in the game. I'd say you're about 2/3rds in.

I'm not aware of an edition that edits it out?

I expect much the same. Blizzard's games used to be light on actual storytelling but heavy on world-building, which is something they're really good at. The problem is that they've started to push cinematic storytelling forward into their games more and it makes them make stuff really stupid to make cool images. They Pacific Rim it - it looks awesome, but it makes no sense whatsoever. Side note: I'm sure pacific rimming something has different meanings. I'm afraid since they had veto powers and input on the script for WarCraft, the movie is going to be much the same - and it's produced by the same people who produced Pacific Rim in the first place. So at best, for both their games and this movie, I'm expecting things that are really fun but also really, really stupid.

Couldn't you just find someone to briefly "live with" instead of renting a place by yourself?

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Here's the new thread about Sword Coast Legends. Last time on Sword Coast Legends thread, people discussed rolling a Paladin because you can find the Holy Avenger. Also, people seem to not like it so much - I dunno, I honestly didn't know this game existed until I checked what threads were overdue for a closing.