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Not a bank heist but rescuing someone or something from a prison or vault, I think? My impressions of Fantastic Beasts were that the acting- and script actually- were pretty good, but the overall plot committed the absolute fundamental sin of being utterly forgettable. Having a decent script but awful plot is a hard combination to manage, but somehow they did it.

My suspicion is that Bartimaeus watched the 1st movie in the series rather than the second, as that's the only one I've seen and his description seems familiar. Then again, about the only thing I can remember about it is that Colin Farrel was channeling his character from Minority Report and that Eddie Redmayne did very well with not much to work with. I'd say I wasn't the target audience but I liked all the Harry Potter movies well enough, even the first two that were squarely aimed at kids.

I still remember nuChekov being criticised by people for his 'fake' Russian accent in the Star Trek reboot, and the actor was Russian.

Frostpunk is definitely worth it at 'only' 40% off. Dunno about sociopathic though, much like This War of Mine it's generally possible to avoid bad morality once you know what to expect (and you're likely to out and out lose at the start whatever your moral approach is when you don't know what to expect).

Sanderson shouldn't care too much, since he only wrote the last two (three?) books based on Robert Jordan's notes and his wife's input rather than wrote the whole thing. He isn't going to say that the changes are stupid and the show sucks though, even if it does. Sapkowski would be a better bet for that given his rather dismissive comments on the games, and even he seems keen enough on money to swallow his pride when he hasn't been stupid enough to accept a one off payment. The one strong rumour I've seen is that Moiraine is the 'PoV' character in the early episode(s), and that seems pretty sensible to me as she's a far better introduction to the world as a whole than any Two Rivers character. Since it's Current Year diversity casting is inevitable, but that's only an actual problem when it goes against verisimilitude. I'm not expecting much of anything from the WoT, LotR or Twitcher adaptions though to be honest. Kind of like how the quality of the fantasy movie renaissance peaked with FotR (ie the very first movie in the renaissance) I'm expecting GoT 1-4 to be by far the best of the TV fantasy series renaissance.

If that comment is directed at you I will eat my keyboard.

Why bother arguing? He hasn't even got the most basic facts right. GOG made a profit last year, because surprisingly enough despite having three quarters where it lost money there's one quarter which always has most of its sales volume. No doubt they'd like a bigger profit, but which company wouldn't.

The 70MB is (IIRC) 32MB per chiplet (Level 3) plus 6MB shared (Level 2)*. I presume the big cache is to help with the latency that has been a problem with Zen/+ and perhaps help with the high core count chips being a bit limited by things like dual channel memory. AMD's full computex announcement summary is here, for those interested in a bit more detail/ Epyc and the R5 chips that didn't get a formal announcement in the presentation. *Not sure how Intel gets 24.75MB but it will be in powers of two as well- somehow.

Exactly how different RDNA is from GCN is a bit of an open question up until we get a white paper but it won't be a complete departure from its predecessor. The 5700 is definitely Navi and there's decent presumed room in the specs for a 5800 and probably a 5900 later on. With no news on pricing and one benchmark it's difficult to evaluate how the 5700 will do. The Vega refresh was Vega 20 so consumer wise Radeon VII only. (nVidia's flagship is the 2080Ti, though it is ludicrously expensive compared to previous flagship cards)

Computex address is just wrapped up. Main Ryzen points: 15% IPC boost which is at the top end of realistic expectations 3700x/3800x 8/16 core/ thread SKUs at 65/105W 4.4/ 4.5 Ghz boost (higher TDP unit has higher base clock). 329 and 399USD RRPs 3900x 12/24 R9 SKU at 105W with 4.6 GHz and USD499 RRP. Probably not a great watch for Intel, that IPC boost should put Zen2 well ahead clock to clock and the 3900x is half their equivalent's price and TDP. If there's no voltage wall this time around a 5GHz overclock may well be feasible for AMD as well. There was some x570 news as well, but I wasn't really paying much attention to that (or Navi, though I did catch that it's not GCN again as was rumoured).

While I'd agree that there were a lot of abrupt about faces ironically I thought the source of that meme was 100% in character for Jaime- what he didn't like was pointless deaths, but he was more than willing to kill innocents or allow them to die, if there was a point to it. And he's been near entirely consistent about Cersei ultimately being the most important thing to him. If there's one example that demonstrates both it's him threatening to trebuchet Edmure's son into Riverrun if he doesn't surrender it- along with a spiel about how he'd 100% do it and that's how much he wants to get back to his sister's side. Aerys had already lost when he wanted to blow KL up so any more deaths would be pointless. But I'd fully expect him to throw the entirety of KL under the bus if he thought that he could get Cersei out (or have her win) in exchange, as that to him would not be pointless. On Jorah, there's nothing quite like a True Believer that gets disillusioned. He's not just in love with Dany because he has a weakness for blondes, she represents something more to him. It would be difficult to credibly have her fall off her pedestal so far as he's concerned, but not impossible. End of the day though he was working for bobby b initially so that he could get a pardon and return home; if Dany starts threatening to burn that home indiscriminately if they wouldn't kneel and some of the other stuff she spouted to Jon then he should start having second thoughts. I've got little confidence that Benioff & Weiss could pull it off competently though, certainly within the restrictions they set for themselves time wise.

Dany's heel turn was certainly foreshadowed pretty extensively, but yeah, like most of the late season plot points they did make an awful hash of explaining it. Seems like the biggest problem once the show outran the books was not the plot itself so much, but that they couldn't reference what the characters were actually thinking via their POV chapters and the narrative effectively switched from a directed POV (ie you knew what Cat/ Jon/ Jaime etc thought) to an indirect observational one* where things not directly said had to be inferred; and sometimes inferred on very sketchy evidence. Since I used the 'kingsmoot' scene earlier, some things fundamentally make no sense like Sansa declaring independence while Dorne and Asha remain loyal, but Grey Worm's attitude flip could be explained- especially if Jorah survived Winterfell in initial drafts as rumoured- by playing on the unfinished nature of Dany's Essos/ free the slaves mission and on whether Missandei would want him pointlessly dying in a fight against former allies. It would take some writing to do, and would need it all not to take place over about 5 minutes episode time, but it could be done. But as it stands he does a 180 completely without explanation. *Perhaps the best example would be the Arya/ Sansa 'conflict' in S7. It always felt more than a bit off in context of previous scheming and effectively could not happen in the books since they're both POV characters. I'd also say in retrospect they would have done far better to go with book POV character Arianne rather than the Sand Snakes, despite the problems with Dorne in the books.

If I had a beer with him I'd be hitting him up about why Commodus ended up his successor and why he was so awful. Aurelius may be an interesting bloke but his son was so bad* he got a portable toilet named after him. *probably, like Caligula, wasn't as bad as made out.

To be fair to Boris, I've done exactly the same thing. OTOH, I've never managed this, though I guess I still have time.

700% increase in context switching time? That's going to be fun for some users.

Supposedly Eva Green didn't like shooting in Ireland and thought the weather was ruining her health, and the creator didn't want to continue without her rather than it being a 'proper' planned ending. I liked the ending well enough personally, but it did feel like the last few episodes were very rushed. They are doing a 'sequel' series now too, set in 1930s LA.

I never saw him race (well, so far as I'm aware) but his tenacity after the Lauda Air Crash probably saved a lot of lives. Even if he'd done nothing else that would be worthy of the highest praise. Shame Boeing didn't seem to learn much from it though.

[minor editorialising] I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Epic Games Store. A vendor where the artist would not fear the distributor's cut; where the publisher would not be bound by petty morality; where the great would not be constrained by GabeN! And with the redistributable binaries of your software and a signed guaranteed minimum sales agreement, EGS can become your store as well.

GoT spoiler of course

Good choices there. The Wire is an interesting comparison to GoT, S5 was easily the worst of its seasons in most people's minds but the final episode was one of the best in the whole series. I personally liked the end of the Sopranos too, though that's on reflection and it was certainly... polarising at the time. Thing is, it wasn't bad per se and the show overall does remain good, just disappointing. And that as someone who was never a superfan. Indeed, it not being bad is part of why it was disappointing; you're not going to feel disappointed watching an episode of Days of Our Lives because you don't expect anything from it. In general things like the cinematography, acting/ casting, costumes, general direction and the like were all still good and many were excellent the whole season even if I might have some specific criticisms. I personally didn't even find the Battle of Winterfell too dark (because I watched in a fully dark room maybe?). So it wasn't like the production values turned it into an episodes of The Hexer or Hercules. The only aspect which was genuinely bad was the writing- and more specifically the plotting- and even then it was bad at least in part because there was so much squandered potential. If you're giving it an aggregate score based on all its aspects you probably end up giving it a 7/10; that's just made up of a bunch of 8-9/10s and one, rather important, 1/10. I have absolutely no qualms calling it stupid though.

I'm glad I read the spoilers. That was, in many ways, the most stupid ~75 minutes of tv I have watched but at least I was prepared. And yes, there was definitely some potential there which just makes it more stupid. GoT spoilers of course

Thought it was six of one, half a dozen of the other. Firewine ruins had instagib traps- a nightmare with narrow corridors plus the IEs awful pathfinding- and kobolds with fire arrows iirc.

"Yet too many Americans have seen their accounts.. " Sharpie ain't american, so he'll have to visit Bolton or Eliot Abrams and try to get a coup organised instead.

Watched the first two episodes of Chernobyl. It's rather good and has a fantastic creeping sense of dread equivalent to that of the Stalker games- though it remains to be seen if there will be any more historical revisions to increase the drama quotient.