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The thing that drives me insane is when they offer a quick "jump to next episode" button at the start of the credits, but when you do that, the damned progress bar is not full. So I always fast-forward through the credits. Like, is that so hard? Sheesh.

Makes sense. Player base probably cheered for Urivar.

So, now that it works, uhm...

Lord of Hatred. Blizzard's update to the games turned it into a zen exercise simulator. Pretty good one though. Click this button here to create a new character. Wait five minutes. Pick class. Wait five minutes. Pick from presets or customize your own character, but the assets aren't loaded in. Wait five minutes. Click play game, wait five minutes, pick difficulty (huh?) then "Reconnecting...", wait five minutes... "Lobby Server Not Available"

Knowing melkathi's cat stories, that's probably accurate. :p

Indeed, where's the petition to include classical and medieval latin?

So, who bet on Chavez-DeRemer as next to leave office?

Aged like the whole milk his buddy RFK is drinking. :p

The Boys, whatver, episode whatever: Whatever. Honestly, I... I mean being behind the times on satire when scripts are from two years ago is understandable, given how fast the political landsacpe of the US has flushed itself down the crapper, lol, or rather... not but the weird pacing of the episodes and the way concepts are introduced and then discarded almost immediately with no payoff is just plain bad entertainment, and now we've introduced a new thing into the show that everyone goes chasing after because why the hell not, we have eight episodes left to wrap everything up, so let's just spend that time on... not wrapping anything up and not moving anything into place for a decent payoff at the end. Sheesh.

Needless to say, I disagree. Voyager analogy

Let me guess, in The Measure of a Man, you side with Bruce Maddox, right? :p

Uh, in defense of Maelle's ending - sort of.

No, I haven't played the DLC yet. Not really sure I will, I started a NG+ on my save before the DLC came out and don't feel like going through the whole game again. Not because I didn't enjoy it, far from it. It's probably the best I've played in the last two decades, but it was far too emotionally draining to replay in a long while.

Prior to the DLC the go-to cheese for nuking everything in one turn is stacking burns with Verso (free aim with burn chance + AP gain until out of AP, then basic attack combo I, II + III with the sword that adds burning stacks, double burn application pictos) and using Sciel to damage buff Maelle with Medalum for Burning Canvas. DLC weapons mixed that up a bit, but it still works well enough until you actually get to the DLC and its items. Make sure that your character turn order is Verso > Sciel > Maelle (auto-die and resurrect Maelle with 1hp and equip the damage scaling pictos with lower HP = more damage, you basically want to stack every damage multiplier on her, auto-invert with more damage from being inverted, more damage from shields with auto-shield, and so on and so forth), then make Sciel give Verso another round, buff Maelle with an extra 100% damage in her Virtuous Stance and watch Simon die after Burning Canvas.

Sciel has fantastic buffs, and if you haven't found the pictos that lets you do two actions in one turn, go get that before fighting Simon.

I hated Star Craft 2's campaign(s). Not the gameplay, mind you, but the endless retcons, the character assassinations, the ludicrous storyline and cashing in on a highly popular franchise* by releasing a single game's worth of content in three full-priced installments. *Man, now that I spelled it out, I realize that all of that also applies to the new Star Wars Trilogy.

The Boys, season 5 - first two episodes. Neatly picks up where it left off. Which is to say, that the season was written before the 2024 election and tries to be satire, but fails insofar as reality has become much worse - never mind dumber - than what the showrunners came up with. Or, sometimes, they came way too uncannily close. This is depressing Firecracker is even more disturbing when you have Laura Loomer in a position of political influence and Karoline Leavitt on TV every day. Also kinda saw the surprise at the end of season two coming from a mile away: Spoilery stuff Also, foreshadowing, probably... Huh Also, like, still laughing at it taking almost three full seasons for the conservatives to finally figure out it makes fun of them. Even if this is already shaping up to not having a good finale, that'll always be a rather memorable achievement.

Disclaimer: I'm not sure this thread necro is for real, but I do have opinions, especially on The Beatles, so why not. The Beatles are a group that is somewhat difficult to judge from a modern perspective, especially, and here comes the largest problem, if you only know them from the overplayed songs that are on the radio all the time. It's hard to fault anyone who only knows Let It Be, Yesterday and Yellow Submarine (and, maybe, to a much lesser extent, Hey Jude) to think them overrated. It also takes some knowledge of modern music history to appreciate how and why they became the phenomenon they were and how they shaped the music of their time and beyond. Helter Skelter, for instance, had a Led Zeppelin like sound before Led Zeppelin released their first album, among many other things. Helter Skelter is just not really a song you run into all too much, at least in my experience of being subjected to various radio stations and music TV shows over the years. Then there is, of course, the group having both John Lennon and Paul McCartney. One can think of their body of work what they want, but there's no denying that the group's been blessed with not one, but two songwriting prodigies. It says pretty much everything that a songwriter like George Harrison, who is by all accounts, really good at his craft, is overshadowed so much by the two. He created, by all accounts, really good music even with The Beatles, but very much so after they broke up, but he's still "just" George Harrison, if you know what I mean. That alone is reason enough to not consider them overrated no matter how much you may not like their music. Calling The Beatles overrated is a bit of an edgy take that a much younger verison of myself may or may not have expressed in the past. It's a bit akin to calling Mozart overrated simply because he was massively popular and created delightful melodies and pieces. One might not like Mozart's music - but saying he is overrated is a silly edgelord take by people who listen to Krzysztof Penderecki to feel good. Having said all that, do I like The Beatles? No, I don't. That's fine, because really, I don't have to. Would the music I enjoy exist without them? Yeah, probably not, or at least not in the same form it does today.

Don't fall for the trap. Picard Season 3 wasn't good, it just looks better next to the dumpster fires of the first two seasons*. That Borg storyline alone is dumber than anything Voyager did to the Borg, and that was a lot. Not going to lie, seeing Species 8472 one-shotting Borg cubes was quite a shock after TNG, but it marked the beginning of some really bad villain decay. Well, actually, I suppose First Contact did start it a year earlier. Actual spoiler for Lexx, click at your own discretion They really liked Picard Season 3. They almost noticed that they fell for the same nostalgia spiel that they made fun of in Rogue One, but only almost. It's the most disappointed I was in a review from RLM ever since they made fun of Kung Fury for a minute - for having weak characters, as if that was the point of Kung Fury. Edit: *like Rings of Power season two, which was a marked improvement over season one to the point where I didn't hate watching it. Mostly. That is more positive than I ever thought I'd be about Rings of Power, but it really doesn't mean it was a good season. Edit 2: Anyone else being not-really-excited about The Boys season 5 starting tomorrow?

RLM's new video: I haven't watched all of it yet, but I have rewatched Voyager recently and pretty much agree with the intro. Voyager, even though it is my least liked of the old Star Trek shows (not counting ENT and including TOS), is leaps and bounds better than anything nuTrek. Even the stuff that's supposedly good - I pretty much didn't like SNW for the same reason Mike doesn't, f*** those characters. Janyway also doesn't suffer from being a bipolar nutjob best locked away in the loony bin in the earlier seasons. The crew also had some wildly unprofessional moments, but at the end of the day it's not all military professionals, they do have to partner with freedom fighters terrorists. And when Nicholas Locarno Tom screws up, he gets punished for it, and besides, he is a convict who came into conflict with Starfleet rules before. It's not all roses though. I still dislike that Janeway ordered Tuvix killed, the back to back episode where she flip-flops between casually breaking the Prime Directive and then berating others for breaking the Prime Directive are highly annoying and that Chakotay is a ludicrous walking stereotype created by a huckster that the writers had no idea what to do with most of the time. Still, as Confucius once said: even old clothes look like new when put next to even older clothes (read that in a casually racist Chinese accent for added effect :p)!

Trump fired Pam Bondi for mishandling the Epstein files and not being witch-hunty enough. Hegseth and Gabbard are probably nervous since Iran doesn't seem to fold even after today's destroyed highway bridge.

No, there are no achievements for seeing both endings, unless they were added. It's been a while since I have played the game. Don't really see the point. Yes, there's some story and gameplay segregation just before you get help in the final fight if you roflstomped it before, but can roflstomp that even without being overpowered if you got good enough at avoiding damage. INSTRUMENTALITY!

That's just one of the two endings. The other one isn't much... happier. The other one

To weigh in here, yes - later in the game weapon scaling becomes much more important. You really want to have both weapon scaling stats maxed, as well as might. That is because at some point you'll be getting pictos with really hefty bonuses beyond anything your stats can provide you, but what they don't provide is extra base damage. What they do provide is massive damage scaling. Also, good tip, don't be like me and ignore pictos mastery for pictos you don't want to use right away or don't see a point in mastering. It's better to unlock them while playing the game than having to grind for them later, and yes, that includes the somewhat silly seeming pictos that insta-kills the character wearing it. Of course, you can also just learn every enemy patterns and spend hours trying to learn how to defeat the endgame challenge boss the "fair" way, or you can just hyperscale your damage and kill them before they even get a turn. Don't be shy about using your consumables and upgrade materials. You'll eventually find a way to farm as many colors of lumina as you want. Perfect chroma catalysts used to be limited, but even they can be farmed as of the DLC - although you probably want to use them to unlock the final upgrades for weapons that really help you deal with the endgame - again, don't be like me and finish the Endless Tower before finding your first perfect chroma catalyst. It is so much easier to go through the insane boss grind with, uhm, doing proper damage.

But windmills are eating the cats, or something.