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I can play that too: Star Trek V is better than TMP.

I think Discworld is one of those series iconic enough for almost everyone to know through popcultural osmosis. At least when you're an Obsidian board regular.

Well, I think as of this episode of Picard this is now officially a Mass Effect crossover universe. The reapers Destroyers will be coming, as foretold by the Prothean beacon unkown precursor race's Admonishion. Marina Sirtis can have a double role as Troi and Benezia.

I'm looking forward to each new day's dose of insanity, and our beloved, glorious leader already told us to expect more draconian measures to be revealed tomorrow. Well, today, considering it's almost 0100. Kinda expecting a full lockdown like in Italy. That could be fun. Except of course the government also already said that any measures will not interfere with the transportation of cargo. Gotta keep the spice flowing... what a time to work at a transport and logistics company. I'll still be working (probably from home) after everyone else gets some days off, or reduced work time with equal pay. Bah.

Maybe some DS9 will help. Reminded me a bit of this. Except one was funny, the other... probably not so much.

Modern Talking disagrees too. Heh.

Night of the Living Loading Times: You wait for five minutes, then a jump scare happens, then you wait for another five minutes. The more you save the tenser it gets. It's going to be waity. Just wait for it.

Well guys, just let Rich Evan stells you who you should vote for: Granted that's four years old but still relevant.

Oh wow, this Picard episode was again an exercise in dumb. Picard acts completely out of character and promptly gets told off by Troi. She literally tells him to behave more like Picard would. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. I mean... I honestly hope I'm just sleeping and this is a nightmare, but I doubt that. Oh and speaking of dumb, I just found this little gem: Arguing with Star Trek Picard that that Hollywood moved too far left and that the "left" messed up Star Trek is pure comedy gold. I wonder what Rich thinks about that video. Good ol' Sargon of Akkad. Wait, I thought YouTube banned that assclown?

There was also something refreshing in being able to look forward to patches, not equally hoping that they'll fix issues you're having while not screwing your characters or playstyle over. Yes, I'm looking at you Pillars of Eternity and your constant Cipher nerfing. Everything's hilariously broken thanks to how the game defines enemies as flanked or once you realize that Alchemist grenades are ranged touch attacks and armor is competely useless against them. Facing a ridiculous juggernaught of doom that your frontliners can't hit save for crits and your casters can't touch thanks to high spell resistance? Oh, don't worry. Catch a grenade with your face. Woops, wrong damage type? Ah, well, let's just use the other grenades then. Loved it. I think Jubilost single handedly killed every boss in my playthrough. Especially once Owlcat fixed the application of certain debuffs and character builds. Having your frontline flank and flat-foot enemies is hilarious.

...until a better one comes along, right?

If I were a boss in Hollow Knight I could have "Elder God of Dead Dreams" as my moniker.

To be fair to Owlcat they dedicated some dialogue options to exploring the sexuality of the undead. Or, well, Jaethal in particular.

Eh. I know I should just laugh but the nitpicker in me wants to point out that this is more like a job for industrial automation than... eh... never mind.

That picture made me sit and think for a minute or two. People solved that a while ago though. Just google Goldfish in a Hookah.

It's frustrating how the show is occasionally brilliant in tackling somewhat problematic issues while switching between ridiculous love triangles in order to, uhm, I don't know, keep the target audience watching? I mainly watched it because my early 90ies infatuation with Dana Scully never fully went away. As such it's time spent well enough. Heh.

Just imagine the setting possibilities we'd have now. Discovery, Picard, Kelvin... we could space dive onto a mobile plasma drill that can dig a stable tunnel in the molten core of planets, jump through the entirety of existence in an instant, hire or possibly play a Noldor Romulan warrior nun, fight Klingorks on a jihad, destroy planets with red matter and maybe stop a supernova from threatening the entire galaxy. Who else wants a quick time event where you control Spock as he's beating the manure out of Khan?

The technology used for current machine learning software has been around for decades. Up until recently we just didn't have the data or computing power to make use of them. That's why all this essentially started with image recognition "AI"s, with the advent of social media researches suddenly had access to millions upon millions of properly labeled images and could start to train their algorithms to say "banana" when something elongated, curved and yellow was to be seen in the picture.

I liked Blaze (I even have some of his solo stuff), but Bruce was better. Hey, what's with the torches and pitchforks there guys? It could have worked if they all sat down and reworked the pieces on the tour setlist(s). Granted I've only seen Anette live once during the Dark Passion Play tour, and Dark Passion Play is - for me - by far and large their weakest album, but she did well on the new songs, but having her sing Over The Hills And Far Away or Ever Dream without adapting the songs for her range and vocal style was one of the less pleasant experiences in live music I've had. The audience responded by chanting "Tarja, Tarja, Tarja!" which I thought was in extremely poor taste. As if that was her fault. I loved Imaginaerum and was sad when Anette didn't work out (to put that fustercluck mildly) for Nightwish. Considering the gap a Nightwish vocalist these days needs to bridge between old and new songs Floor is probably one of the few vocalists on the planet that a) can do that easily and b) doesn't mind being part of a metal outfit. I have no idea what Nightwish rakes in but she could easily do something more prestigious or with more income. Or both, probably.

Well that's not what Obsidian's forum software said. /scnr

And here I was thinking you'd be more into Natasha Volkova, what with your usual preference for - admittedly Asian - wrestlers. Ivana Miličević is the high point of the videos though. From a purely, uhm, male gazey point of view obviously. The cast of RA3 was amazing. Kind of makes me miss the time when games were made with FMVs full of great actors. Understandable though given the amount of money games cost to make these days even without hiring actors and building sets. I didn't dislike C&C 4 because it killed the franchise as much as I hated the storyline and the attempt to revive the RTS genre by combining it with MOBA style combat. But what else could you expect to happen from a game that was originally intended to be an Asian market online only strategy game that had a campaign tacked on later after that never panned out?

That was Half Life Sistah, and yeah, Gost Love Score. Although I think she also cried on a few other ones. As much as I like Floor and while I think she's killing all the stuff written after Tarja's departure, the only thing making me weep about Nightwish these days is Anette or Floor trying to sing songs written for Tarja. Annette never could and that was probably unfair to her (by the band, I mean) and Floor easily could but doesn't want to sing in her operatic style all that much, I guess? Not sure. Someone cut together different live videos of Nightwish a few years back. Mostly Wacken 2013 and End of an Era, but there's also one from the From Wishes to Eternity tour: Although this is by far and large the worst of the bunch in terms of quality (From Wishes to Eternity was ages ago) it showcases what I mean pretty well. There's no arguing that Floor is much more flexible than Tarja, and I always thought that trying to push her into a more poppy voice starting with Century Child was a mistake - although I'm not entirely sure whose idea that was, maybe she wasn't pushed as much as she demanded it to be done - but honestly, Tarja owns the old songs, and Floor just doesn't. And that new live album from Buenos Aires suffers from it. A lot. So, how long until the Floor fanboy brigade crucifies me?

Best part of an otherwise disappointing sequel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEERq5tLiOY Huh, YouTube doesn't want the video to be embedded? Guess you gotta click then. Meh. Way to steal my thunder there. Bah.

Not that long ago when that Nightwish video was released on YouTube there were a number of channels that made reaction videos to it. They were... everywhere the moment you watched the video. I watche a few of them. It was hilarious. One of them even went (paraphrasing here) "This is a great critique of how with smartphones we've become tools of our technology, not the other way around. Huh. And I say this on social media? Well... like my video and hit that subscribe button!" Right. Had a good laugh or two. The song itself is okayish. The video is great though.