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Since it's been a year or two since I last tried to get people to appreciate Tripod (which... failed spectacularily) I'll just (re)post this.

Sekiro had a patch intended to promote different playstyles and fiddled with the combat art and prosthetic resource costs. That's because people didn't use anything but Ichimonji and High Monk (or Senpou Leaping Kick), the latter of which was situationally locked to countering sweep attacks and was pretty much a high risk, high reward combat art as it locked you into a tracking animation towards the enemy and if you messed up the timing or used it on a non-sweep attack you could easily jump yourself into a deadly enemy combo. I'm pretty sure nerfing the posture damage on High Monk will promote people to not use Ichimonji all the time. Oh, wait. Heh.

That's bizarre. Although one other MCU movie did this as well, I remember because we waited for the credit to wrap up and a guy from the theatre showed up and was like: Guys, don't bother, there's no extra scene in this film. I just can't for the life of me remember which one. Not much of a surprise given the sheer number of them. I'm kind of expecting it was Age of Ultron, but I'm not sure. Talking about the mini-scenes that happen after the credits, not the regular post-credits scenes though.

10 points for Sitherin! (Well this will take some getting used to, why does the forum posting work properly now? )

That depends (eh, just kidding). Back on the BIS/IPLY boards we'd get freshmen computer science majors trying to explain software and game development to the devs every now and then. The one I remember most vividly was a guy explaining to JE how the lack of monk unarmed fighting animations in Icewind Dale II made the game suck and that they just should have taken Bioware's from Baldur's Gate 2. These posts almost always started with "Hi, I'm a computer science major and...", you know, like the "I'm not a racist but..." kind of deal. Was your first post like that? If not, then you're probably good.

As far as I know fan clubs aren't allowed to make money from anything related to Star Wars. That's why they usually get goodies out of promotion deals (e.g. free tickets and popcorn at the theater, a toy or two at market chain promotions, etc.). Not sure if that limitation applies to dealing directly with LucasFilm/Disney though. But the chance is high that it was just unpaid fun. Not to mention appearing as extra would most likely be something these guys would pay, not get money for.

When season 6 started to air I said that I've made my peace with the show being the only resolution we'll ever get. And I truly believed that. At least until this week's episode and the song. Strange how quickly the joy of the entire episode gave way to unbridled anger. Sigh.

Happy Easter guys.

You keep saying governments have the right to rape, kill, murder, shoot and burn you at the stake for not paying taxes. Since that doesn't apply to any Western nation that I know of I can only assume you mean Canada, right?

La Blue Girl is the first hentai I've ever seen. It also remains the only one I have actually bought. Our goto store for CCG booster packs, manga and anime also took mail orders and had a hentai section where you could order without any age checks. We wouldn't have gotten it otherwise with none of us being adults yet at the time. Still not entirely sure if the discs are legit. They look nice and came with a booklet but are really just quicktime files with hard coded subtites. As far as stories go that's spot on. Ninja girls fighting demons by having sex and winning by making them have an orgasm before they do, who else but someone from Japan could come up with that idea?

Careful lest Volo calls you a literal Nazi. :> I think this thread proves that sci-fi and fantasy stories say that time is cyclical and whatever happened has happened before... and will happen again. I'm pretty sure we had this type of discussion before. The participants are different. Most of the time. Volo being the only constant. Except I have no idea why he sticks around in Canada where tax evasion and draft dodging apparently is punishable by death.

At the risk of offending someone - with really no offense intended, just some good ol' fun - I think Buttigieg is probably the best name for a gay guy ever.

No, Tuvix didn't get a trial. Or any consideration by anyone except the Doctor who refused to perform the procedure with Janeway being all pissy about it.

That boss sold me on Sekiro. The fight's awesome and flowing and the environment you get to fight him is great, grappling onto him and crashing through the wooden barricades, man. Such joy.

I heard that was one of the most hated episodes of all Star Trek, so that's not surprising. Until the series finale of Enterprise it easily held the top spot of bad Trek. And that's with the Enterprise finale These Are The Voyages... actually being a decent epiose. It's just so disrespectful to the show it ended that it often ends up in the top spots of the worst series finales of all time. Up there with Lost. Not that I entirely understand why the ending of Lost was that badly received. Sometimes when I'm bored and I browse clickbait articles the ending of the BSG reboot is often in the "top series finales" and the ending of Lost usually in the "worst" category. Beats me why. Heh. The official excuse being that Locarno was considered irredeemable by showrunners. Irredeemable my ass, more like unpayable (yay royalties).

It also underscores BruceVC's not-so-latent fascist tendencies. It doesn't get any more obviously fascist than The Federation in Starship Troopers without invoking Benito or Adolf in some way.

I wish the game was more clear on this point, but you're supposed to tackle the main quests immediately when they come up. Not only are they easier at that point it is also impossible to keep your kingdom alive (let alone with good stats) if you don't. So whenever you have Linzi announce something to do, drop everything and go do it. It might not look like it but you're getting enough time in between to do all the side questing and kingdom development you need. Assuming the game works as intended these days. I cheated myself some extra three years of game time because nothing worked the way it should.

That's probably a fair and balanced take. There's also Rick Berman to blame as well. In all seriousness the Star Trek creative team worked on the various series for what, up to 15 years at that point? There's got to be some exhaustion after all that time. Hindsight and some distance helps immensly with putting things into perspective, but at the time when Enterprise came out? Yeah, I was there, clamoring for a lynching as much as anyone. It also didn't help that Braga was invovled with great offerings like Mission Impossible 2 and Threshold. Heh. It's less, but more intense. The rest of the episode is flashy shaky cam special effects battle nonsense with a dash or two of stupid.

Map attack to the right trigger if you haven't already. It helps. A lot. You can even tape it down. Shooting is never wrong.

Same here. It's been that way ever since I can remember. The absolute worst time was during the final years of my education, which equalled me leaving home at six in the morning and coming home at eight and then doing project and home work. Which usually meant going to bed at sometime way past midnight (3am not being uncommon) and not being able to sleep much having to process everything. Which ended up a being habit I never could drop. On the bright side I've solved more than a couple of work issues lying in bed. It's also changed a bit during the years. While I slept like a log when I finally fell asleep when I was younger (the neighbours literally tore down the building next to us with heavy machinery with me sleeping through it) these days I snap wide awake at the slightest sound. Which is also a bit of an issue considering we have some martens and hedgehogs around and they love digging for food and eating right outside my window. Ever heard a hedgehog stuff his face? It's like sitting next to a pig.

Oh, wow. Kurtzman's "reconcilliation" with the original Star Trek timeline is... Great points for comedic value when Reno says she can't violate the basic laws of physics but Pike a few minutes later watches Well at least it's over now, until they actually really make a Pike series with the Enterprise. I know that after B&B messed up Enterprise I said they shouldn't be allowed to touch Trek with a 10 foot pole but please can we haz them back now? Pwetty please?

This is a very good idea but maybe make it military service? Dude, seriously?

Incoming was a great looking game at its time.

Wasn't that supposed to be a TV show? I'd be more excited if Disney's track record with Star Wars wasn't "meh" at best and video game film adaptations weren't terrible on average.

Ah hell, that sucks butt Malc.