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Tomb Raider since it was free on Steam. Game suffers from pacing issues due to checklist syndrome. GPS caches? Check. Relics? Check. Documents? Check. Challenges? Check! Aside from that it's fun and pretty decent. Eh, and no way Lara survives falling into that rebar spike.

Is that the Robin Hood show with the magic powers? I have a very vague recollection of watching that.

So have you shown him Goatse, 2 Girls 1 Cup, Meatspin or Tubgirl yet? Kathoeys are amateur hour, really. edit: Should any readers not know, then please, don't google it. Really. Or at least don't blame me for your curiosity. Also very much not safe for work.

Well, just disarm them...

Why, yes. Lord Eomer Vaako McCoy finds out that Khan's blood can resurrect dead tribbles some five minutes before Kirk, in a role reversal from The Wrath of Khan, "sacrifices" his life in order to kickstart (literally) the Enterprise's warp core in Star Trek: Into Darkness. So instead of being Dead, Jim! Kirk is injected with the blood and yay, back from the dead. I always imagine this is what happens during writers' meetings when they come up with complete and utter failures like that. It's not really a surprise that Alex Kurtzman was involved in both Into Derpness and Picard. Can somebody give me a sock?

I reject your conclusion there. Sure Spock stated time and time again that Vulcans have no emotions, but even TOS had Amok Time and introduced Pon Farr as a concept that very clearly shows that Vuclans aren't completely free of emotion and that they really need an outlet every now and then. The Motion Picture also further implies that the final and complete emotional purge is a choice and that not every Vulcan can or need completely master (Kolinahr). And while it really is the red-headed step child of the classic movies, The Final Frontier has a Vulcan that chose to retain his emotions. TNG's Sarek was perhaps a soft retcon, but certainly not as egregious as pulling a long lost brother - or adoptive sister - of Spock out of the arse of a writer or two. (Klingons might be a better example, yes? ;)).

I'm looking forward to see if they get worked up over completely different things. I often (but not always, Mike and Jay both liked Cowboys and Aliens and I have no idea how the hell that happened) find myself agreeing with their general points, but not their examples. Last episode of Re:View Rich said that everyone is acting out of character, and that is completely true, but neither of them mentioned how jarring it was to have Troi call Picard out on acting out of character. For me that was the low point of the show.

Star Trek: Picard Season 1 finale. What a dumpster fire.

You don't think if Qis was still around she'd be jealous of how BruceVC has been fawning over Angie? I would be in her shoes.

^ Can't help with that, sorry. Anyway, on topic: Brave New World. It's one of these novels that I knew through book discussions and school/studying but never actually read myself. It was a pretty good read all in all, but I don't think I've gained anything from reading it. Other than a more direct appreciation for Aldous Huxley, which in itselft might be worthwhile enough.

BruceVC wants to have Angela's babies. That's not really an in-joke, he just loves her that much. An in-joke would be if I said Qis was jealous of it.

Since I posted that DJ Bobo song in the political thread YT has been gracing me with such awesome recommendations. So, what's possibly better than any given single Eurodance trash artist? Indeed! Many of them together! So did you get the MESSAGE OF LOVE?

She's tested negative, so, yeah. You can stop worrying (Bruce) or celebrating, depending on your, uhm, views.

Leftovers day, kinda. Some beef, a couple of eggs, an onion, salt, pepper and majoram: It's, uhm, better than it looks.

Okay I just tried for a couple of minutes to come up with a post about the new episode of Picard, but it's impossible. It's like the plot of Mass Effect 3 except it makes a little more sense (not much, mind you).

Problems with pathfinding are just a symptom of not enough micromangement. Don't be lazy. (Kidding obviously)

It's US only. That not entirely a negative, on the other hand, because much of what is on Hulu ends up being distributed by Netflix or Amazon here in commie Yurop. Heh. Assuming Hulu isn't going to be fused with Disney+ eventually.

This is just a minor issue but it gave me a chuckle. Amentep just split a couple of posts from Way Off Topic into a new thread titled ComradeMaster in the moderator forum and posted this in the corresponding thread: Well that circumventing the swear filter wrist slap was for me, but the posts obviously didn't get deleted and our friendly neighborhood moderators are currently discussing them. Not entirely sure that's worth dedicating resources to, but it's interesting nonetheless.

Why do you hate freedom? 😄

What's wrong with DJ Bobo? Great 90ies Eurodance trash!

Why? I see no change in outlook, writing style or behaviour here. He's pretty consistent.

I feel like chewing my screen right now. Looks good. But today's feeding time is well over and done with, so there's that.

I use Hulu all the time. Not. Because I can't.

Also, writable DVDs are a notoriously terrible medium to store data. It might just be a bungled burn. Maybe try a USB flash drive. That's also potentially higher up in the default boot list and you won't need to fiddle with your UEFI settings.

4E came up with abilities that fall into four different categories: At-Will, Encounter, Utility and Daily, and they do exactly that. You can either use them every round, once per encounter or once per long rest which isn't necessarily a day but never mind that. You can select new powers and replace old ones you don't like at level up. Utility powers can be limited to once per encounter or day depending on the power. It also made multiclassing weird. Multiclassing was a line of feats you took where you could essentially shuffle some powers around and possibly qualify for your multiclasses's progression paths later on but you'd need to multiclass within your role and to a class using the same primary stat for this to even work in any way. Work meaning to not gimp your character. Essentially you'd just take the MC feat not to roleplay something but to gain access to a certain class trait you'd like. In order to drive home how useless the first multiclass feat sometimes was, often they'd just allow you to pick an At-Will of your multiclass and make it a daily power for your character. An encounter power if you're lucky. MCing to Rogue allowed you to sneak attack once per encounter and gave thievery skill training. Later MCing feats allowed to swap an encounter, utility and daily power between classes. That is where it would get interesting, alas, is that really worth four feats? It also had the cookie cutter stat spreads. You had a couple of stat spreads to choose from in the PHB, but realistically only three of them made sense, and that are the ones where you can put 18 in your primary stat (with a +2 bonus for your race, choose accordingly or gimp yourself). Everything else is a bad choice. Every build path has a clear primary stat and depending on the complexity or your choices a clear secondary and perhaps a tertiary stat. Unless you roll for stats that leaves three viable choices under the rules: 18 13 13 10 10 8 18 14 11 10 10 8 18 12 12 10 10 10 The second one being the most common because you can have a 20 and an 16 in your primary and secondary stat. The first one looks deceivingly interesting but falls flat as you'll want to increase your primary stat by leveling up and racial bonuses come as even numbers. It's pointless to have two 13s there, that's dead weight. In order to fix the weird multiclassing later revisions introduced hybrid classing - a concept where you're two classes at once, but with one character level and special rules for all possible combinations. A veritable nightmare to work with. Mixing abilities is a pain the arse, the rules aren't at all clear especially when it comes to level increases and eventually you'll just wish you went single class instead. Plus the actual amount of viable hybrid builds is somewhat limited and further constrained by what's already in your party. I played a Warlord/Cleric combination specifically to combo buff and increase group mobility. It's not a good combination in general but it worked for the party. You can even top that off by taking the MC line of feats on a hybrid. Hm.