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Thanks, let's agree to disagree on endings then. If Lost was bad, then Mass Effect 3's ending was 13.57 MegaLost.

Out of curiousity, and if you have played Mass Effect, how much Lost would the ending of ME3 have then? 😄

I know I'm repeating myself but that last season of Lost (the ending just explained what was going on throughout the season) wasn't bad in the sense that they abandoned or messed up everything that made the show good up until that point or that the quality of the episodes were bad while seriously upping the production values to gloss over like what we're getting now with Game of Thrones. The ending of Lost just never answered any of the interesting mysteries that were left in a satifactory manner as everything was simply magic in the same way that "God did it" was the explanation of everything that happened in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica. Lost suffered from the Chris Carter Effect(tm) paired with a serious helping of Jar Jar Abram's usual modus operandi of setting interesting mysteries up with no idea how to resolve them in a satisfying manner. By the end it was impossible to attempt it anyway. Not going to put this into spoiler tags, just skip the paragraph if you ever want to watch Lost. The show was centered around certain religious ideas like the concept of the Buddhist Dharma and featured a depiction of the dharmachakra that was literally used to steer the island (it makes sense in context - kind of) while the logo of the DHARMA Research Initiative that had built research stations across the Island (which turned out to be the Well of Souls and the origin of all life, borrowing heavily from a lot of religions) was pretty much a Chinese Bagua. The final season spent roughly half of the screen time with the main characters in what looked like an alternate reality which was eventually revealed to be a form of purgatorial afterlife where they all met again due to the events of the show having forged a deep connection between them waiting until they're read to pass on to nirvana or rebirth or heaven, take your pick. That's what people got upset about for some reason. Somewhere I once read a complaint that the ending is completely impossible to understand unless one has studied "2000 years worth of gnostic mythology". Complete hyperbole, but not being ignorant about religions beyond Christianity (and knowing that them Mooslims are evul) does help. Le sigh. There might be an overlap between people who disliked the ending of Lost and people who disliked the ending of King's The Dark Tower series. Heh.

Only if you're a console peasant. There was a time when computer games went for a like a third of a Nintendo cartridge instead of roughly the same, and that included games with insane budgets (for the time) like Wing Commander IV. The prices of computer games went up well beyond what inflation could account for. Looking at the credits of games it's not hard to see why. Nowadays they have more people attached to them than some movie projects and ever since gaming went mainstream CEOs want a new car per month, not just one per year.

Ah, screw it. I'm getting my summer bonus next month, might as well tap out the credit card.

^ Disagree on that last point. Her plot armor was always like that. How else would you survive a knife in the gut and a subsequent swim in the dirty sea?

To be honest I had that moment at the end of Sacrifice of Angels. With the exception of a few standout episodes like In The Pale Moonlight is was all downhill from there. The ending was just icing on the cake. DS9 had its best episodes during seasons 4 and 5. Caveat: I'm a huge Robert Hewitt Wolfe fanboy and as such probably not the most objective. The worst Trek ending was Enterprise's, but I'm sure Discovery will eventually surpass it.

In all honesty I'm hoping it is true and hoping it is false at the same time. I want to get a proper ending to the series and would appreciate if the books were released soon, on the other hand, f*ck evreyone involved with that decision. It feels a bit like all those crowdfunded projects going Epic exclusive right before the finish line. On a rational level I completely understand their reasons and while I don't share a love for Steam with the complaints crowd or hate the Epic store it's still a crappy move towards anyone who invested to get the project going in the first place.

To talk about something more amusing, what do you guys think of the rumor that George has finished the books already but had a deal with HBO to not release them prior to the show's end?

The underlying technology is really interesting and has a lot of potentially useful applications. That the public face of it are wildly fluctuating crypto currencies with a host of hacking issues, chain splits, fraud and insane power drain is unfortunate to say the least.

Trump's currently DESTROYING my emerging markets ETF. Meh.

What happened then will SHOCK you.

Some of them do.

Are you expecting them to just pay for it? Well I'm neither TN nor from the Netherlands but their maternity leave is... terrible. A contender for the worst in the EU.

Take care, some nazi is probably going to report you for circumventing the profanity filter through pictures.

I can give you a quote from the latest Half in the Bag episode about the ending of DIS S2: "Discovery really sh*t the bed." -- Mike Stoklasa Wait, you said you wanted to be motivated to watch. Never mind then.

What DS9 doc?

If I copy and paste this particular link the reply box reads "posted as rich text, click here to post as plain text instead", if I click on that it automatically embeds the video (and then offers to post the link as plain link, instead of an embedded one). That also happened with the short link. It embeds short links without issue as long as it's not pasted as rich text. From where do you copy the links?

Loved Her Story. Especially the ballad. 😄

Happens automatically as long as you use the full link. The short ones don't work for some reason.

If these "troopers" are actually mowing down people in the street it's no wonder this coup is going as badly as it seems to. They look like they learned fighting from Steven Segal action movies. The one on the right there is probably shooting down a chopper.

Walt was a nazi, so that's fighting fire with fire or some such. 😄

The series is completed. It'll be three weeks until the last episode is out and if you manage to binge every season before then congratulations.