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The original statement and Hamill's reneging on it (and regretting) were half a year apart. Mark Hamill sees The Last Jedi in the theatre and suddenly becomes a fan of the new trilogy after disagreeing on his part in TFA and TLJ, saying he regrets voicing his insecurities in public. While he is of course free to change his opinion after seeing the movie the cynic in me simply assumes that the change of mind was external, not internal. I mean, if he were just another benevolent Jedi training a Padawan we'd have seen it. Because the old hermit shtick is completely original and wasn't at all used in movies like... uhm, The Empire Strikes Back.

The armor and elemental shattering enchants state that they don't stack. It's a safe bet to assume that abilities don't either.

I'd agree if that was the only issue with the movie. I'd still disagree with Rian Johnson's choices for Luke (and so does Mark Hamill) because Luke would never attempt to murder his sleeping nephew but it wouldn't be a dealbreaker. As it is it's just one more piece of the puzzle. It also doesn't help that the movie is an overlong mess. The little things just kept piling up. It also doesn't help that the only good scenes in the film are essentially taken verbatim from an The Empire Strikes Back / Return of the Jedi mashup. Everything that didn't rely on copying what came before fell flat.

If we were talking about a religious shopkeeper who refused to serve **** the freedom brigade would be here to defend his right to not serve potential customers at his own leisure, but of course that freedom isn't extended to everyone else - especially not if the opportunity arises to paint themselves as victims. So of course now it's censorship. If some convention doesn't want Kevin Sorbo or poor, discriminated against Ringo (who, according to this article, is wildly successful in the face of extreme hardship) then that is their prerogative. As Guard Dog would say, they're free to found their own ConservaCon. *shrug* Well, not that a quick googling in this case wouldn't reveal most of this story as the typical (alt-)right hysteria. Sorbo isn't banned at all from attending any convention, East Coast Comic Con just passed on an offer from some agent to have Sorbo appear that he apparently didn't even know about. Jon Del Arroz believes himself banned from Worldcon for his political views while it was because he announced to break their code of conduct on Twatter by filming private events and Ringo got uninvited doesn't appear at ConCarolinas due to threats the Con takes seriously and they can't provide enough security (well it's a really tiny convention). I think I remember a certain "lefist" called Anita Sarkeesian who had to cancel an appearance at the Utah State for safety reasons, so that really isn't a one way street. So yeah, one ace case of the pot calling the kettle black coming up. Poor convservatives, just give in. The safe space awaits. Have some trigger warnings on the house. The guys are awfully salty for not being allowed to attend "irrelevant" conventions. So sad...

Reached the fourth floor in Tower of Time. I'm kind of hoping that the floors get a bit smaller now. All the running around and backtracking is beginning to be a bit bothersome (and yeah, no, leaving a floor at less than 100% is not an option unless it is an encounter clearly meant for later).

Written after the Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots. Ben should like this, assuming the comrades in China didn't get him. Translated lyrics:

Oh yeah, let's build safe spaces for conservatives. Poor Ringo sure could use one. Socialist Doctrine something something lefists something something fighting back. The poor right, the eternal victims of leftist conspiracies in the western world that is mostly ruled by conservative governments. Sure, in reality the deep state rules. Whatevs. Man, who needs to toughen up now? On a more serious note I don't take people who go "leftist something something socialist something marxist" any more serious than I do the loony bin brigade at twatter. They're both fringe nutjobs.

The only thing better than cheesy 80ies style pop songs? Cheesy metal covers of cheesy 80ies style pop songs. Heh.

I just noticed someone was bored enough to create english subs for Bernd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGSza3iTFcI Bernd is pretty hilarious if one likes that sort of humor, I'm just not sure how well that translates. If at all. Give it a spin.

Comic book / superhero movie saturation* to be honest. I find myself caring less and less for every new MCU film, I even skipped some in the theatre, which I wouldn't have done five years ago. The new Ant Man is definitely going to be one that I'll catch on a stream or home release at some point. Also, there's only so much one can do when your protagonist barely has any flaw and is sometimes quite literally invincible. That's what made Iron Man so interesting. Tony is a flawed character and has no innate powers except banging sluts and being filthy rich. From an objective point of view, as much as that is possible at least, the MCU is very well crafted. There's barely ever anything wrong with direction, sound effects, special effects, music, set design, etc. The worst MCU film so far for me was Iron Man 2, and that one's essentially a 6 or 7/10 movie, which is still above average. *Assuming one likes the genre. Can't blame anyone for not liking superhero films. edit: Pointless action and special effects fatigue, I guess. There's one thing that is definitely going on: Special effects that in the past could have carried a movie are now par for the course. I doubt Avatar would be as much of a hit as it was 10 years ago if it came out now. I saw it several times in the theatre and just because I enjoyed looking at the pretty scenery - certainly not for Sam Worthington's vapid mimicry or the Pocahontas story. PS: Thor: Ragnarök > Black Panther. So there!

Finished the 10 episodes of ReBoot on Netflix. The final episode of season one is specifically made to make fun of the fans of the original. There's one positive thing I can think of - Megabyte's new voice actor does a fairly good job considering he had to replace Tony Jay. The new show is also almost exclusively for kids. The showrunner and the writers aren't nearly clever or creative enough to pull off a show that's fun and entertaining for both kids and adults. The sad part is even if this wasn't at all connected to ReBoot it would remain a somewhat soulless and average kid's show. Bleh.

Sure, you can freely move around or you can click on the first level when leaving the village.

The first level has a mausoleum near the exit that you can interact with. Looting it causes an ambush by four rather angry elite guardians. They're massive HP sponges at that point in the game and are almost impossible to kite.

What's your setup? The game's biggest problem is that some classes are simply leaps and bounds ahead of others. My main is Hacker, and I run around with Prototype, Smuggler and Engineer. To be honest, my biggest issues are still with gear drops. Mobs are sometimes ahead of my equipment, even if I backtrack some side missions. My Smuggler died in last two missions because of that. Prototype and Engineer are pretty bad. My advice would be to grab a Soldier to tank. Get him an 80% heavy shield, a legionnaire heavy armor and the accessory from early in the storyline (from the fight with the robot dogs) and go for Flare + Bouncing Betty early on, then Meat Shield. Bouncing Betty and your hacker viruses have great synergy. Just watch the world burn. Errr, eh, or rather the enemies.

What's your setup? The game's biggest problem is that some classes are simply leaps and bounds ahead of others.

I don't get it. Check the center of the pizza against the center of this embeded video: Try to triangulate the confusion.

The show's main villain, a hooded black hat hacker called the Sourcerer, steals a computer prototype. The Power Rangers New Guardians discuss how awesome it is: The episode revolved around a cat video spamming virus set to quote "clog up the internet" with "super cute" cat videos. I thought about not watching this steam pile of manure but I'm kind of glad I continued. It's quickly vectoring off into the so bad it's hilarious territory.

Does that include the mausoleum fight?

I sing that all the time. I mean, who doesn't?

I watched the first episode. It's pretty much what the reviews suggested, perfectly average and not very exciting. Something that struck me halfway through was how much of an immersion-breaker The Forests of British Columbia have become. It's hard to believe they're on an alien planet when one's been seeing them trees on TV for two and a half decades. But yeah, that's not really the show's fault.

Tower of Time just managed to do something I haven't seen in a very long time. It crashed and took Windows with it. I mean terribly made games have been crashing to desktop every now and then (yes Bioware, looking at you here) but the OS hasn't gone poof like Francis in a long while.

I tried the ReBoot reboot on Netflix. I wish I hadn't. It is... terrible. Agonizingly so, actually. Why not just finish the series? Make that third film as planned, get as much of the old crew together as possible and do something to please the fans instead of turning the show into a cheap looking Tron offshoot with terrible animation, terrible direction and terrible actors in terrible live action sequences that have absolutely no place in the show's universe.

By intervening openly and forcefully.Obviously it would be a political suicide for some but it could have been done when the war was just beginning. Yeah, sort of like Libya. What a paradise that place became right after the moment . Remember: if brute force doesn't solve the problem, you aren't applying enough. You know you're right when Michael Ironside agrees:

Does Dungeons & Dragons count? Because that could easily be the worst of the bunch.

Halo didn't age horribly, it was always that bad. It's main claim to fame was being one of the first console online multiplayer FPS. Something which I, as a member of the PC master race who has been playing shooters online since Quake, can only sneer at.