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Nothing's wrong with that picture. We all know Stanley Kubrick directed the moon landing...

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. -- Oscar Wilde Breaking suspension of disbelief or having a really cool scene is a fine line sometimes, and it's not at the same point for everyone. The episode was pretty neat, except for the usual teleporting. I always thought, in the books more than in the show though, that Dany has more than a few loose screws. Burning extremely valuable hostages alive just seems to confirm that. What I really didn't like was Dany looking like she's getting her knickers in a bunch over Jon. Eh, and what the hell is Littlefinger's plan? Granted there might be some value to create strife between Sansa and Arya but Arya is a murdering psychopath with the ability to shapeshift. If he wants to rule through Sansa that seems to be a bad, bad idea.

Also, cheese Mindread. If you find a scroll, which isn't that hard, just save before using it on an NPC, then write down all keywords and reload. One Mindread fits all.

Let me guess, you ignored a certain Mage? *duck*

It's not about realism in the show vs. real life but about realism in terms of internal consistency, and that's been lacking this season, due to a number of factors.

That's luckily cleared up, the latency is awesome - on top of that, they fixed the biggest issue since then - you can buy skill gems now! :D and the flicker strike glass cannon is still a viable build.. Time to patch... Had some time to look at Path of Exile today and right at the beginning Deckard Cain walked up to me and said "Much has changed since you lived here my friend." Damn.

Is that a rhetoric question? Because the "we have to stand together or all is lost" symbolism was a bit on the nose and all. *shrug* I wonder what would have happened if the humans in those cave painting knew that the CotF created the White Wankers in the first place.

Physics work in Westeros pretty much like they do here. In the books as well as in the show, so there's that. There's no way Arya can block a blow from Brienne with a regular sword - let alone with Needle, in the same way you couldn't actively block a car running you over. But that's a fairly common problem in movies and shows. There's often a 45 kilogram tiny woman dual wielding Desert Eagles or going toe to toe in a martial arts fight with enemies twice their mass at comparative skill levels and coming out on top. It's not that smaller, more agile fighters wouldn't be able to win, just not in the way shown on screen - unless that's the whole point, like Bronn vs. Ser Vardis back in Season 1 - although their builds were much more similar than Arya and Brienne, obviously. So Volo is right after a fashion. Arya's still awesome and a badass but Volo can't jump over his shadow and all that...

I don't know if I should be excited to finally see a good Terminator movie at the theatre again or annoyed with the obvious cash grab.

If you watched TOG when originally aired, I'd be impressed. Nah, not that old, sorry. Well maybe in mind and spirit.

You really should check out David Hasselhoff's famous Mediterranean cruises. You even get an autograph and can spend some time with him.

That one I had to google. I'm not really up to speed on English nursery rhymes. Comparing Trump to Kosinksi gave me a chuckle though. Heh.

Wouldn't know about better but amphetamines probably help them write a lot of stuff in a short time. Someone give GRRM some ADHD medication plx. =)

Alias has been a while now but... showing your age for knowing it? What? What am I then for having watched TNG when it originally aired? Ancient?

Mhm, at best Arya would be able to try and stay out of Brienne's reach and attempt to use the environment in her favor in some way. Although Arya is essentially a facechanging/shapeshifting magic ninja at this point, which does make it less bothersome than Dany flying straight at a scorpion after a near miss. *shrug*

Well he sure did use drugs so much that he ended up not knowing what he wrote sometimes but according to his own words he used Bolivian marching powder, not acid.

Oh, they already make a killing selling Team Fortress hats and it has a flourishing black market, imagine a CCG. Worshippers rejoice. :D

You know GoG actually changes classics if they need it, Dungeon Keeper 2 for instance (and that's a game you can't even buy on Steam, so there's that), but whatever. It doesn't have achievements or trading cards though. *shrug* Steam, or rather Valve, doesn't do anything of the sort. They just release what the developers give them. The Kotor 2 patch was developed by Aspyr who made the mobile version of the game - and the main difference between the original is that the patch comes with the restored content mod - which sort of is available for the normal versions as well.

For what it's worth, reinstalling the game fixes the savegame issues. Looks like Steam's auto-updater doesn't roll out the latest version of Grimoire.

I'm going to regret asking but which old ones? The ones with the overwhelmingly positive reviews on holy GabeN's Steam? I have the boxed versions, not sure if that makes a difference. The Steam versions are probably a bit better than the GoG/boxed versions per usual. I honestly don't know what you mean. I wanted to know which games you thought were a mess, not which versions.

Heh. Cleve's recent patch broke my game. Not only did my character library disappear (including the pre-made characters) the game now can't overwrite saves any more. It pretends to do, but simply doesn't - so just in case you're playing check if that happens for you too.

I'm going to regret asking but which old ones? The ones with the overwhelmingly positive reviews on holy GabeN's Steam?

Abusing that's is systematic at my workplace, which isn't a small charity or anything. It's got 30k employees and is government owned, but if you take on any position with responsibility you might get more working hours, but you don't get a raise or anything. The responsibilities, stress and general worries are slowly getting to me. I'm on the verge of becoming violent at people some days. Yes. A lot of charities do seem to have that in them. The gradual emotional pressure on volunteers to put more time in because "there's no one else to do it" and the "Can you just help us cover this because so and so is off sick" and then you've suddenly got them pushing you to volunteer over 30 hours a week and piling responsibilities on top. See, this is why empathy is a weakness. Be careful to not slip into apathy. Because apathy is death.

You're right, of course, Cultural Marxism as the Frankfurt School was once an academic term, before it got co-opted by fringe elements on the right to refer to an ongoing conspiracy to destroy the American Way of Life - or the Western culture as such. Insofar is name dropping Cultural Marxism in combination with "cis-gendered patriarchy" rather detrimental because it shows an affinity he distanced himself from in the disclaimer. As I said that doesn't invalidate some of the points he made but it gives a clear point of origin for some of the opinions expressed in the document. edit: Changed the wording of the post a bit.