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Unfair is hilarious. Not the big fights, because those are manageable. It's everything else that's ludicrous, like the stray horde of Zombie Lords in Sosiel's quest that randomly attack Ember for a hundred damage per round, or that funny Drow ambush on the road. Drow Knife Master crits for 60 damage? Yes, please. Having a Plagued Smilodon run up to a flat-footed party member? Oh, try reloading. With full buffs it's merely tedious instead of impossible, just as long as enemies don't have a lucky crit streak*, and pulling out some cheese helps, like stacking smites, but companions being unfair viable takes on a whole different meaning when you're facing down twenty mooks with 30 BAB and AC, than just switching an encounter or two to unfair for fun. Also not exactly something for the rest averse, so no taking the Gray Garrison before the demon attack on the inn, and you better get that Selective Grease before that happens. Ended up making a 21 CHA (now 22) smite bot mercenary for the tough ones too. Consistently hitting enemies through their DR is quite nice. Closing in on Leper's Smile, afterwards it should start to clear up. He's actually useful in fights now too, after getting Spirited Charge. Took a level of Beast Rider to get a Dog, because stats. *Boy am I looking forward to Ember getting Protective Luck and cackling it to an hour or two, that'll smooth out these ridiculous crit streaks.

I'm more and more thinking of Shady as Tyr Anasazi. Too bad it doesn't continue because Beka asks Tyr where he got the candles from, and just deadpans: "I rendered them from the fat of my enemies." Eh, I got nothing on food though at the moment, not really. We're going to make Belgian waffles for dinner, that should be fine.

You should really watch Love Love!, that never turns into a harem anime mostly because there simply are no men for all the girls to fuss over. edit: Still lots of cringe and boob touching, though.

Would have worked, I guess, but when Shady talks about not seeing people as humans, then that's what inevitably comes to mind. Besides, the film is more relevant than ever, I guess. A more serious reply than a Sarevok meme with a typo in it (I should really just start making my own memes), there's some validity in your point insofar as that TNG already vectored away from the original Gene Roddenberry vision, we just seem to disagree about its effect. Compared to the first two seasons, seasons three through five of TNG were top tier sci-fi entertainment while still being Star Trek enough to be Star Trek. Don't get me wrong, I love the original series, but I think that the first two seasons of TNG showed that it really didn't work too well. If your current rewatch makes you try DS9, then you're probably not going to like that. Maybe not initially, but certainly once it comes to a certain long term plot and the examination of its effects. I don't know, I hated Picard the moment it opened with an action scene where a group of ninja assassins teleport into an appartment going into hand-to-hand combat with a hyper advanced android instead of just beaming her out into a suspension field. That's exactly the sort of stupid idiocy that would be fine in b-movie trash where I could enjoy it, just not at all in a Star Trek show, and it only went downhill from there, inventing ludicrous Romulan ninja-warrior nuns, a secret-secreter-secret police within the Tal Shiar that's dedicated to wiping out the Geth androids and never mind mechanic Cthulhu coming to destroy organics or how utterly pointless the entire Borg subplot ended up being.

There's nothing divisive about Picard. If you find it's hard to see people who liked Discovery as human beings, Picard just makes that impossible. It turns me into a little VOLO and brings out my inner NAZI that just channels Udo Kier:

Yeah, so we do hat we do every Valentine's day: Absolutely nothing else we wouldn't have done otherwise. Bought her a new dress with flowers on it, tho, so yeah. Guess that counts, in a way.

Funnily enough, Burnham became more likeable the longer season one of Discovery went on, but everything else become so much worse in season two that it's actually a net negative. Yes, every subsequent season of this show was worse than the first, with season two and four currently being head to head in a race for the being the Plan Nine From Outer Space (or Manos, The Hand of Fate if you're so inclined) of streaming series. The only reason I consider Picard worse is because it ruins established characters and the Federation in one swoop. However... if Picard would have been made with almost all original characters like Discovery it would probably be better than season two of Discovery. I mean, suffering from dysentery is preferable to watching season two of Discovery. Yeah, take a look at what they turned her into later... spoilers for season 4, obviously, so @Amentep no peeking unless you want to be prepared for it. I don't want to, but I have to! edit:

Man, are you going to love the next one. The upcoming "Sub Rosa" is on many a list of the worst Trek episodes ever. Although often those were made before Discovery and Picard, and Discovery could fill a top 20 worst Star Trek episodes of all time all on its own. Spoiler, but it may lessen the impact if you read it:

No, but the analogy works because I'm pretty sure BruceVC's retort will be that he didn't do anything himself. Which very well be true. But he still didn't stop it, did he?

*blink* Wow. You don't even see the irony, do you? I mean, really? Are you, of all people, suggesting that the current Taliban owe the families of their victims from 21 years ago something? I mean, the sentiment is fair in general, it's just really something coming from a middle aged, rich and very white banker from South Africa who repeatedly and very loudly proclaims he's sick and tired of being told he's a colonial beneficiary with loads of white priviledge.

#nevermind

This thread heavily begins to remind me of the time I was told that Saddam has the capacity to attack the United States with WMDs in a 45 minute timeframe, and if anyone was against military intervention in Iraq that it means you were okay with Saddam killing innocent Americans. By people who actually believed that stuff. #imminentrussianinvasion Barbarian hordes at the gate, take care. #therussiansarecoming #thistimeforreal #noreallyreallyforrealthistime #saddamputinisthenewhitler can we liek idk go back to beating kids, i can get behind easier!

Every now and then politicians talk about creating a rating system for food, like green = healthy and red = bad for you, but it would probably be better if companies were just forced to print an "excercise equivalent" on their food. A Snickers bar would read: Requires up to one hour of biking to burn off. That'll also drive the point home just how impossible it is to lose weight by exercising more. There's still health benefits if you take care not to kill your joints (like by running while still heavily overweight), so it's never a bad time to start and all that, but it's not going to work without some serious changes in lifestyle.

im not saying that at all. canes leave marks, belts generally dont if youre careful (use extra broad ones). better safe than sorry. schools here used to make kids kneel on pieces of wood or on grain, that's also much better than caning... and it provides some extra humiliation, and they might as well pray in that position. win-win! No, they did not.

corporal punishment is the last refuge of the incompetent and uncreative. collective punishment is where it is at. at first, discipline the offender. then discipline the offender harshly, and if that doesn't help, punish everyone but the offender the problem will magically fix "itself" really soon, in one way or the other edit: obviously that's for groups, i.e. school. if your kid misbehaves at home and a simple grounding won't fix issues, then corporal punishment might, but belting, not caning. just make sure to not whip with the belt buckle, you kinda don't want teachers to notice when you're beating the crap out of your misbegotten spawn. otherwise they might sic the authorities on you, stupid nanny state pansies.

lol idk u guys if some fatty cant run then maybe being laughed at will whip 'em back in shape. their is nothing wrong with a bit of shaming.

Oh, right, I had forgotten about that. It comes up like once in the beginning.

Yeah, I suppose that's a good thing he put the disclaimer there, when you're not familiar with his other videos then that might come across as actually serious. He also did an interpretive reading of Google's T-Rex runner to make fun of allegorical and metaphorical readings, as an April fool's joke. Absolutely baffling. It ends with T-Rex Runner being a commentary on the pointlessness of life as a treadmill, but not before it establishes that the T-Rex is afraid of his own vegetarianism. Yep...

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It is February 10th, 2022 and Star Dreck: Venal Disease is back from its mid-season hiatus. Before I once again torture my brain, eyes and ears with whatever Alex Kurtzman cooked up this time, I need to point out that Discovery has been renewed for a fifth season. We're living in a world where Dark Matter is cancelled in favor of keeping Killjoys, and a show like Star Trek Discovery, even after being pullled from worldwide distribution through Netflix, still rakes in enough viewership to apparently justify the costs for a fifth season. Please, vote Trump, and make sure that we're not doing anything to stop climate change. The sooner the world burns, the better off we all are. Remember when the 20th Century tagline was "better dead than red"? Yep. Better dead than endless waves of trash from CBS. Well, here goes nothing. Star Trek: Discovery, Season 4, Episode 8: "All In" Friendly reminder for those who might be new or need a recap, this season is easily the Dumb and Dumberer of Star Trek. If at any point in the past twenty years you thought that the movies and the series of the Star Trek franchise were clearly becoming so bad that they couldn't possibly get any worse - how does it feel to be wrong? Season four of this show breaks all records. Writing, set design, costume design, sound engineering and direction are terrible. Cheesy mid-90ies FMV games were better in every appreciable way. In this season the Federation is fighting the greatest threat to its existence in the history of ever. A hundred and some change years after a giant dilithium detonation wave destroyed all active warp engines across known space in an instance. Yes, an anomaly that so far knocked one planet out of orbit, destroyed a space station and killed an asteroid colony after evacuation is considered to be of greater impact than something that instantly destroyed the entire galaxy's economic basis, causing massive upheaval and societal changes. But halt, it gets worse. Yeah, so that was... well, this isn't ever going to be good, but at least the brain peeling awfulness of before the season break was tuned down a little. It's no longer brain peeling, just mind boggling. Gotta appreciate the small things, yes, indeed. There is, of course, every chance that playing this at twice the speed just makes it easier to glance over the issues, but it beats spending twice as long watching an episode.

Not sure what's worse, Lucas suggesting that Indiana Jones had an "affair" with a 10/12-year-old or Spielberg immediately turning that into Marion having pictures and being a promiscuitive Lolita. Do you think they made this face when talking about it?

Yep, when they set out on their quest to save HORRY. Uhm, Holly. Had a good chuckle out of it, and it's a good song too.