Recent content by velk

S4 annoyed me because the premise was unbearably stupid ( Helios recruiting unqualified desperate chumps and paying them minimum wage to work on mars ). It was still watchable though if you don't think about it too hard.

Uh, no ? That's not even a little bit accurate. That is though. I'd never complain about people not liking the same things, and the book definitely isn't for everyone.

I've been working my way through goodreads winners for 2025. So far : Not Quite Dead Yet Winner for mystery Girl is attacked and develops a more or less inoperable aneurysm that is going to kill her within the week. Spends her last few days trying to track down her murderer. This was...

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/118891/new-life-as-a-max-level-archmage With a name worthy of a c-grade budget anime, and a degree of creativity that can be fairly summarized as 'Overlord, but a chick', this story really should have been an easy skip. There's only one problem though - it's...

Actually, after watching the second episode, I clearly spoke too soon. It is, in fact, unbearable. The level of cringe in the episode is so high it could cause physical injuries, scenes like 'were you just using me !?!' need a surgeon general's warning about permanent vision damage from...

Apples for apples, this one is considerably worse. The start of discovery was actually pretty good, with a lot of things people were complaining about were part of the plot. For academy, ignoring the running in circles screaming about woke perspective - if that's you, all you need to see is...

There's a few things, though they aren't as developed as they could be. - Survival game mechanics like food/water/toxicity. These are tuned as mostly a nuisance currently, rather than being a significant driver - mixed feelings here, not the biggest fan of survival stuff in general, but if you...

You'd think that, but you should read some of his other series, talk about cognitive and tonal whiplash. "Goofy fun" is a deliberate style he's going for for Chrysalis.

Gave this one a go. Shamelessly rips off satisfactory, although that's obvious to anyone who looks at a screenshot. It's tilted a bit more toward the combat part than satisfactory is, you need to hunt down various blueprints for items from other failed outposts. This isn't bad even if you suck...

Why not ? They want money, it seems reasonable people would like to know what they are getting for said money. I could see an argument for wiping early access reviews on official launch, but even then, how is that any different from games that released in a shitty state but fixed everything in...

That makes no sense at all, mods have nothing to do with steam ? Unless they meant steam workshop, but that also makes no sense, because you could just not use it.

It's not just you, or people who aren't familiar with the game, the Caesar thing was very much slapstick comedy and totally out of place. For once though, I don't think it's the writing - it was the tiny size of the split camp, the number of people involved and the generally casual attitude to...

Nancy 'Leeroy' Jenkins, master tactician. Just start shooting it while everyone is standing there, it's cool, they can teleport to the top of the cliff or something. Not to mention the idea that bullets would even register to something that size, or that it'd try and stick it's head in there...

I've found this more 'ok' than 'great' in general, but I have to say the last episodes wizard fight was some damn fine wizard fighting.

You joke but