Recent content by velk

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    As a general rule, people don't write huge walls of text unless they are emotionally invested in something. Nitpicking and arguing about trivial shit is the nerd version of approval. Genuinely bad stuff leaves people too apathetic to even bother talking about it.
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    Sure it does - if it is a doomsday weapon designed by politically correct enlightened liberal sensibilities. Sure, we are going to kill everyone, but there's no reason to be *rude* about it, everyone will be happy and get along, there'll be no violence, just a slow, happy, peaceful end, hell...
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    Probably yes, give them time to watch it first ;p And, as much as pains me: Sorry, you were pretty much exactly right, about everything other than it being a plot hole or bad writing obviously. I was joking about 'plants are living !', but apparently not. Lack of grass a benefit of filming...
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    LitRPG

    Like most of Sky Pride, it's an interesting take that makes considerably more sense than the common tropes. The common fantasy of being 'boss of everything' is all power and no responsibility, but that's not a structure that actually works in reality. If the boss doesn't know shit about what's...
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    Ball x pit

    Well - I have to give the dev for this one credit. After getting way better than expected sales he announced three expansions for next year - for free. That's surely someone that loves their job.
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

    Interns are mostly paid in 'valuable real world experience' and 'opportunity for advancement', so that doesn't surprise me much. I dunno on the commie/capitalism front though - CEO takes money from his peasants valued employees for personal gain is pretty peak capitalism ;p Jokes aside, they...
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    What are you playing?

    Someone here recommended this one from memory - fun time waster, it's a super fast roguelite kingdom building /auto-battler. You build up various buildings and hire troops to help your hero defend against giant waves of enemies, and then level and gear them up. The trick with that one is that...
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    Yeah, the aliens knowing enough about human genetics and psychology that this plan worked is almost as implausible as the FTL comms needed for the hive mind to work. Maybe less so on the signal frequency and encoding - there's nothing to say this was the only broadcast they were doing - they...
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    True, if they wanted people to know what's going on, they should have made a powerpoint presentation explaining it in 6th grade language and shown it to Carol, so the audience got to see it.
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    Uh, they deliberately recreated the nucleotide sequence the aliens broadcast to them and injected rats with it to see what it did ? I though that was pretty clear from the first episode ?
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    As a response to : "So, you are vegetarian ?" "That would be our preference." you seem to have gone off the deep end, kept diving, found the ocean floor and started digging. "We can't purposely end life" is a lot different in the context of 'Can you go kill something for me to eat'. The...
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    Is there any mobile games out there that aren't just money grabs?

    I finished caves of lore recently - nice oldschool rpg with controls that work well with mobile. Pay up front, no mtx of any type.
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    The Expanse: Osiris Reborn by Owlcat Games

    Uh, TV show only guy I guess ? It depends when the game is set, but post Laconia has as much realistic grounding as Halo or Mass Effect. I am not sure where you're going with it in any case - it's pretty close to 100% certain that whatever storyline the game devs come up with won't be as good...
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    It wasn't 30 seconds though - the initial takeover lasted long enough for Carol to panic, steal a truck, load wife into the truck, drive her to hospital and then explore emergency room. Seems more like 20-30 min. Even the scene we saw on the show was more than 10 minutes. For Helen - there's no...
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    Ep3 is some quality comedy: "I'm very independent'. looool.