Recent content by Arbitrary

I'm a third of the way through this and paused to get something to drink. Is this really it? Zendaya was in a really dark place when she was fifteen and everyone in her life now is going to dump on her? I knew not to expect something totally bananas, that the worst thing she ever did was...

Messing around with it a little more the percentages you get at cap correspond to old explanations about the curvature of required exp per level. For example at level 30 you're at the bottom of a curve needing less experience to level relative to what you're getting than you did at 29. The exp...

You let your lead actress talk about her character as a queer icon on camera before the release of a film no one wanted in an environment where people love to watch studios lose hundreds of millions of dollars all stemming from the movie industry spending a decade or so shitting on it's male...

Schadenfreude is nothing new but we have developed a real cultural glee in these huge movies shitting all over themselves. If you're the people making these turkeys that a hell of a trend to have navigate. What would have been a small contingent of curmudgeons (that would have faced some...

I've had quite a bit of fun playing on the the all dessert no vegetables server. I don't think Daybreak was envisioning that players would vote for candy and only candy but now that we're here this unlock schedule doesn't fit the rest of the server at all. I get there's no changing it but with...

I got motion sick during the hand cam stuff and still liked the movie. It might be the only movie to achieve that. I think every other time a movie has made me motion sick I've left the theater with an unfavorable view of the thing. Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity would be contemporary...

Rutger Hauer did so much garbage to fuel his cocaine habit and I love him for it. He's was the best part of any straight to home video production.

I'm posting full paragraphs about a twenty-seven year old MMO now in the hands of a private equity group trying and succeeding to extract money through bag sales. Obviously I suck.

He did the deliver on a deadline thing for a lot of years. I would rather have a better release schedule but I get him, now that he's older, negotiating a deal for a show where it's ready when it's ready.

I don't hate the characters. I love the monsters. Go monsters! Randall is alright. I know Julie is going to be made wrong by the writers but she really isn't. Her arc is learning that unlike other townsfolk that are manipulated in to hurting themselves or others she was manipulated to not do...

The interaction between the amount of exp you need for any particular level, the group bonus, resource hunter bonus, perk bonus and exp pot and how all of that affects the per kill exp cap is one gigantic black box. Sometimes that box spits out numbers that don't make much sense. I would have...

The resource hunter bonuses do one of things i wanted TLPs to do for a long time now - change up where people level. Changing all the ZEMs each TLP to add variety seemed like a no-brainer to me but this is just fine. I've pulled in some big exp hauls in places I never had any reason to grind in...

She's maybe the most authentic female character of the 21st century. Of course she's horrible. That much of the writing room doesn't realize what they've done adds crucial depth to a story otherwise lacking it. Twilight's protagonist is about a bland everygirl that any young adult reader could...