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Its very clear that each 3-episode arc is a defined story ala old school Dr Who and that gives them plenty of time to introduce us to very three dimensional characters. This is an Empire that feels very lived-in. The whole thing with Space Jew Mom not only gives us insight into Syril** but...

https://ideas.lego.com/challenges/adbda7a2-193f-4ac2-ac5a-c50bae6b9f24 R.I.P. my wallet

On a lark decided to try it this AM while quaffing coffee. Only 50 people ahead of me in queue. ... Oh that was the queue for the queue. Got through that queue and now in the next queue. (I fully realize that as a game tourist I am absolutely the reason why the queue exists at all, that...

Got down to zero, by which time my account had apparently timed out, and when I logged back in (never left the game window) I went back to 20k. Flawless!

He runs the Spidey movies like Marvel just as was said. Sony are the ones over here going all Morbius / Madame Web / whatever mad

The trope of 'its all just a big misunderstanding' is tired.

The enhanced edition does better about explaining the stat contributions than the base game did. If you can 'mouse over' the chat log you can get expanded descriptions of various rolls and actions and see what the modifiers were and where they came from. Pathfinder is, however, legitimately...

I love the subtle references and Easter eggs like the kyber skystone that '"celebrates the uprising against those Rakatan invaders". There's a lot of the EU, especially the gaming EU that is getting canonized in this show. Also interesting that people like Cassian generally know that the...

So with all the 'time works differently' business ahead of Shadowlands implying that there would be some sort of big time skip when people came back they decided to instead just do a 'A few years pass....' at the start of the expansion? I mean I know they are lazy but good lord... and in all...

This is just insane. What a horrifically dystopian way to eradicate a creative product.

I was forced to watch this. It is ABYSMAL. Its not even kitschy in a clever nostalgic way, it genuinely feels like a made-for-TV movie on NBC from 1984 but in all the worst ways possible. By the end of the thing you can almost see them ticking off 'prequel items' on a list with a goal of...

Good god. I kept thinking 'why does she look familiar...'

I can see now why they waited to do a three episode premiere as it gives a self-contained nice intro to Cassian. Now he can go forth and be taught proper spycraft by Skarsgard

Yeah its clearly not falling into the usual Space Opera tropes, at least not in the first episode. The use of the Star Wars galaxy as just a setting was the promise made when they first proposed the modern expanded universe of stories and I'm personally here for it. I suspect this will...

Watched the first episode and its very much Quantum Leap complete with Ziggy having an incomplete batch of information to work from. Clearly they will be doing a lot more with the '2022' part of the story and the people trying to solve the mystery on that end, but I'm okay with that. Im...

I'm okay with it being CW because with all the Paramount & Warner Bros shenanigans of late it's looking like the CW is aiming to morph into something different

It would be easy to say "all these stories are operating on different timelines" except the falling star was seen in each of them thus providing a singular reference point. There's just no reasonable way to explain the timescale differences between the various plotlines.

I've gone on record before saying that the interaction of the different skills in TSW is absolutely the best implementation of such a thing I've ever seen. The interactions between the skills and all the metastates that were triggered/consumed was a thing of beauty and provided for so many...

So she pretty much IS Kamala Khan.

Came back to this game and my party of mercs so as to play with some of the bajillion combos. I should have just done the new endless mode standalone, but I saw it could also be in the campaign and figured 'eh, why not'. I mostly play turn-mode but give it up with big things like the Battle of...

I need to finish this (I thought there was a thread about it already somewhere?) I got to a point where I was doing the save/load repeat thing extensively and backed off for awhile. Some of the characters for your 'posse' are far more useful than others... i suspect that's just a balance...

I was active on that usenet board where JMS posted and so knew that transformation bit a long time ago. I just thought It was meant to reinforce the dramatic nature of the cocoon transformation other than 'congrats : you can have hair now and less makeup stuff to do each day'. Ultimately it...

These are all shorts so technically standalone anthology? How short is 'short'?

This is a hell of a delay... especially given the likely merchandise tie ins with Lego / Hasbro etc

Yeah this is one of those games that could have been good but is just not gelling properly. There's always a chance things pivot in Early Access but in it's present state it's just blah.

I do like that the leader / staff of the new Quantum Leap project are people that Sam had an effect on during his leaps. Also hoping they ignore the 'evil leaper' business, at least for a while.

Game is pretty slick so far and rather challenging if you don't have the right set up for each battle. The good news is that you can change your roster for each fight, but you also need to manage the 'circus performance' as that is how you rake in added resources and 'heal' the devotion (mana)...

Summer is great. I hope they don't overuse her but I love all the episodes she has a major role in.

They did win the Emmy, surprising absolutely no one. Apparently even people who worked on the other nominated series said they voted for Arcane.

Exactly. We've already done 'royal political intrigue' quite thoroughly with the original series and even that took time to explore the world with the Khaleesi world tour of the Free Cities, white walker mysticism, dragon rearing and various other bits of fantastical lore. The original series...

https://www.polygon.com/23338208/mike-fahey-kotaku-obituary One of the 'first gen' of internet gaming journalists. Was pretty much the avatar of GenX manga and RPG obsessed nerd geek.

I think my biggest issue with the whole 'GoT' world at this point is that despite it being ostensibly fantasy we spend essentially the entire time doing nothing but Real Wives of Westeros who-has-beef-with-whom drama and precious little on anything actually fantastical. We don't know why...

That was the entire film in a nutshell. We find out Maverick has been stuck in a state of arrested development for 35 years and he becomes the hero for it.

I figure there has to be another 'history didn't record this but....' type reveal somewhere down the line.

At this point I don't know how I'd survive without Poison/Bleed/Burning stacking to ludicrous levels. Did a run with the Mindflayer and the Bard cranking out Insanity like they were in Arkham Asylum and yet every boss died from poison due to a 'when you apply insanity also apply poison' item on...

HoTD continues to be very D. Anytime Matt Smith is on the screen it's good, but that's not very often.

I went into this with maybe too much hopium after seeing the rave reviews and advice of personal friends. The whole film felt like fanfic. I kept thinking they were intentionally laying the 86-nostalgia on thick in advance of a 180 gut punch...but it never came. Very much a bummer.

Having seen the second episode now I find it myself quite pleased. This is better than HoT D and a couple orders of magnitude better than the Wheel of Time. We knew the production values would be through the roof, but I'm liking the overall character moments as well.