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75 year old mother-in-law who was already on oxygen taken to ER with trouble breathing. Because no one is allowed to accompany patients the family is stuck with only the information a stroke-victim is able to relate via telephone. Was stabilized but they found other cardio issues and is thus...

This is why private control of large scale infrastructure is a bad idea. Boyce Hydro bought the dam (and three others) when it was already in bad shape and in need of massive repairs, but instead of doing that they just pulled what revenue they could out of the system while playing lawyer-tag...

4th edition was created specifically to be more crpg-friendly and then failed to actually create any licensed games that made use of this. Neverwinter was nominally based on the 4th edition, but even that was heavily modified. 4th edition gets a bum rap. I always thought it was the most...

Good use of Luke Wilson. Was worried there for a bit that it was going to be a super slow burn, but the third act made up for it.

Someone brought up an interesting wrinkle in the whole 'return to office' plan -- bathrooms. Even if we were to do something that made the giant open floorplan less prone to disease transmittal we only have one bathroom per floor.

Aww Ben and Number 5 get to be in on the song

The original series is up on Netflix now and is trending as a lot of people re-watch and even more check it out for the first time. (I know many people who never even thought to look at it in the past because it was associated with Nickelodeon.) Still makes me yearn for a third Avatar series...

To be honest the people at work who are most eager to be back in the office fall into two categories: 1) Social butterflies that spend the majority of their day flirting from flower patch to flower patch and not actually working 2) Parents and/or other people who do not want to be at home with...

Going into this I did not know this was the end of the DC Animated New 52 Universe. This now makes the upcoming Superman: Man of Tomorrow make a lot more sense as the start of a new sequence.

A great many people are asking this same question. Obviously not everyone as there are plenty of jobs that still require a physical presence to work on equipment or with product etc., but for anyone who spends their days sitting in front of a computer punctuated only by moving to a video...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/business/jc-penney-bankruptcy-coronavirus.html Obviously JCP has been heading this way for awhile, but this was the last straw

Oh lawd....they are gonna have people exit the expansion and a big chunk of time will have transpired in Azeroth.

The character-class based multiplayer was unforseen going into the game and was very fun. I feel they could have done more with this and gotten to something akin to Battleborn, but then again Battleborn never took off

Watching the Gallery episodes with the roundtable discussion with the directors, old school ILM folk etc. is just awesome. It's almost painful how much everyone at that table gets Star Wars at a fundamental level that JJ Abrams just doesn't. You can see it in Kathleen Kennedy's eyes as these...

No more normal maps... The amount of art-asset processing that all of this eliminates is staggering. This opens up a LOT of design possibilities, especially for smaller studios that couldn't budget the time and cost of having to do all that work and thus retreated to stylistic flat choices.

The people working at home doing nothing are the same people who were at the office doing nothing. Its just easier to pretend you are doing work when you are in a glass tower and can wander around 'catching up' and 'touching base' etc.

Aloy in the new Sony Studio logo... good sign that she will be seeing the light of day for PS5

Colin Robinson is the hero we deserve in 2020.

I could never get past Miranda being the chick from Chuck, but a friend of mine was obsessed with her so I can see that. My biggest issue with ME2 was the hard left it took from the underlying plot of ME1 and the fact they they got lazy and just benched whatever character survived the ME1 choice.

ME1 -> ME2 -> ME3 -> ME:A to Star Trek TNG -> Star Trek DS9 -> Star Trek Voyager -> Star Trek Enterprise

The machine learning upscaling is getting better and better. Hopefully we see a fully realized version of this in the not-too-distant future.

I'm enjoying it. I love what the pups gets up to as it's silent sub-plots and background gags

Even with all the problems Andromeda had I would still be first in line should they make a new Mass Effect game. It's probably naive since the original genius team behind it all are long gone and it's a different era now... But damn I love this setting so damn much. The original commercial...

Surely there must be an opening for marketing director in Redmond yes?

their big Xbox Series X gameplay reveal. So far it is very underwhelming with a lot of 'optimized for series X' type things that will clearly be perfectly fine on Xbox One

In the Shadowlands Alpha stuff is there any indication as to what they plan to do vis-a-vis the giant sword that impaled Azeroth? Is everyone just supposed to go trapsing off into the plane of the afterlife and just conveniently forget about the whole Azerite / dying planet / whatever?

The music in the finale was haunting. It was a satisfying conclusion to the series and a wonderful capstone on the entire prequel era. I honestly feel I have a better handle on the state of the Star Wars Galaxy during the Clone Wars than I do during the time of the Original Trilogy (which is...

Huh...that new show on Amazon which is sort of the Good Place meets Black Mirror stars one Robbie Amell. Hope it's good, the poor guy deserves a break.

I lost one of my soldiers in the first boss fight and I decided I was okay with that... some folk gotta be expendable.

I've reloaded the same checkpoint now 3 times because I keep fucking up and missing the bonus goal for an early mission. I quite like these extra goals because its just enough of a carrot to compel me to focus on efficiency and details.

I'm enjoying this so far but I'm still on the early missions. I agonize over the skill tree which, to me, is a sign of quality in that I feel there are real decisions to be made in progression for squad members. I did need to update my Nvidia drivers as there was a definite incompatibility...

This is out today on PC and free for anyone with Xbox Game Pass. Launches in 1 hour!

The baby talk business with Charlotte in the Trials of Mana demo is where I noped the fuck out. Was looking for something to play after Ff7 remake but now I'm back to mindlessly wrecking stuff in Borderlands

Ahsoka's character arc throughout Clone Wars and Rebels is probably the best written arc of any character in the entire franchise. It is going to be great to see how she reacts to Order 66 and how that sets her up to fully take on the role of orchestrating early Rebel cels.

I get the distinct impression they intended the show to come back earlier in the year and hence the Superb Owl episode would have been more timely.

Watched it and I liked the overall setting quite a bit. The story went to pretty predictable places, but it was refreshing that the main character wasn't some messiah or something (I half expected him to manifest cold powers at a critical moment). I do think Robbie Amell is a better actor than...

Well Apocalypse had a better "Phoenix" scene than Dark Phoenix did, so that tracks. The main downfall from the Apoc version is the over acting of Xavier with "RELEASE YO POWAH!!"

My company announced a global salary reduction of 20% as a result of COVID and economic effects. I suspect mine wont be the only 'white collar' type job that faces this.