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    LitRPG

    Mmm, tough one - the land has a weird progression where it starts bad, gets good, gets really good, then crashes and burns and has had nothing produced since. Maybe if you read all but the most recent book ? Depends on how you feel on unfinished stories. Other than that, PoA is the best of the...
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    Madame Web (2024)

    This movie disappointed me. I was expecting something spectacularly terrible, but it was just bad. Not worth watching for the lols.
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    Madame Web (2024)

    This is straight up crazy talk, take a look at what he was in before Star Wars.
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    Winter 2024 Anime Thread

    Yeah, that annoyed me, but in fairness, that is par for the course with the MC using int as a dump stat :trollface: Highlight quotes from the episode include : "Oh wow, armor reduces how much you get hurt, maybe I should have equipped some earlier" "I really should have put some points into...
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Yeah, I said early on that the person that set up the deal with Larian did amazing work, and if WotC had any sense they'd be sending over the blank cheque to keep Larian working for them. Apparently in the real world, that person gets fired for not squeezing hard enough and then they squeeze...
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    Murderbot

    All Systems Red was a fantastic book, so I am hopeful here.
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    Trying To Remember a Dungeon Crawl Game From The Early Years

    The revenge you are getting in castle of the winds is against Surtur the fire giant and his minions. The final boss of the shareware bit is Hill Giant Utgardhalok .
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    Trying To Remember a Dungeon Crawl Game From The Early Years

    After a bit of research, I am pretty sure that is Castle of the Winds: A Question of Vengeance. Does this look familiar ?
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    Trying To Remember a Dungeon Crawl Game From The Early Years

    Do you remember if it had separate screens for moving around and for combat ? Secret of the silver blades had a lot of wandering around in snow fighting various giants, but it wasn't top down. Having both fire and hill giants suggests a D&D game though, although the 90s were pretty casual...
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    Trying To Remember a Dungeon Crawl Game From The Early Years

    I wasted a lot of time with that one, and it's successor Demise - good fun.
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    Trying To Remember a Dungeon Crawl Game From The Early Years

    Mordor: Depths of Dejenol maybe ?
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    That's actually pretty high by steam standards, so kind of works to prove the opposite of your point. Take a look at some of your other games - Fallout4 only had 60% make it to level 5, New Vegas had some 40% reach level 10, Kingmaker had less than 50% ever establish a barony, Saints Row 3 only...
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    X-Men '97

    I'm pretty sure if mutants existed, that would actually happen, for entirely non-sinister reasons. The actuaries would have no idea what to set insurance premiums at, and the actual doctors would have zero idea about how mutant biology works - they are inherently unqualified to provide...
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    3 Body Problem

    I dunno, I thought the first episode was kind of boring. It had it's moments, but I was struggling to stay interested.
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    Winter 2024 Anime Thread

    Yes, it's not Elven mana specifically though, it is just the way mana works for everyone. The 'fluctuations' are also called out specifically as a side effect of limiting your mana. It's not impossible that you'd also get them trying to do the opposite (if that were even possible), but...
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    Shōgun

    I think that's probably because she can't take a full step without tripping on her dress.
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    Winter 2024 Anime Thread

    I just got around to watching the first few of this. First episode I was ok, not too bad, very serious business, wait what the ?! Second episode with the expressions on the military officers in the briefing while Braven talks about his first time with Izami, had me laughing harder than any...
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    Yeah, but the crawlers weren't shielded. Also the fremen are basically terrorist insurgents; trading one guy + laser for a crawler, it's fliers, and the bunch of troops guarding it seems like a win even if they *were* shielded. ( Even assuming the blast is big enough to kill the gunner - they...
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    I thought this was really good, worth it for the visuals alone IMO, but the rest of it wasn't bad. Fremen need to work on their tactics though - if you are going to bury yourself in the sand, at least wait til they get to you, don't jump out of the sand 30 yards away and then run the remaining...
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

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    Star Trek: Discovery

    The opposite really - it was actually pretty good storywise up until Fuller left ( most of the way through s1 ), after that it turns into more or less meandering nonsense. Kind of like Heroes, and for pretty much the same reason ;p
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    Constellation

    This is a weird show. I don't know that I'd count it as a 'mystery box' though, it seems to make it pretty clear what's going on.
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    Legends of Idleon

    Sneaking is kind of like Home Alone, but you are playing as the burglars. Your ninja twins learned everything they know about stealth from the kool-aid man.
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    Winter 2024 Anime Thread

    He also has clearly fallen into the trap of not spending points on int - 'No, I can't take this money I need to remain low profile and secretive', *uses blindingly flashy loot box in public park then sits there staring at his loot for a while. Goes and opens portal to hell in a residential street*
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    Web Serials

    I know nothing about the author's views on anything, but the character Maya is a literal social justice warrior - and she is also fucking crazy. Not even in story characters take her seriously.
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    Mr. & Mrs. Smith

    This was 90% boring relationship drama. Not my thing I think.
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    Winter 2024 Anime Thread

    Solo Leveling is good fun, but I can't help but lol at the thought of the logistics involved in dragging a multi-thousand ton block of granite into the gym every morning so the company head can 'warm up' ;p
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    That one is also true, but a bit more edge case. AFAIK for spells that two different classes both get ( e.g. both wizards and sorcerers get fireball ), if you have both wizard and sorcerer levels, it will use whichever the most recent one you raised is to decide if the fireball uses int or cha...
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    Web Serials

    Some other stuff I have checked out over recent months - all of them have at least 1 'book' completed which makes a decent stopping point : Elydes - this is an isekai/litrpg, although it is quite different from the usual fare there. It's pretty laid back, for example the number of enemies...
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    Stormgate (RTS)

    The art design killed Blizzard ? That's... certainly a novel opinion. What's your line of thinking there ? It's been pretty consistent through their best and worst periods, as far as I know.
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    What are you playing?

    I've been alternating between Cosmoteer and Trouble Shooter. Cosmoteer is like a cross between factorio and starsector. It's nominally a space combat game, kill pirates, mine stuff, upgrade your ship etc; but the bulk of the game is really in ship design, which is the factorio part. You build...
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    The order for classes is mostly because some things you only get from your first class, mostly armor proficiency and saving throws. So if you start as a wizard and switch to warrior, you won't get heavy armor, but if you go the other way around you will.
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    Fargo

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    True Detective

    Mmmm, first ep of this more or less left me indifferent. We'll see if it picks up in the next couple of episodes. I am confused by all the whining about lesbians though - the only one is Foster's daughter, no ?
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    The Boys

    What the shit ? I've seen worse plastic surgery results, but not coming from a better starting place. Getting from a 5 to a 7 is a believable goal for plastic surgery, getting from a 9 to something higher isn't going to happen ( has it ever ? ).
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    Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

    My suggestion for the "Snyder Cut" of this show - first 5 minutes of first episode, second last 5 minutes of last episode. Done.
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    For All Mankind

    The season started so well too, pity about the rest of it. Pet peeve - Aleda typed like 500 lines of code in 3 minutes, instead of obvious sabotage, a simple typo would stop the thing from working, and would be 100% explainable as an accident. If it failed to compile there wasn't enough time...
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    You could try the minimum subtlety version of thieving - disguise your guys, turn on non-lethal combat, beat him unconscious and then take all his stuff while he is out cold.
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    Winter 2024 Anime Thread

    Solo Levelling - eh, it was ok, but pretty formulaic. will watch a few more to see if it picks up. Delicious in Dungeon - WTF ? Well, can't complain about it being unoriginal I guess - was entertaining despite the crazy. Chained Soldier - aka "Cuck: the anime". This is a no unless I get really...
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    Rajaah's CRPG Blog

    Wrath of the Righteous and D:OS2 being better than BG2 is pretty non controversial I'd think - Underrail is a bold call though.