I was incredibly disappointed that after the OT: “There are like... 3 Jedi in the whole universe and two of them die by the end of the trilogy” and PT: “There are hundreds-to-thousands of Jedi in a rigid/decadent about-to-fall system that will leave (at least on-screen) 2 alive by the end”, we got the ST: “There’s 2… Read more
Topheh
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Yeah. Very few interesting places to go with this.
1) Jon deals with rival factions of Free Folk who want different things - some want to invade the rest of Westeros, some want to just be left alone, some want to create their own little kingdoms. This feels very boring. Lets rehash OG GoT but everyone’s a house-hating,… Read more
I feel like there’s this whole evolution of inclusion of PoCs and marginalized groups that gets really bad before it gets better between like, the 70s and now. In the 70s, its a racism of erasure - there literally are no stories or plotlines set anywhere that is not recognizably western europe or the US and featuring… Read more
But we already have digital contracts. Why do we need blockchain digital contracts? We already have asset managers. Why do we need blockchain asset managers?
There is nothing inherently magical about your copy of an online-purchased game. Its just a copy of code. If you make an NFT of the game and give it to your… Read more
Sure, but the cloud always had an inherent draw: “Once this gets cheap enough, it will be cheaper to rent space on this cloud server than buy your own and will also have added benefits towards connectivity” is a really easy thing to understand.
As everyone is saying, I have yet to see a single even aspirational goal… Read more
Did we play the same game? It certainly helps to know that this is inspired/an homage to a well-known book from China, but the characters are paper thin and never change or evolve. Character A hates Character B. There is a reason for this at first but, regardless of your actions, this will never change. Character B is… Read more
Yeah, this is the exciting one for me.
And where is XCOM3? TFtD remake, please!
Lord of the Rings is a YEAR away from release (September 2022)
Yeah, this was the scene from the trailer that I honestly did not know what it was referencing in the books... but its been a while.
Book 1 was, by design, written as a LotR knockoff, mostly so it would be picked up both by the publisher and by the public. “There are Heroes, they must go on a Quest to another Place, and they See Things on their way that are Described Extensively. As they go, they are hunted by Bad Things that serve an off-screen,… Read more
These are the clones that didn’t, well, clone correctly (the ‘bad batch’), so they end up looking really different from the ‘standard’ clone.
As for Echo... um... major spoilers.
Yeah, I’ll pass. While the hook for the Demon Cycle was certainly neat, it didn’t overcome the rampant misogyny, rape-as-character-development, and unfavorable-caricature-of-arab/islamic-people-going-on-Jihad choices that the author made that made it impossible to get past book 2. I can’t imagine going back to that… Read more
You might be interested in these, then. Good reads! Read more
Name checks out :)
I think this depends on your definition. Read more
So I was looking, and the original TIE Fighter game had 76(!) missions. Given that this thing looks like they’re going to do full cutscenes between every mission, I think we can expect maybe... 10 missions here? 15 if we’re lucky. Read more
you know dude, you encouraged someone on this site to commit suicide 4 days ago, so I don’t think anyone needs to listen to a word you have to say, you piece of slime. Read more
Yeah, I told myself when the Last Battle started that I’d read one more chapter and go to bed... but Sanderson made the ENTIRE Last Battle one chapter... and its 81,200 words long, which is the length of an entire book. (HP and the Sorcerer’s Stone was 78k words). I got maybe a quarter of the way through before I… Read more
So, from the perspective of the field, this isn’t new information. We’ve actually known (as you note) that genetics is an imperfect predictor of disease, especially in the case of diseases of the elderly, like heart disease or diabetes. Read more
I had this happen to me. For years I was a happy flyer, staring out the window at the ground, not minding turbulence and then over the course of a half year or so I suddenly transformed into someone trying to constantly stay distracted during flying so I wouldn’t **think** about what was going on... and… Read more