Andor was also just way better than Rings of Power.

It made me happy to see Themberchaud. He’s the best fat dragon. I call him Themberchonk.

BattleZoo designing an entire free ancestry for Pathfinder 2nd edition that lets you play an obnoxiously overpowered isekai protagonist gave me a laugh.

I always wondered why the hell people call ray tracing “RTX,” in the same way I wonder why they call microtransations “MTX.” I just assumed it was gamers being shit at coming up with shorthand for pretty much anything as usual.

They know what gets clicks, I guess. Wired used to be a pretty interesting magazine. Do they even have a magazine anymore?

When I was reading one of the major battles in Words of Radiance, I thought “Man, a Stormlight Archive musou game would be crazy, make it happen somebody.”

It is a weirdly hostile article. I’m not even sure what the point of it is, other than making sure everyone knows the author really hates Brandon Sanderson and his family. As a casual reader of Sanderson’s work, I’d say shrug and move on - seems like Kehe is miserable enough already.

I liked the hypocrisy of the new government being so determined to shed the trappings of the old, evil government that they scrap a bunch of good equipment because it was Imperial, but just rebrand the stuff that’s of immediate use and basically paint it white.

The platforming really had me gritting my teeth sometimes. Here you go, wall-run between these three walls, then jump on a slide, then take the right fork in the road while sliding, then aim a precise jump onto a vine, then jump off that -

Favorite role was definitely Broyles in Fringe. Especially in the episode where they all eat LSD brownies and he sees a cartoon bluebird on Peter’s shoulder and just starts grinning at it.

It doesn’t count unless you make sure everyone knows.

I don’t think I’ve ever been more caught off guard by a celebrity death. He’s in so many ongoing franchises. Destiny, Horizon, John Wick, etc.

It’s still crazy to me that Dune was MacLachlan’s first role ever. He did a pretty damn good job.

Yeah, I mean I’m just grousing anyway, it is what it is. I probably just find 2020s teens more annoying than 1970s teens, since I’m an old. The show is already done and we’re not getting any more of it. I think it was probably the best of the three main fantasy shows on streaming networks, but it was still bad (other…

That’s what bugs me in general. You’ve got all these blandly-attractive 20-somethings who look like they walked out of an Orange County prep school into a ren faire, and the snarky, vaguely medium-aware dialogue. It’s aggravating. I don’t know what did more damage to fantasy on TV - the MCU or the CW.

Also with a lot more dumb teenagers, which seems like every fantasy show now. Wheel of Time, even Rings of Power. It’s like there’s some exec somewhere going “No, put more teens in. Dumber, make them dumber!”

I remember there were some fights and chases set to wildly inappropriate music. I remember texting my mom before the finale like “OK, are you ready for the mumble rap cover of ‘Like A Virgin’ during tonight’s final battle with evil?”

It’s also perfectly in-character for a kid who’s been raised by a military force convinced of its own necessity in keeping humanity “civilized.” Being a kid in that world would suck. She’s naturally going to have a complicated and less-than-healthy perspective on violence.

Yeah, I just left that sub a few years back when it went from making fun of the ridiculous, melodramatic crap gamers say to just plain contrarianism and then something darker and more meanspirited. They’ve fallen into the same trap every circlejerk subreddit falls into.

That’s exactly where I’m at with it, and I find it weird that the morality of the Fireflies is apparently just never questioned.