I feel like any build that won’t work has a coin-toss-chance of being a bad PSU. In my experience - if it’s a hardware problem - it’s almost always a power problem. PSUs just seem to be f’ed up out of the box way more than other components.
Building and tinkering with computers is to our generation what building and tinkering with cars was to our parents and theirs. It’s partly a way of displaying manhood (I’d never felt such a primal sense of masculinity as when I built my first PC), but also our ticket to freedom and the outside world.
Think of it more like Mario - the people who made Odyssey didn’t create the character, but they are the developers in charge of the IP. They didn’t hack the system; the source code was given to them with the intention that they should be in control.
Let’s be honest - you’re playing against the developers. They have access to the internal code for the game and can make it play however they want, with as many lives as they want. Meanwhile, they’re screwing you as hard as they can to shake you down for your quarters.
So, question: How much of this is dubbed, subquestion: of what isn’t, how much is likely to ever BE dubbed?
I’m not totally certain it’s just about perspective. Going by the numbers at AO3, as you pointed out, there are 1961481 same-sex stories to just 849760 m/f. Just looking at m/m, it’s twice as many stories on its own than m/f. So clearly there’s more action in m/m shipping than anywhere else, if we go just by the…
Say what you want about ME:A (and I’ll probably disagree with most, because I really enjoyed that game a lot), but it had a fantastic cast. Every character had something to contribute. I think Drax might even be my favorite Krogan squadmate of all time. It was doing so much right, it’s a shame it couldn’t go the…
This is shocking information. I am shocked. I have literally never seen m/f Dragon Age material except extremely sporadically and never to that kind of extent. I try to stay pretty well-versed in what’s happening in fandoms (to the degree that anybody can) as I see it as part of my job in a way, but this...
I can’t speak to MMOs because they’re too far outside my realm of experience, and Bethesda games... are there even characters in those? I thought it was just you and the endless wilderness and maybe your horse. Final Fantasy, does anybody ship any FF that isn’t XV? Like... maybe VII, but Cloud/Sephiroth has to be at…
M/F still dominates in a lot of fandoms
My two largest concerns are the fan-wars and the way they come to define properties, and the attacks on female characters. The toxicity of certain fan communities drive people away from that media, and can affect whole corners of the internet. Like, I hear people talk about tumblr now in the same hushed “decent people…
To what extent would you say that shipping in fandom is dominated by same-sex relationships, these days? I feel like there used to be more space for mixed-sex shipping, but now when I see these kinds of stories, or watch what’s up with various fandoms on tumblr or twitter, it feels like there isn’t really any interest…
My whole point with Sauron was that you didn’t need to take the Silmarillion into consideration with LotR. He’s well established within that world. We know that he’s been the Dark Lord terrorizing Middle Earth for hundreds of years. That is set up in LotR itself, you don’t need any extraneous material to know that.…
It’s been, what? 25-30 years since RotJ in-universe? Snoke could’ve been around for 20+ years. Is that established enough? We don’t know the backstory of everything that happened between the OT and TFA - only what the story deemed important enough to tell us. And it told us that Snoke was the leader of the New Order,…
Snoke dying breaks zero rules. Really powerful dark siders rise to positions of great power and then die by their apprentice’s hand all the time in Star Wars. I’m not sure where you’re going with this rule logic.
Firstly, the fact that Snoke is similar to Palpatine is clearly intentional, and precisely why killing him off was a good move for the films. It’s a subversion of a trope established in the franchise - you looked at him and assumed you were watching one kind of movie, then the creators surprise you by showing that…
1) Most of the characters have never been mentioned anywhere before by anyone. That doesn’t matter. Virtually none of the characters in A New Hope had any kind of “special history” - didn’t matter then, either. You get what you need: Palpatine is the evil ruler of the Empire who turned Darth Vader; Snoke is the evil…
You’re looking at Palpatine in retrospect, not the way he was actually portrayed in the films, while simultaneously making a lot of assumptions about Snoke.