Even if Rocksteady won’t say its new game is live-service, WB is happy to confirm it has plans to make more of these games, regardless of how fans feel.

That’s how I heard of him, and only then because we were given tickets to one of her standup shows by friends with season tickets to the venue who were oh-so-conveniently out of town that weekend. She went on and on and on and on about how all men should be like Jo Koy.

I loved that game so much. It was endlessly playable and I should really grab an emulator and a copy so I can play it again; I also enjoyed the challenge of using a Hominid and working through weapons like the Needler.

That’s my feeling as well. It’s one of those things where they (IMO) executed on dramatic plotlines and arcs in the first two seasons very effectively and took that as a cue to really lean into and explore that with the additional creative freedom they said they got from Hulu.

“We’re going to go ahead and assume, based on the real Harmon’s age, that the series will be set in the ’70s or ’80s”

That’s kind of what I’m getting at in my comment above. The vibe I get from friends who love Elden Ring is that the frustration is very much part of the appeal because of how it increases their satisfaction when they finally do beat it. And that’s totally valid, it’s just not something I’m personally interested in…

I play Bethesda games, so I’m used to terrible RNG.😅

As I said in that comment thread, I don’t enjoy frustration-porn games (like Elden Ring) because life comes with enough frustration and I don’t feel like seeking out a crushing level of it in a game.

One really nice thing about the county I live in is that they actually care about those sorts of projects, the godless commies. There’s a big rural broadband initiative going on right now that’s bringing honest-to-goodness internet service to people who didn’t have access to it previously.

Dammit, why did I google that?

I’m totally with you. I can’t stand PvP. That was one of the worst aspects of Fallout 76 at launch for me (and there were a lot of bad aspects to choose from). I didn’t need some 13-year-old asshole to merc me and say terrible things about my mother while I’m building a C.A.M.P. or just exploring the map. Fortunately,…

I have no doubt that he loved creating those, but what I meant specifically was that he was much better at the shorter stuff (that’s why I chose the word “excelled” rather than something like “preferred”).

Totally with you there. A season of, say, four 3-episode mini-arcs could be a lot of fun in the right hands.

I think Doctor Who would do well to return to that more episodic format. I kind of wonder if the model would’ve hewn closer to that if Moffat had been the original showrunner rather than RTD. The Moff excelled (IMO) at stories and arcs with shorter runs, but by the time he took over the expectation for the big season…

I wonder if it’s because that length doesn’t give you time to relax/breathe so each of those episodes takes up a bunch of emotional bandwidth. Everything is important in seasons that short. Well, for the most part, I think Strange New Worlds does a good job of maintaining a mostly episodic feel in short seasons.

I’m fortunate to have had access to an outstanding private tracker that’s just for TV stuff for more than a decade, so I don’t have to worry about missing out. I subscribe to all the main streaming services, but I like to have offline copies in case they disappear and there’s stuff that isn’t available to me legally…

Yarr.

Ah, cool, thank you for that clarification! NYU felt like it made the most sense but I haven’t watched the show outside of an episode happening to be on TV when I was visiting someone since the show was on the air.

I don’t recall whether they ever said where Ross is a professor, but I looked up NYU salaries and was surprised at how low they were, relatively speaking. Top (“star”) professors, which Ross probably isn’t, earn $182,400 while associate professors earn $106,100. Assistant professors earn $99,700. I presume he’s…

I enjoyed Watchmen quite a bit but I figured it was at least in part because I came in cold since I didn’t read the comics.