but says on Twitter that she wants to “focus on longer pieces about politics & culture

hah, I just tried the new summer banner on FE: Heroes and while I didn't get one of the special characters, I did pull a 5-star Ryouta. It seems I'm not very good at getting many 5-stars, but the 3 I have are all super good.

I get the changing feelings on Homecoming and think thats why its had such steep declines each week. It's really not a "superhero" movie, its very much a "high school" movie where the main character has super powers, and while that's fine it limits the movie having much in the way of urgency or stand-out moments.

It's a lot stripped down, mostly because its a remake of a game from 1992 so you kinda need to keep reminding yourself its based on very old "rules". I'm actually liking it more than Fates, though Awakening is probably still the best of the bunch. There's no weapon triangle annoyances screwing you up in fights,…

I had to give up Swordbreaker for it, but let's be honest, with Ike's stats Swordbreaker isn't really necessary. His big flaw for me is he's max level and his RES is only 16, so a blue mage can potentially drop him in 1-2 shots, well out of Vantage range

Got a lot of Fire Emblem in, both Echoes and Heroes based. In FE: Echoes I beat the Act 3 Temple of Mila battle, which was annoying with the number of arcanists but not terribly hard- only one character was lost and that was half on me for running him so far forward. On the Alm side of things I could go straight to…

I can only suffer your humble brag by taking solace in my Summer Robin :p

Ugh, Celica over Titania any day and every day. I tried using Titania and maybe it was unlucky levels, but her DEF/RES suck. Worse, she has an Emerald Axe so unless she's attacking blue characters she can't kill anything. Celica may not be a top-tier character, but she's solid and can hurt even red characters at least…

Athena is no slouch either, that's some serious humblebragging.

Many, many, many years ago I rented some Raiden-clone top down shooter from Blockbuster and managed to beat it in less than an hour. We ended up returning it right away and the clerk let us swap it with a game that didn't suck

Only 4 tries for the last boss? Lucky. I hadn't used Oddleif all game so being forced to use her hurt, after about a dozen tries I backed up to an older save to grind her up, failed about another dozen times, so backed up farther to try and grind up some of the other characters I was being forced to use since everyone…

Daniel Craig is well known to be kinda withdrawn when doing love scenes. When Skyfall came out there were reports that he did all the practice shots for any of his sex scenes completely clothed and would only barely undress for actual filming, so its not unsurprising he would apply that to his costars as well

Yeah, LNS suffers a bit from its plot being a little too complicated and relying on some major stretches, however its well acted with some good action and a decent story if you give it the leeway it needs. The bigger question is how you can make a movie with that case and have it seemingly go under the radar

Part of me wonders how much of that was really the BSA's fault. They seem to invite the President to most of their jamboree's, so suddenly not inviting him would have created a massive shitstorm, even if this was kinda the obvious result.

I remember that game, I think it was right after the "no dual winners" change. Essentially it came down to how much he liked the FJ category, if he reasonably thought he could get it you wage the dollar and hope to win there. If he doesn't like the category you bet nothing and worst case have a tie-breaker question,…

Yeah, I didn't hear the 's' either so I figured he claimed to have said it when Alex asked since he was trying to go with what he thought was the real answer and got screwed

Moreover, Day-Lewis was in a bit of pseudo-retirement for most of the 90's. Gangs of New York was something of a comeback piece for him, so any basic movie knowledge would point out that is a spectacularly wrong answer

Make sure you get a tape of her talking about it, then you can fire her for cause

Sorry Vadim, but you are the wrong Russian to review this. If ever there was a movie calling for an Ignatiy smack-down, it was this corporate hack piece of shit

It doesn't even need to be that complex of a system, just have an option for people to pick up fallen characters and make it so you always somewhat carry them in front of you. Sure it might not make a whole lot of sense but it would also let you grab enemy players and use them as shields as well as making it so a…