Jesus, I can’t believe I have to have this discussion again. The book Starship Troopers was far from “fascist.” If that’s the only takeaway someone has from the book, they were ignoring all the important parts: to wit, service is voluntary. Conscription is slavery and no just society or sound military body can endure…

I could have sworn I’d seen it as a GIF before but a cursory search doesn’t find it. Someone should fix that.

At least three great moments in that sequence: jumping into the room and tangling in the curtains; covering the photog’s camera with his hat; and angrily banging on his car roof and growling (personal fave). I also forgot how great the opening theme was, especially for that era of TV. 

For what it’s worth, I call it TwiX. *shrug* 

“Coming 2025" - Goddamnit, R*. 

Well, as he was a canonical war criminal IRL, I see no need to belabor the point.  

Memphis, huh? Given that this guy had physical merch, it makes me wonder if he had access to a secure warehouse adjacent to FedEx’s facilities at or near KMEM. Lots of stuff gets pre-positioned for later retail releases from cargo hub-adjacent warehouses like that.

Not that much bigger than Jedi:Survivor (129.93GB on my drive) let alone all the storage I have devoted to MSFS2020 (currently sitting at 501GB). Quit whinging and buy a bigger drive. It’s the 21st century, ffs. 

Wait ‘til more folks start tweeting about cis-lunar space.

Well, they’d be wrong because you can in fact buy NMS on Steam via my link for Mac at 50% off.  Not my fault if people choose to ignore reality in favor of their own internal counterfactual narrative.

“As others have said, every time they release it on a new platform, it launches at full price so boom, more revenue.” LOLwhut? That’s not true at all. Every time it launches on a new platform, it’s 50% off. In fact, it goes on sale at 50% off, complete with all the past and (so far) future updates for free, about 3-4…

Double-bladed orange lightsaber FTW, baby. Occasionally switching to crossguard because holy shit, it’s powerful. If you can get the timing right for parries, it’s brutally efficient. 

Or, and here me out here, Vader and the Iquisitorious will discover Tanalorr within a few years and wipe it - and all the gathered Jedi survivors - into the dustbin of history, maybe in some climactic battle that also conveniently wipes out all the Inquisitors before Star Wars (er. “Episode IV”) takes place. 

Still pissed they cast that pretty boy Steve McQueen in THE GREAT ESCAPE. Rick Dalton would’ve killed in that role.

Pardon me for mixing up my nerd milieux here, but I’ll be in my bunk ...

And the story of how they got that droid army is great too - the crashed Lucrehulk in the distance in plain view as soon as you get off Coruscant and onto Koboh was great. You could tell right there that Koboh had some cool stuff ahead of you to discover. The repurposed antique battle droids are just the first teaser.

Running just fine for me through the first hour on Coruscant (i7-11700KF, RTX 3070, 1400p with most of the bells & whistles but no raytracing). I’m been averaging 55 - 65 fps in that giant open map area throughout. I use a G-sync monitor and Vsync turned off in-game. If I didn’t have Afterburner open to monitor I…

Just played Fallen Order for the first time these past couple weeks ($6 Steam sale a couple months ago - worth it). Yeah, the backtracking sucked, especially when you were ass-deep at the end of the bottom level. But if you use the maps and actually make a bit of an effort, most of them have numerous shortcuts to…

My first (and only) experience with Sanderson’s works come from his conclusion of Jordan’s WoT saga. I came away ... unimpressed. I didn’t like his prose, I didn’t like his dialogue and I think he gave short, caricature-like shrift to complicated characters that frankly deserved a better ending than they got but for…

By making more great games? It’s a formula that has worked for decades, even for R*.