Ugh, that sounds suspiciously like magic. Sir Finneus Flexwinkle does not traffic in such arcane nonsense — the Raw sword is the only farming implement he knows.

Well, okay, I can maybe see that if it really takes such power to render those beautiful backgrounds. No performance issues on my PS4 (presumably because my version was well after launch).

Yes, of III. But I'm also a (single-play) veteran of I, II, and Bloodborne, where I adopted much the same approach. By the same token, I don't think I would have it in me to do additional playthroughs, although I understand this is quite popular

I'm sure you're right. And I'm not putting any more points into Strength and Dexterity at this stage — I've gotten to the point where those hit a ceiling when leveling up. My choices frankly have always been driven by immediate or short-term concerns — I go with whatever seems to pack the most points at any given…

I don't even think it was a 'fascinating fact', I think it was more that he was trying to make a silly point about how cynics are realists that had nothing to do with English or grammar. This same guy was also frequently late for the start of our class because he was catching the end of Jeopardy!

Yes, I did. This was mentioned in my post.

Dying to play some of these indies. The last one I played was Superhot, which was fun. I did not care for The Stanley Parable — I tooled around in it for 20 minutes, then asked, "Really, that's the game?" Indies more up my alley are Papers, Please and Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine, from a few years back — those were…

Dark Souls III, same as the last few weekends. I can only really play on the weekend, so my progress is somewhat incremental, but I've finally beaten the Dragonslayer Armor and am working on clearing out the Grand Archives on the way towards its twin bosses, Lothric and Lorian. Finally opened up the big shortcut…

That seems wrong. Firewatch is pretty but has minimal amounts of real action; I'm not sure why it would require heavy graphics processing power. Then again, I played mine on a console — above such petty concerns.

Let's just say I was thrown out of fifth grade history when I dared correct my teacher's pronunciation of "Theseus". (She pronounced it "The-soos" — because of course it has to rhyme with "Zeus", right?)

To be fair, most of Yen's roles involve beating people up using martial arts.

Weird? In media res scenarios are key to Star Wars — personally I love it when they suddenly start right off with characters that the movie acts like you're supposed to know. Besides, it's not like there's any real confusion; the script does just enough to convey that this guy is a revered elder sympathetic to the…

Damn! Wish I'd thought of that.

Maybe, but more just that it seems like Qyburn could find the wildfire himself if it really is nearby. It could be that, as someone else mentioned, the wildfire is hidden throughout the city and Qyburn needed the little birds to ferret it out.

I once had an English 101 professor open up his class by asking, "Can anyone name the only two words in the English language which mean exactly the same thing?"

Not exactly. The High Sparrow was introduced as using that name (in an episode also titled with that name) while the actual High Septon was still in office (he presided over Tommen and Margaery's wedding that same episode). So the High Sparrow couldn't have been elected High Septon while that other guy was still…

I like Edd, but I much prefer the somewhat more serious, brooding one on the show to Martin's version, whom he has behave more or less like Marvin the Paranoid Android.

(after researching)

2. Okay. That seemed like a pretty quiet transition.

Okay, I'm going to jump in here and ask a couple of dumb questions: