Agreed on the Elrond thing. And I didn’t even see it as an intentional slight. It seemed like it didn’t really occur to him that he was being neglectful because elves are immortal so for them it’s no big deal to go 50 years or more between meetings. When Durin told him he’d lived a whole life between seeing him last…

That’s actually something I hadn’t considered. If everyone abducted and put into a pod in ME2 was turned into a Cerberus agent in ME3 that would maybe make up the difference. So many fringe planets totally subsumed. That’s a lot of manpower.

It always strained credulity for me that even if Cerberus had been indoctrinated for years and had near unlimited funding, that they’d still seem to massively outnumber the Systems Alliance. The ending was not great but I think I’d prepared myself for that given how hard it would have been to actually stick the…

The game seems designed to have Yennefer as the canon choice but not having played much of the first two games Triss seemed like the more natural match. She’s a good person who is fun and wants to help people, meanwhile Yenn treats Geralt like trash most of the time and mostly spends her time manipulating everyone. I…

Odyssey had a pretty cool guided tour mode to really scratch that Greek virtual tourism itch. I think it might have even been a free standalone during the early days of covid but I don’t know if it still is.

Oh they don’t care that someone is great a video game in general; they are only mad because this is a woman. They feel threatened by a girl being better than them, which is both ridiculous and sad.

Like you said, it’s fantasy nonsense. But in their very mild defense, if we time traveled first to 900 CE and then to 1100 CE, it’d probably be somewhat challenging for a normie like you or I to notice a ton of technological differences.

I am not super familiar with Fire and Blood but it’s difficult to understand how a multi season show can closely follow a single book without indulging in significant Hobbit movies bloat. As I understand it the book is more or less a history book so I guess you just use that to make sure you hit the major plot points…

I get where you’re coming from but Bartleby resisted himself right into an early grave via starvation. Obviously it’s an absurdist story, taking the idea to it’s most extreme extent, but I’m not sure that’s the best solution to preferring not to do more than your job description entails?

It’s just all skipping through the forest with rambling free form singing for ten hours with no objectives or conflict of any kind. You only lose if you try to adjust the volume controls in any way.

It did seem like a weird choice of words. I’m perfectly willing to admit that I’m out of the loop on pop music these days but I would not have picked Styles as even in the top ten of the most famous pop stars to say nothing of “the most famous man in the world”.

This is pretty much the only thing I miss about having a bank with physical locations. I’m stuck using Coinstar, though one of the gift card options is Amazon so at least it’s not the end of the world, and beats giving away 12% of your money. I haven’t found a bank in my neighborhood that will let noncustomers use…

Most schools in the northeast, where Lifehacker is located, don’t start until the first week of September. In Florida, where I grew up, it started mid to late August. I had no idea anyone was starting as early as late July. Google seems to indicate Arizona? Nothing like walking home from school in the hottest part of…

I’d suggest that it turns out they couldn’t do a mustache.

I really liked the game and totally understand the need for scaled back dlc scope given production circumstances but the pricing needs to reflect that. Charging the same amount for these tiny dlcs as the incredibly robust BL2 story expansions is ridiculous.

I don’t, the good people at Reddit seem to agree the only reason they are getting rejected is because they are under 6'2. They say they are nice guys, which I have no reason not to believe, so yea, it’s definitely height persecution that’s the problem.

I thought it was kind of cool that when they kill you they level up and got a name. It made it fun to run into them again later. But yea, after successfully getting revenge and killing them, it was weird and not always fun to have them just keep showing up despite the fact that I had removed their heads on more than…

I know what you mean. I want to like naps but I always wake up groggy, feeling like my head is full of cotton.

I read this whole review and didn’t see one mention sea monsters! This isn’t a revival of the 2005 classic(I use the term very loosely) series starring Lake Bell?

I feel like taking money with no apparent intention of ever delivering a finished product feels pretty scammy, but I agree it’s open to interpretation.