The space combat is pretty fun in STO, but the ground stuff has been rough from day one. One million years ago I won a closed beta invite by entering a writing competition on their webpage. I played tons and tons in the beta and then for about a year or so into launch, before falling off. Went back two years ago or so…

I forgot about her at first but yea, she’s actually the most obvious one!

I loved A Final Unity so much back in the day. It felt just like an episode of TNG. I think it was also my first experience with fully voiced PC gaming? I remember having to jump through some hoops getting it to run on my first ever video card but it was definitely worth the effort. Sad to see it as abandonware. 

Those colors look like whoever edited the pictures is a big Snyderverse fan.

It’s the old question of, like, will civilization go out with a bang or a whimper?

He seemed pretty burned by his experience with the Disney machine in making Star Wars so I’d be a little surprised if he decided to go back. Though I guess with the kind of money they can throw around it’d be hard to say no if they made the offer.

Rowling’s shitty personal views aside, a whole season per book seems excessive for at least the first like four books or so. Are they gonna spend the first half of each season exploring the Dursey’s child abuse in great detail or something? Entire episodes dedicated to a Quittich match? Though I guess if they can turn…

It’s really surprising that GRRM or whoever is in charge of licensing hasn’t done an official DLC pack with them. Like you said, it’s a perfect fit. They were happy enough to make that meh Telltale game but haven’t done much else with games other than a digital version of the board game.

No kidding! 19 year old Nick was extremely melodramatic. I can’t imagine having had a serious long term relationship then.

My apologies.

The article says it’s 162 ft so your original 49 meters was right. I did some very light Googling to get my price per day and upon a little more looking I was over by about double. For something as outdated as the Michaela Rose it looks like it’s closer to ~$25K per day. Here’s a comparable boat with the very dumb…

A boat that size, even an old less advanced one like that, charters for around $50K per day.

I get the secrecy in her day to day, the kind of hounding she’s subjected to has to suck...but why the hiding at the concert venue? Do the roadies and other backstage randoms bother he as she’s going from the greenroom to stage? A standard bodyguard(or ten) seems to be sufficient for other megastars as far as I am…

I think part of the issue with the time compression might be part of the rights thing I mentioned before. Apparently Amazon has the rights to the The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit, and The Appendices but not to the Silmarilion, or unfinished tales or anything else. So they can talk about most of the big stuff…

Yea, the insane turn of events that had to occur for Mordor to happen was so very silly indeed.

I saw it all and mostly liked it but I can totally see why a lot of people bailed. Those first three or four episodes were slow as hell. And because of the weird way that Amazon only owns some very specific rights to a bunch of ancillary parts of Lord of the Rings lore, the superfans didn’t like it because it changed…

Isn’t Hermione canonically black in the play? Or was just a one-off for that original actress?

These are the same people that were mad because they got rid of some gratuitous Miranda ass shots in the Mass Effect 2 remaster. Something, something, respecting original artistic vision I’m sure.

I did ok with the Inquisitors for the most part, a few retries here and there, but that fight with Taren Malicos was the closest I’ve ever come to rage uninstalling a game. Such a cheese fight! Turned it down to story difficulty after spending like two hours on it.

The first time my buddy and I ran into him we basically took turns dying and running back to keep him engaged before eventually killing him. As a Barbarian at around 15 it was a rough fight and I died several times. The second time we saw him at level 25 on the open beta, we ran into him like twenty feet after getting…