Everything? Really? That’s bold. I’ve been around for a while, and I personally can’t remember a time when 3000 armed, masked, untrained and unaccountable thugs were let loose by the federal government on individual cities to openly terrorize, incite, and murder the general population.

Nah, frequent sandstorms (multiple times a day) destroy everything if you don’t keep your base shields charged, and keeping your shields charged requires constant resource farming and crafting.

I was really pulling for Judge, that man’s voice has such presence, and he has the body to match it.

I’m sure there were some incredibly stupid reasons for not casting him…

I absolutely loved the game, raved about it, spent months finishing the story and building my perfect base, kitting out my ornithopters with shameful amounts of resource farming, then life went on and I got too busy to think about it. A few weeks later, I logged back in and BOOM, all my shit’s gone. They eventually added a way to save your stuff if you know you won’t be playing for a while, but it was too late for me. I was genuinely gutted.

It’s an unforgivably shitty way to reward players who sink months of their lives into your game. I’ll never touch a game like this again.

Banshee was phenomenal. Such an underrated show. There were a couple of episodes where at the end I was fully stunned and thought, “shit, that was some of the best television I’ve ever seen.”

Ugh this just gave me a flashback to Wyll falling down into the spidery depths of the goblin camp. When it was his turn the camera absolutely fritzed out because he was the lowest character on the map (which is three levels, each with huge verticality). I had companions up in the rafters, the ground floor, and the depths. I sent Gale down after Wyll to try to keep him alive and help him get back up, but then I had two bugged cameras. Had to target magic missiles on the enemy icons, that was the only way they could do anything from down there.

The camera is pretty much my only criticism of the game. It’d also be great if third person view was enabled on PC without mods…

The sheer number of unacceptably loud neighbors I’ve had above and adjacent to me makes me wish this wasn’t true, but it is. If I can hear you peeing, that means you can hear me peeing. So of course you’re keeping me up at night with your booming subwoofer and random 1am furniture rearranging. People are assholes.

I’ve come to believe it’s not always intentional, but that doesn’t make it any better, it just shows a distinct lack of empathy and disregard for other people around you. I fucking hate living in apartments…

Oh, and if you live in an upstairs apartment with hard floors, and keep your shoes on or walk around in heels all day, stop doing that. Your downstairs neighbors definitely hate your guts.

I recently rewatched it to see if I would come away with a different feeling, but no, I agree with most of this. I didn’t know about the nepotism, but that tracks.

Sol was the worst. His motivations were creepy, his emotional attachment and paternalism to Osha was unhealthy even for a non Jedi.

The more the story of Osha’s “kidnapping” was fleshed out, the more frustrating the whole thing became. Sol was selfish, presumptuous, and motivated by personal feelings.

The big lightsaber fight was devastating. It was incredible action and for sure some amazing cinematography, but

was a huge swing that was a bit too blunt of a tonal switch for me. But I get why they did it, it had impact.

Came here to mention MC Solaar. His talent is mind blowing.

Composers write the music, musicians play the music, and conductors wave around a stick to keep the musicians playing the composition at the right volume and tempo, and to make sure the different sections of the orchestra (the different groups of instruments) come in and out at the right times.

Try coordinating all that without a conductor and it’d be a crazy cacophonous mess…

Fun fact, if you’ve ever watched a string quartet performance, the first violinist basically conducts the other three with their body and bow while playing. Most people have some natural tempo, but keeping multiple people on track usually requires visual queues and well-timed breathing.

Not unprecedented, but still very strange, doesn’t make sense to me either.

From the article:

North Carolina is one of a handful of states that allow jilted spouses to sue for “alienation of affection” to seek damages from a third party responsible for the breakup of their marriage.

It’s very weird to me that some states let spouses sue a third party for their partner’s infidelity. Sinema is clearly a morally bankrupt asshole, but this guy cheated on his wife.

I think they suck story-wise, and are quite lazy with the overall plots, but they’re gorgeous and innovative, and have surprisingly good acting for the shit those people must have to go through, so I’ll continue watching and rewatching them even though I still think they suck. The visuals and world-building are what keep me coming back. It’s a very weird franchise, but it makes sense that people have such a love/hate relationship.

Get rid of the human characters and make it all about Pandora and it’d be pure gold IMO.

Yeah it comes out pretty light if you use black chickpeas with normal tahini, but if you use black chickpeas AND black tahini it’s much much darker.

Nope, that could totally be spinach artichoke. I just recently made hummus with black chickpeas, and it looked similar to this. But lots of dips look alike.

Black chickpeas make hummus that looks like that, that’d be my guess.

It’s been so long, but I remember loving the Black Widow and the…Interceptor? Getting myself in the perfect position to just absolutely wreck the other side felt so good, especially when stealthed in the Widow. Again I’m having trouble recalling specifics, but I remember the matchmaking being incredibly solid which is why the game was so consistently good. Sometimes things were lopsided, but more often than not it was was good balanced fun, while still being challenging.

Yess! I put a huge number of hours into this game. It had such satisfying mechanics. Haven’t thought about it in a long time, but one of my favorites.

Same. If I find myself spacing out at my desk and don’t have anything scheduled, I’ll hop over to the couch and lay down for 15 or 20 minutes. Even if I don’t fully fall asleep, letting myself drift puts me in a much more productive mindset when I go back to my desk.

Though I don’t worry about making up for that time, since I assume everybody else has their own little remote work cheats to get through the day.

It’s oddly gratifying when users consistently live up to the custom red flag tags I’ve assigned them…