Recent content by Vrii

You're right, calling them this makes me feel much better about how you're dehumanizing children and insisting that they can't possibly be helped.

Personally I find the first paragraph pretty offputting too, even recognizing that the reference isn't serious.

There will still be a significant number of people screeching that it's because of the Carbon Tax and blaming Trudeau for it.

Slay the Spire 2 is officially announced. Also Inkbound is officially released with a major content update, including a genre-standard "if you make the run harder on yourself you can fight an extra, harder boss at the end" boss fight and a bunch of new quests and cosmetics.

For what it's worth, the second book is the one that really stuck with me. Even then though, the takeaway was the ideas rather than the characters, who continue to exist to advance the plot and explore ideas rather than to act like believable people experiencing growth and change.

I'm only 6 episodes in, but so far my impression is that the books do a much better job of introducing and developing the overarching ideas, while the show's doing a better job of having a single coherent and compelling story. I'm definitely very curious to see what they do with future seasons...

Maybe you don't.

You know, even as someone who never really connected with Harry Potter, it still makes me sad to see her reacting to the possibility that people don't read/don't like her work by saying "oh well, got your money!"

On the other hand, a google search for "mentally stunted" does in fact auto-populate with results for "emotionally stunted," which seems to have a specific meaning that isn't the same as throwing out the r-word for the sake of being prejudiced and insulting. In this case, I think how you...

Ooh, the slow burn spammer.

That's literally what happened here though, right? An AI writing comedy and attributing it to someone who's long dead, presumably to get more views and income for whoever controls the AI? It's gross.

I really like the books, but even after seeing the trailer I'm not convinced that they can be turned into any kind of decent tv show. I can only imagine half hour interludes to explain all the concepts to the audience and people giving up on it when they still don't understand what the hell is...

I finished my first Rogue Trader playthrough, and for the most part the things I said before hold up. The game is fun, VERY 40k, and buggy almost to the point of being impenetrable. I got ending slides that were fully contradicting each other, and pretty much back to back at that. All of the...

A lot of the combat displays are like that. Bursts and area attacks have percentages that are at best tangential to the actual outcomes, listed damage ranges are sometimes off by orders of magnitude with no real way of knowing until you take the shot (I've had some listed with a range of 150-200...

Rogue Trader is fucking great, except for the times where it's totally bullshit trash. Chapter 3 is the worst gaming experience I've had in quite a while. Also those cruising events are fun for as long as the unique events last; if you're fully exploring the systems it pretty quickly devolves...