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CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
12hr ago
I'm back into Stoneshard, an early access turn based gritty RPG in the vein of Battle Brothers, created by Ukrainian devs disrupted by the war.
You're basically a medieval merc doing merc things for merc reasons. Detailed injury/morale system.
It has its flaws, but its great if you like the genre. You start out useless, but eventually carve your way into legend (and your enemy's guts).
Corvos
12hr ago
also helped code AO3
That’s awesome, I never knew that! I knew she was a writer on video games but I didn’t realise she coded as well.
Corvos
12hr ago
I like Temeraire but it annoys me how often the book goes, ‘Man isn’t Napoleonic England stuffy! Just as well dragon riders are rare and so we get to be as liberated as we please!’.
Corvos
12hr ago
I wish they’d bring out more of the novels. I love the writing but the art doesn’t really do it for me.
Corvos
12hr ago
Very true, but her work doesn’t seem religious at all (bar ‘Meyer is twisting your childrens’ minds in service of her evil cult’ articles). I mentioned Sanderson because he really, obviously cares about how man relates to god and manages to tell good stories about it.
Corvos
12hr ago
£60 starting out, he told me. "Per hour?" I asked. "No, each month".
This is £2000 per month in today’s money. Not massively high, but amazing to see what inflation has done over the years.
Almost all in 1975, I’m not sure why.
Corvos
12hr ago
Also great, though I haven’t read it for years. I’ll have to dig it up.
I liked the Cooper books especially because they’re steeped in English history and mythology, and they resonated with me very much growing up in the English countryside.
I don't think that matters much, it still marked a change in Dem rhetoric. Even Bernie himself had to adapt to be more appealing to the rainbow coalition.
Ioper
13hr ago
Now I'll never spend another cent not just because its bad right now (it is), not just because it hates me for demographic reasons (it does), but because it's associated in my mind with all the extremities and terrors of shitty social justice and all that did. I've seen too much fucked up stuff, lost friends, etc and Disney dropped their flag on that behavior.
They would have to do something really extreme, like declaring all the Disney content non-canon and hiring George Lucas to oversee a new sequel trilogy (while not directing). I'm honestly not sure even Andor should be part of the canon despite how good it is. Even Lego star wars is more tonally consistent with the overall property than Andor is.
I'm not saying Lucas is some kind of genius but there needs to be a clean break and delineation between Disney star wars and the property going forward, things are that broken. Alternatively the quality of the content needs to be close to Andor level but that is obviously unrealistic and if you could guarantee that you wouldn't need to buy IPs in the first place.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
13hr ago
So the case with the 15yo sex worker sting was not an activist judge, but simply a judge applying the law as it is.
There's actually an interesting question there: if something is not legislated, but a judge sets a precedent (particularly without apparent basis), is that "the law"?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
13hr ago
Hillary's comment was aimed at Bernie, not Trump, though.
SSCReader
13hr ago
Except that wasn't the plan. The plan was escaping on cloaked ships while the First Order chased the larger ones. But because Poe sanctioned Rose and Finn's mission who brought back a slicer who betrayed that plan to the First Order, plan A was shot. Hyperspace ramming was the hail mary.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
13hr ago
How do you know of this cousin but not reversed? Why don't you reach out? I have many distant cousins who I've only gotten to know in the last few months, it's a rather nice experience!
sohois
13hr ago
A quick Google bought this up immediately:
The franchise has raked in an estimated $46.7 billion, with merchandise sales at an estimated $29.057 billion.
So not quite 90%, but still a majority of earnings.
Whether this means Disney has made profits or a return on their initial investment I don't know, although some of the other Google results suggested merch was still bringing in around 1b per year for them.
Tree
13hr ago
and then the vampire bad boy and the werewolf bad boy fight over me while I sit there and wait to be taken by the winner, and the vampire wins, but the werewolf is okay because he finds someone else, then the vampire marries me
You’ve got Wickham/Churchill/Willhoughby/Henry Crawford as the werevolves to the vampires Darcy/Knightley/Ed Ferrars-Brandon/Ed Bertram.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
13hr ago
Because I'm not familiar with any of the Baltic states having "dissolved."
They got invaded and conquered by the USSR, and then the USSR-including-them dissolved.
TIRM
14hr ago
That last one was shockingly bad. Confusing how they could make such a thing. I almost recommend watching it just to feel baffled at every turn. It is a unique movie experience in that sense.
cjet79
14hr ago
Awesome videos. I'd seen the amazing cultivator simulator one. And it is part of what makes me think this genre has untapped potential.
I had not heard of The Matchless Kungfu. It does sound of potential interest.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
14hr ago
Sam Hyde has some advice about this.
And that would be…?
(I mean, this is totally vague — you don't even have a link — how is it not "low effort"?)
ThisIsSin
Liberty has an anti-privilege bias
14hr ago
There is a reason Fluttershy is the most popular of the mane six.
Since when? If we accept the sheer number of works involving a character as a proxy for popularity, and look at Twibooru, Fluttershy is in third place (nearly tied with Pinkie Pie, at 295K and 291K respectively), far behind Twilight Sparkle (1st, at 410K) and Rainbow Dash (2nd, at 318K).
It's completely different from a man, who can be nice, safe, reliable, and still end up completely overlooked.
Rather humorously, the same dynamic is true for Worst Pony Applejack (227K), behind Rarity at 247K.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
15hr ago
Man, I didn't think anyone else but me has read those. Yes, this was my absolute favorite series when I was a kid.
I also read the series as a kid, and while it wasn't my favorite, I enjoyed it.
I also haven't seen anyone mention the book that was my favorite read as a kid — enough I wore out my first paperback copy and had to buy a second — which also had a female author and was first in a fantasy-with-some-SF-elements (some might call it the other way around) series (not to mention more than one less-than-good film adaptation by Disney): Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.
(I still get a chill rereading the passage when Meg finally sees IT.)
Lizzardspawn
15hr ago
Every wartime economy is planned economy. Make what you want out of it.
Have you watched Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles?
I was just revisiting it and God, it’s good. They focus a bit more on the motherly side of Sarah and the difficulties she has trying to bring up a son and keep him safe, whilst keeping her every bit as badass. John Connor grows in a very realistic and impressive way over the course of the series, and the new characters are very good too.
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