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  1. 1 hour ago, kissdbyfire said:

    URGENT UPDATE!
    Apparently he wasn’t hiding or trying to escape Justice. No, no. It just so happens that Hungarian intelligence uncovered a Venezuelan plot to assassinate him, and that’s why he went to the Hungarian embassy and stayed there for a couple of sleepovers and even brought a coffee machine (wut?). These bloody Venezuelans, I bet it was the same ones that stole the US election from Mango by doing something something to the Dominion voting machines. /s

    As long as he stays away from the Saudi embassy.

  2. The new Shogun TV series has made me try my hand again at Total War: Shogun 2. This is one of the TW games that I had a tougher time getting into despite being interested in the setting. Some of the game mechanics didn't quite appeal to me right away coming from Medieval 2, and in recent years other changes to the overall TW gameplay made this one less playable for me. But now I am persevering. It does take some getting used to, like for example needing to plan to have ships to transport your army and not forgetting that if you don't use a port, both the ships and the army end their movement when you embark or disembark. While everything CA has done starting with Rome 2 on this front has felt lazier, the old games aren't necessarily much greater; after all, it's sufficient to just have one measly Bow Kobaya to transport an entire army. :P 

    My least favorite aspects of Shogun 2's gameplay is the limited viewing of the map, which requires a constant need to send out Metsuke or Ninja, only for them to keep getting caught, and the sieges which are basically just hills that the enemy can climb with some difficulty. But I enjoy the open field battles, the units, and I'm getting the hang of the naval battles, too. I had to fight a naval battle because the auto-resolve was predicting a win with too many losses, and ended up not losing a ship. Of course, it helped that nearly half the enemy fleet decided to give up, turn 180, and head for the map edges, only for them not actually able to retreat. 

    Besides this game, I've also started playing Horizon Forbidden West, which is as gorgeous as its predecessor. I haven't gotten that far. I did the Daunt quests, and then crossed the border into No Man's Land, and did a few smaller quests. I'm looking forward into unravelling the story mysteries, which was the best part about HZD.

  3. Another great episode. If this show was only 8 episodes long considering how this one ended, I would have assumed they were going to rush the ending. But there are 4 more episodes. I have no idea what other twists will occur.

    This episode may have felt a bit slow, though the plot was pushed forward, but it did brilliantly with giving us Ochiba's background and motivations. And the actress has such a creepy way of talking, she has the makings of a great antagonist.

    Spoiler

    Particularly the scene with the play interposed with her memories of how she got from the daughter of the previous ruler to consort of the Taiko. 

     

  4. 10 hours ago, BigFatCoward said:

    i had to turn it off after 10 mins, the bar owner and the girl in the book store were 2 of the worst actors i've ever seen in my life. 

    Ok, skip over to about halfway when McGregor shows up and let me know where he compares on the scale of worst actors. :P

    Edit:

    This might be the best scene in the movie from a it's so bad it's hilarious perspective.

     

  5. 57 minutes ago, Maithanet said:

    I also thought that the ending left me a little confused.  The fremen pile onto spaceships to attack the forces of the great houses.  Do the fremen have any experience with space battles?  They have a few ornithopter pilots, but I can't imagine that is the same as piloting a starship in combat.  Wouldn't they just get wiped out?  

    I know that the fremen being supersoldiers is basically part of the worldbuilding of dune.  I can accept given the weird technological limits they've described that fremen could indeed be exceptional fighters on Arrakis.  But that doesn't translate to being great pilots, or how to fight in other areas.  Fighting in a cramped spaceship or a jungle planet is gonna be very different and require tactics the fremen have never used or encountered.  

    I didn't assume that a space battle ensued between the two groups. I thought that the Fremen forced the imperials to take them into the ships and begin their war. Even when I read Dune and Dune: Messiah, I always imagined that the fighting was just planetary. But I didn't read the other books. With the Spacing Guild holding a monopoly on interstellar travel I assumed that they might not permit space battles which could damage their ships. Plus, ships would likely be shielded, so I think even space battles would simply be mainly about boarding actions.

  6. 48 minutes ago, karaddin said:

    From what I've been reading just now it's not even human error, a power failure causing loss of steering control at exactly the wrong time - 1min earlier or later and it would have been fine. Whether there was cut corners on maintenance leading to the power failure will take longer of course.

    The only upside is the middle of the night leading to few people being on the bridge.

     

    46 minutes ago, Zorral said:

    The owner, registered, it seems, in Norway? has been cited for three previous maintenance-safety events.

    The power failure seems to be the prevalent theory for now. The ship would have been steered by a harbor pilot who knows the water, so unlikely to have been human error. (though human complacency should never be discounted)

  7. 3 hours ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

     

    I guess this is one of the occasions, where I feel it's ok to drag @Rippounet into a thread, he doesn't really seem to be that interested in.

    So to spare you the time. FFF rules about muslim players and their Ramadan fasting. Any political links or islamophobia finding its way into the FFF in a more pronounced way.

    How did you make it look that I wrote the post about the FFF? Fake news! :P

  8. 3 minutes ago, Rippounet said:

    Why France is Actually Preparing for War With Russia:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiD24uEvY1U&ab_channel=RealLifeLore

    It's also good to bear in mind the fact that Sarkozy wanted Gaddafi dead to hide the fact that his presidential campaign had been financed by the Lybian dictator. There's a wikipedia page on this. Oh, and Sarkozy and Macron are rather close of course.

    I nearly posted this video, too, but wasn't sure was legitimate all the info is. A pretty good analysis, though.

  9. 6 hours ago, Consigliere said:

    The French national teams at various levels have had a fairly large number of Muslim players over the years. It's never been an issue for the FFF before that required banning Muslim players from fasting during Ramadan until now. Reading that article linked above makes the "why now" pretty clear though - seems that the FFF has been taking more and more anti-Muslim stances.

    Which is true of the French government as a whole afaik.

  10. I didn't realize that the season finale was going to give us 2 video game adaptations for the price of one: Halo and

    Spoiler

    Dead Space. Unless the whole alien virus that zombifies and mutates people was a thing in the Halo games, too.

    Solid finale. Even the lesser Soren and Kwan plotline had more stuff going for it.

  11. On 3/17/2024 at 3:04 AM, House Cambodia said:

    Personally, I'm looking forward to a TV version of those novellas more than HoTD. I really like how Dunk the lunk drags this royal kid incognito through the Westeros version of the working classes, lower middle-classes, and general bog end of society rather than focusing on the elites as HoTD does.

    But so far the stories have been about lowly Dunk interacting with elites. 

  12. 17 minutes ago, 3CityApache said:

    Are we still in the Star Wars thread? ;)

    Like how every DC thread inevitably gets infected with Marvel discussions, or how SW infects other threads, now the reckoning needed to happen here. Balance has been achieved. :P Also, coincidentally HOTD and Acolyte are coming out the same month, so the will be more chances of crossover discussions.

  13. 4 hours ago, HokieStone said:

    What era is this show supposed to be set in?  Pre-prequels, I guess?  But like hundreds of years prior, or just a bit prior?  I know the comics have a series set a few hundred years prior to ANH.  "High Republic" or something...

     

    ETA:  I looked it up myself.  Apparently about 100 years before The Phantom Menace.  Odds there will be a Yoda cameo?

     

     

    3 hours ago, Ran said:

    *Shakes Magic 8-Ball*

    YOU MAY RELY ON IT

    Not just Yoda, but also Yaddle, voiced by Bryce Dallas Howard, and possibly any non-human council member we saw in TPM.

  14. 4 minutes ago, hauberk said:

    They did.  During the previous episode when they were getting the long range fighter cover, the redtails where visible as a part of the fighter escort.  There was no dialog pointing it out (like the Band of Brothers leg bag for instance), but they were present on escort duty.

    I guess that would have been the better episode to introduce some of the fliers.

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