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More leaks Actually something that was leaked by TORn three months ago corroborated possibly https://redanianintelligence.com/2024/04/16/new-information-on-the-rings-of-power-season-2-and-its-multiple-endings/

Linking the popular Viva New Vegas guide and one for Tale of Two Wastelands, which basically puts FO3 in FNV's engine, adds some of NV's features, and combines the two into one game. https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/index.html https://thebestoftimes.moddinglinked.com/

A reminder that the West Coast is developed enough to have porn studios

Let me dream Ironically the West Coast was Black Isle's/Obsidian's territory.

Chris Avellone is hardly the creator and lead of the series. And yes I do disregard him (but will criticize him for bs like that) since it at this point what he says won't have any impact on the franchise. What is difficult to disregard is the show since future games will build on it and it most likely destroyed something that could have been an excellent foundation of the series. Plus it sucks when something you love gets a shitty ending in tv series. See the countless "Rant and Rave" threads for evidence.

That does not answer my question. As I said there is plenty of room for post-apocalyptic stories and the advancing civilization on the West Coast to coexist. Even if you restrict yourself to the US and to the notion that you can't set games earlier in the time (which Fallout 76 showed isn't necessary). To quote Tim Cain "My idea is explore more of the world and more of the ethics of a postnuclear world, not to make a better plasma gun. " And again it's not like these things are mutually exclusive. That's what should have been done then. It is what Bethesda did when they made FO3 (which really should have happened earlier in the timeline) Well the Fallout games were never about the personal story of the protagonist and their relationships unlike Cyberpunk 2077. It was always more about the world.

Yes. Because a setting should not stay stagnant if there is supposed to be a point to it and the point of Fallout was to explore how a society/humanity would move on from the apocalypse. At some point it means that it needs to move beyond the stage were everybody is living in scrap houses in the middle of ruins and rubble barely scraping by. It doesn't necessarily mean that this new society needs to be a copy of the old one, but there needs to be something. And if that means that you cannot tell "Fallout" stories anymore, than so be it. A time-limited setting isn't something bad. Tolkien recognized that 4th Age stories would have to be very different from what came previously and Middle-earth is undiminished as a setting. It's also not like that they have no room for more Fallout stories. Probably most of the US is still untouched. Additionally, if there is no chance of advancing beyond the post-nuclear hellhole stage, why should I get invested in any of the factions and characters who want to improve the wasteland?

And it's a very good example as to why Avellone needs to be kept on a leash.

If we are talking recent RPGs that are better than BG3 I too would like to nominate Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous even if it is far less friendly towards people not familiar with the system. It's feels more similar to BG1&2

A bit of news: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/avatar-the-last-airbender-netflix-changes-showrunners-1235866187/ I doubt that this alone is going to change much.

So I watched episode 7 and "shallow" continues to be a really apt descriptor of the show for both the Fire Nation f and the Water tribe subplots and the absence of The Waterbending Scroll ripples further throughout the show. Fire Nation And now the Water Tribe Honestly the only good thing I can say about episode 7 is that it's not the worst in the series. There is even one small change that I liked. My hope is now that season 2 just forgets that season 1 of this blantrocity ever happened and instead build on book 1 of the cartoon.

That might be because of budget restrictions. That is not something I can blame the creative people for.

Yes what they did didn't work, but I don't think you could call what they, for example, did with Jet and The Nothern Air Temple "lazy". What they did with Bumi wasn't "lazy", just completely at odds with the source material. Even their Cave of Two (hopefully not) Lovers had a purpose behind them besides providing a cheap callback. The only really lazy parts imo are the stuff with Hei Bai, Koh and Roku. That felt like pointless filler designed as cheap fan appeal. That and the absence of The Waterbending Scroll, but that might have been because they didn't have enough episodes to work.

I said it before, but I don't consider this show to be irredeemable, unlike for example Rings of Power. I want the show to improve to the point where it is at least at Fellowship of the Ring level. Honestly I wouldn't call the writing "lazy". It's not good, but that's mostly because didn't trust the source material or their audience enough.

Sadly no mention of them getting more episodes to work with. Even if the writers and actor improve, they'll need that additional time to do justice to the original. They really hurt themselves in season 1 by combining Jet and the Nothern Air Temple and leaving out The Waterbending Scroll. "Lazy" is not what I would call this show despite my many many gripes with it. They clearly put a lot of effort into certain aspects of it.

If they can't adapt it properly because of rights, then they shouldn't have attempted it in the first place. And honestly their failings are not due to lack of access to certain materials. The creators are simply hacks.

I will say this for all that I dislike the adaptation: I don't think that it is impossible for season 2 to substantially improve upon season 1 to the point where I would call it a decent adaptation if they are willing to improve the writing/acting and trust the source material (and the audience). Two more episodes probably wouldn't hurt either.

Maybe she'll age into it. That being said, the character had no business being in season 1.

If they found it weird, they should have just aged-up Aang and kept the romance. Or at the very least waited with using Or kept at least Aang's crush on Katara.

My guess is that they want her to get those as character developmentTM.

Was it really just the cost? I believe that it might also be because the adults in charge are hyperfixating on the show's more mature aspects and overestimate how present they actually were in the show. Show-Iroh is probably the prime victim of this. It doesn't help that book 1 is generally overshadowed by book 2 (and 3 to a lesser extent) at least in the public's perception. Ironically though I felt like the live-action show trusts the audience a lot less than the cartoon did.

Question: Does Aang actually learn waterbending? Is there any point in Azula being there? How is the romance between Sokka and Yue?

I am sure that Shyamalan also brought people to the franchise

Episode 6 continues to waste the source material. It's a combination of "The Storm", "The Winter Solstice Part II" and "The Blue Spirit". The Winter Solstice II o basically the portion of episodes 5 and 6 that adapted the Winter Solstice Duology was pointless. An artificial conflict was invented that was unceremoniously solved. You could have easily cut the stuff The Storm The sheer hubris pisses me off. They had the perfect and didn't need to change anything, but they still did. The Blue Spirit Summary: The creators really had the opportunity to reach the greatness of the original here, but messed it up. PS: Since the next episode takes place at the Northern Water Tribute, maybe Aang will actually start to learn waterbending.

So episode 5 and it is sad how little this episode actually accomplishes in its runtime. This episode might not have featured an atrocious character assassination, but it still manages to utterly waste precious elements from the original just to clumsily set up the next episode. At this point in the original, we should right now be in the middle of The Storm with so much more having been accomplished and in a much more elegant way. PS: Aang still has not made any attempt at waterbending and the mischaracterization of lieutenant Jee continues.