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Corvinus85

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  1. As long as he stays away from the Saudi embassy.
  2. Constellation (season 1?) was a good, quite compelling show. Strong performances all around. I did not expect such an open end, so here's hoping there is a second season.
  3. 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. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Ok, skip over to about halfway when McGregor shows up and let me know where he compares on the scale of worst actors. Edit: This might be the best scene in the movie from a it's so bad it's hilarious perspective.
  6. 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.
  7. 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)
  8. I watched Amazon's Road House. It wasn't as bad as I expected it to be, especially the first part of the movie until McGregor shows up with his stupid, cringe grin. Gyllenhaal was good. I didn't particularly care for the crazy camera movement during otherwise well choreographed fight scenes.
  9. I nearly posted this video, too, but wasn't sure was legitimate all the info is. A pretty good analysis, though.
  10. Pfff, that should have been a penalty. Sure there was no contact, but there is a reason why Robinson calls himself Jedi. The Force was in his foot and Jimenez felt it.
  11. I didn't realize that the season finale was going to give us 2 video game adaptations for the price of one: Halo and Solid finale. Even the lesser Soren and Kwan plotline had more stuff going for it.
  12. But so far the stories have been about lowly Dunk interacting with elites.
  13. 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. Also, coincidentally HOTD and Acolyte are coming out the same month, so the will be more chances of crossover discussions.
  14. Until you guys mentioned here, I had no idea HOTD had used the Volume. So I have no idea what you all are talking about poor visual quality in the show. The only poor visuals I recall was one scene on the beach with Daemon and Rhaenyra which was supposed to be at night.
  15. Question: considering the discrimination that the Tuskegee Airmen faced (even in the show their commander remarks that many of them should have been promoted by now), would they have even been upgraded to P-51s at the same time with most other groups, or where they at the tail end of that switch?
  16. The teaser for Prometheus was really good, as I recall. The movie wasn't. So I'm holding out any kind of hope for this Alien until the reviews start coming in.
  17. Not just Yoda, but also Yaddle, voiced by Bryce Dallas Howard, and possibly any non-human council member we saw in TPM.
  18. I guess that would have been the better episode to introduce some of the fliers.
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