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It's a two hour movie and I'm a slow reader, so a two hour movie beats reading a writer whose prose does absolutely nothing for me and goes on and on for hundreds of pages. I don't even know what that means. Presumably some character from one of the novels he just spawned in the last five minutes?

Will personally take Rise of Skywalker over any Brandon Sanderson novel any day. Sorry, True Kaniggit.

Same. RotJ is probably my favorite of the original 3 movies. Plus there's a lot of great work done in Williams' score that I find haunting, the drama in the throne room is terrific stuff, and space battle is legit fantastic, and I don't mind the Ewoks in the slightest and enjoy their presence on-screen. Sure, the second Death Star thing is a bit trite, but I can buy into the concept intellectually, so have no trouble with "this again?". Also, that it's incomplete and has this eerie skeletal look about it makes it kind of nightmarishly haunting, somehow, and visually interesting. And Mark Hamill does some really good dramatic work in this movie, and I like the way the movie wraps up his arc. And the finale montage music in both the original and special edition releases are both equally good and memorable. There's simply a lot to enjoy in the movie.

So...this is what life like would be like if there were no libraries or bookstores?

It's only a hipster game if it comes from Portland, otherwise it's sparkling pretentiousness.

I had to look up the original theme, as I've never even heard of this show, but the movie does feature an interpretation of the TV show's theme.

Watched The Fall Guy tonight with the wife, and we both enjoyed the hell out of it. So many little sight gags, movie history references, clever photography, and only two scenes that I'd have tweaked in the whole movie to improve the pacing a touch, otherwise a very good fusion of comedy, action, and a tinge of romance, and with some bangin' needle drops on top of it all.

Traffic's a pretty annoying one, in the rpg of life. Also, not being able to respec easily. F'n annoying, that.

Anson Mount is, to be fair, very easy on the eyes.

Nah nah anh, you've got it all wrong. First of all, what the hell kind of Big Macs are YOU eating? What are they, the size of a Ford pickup trick or something? At least a standard Big Mac can be finished in one meal! As can a gourmet meal! No, Sanderson is in fact the family New Years dinner and month's worth of leftovers. He's all the turkey, Salad Olivier, sashimi, horse radish and coriander, and remaining bottles of champagne that no one consumed on new years eve! It's the meal that lasts you a month! THAT is a Sanderson novel!

Playing the game of life. Definitely an RPG.

The current W3 modding tools could use some work - mainly a UX polish, to make the modding process more logical and easy to understand. At the moment, they're fine? But they could be better.

T'were that it were so simple, to quote the Cohen brothers. Naturally, I play the game in DX11, as DX12 just *does not work* in-game. The actual game itself will load, but after moving past the loading screens, like many, my screen remains black and unresponsive. Meanwhile, my anti-aliasing choices are either FXAA or TAAU, and the latter looks terrific, but even if I scale down all the other graphics options and keept his enabled (eg turn textures, water, environmentals, etc down from Ultra+ to High or even Medium) the game just stutters. And FXAA in Witcher 3 v.4 (the current version - it's like 4.0.4, so I'm calling it 4.0 for simplicity's sake) looks awful - both with and without sharpening, which is also pretty dreadful when cranked up (and oddly, I cannot completely disable Sharpening). There are ultimately numerous issues with W3 4.0 that are an issue for many gamers with numerous systems configurations. There are also observable memory leak issues, stuttering problems, and optimisation issues - particularly in Toussaint, which bring the game to a crawl at times. The next gen release is still in need of further tweaking, patching, and improvements. Such is life though. Just a game. Leaves me more time to read books instead.

My card doesn't support RTX, so that was easily eliminated as a potential culprit.

And then there's Anachronox, which is a mix of the two, and it's delightfully out of this world and a sight to behold.

I'm experiencing something similar to this, but with the Witcher 3, where the next gen update has *seriously* borked something, and has caused me to have audio lock-ups that lock my system, random CTDs, and extreme levels of jerkiness. Apparently there's been a considerable amount of kvetching from the fan community about the update, and many users are reporting that the game has become nigh-unplayable to them. So I've given up the ghost on revisiting the game for the moment (the next gen update reportedly added new quests, which intrigued me).

We now have a cover for Neal Stephenson's next novel, Polostan, which is the first book in the Bomb Light Trilogy: (Still hate the name of this book. Polostan? What is this, an independent country founded by the owners of Polo and Banana Republic?!)

Really enjoying The Tortured Poets Department, which has some interesting production credits, including from Aaron Dessner from The National. It's perhaps a bit much at 31 tracks, and some tracks could have been dropped, but there's some clear lyrical growth on display here. The Tortured Poets Department, Clara Bow, I Look in People's Windows, Cassandra, and Peter are all terrific, and the vocals, particularly in Clara Bow, remind me a bit of Megan Washington's early material. Lots of good stuff to enjoy here.

The first gameplay footage for Riven 3D has dropped and I am very excited.

There was a lack of communication overlap between Edmonton and Gothenburg, and no tools in place to foster improved information sharing, and no teams in-between both timezones, to allow for an overlap in communications and creative production. Not sure if Slack, Teams, Jira, Trello, Miro, and Mural were in place back then to faciliate the kind of workflow management needed to get the best out of everyone.

Four offices/teams across Europe and North America and over 250 staff members? With enough smart project management and good communcation tools, I can see how it'd be feasible to manage two projects and organise production pipelines and project milestones.

Any takers for the other game's name? I'm going with....Divinity: Beyond Sin. What's beyond sin? Wouldn't *you* like to know?!

It...works out of the box as far as I know, and even just installing the Fallout Fixt patch will resolve any existing problems?

I think it's a thing he stole from Hitchcock in his youth and never abandoned.

If only she had the chutzpuh to study sculpture at St. Martin's College.