@too-old-for-this said in General Video Game Thread:
Basically... what would you like to do in end-game?
Modular content, timewise.
For example I'm not big on raiding. A raid takes hours, and I can't always just up and leave because life got in the way, or work, or I just... don't wanna any more - without screwing everyone else up.
I liked Mythic Plus (5-man PvE content) because each run took about half an hour. Gather some friends, jump on Discord, do it until I want to stop and leave.
How good is GW2 in terms of the end-game?
Like on WoW there are basically four activities: Raiding (large-group PvE), Mythic Plus (small-group PvE), PvP and 'other' where that means stuff like collecting cosmetic gear, chasing mounts, achievements, etc.
What do you do when you max out in GW2?
@aria said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:
You treat every weapon as if it's loaded with a live round. Period. If someone hands you a weapon, you check it yourself. It doesn't matter if they say it isn't loaded. It doesn't matter if they're your shooting range supervisor or your shooting instructor. You check it yourself. Period. And then you still treat it as if it's loaded with a live round. You do not point the barrel in the direction of anyone or anything you don't want to drop dead.
Real story. An old Master Sergeant (or the equivalent in the Air Force I served in) told me once that when he was younger he took apart a G3A3 rifle. Unlike how basic drafted grunts do it where we disassemble only the bigger parts, actual officers practiced actually dismantling them to their very basic elements.
So he did that, cleaned it meticulously, put it back together and - completely out of drilled habit - pulled the trigger while pointing the rifle into a sandbox.
It fired.
Where did the bullet come from? How was it possible he hadn't seen it? He just shrugged. No idea.
@betternow said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:
@faraday said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:
@ominous said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:
@Too-Old-For-This has pointed out that apparently it's freaking common, so nevermind.
43 deaths across 10 years and thousands of movie and TV productions is really not all that common, thankfully.
But remember also that this statistic is strictly DEATHS. It doesn't even begin to go into injuries, which I am sure are much more plentiful, even outside of stunt cast.
It seems likely the percentage of personal injuries on sets if we just include stunts-people would be higher than just about any other industry.
There are only so many ways you can jump out of high places, moving cars, get hit by baseball bats or set on fire without getting hurt at all, and if anything goes wrong...
I miss WoW. I really do. Or, rather, I miss my guild and the socialization around running M+ every evening.
But they treat their employees like shit and I can't condone that. I'm just sad because at some point they'll put Diablo IV out and I might not play it, either.
@betternow said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:
I shall now go put Stanley Tucci and Dolly Parton inside bubble wrap for protection because I swear to God if they get outted as horrible people somehow, I am gonna just give up on the universe.
I draw the line at Mr. Rogers.
But I also remember an article written about Jimmy Stewart. Apparently during the height of the McCarthy era there was an FBA investigation digging into his past trying to discredit him. The worst they found was that, in his youth, Stewart dabbled in card magic tricks.
@derp said in Oh, Humanity:
@ganymede said in Oh, Humanity:
Because when Batman files a summary judgment motion, you listen.
Annnnnd now I wanna know why Batman needed a lawyer but I know you can't say and that's gonna torture me forever DAMN YOU GANYMEDE.
I mean Batman isn't exactly an law-abiding citizen...
@coin said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:
In any case, I don't tend to have too many pearls to clutch when it comes to adaptations. I don't usually care.
Oh obviously I'm butthurt here, no question about it. These books are important to me. I'm clenching those pearls hard.
@tributary said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
CPS eventually did show up with him, and he was blissfully unaware of how upset he'd made all of the adults. His father installed a lock on the sliding glass door at the top, and within a week, the kid was pushing over a chair to stand on to disable it. Eventually they did have to lock him in his bedroom at night.
Holy shit, did anyone think to exorcise Harry Houdini's spirit out of that kid?
@silverfox said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:
Oh this disappoints me like woah.
Foundation is not an action book. Even a little bit.
I agree. And @Coin does have a point in saying the series isn't exactly easily filmable, just because the sheer exposition you'd need to do it justice is probably going to be boring to watch.
But they chose to film it! As you say, I, Robot was an abomination. They turned it completely around from the original works (in which robots are essentially benevolent, logical beings and it's human preconceptions and fears that cause problems) and turned it into KILLER ROBOTS WANT TO WIPE OUT HUMANITY. That's the opposite of what the work was about. The exact opposite. I am not saying that, Isaac Asimov said that in every essay he wrote on the topic - he even gave it a name, the Frankenstein Complex. But that's the movie they made!
And this is also it. Foundation is about certain very interesting concepts. How the meaning of freedom differs between individuals and large groups, for example.
What it is not about is action heroes blowing up spaceships. I am not saying that a show about blowing up spaceships can't be a lot of fun! But then why on earth would they go and pick this franchise to do that with?
I grew up reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation. Words cannot express how much I love that series, or the impact it had on young-Arkandel growing up.
It all appealed to me. The idea of this vast, sprawling universe set in the vast future where humanity has spread to the stars but forgot where Earth resided, and the concepts it introduced to define what humanity even means. The way it drove the point - again and again - of intellectualism being nearly synonymous with pacifism ("violence is the last resort of the incompetent"), and the manner its characters as well as the plot showcased it.
And then I watched the first episode of Apple's Foundation. Special ops teams coming in, guns blazing! Explosions! Poolside sex scenes! Right in the first ten minutes!
... Sigh.
Also is there any hype at all whatsoever for Morbius?
I know it's coming, it's a Marvel movie, but other than a trailer before Dune there seems to have been no attempt to promote it whatsoever.
Meh. The reviews for Eternals seem pretty meh at best. And I am not excited about the latest Ghostbusters either.
Come on studios, put some cool stuff out already!
@too-old-for-this I remember reading on Reddit about this dude who had the police called on him when he was out with his toddler daughter. They didn't look alike (he was a big black dude, she was a blonde girl) so someone assumed the worst.
I remember him saying he was quite conflicted at the time because aside from the racist element in this, wouldn't he want someone reporting his kid being with someone that felt... wrong, in case she had been taken from her parents?
@greenflashlight said in Dune:
@arkandel Sorry, just checking. Are you tagging me in your reply because I'm the last person to comment, or is there a connection between our comments I'm not picking up on?
The former. I should probably stop using 'reply' just to post. Sorry about that.
I enjoy not having to worry about reading spoilers about Dune without having seen the movie yet, not gonna lie. 
@ominous I admit I don't understand the issue. No one likes everything other people like.
But in a thread dedicated to finding interest in a specific game it seems a bit counter-productive to pop up and go "well, I don't like it!".
You... don't have to. But then why are you here?
@insomniac7809 said in Balancing wizards and warriors:
If you want "not-wizard" to be regularly played, you need some good answers to that! Otherwise it gets to be like the oWoD games I mentioned, where even though vampires are supposed to be vastly, vastly outnumbered by the mortals, the assumption is explicitly that PCs are vampires and playing not-a-vampire is a niche option.
That's a good point. And although I agree with it, I am often reminded that on comic book and Star Wars games people do play other stuff. So they must be doing something right!
What is the secret recipe? Why do folks play a Robin-type (let's assume original characters here just to remove the 'well I like Tim Drake' copout) when you can play a Superboy-type? Or if you can have a Force-user why pick an engineer, or a smuggler with a blaster?
(These are not rhetorical questions - my experience with these kinds of MU* is very minimal)