I was always a PC gamer, and think the old, often modded, independently run servers were much more fun than the soul-less matchmaking I see on most modern games.
Absolutely. If one was lucky enough to have a buddy with a server setup, that was by far the coolest option.
Indeed. Lactose tolerance is a powerful mutation. The rest of us should fear them for their superior genes.
Edit: Queue rocking 90s X-Men cartoon theme song.
I can imagine it would be hard to maintain lactose tolerance with a dairy allergy.
There’s a lot of gamers in this thread too young to remember how overloaded and miserable the free console game servers were.
Microsoft was like “chuck us like ~$5 per month and we will put up enough servers so the games are actually playable”. At the time, it was the best deal available for console gaming.
Honestly an argument could be made it was the most economical way to play online, in general, at the time. The console cost was subsidized, and the online servers were arguably at-cost, and you really only needed to buy one copy of Halo to join the fun.
“When… This song… Is gone…!”
I think my favorite tale from this book is the one with the two belligerent assholes (who confront Luke and then ObiWan), being various forms of belligerent and assholes in other contexts. It’s surreal, but fitting.
I don’t hear about “The Vorkosigan Saga” anywhere near enough for how good it is.
A scientist gets trapped on a planet with only a barbarian idiot warmonger to help her survive.
Eight or so books later and we get to read about the not quite scandal across her space empire when she takes a new lover and her star romping space knight sons can’t quite figure out how to handle their new stepdad.
And a lot of star empire drama, ego, heroism, and compassion in between. It’s so fun, y’all.
Kindness can be learned. The difference between being genuinely kind and just constantly successfully mimicing what a kind person would do is - no difference at all, really.
Ultimately, I think people who started as natural assholes make the best kind people - beacuse we don’t just do what feels kind, but we have to examine the results of our attempts at kindness, and adjust if needed.
Your post needs an extra squiggly on each side to format right on most clients.
When something that big barely turns a profit, I immediately suspect Hollywood accounting.
But if true, they made a game, covered their costs, left the company with an asset that can keep making sales, and probably developed their in-house talent and tooling along the way. That’s a lot of points in the “win” column.
Wise leaders understand that, in business, victory means getting to try another project with the same team, next year. Failure means disolution of the business. Earn enough years and projects with the same team in a row, and maybe you take one of the big wins one of those years.
Yeah. There was so much wasted potential in the DCEU.
But I don’t consider Aquaman wasted potential at all. I’m a fan of the comic, but the source material never tried to be Black Panther, so a movie that did wouldn’t have worked anyway.
Considering “The Aquaman” made it to 2 films, I figure Hasbro will be calling Jason Mamoa to star in a “Seaspray” movie any minute. Maybe have him cameo as Boat-guy-wity-parrot in a GI Joe movie, just for good measure.
My hopes for James Gunns version are pretty high. PeaceMaker is so lovingly made.
I do worry because I haven’t seen James Gunn take on the unironically uplifting side of DC yet, and it needs to be there for the DCU to work.
In the history of Aquaman in the media, on the “wet sidekick for the water episodes of superfriends” scale, you’re describing a solid B+, though.
Yeah. Aquaman is fun. And incredibly derivative.
Critics are still mad they’re being forced to watch “superman, but underwater”. I get that, I feel for them. But I don’t feel for them enough to actually stop giving money to movies like “superman, but underwater”.
Good decision. Gotta crank those profits. It’s not like the entire brands identity is built on the high quality first party titles. /s
That’s evil. I love it. I’ve used variants of:
“its-all-caps-AND.all.dash.separated”
Obviously I had to quit it beacuse, done well, it’s completely insufferable.
Nice. That’s a whole tale of joy, adorableness, frustration, and brilliance, all in a Wifi SSID.
I think we should bring back web rings, but nobody else seems to miss them.
Edit: I’m so old, I should probably link to what a web ring is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
It’s totally a matter of age. Kids these days have no idea how good they have it, and don’t realize they need to get off my lawn. Shakes cain in the air /s