I feel 2 leant too hard into the “generic cover shooter” trope pretty hard and although I love all of them, I think the gameplay of 3 really got the best mechanically, though it was also the lightest on the RPG mechanics and was weaker in that regard.

Story wise, they all do their respective jobs as a trilogy excellently. 1 introduced the world and the main players well and setups a good “big bad” to defeat. 2 is a good transition to the darker tone and fleshes out a lot of the galaxy and in 3 you have the cataclysmic final showdown.

The worst thing about ME is the continuing EAness of the whole publication.

and what about the gameplay

That also looks shit

Anyone know a way I’ll be able to watch streams of NHL games after they’re finished? I’m in the UK and can’t realistically watch games that start at 3am. Waiting to see the inevitable price rise now that nhl.tv is going to dazn and I miss the days of Lazyman.

Well, did it work for those people?

No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but… but it might work for us.

FWIW, Cheryl appears in episode 1. I haven’t watched the first season in a couple years so can’t remember if it’s made explicit or left to the audience to fill in the blanks.

Isn’t it made clear from nearly the beginning that this certain person is openly lesbian?

Overall, I really like how the show deals with it’s LGBT characters. It’s just matter of fact. Even the one little reveal of a certain secondary character is just there and gone, just a little detail on them not necessarily a defining part of their persona within the confines of the story.

Korean culture, specifically KPop, is having its moment in the sun which means anything tangentially associated will be popular for a while.

I’m not there so help yourself to whatever you want from the fridge and the N64 is ready to go on the big TV.

Oh it was one of mine too. But the amount of times you have to slog back and forth across the same 6 or 7 poorly designed maps, fighting the same 4 or 5 enemies and doing the same repetitive tasks gets old very quickly.

It looks fantastic (for the N64) but the sacrifices they made to get the higher fidelity textures and dynamic lighting, including some horrendous object pop-in distract from the visuals.

Also, the inexcusable difficulty spikes make it a very frustrating game (looking at you Beaver Bother and that annoying bug race) and the mini games are an annoying bit of dragging the game out rather than the fun diversion they were meant to be. And who’s decision was it to make you have to get through the whole of the original DK arcade with only one life?

Rare had a genuine hit with Banjo Kazooie and they kept trying to replicate it and just ended up piling more and more stuff onto the formula and made it worse each time. Though if any of their platformers stands up today it’s Conker’s Bad Fur Day.

Tag Anywhere for Donkey Kong 64 makes it at least playable in this day and age (I still don’t think it stands up but it removes the most annoying part of the game).

Master of Time for Ocarina of Time is incredible.

Super Mario Star Road is basically a direct sequel to Mario 64.

Tomorrow Never Dies is a 13 level new Bond game based on Goldeneye 007

The Bude Tunnel

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Or less locally the Hole in the Wall

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I’ll give you one Canadian dollar for each Loon call you can find in a film not set somewhere that Loonies are endemic.

somewhere where there are no kookaburras

Short list there…

There’s now no way to stop or reverse the inevitable collapse of the comfortable way of life we have right now. This isn’t a fight for survival or for the planet, it’s to perpetuate the system we enjoy at the moment.

The only way remaining to minimise the damage to our way of life is with some huge geo-engineering projects. Like scattering reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect some sunlight away or releasing some novel chemical into the oceans to fix carbon dioxide and lock it away.

The risks of experimenting like this has always outweighed the benefits (like the guys who thought they could kill a hurricane and instead magnified it and sent it back inland resulting in the deaths of multiple people). But now it’s too late to worry about things like that because the inevitable impacts of climate change including wild fires, habitat destruction, biodiversity collapse, extreme weather events are all here now while most of the world is still arguing about whether it even exists or not.

My head hurts

Not really the incident school wise but personally was for me. This is back in the days before things like dyspraxia and ADHD were regularly identified and so I was therefore a disruptive nightmare in several classes where I wasn’t stimulated correctly. Professionals were brought into the school (at great expense I’m sure) to try and analyse the bad behaviour.

It was in a meeting between several teachers, supervisors and my mum (who was herself a head teacher of a different school) and she asked why it was that I didn’t act up in maths or English or science and it was only in music, RE and geography I couldn’t be controlled in and maybe I wasn’t the problem but it was certain teachers weren’t actually very good at controlling classes or providing a stimulating enough environment then politely told the school to get bent and we went to get ice cream.

The actual incident at the school was the music teacher Mr Mann getting caught masturbating in the classroom between lessons by a TA and several students.

How did you turn my comment into something that supports your warped point of view (some time after I actually posted it which means you specifically went looking for something to get upset about.

Thanks for the suggestions. I think Downfall is probably the best film of this type as it shows the ultimate story of the defeated person, a lot of the criticism comes from people who don’t want to see Hitler as a human person rather as some sort of evil boogeyman

Connor McDavid loves this one weird trick

Please keep stealing it and keeping me in a job putting it back in again.