I'm not a potterhead or anything, although I did enjoy the books and movies back in the day. Funnily, I think the third fantastic beast movies was by far the best one. It still had many plot holes and useless characters, but it was just the right mixture of fun, sympathetic characters and drama. Not...

After playing strategy games like EU4, Ck3 and the city builder Anno 1800 for a while, I picked up Elden Ring now. While I am sick of classic open world chore games, this is quite different and fun so far. My first real Soulslike btw.

Yes, RoS was horrible. In fact, the whole plot of the entire sequel trilogy was laughably bad. The ST did have decent acting and good aesthetics ("feels like SW"), but everything close to the story is like horrible, horrible fanfiction: - Episode 7 had a decent plot - but only if you ignor...

AC too big and bloated?? I love it! I guess it’s not to everyone’s taste. You might enjoy some of the older ACs with a smaller map though. I did play AC 2, Brotherhood, Revelations, Ac3. And the newer ones. I always get burned out on AC games after a while, but I find them enjoyable for 15-20h or s...

"This guy made invisible wall intentional against a famous AOE4 streamer(Hera) and has been recorded in Hera's stream."

Got a link? To a Vod or so.

Which other video games have you played recently? Anything you liked, disliked, things you can recommend or warn of? Over the last months and years I had more time for video games again and I played a few of them. Here are a few impressions: Strategy games: - EU4: a classic, entertaining, in-depth. ...

LA Confidential. Amazing movie!

Watched Witcher season 1 finally, haven't started the second season yet. Feels decent so far. Not great TV by any means and some of the characters and scenes are a little dull or disappointing. It also feels a bit cheesy/awkward, maybe sometimes even cheap (it is a TV series with a limited budget, a...

How many pullups can yall do?

After losing some weight and doing more, my current max for one set is 16. Good form, no kipping, no weights.

I weigh only around 75 kg atm though.

Matrix 4 spoiler This film was horrible. First part weak wannabe parody/satire of the old Matrix with cringey references to the old films. Later on a mediocre action film with out of place romantic and comedy elements. And overall lacking any sort of Matrix feel, look or vibe. Colors, no sense of dr...

Basically all civs are at least somewhat map dependent, especially in some matchups. Either you or your opponents play is usually heavily influenced by having tps and/or water. This also goes for Dutch: on TP maps, they are arguably worse and have to adapt more. Least map dependent is probably Russi...

Can someone explain to me what the point of watching world level chess is when most amateurs don't even close to understand what the exact plays and strategies are because they can't calculate as far ahead and because they can't estimate the importance and relevance of potential future positions? Su...

Thoughts on Ghostbusters afterlife? Decent movie imo, competent combination of old+new. I liked the characters and the humor. Downsides: first half was a bit tedious to me and the plot overall felt a bit meh. More a movie to watch for the hommage to the old movie, the characters and some of the humor.

Anyone else expecting that Matrix 4 will probably be crap, yet still somewhat looking forward to it?

Age of empires has always been about random maps. Taking that away would hurt its identity.

Exactly. I think from the information we currently have, arguing that TheMista is a better RTS player than TheViper overall is just a really baseless claim. Of course it could theoretically still happen that Mista will eventually win an Aoe4 tournament or even end up being better than the Viper, but...

No, you are the one doing the flaming ("fan boy"), but your post is honestly very hard to understand.

Exactly what Goodspeed said. Being top in AoM or AoEO is just nothing compared to Aoe2 considering the playerbase. You can't simply say nothing when he was competitive when sc2 was at it's peak According to Liquipedia, he won like 1k in SC2, can't have been that impressive at it. Also, Viper only b...

Exactly what Goodspeed said. Being top in AoM or AoEO is just nothing compared to Aoe2 considering the playerbase. You can't simply say nothing when he was competitive when sc2 was at it's peak According to Liquipedia, he won like 1k in SC2, can't have been that impressive at it. Also, Viper only b...

Exactly what Goodspeed said.

Being top in AoM or AoEO is just nothing compared to Aoe2 considering the playerbase.

IMO it shows one of the big strengths of aoe2, which at least so far also translates into aoe4:

It is not mostly or only about mechanics and build orders, but primarily about adapting. Comebacks and changes in the course of the game are very possible.

Dominant performance by Viper.

[mention]u604[/mention] Occam's razor. It is a political question, Hollywood is super politicized atm, everyone is talking about representation, being seen etc, and it is discussed in a political context. If it did happen, which it won't anyway according to the prpducer, it would thus obviously be ...

[mention]u604[/mention] Occam's razor. It is a political question, Hollywood is super politicized atm, everyone is talking about representation, being seen etc, and it is discussed in a political context. If it did happen, which it won't anyway according to the prpducer, it would thus obviously be i...

It's a question of degree, quantity, quality and noticability. And also of how it relates to the story and genre. Aside from that, that's not a good argument to have even more of them.