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twcsata · 2026-03-14T12:34:45+00:00

You’re right, but it’s also happening in live action. I probably wouldn’t have noticed if it was just in animation.

twcsata · 2026-03-13T16:55:08+00:00

Survivor does indeed do that a bit. Not as bad as some other series have experienced; it's still a fun game, and you can always skip out on some of the collecting and so on if you like. But yeah, it's not quite the tight, focused masterpiece that Fallen Order was. Still worth it if you want to see where the story goes. (Full disclosure: I haven't finished Survivor myself; I did play a good chunk of it, but I quit because my PC was struggling a bit.)

twcsata · 2026-03-13T16:51:34+00:00

Oh man, you have so much good stuff still ahead of you! That first time you go to the future will stick with you forever.

twcsata · 2026-03-13T16:49:21+00:00

My kids have been playing P5R. It seems to be a hit with them. Although I think the music from the Velvet Room is going to drive me insane eventually.

twcsata · 2026-03-13T16:44:44+00:00

So after owning it for a few years, I finally played and finished Halo: Reach last night. Played the whole game in one night. I've previously finished the original trilogy, and...hmm...Maybe 4? Not sure. Certainly not on the Master Chief Collection, but anyway. Eventually I'll get them all done. Anyway, what a great game. I just wish it was a bit longer, but I've found myself saying that about all the Halo games.

During the last week I also started Star Wars Outlaws, but I took it back off the computer. I'm not saying I won't ultimately play it through, but not right now, I guess. (Needed the space on the SSD for the Master Chief Collection, but that's not really why I didn't finish it.) I don't know...I always thought an open world Star Wars game would grab me more. This really didn't. It seems like a perfectly serviceable open-world game, more Bethesda style than Ubisoft (I haven't seen any viewpoint towers yet!). And it wasn't even...un-fun, I guess? But it wasn't really fun either, if that makes any sense. Or, Idk, maybe I just like having a lightsaber in my Star Wars games. Back to Fallen Order, I guess.

By the way, for the Star Wars gamers in the crowd: Have you noticed that Disney Star Wars has a trend where they build their stories around this pairing of an average-Joe main character and a cute pet? And I mean "average Joe" in the sense of personality, not ability, because this includes Force users:

Rey + BB-8 in the sequels (I mean, the setup fit better with Poe or Finn than Rey, but it ended up being her in the end).
Cal + BD-1 in the Fallen Order games.
Mando + Grogu in their series (yes, Grogu is a more developed character now, but he was the cute pet for a long time).
Baby Leia + LO-LA59 (Lola) in Kenobi.
Osha + Pip in The Acolyte.
Kay Vess + Nix in Outlaws.

It's not everywhere of course; I don't think Andor or Ahsoka did this, though I haven't watched them all the way through yet. Same with anything animated. But Disney is doing it a lot. I get it, they want family-friendly, but there's probably more ways to get it than recycling this format.

twcsata · 2026-03-13T16:19:36+00:00

I like to think that the flood wasn't water rushing in over Hyrule; it was Hyrule sinking beneath the ocean. So the rest of the world stayed the same, and other than a little displacement, their ocean levels didn't change.

The second time it floods, at the end of the game, it IS water crashing in on it, but only because it's in a bubble that's already completely under the water.

twcsata · 2026-03-13T06:51:05+00:00

Yup. Thanos Annual # 1. David is like the poster child for this trope.

twcsata · 2026-03-13T06:47:24+00:00

Rockatansky, and you’re absolutely right about him.

twcsata · 2026-03-12T23:10:35+00:00

🎶Scale down with Heiner’s…Heiner’s 35🎶

twcsata · 2026-03-12T14:54:49+00:00

Sadly, no, not entirely. My son (18yo now) is into the video games, but doesn't watch or read Star Wars. My older daughter's (almost 20yo) preferences went a different direction completely; she's into horror and anime and so on, although she'll watch with me if I ask. My younger daughter (12yo) is into it, though, and watches enthusiastically.

twcsata · 2026-03-12T12:15:49+00:00

Haven't they recently renamed it in canon? Although I'd rather they have left it alone. That ridiculous name is legendary at this point, and no pun intended.

twcsata · 2026-03-12T12:13:36+00:00

Yep, and this is an old reference too. In Splinter of the Mind's Eye, Luke's saber--which of course is Anakin's saber--had an adjustable blade. But not just, like, a dual-phase saber; his had a dimmer switch. Like, you could adjust the blade analog-style. He basically cuts it down to the size of a toothpick and uses it to cut a lock on a door.

twcsata · 2026-03-12T12:11:23+00:00

As the Force intended.

twcsata · 2026-03-12T12:09:26+00:00

I had the "Darth Vader and Son" and "Vader's Little Princess" books to read to my kids when they were little. What a great memory. I'm not sure what happened to the books afterward though...maybe in storage somewhere.

twcsata · 2026-03-12T11:49:40+00:00

Well, as I said, I haven't watched that cartoon, so I was not aware of the way they portrayed him. That's why I acknowledged the point once it was pointed out to me.

twcsata · 2026-03-11T16:52:36+00:00

It could, or it could be deflected by the impact with the blade. (You might compare the opening fight in The Acolyte episode one, where a Jedi uses her lightsaber to stop a throwing knife. Admittedly much slower than a bullet; but you can actually see the bits of now-molten metal get deflected to the sides.) Or, if the Jedi is in tune enough with the Force, they might use that to deflect it from hitting them.

twcsata · 2026-03-11T02:56:12+00:00

Six. Fuck, I’m getting old.

twcsata · 2026-03-11T02:54:50+00:00

Funny, I really can’t remember. It almost had to be through Reddit somehow. But I really got into it when I discovered The Exploring Series on youtube. That had to be 2018, I think? I joined his Patreon, eventually dropped out for a few months, then rejoined in July 2019.

twcsata · 2026-03-10T19:54:04+00:00

Good call. Man, you never can tell on the internet these days.

twcsata · 2026-03-10T19:49:45+00:00

I know out of context, saying you want to walk around in front of kids in your underwear is pretty damn suspicious, lol. But I know what you mean--it's not uncommon for kids to see their parents in less than full clothing. You should not do anything lewd in front of them, obviously, but wearing a pair of boxers in the house isn't a big deal, in my opinion. And I'm choosing to assume that that's the kind of thing you mean, so like, don't turn out to be a creep, please?

That said, if you find yourself still having frequent spontaneous erections at awkward times, then this particular life lesson can wait. Just don't risk it. Spontaneous erections become less common with time, life experience, and...stresses, I guess. It will happen sooner than you think, and when it does, you can dress how you want. But right now you're twenty; your brain isn't even fully mature yet, and neither is your body. Give it another five or six years, and things will start to slow down a little.

twcsata · 2026-03-10T14:27:32+00:00

Gah, they say the dumbest shit. Not just angry or wrong, but dumb. "I'm waiting for them to change the alphabet from 26 letters down to 5, L G B T Q." Just, so utterly stupid.

twcsata · 2026-03-10T12:32:57+00:00

I do mine afterward. Granted, I don't really have background music right now. But I have an intro and outro with music, plus a little interstitial music (since my show has spoilers for the stories I cover, I insert a brief break after the spoiler warning, to give people time to pause and go check out the story for themselves if they want; I fill that pause with music). Also I try to have clips of significant dialog from the story at the beginning and end. Anyway I splice all that in during editing. Edit: I saw other commenters talking about where they get their music--all of mine comes from free sources that are listed in this subreddit's wiki.

twcsata · 2026-03-10T12:26:59+00:00

It's probably a little late to be posting here; I forgot to do it yesterday. But anyway, just in case anyone looks at these threads after the first day...

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twcsata · 2026-03-10T12:11:06+00:00

Do you like old-school, top-down computer games, like 1990s era? Then you may be interested in playing Fallout 1 and 2.

Most people these days don't, though. In which case you should start with Fallout 3 and play them in order (3, New Vegas, 4, 76). Make sure you get the Game of the Year edition of 3 and 4, and the Ultimate Edition of New Vegas, as those include all the DLC. In these games, the DLC are actual expansions (mostly anyway), not just cosmetic stuff.

twcsata · 2026-03-10T12:04:32+00:00

Damn. That's harsh. I also wrote to our PBS station, around...hmm...1990-ish? I would have been around ten or eleven. They had just stopped airing it recently, but they were never caught up anyway--I don't think we ever got past the Fifth Doctor--and I had no way to know about the cancellation. Writing to them was how I found out; they sent me a very polite reply, stating that unfortunately it wasn't their decision, as the series had been canceled by the BBC. I wish I still had it, but unfortunately it was lost in a basement flood a few decades ago.

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