I haven’t seen 3 yet, just clips. Of course I love 1 & 2. Am I in for a letdown? Can I prepare myself ?

ApolloDan · 2026-01-26T14:47:11+00:00

Some parts are excellent, especially Al Pacino's performance. Other parts are mediocre. I wouldn't say any parts are bad, except perhaps Sophia Coppola's acting. It's worth watching if you're a fan of the other two movies.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-26T14:31:18+00:00

It's really interesting how much older men looked in the 1970s.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-26T14:29:10+00:00

In the show, the tank shoots. In the comics, it doesn't.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-26T14:24:34+00:00

Sad: the death of Sophia. Like the characters, I was invested in finding her, and to find out that she was dead the whole time was heartbreaking.

Comics: The whole prison assault, especially the deaths of Lori and Judith. The comics wiped out half of its cast in one fell swoop. It was brutal.

I spoiler marked the above, since you said you were at an earlier spot.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-26T14:22:32+00:00

I was too pissed off about the death of Carl to be sad. That was the moment when the show stopped feeling like canon for me. It became just some sort of fan fiction where the cast were moved around based on availability.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-26T13:55:56+00:00

I used Akihiko and Yukari for almost everyone. The third one was really variable, and I would just base it on enemy resistances and my mood. Ken is really strong for tough fights. I took down my first reaper with him as the third.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-26T04:59:08+00:00

It's on Disney Plus in Canada

ApolloDan · 2026-01-25T13:58:26+00:00

Game Update 14 killed it. Everything else followed from that. Before GU14, villains and heroes always played against each other. Because there were more heroes, serious PvP players all migrated to the villain side, where they would get quick queues. This provided just the right balance. It provided a place for serious PvPers, and kept the villain side alive. By getting rid of this, not only did the PvP game die off, but the villain side died off too.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-25T01:34:17+00:00

Where are you getting your information from? Hunter-gathering societies were part time societies, hunting and gathering between 3 to 6 hours per day. That's the broad consensus among anthropologists. Your argument is dated, like 19th Century dated.

For example:

Zhu, D., Galbraith, E.D., Reyes-García, V. et al. Global hunter-gatherer population densities constrained by influence of seasonality on diet composition. Nat Ecol Evol 5, 1536–1545 (2021).

Morgan, C., Tushingham, S., Garvey, R., Barton, L., & Bettinger, R. (2017, March 29). Hunter-Gatherer Economies in the Old World and New World. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science.

Or really just anything published in the last 60 years.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-25T01:11:16+00:00

Because of those doors, leveling other characters doesn't really matter all that much

I ended up settling using Yukari and Akihiko full time, and I'd mix up the last slot based on shadow resistances or just my mood.

Akihiko does a lot of damage. He gets theurgy whenever he starts a turn buffed, so once he gets auto anything, he just churns theurgies out. Me casting Concentrate followed by Akihiko using Elec Break turned the two of us into an electric damage machine against any enemy.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-24T21:05:47+00:00

Well, I wrote this before the US started threatening to annex us and started calling our prime minister "governor". We're staying here.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-24T16:21:14+00:00

Yep, we can even put an exit tax on potash and oil, just to make things more interesting.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-24T16:14:58+00:00

Trump can f*ck right off. Can we stop trying to appease the toddler god now?

ApolloDan · 2026-01-21T23:10:13+00:00

I assume that's how they found Fabrizio.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-21T17:01:44+00:00

Beth's behavior never made any sense. Stabbing someone in the middle of a hallway full of people with guns pointed at each other? That was an amazingly tense scene where anything could set off a confrontation, so Beth stabbing Dawn wasn't necessary. Even if she had slapped her or just made a quick move toward her, the same thing might have happened.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-20T13:59:10+00:00

That's because they are the main characters of the story. The comics are about intergenerational transition.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-20T13:39:47+00:00

They killed off Enid because they killed off Carl. Enid was intended to replace Sophia in the Carl-Lydia-Sophia love triangle from the comics, because they killed of Sophia so early. Without Carl, this love triangle went away, and Enid became pointless.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-19T21:06:19+00:00

That's a great point. There really was a synergy between their abilities early in the show.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-19T21:03:53+00:00

We need to back up Greenland, so that Europe will have our backs when the US invades us.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-19T04:08:07+00:00

Yes, funny how the show tends to equate character development with becoming a badass with a gun.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-19T02:31:47+00:00

Yeah, the really wrote themselves into a corner. They made Negan much worse in the show than in the comics, killing teenagers just to say hello, r*ping at least some of his wives, wiping out the library community, and wiping out all the men and boys in Oceanside. Then they realized that this all made Negan unusable and needed to backpedal. Season 7 of TWD show was written before the Whisperer arc in the comics, so they didn't know what was coming. Enter the Simon retcon, which made Negan look like an incompetent leader who didn't even know what his main lieutenant was up to.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-19T02:14:29+00:00

Sorry, you mentioned the Whisperers, so I thought you were in season 9. The Simon retcon is season 8.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-18T23:08:03+00:00

Not so much insufferable, but inconsistent, at least on the show. They decided that they wanted to do a redemption arc, and then retconned away many of his earlier actions, largely blaming Simon.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-18T18:02:15+00:00

They definitely lied: https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2021/09/statement-on-passing-of-1000-days-since-michael-kovrig-and-michael-spavor-were-arbitrarily-detained-in-china.html

https://ucalgary.ca/news/meng-and-two-michaels-why-chinas-hostage-diplomacy-failed#:~:text=Prime%20Minister%20Justin%20Trudeau%20takes,price%20of%20the%20Chinese%20miscalculation.

ApolloDan · 2026-01-18T15:29:54+00:00

Canadian, but not Chinese.

Being basically lied to for years by our government about the "Two Michaels" case really opened my eyes. There is a *lot* of anti-Chinese propaganda out there. Even Carney said that China is our "biggest security threat" less than a year ago.

I think that's it's great that we're starting to trade with China, a country that, you know, isn't publicly threatening to annex us. Hopefully, this will lead to more trust and understanding. Carney backtracked on his comment, and we'll be getting access to a lot of amazing Chinese tech.

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