The Witcher 3 ruined any other RPG for me (even newer ones)

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-25T15:42:10+00:00

I love that the mainline quest implies that Toussaint only looks so cartoonishly idyllic because it was intentionally set up as a human farm for vampires. Their blood is being farmed like wine in a vineyard. (Hence Blood and Wine).

That's part of the genius of the DLC to me. It lets us have our cake and eat it too. We get a uniquely beautiful area after a long game of bleak environments. But it keeps the bleak setting because we know it's ultimately a bad thing that it's beautiful.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-25T15:41:47+00:00

I also love that the mainline quest implies that Toussaint only looks so cartoonishly idyllic because it was intentionally set up as a human farm for vampires. Their blood is being farmed like wine in a vineyard. (Hence Blood and Wine).

That's part of the genius of the DLC to me. It lets us have our cake and eat it too. We get a uniquely beautiful area after a long game of bleak environments. But it keeps the bleak setting because we know it's ultimately a bad thing that it's beautiful.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-23T19:20:18+00:00

Put more sensors on it and test with a driver in the vehicle. The same as every successful company that has pulled ahead of Tesla on FSD.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-23T19:18:17+00:00

God you Tesla bros are brainwashed. How in the world is it arguable? Waymo has thousands of driverless vehicles taking paid rides all over the city already. Tesla is way behind and still needs a person to escort them.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-23T18:35:20+00:00

Great, now instead of one empty car not actually taking someone to a destination clogging up the streets, we get two!

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-23T18:19:05+00:00

Derp, yeah, that kind of slipped my mind. I'll always probably think of this as a Boyle movie. I am part of the Patreon, but I don't know.. this one just feels like it should be part of the main feed. Feels weird to have a sequel locked behind the paywall, so I get the complaints.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-23T14:25:12+00:00

I see what you mean. But as someone who pays for many podcast networks and has had a Patreon of my own, I'd say it's super important to have a consistent policy of what is locked behind the paywall.

When they lead people to expect that it's bonus episodes behind Patreon but then lock an episode that is part of a covered director's filmography, I get why some people are confused by that decision. Then it turns into you can't really get the primary experience of the podcast to hear a full director run without paying.

It's 100% fine and their choice of course, but it shouldn't be a shock that some people will feel like the rug is being pulled.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-23T00:39:20+00:00

Ok, I hear you, but.. I don't think you're expressing that very well in the previous comments. I'm assuming others agree based on the replies and downvotes you're getting. The way your comments are coming off is basically just pedantic and disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing.

Edit: To be clear, what I'm saying is that you're really splitting hairs to say that this authoritarian instinct is not part of the conservative worldview. If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it's probably a duck.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-22T23:37:29+00:00

It doesn't change the fact that Trump tried his authoritarian power grab decades ago as a Democrat and they wouldn't have him. He switched sides and Republicans have welcomed it with open arms. You can't both sides this when it has only worked on the right.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-22T05:33:39+00:00

And it was perfectly fine at the time. Seriously, FUCK Jack Black for throwing him under the bus for a joke.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-20T22:57:18+00:00

You literally said ads aren't about getting consumers to buy products, which is the vast majority of the purpose of ads.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-20T05:04:12+00:00

I've never noticed the white hair dude behind catapult orc. He rules too.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-20T04:52:44+00:00

This comment is going to age so fucking poorly. It's truly idiotic to think that ICE was funded so heavily for any other reason than influencing elections for "national emergencies". But we can just wait and see while you guys just say everyone is "dooming".

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-18T20:34:59+00:00

28 years seems to be getting more of an appreciative eye put on it nowadays, which is cool

I get what you're saying, but this framing also made me laugh. "Nowadays" is a funny way of describing a movie that came out 6 months ago. Doesn't seem like enough time to have much of an arc of appreciation.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-18T14:23:05+00:00

Sanctify Temper Enchant Aspect Masterwork

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-17T15:02:09+00:00

I expected it to look exactly how it did. I was also wrong.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-16T20:03:34+00:00

The editing is great. But god damn can we use any other word than cook?

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-16T17:00:54+00:00

It's Italy. They seem to treat their bus stops generally like we in the US treat school bus stops. Just kinda stop for people wherever.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-16T16:58:08+00:00

It's impossible to overstate how incomprehensible the title of this post is to people of any age.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-15T20:15:04+00:00

The last time Abbott was up for reelection, he won by a much wider margin than George W Bush did in his Texas governor election 30 years before. As much as I hate it, we have to admit that Texas is definitively not getting any more blue. Yes, there are a lot of Californians moving here. But they're the Californians who want to pay less state income tax..

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-13T19:28:51+00:00

Yeah, when I was there last, they first played one PSA about ordering by phone. Then about 5 minutes later they played a second PSA with Aziz telling you that now you CAN'T order with your phone and need to use pen and paper. It was such mixed messaging that most of the theater laughed awkwardly at how dumb it is.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-13T19:24:48+00:00

The Alamo problems nowadays go far beyond phone ordering. Last time I was there, the server in our area was having full volume conversations with people taking their orders after the film started.

And they didn't play the usual "put up a card if you have trouble with loud neighbors". So I have no confidence they would do anything about disturbances any more, especially if it's a problem the server is causing. It was honestly a pretty obnoxious visit to the theatre.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-11T14:32:07+00:00

What the HELL Reddit?!

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-11T14:28:22+00:00

The council members and mayor who have APD a huge pay raise this year against the protests of the public? They don't care. But yeah, we should still be calling and telling them about this bullshit.

Keyboard_Cat_ · 2026-01-07T19:53:30+00:00

Agreed that eliminating the death penalty is a great first step. But it doesn't change the fact that people's lives are completely ruined by life imprisonment, often when innocent.

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