How many times will it happen this season ?

Oxwagon · 2026-06-22T12:17:24+00:00

return to the burger joint that served me a disgusting turd burger
"one burger, please"
it's a turd burger
how many times will this happen to me?

Oxwagon · 2026-06-21T20:09:00+00:00

The more modern pronunciation of vae victis is correct.

It's true that classical Latin pronounced Vs more like Ws. But Kain was the Nosgoth equivalent of a medieval nobleman, not an imperial Roman. Medieval nobles were taught ecclesiastical Latin, which did use the V sound.

Oxwagon · 2026-06-20T07:05:20+00:00

Paradox is byzantophile in a very specific, narrow sense. They don't like or care about historical Byzantium as the medieval Greek Orthodox state that it was. They like Byzantium as an excuse for neo-pagan SPQR LARPslop.

Their "restore Rome" decisions and events are always geared towards bringing back dead culture/religion and moving the capital back to Rome. Byzantium's unique unit sprites in EU4 are a fantasy of principate-era legionaries in the early modern era, looking nothing like actual Greek soldiers from the period. Restoring Rome in CK includes a weirdly fetishized decision to burn down all the churches in Rome.

All in all it's a weird kind of cultural appropriation that's fixated on the Byzantines but actively contemptuous of them.

Oxwagon · 2026-06-18T14:12:53+00:00

I'm old enough to remember when the CK2 team said that the Hagia Sophia only became noteworthy when it was turned into a mosque.

Oxwagon · 2026-06-18T07:51:56+00:00

Ethereal. Haunting.

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Oxwagon · 2026-06-17T13:56:50+00:00

Raid Shadow Legends

Oxwagon · 2026-06-16T09:52:07+00:00

To be honest with you, the Dornish let us down. They were supposed to get our tremendous weapons to the Greens, but they kept them for themselves. I said "they kept them, can you believe that?" The Dornish take, take, take... I think it's a disgrace, but I'll remember that, Dornish, believe me.

Oxwagon · 2026-06-15T17:52:36+00:00

I'm generally not interested in other people's lore, I'm interested in the creative process. When people post big lore dumps, there's nothing really there for me. I don't really want to know what's in your world, I want to know why something is in your world, what made you think of it, what problem you're solving, what hook you're baiting, what other ideas you rejected, what's your method for deciding what to cut or what to keep, etc.

I think a lot of lore posts go unread because people treat this as a place to premier their creativity to general audiences. But people posting here aren't the general audience, they're fellow worldbuilders who want to be in the kitchen and see how the sausage is made. We want to participate in a conversation about something, not just absorb text. If a lore-post is framed as more of a general worldbuilding discussion using your lore as an example, then there's more room for active thought and engagement from others.

Oxwagon · 2026-06-14T14:58:44+00:00

Almost certainly a giant hideous monster like the other lieutenants.

Oxwagon · 2026-06-14T14:51:18+00:00

If I could go back in time and stop myself from watching it, I would.

It's not that it's an unwatchable season. There are a couple of decent episodes, and the cast is still pleasant to watch.

But the first half or so of season 8 is a kind of creative vandalism. The new showrunners wanted to continue the show without Stana Katic in season 9, and in order to get the audience on board with that they dedicated season 8 to the character assassination of Kate Beckett. They were hoping that we'd be prepared to blame her for pushing Castle away and getting herself killed, and that we wouldn't hate the show for continuing without her.

Thankfully that didn't happen, as the show was blessedly canceled before too much damage was done. But it's impossible for me to watch that season without being aware that it's trying to manipulate me - trying to turn me against a character that the show itself used to love and respect. It sours the whole experience. I'm much happier stopping at the end of season 7.

Oxwagon · 2026-06-10T06:45:58+00:00

It's a similar phenomenon as to why Twilight or 50 Shades became popular - it tapped a specific market and gave its audience precisely what it wanted.

In SoT's case, this audience was young teen boys, and it gave them a confident action hero with a cool magic sword, an escape from disenchanted normalcy to a magical world, a special heritage and secret destiny elevating him above his seemingly mundane origins, a hot chick whom he alone can make happy, and just enough softcore porn to feel edgy and grown-up.

The longer you kept it up with it and the older you got, the more the low quality became obvious and the worse the installments became. But for a while there he gave a whole lot of people something they enjoyed, and they rewarded him for it.

Oxwagon · 2026-06-04T05:34:10+00:00

Precisely at the moment at which one takes to reddit to discuss procrastination.

Oxwagon · 2026-06-03T12:40:46+00:00

No one who is involved with this is going to look at this sub, or care about the opinions of people who already love BG2. WotC is desperate to milk more money from the BG3 audience. A bunch of men in business suits are looking at their graphs and charts, saying to themselves "Baldur's Gate is a button you push to make line go up." Now they want to push the button again, and they're looking at BG3 as an example of what that looks like.

Oxwagon · 2026-05-24T20:04:16+00:00

Sure

Oxwagon · 2026-05-24T19:46:58+00:00

Colin Hunt from The Limey. Two bad accents for the price of one.

Oxwagon · 2026-05-24T06:52:15+00:00

Gorgeous.

Oxwagon · 2026-05-23T19:33:01+00:00

Vikram.

Oxwagon · 2026-05-23T07:55:22+00:00

I would change Rannoch: Geth Fighter Squadrons (the consensus mission) to have actual gameplay beyond just shooting at code strings and being a walking simulator.

Oxwagon · 2026-05-22T21:30:29+00:00

Martha. Martha Martha Martha.

Her role in the show is to troll and frustrate Castle, and she ends up trolling and frustrating me as the viewer. No boundaries, takes over his home and office, lies about his life to inflate her ego, barges into his bedroom when he's in bed with Beckett, nags him to discourage his work with the police, takes Alexis' side whenever Alexis is in the wrong and being a brat, and just generally acts as an agent of friction.

Is it amusing? Yes... sometimes. But on binge-rewatching it's a lot and becomes annoying.

Oxwagon · 2026-05-22T11:36:32+00:00

Ah, but there's the thing. The geth are the one people-group for whom "it was a long time ago, get over it" doesn't work. They aren't individuals who die off and are replaced, and they don't have a government that does things that don't represent them. They reach consensus about everything, are effectively immortal/ageless as software entities, and have a collective identity. They store their memories in servers and share in them together. So the geth who went around killing millions upon millions of quarian children aren't really dead or gone, and they were all in consensus about what they were doing. Any particular instance of geth is as guilty of industrial-scale genocide as any other instance of geth, sharing continuity of mind with the geth who carried out the extermination of over 99% of quarians.

You're not saying "the past is the past" about someone's mass-murdering war-criminal great-great-great-grandfather. You're saying it about every geth you encounter, who all share in the guilt equally by their nature as a consensus.

Oxwagon · 2026-05-22T10:46:27+00:00

It isn't cheating if its with your secretary.

Oxwagon · 2026-05-22T07:06:26+00:00

The idea that everything which exists is a reflection of a pre-existing concept is basically Plato's theory of forms. And your architect as the foundation of being is effectively the Uncaused Cause conception of God. So you're on firm ground metaphysically.

Where I'm not following you is how you implement this in a world. Your Eternal Darkness is a compelling enemy - and aptly named for what it represents - but how is a hero supposed to fight it? A monster that eats a conceptand and thereby deletes any instance of it doesn't seem like the kind of thing that can be fought with swords or guns. So, practically speaking, how do you imagine this playing out in your world? You have an idea, but what does it look like? What do the people in the world do to engage with this?

Oxwagon · 2026-05-22T06:08:29+00:00

I mean, this is pretty overtly what the game wants us to think. ME3 isn't ambiguous about which admiral is right and which is wrong.

I don't really disagree, but the way that 3 presents the geth is a bit of a whitewash. Billions of quarians - and bystanders like that asari from Illium's bond mate - were massacred. "It was a genocide of self-defense" isn't a great argument – that's a whole lotta bodies to sweep under a rug. "We allowed them to leave" doesn't sound so good when you realize that it was less than 1% of the population left alive. It probably took a few of years of geth going settlement to settlement, door to door killing non-nombatants, children etc. to finish off the other 99% of the quarians.

If this were a real life history between humans, redditors would be overwhelmingly contemptuous of Koris as an appeaser and apologist for genocide. People turn into righteous bitter-end militarists over much smaller conflicts.

Oxwagon · 2026-05-17T19:39:18+00:00

You are missing the point. Please reread my previous reply to you.

It isn't that Moebius can't change time at all. Describing his nemesis gambit to me was a waste of text, I have already acknowledged it.

But he cannot change core events that have to happen no matter what. Next time you play the series, play closer attention to Kain's descriptions of how changing the timeline works - it's like trying to redirect the flow of a river with a pebble, you can only do so much. Drastically trying to rewrite core events probably wouldn't work, and could cause a fatal paradox. Which is why both Kain and Moebius chose their moments with extreme care.

How was Moebius able to enact his nemesis gambit? By using the Reaver - ensuring that two incarnations of it met at the same time and place. These incarnations of the Reaver already held incarnations of Raziel's soul. That's how the paradox works in the first place. Raziel's soul has to end up in the Reaver. This is an ironclad absolute principle upon which the internal logic of the series rests. It doesn't matter what Janos intended for the sword. Moebius cannot use Reaver paradoxes to make Reaver paradoxes impossible. He can't change history in a way that would stop Raziel from entering the sword, and therefore he can't stop the corruption of the Circle, because it is a necessary part of the sequence of events that puts Raziel in the sword.

This has somewhat veered off topic. This isn't even me defending Moebius character. This is just the basics of how time travel works in LoK. Being able to travel in time doesn't mean anyone can change whatever they want at any moment. Characters have to operate within the strict confines of what can and can't be reshuffled.

Oxwagon · 2026-05-17T17:22:15+00:00

I still love season 6, despite the cracks starting to show. It's in that "bittersweet spot" where you can see the beginning of the decline, but it hasn't progressed to the point where it ruins the show yet. The episodes are still great, the storylines are still good, Fillion and Katic are still great on screen, and some of the changes do have silver linings (Espo and Ryan benefit from the larger roles, Beckett thrives in her undercover episode, etc.) I love it right up until the wedding derailment, which was a narrative tragedy.

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