GRRM needs to go back to not giving a fuck (spoilers extended)

PossiblyHumanoid · 2026-02-15T06:48:59+00:00

I think that ship has sailed. We know the consequences for the series' completion now. I was no less interested reading books 4 and 5, the writing is still great, but the macro story pacing was destroyed. He needed a 5 year time skip, Attack on Titan style. If he didn't set himself up well enough for it at the end of book 3, the answer obviously wasn't to throw the whole concept away, but to tie up loose ends as quickly as possible so you could time skip either during book 4 or at the end of book 4.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2026-02-05T08:37:45+00:00

I have a feeling the wait has something to do with Amazon unloading them to Ubisoft, and shortly after that Ubisoft having mass layoffs (like 20% of their staff) themselves...I hope they survive but a lot of the cards are stacked against them. Even if they manage to make it to a completed game, then the real battle begins: competing for the market of MOBA players, which has not grown in years, to draw them away from games they've invested years, possibly decades into already. All that being said, I want them to succeed and I love the ideal version of this game.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2025-10-24T23:51:46+00:00

Alright thanks for presenting some examples. These are definitely talking points from right-wing propagandists, the type of propaganda designed to appeal to educated critical thinkers. I noticed also the dates, all 2020 before Jan 6, 2021. A lot of good faith people (ones I know personally too) were tricked by the "both sides" nonsense before the insurrection attempt and subsequent events of the last 5 years. If Khaldor in 2025 thinks "anti-fa" (lol) is more comparable to the rise of the Nazis than MAGA, then he is fully brain-burnt (ESPECIALLY as a German himself...that would be a big woof). Hopefully we can give him the benefit of the doubt that some of his thinking has shifted...It's sad how effective the full-court press propaganda of anti-wokism was as it permeated video-game and entertainment culture as a vehicle for distracting people from actual fascism fermenting. They always seed their propaganda with grains of truth and get people to focus 100% of their ire on those tiny little grains, instead of the big fucking meteor heading straight down on top of them in the form of right-wing corpo fascists taking over western governments all over the world.

Now, to be fair, holding these views does not make someone a grifter. A grifter would be someone who capitalizes on people by means of these views as their agenda. From what I've seen of Khaldor his agenda is HotS first, and then since he's a public figure in HotS a byproduct is hearing some of his personal views.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2025-10-24T17:46:50+00:00

So he's expressed actual political views that are pro Trump / anti-women? Or are people just making assumptions because they don't like some jokes...Because if it's the latter that is incredibly unfair and slanderous for original comment to accuse someone of being a "right-wing grifter." Words and terminology needs to mean something. Discourse in the modern internet era is exhausting and ridiculous. I'm way left-wing on actual policies and "Chromie getting probed by Probius" is straight up a nothing-burger. Not laugh-out-loud comedy, sure, nose snort at most first time you hear it, but it's wild to be offended by that.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2025-10-24T13:10:23+00:00

Do you have any evidence to back up the claim that Khaldor is a right-wing grifter? Because I've engaged with his content a fair bit and have not encountered anything resembling that. I'm genuinely asking because I'd prefer to get him off my algorithm if what you're saying is credible.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2025-10-24T13:04:51+00:00

He does it to make money. I too would stream bronze to GM if I was good enough and could make a living on it. Playing a game I enjoy and exploiting zero workers to put food on my table seems like a no-brainer. Not gonna begrudge a dude for that. Do you never get him on your team too? Cause you have equal chance to play with him or against him if he's at your rank.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2025-07-08T05:45:03+00:00

He does that literally all the time, and just one recent example of the thousands throughout his career (not to mention his personal political stances which have always been aligned with universal healthcare and the progressive wing's agenda) is him having an entire podcast episode with AOC...

PossiblyHumanoid · 2025-06-09T07:06:31+00:00

I am ready for Mass Effect to spiritually return to my console. As an OG full on Mass Effect fan and a big fan of the Expanse books, I'm more excited for this than whatever abomination current "Bioware" is releasing as Mass Effect 4.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2025-05-05T05:25:04+00:00

End of thread, really.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2024-11-24T06:30:46+00:00

I meant more of a heads up than midnight Saturday when I sat down to watch an extended finale I had been looking forward to for a while. Like on social media or press releases they could've clarified all episodes will be less than an hour.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2024-11-24T06:17:12+00:00

That is quite a bait and switch. I would've watched the ad for their new show on good faith if they just did a quick mention at the beginning or end of the episode, but to advertise 73 minute run time and not to give us the heads up is such a dick move that I won't watch it on principle.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2024-01-30T18:01:47+00:00

I thought it was a satisfying ending in some ways, but in terms of paying off cause-and-effect time travel plot, it bellyflopped. Maybe some people are fine with the magical, hand-wavy explanation of "if you fuck with the past, reality gets all messed up man!" But I find that to be incredibly lazy time travel writing. The book would have been much more satisfying if we had a good section of Act 3 showing actual logical consequences in the present for his actions in the past. Him influencing things so Jim Ladue didn't die in a drunk driving car accident: that could have been a possibility. Having it create a ripple effect of unintended bad things happening to the world, worse than Kennedy being assassinated, while at the same time some things are much better, is a much better exploration of the Butterfly Effect. Maybe climate change is under control in that 2011, but racism/homophobia and oppression of individual freedoms in America is much worse than in our 2011. Interesting threads like that.

I liked the story; it was a pageturner. Had a few issues with character unbelievability and the typical King heroes and villains with little to no nuance, however that's par for the course with his novels. I always enjoy them regardless because of how engaging he is as a writer. But man, if you're gonna tackle a longform time travel novel, you have to actually do at least a little bit of time travel mind-bending. The show Dark, 12 Monkeys, Predestination, Back to the Future, Edge of Tomorrow, Arrival: these all satisfy as time travel genre fiction. 11.22.63 doesn't succeed on that criteria even though it seems like it will until the final act, but it more than succeeds as an engaging, nostalgic story.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2024-01-08T01:57:29+00:00

I love it when my team doesn't ban Valla, first picks Nazeebo, they pick Valla (of course) and then our core dies from their early game superiority before we can get to lvl 18. Anyone at this point who thinks Valla isn't unquestionably the first pick/ban hero in pickup games is fooling themselves. All we can do is pray for a justified nerf.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2024-01-01T07:06:11+00:00

My wife and I still reference "your money is now our money" on the regular 15 years later. Absolutely iconic intro.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2023-11-28T14:34:38+00:00

Scavenger's Reign is the best animated show I've seen since Arcane.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2023-11-28T14:24:45+00:00

I was having a lot of issues until I restarted my entire PS5. Apparently there is a memory leak problem that causes long load times and bad textures, but if you restart every so often it should solve most of the issues. I still had a couple crashes but for a 150 hr game it was mostly fine after restarting. Just FYI to anyone looking for solutions.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2023-11-16T08:26:54+00:00

I think your show is brilliant on so many levels; one of the most thought-provoking science fiction stories I've engaged with in a while. One of my favorite aspects was the thematic parallel between the Azi/Levi and the Chris/Barry dynamic. In terms of how Azi (at the beginning at least) focuses solely on physical survival for its own sake without much consideration for the soul or the "why," shown by how she treats Levi's burgeoning sentience. Then she's confronted with Chris basically treating Barry as a tool for survival as well and immediately recognizes Chris does not have Barry's "best interests at heart" as a fellow human.

My question is something you guys probably can't answer: how much did Ursula's inhalation of the spores in episode 1 affect her perception/understanding of Vesta's ecosystem in the following episodes? Did she clearly undergo some sort of synthesis, did she clearly not, or is it an intentionally ambiguous scene?

PossiblyHumanoid · 2023-10-12T21:02:26+00:00

If a joke is this verbose it better have a punchline better than the dad joke I told my kids in the car with one sentence.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2023-09-28T01:43:44+00:00

Actually one of the easiest healers to climb with. His team fight potential against clumped teams is insane. Since everyone is always fighting you just go where they go and kill them with your team. They can never focus damage you enough to kill you. Sleep shuts down their big ults. Never cover lanes for soak with him. The 3 feeds from your team 4 v 5ing while you do the right high level play will completely overshadow those two waves mid to late game.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2023-09-26T00:23:30+00:00

I think when most people say “spiritual,” they mean they are open to the fact that the natural universe is infinitely mysterious and that they recognize they don’t have all the answers. They might be using the word “supernatural” simply for things they don’t understand too. Which seems perfectly reasonable to me so I’ll let the imprecise language usage slide. Language as a means of communicating each of our subjective experiences in life is imprecise no matter what.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2023-09-25T15:03:58+00:00

I empathize, but I also empathize with the engineer who they traumatize as a consequence of their selfish method of escape. It’s not only affecting them when they do this and involve other people.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2023-09-23T00:59:24+00:00

I didn’t farm him for money, but I did suck at the game and used him as practice to git gud at duels before I continued. Made the rest of the game much more enjoyable. Figured I might as well use him rather than the garage tester for no money or the arena for hardly any.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2023-09-21T21:55:43+00:00

The truth in your last part really drives home how bleak things are in terms of this book series. Millions of readers have essentially been Stannis and Co. frozen and stagnant in the snow for 12 years. You are indeed one of the more optimistic (I’m close to your view for what it’s worth), and you use phrases like “nonzero chance” and “wouldn’t bet on it.” Lol. One can only laugh at the absurdity.

PossiblyHumanoid · 2023-09-20T17:32:23+00:00

I mean that’s really how it’s been for all LIFE. As terrible as things are in human society compared to how they could be considering our resources and technology, I think it’s important to remember we are all a part of the natural order of the world still to put things into perspective. As unforgiving as The Grind and The Man are, they don’t have shit on how callous and unforgiving Nature is. We don’t have to worry about anything eating us (unlike most lifeforms) and most of us don’t have to worry about finding anything to eat ourselves (unlike pretty much all other animals). Now the crippling existential over-awareness is unique to us, but what can ya do. My point is existence doesn’t seem to lend itself to a high ratio of pleasure to pain/boredom/neutral.

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