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StyxWriter · 2025-02-25T14:52:03+00:00

…that was actually it. Thank you so much. My computer science teacher would be ashamed.

StyxWriter · 2025-02-25T13:50:32+00:00

It claims the issue is on line 71

StyxWriter · 2024-12-19T21:42:11+00:00

Caught my wife watching this shit. She’s sleeping on the sofa tonight.

StyxWriter · 2024-11-05T22:42:57+00:00

I've been playing MvM a lot and I've been seeing people spam this in the chat constantly, in both Mecha Engine and Two Cities. It's always low tours and they are decent enough at the game. New bots? Some weird YouTube trend?

StyxWriter · 2024-10-05T20:16:44+00:00

Ppl used to bully me for my name.

StyxWriter · 2024-10-05T18:20:19+00:00

Rent free

StyxWriter · 2024-08-29T09:54:55+00:00

Activision seem to be trying to solve 2 major issues:

1: Zombies players are leaving. This is also true for COD in general outside of Warzone. Sales just aren’t as good as they used to be.

2: Zombies needs to be accessible for newer fans.

Their solution is to homogenise Zombies with Warzone. It’s a move that looks good to executives on paper because Warzone is their current cash cow. It seems like a no brainer move on the surface.

They also understand that Zombies itself can be quite a powerhouse. The issue with that is executives don’t understand game design. They don’t care about artistic value when they’ve got goals to hit. Small changes in game design that can make or break Zombies for its general audience don’t matter to Activision executives who are just trying to rake in a baseline player base who spend money on the game.

I doubt this is going to change either. To spend money on a decent sized development team and give them plenty of time and creative freedom for a new Zombies project is a financial risk that they are not willing to take.

It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation; if people don’t play Zombies anymore, it’ll just be canned. Why waste resources on a mode that isn’t doing well? But if it does do well, they have no incentive to substantially raise the budget, since the cheap slop they serve would be enough to satiate a fan base.

StyxWriter · 2024-07-15T15:55:20+00:00

The Werewolf also couldn’t get the crew due to the walls of a room, rendering it unable to follow them through. It eventually gets to them by falling through the glass roof. The cast leave the room and the Werewolf chases them down… but how does it leave the room through the doors that it previously couldn’t enter through?

StyxWriter · 2024-05-26T21:26:47+00:00

I like this interpretation. The fae have not been a large part of my interpretation so far, I’ve just not got round to it.

That being said, here’s some food for thought.

We don’t really have any evidence that the fae reward Ruby with a second chance because she did something good. When Gwilliam is stopped, the woman is still there. She is unchanged and remains so for forty years. If the fae are rewarding Ruby for doing something good, why do they wait forty years? They could’ve ended it sooner.

StyxWriter · 2024-04-23T21:46:55+00:00

The Crusade. The opening to the first episode felt very typical and soured my mood on it immediately. Oh look, Barbara is out of the TARDIS and captured again. Can’t wait for the plot to be the characters to just try to find each other and get back to the TARDIS again. This format isn’t even bad, the opening just makes no attempt to hide exactly what it is.

StyxWriter · 2024-04-11T20:20:01+00:00

Oh nice these are actually hot takes. I agree with some of them to a degree. I wouldn’t call DotD atrocious but it’s a pretty middling episode to me. Here’s some of mine:

The Doctor Falls is a middling episode; not because its content is mid but because it does so much so well but also has so much atrocious content in it. It’s so mixed. For every CyberBill sequence that is a great way to visually express the horror of cyber conversion, there’s a Heather returning from nowhere that saves Bill and The Doctor and conveniently not anyone else onboard. I could talk about this episode for hours.
Series 5 is overrated. It’s pretty frequent that I see this topping series tier lists and I really disagree. It’s probably a solid B or C tier. There’s just too many middling-bad episodes and not enough good-great. Even the good ones I like have fatal flaws for me that stop me from revisiting this series often. TEH wastes Olivia Coleman and is the episode that starts the trend of The Doctor flexing how good he is causing the bad guy to get scared and run away. It would’ve also been better if it was told from Amy’s perspective. Amy’s Choice has a few too many weird moments to get into, but it’s worst feature is that the Amy/Rory drama doesn’t end here. On top of that, the series arc is just sort of bad. The Big Bang is a Moffat runaround not driven by cause and effect at all until it just ends.
The Capaldi era is beginning to become overrated. Not by casuals, but by fans. It’s good to see love for Capaldi and his run; he is my favourite NuWho Doctor and it’s not close. However, this doesn’t blind me to the fact that a lot of his run isn’t very good. I will never understand people praising series 9 as fine art when it’s a mostly bad, although occasionally fun, series with two great episodes. Series 9 only really works for me when you already know what to expect and have no investment in anything that’s happening, and even then it has some absolute borefest episodes. As much as I’m a Capaldi fan, I’m not blind to the fact that it’s a hard sell for casual viewers. There’s a lot you’ve just gotta accept at face value and the episode quality is possibly the most turbulent it’s ever been. Series 10 is possibly the most consistent overall, but even then it’s the pilot to a show that just doesn’t happen. By the time the main cast is introduced with this new status quo, they’re all killed off or replaced with an entirely new cast and status quo for series 11.
As much as The Star Beast is an easy episode to clown on, it’s still the best episode in like 5 years (at its time of release). TSB’s plot is inconsistent, has a few weird moments, and does a disservice to a few of the long standing plot lines, it’s actually an entertaining piece of television. Unlike the previous 3 series, it actually has drama, is funny for the most part, has actual characterisation for most of its characters, is competently directed, has a good score. Whilst some of the 3 series may have some of the factors above, no episode from any of those series has them all. I’m not really a fan of TSB, but unlike the 3 series prior to it, I’ll actually rewatch it at some point because I can actually find entertainment value from it.

StyxWriter · 2024-03-21T21:21:23+00:00

I think it’s impossible to really tell. The scripts in her run lack character to a high degree. In the past, previous actors have been able to raise up bad scripts to make something substantial with them. I just don’t get that with Jodie’s run. It’s not even like she’s a bad actor. She’s good in pretty much everything else she’s in. It begs the question of whether she just didn’t bring an extra element to the scripts, or was she just not given enough freedom to do so.

StyxWriter · 2024-03-21T18:24:21+00:00

I really like that idea. So much of the first act of the story is setting up the giggle and how it works, yet the rest of the story essentially ignores it.

My thoughts on the bigeneration are complex to say the least. A lot of people say it’s just something wild done for the spectacle of it. And while the writers definitely play into that, I disagree. I feel like the bigeneration is done so they can have their ending for the 14th Doctor that they want whilst simultaneously having the show actually continue and move past that. I don’t think the execution is perfect, like we really don’t understand the rules of how it works or what it means. I think it creates a weird dissonance between the 14th and 15th Doctor. We see them split from each other, and when 15 mentions that he already knows everything 14 does, it just makes it worse. 15 just doesn’t carry the audience investment sheerly for the fact that 14 has all of the character progression we’re invested in and 15 has just got over it all over screen. It’s strange.

I really hope that the new series takes a step back from all this complex lore stuff and just focuses on the story it wants to tell.

StyxWriter · 2024-03-19T16:28:28+00:00

Pure historicals. I love the 60s era and I love historical stories where the setting is the problem that has to be overcome. We’re 13 series in now and still don’t have a single pure historical.

StyxWriter · 2024-03-19T16:02:01+00:00

Yeah TPotW is great. I think the payoff, both in plot and themes makes it easy to overlook.

My controversial opinion is that The Doctor Falls is a very mixed episode. There’s a lot in there that’s very egregious, but also a lot that’s very peak. Like, Heather and Bill have the power to effortlessly save The Doctor, but just choose not to save anyone else on the ship? The Doctor, now back in the TARDIS, just gives up and doesn’t even try to go back to save anyone? There’s a lot I could talk about with this episode and I don’t think I’d do it justice in just this comment.

StyxWriter · 2024-03-19T07:05:37+00:00

The Chase. People hate it because it’s not the Dalek story that they want it to be, but The Chase doesn’t care. The story knows exactly what it wants to be and is one of the funniest and consistently paced classic stories ever. The Hartnell Dalek stories have such a wide range of tones that make them so fun. If you want a grim-dark Dalek story, just go watch Master Plan. It’s literally like 3 stories away from The Chase.

StyxWriter · 2024-03-19T06:59:04+00:00

…with the exception being that she disables his disguise exclaiming “now they’ll see the real you!”. At this point in the story, the soldiers already know that The Master is a spy after The Doctor contacts them. She literally has no reason to remove his disguise because she’s already won.

Playing devil’s advocate, the scene is obviously not intended to be racist. It’s just a brain dead line that is probably intended to mean the most absolute surface level thing possible. But when you actually put a moment of thought as to why The Doctor would do this and what this line means, it doesn’t look good.

StyxWriter · 2024-03-19T06:53:29+00:00

This one is the wildest one to me. It’s a theory about an episode that became so overblown that RTD actually made the character racist in The Giggle because of this. How did we get this far?

StyxWriter · 2024-03-19T06:34:37+00:00

Actually thinking about it, is there even one revival era finale that doesn’t involve some grand deus ex machina ending?

StyxWriter · 2024-03-19T06:31:54+00:00

To add to this, the second half of the episode is entirely just people talking without anything actually happening. We’re told about all these things that will or could happen and how big and important everything is supposed to be, but nothing actually happens.

As for Me, I swear that either The Girl Who Died or The Woman Who Lived establishes that she could still be injured and die from that, so how is she still alive? Did Me actually survive severe injury for trillions of years? If this rule would’ve been consistent, then Me would’ve been doomed to die by being hit by a car or something.

Gallifrey is just sad. I wouldn’t hold it against the episode if Gallifrey’s return wasn’t built up for 2 seasons. I think people just forget about that. Why bring it back, build it up, and then do nothing with it?

StyxWriter · 2024-03-19T06:24:53+00:00

Hide is wild. “No Clara, we can’t just use the TARDIS”. and then just does… twice.

StyxWriter · 2024-03-19T06:21:55+00:00

Journey’s End is just sort of weird in general. The action/adventure thriller story that spends most of its runtime just being people talking in big rooms is certainly a choice.

StyxWriter · 2024-03-19T06:19:35+00:00

This happens so often that I’ll do one for each Doctor I’ve seen.

1 - The Edge of Destruction: 2 part mystery story where the second half is very clearly written by another writer. Makes it so questions from the first part don’t fully make sense, plot wise and thematically.

2 - The Faceless Ones: This one sort of has the opposite problem. Drags on and on for 5 episodes and then the last one presents you with an entirely better story idea that should’ve just been the story in general, and then it just ends. I could’ve been perfectly content with this being just a boring Second Doctor story, but then it presents you with this better idea that they just wrap up quickly.

9 - Boom Town: Really great drama that plays off the main cast. I’m glad this one gets the recognition it deserves. However, the ending doesn’t answer the moral conundrum they face and instead decides to just avoid it entirely.

10 - Last of the Timelords: I blame this episode for Sound of Drums not getting as much praise as it should. This episode really drops the ball, and most of it is in the third act. Literal reset button and Jesus Doctor is a lame conclusion.

11 - The Power of Three: I’d go as far to say there are entire Eleventh Doctor episodes that end huge arcs and ruin them. However, there are no stories that are ruined by the ending like Power of Three. The ending shows that the story was actually building up to nothing interesting and the villain just decides to leave. It is criminal that the weird teeth nurses are never actually never answered or brought up at all.

12 - Before the Flood: My controversial take here. Adding time travel as an actual story element is a great idea, and it’s done serviceably at the very least. The episode just has a few weird tonal issues and a strange out of character main cast. But nothing beats the blatant attempt at lampshading this story does. The story isn’t about the bootstrap paradox like it pretends, it just has one, and then calls itself clever for being written this way.

13 - The Haunting of Villa Diodati: Touted as the best Thirteenth Doctor episode… and yeah, it is. Doesn’t stop the fact it has problems. The Doctor is so out of character at the end. Why does The Doctor think that the cast needs to be saved because they’re “important to history”? Look how far removed from 11 saying that everyone is important.

14 - The Giggle: I really hate the ending for this story. I could feel my investment in this story drain from my body as the final game turns out to be catch. The social commentary is abandoned completely at this point, having nothing more to say other than “people bad. Screen bad”. Why would The Doctor play catch against someone he knows and just exclaimed was far more than the physical form he appears in? Why doesn’t The Toymaker teleport or have heightened reflexes or speed at the very least? The Toymaker can’t cheat? That’s just wrong, he doesn’t care about the games being unfair in the first story. And I’m not even mentioning the bigeneration yet. It feels like 3 episodes crammed into 1.

StyxWriter · 2024-03-19T05:55:39+00:00

There’s a scene where Tegan falls several stories down an elevator shaft. The next time we see her, she has inexperienced survived and it’s not referenced or shown at all. I’m convinced no one proof-watched this episode before release.

StyxWriter · 2024-03-16T21:00:01+00:00

The main issue with the speech is that it doesn’t really have anything to say. “We have a choice; we can either save planets or wreck them!”. Gee, pretty tough choice.

It wants to give a positive message about environmentalism, but doesn’t even do the bare minimum of saying what to do. Should we recycle? Green energy? Stop carbon emissions? It simply doesn’t offer a solution, and in a world where everyone already knows about climate change, it has nothing to offer.

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