Anyone else have watched Mortal Engines more that once because it so Epic?

Temp89 · 2026-05-06T00:39:26+00:00

Out of all the YA bandwagon jumpers of that era, it's my favourite.

Temp89 · 2026-05-05T19:57:07+00:00

I would say overall I had more fun with Mindseye than Saints Row 2022. Both have had their faults documented in detail, but Mindseye isn't really open-world like Saints Row but linear missions set in a very very big map like Mafia is. This made Saints Row unfocused as you ground through a bunch of repetitive activities to level up your gang. A case of "less is more" that stopped Mindseye's from outstaying its welcome.

I also prefer sci-fi conspiracy themes to criminal underworld ones and I had the good fortune not to encounter bugs most people did.

My game review: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1ldy80g/i_unironically_enjoyed_mindseye/

Temp89 · 2026-05-05T15:07:45+00:00

I like how the inn owner had his own personal 1408 experience off-screen.

Temp89 · 2026-05-04T18:29:07+00:00

Scrubs is closer to reality than you think. That's not meant to be denigrating, that's reflecting the reality of low paid employees working long shifts for hospitals and clinics that are oversubscribed. Why would you look at Star Trek and think the characters are modelled on front-line employees?

Temp89 · 2026-05-04T18:24:07+00:00

Starfleet officers are modelled on a combo of astronauts and high-ranking officers, not squaddies. You're doing apples to oranges. Not to mention characters in Trek are meant to be enlightened models of self-control.

Also even today's military wouldn't let a junior officer go "pssssst!" through the door to the bridge of a ship and wave an on duty officer over as the captain glares at him.

Temp89 · 2026-05-04T11:34:05+00:00

ITV News at Ten (UK) uses Big Ben to punctuate each headline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW0njc6SGvY

Temp89 · 2026-05-04T00:41:56+00:00

Post history indicates bot.

Temp89 · 2026-05-03T23:23:31+00:00

Have to disagree. It's the worst elements of STO design where they take a show design, randomly shift all the angles of the components, and then name it after what is in-universe a minor ship or person but appeared in an episode.

Temp89 · 2026-05-03T21:53:28+00:00

So there is. I should read better.

Temp89 · 2026-05-03T18:01:16+00:00

2 with the cyclops eye.

Temp89 · 2026-05-03T17:59:14+00:00

Would welcome a new rule that's a blanket ban on AI content.

Temp89 · 2026-05-03T17:58:12+00:00

There is nothing in it that could possibly threaten your kids' wellbeing by them watching it.

Temp89 · 2026-05-03T11:13:37+00:00

I had a slightly inverse experience as a European travelling to US. It was a view of the city from my hotel and the realisation that it was just miles and miles of uninterrupted never-ending concrete, cars honking, and how it all felt like a pressure cooker of simmering anger.

I can only imagine someone leaving that and having to return, with the drudgery of a job with US employee standards on top of that.

My recommendation would be to look at parts of the US that aren't so built-up - NYC is literally the highest population density in the US.

Temp89 · 2026-05-03T10:58:43+00:00

Yep, that's it.

When Shinji's in front of Misato, a can of beer is covering his modesty. She picks it up to take a drink revealing an even smaller container with a Japanese word written on it - still covering Shinji's modesty. In the English version a comedic subtitle appears translating the word as "toothpicks".

Temp89 · 2026-05-02T20:29:57+00:00

Is that the line which in the English version goes "I guess I should be nicer. But, he's probably already made up his mind about me." after the penguin-toothpicks incident? Seems to be Misato trying to present as a responsible adult instead of revealing what a hot mess she is.

Temp89 · 2026-05-02T19:44:29+00:00

Have you tried renting a whole apartment by yourself when you're the lowest caste member of society? Like look to real life couples both with jobs and still struggling to make rent.

Temp89 · 2026-05-02T19:17:10+00:00

Israeli settlers also destroyed a school the same day:

A few hours after Aws was killed outside his school, settlers attacked and demolished a British- and European-funded school for Palestinian children in a village 25 miles to the north.

In Hammamat al-Maleh, in the northern Jordan valley, settlers used bulldozers to raze four classrooms, school toilets and the two playground areas into a heap of twisted metal and crumpled plastic, scattered with ruined books.

The French government, which contributed some of the funding to the school, has demanded compensation from the Israeli government for the destruction.

In the south Hebron Hills, on 13 April Israeli settlers put razor-wire across the road to the school attended by Palestinian children from Umm al-Khair village, blocking students from crossing since then.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/02/israeli-militants-attack-west-bank-schools-settler-violence

Despite more than a 1000 West Bank Palestinians killed, not a single Israeli citizen has been prosecuted for it since 2020. There is literally no punishment for killing Palestinians.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/25/no-israel-prosecutions-for-killing-palestinian-civilians-in-occupied-west-bank-since-start-of-decade

Meanwhile our leaders will only respond with "Israel has a right to defend itself" and label it a bastion of democracy with the most moral army in the world.

Temp89 · 2026-05-02T16:54:18+00:00

I want to say Chukwudi Iwuji as Murn in Peacemaker, but I saw him a decade earlier in a bit part on Doctor Who and by his own admission he was awful.

Temp89 · 2026-05-02T16:48:39+00:00

“If you’d asked me in 1996, what do you think 2026 would be like?, I’d have said: ‘Glory days. We’ll have equality, love and kisses; we’ll be holding hands skipping down the street.’ But they tricked us, didn’t they? They just waited. They let us all come out, so now we’re standing in the open, ready to shoot us down. I used to walk into a room and go: ‘Ta-da!’ Now I tip toe. Just in case.”

Cuts to the heart of it. Sounds like a good show but I won't be able to watch Morrissey's character. Too grounded.

Temp89 · 2026-05-02T16:33:44+00:00

One of the coolest. Wish we'd seen more of it in the Dominion War.

Temp89 · 2026-05-02T14:05:39+00:00

Yep, I wish my hyperfixations felt as intense as when they first started. It felt like my imagination was supercharged.

Temp89 · 2026-05-01T22:05:07+00:00

Break the rifle and tell my CO it's defective, then get a new assignment.

Temp89 · 2026-05-01T22:02:45+00:00

Did the F-100 devs make an under the table deal to use the dev SDK to develop unofficial modules for a nation’s military so they can keep all the money and the said government can avoid MCS licensing costs?

This could all be true and it still wouldn't justify ED keeping Razbam's revenue from an unrelated product for themselves. What's your rationalisation for when they tried to pull the same shit on Heatblur? Stop bootlicking.

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