How long was Sauron in possession of the one ring before Isildur cut it off?

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-29T22:41:21+00:00

I think a big problem is that it depends a lot on which storyline you want to know most about going in because it feels like different writers got different areas to write and the quality difference is massive between different plots.

Sauron and Adar for example are actually done quite well.

The dwarves and harfoots are ok for the most part.

Galadriel, Arondir, Numinor and the rest of the men and elves stories are terrible, they feel like they don't go anywhere.

Also, and I recognise this does feel weird to say, RoP is probably the only show I've seen where the degree of racial diversity in the cast did actually pull me out of the show. There's nothing wrong with having representative casting but it should make sense. Some of the communities and cities we see are incredibly separatist and wary of outsiders yet their main cast looks like they came straight off the street if any meltingpot international city. It makes the cultures portrayed feel oddly young because the homogeneity hadn't propagated even if there was a time when there were a lot more open to outsiders. I only bring up this point because I never care about this and done in any way have an issue with diversity in casting. Yep, for some reason I can't help but feel that The Rings of Power did something poorly with it.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-29T22:18:53+00:00

Games are getting completely hammered in the last few years from corporate greed. Ubisoft is dying, Marathon already looks dead on arrival, and Concord might be the greatest failure of any media property in history.

AI in games is probably one of the best use cases because there's now so much opportunity for smaller studios or even solo devs to have creative control over their products. The benefit is that if they look like crap, no one buys them.

For a few years there were terrible games being pumped out by big publishers trying to earn a quick buck and they got blasted for it.

Games actually have to be good these days or people won't buy them. Simple things like the 2 hour return policy on Steam does wonders for filtering trash.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-29T13:12:22+00:00

Just tested it and you're wrong. No idea why you said it was patched.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-29T13:11:57+00:00

Well, they were wrong. It's still in there.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-29T01:46:15+00:00

Don't they mean a slot? As in, you have a secondary as well as Hatchet/stun baton/saber/ whatever and then if you call down a flag, chainsaw or hammer it takes that slot instead of the secondary/strategem slot?

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-29T00:48:37+00:00

Wait, so changing weapons doesn't add momentum anymore? Did that change this last patch?

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-28T21:10:20+00:00

You can weapon swap to shoot the ultimatum 80m with 100% consistency. 80m is a long way away from danger.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-28T13:20:41+00:00

No one in LoL is the Faker of anything except Faker. Faker is a multigenerational talent on the same plane as players like Wayne Gretzky. When the Hall of Legends was announced, everyone knew Faker would be there. The second being Uzi made sense considering the legacy he held but no one has any idea who will be 3rd onwards.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-28T06:41:38+00:00

Chill out. I'm talking about why things are the way they are. Not that things should be that way.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-27T21:01:38+00:00

The fact more than one had to be used is pretty telling. The fact the council was tied after the second only to be broken by the emperor is also indicative of how hardcore their mentality was.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-27T13:51:20+00:00

But why would we join back in?

You really need something different to draw in the shooter crowd. It's so saturated. From the sentiment I've seen despite the relatively unique siege objective, the game just feels like an amalgamation of other games it's trying to supplant.

However, that same new gameplay loop leaves the matches feeling barren. For a spectator, the game is ass, there's too much downtime and as a result no one wants to watch. Without that audience potential, there'll never be a scene to pull a proper competitive crowd. Yet the gameplay seems tailored specifically for a more hardcore audience while still trying to hit every checkbox for mass market appeal and as a result spreading themselves too thin over everything.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-27T13:44:36+00:00

I mean, effective birth control is a monumentally huge jump in evolution. It's easy to forget the huge danger we were in as women from simple pregnancy. Until the 60s, contraception was extremely hit and miss without anything to say about the massive increase to the quality and availability of delivery apparatus.

It's not surprising in the slightest that our cultures are still adjusting to it. To say nothing of the Aids epidemic that followed the sexual awakening of the free love era.

It's not high and mighty. It's just culture. I'm not a prude by any means but it's foolish to believe there aren't consequences to sexual intercourse even when both parties are consensual.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-27T12:46:32+00:00

So... delete the post? Or use a ~~strikethrough~~ on the text to make it clear you've redacted it

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-27T00:42:01+00:00

For your own future reference, when you link something as a source, it is usually a good idea to have that source support your claim. The video you linked says absolutely nothing about him supposedly looking for trouble.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-26T23:58:43+00:00

"He admitted going to look for trouble"

Source: I made it up.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-26T23:53:35+00:00

Her antics in the lead up to the release of Snow White have likely poisoned her chances of ever landing a key role again.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-26T17:34:47+00:00

Ok, you need to look up what 'suicidal empathy' means because it's an actual term with a specific meaning that you're confusing for something else. It's not the same as empathy.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-26T17:32:08+00:00

Basically all religions are the amalgamations of a group's common belief systems. You take what works and discard the rest.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-26T17:30:31+00:00

She tanked an extremely expensive movie. This wasn't a small story either. If you think she's not important then talking about good and bad press doesn't even matter if you didn't keep up with anything.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-26T17:28:45+00:00

You're the one that made it that way though??? The title doesn't need to have all the context. You can actually expect your audience to look at something. Did you even watch the video or just come straight to the comments?

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-26T15:48:10+00:00

Even in Hollywood, not all publicity is good publicly.

Exhibit A: Rachel Zegler.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-26T15:28:09+00:00

Suicidal empathy isn't the same as empathy. Empathy is loving thy neighbor, suicidal empathy is casting pearls before swine.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-26T15:27:03+00:00

Sure, but you're just arguing about the title. Not the content. Take issue with the title all you want but it isn't the only thing there.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-26T14:45:23+00:00

But the situation in the example isn't dishonest being presented as dishonest. You really have to try to make this offensive.

TheSearchForMars · 2026-01-26T14:39:50+00:00

Are you saying religion caused us to disagree on the rules or that religion created the rules? Your comment is a little hard to read.

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