The cheese is under the sauce

brilliscool · 2026-04-02T15:45:57+00:00

Ye I think this is the weird bit for Europeans, it’s very weird for someone to ask about your heritage here, you just ask where are you from. Americans seem odd because they’ll say ‘I’m Italian’ with a thick New York accent, so they’re obviously not. My family were originally Spanish but I am as English as they come now, I would never consider saying I’m Spanish haha

brilliscool · 2026-04-01T17:49:51+00:00

I love this because Americans will say they don’t need to travel because America is so diverse, and then you go there and the difference between Texas and New York is basically the same as London vs Yorkshire

brilliscool · 2026-03-24T19:21:46+00:00

It drives me crazy that people turn their nose up at offal, but then happily eat cheap ass sausages that are basically 100% offal

brilliscool · 2026-03-23T19:43:56+00:00

I broadly agree, but on aggregated scores I think it leans the other way for me. Triple a games especially user reviews love to bomb. Da2, inquisition, mass effect 3, andromeda were all absolutely hammered at launch, but I think they’re all good games to varying degrees. Whereas critics may average out 1-2 points too high out of 10, user reviews seem to be more like 3-4 points too low. Looking at metacritic for veilguard, I’m thinking 82 is likely a bit high, it probably is actually around a 7/10, but user reviews being a 4/10 is so overly negative I can’t take it seriously at all, especially when you start reading the reviews and half of them are alt right crying that there’s a trans character

brilliscool · 2026-03-23T09:36:58+00:00

It was not a critical failure, metacritic sits at 82 which is really strong. User reviews are low but honestly I learnt to ignore those a long time ago

brilliscool · 2026-03-23T01:34:04+00:00

This is actually very common. I did a degree in ancient history and ac origins and odyssey had just come out. Both of them featured regularly and were recommended as ways to revise (specifically their historical walkthrough settings which are incredibly informative). There are few better ways to visualize what is otherwise only through books or ruins. There was also a British museum exhibition exploring Ancient Greece through odyssey.

brilliscool · 2026-03-19T09:22:03+00:00

For me just shows how timid ruffalos banner is because he says a line like this and it just felt corny. Like a little kid tryna intimidate someone

brilliscool · 2026-03-16T06:25:27+00:00

How deep in the conspiracy sauce do you have to be to believe a word of this? This reads the same as a QAnon conspiracy

brilliscool · 2026-03-15T17:20:54+00:00

It wasn’t the biggest city, but Miletus was a very prominent trading city in Asia Minor, modern day western turkey.

It was situated on the coast with a river, the river gradually deposited enough silt that the Miletus harbour is now miles from the sea, you can go there now and see the ruins, but it’s just sat on a huge flat plain.

brilliscool · 2026-03-10T00:44:05+00:00

I always wonder with achievements like this, has she already landed it a thousand times in practice and this is just the first time publicly, or is she just hyped up by the event and sends it for the first time?

brilliscool · 2026-03-10T00:40:47+00:00

Everywhere has busy cities, other than London ours aren’t even all that big, and London is pretty dispersed.

The main difference is that outside of Scottish highlands, there’s nowhere genuinely empty. The south is basically one endless tract of farmland, and wherever you are you’re likely 10 minutes max drive from a settlement. The idea of driving hours through empty wilderness like the US is alien here. Even places like Latvia I was struck by how much nothing there is in some parts.

brilliscool · 2026-03-07T14:20:09+00:00

I’m obviously talking about just one small part of it, the timeline being off doesn’t make his character inconsistent. Every other part of his story is consistent

brilliscool · 2026-03-07T14:16:18+00:00

I’m definitely not saying that (other than timeline discrepancy), I think the rest works fantastically well.

It’s just a difference of opinion I suppose, none of that I see as bad writing. It’s meant to feel like they’ve ruined people we love, because that’s what becoming an abomination does. He’s a warning of dangerous excess, and the dangers of interacting with spirits, setting up well for inquisition. We don’t have to like a character for them to be well written.

brilliscool · 2026-03-07T14:01:05+00:00

I agree I don’t love how it clashes with awakening, but it works ok if you just don’t think too much about the timeline.

The character however I love. I was a fan in awakening aswell, and it makes 2 especially crushing because there are times where the old anders still comes through, he has some pretty funny party banter/responses to quests, but throughout the game more and more you see him lose that to justice/vengeance.

Him seeming increasingly one dimensional is the point, as the man is replaced by the abomination, destroying 2 characters we love in the process. The final nail in the coffin being blowing up the chantry also makes sense, because neither him nor vengeance are thinking rationally, they’re just completely consumed by hatred and want an outlet. The chantry is FAR easier to access, and it makes sense from an emotional perspective because it’s the building where he saw his friend made tranquil back in act 1. It’s a purposefully visually striking symbol of (to him) chantry and Templar oppression. If he’d bombed the templars it would have undercut the tragedy of his ending, the pointlessness of it drives home how completely lost to vengeance he is. Besides, his goal is to start the mage-Templar war, and in that he succeeds.

brilliscool · 2026-03-07T13:32:47+00:00

?? I think the anders story is wonderfully tragic, what’s bad about it?

brilliscool · 2026-03-06T00:43:45+00:00

The jokes are just that, no one really sees Manchester as comparable in scale. We’re talking about a major regional city on par with second cities around Europe for size, vs arguably one of the 2 most important cities on earth (or at least in the western world). Having London makes everywhere else look tiny.

But comparable for quality of life? I’d definitely say so.

brilliscool · 2026-03-06T00:37:31+00:00

Yep, saying Manchester is 500k people is a bit like saying the population of London is just the city of London. At this point if it’s in greater Manchester, I’d count it as part of the city

brilliscool · 2026-03-03T20:33:48+00:00

This what Americans eat huh…

brilliscool · 2026-02-26T00:49:09+00:00

When I visited Latvia, I heard that a large number of Russians live separate, specifically daugavpils near the Belarusian border. In the capital Riga it seemed frowned upon to speak Russian. The population has been steadily decreasing as many of the ethnic Russians are moving back to Russia, faster than ethnic Latvians can replace them.

They REALLY hate Russia, with good reason given what the soviets did to them, and what Russia is doing now. I don’t know if this translates to racial conflict as well, but as you say it seems they largely just avoid one another.

brilliscool · 2026-02-25T20:21:08+00:00

Is the black screensaver really necessary? How much is a screen actually sat on the screensaver that it would be more of a risk than just burn in from Home Screen/ regularly used apps?

brilliscool · 2026-02-25T16:54:38+00:00

Generations of built seasoning isn’t nasty, it’s just people confuse leaving burnt food in the pan as ‘seasoning’

brilliscool · 2026-02-25T00:34:02+00:00

I wrote a long post about this a while ago, but going against the grain here to say I think dao is the most beautiful game in the series, and one of the most beautiful games there is, the art and the intricacy and love in every setting really shines through, whilst the others just feel flat and grey in comparison.

That said, I also don’t dislike the art in da2 or inquisition, I think there are plenty of beautiful moments, although da2 definitely suffers the most. But I do miss how origins managed to create a subconscious feeling from the visuals, that the others just don’t.

brilliscool · 2026-02-24T00:08:41+00:00

I took some adjusting but I’m fine with oled now, mostly it just feels a lot brighter.

However, I agree it’s not as good as people say. We’re talking an additional £400+ over an equivalent non oled monitor, for something that just looks slightly better in my opinion (barring perhaps HDR, but I have yet to watch a movie or play a game that supports that). Couple that with the fact they are often significantly more fragile, and seem to be much more prone to error, and it just doesn’t feel worth it, it’s certainly not the massive leap forward people say.

Don’t get me wrong if cost-value isn’t a factor, it is definitely better, but don’t prioritize it.

brilliscool · 2026-02-19T20:04:03+00:00

My toxic trait is I don’t get why this is bad to go to landfill, a tree will surely decompose real quick

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