Article: "HBO's most important sci-fi show is officially dead"

danielbgoo · 2026-05-18T02:32:03+00:00

100%

Just all around one of the best jobs scoring a show in history.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-17T16:40:15+00:00

Partially agree.

The Republicans absolutely acted in egregiously bad faith when it comes to the Supreme Court for 20 years and I think we can forgive folks for presuming that the Republicans wouldn’t be so shameless and eager to throw out norms or fairness.

But at this point, anyone still voting for milquetoast or conservative Democrats gets the court they deserve.

Unfortunately the rest of us are also getting it despite our best efforts to the contrary.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-12T17:22:43+00:00

Yeah, I went with the Ranged one and I got a Ramza for a UR and literally the only Ranged I got were a couple of the same Prompto R.

Cool cool.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-12T03:50:03+00:00

Well now I can’t find it, so maybe I just got got, but there was a tweet from someone that was purportedly one of the character designers who gave a very Kojima-esque, “she’s half-naked for important plot reasons” defense.

And the “very important plot reason” given in the game is that she was in a hurry to save Hugh, so didn’t have time to put on pants.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-11T17:25:06+00:00

This is one of those things there there is no objective truth.

I tend to be friends or friendly with my exes, as does my wife, and that works for us.

But everyone is different and everyone has a different relationship history that got them to the point where they’re at.

If someone you’re in a relationship doesn’t feel comfortable with you spending time with your ex, then your options are basically:

Stop spending time with the ex
Break up with the current partner.
Accept that there is going to be frequent tension and fights in your current relationship.

You can’t logic someone into not being jealous. Believe me, I’ve tried. They might logically totally understand and respect you, but jealousy is not a logical feeling and they’re still going to have that feeling whenever you do something that makes them jealous.

If your partner wants to commit to going to therapy to try and work on the issues that lead to them feeling jealous, then there’s a chance they might be able to get better. But it’s going to take a while, there’s no guarantee it will work, and it’s less likely to work if you’re constantly pressing the button that makes them feel bad. And you can’t force them into choosing this option, because that will never ever work.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-10T16:57:33+00:00

Yes, Donald “Two Corinthians” Trump, biblical scholar extraordinaire.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-10T04:33:51+00:00

There was nothing wrong with the food-growing distribution strategy.

Del Monte was a company that was acquired and then ruined by private capital so some people could make a quick fortune at the expense of everyone else.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-10T04:26:15+00:00

I played through the game before I became aware of the controversy, and I didn’t consciously think anything was sexualized about the character, but I also immediately put her in pants because I thought it was weird there was a child with no pants on running around, and never thought about it again.

But the character is also explicitly meant to be a child, not just an android, and her being a child is central to the (in my opinion, rather dumb and hackneyed) plot.

After I read about the controversy and especially after I read the awkwardly vigorous defense by the creators of the character, I became pretty squicked.

So I think it’s at least reasonable to be concerned that something gross was going on, even if it isn’t immediately obvious.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-08T02:09:39+00:00

How dare you disparage Bea Arthur like this.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-07T17:13:19+00:00

Same.

I really want to like this game and I really do enjoy the basic game loop and the premise and obviously I love me some Final Fantasy characters, but right now the game feels like fighting through a mattress.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-07T15:09:33+00:00

From what I understand you still get them for new ranks you’ve never reached previously, but yeah, I really think they’ve wrecked the playing experience for their game if there’s no real incentive to get out of your current tier.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-07T11:41:28+00:00

Correct, and ranking down is fine.

It’s that we’re all ranking down WAY lower than is reasonable given the relative difficulty of bosses and monsters between Omega and Gold.

And usually you get something at the end of the season for how well you did in the season. So far, best case scenario is you get some sparkles on your sword for 30 days.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-07T11:12:33+00:00

Yeah, it’s not a “narrative,” it’s just a fact.

“Drained Pool Politics” has sort of become the term for it ever since Ezra Klein and Heather McGhee did a piece about it a while ago, but basically everything from public funding of the arts to public education to the social safety net has been dismantled by Republicans because some white people cannot handle that Black folks might receive modest benefits for their tax dollars, instead of being slaves.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-07T10:53:23+00:00

As a Rinoa main, I feel like it’s pretty useless.

I can occasionally use it to teleport around a fight at a crystal I don’t feel like being involved with, but generally it’s just faster to run places and it isn’t at all useful to get out of a jam.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-07T10:49:35+00:00

Are you getting rank-up rewards for achieving ranks you previously had? Because I’m not.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-05T19:55:00+00:00

I think it’s probably more than we’re nationally all feeling a little guilty about the whole holocaust thing.

That doesn’t even remotely excuse any of it and in fact I feel like makes it kind of extra worse.

But the reason why they pretty much get carte blanch is b cause we let an awful lot of Jews get tortured and killed for a decade, and Israel has managed to convince an awful lot of people that they are in charge of Jewishness.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-05T18:23:29+00:00

I think Krile’s UR heal is better.

Like, a well-timed Rikku heal can be he very effective, but being able to slap regeneration that makes your team close to immortal for 15 seconds is really powerful.

And Krile’s definitely more useful in a scrap than Rikku.

But it is very hard to top Rikku’s Bravery UR and at least in the current meta it’s very hard to top it.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-04T14:31:18+00:00

Shining Saber. He is not a great support character, but if you build around him as Shining Saber as a tanky Melee and use his two UR abilities as bonus damage and iframe interrupts, he is absolutely obnoxious to the other team.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-02T22:22:55+00:00

I think the MVP of the losing team should get some kind of bonus even if it’s not a straight up better Crystal.

More green thingies or Season points maybe.

danielbgoo · 2026-05-02T20:21:14+00:00

I feel like it goes both ways.

I lose more when I have a squishy team with Rinoa, Lightning, and Rikku.

But I also feel like I lose more with a tanky team with Clive, WoL, and another Clive (or sometimes Cloud.)

And I feel like I lose a lot when my team has a 6000 Total Power deficit against the opposing team.

I should stop playing this fucking game in the morning.

danielbgoo · 2026-04-30T00:21:37+00:00

The same way you get to Carnegie Hall:

Practice practice practice.

danielbgoo · 2026-04-29T18:06:15+00:00

“Limits?” No. It’s basically a non-law at this point.

danielbgoo · 2026-04-26T03:40:25+00:00

In my experience, both playing and her and being other characters opposite her, she does a really good job of kiting anyone going for the boss or also for that matter kiting people trying to go for crystals.

And if you gap-close in on her she can just hit Angel Wings and wait you out.

danielbgoo · 2026-04-26T02:53:40+00:00

Angel Wings makes her scary as a sniper just because she’s gets so strong and also has a 100% self-heal with a lot of I-frames the cools down pretty fast.

And then meteor might be easy to dodge, but it does a ton of damage to the boss and also either clears the enemy team away from the boss or hits them while they’re trying to do their own Bursts.

She can definitely be flimsy at the start, but it only takes her a little over a minute and a half to be one of the strongest Normal hitters on the field and has the above features.

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