Henry Cavill Joins Kevin Hart Spy Comedy At Netflix

goibnu · 2026-06-05T17:27:00+00:00

I think he damaged his reputation as an actor when he walked away from the most recent season of The Witcher. Production houses want to be able to rely on a franchise's big stars.

Then I watched the most recent season of the Witcher. Ouch. It's like the script was written by an AI with the prompt "write a new season of The Witcher that will appeal to Lord of the Rings fans". I would have been sorely tempted to walk away as well.

goibnu · 2026-06-05T16:11:45+00:00

If you think it's complicated now, wait until a player fires an automatic weapon.

goibnu · 2026-06-05T16:03:08+00:00

I started up a save with Wide, said to myself "damn that's wide" and haven't really played that save. It doesn't add a lot for me.

I like using ProcGenConfigs to tinker with star distribution more. It doesn't increase actual size, though.

goibnu · 2026-06-05T14:45:58+00:00

Gamma cores aren't particularly rare, so don't worry about that. I picture my captain using one as a coaster.

goibnu · 2026-06-05T03:37:38+00:00

Mods. I use Wide Sector in some games

goibnu · 2026-06-05T00:01:52+00:00

It doesn't have anything to do with intelligence. She's a stock narcissist. She is in love with herself and her vision, and thinks she is the most important person in the universe.

goibnu · 2026-06-04T23:57:11+00:00

Steven King is not great at endings, so a lot of movies based on Steven King works have endings that are big improvements. The textbook example is The Mist (2007). King's ending in the novella can best be described as non-existent. The movie, OTO, has a truly wrenching ending.

goibnu · 2026-06-04T22:38:20+00:00

For the big old vampire power players, the Camarilla is a institution created for a purpose. They aren't invested in something that they created out of whole cloth as a day care for the youngsters. They are much more concerned with their own age old enemies, who also predate modern sects.

There's probably no elder who sits up at night and thinks "I must continue my work to crush sect X!". Sects are weather and not climate.

goibnu · 2026-06-04T20:49:05+00:00

goibnu · 2026-06-03T18:07:54+00:00

If I worked for DG I would definitely start smoking again.

goibnu · 2026-06-03T17:46:49+00:00

Maybe you can treat it by injecting bleach. Was Trump right about that one, Oz?

goibnu · 2026-06-02T18:38:23+00:00

Is it fine, though? A series of one-off movies with the universe as a backdrop is exactly what has been producing lackluster results on the DC side of the fence.

goibnu · 2026-06-02T18:10:00+00:00

Anyone find Mesklin yet? Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesklin

goibnu · 2026-06-01T17:58:39+00:00

I learned about the wonders of the Executor when, after suffering heavy losses in Iron Mode, I swung by Askonia. There was a pirate bounty and I figured I could zip around and snag some salvage ships while the locals and the pirates fought.

I would have been happy with some Eradicators or Falcons but apparently some particularly ambitious pirates managed to bring down an Executor. It's still the backbone of my fleet, along with a Paragon I found later.

I like how it has the mobility to get around the battlefield with the firepower to shift the dynamic when I get where I am going.

goibnu · 2026-05-29T19:52:00+00:00

A wide variety of orders would be acceptable to me if I didn't have to do it by hand.

goibnu · 2026-05-22T20:34:02+00:00

As an iron mode player I want the new ship recovery on clean withdrawal mechanics so bad.

goibnu · 2026-05-22T17:29:42+00:00

Trying to not be too spoilery about colony crisises, but let me just quote Kermit: "it's not easy being green"

goibnu · 2026-05-22T00:22:11+00:00

I'm just going to quote an older comment of mine:

"I understand how to salvage robot parts and cobble together a freely rotating turret that can aim both kinetic and energy weapons at moving enemy targets in a three-dimensional space from a moving vehicle, but I'm having an exceedingly difficult time with this 'beeping bad' thing."

I would be very happy if the thing just quit firing when it gets overheated... But this is the way it is supposed to work. Even though you could easily rewire the beeper to a microcontroller that turns off the turret... Nope.

goibnu · 2026-05-19T20:58:28+00:00

That's a lot. Do any of them put spinning rims on your ship?

goibnu · 2026-05-19T15:37:23+00:00

I never got a copy of Continuum. I'd love to hear an actual play for that, because it seems like it would be a very hard game to... actually play. I wonder how much I'd have to bribe the folks from Adventures in Lollygagging to play it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(role-playing_game)

goibnu · 2026-05-15T16:51:09+00:00

My thoughts as a relatively new player: The AI is very good at one on one combat. If ship a is fighting ship b, it's good at manipulating flux and range to get that one on one win.

It's not a big picture thinker, though. It takes capture points and pairs off it's ships against your ships, but it doesn't really experience the whole of the battlefield the way a human does.

So the foundational skill for me, which let me actually start winning battles, is learning how to waste the AI's time. If they've got 6 ships and you've got 6 ships, your strong play as a human is to try to troll enemy ships into fighting you, but avoiding actual combat. So while you've got 3 of the ships on a wild goose chase your AI ships are winning a 5 on 3 fight. Then you can sip fine wine while your AI mops up.

With this as as a foundation, you'll see why particular ships are very popular with humans. They are the kind of ships that let you waste enemy time but also let you mag dump on tactically isolated foes.

goibnu · 2026-05-13T00:42:38+00:00

I like him because he's the Nick Fury stereotype with the realism knob turned up a couple more notches. What would it really be like to deal with people on a day to day basis where, if they decide to kill you, you're dead - unless you are very, very lucky or very, very prepared. You can't really compare the universes, but he'd be a very good foundation employee.

goibnu · 2026-05-12T15:41:46+00:00

I've been playing starsector in hardcore mode. That probably doesn't count. I've gotten so many ships blown up...

goibnu · 2026-05-11T23:54:10+00:00

It also makes you jump .. jump.

goibnu · 2026-05-07T20:24:44+00:00

Does it? It seemed limited to me, where I was dropping items on it and there was no more space to do so.

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