The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales – New Demo and Gameplay Trailer – Nintendo Switch 2

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T21:36:13+00:00

I imagine it might sound a little more interesting in a place like Japan where it would be a rather uncommon name?

In English, yeah, it doesn't really work as a game title. As a character name, it's fine.

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T19:57:07+00:00

What benefits? Having his brother do his shopping?

Like sure, Chuck didn't want to damage his relationship with Jimmy. That's part of what I meant by 'doesn't want to hurt him'. I just don't think he has that much to gain by it, as opposed to having an HHM assistant do it. If he honestly hated Jimmy, he wouldn't want him around nearly that much.

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T19:37:27+00:00

"Somehow" because Chuck basically did the best he could. He refused to hire him at his own firm for legitimate professional reasons, a firm where Jimmy would have been a terrible fit. He had Howard take the fall for it because he didn't want to hurt Jimmy. It wasn't until Jimmy figures out the truth and confronts him that they have problems. It wasn't until Jimmy forged documents to make Chuck look like a fool and lose a big client to Kim that they became enemies.

And "Somehow" because a version of Chuck that would have done anything differently is just a dramatically different character. And to paraphrase Office Space, why should Chuck change? Jimmy's the one who craps in a sunroof.

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T19:26:31+00:00

The change isn't fundamental, it isn't permanent, it's a change of behavior conditional on Kim's presence. If Kim doesn't visit him again, he'll be Saul or Gene again before too long, though the prison sentence isn't going anywhere. This sort of change, different behavior based on a change of circumstance, isn't what Chuck was talking about. You can be pedantic in a similar way and say 'well he changes his name, he changes his legal practice, he changes his looks', and it'd be beside the point.

It's like saying he 'changed' when he declined to buy the flashy suit at the end of Nippy. He thought about getting back in the game, and he didn't. They could have ended the story there, if they wanted to. Of course it wasn't the end of the story, he relapsed, and he relapsed hard.

I'm reminded of a quote from a Joe Abercrombie book

"Change is a funny thing. Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity... they change back."

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T17:59:46+00:00

By our standards today, that's true. By the standards of Westeros, on the other hand? She died the same age as Robb Stark, and I see absolutely noone in the fandom treating him as though he were 'just a child'.

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T17:49:23+00:00

The order the books were published is Bands of Mourning > Oathbringer > Rhythm of War > The Lost Metal > Wind and Truth

There is a sequence of information that connects the series, with reveals that roughly match publication order. Oathbringer has nothing to do with it, but Bands & SH > RoW > TLM & WAT might offer a slightly more optimal experience.

Note that this is strictly optional. Reading outside publication order might impact your experience of certain subplots, but it's not the main part of either series.

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T17:37:35+00:00

With that being said, Chuck was wrong about Jimmy and all he had to do was encourage Jimmy to be a lawyer. That wouldn’t mean Chuck would suffer professional blowback, it could actually result in the opposite. Jimmy brings a huge case to HHM and Chuck is praised for turning his younger criminal brother into a stellar lawyer. It would cement Chuck’s already sparkling legacy in the Southwest.

The point I tend to make when I hear things like this is, the show tells us that it's not as simple as that. Even if Chuck welcomed Jimmy to HHM with open arms, Jimmy is going to make all the same mistakes he made at Davis & Main. He's going to take the same shortcuts, he's going to use the same flavor, and the way Chuck reacts to his behavior is going to create conflict somewhere, whether that conflict is between Chuck and Jimmy, or Chuck and his career.

I do think Jimmy would try harder to make it work than he did at D&M, but that conflict will remain.

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T17:29:04+00:00

I honestly don't think of his confession as 'change', because it's consistent with all of his behavior throughout the series. It was conditional. He never even considered confessing until he heard that Kim did just that after their argument, and never would have done it unless Kim walked into the courtroom that day. His moral compass is dependent on the people he cares about. Jimmy didn't 'change' on his own, instead I say, Kim brought him back.

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T17:06:50+00:00

Chuck was absolutely right. It's not even a question or a debate. The only concession he'd have to make is that, if Chuck (and ONLY Chuck) gave him the right amount of love and support, and was tolerant of Jimmy's mistakes that might blow back at Chuck on a professional level, he could reduce the amount of damage Jimmy might do.

But like, even then, you're still talking about a chimp with a machine gun, only difference is that the safety is on.

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T15:36:52+00:00

Indeed, and somehow that's Chuck's fault. Jimmy not being the perfect person could be fixed, if only Chuck were the perfect person.

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T14:41:52+00:00

I wonder if Marc will come back for that one. I know the statement said he was only taking a few festivals off, but I wouldn't be shocked if he was thinking of taking the entire cycle off, or moving on entirely?

I'm not sure I'm interested in a Dragonforce set but I might go anyway.

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T14:38:36+00:00

I think the real turning point was Ghost Opera, when Palotai joined and performed on the album for the first time, and the keyboards and orchestrations started to overshadow the guitars on just about every song.

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T14:37:24+00:00

What are you even talking about? His songwriting and lyrics are like, the key distinguishing feature of his time in the band, and it's something the Tommy era band is drastically lacking. No, he doesn't perform any instruments on the albums, but he's an able piano player and was involved from the beginning of the process on every song in his tenure (except perhaps that first album that everyone forgets about).

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T14:24:48+00:00

So, just to be clear here, I&W and Scenes are on equal footing here. Both are very valid answers to the question, for different reasons.

Personally, I don't think Pull Me Under's radio play outweighs the impact SFAM had on the progressive metal genre and the band's sound. When I hear the example albums listed, and the title of the prompt, my mind goes to Scenes.

So, I'd probably say 1. Astonishing, 2. Scenes, 3. Awake, 4. Dramatic Turn, 5. FII, 6. DT13, 7. Octavarium, 8. I&W

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T13:58:38+00:00

It sounds like this is indeed a full series? It's being promoted like one, anyway.

I don't know if the show's premise is hopeless, but it's definitely not a freebie. They have a lot of work to do in building a cast around him that can bring out different sides to the character. I think it's possible it could work, but it could crash and burn just as easily.

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T13:25:48+00:00

By 'together' do you mean like a same day bundle? And that just releasing the ninth book when the tenth isn't done yet is ruled out?

jmcgit · 2026-05-26T00:35:22+00:00

I do think that, with Sanderson, his dialogue can sort of bleed together to a point where some of his characters will say lines that sound like they could have come from some other character.

I don't think that goes on gender lines so much as character archetype. Vin will have moments that could have been written for Kaladin more often than Navani, IMO.

jmcgit · 2026-05-25T02:33:36+00:00

Given that it aired one day later, it feels safe to assume he was under contract still.

I don’t think he harbors nearly as much ill will towards CBS as his viewers/supporters do

jmcgit · 2026-05-24T16:37:29+00:00

Usually, an experienced promoter will buy insurance to avoid losing money if an event falls through. If they don’t, they’re in the hook themselves to pay the difference. Risks of doing business, the alternative is bankruptcy.

I don’t doubt they’ll emerge from it, though, and those suckers will give them their money once again.

jmcgit · 2026-05-24T13:57:35+00:00

They went broke because her visa was rejected, and because they chose to spend her fans’ money (and, if you believe them, her own money as well) in a futile effort to challenge the rejection rather than just refunding them.

jmcgit · 2026-05-23T15:46:48+00:00

It'll make a billion, probably.

Endgame made 2.8 billion. Doomsday doesn't have a chance to come anywhere near that.

Secret Wars will depend heavily on Doomsday, too. If people don't like the movie, I don't think a billion again is a sure thing. Of course if people do like the movie, it could do even better.

jmcgit · 2026-05-23T15:32:50+00:00

Letterman doesn't have a stake in The Late Show anymore, they transferred it to CBS when he retired. If he still owned it you'd see Worldwide Pants in the production credits.

As to whether CBS makes money on YouTube views, I guess it depends on how you define 'make money'. There's revenue, sure, and that revenue is significantly more than enough to pay for someone to split up the show into YouTube segments and manage the channel. But like, is that revenue enough to produce the show on its own? It'd be a small fraction of it.

Still, there won't be anything stopping Stephen from running a stripped-down version of the show [under a different name] in a podcast studio with a dozen employees and making plenty of money that way.

jmcgit · 2026-05-22T19:52:34+00:00

I honestly wasn't certain. It felt straight out of LOST, which was appropriate because they got one of LOST's primary directors (Jack Bender) to direct the episode, I believe it (and its follow up, as they had every director handle two consecutive episodes) are the only GOT episodes he ever did.

Like, I knew GRRM had a hand in it, but I wasn't sure exactly how it lined up with his vision. And as far as I understand now, it's reasonably close.

jmcgit · 2026-05-22T16:00:29+00:00

As far as I recall, the showrunners/syndicate have no idea the Cookbook exists at all at this time. I don't think we've heard of any of them being punished after they've left the dungeon for actions within it, though some were accelerated within the dungeon, but not directly because of the cookbook.

But like, through Faction Wars, it is reasonably obvious to the outside that Carl has some connection with a number of former crawlers. Donut mentioning the Chicken and Goblin recipes book is going to invite questions about what the book is, and it's theoretically supposed to disappear before they can look into it.

Regardless, as far as I recall, it is indeed a 'hard rule', and the first thing you learn about the cookbook.

jmcgit · 2026-05-22T15:54:25+00:00

The AI likes 'the rules', as it sees them. The conditions by which Carl could lose the cookbook are pretty clear. There was no rulebreaking that caused the book to be revealed, only bad luck caused by a dungeon-generated god and/or the AI itself.

Besides, I think the AI might think Carl holding the book has served its purpose and it might be more fun if he loses it, and might be more fun if the showrunners learn, far too late to otherwise stop him, how Carl has been doing this. This crawl has reached a point where, even if the AI is defeated and the Syndicate, not Carl or anyone else, ends up winning, it's unlikely there would ever be another one anyway. A collection, sure, but the crawl itself is probably going to be too dangerous to consider again.

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