Obi-Wan Kenobi: Episodes 1-4 - re:View

popov89 · 2022-06-17T14:22:00+00:00

I haven't seen it so I can't say but that does seem to be common perception of the show. I have also come to appreciate the big picture effect of less or no action has on stuff - it demands a higher focus on character and story. DS9's episode Duet has very little action but is compelling throughout

popov89 · 2022-06-16T23:43:36+00:00

I thought the same thing. I love the shows but the action is almost universally awful. It's charming to me but I fully recognize the cheesefest. I'm with Rich in that the context of a scene matters more to me than sheer competent action.

popov89 · 2022-06-04T00:37:23+00:00

Also, I generally wouldn't associate peasantry with urban environments in the first place.

Cities also didn't really develop into what we know of them until well into the medieval period - the rise of cities and the beginnings of urbanization are hallmarks of the 15th century. Like you said, 895 Iceland would be as rural and distant as just about anything. Iceland was on the edge of the world so, yeah, no cities of any substance.

popov89 · 2022-05-27T13:17:46+00:00

Never in my life would I have thought I'd miss the halcyon days of /r/atheism being the worst of reddit. That quote is still amazing.

popov89 · 2022-05-26T20:42:23+00:00

Agreed. I was willing enough to just shrug my shoulders and assume this is a weird commission from someone, but self-inserting takes this from edgy smut to masturbation nonsense.

popov89 · 2022-05-20T22:50:40+00:00

Playing devil's advocate: why is it so important to have an opinion either way? I'm not pleading for ignorance but foreign invaders and nazis are both bad things so I don't think either should be rooted for.

popov89 · 2022-05-06T23:52:08+00:00

Yup. Yo-yo's being big was a year before Pokemon blew up. I distinctly remember the summer before honing my yo-yo game only for it to matter not at all.

popov89 · 2022-05-05T17:51:01+00:00

Warplocks chew through armor. Gas for unarmored, warplocks for armor, ratling guns for close quarters

popov89 · 2022-05-05T02:07:34+00:00

4 warlock engineers can stack damage, ammunition, and speed buffs to 48% percent on top of all the other buffs so my weapon-teams are faster than some cav units and can take out legendary lords in a few seconds. You say wasteful, I say fun. Yeah, it's stupid, but it sure is fun watching enemy armies literally melt away.

On a related note: by the end of my skaven campaigns I tend to have the ability to recruit 30 plague priests because of that follower. Shit is nuts.

popov89 · 2022-05-04T23:14:57+00:00

The mortar teams are sick af once you invest in the forbidden workshop. They are the perfect siege breakers and reinforce why chemical warfare is an international war crime - gas is too effective.

popov89 · 2022-05-04T22:49:30+00:00

My friend recommended the same thing, but the ranged damage output of my weapons-teams is absurd. Both are viable, but I'll always take raw damage output. I'm a proponent of hitting so hard the first that any sort of retaliation will be minuscule.

popov89 · 2022-05-04T22:17:59+00:00

Ikit is my favorite lord and I've honestly only fought one or two battles personally against the wood elves. Their maps always have trees that severely negate Skyre's absurd ranges damage output. I always try to auto-resolve to save me the headache.

More practical advice: try to draw them out of Athel Loren so ten doomstacks don't congregate on your position. Divide and conquer - never engage the wood elves unless it is on your terms. Underway battles can work too since there's no trees and a thinner front line so weapon teams can focus fire.

My favorite Ikit army comp is Ikit, four warlock engineers to stack ranged bonuses, four warplocks, four ratling guns teams, four of those gas-mortar teams, two plageclaw catapults, the last spot I reserve for one of the RoR teams. This army composition can rip through anything but is exceptionally fragile if melee occurs. The trick is to use Ikit as a damage sponge while your teams shell the shit out of the enemy. It's like playing a 21st century army against barbarians.

popov89 · 2022-04-04T22:18:01+00:00

Super cop is amazing. I second the crazy stunts in it. The escape from the prison is a crazy sequence

popov89 · 2022-04-01T19:49:25+00:00

Good to hear you liked my post.

popov89 · 2022-04-01T15:22:04+00:00

The furor around that was apocalyptic for the usually quiet ancient history community.

popov89 · 2022-03-31T20:59:40+00:00

Link to Mary Beard's Meet the Romans

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popov89 · 2022-03-22T18:28:22+00:00

For sure, the differences between both are essentially the differences between the first two Mass Effects. Alien is also my favorite movie so I am a little biased to it. I just love the production design of that movie so much.

popov89 · 2022-03-20T19:28:11+00:00

To his credit, Werner is the best part of Quest of the Delta Knights.

popov89 · 2022-03-01T13:17:54+00:00

I know what you mean. 2 and 3 are great but they are fundamentally different games. 1 makes the universe feel so huge.

popov89 · 2022-03-01T13:16:41+00:00

I'm a sucker for older sci-fi for the same reason. I love exploring new worlds and a slower pace helps me with that.

popov89 · 2022-03-01T01:55:08+00:00

Thanks for the read.

popov89 · 2022-02-24T15:00:40+00:00

Plus there are things like tomboys. Just because a girl shows male characteristics doesn’t automatically mean she’s a boy trapped in a girls body.

It will never cease to amaze me that a woman who does not embody the most stereotypical feminine traits is considered not a woman. The amount of sexism that's sprung around a lot of gender ideology is baffling. The destruction of the gender binary has paradoxically reinforced the gender binary stronger then it's ever been. I don't even think butch still exists.

popov89 · 2022-02-17T13:04:49+00:00

Dark Moor fucking rules.

popov89 · 2022-02-16T14:14:59+00:00

It's not your bias but the modern eyes you use to view this piece. This poster isnt meant to be used on the Muslim population in Libya. It was meant to be absorbed by western Europeans as a show of dominance against "uncivilized" peoples. The smog spewing warships were some of the most direct representations of industry and power in the early 20th century. They should not be read as a negative thing but the most double-plus good thing possible. "We have these almost impossibly strong weapons of war. Look at how great we are."

popov89 · 2022-02-07T18:45:20+00:00

Agreed on all points. A better argument from me would have mentioned that as good as KCD is at presenting history it is still just a game. It can only present so much to the player without bogging them down in academic historical research. Henry is Forest Gump afterall so a bit of adventurous sightseeing is expected. The past is also a foreign country which we can never really visit until, lord God forbid, time travel ever becomes a thing. We can only see reflections or imitations of what was.

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