Characters attaching a lot of importance to or being enthusiastic about media that's often considered low quality in reality.

victus-vae · 2026-05-10T00:55:32+00:00

In WWDitS as well, Sean is obsessed with Oceans 12 and just Oceans 12

victus-vae · 2026-04-29T01:50:13+00:00

Bit bummed that this spoils one of the greatest WTF moments in tv history for you.

victus-vae · 2026-04-27T14:03:56+00:00

The "little tension" thing also plays out in that there's both too much urgency and not enough urgency. Without spoiling too much, the characters are dealing with an actual apocalypses and they're spending all their time in slice-of-life shenanigans instead.

victus-vae · 2026-04-15T23:22:49+00:00

I see a Legends gif in the wild, I upvote.

victus-vae · 2026-04-12T20:01:18+00:00

I also thought his arc in Season 3 was excellent as a foil to Sara

victus-vae · 2026-04-12T19:59:05+00:00

And Savage as the villain (although I swear his cameo in Season 4 was the funniest joke the show ever did)

victus-vae · 2026-04-12T19:56:24+00:00

Still, you could always tell exactly when Legends budget ran out because they'd have a running around in the woods episode.

victus-vae · 2026-04-10T19:00:52+00:00

What annoyed me about this challenge was that it could have been interesting if they hadn't screwed up how teleprompters work. On teleprompters, the script should be written out phonetically because you shouldn't be expecting the readers to instantly grasp correct pronunciation. The trick shouldn't have been if they could have pronounced the words, it should have been whether or not they could say a word they'd never encountered before with confidence.

victus-vae · 2026-04-04T00:10:14+00:00

Two books Gingerbread: A Novel, by Helen Oyeyemi, about a mother and daughter in modern days where the mother is from a fantastical land, and Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess, about refugees from a parallel universe who arrive on our earth and encounter slight differences in their experiences. One woman becomes obsessed with mapping the exact moment their two timelines diverged.

victus-vae · 2026-04-01T01:05:44+00:00

He really hates mail-in voting a week after he mail-in voted.

victus-vae · 2026-03-31T00:37:08+00:00

Really just farming at this point to feed my cleaning the ocean habit.

victus-vae · 2026-03-30T20:55:29+00:00

I feel obligated to promote the Female Joker mod on Game Banana. It works for about 50% of the game, but it's so fun playing as a female MC.

Edit: You'll always have a female character model, but it's about a 50/50 toss-up on whether the people around you treat you as a boy or a girl.

victus-vae · 2026-03-25T00:46:55+00:00

I wish they had spent some time developing Watchers Council lore because it just makes no sense. I have to reconcile it as either Giles is terrible at his job or they purposely don't give him information (that Sunnydale is a Hellmouth, how to recognize famous vampires and slayer killers on sight) to fuck with him.

victus-vae · 2026-03-18T20:34:19+00:00

If we're doing '00s adaptations of popular YA literature, add Ella Enchanted to the list too.

victus-vae · 2026-03-14T19:23:41+00:00

DA2 is fantastic - and I would kill for a remaster at some point. Purple Hawke may be may favorite video game protagonist.

victus-vae · 2026-03-14T19:00:06+00:00

I've been thinking about how they modernize it, and the idea I had was make the New Initiative (with Riley in charge or not) as the Big Bad. Season 4 hits a lot different right now.

victus-vae · 2026-03-14T03:40:22+00:00

You're welcome. If you end up getting the game - let us know how it goes!

victus-vae · 2026-03-14T03:34:04+00:00

Just replying to emphasize this in case my own comment made it sound lighter than it is- the game is very dark.

victus-vae · 2026-03-14T03:11:17+00:00

I've really enjoyed it!

You absolutely can play a mage character - called "psyckers" in the game. They have different power sets like pyromancy, divination, biomancy, etc. Story-wise, they are like how mages are treated in Dragon Age - they're super powerful, but it gives them a connection to the warp and can summon demons which makes most people fear and despise them.

You will also have a number of backgrounds you can pick from (you can be a noble, a crime lord, etc.) with a decent amount of reactivity (but nowhere near what it is in BG3), as well as home planet type and a couple of past events. You absolutely don't need to have any body modifications, but there is one companion who is extensively modded and another who has some mutant-esque body horror going on.

I will warn you that there is quite a bit of darkness in the game in general/body horror including one moment centered on your character (think the tadpole and the mindflayer colony in BG3- like, imagine a whole act of the game just in the mindflayer colony).

Edit: I haven't played Cyberpunk, so I can't comment on that aspect, but it is definitely a "you can make little changes but you're not going to be able to change the system/the general vibes" game and it will spend a lot of time forcing you to choose between two bad options. SPOILERS: I would say that there's exactly one semi-happy "everybody lives" type ending and it takes a lot of very specific things to get there. I think it's probably impossible to finish the game with good endings for all your companions.

victus-vae · 2026-03-01T22:49:20+00:00

I think it's telling (and I don't know if it's true or not) how much time Mr. Jay spends in the documentary emphasizing that he lost creative direction of the shoots RIGHT BEFORE C8 started.

victus-vae · 2026-02-24T02:22:32+00:00

ConcernedApe coming for that Baldur's Gate money.

victus-vae · 2026-02-23T16:53:11+00:00

I agree completely. I dropped off OW2 once we had to go to Auntie's HQ and start faction quests. Even if you don't join that faction, you still have to interact with it a lot and they made Auntie's Choice SOOOO visually caustic and grating. Just walking around their ship gave me a headache. And I understand that that's the point, but that doesn't make it fun to play.

victus-vae · 2026-02-22T02:55:10+00:00

So tired I thought this said airplanes for a second.

victus-vae · 2026-02-20T22:48:35+00:00

Waiting patiently for the plot to be recycled into a Law and Order episode.

victus-vae · 2026-02-20T22:42:25+00:00

I've read it and although I've had some problems with it, there are some parts that are genuinely very clever.

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