JLSigman

Is Henry Cavill still not the Witcher?

I am absolutely the audience for this. I love it. I don't care.

Read Children of the Vault, and it was OK for a Bishop/Cable short, but utterly pointless. Things happen, then everything unhappens. About the only important thing happens in the last issue when one of the Children name drops the current Big Bad.

Last year, Take Two’s CEO Strauss Zelnik’s compensation was 42.1 million USD, which was more two and a half times higher than his 2022 salary at "just" over 16 million USD.

The benchmark itself will be released for download in a couple more days, which'll let you put your own character or roll a new one (including the new Hrothgals) to insert into it. So far I'm still conflicted on Viper - a lot of it looks like what Ninja is/should have been. And I'm still crossing my fingers that this computer is enough like a PS4 to still run it at lower end graphics.

That art is an absolute turnoff

...but there's a good 15 year gap in my X-folk knowledge I'm still slowly filling in.

Thought about one of the members in spoilers

Also, the soundtrack is available streaming, by Ramin Djawadi

OK, what did y'all do last night, really?

Read the second volume. The art was still overly busy awful, then the artist changed and it was a different kind of flat awful. There's a lot of skipped steps here, things that would've been talked about, worked through, etc. in novel form that are just ignored here for brevity's sake. I still am interested in the setting, and it's another neat magic system he's created, but this format is not ideal for his kind of stuff.

Apparently everyone and their grandfather did voices for the Ark animated series that hasn't been promoted at all.

You get Clive's outfit as a reward, which can be dyed, so if you'll excuse me I need to go run it for all 8 of my alts...

Jean Grey: Flames of Fear is just awful. Feels like it was written by someone who both didn't like the character AND hadn't kept up with her growth during the Krakoa era.

The first volume of White Sand, a previously unpublished novel by Brandon Sanderson that he's tried to turn into a graphic novel a couple of times, was OK. There's some interesting world building in there, but the art is absolutely doing it no favors.

So, is anyone watching season 3 of Bad Batch?

Ugh. I need to yell at my library to get more of the collected titles. That Hellfire Gala ending with Xavier on the beach and "Population: 1" seems like their missing one really big mutant.

Question - Last I saw Doug Ramsey was in Immortal #12 or 13, when Krakoa yoinks him away somewhere. Where does his story continue?

Beat this on normal as an Outlander (pew pew), and you can either New Game + or endlessly run maps. I decided to try Hard, on an Engineer (basically two handed stuff). Since I constantly felt underleveled, I am taking the time to actually clear the areas before diving into the dungeons, which is the opposite of how you wanted to play the first game.

Read through a collection of Nella Larson prose. It's... OK? Quicksand annoyed me until the last chapter turned it into a horror show. Passing felt incomplete, like there was another chapter afterwards that didn't get written/published. The shorts were short. Still worth reading to see Harlem during the 20's through the eyes of those who lived there, but you may need to grit your teeth to get through it.

Also, the pre-orders get you FF 9 related minions, and we're all going completely mildly insane parsing why.

Took a couple tries, but beat Torchlight. The final boss is a pain, but it's all fun. There's a mechanic I don't remember, about "retiring" your character and giving an heirloom to a new one, but I need to read up on it before I decide to try again. Went ahead and installed Torchlight II.

I think you meant XIII. X had two games and a weird "radio drama" that went nowhere.

(also posted in the Games forum) Brain Powered was an interesting, weird little thing, with an early Yoko Kanno soundtrack I love.