Recent content by Grumman

It's an obnoxious retcon, obnoxiously handled.

Or you could just not break software that was working fine previously.

Steam already lets you do that - at least with the one game where I've tried it.

What are you trying to say? "Sure, he burned a Shia family alive, but he loves kittens!" An evil person does not do everything evilly, but that does not make them less horrible people.

Then quit making excuses for them. ISIS is an organisation specifically focused on creating a violently oppressive dictatorship, that uses evil means to achieve that evil cause. The organisation has no redeeming features, and no decent human being would willingly support them.

ISIS sells women as sex slaves and destroys archaeological sites to fund their mission of murdering religious minorities and establishing an oppressive and bloody dictatorship. They have no redeeming features, they are merely an organised crime syndicate with aspirations of being Adolf Hitler...

Well that's a good sign. One movie that looks like Oscar bait, two TV movies and six TV episodes.

I wouldn't. The biggest problem with the Witcher series is that it's the Witcher series. If CD Projekt Red moved on from this grimdark bullshit I'd love to play the RPG I'm sure they could make, but their next game's Cyberpunk 2077 and I expect it to be just as dour.

The Final Fantasy series is more variations on a theme than direct sequels. For example, there's usually somebody called Cid who runs an airship, but it's a different Cid and a different airship each time. The same summons show up game after game, but they are different executions.

Just the F2P games? It seems to me that that's their entire business strategy: buy things people liked and turn them into unholy abominations, begging for death.

Point conceded. It looks like there's only one quest that actually requires that you win the game.

But the dailies take more work than in League of Legends. In LoL, if you win a single game with any champion, even against easy bots, you get your daily IP bonus. HotS expects you to win multiple games per day, and they don't count if you use the wrong hero.

Stable time loops are garbage, both logically and narratively, and I hate how easily people are convinced that it's a smarter plot than it really is. If time travel cannot change the future away from its fated course than the entire franchise is pointless. There is no point in sending Kyle Reece...

The franchise is practically its own metaphor. If only Paramount's own efforts to revisit the past and butcher everything you hold dear were as easy to thwart.

That's good. Every dollar people spend to see this movie vindicates the assholes who make shitty reboots. The best thing that could happen is for this movie to make precisely zero dollars, to make studios want to make good movies just out of self interest.