Thursday Next

I'm not up on my Infinity Stone lore. Do they have passive effects or is it just active?

Something I don't entirely get.

I see, yeah, not being able to catch up the rest of your gear is annoying. Tried the new heroic, didn't find them too bad tbh. You should try Guided Games, it can take a while (couple of mins) to find one, but it works well. Crucible was always participation, you get ~15% for match completion plus extra % for kills etc. Didn't know about Clan Engrams, that's annoying.

Noted.

There's loads of "easy" ones! Flashpoint = tool around on the designated planet for a bit. Call to Arms = Play 5-8 crucible matches. No need to win, just completing a match gives you ~15% toward the milestone. Heroic Strikes = Complete 3 Heroic Strikes. You can easily solo queue these, matchmaking takes very little time and depending on your level, the strikes are pretty easy. Clan = Do all the above and you should have unlocked the clan engram. You don't even need to join an active clan, you can start one yourself. The only hard ones are: Nightfall = Do a hard strike, easy if you are in a clan, if not matchmaking is ok but can take ages to hook you up with a pair. Raid = Do the raid, again, you can matchmake, but it's not likely to be quick and the raid is challenging. Trials = Win a match in trials of the nine PvP. <- Probably the most hardcore of the lot. I normally have the first four + nightfall done in the first day or two of reset. Call to Arms is a chore, but the rest are achievable through playing for fun. By the end of a season I'm normally skipping on Call to Arms coz I don't like PvP. Edit: Unless they changed something in this season (I haven't played Warmind).

Just FYI that Tencent publish Fortnite in China too. I'll just leave this here...

Your move CSI!

Fair point, in any case...

My favourite thing about it is how they bludgeon you over the head with the meaning of the title. "You are your ghost, your body is your shell." About one hundred times. Really slowly. So that even the people dumb enough to not get that Star Wars is anti-facism get it.

Story speculation: I think the lack of bosses criticism is aimed at the lack of skyscraper sized bosses that are taken apart in gruesome fashion during QTEs. I assume they are keeping their powder dry for future games, you can always escalate. Running out of epic things to kill is a bigger problem.

Yeah, I'm not feeling that. Completely loses the concept of Predators being big-game hunters. Would have been up for say a Predator landing in Africa and bringing down crocodiles, lions, etc bare handed until some rangers, and probably a poacher team up to stop it. This just looks like the AVP film that was set in a small town.

Fair. As you say it's nigh impossible to determine if the patient is suffering and being moved may well have had zero impact on their well being. I don't agree that parents' wishes should be absolute though. Obviously in an ideal scenario parents and doctors would come to a mutual understanding. Where that doesn't happen, I guess the courts are the best place to settle things. A shame it came to that. I'm also completely with you on end of life choices as well as my distaste for right wing groups and the red top press dragging as much mileage out of a sick child as possible.

I don't agree that parents should be allowed to choose. If we agree that a child is a person, with their own rights, separate to the parents, then the parents' wishes are not really material, what is key is what is in the best interests of the sick person (see: Antivaxers). The parents can't be objective in deciding what is for the best for their child, their own emotions are too caught up in the situation. The doctors are able to make an objective assessment based on quality of life. In Alfie's case he would almost certainly never have regained consciousness and even if he did, he would not have been able to function. The doctors' assessment was that it was kinder to let him go and have a dignified death. If a patient, for whatever reason, can't say for themselves what treatment they want, or whether they want it to continue, then I think that I would rather that the final decision were made by a doctor, than by a loved one who is emotionally conflicted.

I liked Rise, but didn't love it. $20 is about right I think. It was very much more of the same from the reboot.

+1 God of War. What a game. Jesus. Can't wait for the next. Was a bit thrown by the ending Love that the side quests generally feel meaningful. I've got two last jobs to do in the game till I've done all the content, then it's just a matter of whether or not I want to upgrade everything... Which I maybe do...

Give it to Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson!

Ok, yeah, I've been home now. This game is too good!

I played the original, the biggest hook for me was the Ghibli animation/story telling.

What's the difference between a march step and a high knee?

I don't think so. I'm looking for/am about to collect a chisel.

I was indeed referencing Mr Kaye.

This game is bloody awesome! Was worried that Atreus was going to make it escort mission hell, but as others have said, you don't need to protect him at all. I don't think the combat has properly clicked with me yet. I keep forgetting about Atreus, and which moves I have equipped, I spend a lot (probably too much) time hanging back and throwing my axe, and not enough time windmilling in.

I think one issue was because the bill did nothing to preserve public transport links (bus lines in particular) meaning that low income people could move to these places and then become stranded if a bus line is discontinued. Also there are concerns it would displace low income renters. It smacks to me of a perceived tendency in liberals to discard something that would help out because it is imperfect, rather than embracing the better for now and continuing to work for perfect. Which is why you ended up with Trump and not Clinton...

Knack 2 Do not @ me.

Ready Player One +1! Read the book, enjoyed it at the time, read it again, thought to myself "why did I like this book?". The film is much better, Parzival is less of a prick. It's still problematic in so far as it touts the concept of the fan as gatekeeper which is (imho) the root cause of a lot of fandom toxicity. At least the references (while still prominent) don't take up anything like as much story space as they do in the book. It's obviously a lot easier to throw a bunch of recognisable characters in the background of a scene than it is to write a list of all the recognisable things. One of the people I went to see it with chuckled at every reference he got, I think that is going to be par for the course at any public viewing. The references are thrown out thick and fast to the point where you almost stop noticing them through saturation. As Goh says, it's almost instantly forgettable. The plot (even if you haven't read the book) is always 100% predictable. A popcorn movie, enjoyable, but ultimately unsatisfying.