Miniature models come in two flavors for me, DnD or 40K (which is really just my way of saying fantasy or sci Fi aesthetics). So, when I saw this, my first thought was that it was an imitation Tyranid model which has taken inspiration from one of the critters in the Star Wars movies. Imagine my surprise when I check and see that it’s got nothing to do with Tyranid at all and is just the Star Wars monster.

Great sculpt, hope to see the final product painted up! Thank you for sharing.

It’s not even exclusive to cats. Some days, you just gotta sound your barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world, y’know?

Right there with you buddy. I get the antipathy with which remakes are treated nowadays, but this isn’t yet another rehash of Spiderman or Batman. It’s been 70 years since the og film. A sizable chunk of the population will never watch it simply because of its age, either due to their bias against “old” movies or due to plain ignorance. I might even say most people fall into that camp.

Plus, it’s not like there’s all that much that is sacrosanct about the original picture. In cultural memory, the og film is basically just the title, the suit design, and maybe the image of the creature holding a lady in his arms. As long as the remake hits those beats, it basically has free reign to go anywhere else in terms of story. Furthermore, new tech is going to allow for different approaches to filming, especially the underwater sequences, that should serve to make the movie actually frightening to a modern audience. The OG is an impressive technical achievement (I’m not sure how common underwater photography was at the time, but I can’t imagine it was a widespread practice), but I would not classify it as scary.

Idk, I just think this is an example of a “flawed” film getting a second chance with the benefit of modern filmmaking techniques, or the exact sort of project people always cite as an appropriate use of the remake format (as opposed to someone remaking a movie which holds up).

I’m not holding my breath that this announcement will go anywhere, it seems like they e been trying to get a remake off the ground since the 80s, but while everything is speculative, I’d rather focus on the opportunities a remake offers than fixate on the myriad ways they could fuck it up.

It does?! PUT IT OUT YOU JERK!

Are you running any mods, or rolling vanilla?

Can you be more specific with what you consider the “soul” of New Vegas? I would consider it to be its embrace of Fallout 1/2’s tone and canon, as opposed to the fairly clean break between the rest of the franchise and Bethesda’s offerings.

Good for Owlcat. Their Pathfinder CRPGs are excellent, and it’s always good to have more independent publishers out there supporting the genre.

I heard mixed things about The Outer Worlds. My recollection is that people were somewhat disappointed by it, but I can’t remember any real specific critiques (other than it’s scope being more limited than some people were expecting). Anyone have a take on the game they’d like to share?

Yes, I believe the figure they cited was that Google earns 73% of their revenue through ads. I imagine what they would have to do is bust up the ad services in addition to the various departments of Google. Each new entity formed gets to keep revenue from ads shown on their platform maybe? E.g. YouTube gets spun off into its own thing separate from Google proper. They get to keep ad revenue from what is shown on their platform, but they don’t get to touch any revenue from sponsored search listings, or from banner ads on other websites, etc.

That’s an approach that makes surface level sense to me, but I am neither a lawyer nor a business bro nor a tech bro. So, I don’t actually have the faintest idea if my idea bears any resemblance to reality.

I’m speculating, but perhaps the thought would be that separating Google Search from the rest of the company would deprive them of the alternative revenue streams they used to maintain their market position? If I remember the ruling against them correctly, one of the key pieces of evidence cited by the judge was that Google spent like 30 billion dollars a year to have 3rd parties use their engine by default.

Huge caveat on this one, as I don’t actually remember much of the movie, but the residual impression I have of 2019’s Triple Threat was that it was a good time. Pretty stellar cast, too. Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Scott Adkins, and Michael Jai White are the most notable, though I’m sure the other players present have mountains of stunt / fight experience to their names.

Bruh, the article your commenting on is an explanation of what’s going on since the PSN fiasco, you could just read it, since you opened the post anyways.

However, with that being said, new patch hit and added a bunch of content and balance changes. Discussion of the new content has largely been sidelined by people complaining about the balance changes. Players are frustrated that a meta develops, and then the devs nerf that meta into oblivion because they are trying to prevent “one-size-fits-all” solutions. Another complaint is that it takes far too long to kill enemies unless you are using the exact tool the devs intend you to use. Devs publicly agree that time to kill is excessive at the moment, but don’t believe the solution is just to buff all weapons. They promise to continue working on the balancing to find a happy medium.

That’s the gist of it based on OPs post at any rate.

While I agree with the spirit of your comment, I’m not sure I’m on board with Predator being outclassed by works influenced by it. Admittedly, I’ve not watched Prey, so grain of salt and all. I hear it’s quite good, but with it being put in a historical context rather than contemporary, I think it’s a bit of a different animal.

I am curious to hear examples of films you think improve upon the og Predator’s formula. If nothing else it will give me some new movies to watch.

But, that’s still a single press of the trigger. Perhaps it is more accurate to say a single trigger squeeze, rather than press, but it remains true that it will fire all three rounds with you depressing the trigger once.

I mean, the article states that the victim did suffer some symptoms, so I wouldn’t say they were totally unaffected. If the article is accurate, would it be possible that she was inhaling vapor from the spill? The victim is quoted as saying she had to be at that board for 5 hours, and the Wikipedia article indicates that the primary danger of elemental mercury is inhalation of vapor (it claims 80% absorption rate via respiration, as opposed to the 1% via direct contact). Unfortunately, I am pretty ignorant of chemistry, so I’ve no idea if my speculation is plausible. How much room temp mercury would need to be sitting in front of you before you felt the effects of the vapor. Or even if you would at all, since the CDC website says the vapor is more dense than air.

Additionally, I noticed that one of the symptoms of mercury inhalation is cognitive impairment. Obviously this is more speculation, but perhaps the intent was not to kill, but rather to sabotage the victim’s play? After all, it seems like the perpetrator and the victim were rivals. Could be a Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding situation, just more classically Russian what with the use of poison rather than brute force.

I disagree with your assessment. To an average user, whatever winds up saved in their browser cache is there mostly unintentionally. Yes, it’s saving info from sites they choose to visit, but after that initial choice, the user is out of the loop. The browser saves what it needs to without user notification or input. I might even wager that most users are unaware of their browser cache, or don’t know what’s in it or how to access it. Therefore, I believe your metaphor perhaps confers too active a decision-making process on something that most people are completely unconscious of.

To be clear, the strawman average user I’m using here is me. I know I have a browser cache, I know vaguely what is stored in it and why, and I know how to clear it if I’m having certain issues. That’s about it. I sure as heck don’t treat it as an archive.

For what it’s worth, having a lower retirement grade shouldn’t actually affect his pension at all, at least in so far as I understand it.

Walz joined up in 1981, which was the year after the “High-36” retirement system was adopted. Under that system, the army looks at your career and plucks out the 36 months where you earned the most money. In the vast majority of cases, these are the final 3 years of your career. These are averaged out, and then multiplied by a percentage (2.5% per year of service, e.g. 20 years of service = 50%) to determine your monthly payment.

All of which is to say that his pension calculations do take into account the time he was an E9, even if his paperwork and other privileges rflect the lower pay grade.

Caveat: it’s been several years since I retired, and it’s a very complex process. I could be off base as it applies to Walz’s case specifically, but what I’ve described is generally true.

Hmm, so, last month I began to have issues with my Chromecast for the first time. I have an old 3rd gen Chromecast attached to my bedroom television (not a smart tv) for the purpose of casting obnoxiously long video essays to fall asleep to. After like a decade of essentially hassle free operation, it suddenly stopped being able to maintain a connection to my phone. I cast a video, and after approximately 10 minutes, the cast disconnects and I get a message on my phone saying “this video cannot be played in the background”. I’ve tried ever troubleshooting technique I can think of.

I know I shouldn’t attribute to malice what can be explained by other causes, but boy, seeing this news today sure makes me think about things like planned obsolescence.

Alright, I’ll bite, what distinguishes a hot dish from a casserole? Tater tot crust?

I think you’re implying Andre aged the worst, considering his present situation, but, hell, out of the three I think he might have “aged” the best. In the foot notes of history, Andre will be remembered for being a pretty avuncular fella. Those other two? Not so much.