u/Nicole_Auriel

Not hating, and I still think the show can absolutely be amazing regardless of the characters age, but it does seem like an odd decision.

So far the series has followed a pretty good pattern. We all fell in love with avatar when we were kids and related to the characters who were the same age as us. Then when we became teens we got the legend of the Korra, which also helped us relate to the characters and their struggles, and now most of us are adults and we got the avatar movie where all the characters are adults and it was freaking amazing.

It seemed for a while the franchises characters were aging with the audience who first fell in love with them. I know most all my friends in my age group now are eager for a more darker adult version of avatar (maybe kyoshi in her prime?), and instead they make the new protagonists very young girls and possibly are looking to appeal to a broader if more younger potential fan base.

Again, nothing wrong with that. I’m happy to judge the show on its own merits when it comes out but it is moderately disappointing. I think this franchise has series potential for more darker/adult storytelling and I know im not alone on that. Plus the post apocalyptic setting seems perfectly fit for that type of mature storytelling.

Halo: The showrunner of this show really really really wanted to make a series where master chief takes his helmet off all time, shows off his naked butt and has sex with sexy alien girls for some reason. Aside from the rule 34 section of the community, who wanted this?

The Witcher: Showrunner Lauren Hissrich has proudly stated in interviews she intentionally hires writers who know jack diddly about the source material in order to make the show easier to understand for non fans. Why? Why is geralt sidelined in his own show to his companions in a show literally called “the Witcher”?

Rings of power: first ever billion dollar tv series ever is helmed by two showrunners who have never helmed a major project before. Why? Even if JJ recommended them, how is that enough to trust two first timers with the most beloved fantasy ip of all time? Why do these writers feel it’s appropriate to make Galadriel the main character and have a will they won’t they relationship with the literal embodiment of evil itself?

Star Trek: probably the series I know the least about but judging from review scores and general fan consensus, it seems this fandom has really been going through the wringer lately.

How does this keep happening? The stated goal of a lot of these shows is to be “the next game of thrones”, but all of them seemingly forget game of thrones was helmed by two of the most enthusiastic scholars of the lore possibly in the world. Instead of trying to emulate game of thrones formula that made it the most popular show of all time, they all seem to hand hold their audiences through the meat and bones of the narrative, which is something game of thrones never did. Why?

Currently just starting the Hexi expansion and I notice the enemies are almost 10 levels below me, which sucks. I guess I'm past a certain cap where they no longer scale? I don't like the idea of older zones becoming useless because I'm too high level. Is it in my interest to no longer breakthrough so I can maintain some sense of challenge?

I want to enjoy the game but I don't want the difficulty to be a cakewalk

The covenant is strictly patriarchal for their military, and even with 50% of their population not allowed to serve they were still heavily winning their war with humanity.

Add another 30 or 40 billion female warriors to their ranks and it doesn’t sound like humanity would stand a chance, they could just overwhelm them with sheer brute force and overwhelming number.

What am I missing?

Why is it even a thing? Her abilities still have long cooldowns so what’s the point of even having a currency?

Gambit is free to spend his cards however often he likes, with no cooldown so long as he has cards available. Why doesn’t our system work the same way? If you’re playing gambit and you’re in an emergency situation, you can quickly spend all four cards in the blink of an eye, so why can’t white fox?

Would having her right click have no cooldown really be that broken? You could argue chain charming or chain protecting people with them would be too strong but I don’t think so. The duration of charm and protect is so small in comparison to how long the recharge for each tail is.

I know i'm probably just overthinking this but I can't seem to make heads or tails of what Edward's crew thinks or what Edward thinks of them.

Presumably edwards crew sticks with him because he's the best and everyone know's he'll make them all rich. Also, they owe him for saving their lives (most of them). Yet, according to Adewale they're growing irritated with him for chasing the observatory despite him raking in hundreds of thousands of reales along the way and making them all rich. (Seriously, what more do they want?)

They then decide to betray Edward in a mutiny and elect Jack Rackham as their captain, a drunken idiot who has no where near the success of level of competency that Edward has. You'd think this betrayal would have consequences but it seemingly doesn't. When Edward gets the jackdaw back, none of the mutineers are forced to walk to plank, they just happily fall back in line with Edward with no mention of the mutiny.

And then after becoming captain again, Edward STILL decides to chase the observatory, only this time they don't seem to mind anymore? And then when Edward is put in jail after finding the observatory and failing, he tries to go back AGAIN and still his crew doesn't seem to mind.

So what gives?

There’s a lot about this quest that doesn’t make any sense to me still, after all these years. But it’s possible I’m just missing something, so feel free to correct me if I am.

First up, the mutiny. Considering Edward has a way bigger crew than Rackham and Vane considering only a few members of the Ranger boarded the Jackdaw, so the only way this mutiny even makes sense is if Edwards own crew members turn on him. Why? Why would Edwards’s crew who have seen Edward to be the most competent and lucrative pirate captain in all of the Caribbean instead decide to make a drunken loser like Rackham captain? He was aboard their ship for all of 5 minutes. He only needed 5 minutes of sweet talking the crew into betraying the captain they all democratically elected and made ludicrous wealth under?

Let’s assume for a second for charity’s sake that several members of Edward’s crew have decided they’ve made enough money for now and want to go their own way in dramatic fashion, or just want to rob Edward and retire, sure, fine. But why is this never brought up again? Why are the mutineers not only not found and not forced to walk the plank but they aren’t even mentioned again? Does Edward just let bygones be bygones?

About 10 responses in, the AI just thinks forever and will not respond again. Ever. You cannot branch the conversation into a new one either. Changing model does not help. Best you can do is start a new chat and hope you can get it to gather the info from the previous chat. and you have to do this REPEATEDLY!

Is there a fix?

This class just feels like it is in shambles right now, unless you're rich that is. I just wanted to push as high as possible this season. But all the rogues on the leaderboards are bug exploiting cheaters. The best non-bug-abusing specs in the game right now all requires billions upon billions of gold investments for hyper specific breakpoints just to make the build even function in any capacity.

Of the best non bug abusing non CDR dependent builds there are, they deal extremely lackluster damage in comparison to the point that its disheartening. I'm currently running poison penetrating build, and I have excellent gear, vulnerable, DoT multiplier, poison multiplier, imbuement potency, and several greater affixes on almost all pieces of my gear along with a mythic eaglehorn, and the most I can muster is a 10trillion dot single target with rustbitten dirk. I can barely clear a 129 with 15+ deaths. Meanwhile the cheaters clear entire hallways of pit level 150 enemies in record time.

The bug abusers are clearing pit 150 in less than 3 minutes, making our class look extremely broken in comparison to the rest, but to those not interested in cheating or spending 100billion plus gold it's looking grim.

Perhaps i'm missing some key detail or some enchant or perhaps my paragon board isn't 100% optimized but I feel discouraged from trying any further. Feel free to make fun of me if you wish but that's how i feel.

In the OG game, Edward had a very easy to perform quick stab animation that allowed him to chain targets pretty efficiently, however, not only do some enemies bug out and don’t have the assassination prompt like they should, Edward frequently gets stuck in annoying assassination animations.

The one that bothers me the most is this one where Edward very slowly walks up to someone, slits their throat, and keeps walking past them. You can tell this animation was designed for crossing a guard on the street, and I imagine it’s pretty cool in that situation, but in a smoke bomb, this animation sucks! Not only does it take forever, and cause Edward to walk in the opposite direction of the other enemies, but it also causes Edward to slowly walk out of the smoke bomb and into a hail of bullets before you regain control of your character.

One of the best examples of subverting expectations done well. On first meet he definitely fits all the criteria of the standard prideful jerk, but by the end of the story I found him to be one of the most noble characters in the entire franchise.

Every point along the way I thought for sure he was going to do X, Y, or Z bad thing to be an obstacle to Aloy, but he surprises me at every turn, showing his rigid moral code is surprisingly amenable. I was shocked when he voluntarily gave Aloy the mantle of leadership even after the Shaman’s declared his trial against her invalid.

He shares characteristics with most tribal leaders in the world; he’s a traditionalist, he prefers the old ways, and like most elders his word is law. But unlike the rest he is surprisingly agreeable and open to having his mind change. Rather than bemoan some small Nora girl taking the reins of his tribe, he openly accepts her as a warrior and trusts her with his life.

He’s incredibly skilled (especially for his age), competent, wise, brave, and trustworthy.

Seeing him in the finale, coming all that way to help Aloy save meridian meant the world to me. Seeing him grow to accept help from others and learn to place trust in those around him definitely made him a standout character for me.

I’m tired of greediest people on earth making it to the top and using their wealth to influence our politics to their advantage.

I’m tired of pedophiles and rapists getting off Scott free because they have connections while poor people go to prison for the most petty crimes.

I’m tired of mega corporations contributing overwhelmingly to toxifying our planet and then spending their money for PSA commercials telling US we need to go green and stop littering.

I’m tired of corporate bootlickers and suckups rising through the ranks at record speed at companies and then kicking the ladder out behind them and betraying the people they used to work with by implementing anti-employee policies.

I’m tired of unqualified morons making it into public office, not because they have any good ideas, but simply because they’re making a stand against ‘the man’.

I’m tired of colleges finding new innovative ways to scam students out of every last cent they have.

I’m tired of megalomaniacal narcissistic tyrants ordering thousands upon thousands of their own soldiers to risk their lives and die for wars of conquest and resources.

I’m tired of rich insurance companies denying health care because our X, Y, Z condition isn’t covered by their hyper specific policy.

I’m tired of political sycophantic yes-men saying whatever they can to the guy in office to advance their careers with no regard to the law itself.

I’m tired of law enforcement officers gunning innocent people down and then circling the wagons to protect each other with internal investigations.

I’m tired of congressmen and senators using their campaign promises as a springboard to start their career betraying the very people who put them in office.

I’m not saying anything new here. You’ve heard it all a thousand times before. It’s been this way since the dawn of man. Bad guys win, good guys lose, now shut your mouth, do your job, and don’t question authority. And by the way, we look forward to taxing your dead body and surviving family when you eventually kick the bucket working well into your 80s because your retirement savings are gone.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I got to get back to my job collecting taxes from people who owe to the same people who pay nothing.

I swear it only gives 4 types of helms for me. I got like 8 of each but not a single crest. Is it even possible? Or is it just exceptionally rare?

Whenever I try searching for a roleplay chatbot it’s always some sort of dating thing where you customize an ai boyfriend or girlfriend. That is NOT what I’m looking for. What I’m looking for is an ai roleplay companion that will play characters from other universes. Like for example, I tell the ai to play as Arthas Menethil from Warcraft and I play Jaina proudmoore.

Now Gemini and ChatGPT are pretty good. If you tell them to play as Aragorn from lord of the rings, the ai will actually look up Aragorn’s lore and make posts that look/sound/feel like Aragorn’s personality and will make clever references to middle earth and its lore completely unprompted.

However these bots refuse to do anything associated with blood, violence, warfare, or sex. They just say “sorry I cannot do this.”

Can anyone make a solid recommendation for me?

His team up where he can heal teammates with his right click feels like it should just be a baseline part of kit, and he should get a new team up with someone else.

I don’t like the idea of patching a heroes QoL issues by using team ups.