wizardbeard

Yep, these scenes are either meant to be titilating, and are hamstrung by the rating to be "softer" so what is the point, or meant to convey things about character relationships, where usually a fade to black gives you enough for plot.

Like I can understand the desire to see a character or actor/actress nude, but still. Therecs better ways to do "eyecandy", better ways to titilate, and better ways to convey plot and character development even working with the topic of intimacy.

There are incredibly few sex scenes in non-porn media that are actually done well enough to be worth it. Just go watch some porn and have a wank, or find a better writer to convey your plot and characters so you don't need the sex scene crutch.

I waited too, and it was worth it.

The last... two seasons-ish drop off in terms of pacing ridiculously, which causes the overall plot to suffer as they rush to the finish. There's also a bunch of stuff about how everything ends that feels cheap because while it's a believable state for everything to end up in, it isn't earned or worked towards. The show is usually a slow burn punctuated by the occasional "big shit happens suddenly", while the final seasons are just speeding along with no time to examine character motivations etc. Stuff that was hinted at previously jumps from "are they hinting that?" straight to "oh, yeah, it's that. And about 10x the level they hinted at".

That said, there's still a TON of good content in the show up until the end.

The skull in his hand is a nice touch. Zagreus casts "magic" using "Bloodstone" gems, but his father Hades's casts during the final boss fight appear to use flaming skulls with green eyes like what Zag is holding

It's a small detail that implies to me that this is an image of Zagreus post-patricide, covered in Hades's blood. They're Greek gods, so they can't truly die, it's just a repeated power struggle thing.

Nope, found my line. This is too absurd and well typed for me to believe this one isn't just taking the piss.

What? Huh? The fuck are you even trying to say with that first paragraph and what connection does it have with my comment?

My point was that for someone calling people still willing to use Windows stupid, your lack of knowledge about the actual cost (and how almost no user is paying the full cost) makes you look incompetent at best.

There was precisely zero there lamenting Microsoft missing out on money. Check my host lemmy instance, it's the piracy one. There's a reason I name dropped the best open source tool for tricking Windows into thinking you have a valid license. Steal your OS, I don't give a fuck. The only "validly" licensed personal machine I have is my main desktop, and only because it was my first time doing a manual customized Win 10 install so I didn't want to fuck around with faking the license to save myself $20 for an OEM license.

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Which brings me to my next point. For someone being so bull headedly elitist about how bad Windows is, and how smart they are, you're completely unaware of how easy it is to make Windows work for you and disable all the user hostile shit like ads.

It's called install the Pro version of the OS and use Group Policy manager. 90% of the settings are clearly labeled in there too, like "Disable Cortana Internet Search", "Disable OneDrive integration".

My guy, I do systems/infra at a place with roughly 5,000 machines. The only things in our environment running Linux are network appliances (firewalls, load balancers, etc).

Low level access, UAC, etc is all more than possible in a Microsoft environment. Pleass stop larping just because you're personally more comfortable with Linux.

Good job being so smart, mama's little smart man! You still have to eat your veggies before you can have any dessert though!

More seriously, the overwhelming majority of businesses use Windows as their end user facing desktop OSes. You're legitimately just being a myopic asshat if you think that Windows can't be trusted for anything important. (Inb4 you bring up Crowdstrike, which wasn't a Windows specific issue, but a "we have code running at kernel level" issue, and hit Linux roughly three months prior to the big clusterfuck)

Also, your bit about $150 cost for the OS is dumb too. The average user is buying a prebuilt with the OS preinstalled. Technically they are paying for it, but it's a wacky discounted OEM license fee baked into the full cost. Anyone not buying a rig with Windows preinstalled can use it unlicensed, can transfer license from pretty much any older Windows OS install from the last 20 years, can just use massgrave to activate it for free, or could go buy a discounted OEM license that they can only install to one machine. The full price license allows for install on multiple machines, which you don't really need.

My point is, very few people are paying full price for a Windows license.

Full disclosure, I agree that Microsoft is a shit company. But this elitist shit is just stupid. Especially when it's almost pure posturing.

All the ones I've watched (the top row) are wonderful, but Samurai Jack is a definite standout.

I hate that Grievous from this Clone Wars show isn't really cannon anymore. They did such a good job making him legitimately frightening, and it really sold the idea of him being capable of hunting jedi for sport.

Anyone care to sell me on Primal?

Yeah, this makes sense for corporate environments with keys backed up to a centralized location like Active Directory. Not for consumers with no reasonable way to keep some key like this in a safe place as a "break glass in case of emergency" option.

Why not? They're cheap as fuck now, and if you have a xbox one or ps4 or newer (one that still has a disc drive), you already have a fucking blu ray player.

Thankfully there's a ton of workarounds for that.

If there's a tape deck, you can do headphone jack to cassette tape. If you don't have a headphone jack on your phone you can get a little bluetooth reciever to headphone jack type thing.

There's also the route of using a small device to broadcast your own little AM station (same deal, gets audio from jack or bluetooth), then tune into it with your existing head unit.

Best way is to just rig up your own aux in, but that requires some doing.

Better off not using an in browser emulator, for a large number of reasons. Biggest one is that you're likely to randomly lose your save data.

4chan's Emulation General thread wiki for emulators etc.

NoIntro Romsets on Archive.org for roms.