Huh, I don’t remember that episode of Seinfeld.

Was playing with some friends the other day. One of them got very close to throwing 500 shivs in one turn.

Cocoon is more like a low-orbit space station than a moon.

Or because of that recent ruling that you can’t copyright AI generated images. If Disney can’t copyright the videos Sora produces, then it’s useless to them.

Fun fact: if true AGI were a thing, those AI programs would be people and not paying them for their work would be slavery.

There’s actually an official “back path” for the Morrowind main quest if you killed Vivec. You need to take an item from his corpse to Yagrum Bagarn, but you also need a high reputation. If you muck up the back path, too, you can brute force the main quest by completing the final step anyway, but good luck figuring out how to do that without a quest pointing you to what you need.

I don’t remember one without audio. I do remember one without finished audio. The placeholder double scream was glorious.

It is! (in the early 2d games) To save on cartridge space, Link only had sprites made facing one direction. When facing the other direction, the sprite was simply flipped. The manual had a lore blurb about a superstition regarding keeping your shield facing Death Mountain to handwave it.

Starting with Ocarina of Time, Link was given a (mostly) consistent handedness, typically being left-handed but sometimes doing a few things, like archery, right-handed.

The Wii version of Twilight Princess flipped the entire game, including the character models, left to right, making Link a righty to make the motion controls more intuitive for most players. Skyward Sword was then built with a right-handed Link for the same reason.

With Breath of the Wild, Link was made right-handed despite the game not using motion controls for swordplay. The top-down games have kept Link as a lefty, though.

my felt hand

Are you a muppet?

We’re getting a fourth movie with Fraser and Weisz in 2028. I’m kind of hoping they just remove the third one from continuity.

The Mummy 1999. An excellent pulpy action-adventure-horror film starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and Arnold Vosloo. Has a fun sequel, The Mummy Returns, which itself has a fun prequel titled The Scorpion King.

There is a third Mummy movie titled The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Do not watch that one; the script was so terrible that Weisz refused to return. I’m unsure about the various sequels to The Scorpion King.

There was a reboot released in 2017 starring Tom Cruise. It’s terrible, do not watch it.

A new movie in the 1999 continuity is being released in 2028. Fraser and Weisz are confirmed to return.

Sure, same general premise, but the structure is very different between them. In Dances with Wolves, Dunbar is basically abandoned by his people and slowly assimilates into the local village. By the time Dunbar’s people return in the third act, they’re no longer his people at all. In Pocahontas and Avatar, Smith and Sully are part of an active and present colonial force, wind up on generally friendly terms with the locals, start dating the chief’s daughter, and wind up with a strong case of conflicting loyalties, having to pick between their people and their lover’s people when the fighting starts.

The Romans divided the world into three equal landmasses before they understood how it was actually laid out and it stuck.

The oceans are just a big lake.

Avatar is absolutely not Dances with Wolves. It is Pocahontas. Throw in a couple musical numbers and it’s real close to being a shot-for-shot remake of the Disney movie.

iOS is Apple’s operating system for phones and tablets, MacOS is Apple’s OS for desktops and laptops.

The Confederate Constitution also made it compulsory for all states to be slave states.

I want James McAvoy reprising his role as said spoiler.

In Spanish the word for pen can also be for a feather.

In English, too, with the word quill. Though the word now specifically means a pen made from a feather rather than a pen in general, and calling a feather that isn’t being used as a pen a quill is very archaic.

What assets you’re recycling is a huge factor. There are crates in Fallout 4 that were originally made for Oblivion. You almost certainly won’t notice unless you’re looking for it. Similarly, I’m playing Divinity Original Sin 2 and there are a bunch of little things that were reused for Baldur’s Gate 3, like vases. Again, most people will probably never notice.

On the other hand, BioWare reusing animations that were originally created for Neverwinter Nights in Mass Effect 3 is jarring, even though those animations generally worked fine in KOTOR. Or Assassin’s Creed 3 using combat animations in the modern day segments that were designed for the flintlock-wielding enemies in the historic segments.