Seperate peeve: When you suddenly get an unexpected payment on a Friday and thus have to resist the urge to go spend it frivolously.
Well yeah, itâs got Morbius superstar Matt Smith in it.
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Well that changes things! Itâll end up getting a morbiliion views on episode one.
watched the first episode of the boys. i am forever haunted by that cold intro scene
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Not me. Loved the books and the show up to ~s6 but the finale just killed it for me so hard, I still canât bring myself to even check the trailer for the spin-off show. I will probably check it out at some point, but I will unfortunately to it with an unfairly negative bias and I canât help it.
We do be doing that.
Oh 
now that makes me all morbed up
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god i hate being a manager. i legitimately just want to keep my head down and crack on with my work but instead iâm dealing with team drama and getting piled down on me from up high
People forget that âactualâ managers are, well, people
Also most donât want to manage, but usually it goes âyouâve been doing really well hereâs a promotion not a suggestion haha keep going buddy =)â
pretty much. i was promoted because i was doing the job really well but that doesnât mean iâm manager material at all
Damn, didnât know you too worked at Blizzard.
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Celebrimbor be looking like a substitute teacher who gets your name wrong without fail if itâs anything rarer than John.
I feel only apathy for it and will continue to until itâs released, and then Iâll 
and judge for myself. Too many shows these days are just a beloved franchise violently flayed and grafted onto stock Hollywood scripts.
Itâs kind of nice to receive blatant high fantasy content since post GoT TV producers forgot about the magical elements of that world, the political scheming and eventually we were left with âwhatâs good fantasy, Jim? Uhhh⌠a bunch of chuckleheads killing each other for no reason and sex scenes?â
They were better off making historical dramas, and some have with the garbo Last Kingdom adaption.
Low fantasy is in an odd spot where the general perception of it is what a person who swears they do ârealistic medieval RPâ in WoW thinks the Middle Ages were like.
Bless Shadiversity for delivering easily accessible medieval content!
But yeah, low fantasy is in a weird spot where itâs pretty much everywhere. What was once a subversion to a lot of peopleâs perception of the genre as a whole is now literally just the norm, and has been reduced to âgore and sex scenes.â By low int producers.
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got in through nepotism
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The funny thing is that this subversion was a reaction to the wave of D&D-esque extremely high-magic fantasy, with world-reshaping, reality-warping magic. Warcraft, which owes the majority of its tropes to D&D, is of that breed too.
Middle-earth, as described in the books, is actually a relatively low-magic setting. Many things that are explicitly magical in the movies were inventions for the movies specifically, precisely because the audience came to expect flashy magic. For example, in the LOTR book, Gandalf and Saruman never have a wizardâs duel where they drag each other across the room, the mountain snowstorm summoned by Saruman is just a snowstorm (and itâs left ambiguous whether itâs of magical nature, though Gandalf thinks itâs the will of the mountain itself blocking their way), and Theoden isnât possessed by Saruman, nor does he visually de-age â he just suffers from what weâd call a psychosomatic condition, believing heâs more frail than he really is, and quickly regains self-confidence and his former strength when Gandalf inspires him to throw away his cane and take his sword again.
And then, of course, thereâs The Silmarillion, recommended reading for anyone who thinks Tolkien only wrote straightforward, black-and-white good-versus-evil stories. Itâs best described as âGoT, but instead of several thick tomes full of dragging graphic descriptions of gore and incest, we get a condensed plot summaryâ.
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One thing I feel a bit mixed about/bit unsure with is Galadriel.
I love cool fighting women and the promo material for her looks good, and would it be any other badass elf lady Iâd be onboard 100%.
But itâs not who Galadriel is.
A lot of people, especially in my school, derived a lot of their perception of the genre from the movies rather than anything else. GoT was a lot of peopleâs first encounter with fantasy of a different type. Iâve always been a fantasy enjoyer, so it was interesting to see what people assumed I liked. It went from assuming I go home to nasally shout âMAGIC MISSILE!â to assuming I was super invested in the show.
I wasnât and it was awkward.
It was an odd time though. A lot of older folks associate anything even vaguely magical with childishness, so I saw posts expressing disappointment in their relatives for watching that stuff. It was years ago so I canât give you anything verbatim but it was a lot of âthought GoT was a medieval show for adults but a dragon creature showed up. What are we showing kids!?â
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Beren and Luthien movie when
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Please, yes!
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On that topic, Iâve been curious about looking at Lotro again even if none of my friends play it(or like it).
But Iâve been putting it off because my house has gone to foreclosure ages ago and Iâm going to feel sad logging back in.
A few of my friends are playing it at the moment.
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Itâs very peaceful as a game, I honest really enjoy it casually to just explore and quest in.
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Iâd play it if I didnât hate how floaty the movement and animation feels.
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