HoT Mobs were severely nerfed after release by the way. The expansion is hardly daunting now with the amount of powercreep we had over the years. A newbie is obviously gonna sstruggle, but they will literally struggle with vanilla content just as much.
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As someone who read through all of the comics, the changes to Invincible are genuinely something Iâm a fan of when it comes to the Protag. Having to go through pages of him getting his butt handed to him wouldnât really work in TV where you want to root for the guy. Seeing him hold his own in the last episode was genuinely a treat, especially with the rise in music.
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He is the frontman for Rage Against The Machine.
What Machine is he raging against? The Dishwasher apparently.
Ah yes, I know all these words.
Debatable. Thereâs a lot of monsters in HoT with abilities that are still a pain to deal with, when compared to the far less intimidating monsters in the base zones.
There are still multiple HoT hero points that I struggle to solo, whereas I canât think of a single hero point in the base game, PoF or EoT that I have difficulty with. I canât speak for the latest expansion though, since it came out at the same time as a bunch of games that are frankly better than GW2.
I donât really listen to them either, I more wanted to draw attention to;
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Watched Sunshine (2007) after seeing a snippet of a 2011 interview with Chris Evans about how he liked it and wished people cared about it more than his Fantastic Four movie. The snippet went semi-viral so I assume itâs probably going to a see a minor revival of interest.
It was pretty good! Star-studded cast (Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada, Benedict Wong, Cillian Murphy, among others) on a spaceship on a journey to reignite the sun, with predictable mechanical drama and danger.
Iâve no idea how ârealisticâ their spacesuits were for this kinda thing but they look cool and thatâs what matters (mostly)
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I recommend watching it if you havenât already. It scratches that itch of mankind desperately struggling against a cold and utterly uncaring universe, and the madness that can inflict on you.
Not me though! I wouldnât go mad at all. Iâd be fine. Built different.
Reminded of how Laeâzel expresses distate for the term âhumanoidâ.
Laeâzel exists in a fictional world where the existence of multiple sapient species in the same society is a given. If anything, itâs strange that isnât an accepted term.
Humanoid is a weird term, in that if it exists in-universe, then itâs either an English translation from whatever the ârealâ word is in Common, or it was invented by humans in-universe*.
(I like FFXIVâs âSpokenâ. Itâs delightfully Tolkienian.)
Our society in the real world exists under the assumption that it only consists of humans. If that preconception is challenged, something will have to give. Either the word âhumanâ will be expanded to include things like catpeople, biological furries, etc., or it will be restricted to biological humans as they exist now and a different, broader word will enter wide use.
* In my mind, real-world humans and fantasy humans are different concepts, but itâs hard to express the distinction in English.
Just so long as your super special wizard OC doesnât travel through portals to your bedroom to tell you all about your fantasy universe I think itâs fine.
I will never stop coming for you on this one, Ed Greenwood.
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So is it Hyurmanoids in ff14?
Gale Dekarios doesnât deserve this
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Elminster, actually.
Though I do think itâs mildly funny that people were theorising that Gale=Elminster prior to release because of all the Mystra stuff. Glad it didnât turn out that way.
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Elminster is perfectly cast as âtechnically he is powerful enough to solve this problem but also look at him he couldnât win a fight against a ham sandwichâ
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The collective term is âSpokenâ.
Thereâs a Middle-earth parallel here. The Sindarin word pen and its Quenya cognate quĂ©n âperson, someoneâ are derived from the Primitive Elvish root âKWEN âspeak with rational wordsâ. This little linguistic curiosity implies a view where speech is considered the defining attribute of personhood.
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Iâd perfectly cast him as a corpse but UNFORTUNATELY the lazy git whining about his stupid shoes didnât even turn up in person. He sends a bloody Simulacrum instead. Untold power of the weave at his fingertips and he canât even muster the care to teleport in himself, sends a bloody snowman to do it for him.
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Look, you get to the point of a wizardâs life where youâre sixteen simulacrums deep and even youâre not sure which one of you is the wizard any more
Nap 
Shower
Iâm basically feeling alive right now
Itâs the realistic writing that scares me
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I really liked that film, I watched it when it was on Amazon Prime years after catching it on TV.
Finished Sea of Stars (for the first time). A little bit of an abrupt ending but since I know thereâs a True Ending after I go conch collecting not all bad. A very fun, if occasionally easy, Chrono Trigger-like RPG with an excellent soundtrack and a lovely visual style.
I have also decided I am not going to 100% it though - I do not care for Wheels when my wheel is objectively worse than the enemy wheel and therefore I am far more dependent on RNG to win.
The playable races are known simply as âmankindâ or âmanâ.
Which makes sense as theyâre all just
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offshoots and broken fragments of the Ancients.
The non-playable but still sentient races are (with the exception of the Garleans) the Beast Tribes.