Train noises.

Fair play, mission accomplished. Truth be told no run of mine has gotten to the point where my characters have the chance to be amoral. More characters than I care to admit have perished before even finding the first dungeon.

Bruh, that’d be the end of my run right there. This character charmed a big kitty cat to become their companion, then abused the animal’s trust by slurping up its life force to the point of death?? That character’s thirst is not mine, and we are DEFINITELY not water-siblings lol

You make a valid enough point. My threshold for “Science Guy” is pretty low; I’m a humanities grad.

But he is qualified to be called “Science Guy”, so no harm, no foul, right?

If you’re amenable, what crosspollination between The Division and Ghost Recon would you like to see?

I’m not sure believability had much to do with it, as opposed to the flair for the dramatic. At the end of the day, Dr. John Ostrum, the paleontologist that both Crichton and Spielberg consulted for their projects had this to say:

Q: Is Steven Spielberg’s version of dinosaur’s accurate? A: I think he’s a really talented man who can put these creatures on the screen so they look real. Steven Spielberg created this image based on a story written by another extremely clever person, Michael Crichton.

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The name I gave it was Deinonychus, which comes from the Greek and means ‘terrible claw’. And Michael Crichton, in an apologetic way, explained that in the novel he decided to use the name Velociraptors, that I had said was the closest relative to the animal I had found. He said, ‘It’s more dramatic.’ And I said I recognize that most people are not familiar with Greek. Velociraptor everyone recognizes.

Then again, if you mean “believable” in the sense that Spielberg didn’t believe accurately sized velociraptors would be scary (as opposed to ‘i literally don’t believe these creatures existed’), then I’m just making your point again, but worse.

archive link to the rest of Dr. Ostrum’s interview, if anyone is curious.

thinkin bout my old boss like

No problem. Of the two, I think I also prefer The Favourite, but I truly believe there was an element of misogyny which plagued the consensus response to Coppola’s movie upon release. I’m not sure I completely agree with Ebert’s 4 star assessment, but I do find an element of truth in what he wrote here: “Every criticism I have read of this film would alter its fragile magic and reduce its romantic and tragic poignancy to the level of an instructional film.”

I mean, I feel you’re short shifting Marie Antoinette a little bit here. It wasn’t just the soundtrack that was anachronistic, everything about the presentation is meant to encourage audiences to view the subject through a modern lens, from the lead performances all the way down to the production design. Recall that this is the movie that has a pair of hi-top Converse All-Stars included in Antoinette’s closet. If you don’t feel like it was as successful as The Favourite, that’s totally valid, but it wasn’t due to limiting the scope of its central idea to the soundtrack.

Good eye sniper! I was wracking my brain trying to think if there was some obscure predecessor to Blood Wake that I wasn’t aware of or something.

https://openmw.org/2026/openmw-0-51-0-released/

Thank God for SPT. Modding away so many frustration points, no cheaters, improving AI… Makes it a lot more enjoyable, at the cost of running even more like ass than usual.

The set up was too good to pass by. Thanks for the pitch.

is it time?

That doesn’t sound right, but it’s been long enough since I watched 48 Hrs or Tommy Boy that I can’t dispute your findings. Time for a double feature!

I thought the whole appeal of the Fediverse was that its structure prevents that sort of thing from happening, but I’m just repeating what I’ve read in other threads, so that may be inaccurate in this context.