Recent content by MarkB

Or at least the offspring of a Q and a Q. As I recall from the Voyager episode, the whole point of Q trying procreation was to shake things up in the Q continuum by introducing something new. So he's either Q or Q-adjacent.

There certainly was a big tonal difference between the two episodes, I was glad I didn't watch them in quick succession. The second one was pretty fun, my only annoyance was that they did rather damsel-ify Christine.

I guess the big example in the genre would be Batman, where they went through three different Batman actors in four movies starting in 1989, and have gone through, what, three or four more since the Nolan reboot. But in those cases the succeeding movies were often only loosely connected if at...

More like "okay, try to return it intac- oh, who am I kidding, I'll get a replacement on order."

Bethesda never really did get the hang of faces.

Yes, for me too.

Yes, same here using Google on android. Also seem to be getting some elements cut off at the bottom of the page - I have to scroll to the top to get the link back out to the forum.

Yeah, that matches my experience, the X games are a bit impenetrable and time-intensive, and X4 in particular seems to have a towering difficulty spike at some point. Everspace 2 is good fun, but it does get a bit repetitive after awhile. My main memory of the original X Beyond the Frontier is...

Seems like the dialogue in a couple of the bubbles in the top-right panel got switched around.

Thanks, good to know.

Not even close. Elite Dangerous is a space sim, a reimagining of the granddaddy of space sims Elite. It supports a wide variety of activities, including combat-focused ones like piracy and bounty hunting, but also others like trading, courier missions, passenger transport and asteroid mining...

Yeah, I'm just getting a handle on that, exploring my first couple of planets. So far only bacteria, which seems both less lucrative and harder to track down than other forms, will be looking for something more interesting next time.

I'm giving Elite Dangerous another try after almost seven years away from it. Currently doing some exploration outside settled space and getting used to the features introduced since I last played, the game's non-combat gameplay loops are very zen, good to listen to podcasts to.

The novel is a lot to pack into one movie, but I'll be interested to see what they pull off.

I thought Partagaz listening to Nemik's manifesto and noting that it had spread unstoppably across the galaxy conveyed that message.