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A show ahead of its time, in the sense that it wanted to be the antithesis of conventional superhero stories at a time when conventional superhero tropes weren't yet really in the public consciousness.

I've never heard the terms. Hopepunk sounds straightforward, but what is solarpunk?

I know it would be unrealistically expensive, but we should really just be pumping out another JWST each year, purely so that we have capacity to actually set some onto specific studies for more extended periods.

Altered Carbon. The second season still hit some interesting subject matter, but it didn't have as strong a story or characters as the first season.

I can't think of any recent games which had obnoxiously ungenerous save checkpoints, and some modern consoles make things even easier in that respect (if you put the PS5 into Sleep mode instead of shutting it down completely it'll preserve your game state in memory so you can pick up exactly...

The other trick, as I recall, was doing the damage over a greater duration rather than all at once. It worked out cheaper, and an enemy hit with high enough damage would go into a stunned animation and wouldn't recover before they died, so it was just as effective at taking an enemy out of the...

I just hope they still have the same five voice actors with occasional OOC line readings accidentally left in.

Yeah, the effects aren't great these days, but Reeve's physical performance is what sells it. Not just how he changes mannerisms in each persona, which is borderline magical in itself, but the way he transitions from walking to flying and vice versa looks so natural that you hardly question that...

Hopefully, yeah - Oblivion is an interesting middle-ground between the bonkers do-anything energy of Morrowind and the simplifications of Skyrim, its customisable class system is a definite asset. Wouldn't mind if they scaled up the map a bit, though - that Imperial capital city that you can...

It's not all it's cracked up to be.

Yeah, turning off the QTEs was an accessibility feature they patched in after release. You can also disable the puzzles in DocOck's lab, but I enjoyed those so never did. This is one of the few games I've 100%ed. The only parts I found a drag were the Taskmaster traversal challenges - I never...

As a game I prefer this one to either of the follow-ups, web swinging still feels fresh and it does a great job of ramping up the stakes and tension. The enforced-stealth side character missions are clunky, but I don't have the antipathy to them that a lot of people do. I do turn off the...

I meant the ones in the other flats within the house.

Yeah, even the neighbours seemed kinda cool with it after the initial shock.

Since 24th May is a Saturday and will coincide with the seventh episode of the series, I'm guessing they'll resolve the issue in that episode.

Probably that whole "crossing my own timeline" thing that's always an important issue except when it isn't.

Currently playing through Subnautica for the nth time, mainly because once you're familiar with it it's a fairly chill game to play while listening to podcasts (aside from when you get turned around in a cave system and absolutely fail to find your way back out to your sub before your air runs out).

In this time, having generative AI turn out not to be the villain feels like a genuine twist.

I suppose that does highlight one thing specific to this genre that hasn't been brought up: Action and physical combat. None of the examples and counter-examples touted about in these threads that I can recall have lacked those aspects. Indeed, none of the people discussed as being superheroes...

Yeah, nobody has that much marmalade.