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Not sure what your point is, I mean, obviously, it's an ARPG but it doesn't change what people call things. The only people who insist on intentionally confusing people by calling Pillars "PoE" in 2026 are the most performatively groggy grogs in my experience. The only CRPG-oriented place I've...

Same. I've never even heard of Quintet! I was surprised Phase IV was not on the list - I think it's a rather more impressive vision than a couple of ones on the list, which are kinda just cheesy (naming no names!).

Yeah I was assuming their use was factored in at least work between the barrels. If you don't use them then the barrels don't go anywhere near as far. Like, I once decided to blow up the entire bottom floor of a certain boss' castle, and I'd been collecting barrels for the entire 50% or so the...

Sturgeon's Law is meaningless circular logic that's promulgated by oldies like us who have been on the internet too long and have just started repeating catchy memes from our youth which never actually had any truth or wisdom to them, and which are notably abandoned by basically everyone under...

There's also this which at least adjacent to the concept: Albeit a lot damn sillier! But has the RTS elements and the third-person combat and so on!

There have been MMOs which fit pretty much exactly this description (mostly Korean) and in those you get to destroy your opponent's stuff when they're offline. I guess they shouldn't have been offline?

Oh people have tried! It's just the classic way to make a deeply mediocre game. Try and be three or four different games at once. Kingdom Come: Deliverance (esp. 2) works because it has a lot of tightly-crafted, absolutely non-procedural stories in it. It's got more in common with TW3 than most...

Weirdly I think actual direct Lovecraft-related stuff, modern reclamations of actual Lovecraft-Lovecraftian stuff has done pretty okay in sort of reviving actual-Mythos stuff. What still sucking and still boring/annoying is stuff that's merely "Lovecraftian" or as @CleverNickName puts it...

I mean, Johnny was THE main character in Cobra Kai. Daniel didn't get as much screen time initially though he was one of several other major characters so got plenty. But the show was initially very much Johnny's show first and everyone else's second.

You misremember, I'm afraid. Daniel was not a "minor character". He wasn't the main PoV character, that was Johnny, obviously, but Daniel is absolutely the next most major character after Johnny in S1 with his implausibly beautiful wife, his annoying children (one of whom was also a major...

I mean, Kennedy was in charge, but I don't think Acolyte was a knee-jerk cancellation, it was a poor ratings cancellation. Acolyte was weird because it had a strong cast, some really interesting and good ideas, by far the best lightsaber/Jedi fight-scenes outside of the movies (and indeed...

Same on these though I loathed Lewis false-to-me morality, it just seemed so fake and the vague murderousness of it never sat well with the role Aslan was obvious even to child to be supposed to be filling. Wind in the Willows I was also uncomfortable with how much of a thug Badger was given he...

It's not really a big a thing unless you want it to be a big thing. There are only two situations where it's kind of unavoidably significant: 1) If you're playing on Tactician or higher difficulty, there are extra barrels and traps around in places that are inconvenient or problematic for the...

Not in my experience. I dunno where you discuss CRPGs, but on various CRPG-relevant subreddits, for example, PoE is Path of Exile and Pillars of Eternity is Pillars. Also Path of Exile gets priority because it was first by a long margin, coming out in 2012, and the acronym was well-established.

Kathleen Kennedy, for better or worse, is out and Dave Filoni, for better or worse, is in charge now so that telling Kennedy strikes me as closing the stable door after the horse has bolted! It'll be interesting to see if Filoni, who I feel understands fandom and fans, understands this issue...

I think MS themselves have been struggling with it since the end of the 360 era, where they'd kind of starting believing their own hype. Up to then, it was relatively clear what MS was doing, and what they were doing basically made a lot of sense to both them and consumers. But this all changed...

Yeah I signed back up with Netflix to watch something so I could talk to my brother about it, I forget what, and I found they'd purged my entire account. Just everything gone. Prior to that I'd be subscribed with no-more than a few months break for over two decades. And Netflix just decided...

That'd be the worst possible scenario I'd suggest, and also the most likely to go wrong. I think the real solution is obvious as hell and I've pointed it out a few times. You copy Cobra Kai's setup. You get to do both, and people love you for it. Buffy was always a show in the same general...

Some thoughts re these. Pillars 3 - Yeah unfortunately Josh Sawyer said he's not making Pillars 3 (and given his position in the company, therefore no-one is) unless it gets a BG3-style budget (i.e. $100m+), which would require MS to actually not only "want it to happen" (as MS reps continually...

They just fired the experienced main people in charge of it and replaced them with people with little game industry expertise and Satya Nadella is an absolutely vapid person with strange ideas who has been making increasingly eccentric decisions/declarations about MS and Xbox. They have no clear...