Recent content by MarkB

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.

Now I'm picturing a French-produced Western about a town where the law doesn't show its face anymore, called Sans Sheriff.

It's a pretty different situation too, the Cardassians were never seen as a legitimate government and their oppression was more overt, so there was no real need to foment pockets of rebellion.

Fair enough, they've thoroughly learned their lesson about releasing a product before it's ready, and at least they don't have a lot riding on this one.

Applicable? I'm not sure anything that requires an infinitely-powerful pump and infinitely-strong materials could be called "applicable".

Since when do barbarians need keys to open anything?

Meh, I never actually watch the videos anyway.

Who's talking about impossible? That's strawman talk. But tell me, if you saw two stories called Bram's Boys and Abraham's Sons, would you not consider one of them more likely to have biblical content than the other?