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#51

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by celedhring - November 14, 2025, 04:01:11 PM

www.justwatch.com is a great resource for this. As said, platforms may vary across countries, particularly if it's not a recent American production.

#52

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Norgy - November 14, 2025, 03:55:28 PM

I have a request to make.  When mentioning a show, please also indicate the streaming platform where it can be found.

Fair warning, that can vary quite a bit across continents.

#53

Off the Record / Re: Grand unified books thread

Last post by Bauer - November 14, 2025, 03:45:11 PM

I've started a sci fi book series called Bobiverse that I find quite original and funny.

Bob is a bit of a loner and exec of a tech company, he signs up to get his head frozen upon death and soon after gets hit by a car.

He wakes up to realize he's now property of an Orwellian state, and converted into an AI program.  Most candidates go insane quickly but bob is surprisingly unbothered.  He ends up being chosen as the AI for a self replicating probe whose mission is to find planets to colonize and save humanity.

Bob is quirky, and en route to the first system he creates a VR simulation so he can feel like he has a body again.  The first bob replicant he creates names himself Ryker and makes his VR into the enterprise 

#54

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Josquius - November 14, 2025, 03:42:26 PM

That would be a moronic policy given inflation and fiscal drag mean by rights they should be going up if anything.
I mean jeez. At least add a new band or something.

#55

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Syt - November 14, 2025, 03:42:07 PM

I have a request to make.  When mentioning a show, please also indicate the streaming platform where it can be found.

Sorry. Pluribus is on Apple TV (I think I mentioned it kn last week's post.)

#56

Gaming HQ / Re: Pdx to publish Vampire - T...

Last post by Josquius - November 14, 2025, 03:40:56 PM

I had no idea it had came out already. I've seen absolutely zero reporting around it.

#57

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by crazy canuck - November 14, 2025, 03:29:16 PM

I have a request to make.  When mentioning a show, please also indicate the streaming platform where it can be found.

#58

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by crazy canuck - November 14, 2025, 03:26:18 PM

Why is it a letdown Tamas - and why do you guys want a later start date?  If you want vanilla 1492, just play IV?

First of all if I didn't prefer EU5 over EU4 I'd be playing EU4. But after 400-ish hours I am kind of bored of it.

And the later start date would be better because the trajectory of history was much more set in 1492 than in 1337. This is also an advantage of the 1300s startdate, obviously, but looking at some people discuss their games in the AI modder's Discord shows me that nearly every game Castille eats Portugal but leaves Aragon alone, the Ottomans never go past the western half of Anatolia and bits of Greece, Austria almost never gains any territory, and no Russia emerges, like, ever.

Hopefully these are just AI issues, if SOME regional and world challengers apart from France emerged I'd probably be content even if they are not called Ottomans, Muscovy and Austria. But none of that happens.

Ok, so the letdown is Hungary is not going to face it's historical enemy in your game?  I can understand that 

#59

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by crazy canuck - November 14, 2025, 03:24:41 PM

Why is it a letdown Tamas - and why do you guys want a later start date?  If you want vanilla 1492, just play IV?

Feels like I explained this already. Are my reasons insufficient or not adequate for some reason?    I mean they might not be good reasons, but I feel like I provided reasons.

I am not sure you can answer for Tamas - he made post saying that discovering that Hungary had a large number of vassal states which made up the bulk of his income was a letdown.  I am not sure why that is.

#60

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Sheilbh - November 14, 2025, 03:06:31 PM

By the by reporting in the Guardian that the government think the politics is too hard (although this government's approach to politics is reminiscent of Ned Flanders' beatnik parents: "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas") and one option to replace raising the rate of income tax is lowering the thresholds for income tax levels. Which I think shows an astonishingly contemptuous view of the intelligence of the public if they think they'll be able to get away with saying they've not broken a manifesto promise not to raise income tax while doing that.

I'm not saying people are right in expressing a desire to burn it all to the ground, but I sort of feel like that type of tricksy bullshit is the sort of thing the public loathe.