VindictiveJudge @ VindictiveJudge @lemmy.world

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Yes. The pupils were generally only visible in the pre-rendered videos.

That the Jedi Council is incredibly hubristic and far less aligned with the light side than they think is a major theme of the prequel era.

You found E 4th N, but did you find the second E 4th N?

Cincinnatus was actually cool. Rome's neighbors violated a peace treaty and tried to invade them. They called up Cincinnatus, a retired general, and gave him full dictatorial power. He resolved the situation in two weeks, abdicated all of his powers on day fifteen, and went back to his farm. Then he did it a second time when someone tried to end the republic and make themself a king.

Someone like Crassus would be a more appropriate Roman to reference.

I hurt my knee; can I remain seated?

He actually does have unique dialogue if you save him, but not much. Trying to talk with him after saving him will have him say, "I don't want to talk about it," and immediately end conversation.

Additionally, Tamriel Rebuilt makes him the court mage at Old Ebonheart and adds a quest about selecting a replacement after he dies. Or, if you managed to save him, you can find him in Old Ebonheart for a reward.

Fortunately, the blindness can be countered with magic resistance, which only resists negative effects (like blind) while allowing positive effects (like fortify speed) to work unimpeded.

Hmm, still not working for me. 8, 9, Experimental, and Hotfix all fail to run the game.

Edit: Actually, looks like I might have a different problem. Proton seems to be failing to launch anything at all.

Edit 2: Looks like something went wrong with the way Proton interacts with NTFS drives. Moving the install back to the primary ext4 drive fixed it. Removing the compatdata folders on the NTFS volume and replacing it with a symlink to the primary compatdata folder also fixes it. Weird, because this is the first time I've encountered this issue, but it's apparently fairly common.

You could have Judas be a millenial who was sent back in time.

Relevant xkcd

Who is Angelica?

Anyone else having issues getting it to run?

Adira was being called she/her for the first few episodes they were there because of that reason. No one is ever going to know that they’re non-binary unless they say it. They then had a singular fucking line where they said I prefer they/them. Like… this is why I got frustrated before because that is going out of its way to not make a point of it. There was a singular scene with a singular line. It’s maddening to hear people say that they drew any attention at all when they went out of their way to give it as little attention as possible.

Ah, I actually thought it was a longer, more emotional scene from the way I've seen it talked about, or even the focus of an episode. A quick comment is basically exactly how I would have expected Trek to handle that. I mean, yeah, gender isn't always visible, especially for non-binary folks, so it needs to be mentioned.

So, fun fact. Culber was always intended to die in Season 1 and be resurrected in Season 2. Not something I personally like or agree with but I do find it interesting.

I really didn't like Berg and Harberts as showrunners. They had a serious penchant for melodrama and I found it suspicious that they claimed everything viewers didn't like was Fuller's fault, even in episodes produced long past when Fuller left. And that was before we found out how they were treating the staff. Killing a character for shock value while intending to revive them later very much sounds like them.

I don’t really care though. Trek is not forced into the mould of the past and TV has changed. Moreover, allegory only was able to work because the discussion wasn’t a constant lingering conversation. With the world hating trans folks, being more obvious with that acceptance will never be a bad thing. Making people feel accepted will never be a bad thing.

Which is why I was surprised when I learned Discovery made a point of it. TOS never made a point about there being a Russian on the bridge or a black woman being the third officer. TNG... honestly wasn't all that progressive for the '80s and '90s. Probably Berman's fault. DS9 never only brought up Jadzia's pansexuality in regards to Kira being comparatively close-minded, and even then regarding specific species rather than gender or sex; nobody gave a flying fuck that Dax was into someone who was currently a woman that one time, just that they had previously been married. Sisko being black similarly wasn't worthy of comment until he personally experienced the 1950s. VOY had half the command staff, including the captain, as women without a single comment. And DIS has previously shown Stamet's and Culber's relationship as completely ordinary. Part of Trek is showing us at our best, so why the change?

If Stamets was able to just be gay without it being a big deal (the representation were dying for instead of being a clown for entertainment) then why can’t Adira?

The relationship between Stamets and Culber was one of my favorite parts of Disco's first season until they fridged Culber. It was cute watching Stamets go from his usual prickly self to just melting whenever he talked about Culber. Culber was woefully underdeveloped until the second season, though.

I want to preface this by saying that I'm a hetero cis dude, I bruise easily, and I didn't watch DIS that far, but Trek has historically worked best with allegory rather than just transplanting today's issues into the future. Having Adira openly be non-binary with nobody caring and come out as a joined human feels like it would work as the traditional allegorical approach. That's essentially what they did in Rejoined, after all.

That said, subtlety wasn't exactly DISCO's strength and I am, again, a hetero cis dude. And times change so maybe that approach just doesn't work well anymore.

Unless, of course, that onion knight has a lot of experience in other professions, in which case they can easily punch gods to death.

Now I want to play Plague Inc...

He's an unaltered clone, just a younger duplicate of Jango.

Fuck yes. A slave that takes on the slave owning Templar? Sign me up all day, I want to run into a confederate camp and crush them.

Freedom Cry, the standalone expansion for Black Flag, was essentially this concept in the Carribean. You play as Adewale, a slave turned pirate turned Assassin, and liberate plantations.

Patients also only get sent to House when nobody else can figure it out.