Category: The Pantry

Random things.

Rings of Power [Season 2, Episode 7 – The Siege of Weird]

This entire episode is the siege of Eregion, which could have been awesome. However, thanks to inept writers, totally unable to create any kind of tension or fun action, it becomes an hour-long bore, instead of something exciting. To be fair, stuff happens, and both elves and orcs (a few horses) get their throats cut. Yet, it’s made boring since the flow of battle is hard to follow, and has horrible cinematic direction.

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We are back [DRM HELL]

We are back here once again. This time it involves the game Valfaris on Steam. A game I bought in a Fanatical bundle back in 2022. Today, the developer suddenly decided to revoke my game, essentially removing my game from my digital library on Steam. A product that I paid for.

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Ragdoll effects forever!

Ragdolls, the one game-enchanting aspect of any game, often regardless of genre. For me, the fun started all the way back in the original Hitman: Codename 47, when I noticed you could drag the dead bodies around. I spent hours dumping my victims into the sewers (we all float down here). Since then, it has of course lost some of the shine, as it has become standard in games (you would hope, at least). Some do it poorly, and some do it great, but as long as it is there, it improves the game experience.

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Rings of Power [Season 2, Episode 6 – The Kraken]

Whoops. Seems I made a mistake in my post about episode 5. Celebrimbor is not going away after all. I got that all wrong. Apparently, he is making the 9 rings himself to somehow compensate for the 7 corrupted rings. Oh well. It seems making those 9 rings is a pain in the butt though, since every attempt has failed so far, even managing to run out of mithril. Celebrimbor is showing some reluctance to the whole thing still, and is slowly going a bit nuts in the process. The manipulation by Sauron continues unabated, and he even succeeds in getting more mithril somehow, despite being denied for more material by the dwarven king.

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Rings of Power [Season 2, Episode 5 – We got rings!]

Wow, an actual semi-competent episode with some tension and interesting plot development. Color me surprised! Well, I shouldn’t praise it too much, since I find the Númenor plot line boring, and above all, strange. Now, the coup for leadership is completed for Númenor, but I really don’t see how the failure (was it even a failure?) of the little war in the south would turn the whole country against the queen. Sure, losing a battle is never good for morale, yet, it wasn’t that bad. And when they set out to slay orcs, the spirits of the population were high. They do realize that war comes with risk, and that some of the soldiers will surely die, right? Also, it was only one freaking battle! Talk about finicky citizens that supposedly have war in their veins.

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