Its implosion+explosion as Barad-Dur falls is possibly my favorite VFX in film.
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Alright, who rang the Bells of Awakening?
Steam is banned in Vietnam because it couldn't/wouldn't comply with their restrictive content laws.
The battle pass removed its daily check-in IIRC.
In Starsector markets have infinite money, but the per-unit price actively drops the more of a good you offer. Combined with sky-high taxes if you're not selling on the black market (which has its own gotchas), this makes it impractical to earn a profit off of hoarding a single good. You're expected to watch the intel feed for market shortages and take advantage of their desperation if you want to make it as a bulk trader. Or be a little sneaky and create a shortage yourself.
It's one of only a few games where trading requires more than finding a good route and traveling back and forth. It's surprisingly fleshed out for a title that's mostly focused on combat.
"Luckily" bottled water companies bought unlimited access to municipal water sources for pennies on the dollar, so fresh water is cheap enough (since they're piggybacking off of the water company's work filtering and purifying it) that they see no need to adulterate their product.
Sure sucks for the communities whose water is being siphoned away, but meh. It's their fault for not being born rich.
China started drafting legislation cracking down on ~~engagement bait~~ daily tasks a few years ago and some games (like Genshin and other Hoyoverse titles) dropped daily check-in bonuses and made more things reset weekly in response. I think China later backtracked (IIRC the politician pushing the laws fell out of favor?), but not feeling forced to log in every day made those games so much less stressful.
I haven't played anything in the genre in years, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that crap crept back in again.
"M-O-O-N, that spells 'sword!'"
I know a lot of people hyped up Outer Worlds as a spiritual successor to New Vegas and were disappointed when it didn't reach the same heights of writing. Obsidian not being given any time to make New Vegas and then missing their contracted bonus payout by a single Metacritic point was brought up a lot before release, and gamers trumpeted this new game as what Obsidian could have made without Bethesda mismanagement. Then it came out and had the temerity to be average, leaving fans acting like they'd somehow been betrayed by Obsidian.
It wasn't Obsidian's or the game's fault that people decided it had to be a 10/10 masterpiece, it just got caught up in a stupid fanbase war against Bethesda and its reputation suffered when it couldn't meet people's sky-high expectations.
This diagram is missing Orthrus in the two dog crossover sections.
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It's also already a ninth level spell, so saying he'll cast it at level nine is meaningless and a failed attempt to establish nerd cred.