Shame that Mass Effect 3 has the "best" ending for the Geth be the one where they make peace with the Quarians (who are actively trying to genocide them again) and then quietly leave their homeworld after helping the Quarians recolonise it.
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Thanks comrade.
bonus if you’re white but not needed.
Saes ruling class still have a bee in their dick about Ireland liberating themselves from the British Empire, even as Ireland slotted perfectly into The West™ in most matters of imperial struggle.
spoilers for DOOM Eternal's DLC
Hayden banking on the Slayer doing that so that he could use VEGA in his plan to bring back the setting's god figure, threw me out of the loop for a while.
AM from I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream: I haven't got 'round to playing the 1999 videogame adaptation yet, but loved the short story that spawned it. You don't need me to give the pitch, by now someone else in this thread has probably posted the speech about how much AM hates humans.
SHoDAN from System Shock: on the subject of malevolent AIs. SHoDAN is probably my favourite one in fiction ever. System Shock does a brilliant job of setting her up as a hostile presence you are trapped inside of. The smug way she congratulates you when you get stuck in one of her traps or accidentally give her immediate access to the giant laser, help to add depth to what could easily've been a stock AI threat cast from AM's Mold.
There's an Isaac Asimov short story about two engineers who are sent to help start up a self repairing satellite that is part of a network collecting energy from the sun. The satellite has the means to produce its own drones to carry out repairs that are controlled by their own individual AIs. As the engineers stay and try to observe any flaws in the systems, they notice the drones have started worshipping the satellite AI as a god, and become convinced it created everything including the station that contains it. Drama abounds as the engineers try to convince them but ultimately fail and choose to move on, leaving a report that the satellite works fine as long as you don't debate theology with it. For the life of me, I can't remember the name of the story, but the characterisation of the AI stuck with me.
Nick Valentine from Fallout 4: as a man from the past trapped in an unfamiliar time, arguably, Nick is a much better version of the character that Nate/Nora is supposed to be. The digitised brain of a pre-war cop, trapped in the shell of one of the institute's "gen-2 synths", (uncanny valley androids that are being phased out in favour of newer ones that are completely identical to humans). Waking up in a pile of scrap with the synthetic skin that hides his machinery damaged, Nick is unfamiliar with both the world he finds himself in and the body he occupies. His synthetic skin is damaged in large swathes, exposing parts of his robotic skull and generally advertising his roboticness to strangers who live in paranoia of the institute using synths like him as assassins and abductors. Ages ago, I wrote a little screed in a megathread about how the Railroad's view of allyship has parallels with liberal queer allyship. I can't help but view Nick through the lense, therefore, of a visibly queer person.
The one after the last one you watched aired tonight.
If you live in the UK BBC iPlayer will have it, otherwise, Disney holds distributing rights.
spoilers for the most recent Dr Who episode
Fucking cowards couldn't be bothered to kill Donna off. Beep the Meep returning was a poor move, the only people who care about it are diehard fans who already know its shtick and therefore saw the episode twist coming. The bug cop things were rad though.
Overall I would rate it meh, and I'll likely forget the entire plot of the thing by this time next week.
I had fun making it write an entry on a creature that doesn't actually exist in folklore or media or anything of the sort (although it was briefly an in joke amongst me and my mates).
Check it out, we got stats for these things.
Noted feature: scaly wings
The emphasis on scaly here conjures images of a dragon with humanlike skin.
Note: neither section 1 or 2 are actually present in the article beyond the contents page.
So it picked up on the fact I was referring to mines with pit...
But later paragraphs describe them as dwelling in trees and undergrowth.
Historically accurate
Wtf is this sentiment that keeps getting regurgitated about fantasy settings. It's not historical to begin with. Why would it need to be historically accurate. Let alone the fact that these people don't want accuracy they want 
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Yeah, that's just the elite knight set, it's in every Dark Souls.
I meant the pose.
No, they said cum and go, they just didn't specify where (jail).