wizardbeard

Movie- Final Fantasy XV: Kingsglaive-

Good movie, but some caveats. Could never reccomend as a standalone thing. Some of the voice acting is questionable. Nyx (the main character) does a good job of not sounding like his VA, Aaron Paul, until the lines get strained or emotional and then it's like I'm listening to Jessie yelling at Heisenberg again. Really robs some of the more impactful scenes of their gravitas, because Nyx is a highly trained specops soldier, and the "Pinkman's having emotions" voice just doesn't fit the big scenes to me. Some sections of the movie feel rushed too, much like the game it's meant to tie in to.

As a companion to the game though? Great stuff. Recontextualizes a ton, and explains some stuff that was barely touched on in the game which could have used it.

I beat the game originally around release, and it's had a lot of updates since to further flesh out the story. I'm finally replaying it "complete" on PC with Royal/Windows Edition, all the DLC, a small selection of mods, and a guide to the important "non-game side-content" and when I should watch/read it.

Kingsglaive technically runs concurrent with Chapter 1 of the game, but it spoils the ending of Ch1 and part of the identity of a "mysterious stranger" character early. Best place to watch it for new players is probably after Chapter 1, but for returning players it's great immediately after the game's prologue/training section. The after credits scene leads directly into the opening scene of chapter 1 of the game.

I think the movie singlehandedly saves the character of the game's love interest/damsel in distress, Lunafreya. Adds a shit ton of depth to the game's MC's father. And knowing the end of the game makes everything hit harder.

I mean this sincerely: Am I missing something in their sources? None of their three sources about BNPL support the "60%" number for groceries.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markfaithfull/2025/04/28/american-consumers-turn-to-buy-now-pay-later-for-groceries-as-high-costs-bite

https://pueblostarjournal.org/news/2025/06/03/shopping-buy-now-pay-later-groceries

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/26/americans-groceries-buy-now-pay-later-loans.html

CNBC mentions 60% of general admission tickets for Coachella being BNPL sales.

It and the other two articles state 41%-43% of generally surveyed people simply stating they used BNPL last year, not for what.

I'm not seeing any source for "60% of Americans using BNPL for groceries", and anecdotally that doesn't match anything I'm hearing/seeing in my day to day life. Economy's shit, but this feels a little "narrative"-y for my tastes.

This is Vital Proteins brilliant response to being taken to court over heavy metal and "foreign materials" contamination in their products.

What a cutie!

If you want, you can also cross post this to !bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org and/or !bunnies@lemmy.world too. Both are semi-active bun communities.

You're more than welcome to not come back if you find it that bad.

It sounds like you'd feel better not having to deal with all these people with... (let's see the thread...) different opinions about the usefulness of an AI summary. Edit: to be fair, whoever this person is, I already have them blocked. Maybe they were being belligerant.

100% sincerely, life is too short to spend on social websites you hate.

Or maybe different people find different things useful than you do. No need to be an asshole just because people disagree with you.

I have a problem with it. None of the information in that summary is useful except for maybe the list of Steam features at the end. So... about four words out of the whole thing.

The rest is context that I can already assume based off the page title and the URL, without some AI limply regurgitating it to me.

I'd extend that to most internet memes.

Awesome! Guess I'll need to update all my mods tonight and wait a little bit for the core mods to update.

I'd imagine this is their solution for Xbox exclusive games with their upcoming handhelds, since those are only going to have the Windows GamePass, no additional Xbox compatibility.

Huh? Investment people definitely didn't wait for that classification to start turning it into a speculations market. The SEC actions were largely reactive.

My local bank's investment and wealth management bros were already all about crypto long before regulations.