Is anyone else not enjoying pretty much naked advertising for… junk?

I wish that made me more confident that they can make decent Trek movies and TV, but it doesn’t

Skydance: Started and run by Larry Ellison’s son, David Ellison, and being that, it’s impossible for him to run out of money.

I hope he’s a Trekkie.

In other news, human free will was found to be a delusion.

He met some cosplayers who built one by following the historical documents.

I hope that our real first contact will be peaceful, the beginning of a partnership, and opening humanity to a wider universe, rather than a prelude to war and destruction for either party.

I surprised Sunraku didn’t try to get directions on how to access Caatzia himself instead of going through 4 parties Sunraku -> Bilac -> Aramiys -> D’Arnyaata

His “pull” for defeating Wethermon plus being an honorary Rabitzan should have gotten him that much?

This Aramiys smells like an XP thief, and who hasn’t had one of those in their RPG parties?

Is ST: Discovery any good?

I don’t hear much about it.

I haven’t seriously watched any ST since DS9.

Why didn’t Sunraku just make a save point in Eighthold? It would have saved Emul a lot of mana potions…

Plus every time Emul makes a gate from Rabbitza in a town, there’s a risk of it, and therefore Rabbitza, being discovered.

You’re a Romulan spy too?

Thank goodness, I thought I was the only one!

That death scene re-do was pretty good!

I remember going through that Star Trek: The Experience deck, and they let me sit in the captains chair for a paid souvenir photo!

That was a really cool attraction, and I was disappointed when I learned it was taken down.

I wonder what spells the other new First Class Mages picked?

Passing Übel I think proves that Serie’s criteria for promoting a FCM is “amuse me”.

I was reviewing what Sunraku’s travel plans on Bilac’s map in episode 22, and they didn’t jive with what Sunraku was saying about where places were located.

I crudely pasted together screenshots of his travel plans to make a map:

It turns out that the last parts where Sunraku is pointing out that the Lightless Barrens are beyond Eleventar is using a view of the map that is rotated almost 180 degrees, so indeed, the Lightless Barrens are farther away.

The travel plans are also drawn on Bilac’s map rotated about 90 degrees counter-clockwise

So the geography is consistent, but the map orientations keep being spun around, i.e. there is no common North-on-top orientation the way we usually use maps.

edit: Uploaded slightly cleaner version of the travel map

Whew, caught up finally!

I’m surprised Sunraku hasn’t taken a closer look at Pencilgon’s nasty-looking sword yet.

Maybe it’s not relevant to the plot yet.

It seems like bad game design to have an area boss that can only be damaged by holy weapons and spells.

Without picking up the knowledge from somewhere, or dying a few times trying random stuff to learn the trick, that could be really frustrating.

Richter being a bad loser was on character with the other things he did and said.

Accomplishing that without turning him into a caricature, that was good writing and disciplined direction.

What does Serie’s mana fluctuating mean? That she’s suppressing her mana too?

I remember someone or other saying they can tell when someone is suppressing their mana because it fluctuates or something like that.

I’d forgotten about Creation Cons…

And after looking at the money grubbing sessions that they were, I remember why now…

It’s kind of cool to know the actors are still around though, to see how they look without the makeup (ROM!!!) and it’s hard to begrudge them the opportunity for a quick buck.

Secretly loving Freiren and Fern using the name Zoltraak instead of Standard Offensive Magic.

Because Zoltraak sounds really cool.

Thinking about it, the other human mages who haven’t studied the history of magic extensively probably wouldn’t even know SOM was originally called Zoltraak.

Or at least they only might have heard it in passing, like trivia.

Denken might know.

Re: Training Flamme on a whim

Serie also talks about time. Delaying some task for 100 or 200 years is nothing to the long-lived elves.

So the 15-20 years to raise and train a human is a blink of an eye to them, it could also be called a whim.

Raising a cat or dog as a pet to a human wouldn’t even be a good analogue, because even one of those from litter to grave takes up a good chunk of a human life.

A human to an elf would be more like a butterfly or some other common insect. A couple of weeks of company and it’s gone.

Almost, but quite to point of human “jobs” in The Culture books, where benevolent AIs actually run everything. Humans are considered by the AIs as pets.