Giving players the tools and mechanics to live out their wildest fantasies of being corporate overlords controlling the power of large intergalactic territory dominating any competition that rises by crushing them into submission. Oh and you get to fly cool ships that go pew pew.

To be honest after speaking about it with my mrs, and while a spin offs already exist, i would love to see a spin off of the john wick series looking into the impossible task that he did to be with his wife.

I know it adds to the mystery of john wick and the fact that this is used to add a sense of dread to his enemies of how strong mentally and physically he is, it just drives me crazy thinking about what it was he had to do specifically to get out fron the continental. Also after the success of the continental series i think it would make for some greag action scenes as they did with the movies and more importantly john wick chapter 4.

For me i didnt get a chance to watch alot of films this year, however deadpool and wolverine was a great treat when that was released on disney+

Ryan reynolds once again pulled of a cracker in the character deadpool, and hugh jackman still owns the character wolverine.

The comedic banter of hatred to one of another (characters hatred ofcourse) was used sufficiently to allow it to lead to lead to the two epic showdown between them from the duel and the car brawl without it being used too much, both of which were did not fall flat. The car brawl had a comedic side to watch.

Introducing wolverine after his death was dealt with smoothly, thanks to the introduction of the multiverse earlier in loki.

The cameos of past Marvel characters/actors was also appreciated rather than filling all with todays big hit cause it felt like a nod to the overall history of marvel movies over the past 30 years.

The question now is, where does marvel go from here, does the MCU introduce deadpool more into the MCU with some and if so how will that play out. Will they bring him in through as a side character over the next few phases, or try to introduce him as a main character in lets say a spiderman movie, all of which will be interesting to see.

So im only reccomending this due to the fact i watched the series on amazon. But the origin stories of Vox Machina (created by critical role) the anime series was brilliant and funny to see how their table top game got translated to the animated series. Now looking into the origin stories it still follows the same format as the animates series, including the antics of certain characters such as grog and in particular scanlan. Scanlan during one boss battle spent more time lecturing people including the bad guys, thoigh thinking about it now mighy have been his tactic to stay alive and set them up for death. So if you are a fan of crirical role and their vox machina series then definitely read the origin stories (im gonna start book 2 and 3 that my wife got me for xmas).

Oh then theres the John Wick series (comic series 1-5)that looks at john wicks journey of revenge that ultimately leads him to officially joining the new york continental. It is only a short series but it gives some extra content in understanding the drive of john wick to settle scores with individuals. The series focuses on a small team of criminals that john wick had connections with in his past and jis pursuot to settle scores with them thst lead him to the ultimatum of joining the continental. Whilst a short series its well worth a read for those who are are a fan of john wick.

Oh and then theres the EVE Online series, set in the EVE Online world game that explains the conflicts between the 4 major races. The Empyrean age was a really good book as this was also set as lore to some of the expansions that occured in the game providing rich details on key players in the background thay lead to the capsuleers involvement of the game. Just wish there was more books and that the games lore would occur more often in the game world.

Helldivers 2. This game goes back to basics, it all about jumping into a shootup with friends, without it being complicated. Story is simple, and the moments you make with your friends are worth it. I still have the recording of when my friends missile strike went through my head.

The fact it has a GM also makes it interesting as there are not many games that have a system like this. The fact that the map changes based on his decisions which then changes the strategies taken to beat back the socialist hordes and those who wish to see super earths way of life and liberty wipedout from the galaxy. Just makes a great game to have fun with

As aplayer who jumps in and out due to realworld commitments, is elite dangerous still a good game to play casually? One the you dont havr to religiously grind?

I would say it is abit of both, in the first place local in high space especially in Jita is great as a one stop shop for advise, fun chats, team ups, and business. It is great for getting to know other players and allows for the first step of making friends and building alliances.

However when one starts travelling to low and more importantly nulsec/wh space. As this provides situational awareness on what the battlefield and territory looks like. This comes more important when doing business runs that requires you through. It show immediatley yhe how many people are in the current system, how active chats are (which indicates how much monitoring is going on) the status of those players (especially if they have done recent criminal activiy in low sec. This can also help if you safe doing any covert ops like double agents and stuff.

I tend to use duckduckgo which is good for privacy, yes the searches are better on google but duckduckgo for privacy is good if you dont want companies logging your searches

Personnally i can see further development in the AI sector, chatgpt was just the beginning, we are seeing more development in deep fakes, there had already been test cases and apps designed for this. Now this is a bit of a pessimistic view, but looking at criminal and political influence i can see an increase in use of deepfakes that are more sophosticated for both criminal use and possible information campaigns in politics. This will becomre more important when talking about global stability with a US presidential change whoch itself will brong alot of questipna moving forward.

Ok someome has already mentioned home alone, so i gotta to the next best xmas movie in the world, also one that is contraversial... DIE HARD. I dont care what anyone says, it is the ultimate xmas movie for adults (and basically adult version of home alone) and ill explain

Kevin mccasllister = john mclain

Kevims home = nakatomi plaza

Hans gruber and thugs = wet bandits

It also had all the relevant parts to make it a christmad movie, christmas songs, christams party, christmas references.

It is basically a christmad movie