Ilandar

Thanks for sharing!

This is the type of list someone you meet at a party who "loves movies" would give you.

but I always had the impression you didn’t really like me

Not at all, I'm not sure why you'd think that.

Seventeen-year-olds, last I checked, were kids.

It's one of my favourites! I have a box set of the manga too. :)

The first character I created in the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic back when it launched was an Imperial Agent (Operative) called Lastelle Ilandar. Lastelle is the name of the Princess of Pejite in Hayao Miyazaki's 'Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind' and Ilandar was an original surname I thought sounded good when paired with Lastelle. Because I played on a roleplaying server initially, I created a little backstory for the character where she was a daughter of a noble Alderaanian family (House Ilandar). Her family planned to marry off against her wishes, so she joined Imperial Intelligence as a means of rebelling against them. A lot of people use their nickname or gamer name as their online username but I've never had one of those so this has sort of become the default one for me, although I haven't used it that often.

Who said anything about five year olds?

They should, but unfortunately today's parents have been convinced that the world is extremely dangerous and that letting their children go outside to have adventures and build their confidence is "bad parenting".

I’m pretty sure general gameplay already has all core systems in place, movement, shooting, reloading, etc. I don’t see that changing much.

I was thinking more in terms of soul mechanics. There have been lots of big meta shifts this year in relation to wave sharing, jungling and the urn. I'm not sure if they've settled on that yet or if there will be more big changes in 2025 as they try to work out how much they want to play into the MOBA component vs the hero shooter component.

I love visual novels so that's definitely something I'm looking forward to.

I've been scared of animated movies about cute robots ever since WALL-E made me cry within the first 5 minutes.

I agree with you, not really sure why this film wasn't panned more. It's just another nostalgia bait reboot filled with derivative ideas taken from its superior predecessors (which is saying a lot, considering how bad Prometheus and Covenant were). Shit like this is exactly what that South Park memberberries episode was making fun of, and that was over eight years ago. The "you bitch" line was so forced it was physically painful to watch.