Moa

He can go work with Polanski.

13 hours ago, Mercury33 said:

This has 90’s weirdo sci fi vibes and I’m fucking here for it 

Dark City but bad.

So I "beat" the game at 8 hours. I wish there was just slightly more direction throughout the game as I had far more difficulty figuring out where to go rather than what to do once I managed to find a path forward. There's still clearly a lot left to do in the game, but it's hard for me to figure out exactly what I'm looking for. I don't like the save/checkpoint system which makes some difficulty spikes really frustrating when they might otherwise be fun if you could just get back into it after failing. The tools are also a little weird in that one of them is incredibly useful in every situation and the rest of them feel very underwhelming with mostly obvious uses.

Played about 2.5 hours so far and this game is really interesting. The multipurpose tools have surprising uses, the animals feel much more organic and strange than conventional metroidvania 'enemies,' and the fact that I'm already doing broken things in platforming and exploration makes me excited to see where this game goes.

The art is also pretty striking and unique with the way it blends pretty conventional metroidvania graphics with much more detailed animal sprites and wild lighting and particle effects.

Gameplay spoiler:

2 hours ago, TwinIon said:

 

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I thought it mostly worked. The film seemed to be setting up Jessie to die and Lee as a person who would always capture horrors rather than prevent them. The sequence itself might be a little melodramatic, but both as a way for Lee to have changed and for Jessie to have taken up her mantle, I think it works. I also wasn't entirely sure if she did die. They're facing small arms fire, she's wearing a vest, we don't see any blood I can recall, and no one checks her vitals. I think the point is largely that it doesn't matter, what matters is getting the shot, and either way, it had to be Jessie to step up.

 

So despite thinking this is a fundamentally ill-conceived subject I wasn't going to not see it as a curious person and general Garland fan. As a movie, I thought it was mostly brilliant. The direction, cinematography, SOUND, music, composition, etc, every aspect of film making was top-notch. The decision to follow journalists was wise and well-integrated, and the road trip setup was pure Americana. The only other movies I can think of that made me sweat this much were The Hurt Locker and Hereditary. Somehow every loud noise, no matter how telegraphed, startled me. Overall, I don't think the movie should exist, but it was also a spectacular spectacle.

Ending:

I also enjoy that the post-release reception seems to be 'big whoop.' The movie wanted to have it both ways in terms of courting controversy, and ultimately its release and reception seem to have had very little cultural impact. Two rappers beefing has caused orders of magnitude more buzz than this movie, and that just tickles me.

I wish the playbase could muster 1/10th of this passion towards getting them to remove the shady ass anti-cheat.

Started this, immediately turned it off and played Greener Grass Awaits, which was quite fun and once the horror begins induced a persistent rush of adrenaline and tension very few other games have managed to maintain.

ITT: People so upset Seinfeld complained about the direction of comedy they suggest he kill himself, definitely not proving his point.

On 4/26/2024 at 8:09 PM, 69los said:

Week 3

 

The very underrated

 

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I watched this one recently as it had been on my list and it was highly recommended in a reddit threat about horror movies where characters make reasonable decisions. I liked it a lot but wish that the resolution was just a little less obvious.

Never judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree or Tarantino by his ability to count.

I also bounced off after about 1.5 episodes. I gave it a try since it had positive buzz, and I thought the song was pretty neat but the style of dialogue just wasn't doing it for me.

Visually the show was little hit and miss with some of the sets and props looking artificial, but they did a great job with Goggins as the ghoul. 

Seven eps in and I like it more than expected. I thought the trailer looked surprisingly good, the first few episodes were a little dull despite having some moments, but the actual plot of the show is shaping up to be surprisingly solid.

On 4/11/2024 at 8:24 PM, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

The entire bear scene in the second episode 

Really made me think of this.

Finale spoiler:

I cannot believe that this show began in 2000. It’s been a while since I watched the earlier seasons but I really don’t associate it with that era. 

Solid episode, didn't realize the season was over though. I do wish the show was a little less coy with what the viltrumites are actually up to. They're basically offering fully automated luxury gay space communism, but everyone reflexively knows that they're evil because of the way that they are. I just wish someone would ask them a follow up question like, hey if what you have to offer is so great why are you enacting genocidal violence to make us take your great offer.

It would be really funny if there actually is no catch, life with the viltrumites is perfect and we're just such a suspicious evil species that we can't recognize altruism when we're looking it in the face. Though that doesn't really work considering Omni-man's solution to the trolley problem.

As is increasingly the case with his videos, it takes a while to get to video games, but the subject is fantastic.

20 hours ago, sblfilms said:

 

It is a road trip comedy with a sci-fi underbelly

2 hours ago, best3444 said:

 

Ashley Birch.

Sounds promising.

I finished the season and am generally disappointed. There are plenty of nits to pick, but overall one of the best things about the books is how huge everything feels and the way the scope constantly expands. This was largely missing from the show due to the aggressive remixing of the plot and localizing all the central characters as a group of friends who already happened to know each other at the beginning of the show. It'll never happen, but considering the warring Three Body Problem shows going on, the real perfect choice would be Damon Lindelof and HBO heading up an adaptation.

You're telling me they wrote a book as a sequel to the movie Heat?

The pace feels a little too fast. For a show that plays into the mystery aspect of the books, the characters blurt out the right solutions a little too quickly.

Everyone's too young and hot.

I wonder what people who aren't familiar with the books will make of it.

5 minutes ago, HardAct said:

Been reading about this game! I watched the above link "what isBalatro " but I can't wrap my head around what is going on or what I am supposed to do in this game. I finally broke down and bought SF6 last night opening the doors to buying games again it seems. I love simple high replayable games on the Ally. Is this hard to understand, I mean like really here? It looks crazy to me. I'm leaning towards just buying it and seeing but I want to be able to fully understand the game without 20 hours of getting blasted?? thoughts? If it's an easy to pick up hard to master really great game I'll buy it now!

It takes about 5 minutes to understand. 

I can already tell I'm going to spend my entire time watching this being mad about the changes from the books.

The people's elbow on bug planet was brutal.