Moa

2 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

I feel like Us had something to say even if it ping ponged between not showing / saying enough and then showing / saying things as loudly or flagrantly as possible.

 

I don't think Nope has anything to say... like... at all. It is entirely carried by vibes. Literally everything to do with Stephen Yeun's character could be clipped without anything being lost and the movie would be more cohesive. It's like a Twilight Zone episode where the protagonist doesn't have to learn anything because they're immediately and always right, and also there's a B story that doesn't need to be there.

 

But I guess if you're gonna see it, do it in a theater since it looks rad.

I don’t think every movie needs to be a thinker. This criticism kind of feels like saying “Jaws didn’t have anything to say.” It’s certainly not wrong, but it feels beside the point. 
 

Fun movie, very Spielberg.

I’m about 5 hours in with some friends and it’s been a good time. 

I haven't finished the season but I feel like things have just been all over the place in a way that is not necessarily good. Things are unpredictable, but that's because the show seems to constantly change the rules governing its strange reality. It feels like ten insanely dramatic things happen an episode, and you would be hard pressed to guess which events will actually have consequences and which ones will be completely forgotten with a scene change. The humor has been relegated to lame jokes about Hollywood being out of touch that only an out of touch Hollywooder could think still passes for commentary. It feels like there are absolutely no governing rules about how characters will act and which increasingly absurd event will have any greater meaning to the plot. The show is so fast paced that it can successfully gloss over a city-spanning firefight and a suicide bomber at a garden center, but it becomes increasingly hard to give a shit about the cops closing in on Barry for one murder, when literally 100% of the rest of the population of LA seems to know he's a killer.

Maybe I should wait until I finish the season to pass judgement, but it's weird falling out of love with a show I had really enjoyed in real time. It's still compelling and fun to watch, but it also feels like it has gotten dumb where previously it had been smart.

Well, what they ended up doing instead turned out to be one of the best FPS games of all time.

From the Doom 2016 tech demos it looks like at some point they decided to make the game twice as fast and twice as bright.

I feel like Jacob Geller takes the "video essay voice" so far he manages to redeem it somehow.

Looks cool. I dabbled in Warframe but found it overwhelming. I can see myself getting into something like this if I can get in at the beginning.

Not every show needs to be about guessing which major character is going to die next.

On 7/8/2022 at 1:17 AM, Brick said:

Fuck Todd. 

A tale as old as time.

The finale felt pretty by the numbers compared to the start of the season. 

4 minutes ago, Brick said:

Did you buy The Witch Queen? That's the only campaign that gives you a legendary difficulty. 

I haven't bought anything, but I am under the impression that the stuff I was doing was Witch Queen content, since she sure seems to come up a lot.

I also had the game crash while loading out of a campaign level and I no longer have another major quest to follow. I'm not sure if this is a glitch or intended

What the fuck is this game?

I got through the kind of tutorial, talked to all the people at the NPC hub, went to some planet, got confused about where I was supposed to go for my quest, and logged off. When I logged back on the game asked me whether I'd like to play the story mission on normal or legendary. I played through what felt like a whole mission, got some loot, and immediately led into what I think was another mission. I logged off, logged back on later on another planet, was told to do another quest, and here I am. Whenever I log on I'm somewhere I've never been being told to do something I have no context for.

Also, the map is the most inscrutable thing I've ever seen.

What am I actually supposed to be doing?

4 hours ago, Brick said:

 

Warlock. 

Sold

Why did nobody tell me this game was good? 
 

Also what’s the best class for me, one word answers only. 

Trashfall

I’m not a big Mobile gamer or Diarblo diehard but I tried it out at the behest of a friend and have been enjoying my time. Again I’m not big on mobile but the experience is much more seamless than I expected and the shared world multiplayer is pretty damn impressive. 

5 hours ago, BloodyHell said:

I should try part 2 again, but I really couldn't get into when I tried. I didn't even make it out of the house you start in. I really didn't like the gameplay  but I keep hearing the story is incredible. 

This was my problem with telltale as well. 

I think it helps if you put it in the movie/show category in your head rather than the gaming box. 

2 minutes ago, johnny said:

didn’t they need to get the kid because the they were blowing stuff up out there which leads to the one guy dying 

They were operating on the assumption that the blast was being delayed.

So I'm finally getting around to playing this and just got through act 1. The characters are charming, the vibe is good, and I'm digging the story.

Hooooowever, one thing I really like about Life is Strange is that even though some of the characters did dumb things, their actions and reactions were always believable. Even though it would be tremendously dumb to tell your friend who thinks she was drugged and sexually assault to not go to the police because you need "evidence," it's also the kind of thing I can see a naive 18 year old doing (pre#metoo). Act 1 spoiler, what I don't find believable is that a park ranger would have two inexperienced people attempt to rescue a child who is not in any immediate danger across an unstable tree over a ravine. He'd just call search and rescue, go around the ravine and get him from the other side, or have another search party go around the ravine and get him from the other side.

Also "That's it! Wake's over, everyone out!" is an unintentionally hilarious line.

The game looks fun but the quippy characters and general ‘tude is awful. 

Diablo 4 looks a lot better than I expected given Blizzard’s recent trajectory. 

This honestly looks much better than I expected.

Reviews look good and I'm always down for more of these.

RIP GB 

Listening to the annual GOTY fiasco was a great holiday tradition of mine before the Nextlander split. 
 

I’d love to hear a postmortem of all the fuckery that has gone on internally over there with the various acquisitions. 

I think Dark pivoted from doing one thing really well to doing another different thing also really well. 
 

This looks cool, the voiceover suggests strong existential/cosmic horror themes, and I think they could do it quite well. I feel like most cosmic horror stuff goes too hard on the tentacles and not hard enough on the dread of being very small in a very large universe. There’s way too much mediocre cosmic horror and not nearly enough good stuff.