Moa

Kind of a dick move but I'm calling nothingburger on the whole thing. If reddit had always had this policy nobody would care. I'll publicly admit I was wrong if reddit changes course or if this appreciably harms reddit in any way.

Reddit will die the same way every other social media site dies, banning explicit content after going publc/being bought.

It was a fun feel good way to end a fun feel good show.

Was I blind or did they make Rupert's actor wear a fat suit for the finale? Also, my god did they make Ted's ex's fiance, whatever his name is, a turbo-douche that episode.

59 minutes ago, Dodger said:

So uh is trying To do every random side quest right away a bad idea

There are a lot of sidequests, and you'll probably drive yourself insane trying to do them all while moving through the campaign at a snail's pace. The campaign missions themselves also stop scaling at level 50, so if you go very completionist you might find yourself overlevelling the campaign, but that's kinda whatever.

It's interesting looking at how PoE 2 has changed since the original trailers. It feels like both it an Diablo 4 had significant convergent evolution on a slower, darker, meatier style, which I personally like.

On 11/18/2019 at 9:44 PM, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

LOL Diablo(IV)wned LOL

 

Seriously, this looks soooooo much better than the Diablo IV gameplay reveal.

 

Yes, yes - I know Diablo IV is like a decade away from release, but still...

 

Well, here we are.

Around level 30 I just wasn't really vibing with the Sorceress. I rolled a necro and am absolutely hooked. Corpse explosion remains a hell of a drug.

1 hour ago, Paperclyp said:

Is the only way to play this early now to shell out 30 bucks for the ultimate edition? 

No, the $90 edition (in the us) also lets you play early. I rationalized my decision as I was probably going to get the battle pass anyway so I’m really only paying $10 for the early access 

What class y’all rocking? 
 

I’m playing a sorceress but some of those rogue videos are really tempting me. Honestly all the classes seem appealing and I could probably be happy maining any of them. 

4 hours ago, Moa said:

I feel like the already toxic discourse around this game is going to get worse. People just expect too much. They want endless meaningful content right out the gate, perfect balance, and post-launch support that doesn’t have a whiff of monetization on it. If Blizzard fails to deliver slightly on any of these people are going to act like Diablo 4 killed their dog and fucked their wife.

Movies:

In Bruges

Auf Der Anderen Seite (The Edge Of Heaven)

Synecdoche, New York

Inside Llewyn Davis

Taxi Driver

Your Name

TV Shows:

Twin Peaks

Dark

The Sopranos

Girls

Succession (recency bias)

Most of these are pretty self-explanatory, but I'll provide a little clarity about the mostly unknown or controversial inclusions.

Auf Der Anderen Seite is a German-language movie primarily about Turkish immigrants. It's the most beautifully executed hyperlink movie I've ever seen. After I finished it the first time I finished it I stared at my reflection in the mirror for like ten minutes feeling chills run up and down my neck.

Synechdoche, New York. Charlie Kaufman's (writer of Eternal Sunshine, Being John Malkovich) first shot at directing. It's expansive and weird. All of Kaufman's movies are kind of about everything, but this one is the most about everything of all of his movies. Philip Seymore Hoffman is great in it too.

Your Name. Made me cry a lot.

Girls. A completely misunderstood masterpiece. I don't understand how people don't understand that this is a satire. It gave us Adam Driver, and if you hate Lena Dunham just know that this show hates her more.

I think of out-and-out comedies as being incomparable from dramas so basically exclude them from my lists because they generally don't make me feel as strongly, even though I probably consume more comedy than anything.

19 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

I think a better comparison would be TotK vs MGSV as they're both largely player-directed sandbox experiences.

MGSV

I feel like the emergent clown show gameplay in MGSV came out much more organically. In ToTK you can be a mad scientist, but the game hasn't really presented many situations where the mad scientist route is actually beneficial. MGSV maybe has less depth but I often felt like the wacky prank playstyle was actually the optimal way to solve most problems.

2 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

If you consider Hunt Showdown to be a "chill" experience, I'm absolutely terrified to contemplate what experiences you'd consider to be "intense" 

It has a bit of a learning curve but once you understand how to deal with the various AI there’s a lot of chill hunting before it’s time to showdown with players. I think Hunt is a much more casual experience than round-based FPS’ like CS or Siege that are all PvP all the time. 

Neat, a Bungie game dedicated to PvP seems like a good move since Destiny isn't exactly a drop-in drop-out game. I think extraction shooters get a bad rap due to how punishing and unapproachable Tarkov is, but other games in the genre like Hunt Showdown are pretty chill experiences.

I love how stupid the modern-day crimes are. The show is quality B camp interspersed with moments of true fucked-upped-ness. I particularly enjoy therapy true believer Natalie.

That looks cool as shit. The slightly reduced price also makes me think that it'll be a tighter experience without a lot of AAA bloat put in to pad the runtime.

8 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

The bit with the rocket was just great. This show really is firing on all of it's strange cylinders at this point, I just can't get over how dirty they're doing Sally.

The show has always been borderline misogynistic towards Sally.

I feel like a lot of the recent Pixar movies are so visually busy and overwhelming that I just don't want to watch them.

I’m becoming increasingly concerned that we could see Greg reign supreme. Pulling for a Tomlette though. 

Oracle of Seasons, fight me.

It's a pretty damn good book. Cool to see it get adapted by Scorsese.

This show's continued efforts to gaslight me into thinking that it wasn't a comedy are fascinating but also infuriating. The time skip is just ridiculous. I like how the show went from caricaturing how out of touch Hollywood is to portraying the midwest as a mixture of dirt, Xanax, god, Live Laugh Love pillows, and child abuse. This show is like a car crash I can't look away from.

I hope the finale is a musical about how enjoying fictional portrayals of violence is baaaaad.