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HE'S FINALLY FUCKING DEAD!
Kal-El814 replied to Commissar SFLUFAN's topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
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Television For All Mankind: Season 4 All Mankind
Kal-El814 replied to Commissar SFLUFAN's topic in The Performing Arts Centre
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Strange 2 is fun but a bit flawed. It's visually interesting and when it gets to be creative, it's pretty darn good. It also has too much baggage for a non-Avengers / tentpole movie. Its biggest flub is that it sets up some potential internal conflict for Strange and then just kind of... doesn't deal with it. A sequel setup is fine in general and this is Marvel so it's inevitable to some extent. But setting up Strange potentially Shang Tsung'ing a kid to stop Wanda, when that is literally what Wanda is trying to do to that same kid is just lousy. It was never going to happen, and implying that OTHER people in the multiverse with the same name would have done that isn't really a well baited hook. Especially because... other Wanda's aren't going completely batshit! So the audience is being asked to think all Stevens are inherently selfish and dangerous while also being shown that's not how the multiverse works. It's weird and it doesn't really work as a study of what makes Dr. Strange tick... but it's fun. Also Black Bolt gets OHKO'd and Black Bolt has, does, and always will blow ass, so I take it all back. No notes for Strange 2, it's great.
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Steam sales used to be better.
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Discord is great for small communities, chat with the same, and with certain games / industries, troubleshooting or assistance. Anything beyond that it's fucking terrible, and the fact that a lot of people use it as de facto wiki / website replacements is absolute shit. I appreciate that it's easier to build and maintain for a lot of people, but it's still awful.
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I dunno that I agree that gaming is "low stakes." In comparison to something like flat earth / dietary misinformation it's of a lesser concern sure, but the well being poisoned for a multibillion dollar industry that often targets the time and money of children is really bad. Stuff like professional sports, TV, movies, etc., are diversions too, but historically journalism has helped keep professional leagues accountable, covered scandals, exposed conflicts of interest, etc. It's not been perfect of course, but it's been important. Gaming never really got the same attention, and the online media about it coming to be dominated by shit gobbling robots is not going to help things. Independent journalism like People Make Games covering Roblox is important, but it should be a huge fucking deal that one of the largest and most popular games gets its publisher rich based largely on the effort of children! Yeah I really have no idea what can be done. It's all in the interest of corporate profits and all of these corpos are failing the marshmallow test pretty dramatically.
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There’s so much gaming of SEO going on, it’s genuinely fucking terrible. For the umpteenth time, whenever someone complains about youths today spending time on TikTok or whatever, I try to remind them that they have decades of accumulated experience that makes google usable for them that younger people simply do not. There are issues on those platforms too, of course, but it is often MUCH easier to find relevant results there if you’re looking for random bullshit.