LazyPiranha

The season has certainly picked up the pace, but almost a little too much. There is zero discussions between “we need to do something” and “drawing cards to eat one of us.” I think one of the bigger problems the show has in the wilderness is that we get drips of these girls absolutely losing it from starvation, but they’re spread out between long stretches of them being more or less normal. It also doesn’t help that by and large they look fine. The Walking Dead, misery parade that it was, at least made the characters look like they had been out in the Georgia heat without running water for ages, these girls look like they’ve been out here for a day or two tops. Natalie still has perfectly bleached hair to basically her roots. I’m not saying they need to go full Christian Bale in the machinist, but they’re doing a poor job of selling these girls as so far gone that they settle the rules to ritual sacrifice in less than an afternoon. It can be such a weird show at times because it manages to weave larger themes together really well sometimes. Adult Natalie’s willingness to tolerate Misty makes more sense now that we know she essentially saved her from being dinner even if it was at the cost of Javi. Misty watching the rat drown in her pool and her watching Javi struggle for breath, that Javi didn’t draw the queen from the pile but the fact that he was the one that found the queen card in the first place, it has these really great moments. We’ll see where this mystery cave leads us. With only one episode left this season and all the adult women leaning on ritual murder, I’m skeptical this goes in an interesting direction. Also, I wonder what they’re going to do with past girls from now on. We know seven of them have to survive, and we’re rapidly running out of girls to kill. Unless they keep playing the game of adding random red shirts we’ve never seen before as a fun joke, we have what, four named girls left?

Well there’s some justification for its existence at the very least.

I haven’t tried in the better part of a decade, does sSystem Shock 2 even work half decently on a modern OS or do you have to tinker with it? I remember getting Deus Ex to run was a weird headache of running at the size of a postage stamp or running at some absurd speed that broke everything.

The problem with DeSantis and Disney is he hasn’t learned the main lesson from Trump which is do basically nothing and claim victory. Ron thinks he needs an actual, real victory, and instead he’s making himself look incompetent and stupid. He should have signed the first thing, taken a victory lap, and ignored literally everything Disney did to secure their power after the fact.

There are a small handful of memorable posts between IGN and here that I wish I could see once or twice. I remember a post comparing horse racing sims to Japanese dating sims I was proud of. I will always be a tiny bit bummed that the heyyoudvd jump to conclusions board is gone forever. I remember dunking on anotherstormslayer a few times too. Other than that? Nothing of value lost.

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! Bayonetta 3 Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GBC) Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Link’s Awakening (Switch) No More Heroes 3 Nier Replicant some decimal or another Stray ————————— Immortality There are two halves to Immortality, figuratively and literally, and my feelings on the game split neatly down the line between the two. Without getting into spoilers, the technical craft of Immortality in terms of the FMV is incredibly impressive. The actors, particularly Manon Gage, are given what I imagine is a huge task. They have to act in several different modes, across generations, seamlessly. The video clips you scrub through to piece together the story aren’t just pure clips of a finished whole, but rather unedited takes of a film making process. In one scene, a person has to act as a character in a role but also as an actor trying to get into that character, and then that actor being themselves. The amount of role shifting in every scene must have been a tremendous challenge. It also has a clear love for the art of film making, recreating the aesthetics from late sixties lo-fi schlock up to digital film making. Mechanically the game fluctuates between ingenious and frustrating. You navigate between scenes by focusing on objects or people in the frame and then it match cuts to another scene featuring that exact object or a thematically similar one. This can either be an intriguing puzzle as you try and imagine where the films are going and what trail of items can lead you there, or a completely tedious checklist of focusing in on every god dammed thing in frame to maybe be brought to something new. As for the story? Eh. After a short while if you’re scrubbing through footage you will inevitably stumble across the “real” story. Your mileage may vary, but I found the meta story to be far less interesting than trying to piece together the motivations and relationships behind the scenes of the films themselves. I played it on iOS as it was free through Netflix, and if you have the option it’s at least worth a look. Whether the story within a story hooks you or not is a matter of taste, so it’s entirely possible it will land better with you than me.

I feel like Media Molecule can’t be far behind.

Very confident on 9/10, completely blanked on #2.

If we’re not talking about optioning a successful existing property like Harry Potter or the Hunger Games, what percentage of a film’s overall budget comes from paying for the script? I feel like when you account for the entire budget of a mainstream film, the script is barely a drop in the bucket.

I felt real good until I completely whiffed on 10. Feel pretty solid on the other nine though.

Not to be all stupid American over here but… Is ISIL just not as active as they used to be or has media interest in them just moved on to something else? I feel like a few years ago they’re all you ever heard about every day.

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! Bayonetta 3 Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GBC) Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Link’s Awakening (Switch) No More Heroes 3 Nier Replicant some decimal or another ————————————- Stray I didn’t intend for my next game to have spiritual similarities, but sometimes these things happen. Stray is a pretty and fun little game that doesn’t overstay its welcome or overextend its reach. You can pretty much sketch out the broad strokes of the plot the moment you encounter your first robots, but it doesn’t detract from the overall experience. At the very end it aims for a little bit of pathos that might land harder if it wasn’t quite as predictable and formulaic, but it’s fine enough on its own. Mostly the game is just nice to look at. The cat animates really well and manages to capture a lot of mannerisms of a house cat without being to cloyingly on the nose about look at our cute kitty. The game knows how to frame things in order to get the right scale of being on the ground when you need that perspective while pulling out enough when you need to see your surroundings. Really the only problems are that it’s never around long enough to get you used to some of the more enemy focused encounters to make it feel anything other than clumsy. Exploration and puzzle solving are all pleasant, but at some point the plot requires you to alert enemies and kite them to specific areas. You never had to do this before and you’ll never do it again, so you’re just blindly fumbling with it to get it done. All told, a fun little game that knows not to linger too long for its own good.

Nier Replicant addendum: ———————— I bit the bullet and finished all of the endings because I knew I would almost certainly never come back to it otherwise. The additional content and new ending are definitely worth seeing if you’re interested in the overarching story between Replicant and Automata. It’s not a direct straight line kind of thing, but it does lay the groundwork for the state of the world and I’d argue that it’s a more satisfying ending than what you get in the original even if it leaves some unanswered questions still. Trying to untangle the lineage from Drakengarde to Replicant to Automata is complicated at best and contradictory at worst, but that goes hand in hand with the story itself. While the new content is worth seeing, getting to it is annoying. There are plot reasons for why this is (sort of) but holy hell having to replay the back half of the game a minimum of three times and the first quarter of the game again after that is truly tedious. If you had already played Nier for the PS3 and were in it purely for the new content, it’s a 50 hour plus commitment just to see maybe 90 minutes of new stuff.

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Anyone who bought into lets go brandon was never voting for a democrat anyway. Honestly at this point the GOP is basically just praying for a recession.

People keep taking about OAN or Newsmax, but do they even have the kind of money on hand to make it worth his while? I also don’t think he wants to get into politics, it’s too much work and not enough payout. The man got to make a fortune barely working and was kept separate from the unwashed masses.

This show swings wildly between the best thing on TV and the stupidest shit I’ve ever seen, sometimes several times an episode. Some of the acting and character beats this episode were just amazing, the confrontation between Misty and Crystal was perfect. Even though you could see it coming, the performances were so good and they both pulled it off so well. But then you have things like lotion condom and just… why? Both sides of the coin on this one seem stupid; who would assume cops tailing someone would actively search for a used condom after the fact in the first place, and why would cops need that specific of proof to even believe that something happened? Does rawdogging not exist in the Yellowjackets universe? I’m still undecided about the whole supernatural angle though. At this point I feel like if there is an honest to god forest monster I’m going to be more disappointed than if they’re all having a low rent Hannibal moment.

lol

What makes you think I like that either?

Why? It accomplishes nothing.

What magical make believe time was that?