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10 hours ago, Massdriver said:

They ruined one of the best character arcs of the show with regard to Jaime. If he would have died up north, it would have been so much more satisfying than witnessing him going right back to sis. 

Nah it was a fitting end tbh.  He lost the plot when he raped Cersei (fuck Cersei, but rape is rape) and definitely reached a new low when he sacked The Riverlands and killed Olenna Tyrell.  Incest, he pushed an innocent boy out of a window and crippled him, conspired against Winterfell and bares some responsible for the death of Ned Stark, murdered a person for no reason, committed rape, killed people in the Riverlands including the true bad bitch queen of the whole series, and probably a few other things I'm forgetting.  He had his moments, but he was not a good person lol.  Going back to Cersei was fitting enough, and the real character assassination moment imo was the scene in tonights episode of him admitting to not caring about anyone - not even the innocent lives he saved by slaying the king.  It's an attempt to contextualize him as someone who only ever did any honorable things because of his loyalty to Cersei and makes absolutely no sense and is contradicted several times throughout the show, even in this very season. 

1 hour ago, Paperclyp said:

Very skeptical it will really have much of an influence on the industry, but it seems very cool.

I'm not sure it will inspire many similar games or anything like that.  But Dreams' UI is so accessible compared to everything else and I think with that barrier of entry being much lower it's possible it will significantly help nurture talent of aspiring game developers and get them get noticed and possibly hired by studios! 

Video Games: The Game, basically.  Been playing the Beta non stop because of all dream surf content to discover.  It'll probably end up changing how games are both played and developed.

It's both a mental health and gun control issue.  Banning weapons seems like it would be as impossible as not feeling the effects of hundreds of years of violence in this country, and improving mental health on a national level will take a lot of time if it's possible at all.  Of all the trash behavior that candidates like Trump and social conservatives are responsible for, their legacy of fermenting ideologies and cultures that normalize gun ownership, emotional repression, and other backwards social norms and laws in the minds of young people who buy what they're selling and then go on to live by that code is ultimately the most damaging.

I too live alone and thus I suppose I am the worst and should've made good on that urge I evidently need to have to to be a bigot or touch kids  to better match the assumptions of internet crazies lmao.  Much insight.  Many logic.

Being an average american sounds like a fucking dope scene.  I also love all that nonessential stuff like personal grooming, music and movies, working out and clean water.     Streaming services are definitely a concern though with how many networks are popping up with exclusive content. 

Yakuza 6 was my first Yakuza game.  Honestly I put it down about four hours in and started playing 0 because it kinda felt like starting with season 6 of a TV series.  

It can be a sequel and still a mostly self-contained story though, no?  There are plenty of movies, comics, games, books etc with sequels like that.  I'm sure it will acknowledge events of the first Watchmen, but not to what extent.

Even though Alan Moore had nothing to do with this(?), that trailer has sparked my interest.  If the story is mostly self-contained instead of trying to be a direct sequel to the original it could end up being something special I think.  There's just a lot of interesting imagery and mysteriousness in that footage that makes me want to watch it.

welp. 

I kind of hate that he's getting a redesign tbh. But the response to that news online has been more positive than I expected. I guess there's a significant enough demand to convince studios that it's worth spending more time and money on trying to make this film legitimately good?  Why? 

I know that mouse and keyboard is the optimal way to play them but man I really wish this and other quality RTS games would be be ported to PS4 more often.

It should be kinda obvious within a second or two of looking at this image that those screens are not from an upcoming Assassin's Creed game:

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3 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

I don’t know that this is true, at least not the frequency bit; obviously Ned, Cat, and Robb paid a high price. Again though MOST of what Ned and Cat do is just DUMB. Like, “so the last thing Jon Arryn did before dying a mysterious death was check this book out from the library? Hand it over please, I’m going to carry it around In public for a bit and talk to the same people he did during his last week alive.”

The Starks at that time were mostly unaware of their opponents's strategies (or that there were even so many opponents and who those opponents were) and how ruthless the game was and how skilled the Lannisters were at keeping the throne, so many of their dumb decisions didn't even register as dumb decisions until it was too late.  The entire feud between the Lannisters and Starks all began with a happenstance moment of Bran stumbling upon Jamie and Cersei's secret.  The feud itself started as a secret play of the Lannisters since Bran was in a coma and couldn't inform anyone about what happened. 

A truth about the grossness of conquest and power that's more or less universal is how it tends to involve getting there first, using the resources you're afforded to deny others from getting there too and withholding forgiveness to them for that, and using your position as an advantage to initiate conflicts that anyone outside your circle of trust are usually disallowed from knowing they are participants in.  And that's exactly what The Lannisters and the Freys did to the Starks in the early seasons.  That's the horror of their situation and why their deaths were so shocking. 

And the Red Wedding also came out of nowhere because of how little you knew about Walder Frey's pettiness and ruthlessness over someone not keeping their word about wedding his daughters (and more importantly, the backroom deal he made with the Boltons and Lannisters).  There was no way of knowing things would escalate to that point. But now we have seasoned characters who've been in the game for several years and should know better than to do a lot of the dumb things they keep doing that are clearly happening to move the plot forward in a manner that's a bit more contrived than it needs to be.  

Dreams Beta and Subnautica. 

18 minutes ago, johnny said:

Miserable book people would be okay because they would assume GRRM would make everything perfect and fleshed out so that his version would be awesome but the books will never come out so the show is all they get! 

Which, whether the books come out or not, is funny considering how season 1-5 were arguably paced more reasonably for the most part with less filler details than the books.  Fans like that also tend to get mad at the show exercising restraint with a lot of the superfluously bizarre character design choices from the books too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

26 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

While it's not surprising, it's definitely annoying reading /r/asoiaf (and everywhere else this show is discussed) and seeing people suddenly complain about something they wouldn't have cared about earlier. Like battle mechanics (something the show itself has never cared much about "I'll just sail my entire army and navy into this cove with only one way in or out what could go wrong?"), or character motivations (Jamie losing his willpower and running back to Cersei is the most human this show has been since at least season 3), or scenery ("OMG that doesn't look like King's Landing's walls from S04E01 fuck this show!"). All because that one theory that their favorite YouTuber discussed as he read passages of A Feast for Crows from the toilet didn't pan out.

 

For the past 2-3 seasons there has been an unofficial motto on set, in the writers' room, and even among fandom. "Efficiency is coming."

 

Well, efficiency done came motherfuckers. It's the final season. Every possible character arc and conclusion has been discussed ad nauseam. I'm sorry the writers didn't pick yours. But go ahead and let the hate flow through you so you can bitch about every tiny detail you never would have noticed or even cared to mention previously.

 

Level set. You'll spend less time being irrationally upset about a show that can't possibly meet the expectations you've convinced yourself are the one and only way this can possibly end with a satisfying conclusion.

 

Now, all that being said... IMO Bronn's scene really didn't feel like Bronn even though that was the Bronniest thing that Bronn would do.

There's a LOT of moments in the earlier seasons foreshadowing much of the story in the last two seasons and where it might be going. Wonder how they're going to deal with those emotions when the next book and/or GRRM reveals in interviews just how many of the show's character arcs and narrative beats angering them been in the works by the author for several years.

Rewatched the episode.  It kinda feels like the story is building up to something very impactful.

The next two episodes might even have levels of tragedy and shock that we haven't seen since season 3 or 4.   A lot of emotionally powerful death scenes, betrayals, twists, etc. Not just "didn't expect that!" twists like most of the last ten episodes, but some truly holy fuckadoodle doo moments that rival the Red Wedding and Ned's death.  

Everyone on the internet is apparently getting mad at Jon for not petting Ghost before leaving.  That dude by now at least knows better than to get too attached to a pet during wartime in the seven kingdoms. 

2 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

The entire show is predicated on this. Ned, Rob, and Cat being almost incalculably foolish dum dums drives most of the action in the first three seasons. Tyrion’s brainwave for keeping Shae a secret is putting here somewhere she’ll be constantly seen by all of his opponents. Stannis doesn’t have a cogent thought rattling around in his skull. And Theon... eesh.

 

That’s just kind of the table stakes. I get that it manifests itself differently when it comes to battles, since the visual portrayal makes some of the silliness more obvious. But for real if Ned and Cat had a combined IQ of 100 the show wouldn’t have made it to season 2.  Just lean into it. 

But the thing is, mostly it felt like the dumber/more risky decisions that characters made were fewer back then and definitely less obvious, and they usually paid for mistakes harder.  That's been happening less with the later seasons.  Often, the opposite. The show has been breaking its own rules a bit too much for me to take it as seriously as I did, though it's still very engaging at times.

I was waiting for something to happen like Jamie fucking up again (or not being tolerated for the stuff he's already done) and Arya killing him, who then takes his face and sneaks into king's landing to kill Cersei.  Next episode she bodies Cersei (fulfilling both the prophecy and some sweet Stark Revenge) only to be disgustingly murdered by The Mountain as soon as it happens. As soon as the raven message gets to Winterfell's army that evening, Clegane overhears what happens which sparks Cleganebowl, and so on.