Bloodporne

Hey, finally an outrage topic for me seeing how I have rather extensive facial scarring! Should I read the article and report back? To clarify, I was mauled by a dog and, among other things, had to have the bottom of my left cheek re-attached. I tell women I was a victim of trench warfare.

I use it constantly but again, to keep in touch with my family back in Europe. In my experience, it's mainly a European thing.

Would like to hear your thoughts in regards to gameplay mechanics and pacing whenever you're into it a bit and have a minute to spare, Sir.

I've got my fingers crossed for Ghost..., that game looks fantastic visually and I liked the timing of that combat. Hope it delivers mechanics-wise.

Worst part of mother's day is when you go over to congratulate your friend's mom, you forgot the jimmy and end up being his step-dad cos she lives in a no-abortion State amirite!?!!!!!

I want to reference Do The Right Thing here but can't think of a creative way to put it into a joke format

Reviews tomorrow I think. Betting on somewhere between sixes and eights at the top end of the scale.

@Man of Culture CHECKMATE. ROASTED. Just turn yourself in at your local PD, you're outed son.

I think I might start Ocarina Of Time this weekend actually...in the mood for some classic shit that won't kick my head in like the last two or three games I've played. Also want to start AM2R, the Metroid 2 Remake. I beat it once already and it's really great.

I want a prequel called Just Mandy. I swear I've had several girlfriends who basically look and sound like her, including the band shirts. My favorite scene in the film was actually him watching her come out of the water through that bonfire, that was really nice.

Yo daddy

I think we've just discovered the next logical step after Remake Mania. CGI Remaster Mania. Someone phone Hollywood, quick.

I want a thumbs down option!

Having finally beaten the game recently, I'll fully admit that it ultimately was just too fucking hard for me. I mean yeah, I did manage to beat it, but looking back on it with some distance, I think more often than not it was frustrating instead of challenging and just not particularly fun. I don't know if it's just my perception but I really wish there had been more "regular" combat between bosses and mini-bosses. It often felt like one brick wall after another to me. I still think it's a great game objectively but I'm not sure I'll pick it up again for a long time unlike my other favorite From titles which I've all played through several times each. Demon's, DS1 and Bloodborne were all immediate replays for me in NG+ (or however it worked in Demon's) but with Sekiro I mostly just felt relieved that I can file it away for now. I'm not even sure I can properly spell out what I would change about its difficulty but at least for my tastes, I hope From fine-tunes and reevaluates their approach to difficulty a little. By that I don't mean simply easier but just work on the curve or...something.

Speak for yourselves...

@Greatoneshere So I watched Mandy last night, having two glasses of rum and half a J along with it. I'd probably give it a 6/10 if I had to rate it, so...I didn't hate it. I really enjoyed, and was very engrossed in, everything until the hanging/burning. I thought there was some emotional weight to it all based on Andrea Riseborough's (sp?) performance. I really liked her and in hindsight feel like the depth and characterization she brought even with those short bits of dialogue and stares was so convincing that the silliness of Cage's self-referential trademark "crazy guy" nonsense felt like a negatively jarring shift in tone once he became the focus. To clarify, it's not a shift in tone I have a problem with, it's that to me, the film lost steam and all heft when it switched gears to The Cuuhhhrazy Nick Cage Show. It was entertaining enough that I finished it but ultimately felt like there wasn't much there beyond some chuckle-worthy and/or visually interesting set pieces. In short I feel like I thought Mandy as a character was much more interesting to the point I somewhat lost interest after her fridging. Overall, it reminded me of an attempt at a modern take on 80's Dark Fantasy movies mixed with...Conan The Barbarian somehow? The LSD chemist guy with the tiger was pure Conan witch doctor along with a few other story beats. It was definitely worth seeing once but this director just doesn't cut it for me. I'm of the opinion that style is most enjoyable when in service of the story first and foremost, the other way around tends to feel like empty calories to me. It's certainly better than Beyond the Black Rainbow, I actually kind of hated that one.

I've somehow never read The Catcher In The Rye and started last night. 40 pages in and I honestly have to admit to forcing myself to continue reading. Something about its whole style rubs me the wrong way and so far I have zero interest in anything being said unfortunately. I'll keep giving it a fair shot of course, we'll see. Last week I read The Stranger by Camus which I enjoyed greatly. I'll check out The Plague by him next.

I should buy one exclusively for this DMC1 port. Troll myself.

Is there anything, and I mean anything, in life that you have not specifically analyzed haha??

Should've stayed ignorant and left that one alone based on this description. Don't they always?

Disclaimer: I have no idea who the fuck Jordan Peterson is before I'm considered one step closer to Alt-Right Nazi-ing since I assume he's Himmler incarnate if he's being mocked. I upvoted for the second part for the simple fact that no book or other person's opinion on your life should ever be considered the be-all and end-all answer.

The core combat is killer, I agree with that. That's where anything positive about that game ends for me, that's the part the demo didn't drive home. But I'm getting carried away with this and will say that I'd probably buy DMC1 again if I had a Switch, still love that game.

I know that's not what you're actually saying, I'm just being a smart-ass. And I firmly agree that being alone and lonely aren't nearly the same thing. As usual, I find some merit in most people's takes on this extremely complicated subject in this thread to be honest. I've also never lived completely by myself, always with women since I was 18, so this has been an unpleasant and weird experience.

I feel like this is the thread where I should announce that I'll be living alone in the near future as well because my marriage, and relationship of 10+ years, ceased to be some months back. At least this thread gives me hope that given enough time and repeated readings of Nietzsche, I can also elaborately trick myself into thoroughly enjoying being lonely for the rest of my life. Edit: At least I have cats...which I adopted for companionship. I'm hiding all the mirrors as I'm typing this. Edit #2: That facepalm is 100% directed towards my own horrible self.