Bloodporne

5 minutes ago, stepee said:

 

Lol also what is with David Duchovny’s character? Like why is he there? I mean I get for David that’s an easy check to cash but like is the character supposed to be mentally disabled or something or what?

I have no idea dude. It's one of those movies that gets worse the more you engage your brain. Like truly run that dinner scene through your head. You could write a thesis on how shit that one scene alone is. 

4 minutes ago, stepee said:

 

It’s just Black-ish is pretty decent and way more nuanced and endearing than this and so much of the writing just *feels* so much like Hill. But you are correct that it’s likely not what happened and that it’s more the result of the worlds most miserable co-writing sessions. 

And I'm not stanning for Hill or nothing, I think he's painfully unfunny and annoying as fuck in this movie. It's just that this misfired on like every cylinder in a spectacular way. There's also new funny shit people are discovering every day like the only kiss the supposedly mega in-love couple share at the end being CGI. 

Also PS: I did like Black-ish but never saw anything else by him 

2 minutes ago, stepee said:

 

Only thing I can think of is that maybe Barris wrote the basic plot outline but the dialogue is all Hill.

I doubt that and I don't think there's a reason to put full blame for this idiocy on Hill. From what I read, Barris meant this to be his big break into feature films, I'm sure he was all hands on deck if that's how he viewed it. I mean you saw it, literally everyone in this film looks like an asshole lol. 

1 hour ago, stepee said:

I can’t just sit around and watch poorly acted videos of people being horrible, can someone sum up the point of these for me?

I made it approximately 8 seconds, so no. 

I essentially have 5 year old twin girls now. They absolutely love baking videos and those weird-ass videos of people eating food with grossly detailed sound. 

@best3444

At the time stamp you can see him showcase the Fire Wall and you can see it stunlocks and burns down enemies. He doesn't really use it efficiently here but if you do this to a mob, they can't do shit. 

14 minutes ago, best3444 said:

 

Force gun was dope. I rarely used the flamethrower but I agree, it had great effects. This game is so fuckin well done and I'm glad you're enjoying it as much as I did.

If you do a second run, dump upgrades into the Flamethrower. Its secondary fire especially, the Fire Wall, is really nasty. It basically creates a barricade of fire where you shoot it and can be used to stunlock a whole horde of enemies or even one-shot those tough guys stuck in the walls. Toss a fire wall straight into them and it just burns them down and you can go hide behind a corner and wait. The main fire mode is super useful in conjunction with other weapons, as most of them are imo. 

One of the most devastating combos against a strong mob is Force Gun alt-fire, the gravity pull thing, to bunch them all together, then Flamethrower alt-fire into the mob and watch them get melted down. I managed to down a mob of two bloated fat guys, a Necro and two tentacle babies with one of those. 

Need to give a special shoutout to the flamethrower effects. Between that and the Force Gun, some of the craziest, goriest weapons I've seen in a game. If you set Necros on fire, the flames will visibly eat through their layers with a bright orange burn effect until it hits charred bone. Force Gun to Flamethrower is a great combo and absolutely one of the nastiest weapon combinations since Bloodborne. That mechanical chunky click the flamethrower has is really satisfying too. 

I introduced my girlfriend to Milka chocolate bars and I'm worried we'll both be morbidly obese within 6 months. 

1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

But imagine a decent PS3 game's graphics ON AN OLED SCREEN!

I'm busy imagining a version of one of the best games ever made not held back by this turd hardware 

Just now, SaysWho? said:

 

I forget: was that announced the year the Switch was released?

I had to google it. It was announced 5 years ago.

Also after checking out a bit more footage, it definitely isn't enough of an upgrade to waste $40 on. It now looks like a decent PS3 game instead of a PS2 game with a texture pack I guess...yay Nintendo in 2023?

I've played it with the HD texture pack via Primehack several times and this does look a lot better. That being said, they should've absolutely done the trilogy which might've honestly enticed me to get a Switch. 

And yeah, where the fuck is Prime 4? Or any word at all about it for that matter? 

1 hour ago, stepee said:

 

Yeah this was pretty miserable. Eddie Murphy can’t be in need of money right? I don’t see why he is doing something he is so obviously disinterested in. The whole movie feels kind of like someone called Jonah Hill a racist so he made this to prove them wrong.

 

I went into it figuring it might be bad but maybe it would be funny to laugh at but honestly when it was over I felt relieved to be free of these characters and this writing.

There is so much deeply wrong and stupid about this movie, it blows my mind that it actually released like this quite frankly. 

I could blame this all on Hill going overboard with his self-flagellation but he didn't write it singlehandedly and yet every part of the film is mindboggling.

Game somehow keeps getting better with every chapter. It's like the opposite of Resident Evil games.

1 hour ago, Paperclyp said:

For my money RE2 Remake is one of the best games of the last 5 years. 

Yea same. It's up there. I did need the classic OST though.

Also one of the few games where I did all the unlockable side missions and all that. It's incredibly addictive to try to figure out the most efficient approach to the puzzle box that is its level design.

2 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

In the case of the nu-God of War, they're pretty much used as an exposition dump.

2 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

I don't know that they're enjoyable, but they're probably the lowest effort way to provide verticality without making an interesting traversal system.

Exactly my passive aggressive point 😎

Uncharted came out in fifteen years ago and was criticized for this braindead "mechanic" and it's somehow still going.

Also this is the most milquetoast anyone could possibly get From combat. It's like that without ANY of the elements that make it cool.

I really need to know if anyone actually enjoys those insanely boring, no-stakes climbing segments in AAA games? They sure keep putting them in. I never got past a few hours in the first one but I almost quit at the tutorial because half of it consisted of that. 

3 minutes ago, Zaku3 said:

Yes you should play them but I do want to advise this isn't a REmake situation. I still consider the PS1 ones worth playing due to the differences. 

Also agree with this, I don't think the remakes replace either RE2 or RE3. Maybe it's because I grew up with them but I replayed both not that long ago and both still ruled, archaic controls or not. 

28 minutes ago, ShreddieMercury said:

It's one of the best games of the last ten years or so.  In my opinion the game is much stronger than RE 7 and RE 8.  The RE engine is excellent and the visuals were recently enhanced for the newer consoles.  The game is short (around 5-7 hours) and is designed to be highly replayable.

It's my favorite Resi game released since RE4. RE7 and RE8 don't come close, they both just feel like pastiches of better games to me while RE2R feels like it had actual creative drive behind it. 

I think I beat RE2R eight or nine times. It's a ton of fun and very replayable. 

2 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

@Bloodpornehow old are you? Pretty much the only thing you’ll need to figure out is the balance between risky assets and safe assets in your portfolio based on how close to retirement you are.

 

If you think about the ~40ish years of active employment most people will have, in the first half of that you should be pretty exclusively in growth oriented equities, while the second half you should slowly move into a majority of stable assets like treasury bonds.

 

When you have a lot of time before retirement, it’s about growing the account. When you have little time before retirement, it becomes about protecting what is in the account so you actually have it when you need it.

I'm 39. No credit card debt, no car payment, no other debts. I just have my monthly rent & bills and a fairly healthy savings account right now. 

Also @CastlevaniaNut18 I apologize if I hijacked your thread! I didn't mean to, just saw some of the posts/replies here and felt sudden panic because it's all Greek to me and it shouldn't be. 

3 minutes ago, Brian said:

If your company provides a 401k plan, typically there is a free session to meet with an advisor to talk about retirement. If not, Chase provides a similar service. I get emails all the time about managing my investments. You definitely should talk to someone and get an idea where you are, what you potentially will need, and how you can accomplish it. It’s not a fun conversation by any means but a necessary one for a good retirement. 

Sounds like I need to just get my ass into my bank and just start asking questions. I absolutely have a 401k plan and all that, but it's just kind of been "there" and I don't really know what I'm supposed to be doing with all that information. Thanks for the advice. 

11 hours ago, sblfilms said:

Just max out an IRA for both you and the husband, with the funds going into an S&P 500 tracking ETF.

 

After that, stick cash into the highest yielding savings account you can find until you save up enough to pay cash for an investment property that you can rent out.

 

Between your 401ks, IRAs, and eventual rental property portfolio, you will want for nothing during your retirement days.

Okay maybe this sounds dumb coming from an adult but...how do you figure something like this out? I live in the city so I've always only rented and I simply shove all my savings into my regular Chase savings account. I have nothing "special" going on. I still have this obnoxiously miserly poor person mentality going on because I was raised that way and never had money until getting somewhere in my mid-30s yet don't really do anything with it. 

Asking the adults in the room, should I see a financial adviser or something? 

1 minute ago, Kal-El814 said:

This reminds me of some environmental storytelling I found IRL the other day while walking our dogs. I found a small pile of Fireball nips on the ground, as one does. About ten yards up the road, I found a used fleet enema kit. And about 10 yards up the road from that I found an empty bottle os astroglide. 

Someone got out of work early on Friday!