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I'd tell everyone to watch the whole episode, but it's the (premature) season finale of season 7 and it has myth arc stuff in it. If you don't care about that, or if you were to hypothetically put in the time to watch 7 seasons of the show and probably wouldn't remember this episode if you did, go nuts.

The actual footage in this episode is like an uncanny cross between an isometric game like the Sims, a Telltale game and Garry's Mod. The environments aren't rendered properly and there are scenes where the camera is free-floating and controlled manually.

I stopped watching after 12 minutes. I need to come back to this with fresh eyes.

The worst part is that it cuts back and forth between live action and CG to use what they were able to film, so you get the decent flesh-and-blood acting alongside some really rough CG they had to finish in thirteen days.

I'm just gonna repeat what I said elsewhere because there's no other way of wording it:

It's cel-shaded at times, but it doesn't disguise how rough the models are. It doesn't look like it's rendered properly most of the time, especially when it comes to buildings or other sets. The lip-sync is terrible - it's like a PS2 game. The way the scenes play out remind me of a bad Telltale game.

Apparently the CG team finished the episode in 13 days. I commend them for that, and I appreciate that they tried something cool and unorthodox for the fans. But Christ, it's a spectacle.

https://youtu.be/gsqz4WHgdzs

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The only one I could post is a comic where a guy is like "wow Ryan Gosling is so cool, I want a jacket from that movie", and instead of the Drive jacket with the scorpion, the jacket spoils the ending of the Notebook.

Punished_Blinx posted...

I have a special attachment to that movie as my wife won a competition for us to stay at the resort where they filmed most of the movie at.

Did you get to stay in the Kapua Suite?

haloiscoolisbak posted...

Yeah, while being hungover the next day from a big night of drinking, the thought of cracking open another beer makes me want to vomit. Some people just don't have that feeling

For me, the thought of being drunk again beats out any nausea. I know I'm gonna get over it and keep sinking drinks as fast as I can, and I view that as feeling better.

I've tried to institute a personal rule of "don't drink two nights in a row". Of the past 7 times I've drank in the past 2 months, I think 3 of those nights were the second night of drinking in a row, so I'm not very good at keeping my own rules.

Jesus. Like I've been here 7 years now so I'm not exactly a spring chicken, but Gavi posting here is still in recent memory. I spoke to him, mostly to fight with him I think.

What a pile of dogshit. I can't believe I used to think Rika was the worst Australian CEman.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Yep

Wait, what the fuck did Gavirulax do that warranted a Wikipedia page?

Edit: Jesus, I thought he was a shithead but I didn't know he was a lookout for a gang of serial rapists.

Arcanine2009 posted...

That's just replacing one bad habit with another.

Reformed speed freaks tend to move onto habitual use of coffee or energy drinks.

Mitigation isn't an ideal solution, but if it gets you away from one thing that is more at risk of killing you, that's a positive.

Anyway - I tried doing the same thing TC. It stuck for a while, I ended up drinking 7 nights in 2 months which was way better than every Friday and Saturday. Slipped back into it pretty hard recently because everything's stressful, but the alcohol is making it more stressful so I'm about to try and stop again.

Good luck quitting, it really is a matter of willpower - I had to quit cold turkey going into 2021 due to health problems, and it was incredibly tough and incredibly satisfying at the same time. If you can make it 2 months sober, it feels fucking fantastic.

I have a Switch

MedeaLysistrata posted...

I just put it on

What did you think? @MedeaLysistrata

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Damn that movie came out in 2008. I hope there are no pop culture references.

There were a handful, mostly allusions to CSI because the main characters work on a CSI-type show. They didn't bog the movie down or anything though.

1337eye4n00bguy posted...

Watch I Love You, Man too. Also, the film mentioned in the title is called Forgetting Sarah Marshall just since it wasnt already pointed out

Yeah I fucked up the title unfortunately, lol. I took a gamble on the title and lost.

Anyway - it was really good. Lots of cringe comedy, and it was kinda clear that Peter was kinda shitty, but the character development is really good. Seeing him lighten up over the course of his stay was really therapeutic and awesome. Also, Jason Segal has a pretty great-looking dick.

I really liked how near the end of the movie, after Peter has had four or five of these flashbacks to his relationship that start off contemplative and sad and turn into him realising the shitty parts of it, Sarah Marshall has one where she realises one area where Peter shone where Aldous really doesn't. Like, Peter was pretty self-centred and hard to be with sometimes, but he appreciated things she did that other people probably wouldn't have. It was a good way of flipping the script.

I also like how Sarah and Aldous are kind of one dimensional and flat at the start of the story, fitting into Peter's narrative of the whole situation - even when we're just seeing them without Peter being there, they mostly exist to set up jokes at the expense of the situation. But as Peter has time to decompress and spend more time around them, seeing them less as those figures of discomfort and as robust and autonomous human beings, their characters flesh out and they get more screentime to work out their own shit. It's less that they develop as characters, and more that they aren't really characters at the start of the movie and they are characters by the end.

I dunno. I really liked Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Paul Rudd was just kinda there, I thought he was in more of the movie, but it's a really fun and grounded movie that felt kinda therapeutic to watch.

I remember really liking this movie as a teenager. I've been meaning to re-watch it for a coupe years now, I had a friend who was really into How I Met Your Mother and I wanted to watch it with him but we don't talk any more. What finally did it tonight was a stream I was watching where the streamer was talking about Jason Segal due to that Dispatches from Everywhere show or whatever, and she was talking about the Muppet movie and stuff and I realised I had to go back to watch this movie.

To this day, I remember scenes like Jason Segal pulling a banana out of a pina colada, his response to running into his ex in Hawaii being a sarcastic "I'm here to kill you", and Paul Rudd saying one of my favorite pieces of life advice ever - when life gives you lemons, just say "fuck the lemons" and bail.

It could go either way, but I think I'm going to really enjoy it.

Funkydog posted...

Mods, ban this heathen before the Queen declares war.

I implore you.

Pfft, you can handle the Queen of England.

She's a little old lady, just push her down the stairs.

Vegy

ToadallyAwesome posted...

I would also venture to guess his definition of work hard is very skewed.

Of course, unless your definition of working hard is inheriting an emerald mine in South Africa.

I actually really liked NES pinball back in the day. Was a little bit excited to see the news tbh.

Hopefully they add Lunar Ball next. That, or another RPG like Earthbound Beginnings.

Rayman Legends had okay water segments.

Watch Fox News defend this fuck face after spending years tearing down Kaepernick for kneeling.

Ideally you'd be able to protest politically regarding the national anthem. But you can tell this chud is gonna get away with it after other protests in the past have gotten people reamed.

Okay, I can see how PlsGod ruffled a few feathers with that one.

I have actually tagged SBAllen in the past and got a response - a productive response even, since a person who was being a blatant anti-Semite ended up getting banned. And it feels embarrassing and cringe, but sometimes this website can be too much and you lash out in ways like this. Tagging moderators tends to tread a pretty fine line; depending on how you do it and why, it's a solid 50/50 gamble of putting yourself onto a shitlist.

I can see where PlsGod was coming from. We've had a prominent shitposter for the past year or so who keeps trolling about the age of consent and talks about this age gap in his relationship that started when his now-wife was 14, and the shit he gets into and defends regarding children and sexuality really weirds me out. We also have Xsquader, who was eventually banned because he threatened to sue GameFAQs - one of his last big egregious moments was to brag about how he got a 14 year old girl and her friend drunk so they could have a threesome. Dude didn't get banned for that - he might have gotten modded, but he didn't get banned. It was only after making legal threats that the mods cracked down on him posting on this website.

So I get why dude lashed out. And I kind of agree, because gamefaqs does have a problem with people who hem way too close to pedophile apologism or who downplay the sexualisation of minors, who draw significant criticism for their views but who rarely end up getting modded. Granted, none of us know if anyone actually marks those posts for moderation - maybe that's a productive solution on our end.

I don't want to like tone-police PlsGod, but I think in treading that fine line between making a solid point and bothering the mods, he was maybe a bit too concise and irate in how he expressed his feelings on the matter. I get why he was angry, and I agree with his anger - there are users who post really shitty, creepy things about teenagers, and it really bothers me when a user can respond to a question like "can a 12 year old child consent to being put in a sexual situation" with an answer like "technically, yes - I do believe that a 12 year old can consent to that" and NOT get a banhammer swung at full force into their nutsack.

But I also think the message was a bit inflammatory in its tone - coming from an emotional place, I can understand why. But to then tag the admin and a prominent lead mod was probably a poor move on PlsGod's part.

I wouldn't tag SBAllen in something like this again, it was kinda terrifying the first time - it was a serious matter and I stand by my principles, especially since it got results, but I don't want to risk putting myself on that shitlist y'know. It's like a last resort bat-signal that might put you in more strife than you'd maybe like, and if you feel like you've got to use that, you've gotta make an airtight case. So tl;dr, I sympathize and empathise with PlsGod, but the way he went about making his point was flawed. They're still an okay user though.

So apparently PlsGod accused the mods of protecting certain types of users. What happened with DespondentDeity?

I agree, the way he treats Rich Evans is more cruel and unconscionable with every successive video.

Jabodie posted...

I played the GBA version of drome racers. Cool little game

I saw footage of it in the video, shit blew me away. Reminds me a little of Stunt FX on the SNES.

And it's so funny because the PS2 version was dogshit, lmao

K181 posted...

Thats at least a hundred minutes too long.

If you just want to hear someone slurping the Lego Star Wars games for the hundredth time, sure. I really enjoyed listening to the presenter talking about it despite playing it like four times.

But where else are you going to hear anyone talking about Drome Racers or Rock Raiders? There's so much stuff you may have never heard of or experienced, because this video covers EVERY Lego video game. Not just the mascot platformer collectathons - ALL of them.

https://youtu.be/gVkbaPcbNAc

It's 108 minutes long.

Austin sheriff: we'd like to help, but I believe we're from a different school of thought re--

Uvalde sheriff: School?! *hangs up hurriedly*

One of my favorite Looney Tunes shorts is ruined right at the end because Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd fade into blackface and sing a minstrel song. It's solid gold the entire way through, and then boom - surprise blackface.

He looks like Robert Z'dar

Hambo the Hog posted...

Yeah it's Freezer Pops. I've been eyeing it too lol. I'll probably pick it up in the next couple days. But I think there are sexually explicit games on Switch, so I'm not really expecting it to disappear.

There's a game on the Switch called Crawlco Block Knockers, it's a puzzle game where you move colored boxes into patterns of 3+ to reveal more of a background image. It starts with an outfit, then lingerie, and then naked tiddies.

Freezer Pops isn't gonna get taken down unless they change the rating. I also saw a machine translated game called Mischief Dungeon Life that's based on an 18+ VN, but with enough changed to get labelled as "sexually suggestive" rather than "strong nudity" and/or sex scenes. Even the screenshots they provided look horny as shit, like they painted over a hentai frame without changing the suggestive placement of a hand fondling a labia.

specialkid8 posted...

The Andrew WK swap

I remember reading about this on Wikipedia. Like apparently he was at some Christian keynote conference or something and said that he was a new Andrew WK and that he was portraying a character or something.

I just want my boy Faust to be happy again.

kuwab0 posted...

Creed 4 he boxes Paulies Robot

They deepfake Paulie's actor so he can say or do some insanely racist or abusive shit one more time.

St0rmFury posted...

Hello there!

A streamer I watch has that set for whenever someone new starts watching the stream. It's burned into my brain at this point, lol

Whenever I do the hitching post thing to unlock my phone, I think about how if magic were a real thing, phones are probably the best modern conduit to cast spells by drawing runes. Like you draw a line pattern to summon a wall of flames or cast a firebolt spell.

Like it's just a phone lock screen grid, but you unlock more pegs the more you level up and that lets you cast more runes with bigger effects. If you get the rune wrong, the spell is either weakened or nullified - or maybe it does damage to you instead if you fuck up badly enough. The more pegs get unlocked, the harder it is to cast runes perfectly - so when you can draw a 20-point rune perfectly, it's hype as fuck.

Imagine standing face to face with someone, having a wizard battle with them by drawing runes into your phones. That would be fucking awesome.

Someone converted Morbius to a 50mb webp file, and apparently you can put it in a GBA flashcard and watch it on a real Game Boy Advance.

DirkDiggles posted...

Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep is so good, they made a stand alone game with the same title.

I forgot that game was out tbh. Like I've heard zero press about the game.

I hope it's good though. The franchise is probably going to crater when the movie comes out, so hopefully Wonderlands is something to play when they stop making Borderlands games.

Shotgunnova posted...

That DLC was pretty fun from what I recall, yeah. Part of me kinda preferred BL1 to BL2, honestly.

I only played the second game for the first time relatively recently. It's good, but it's very cluttered and it's really dated as well.

Like the first game isn't exactly quality. There's a lot of dead air and repetitive tasks. But it has a simplicity to it that makes it fun to come back to time and time again.

Try playing Borderlands 2 today and the "wouldn't it be crazy if this plausible and extremely cruel thing were to occur right now without any warning? Aren't I glad that this fairly likely and incredibly painful scenario has absolutely zero chance of ever affecting me!" humor gets old really quick. Sanctuary citizens walk around making dubstep noises with their mouths.

And frankly? I like Claptrap. I kinda hate what they turn him into in 2, and by killing off the rest of the Claptraps and making him the last one, I think the cruelty they level towards him makes me dislike the game more than I'm supposed to dislike Claptrap.

And like I kinda get the Handsome Jack thing, but I don't get why everyone gets a raging boner over him being one of the best video game villains ever. It's like the games start taking themselves a bit too seriously when I kinda prefer the vibe of being a goon looking for treasure.

I got an 84% trans sympathetic score and a 47% dysphoria score. I'm gonna try the trans test.

12amMadman posted...

Lol what, absolutely do not skip season 1. The show is better with Frank of course but season 1 has it's moments and charm.

It's good in that it sets up a lot of the show's foundation right out of the gate, but it's beginning to really show its age.

Cheater87 posted...

I need to watch this show.

I've been rewatching it lately. Honestly, I'd recommend skipping season one - the first GOAT episode is in season 2, and it only gets better for like 6 years running.

g0ldie posted...

I forgot, I should watch Creed 2.

the first one was really good, IMO.

Creed 1 was fantastic.

Creed 2... make up your own mind I guess, but I liked it less. I would say it's more of a mixed bag, like Creed 1 was always gonna be a tough act to follow but Creed 2 kinda fell short in general.

I will say this in its favor: you know how Stallone looks like a roided up lump of meat with a bulbous nose nowadays, kinda half-recognizable? There were shots of him in Creed 2 that were like looking 40 years into the past. Those scenes where you can see Stallone in his prime are breathtaking.

https://youtu.be/6axRkpJ-QqU