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mustachedmystic posted...

You think we werent doing any of that between 76, and 80?

Yeah, you're right. I guess by "peacetime", I mean that America wasn't in some period of publically announced armed conflict. Espionage and the toppling if democracies across the world to serve American interests isn't ruled out by that.

I really want to see Maria Mena represent Norway:

https://youtu.be/miDMlnaPx74
https://youtu.be/94TkNyCvlPo

Nah. Operation Desert Storm, the IRA's attacks on England and Princess Diana's death were examples of terror, war and death that affected millions.

My understanding is that the last time that America was truly in a period of peacetime was in Jimmy Carter's administration. Since then, America has gone from conflict to conflict and worked to destabilize entire multi-country regions of the world at a time. And ultimately, I don't think there's been any period of history in which the world as we recognise it has known a genuine period of peace.

fucking Christ, they should clear out the freezers and get some new ones.

The_Yahtz09 posted...

Everyone agrees it was a blunder. It just isnt the worst one in gaming history, which is what the topic is asking.

Oh yeah for sure, I reached the same conclusion by the end of my post.

I disagree that this can't be a blunder because the Xbone was still successful, because its eventual success was at the expense of what made the Xbone reveal so dogshit.

You had to have a camera hooked up to your console all the time, your console had to be connected to the internet for you to use it, and physical game discs were one-time purchase keys that became bound to your console. The most pervasive thing out of all that is the online requirements - the NSO game collections work on a similar principle, for example. But the Kinect was a fucking terrible idea, because A) it was an external peripheral that had to be plugged in, meaning that if it was damaged in some way you would be fucked out of using your $400 game console because necessary features would become locked off, and B) the combination of "necessary camera peripheral" and "always online connection" garnered a lot of criticism over surveillance. And as evidenced by the final product not having any of this, this wasn't a hardware limitation - there was no physical reason why a Kinect was physically necessary to use the console. They developed software that hamstrung the console based on a bunch of restrictive, anti-consumer protocols, and they sold it as a necessary and inevitable future.

And nothing sums up the petty, short-sighted, anti-consumer greed like single-use game activation discs - game discs that didn't contain the game and would install the game from an online server (which unfortunately did become a standard), but which would also become locked to your Xbox profile or console. So if you got sick of the game and wanted to sell it, or if you wanted to let a friend borrow it? You couldn't. The second you put it in your Xbox One, the second you used it, it became useless to every other person on the planet - like a condom. It would only ever work with your profile or console.

They tried to kill the secondhand game market (which is already a pretty volatile niche, as seen with GameStop and their shift towards nerd culture merchandise) as a way of potentially shifting more units, but which made gaming as a whole unnecessarily restrictive for the everyman who doesn't hoard this nerd shit and who can't drop hundreds of dollars on retail-priced game releases every year.

It made physical games obsolete not by offering a better solution, but by hobbling the physical medium artificially to force more financial engagement from the market. The Xbox One launch was the biggest load of horseshit of its time, and it was a low point for gaming.

With that being said: I would refer to the Xbone launch as one of the most significant, high profile blunders in recent history. Because if we're talking about all of history, the Xbone has to contend with the Atari Jaguar. It has to contend with the failure of the Saturn and Dreamcast, which had their strong suits but which bled so much money that they ended a prominent game company's hardware division. It has to contend with the Virtual Boy. Let's face it, the world of gaming have seen worse flops - the N-gage and the Ouya, even.

What I think makes the Xbox One debacle so bad is how unnecessary, scummy and hostile it was. None of it was necessary. The Kinect didn't need to be there, they didn't have to hobble functionality based on internet access and they didn't have to make game discs as useless as they were already shaping up to be. And there was no physical reason for any of this - it was all dependent on hardware. Microsoft just wanted that level of control. And Sony had a field day with it, releasing the most smug, shitposty video about how to share your PS4 games with friends - it was one guy handing his copy of the game to another guy. It was a slam dunk.

The Xbone launch wasn't a disaster on the level of the Ouya. Though frankly? If Microsoft had charged headlong into this horseshit without changing something, it could have been the most high profile disaster in the gaming industry to date and it could have sunk the Xbox brand. Microsoft would have continued, sure. But this could have been the final nail in the coffin for the Xbox, which had a ridiculously low market share in Japan for all of its iterations and which ultimately did the worst business in its first two outings.

Firing the dumb fuck who oversaw the Xbox One development cycle and replacing him with Phil Spencer is what got the Xbox brand out of the toilet, because without that guy pivoting hard back into games and recognising where the backlash was coming from? We would have an unnecessarily necessary camera peripheral and any physical games we had would have been worthless slabs of plastic. We wouldn't have Game Pass, and we wouldn't have had that short-lived Nintendo synergy. You can't fake brand awareness, and Phil Spencer is dripping with it every time he makes a public statement. The guy who launched the Xbone, on the other hand, was dripping with brand poison. It was a monumental fuck-up that's worth remembering.

But again - it was a monumental fuck-up that got its shit together and arguably became one of the best gaming platforms of the modern age, if not ever. And because we've seen how well Xbox has done for itself, it seems ridiculous to say it's the worst gaming blunder in history next to the N-Gage, the Atari Jaguar or Sega releasing a brand new gaming console the same day they announced it. It was one of the biggest modern fuck-ups for sure, heads justifiably rolled over it. But can we really say it was the worst blunder of all time, considering how it turned out and how it compares to some of the most unplayable pieces of shit from the 8-bit era to the 128-bit era?

lolife67 posted...

Pretty much. It got repetitive with Liz asking about her past/their connection, Red not telling her (to protect her) and she goes looking getting in danger anyway. At some point it was obvious that yelling her would make more sense.

Plus they kept adding so much stuff just to avoid saying exactly who Reddington is. I'm actually amazed that the real answer managed to make sense.

It doesn't necessarily make sense yet, I've read that it's heavily implied but I wouldn't say it's confirmed just yet.

They could just as easily shit the bed with a less coherent explanation.

angeleyes94 posted...

But what about the eric andte show is that cancelled now?

I was watching an interview and I think he mentioned that season 5 was gonna be the end, but he realised that it was a golden egg he didn't want to give up because of the sheer amount of creative freedom it afforded him - a rarity in Hollywood.

I think it'll go dormant for a while, and when he thinks he's got something weird and fun under his belt again, the show will change to suit what he wants to do. But that could be years in the future.

lolife67 posted...

Good question. I can't really recall off hand due to the sheer number of episodes/seasons lol but probably around Season 6?

I can see that on both a quality level and an engagement level. I adore Boston Legal, which had five seasons. I don't think I would have liked it as much had it gone on for longer, especially while rewatching it last year. In this case, I think there are already cracks in the framework - elements of the show that are kinda generic and phoned in. Parts that are flashy, but shallow. I'm sure that by season six, Spader's probably gonna start showing up for the paycheck, because the glory days of the Raymond Reddington character are behind him and every episode is going to be him doing the exact same schtick.

Captain Marvel was pretty generic, sure. Dunno about Eternals, but it seems like boring lore build up. Guardians 2 was boring - Thor Ragnarok had a period of overhype and then perhaps justified backlash, but it holds up much better as a superhero movie. Guardians 2 simply doesn't hold a candle to it, nor does it really hold a candle to Guardians 1 which established an offbeat style that the rest of the franchise would ape as hard as they possibly could. Couldn't tell you about Black Widow.

Endgame was a good movie - and I want you to hear me out on this. Avengers Endgame is probably the most fun theatre experience I've ever had, and for what it accomplishes? Like genuinely accomplishes, like staying coherent and entertaining for as long as it does? It is a genuine marvel that both it and Infinity War are as watchable as they are.

The dialogue is dumb, and the action is someone bashing action figures together. I'm not saying it should have won an Oscar or any screenwriting awards. But it was a nerd's wet dream - not all nerds, but a lot of them. Having every named Marvel superhero up to that point charging into an all-out battle against massive space aliens and an intergalactic tyrant who had a reputation for murdering named characters at that point? I don't think anybody would have ever expected a movie to actually attempt something on that scale and pull it off to any reasonably satisfying degree before Endgame came along.

Look at Batman V Superman. I like Batman, and I like Superman. The match-up is beloved by nerds everywhere for Frank Miller's version, for the cartoons where it happens, for the sole reason that two opposing nerdboy icons are fighting. And for most, BvS was a turgid fart. For as much of a CGI cluster fuck as it was, Endgame knew exactly what it was and it capitalised on it fully. It bent its own rules for the sake of a more engaging movie, but it wasn't an issue - people adored it for taking itself as seriously as it needed to while having the freedom to twist and flex when it needed to. BvS was like a prestige movie with less of a point and significantly worse dialogue - what should have been a slam dunk ended up being a boring, overlong mess. Joker showed that DC movies could be gritty and cinematic, and BvS just wasn't up to snuff.

Dream team movies don't live and die on the team-up alone, and BvS proved that. The fact that Endgame remains coherent and enjoyable for three hours is an accomplishment with all the shit they do.

I haven't seen it on home video, and I might not ever do that. But I remember being in the theatre when the big pop-off moment happened, and the entire theatre got up and cheered. That shit simply doesn't happen in my neck of the woods. I hadn't experienced anything like it. My friend was one of the first people who got up and cheered, it was like everyone else was following his lead. He tried the exact same thing during the Rise of Skywalker, and he was the only person who did it. The experience of seeing it on release at a theatre might be one of my fondest memories of going to the movies.

I'm not friends with that guy any more, and I'm much less invested in comic book movies period, let alone Marvel vs DC or whatever. The one Marvel movie I want to watch is No Way Home, other than that and Spiderverse I'm more or less out of comic book movies. fwiw, the same friend watched and enjoyed pretty much every DC movie from Man of Steel through to Joker, and he was concerned that I was making myself unhappy instead of enjoying everything I watched at face value. But to this day, with everything I've said, watching Endgame was one of the most enjoyable moviegoing experiences I've ever had. I genuinely enjoyed it, and I think it's a good movie. Again - I'm not saying it should have won Oscars. I think the way Marvel movies are made are incredibly restrictive and worthy of criticism. Without that friend influencing my media diet, I'm done with comic book movies. And I respect and appreciate criticism of Endgame. But I still think that for all the characters in it, for all of the action, for basically making The Avengers on crack and portraying a Crisis event with a full roster of named characters that's three hours long - Endgame is an incredible achievement in filmmaking. By all means, it should be an unwatchable cluster fuck. But I have nothing but nice things to say about it.

Okay, that's season one done.

Building on my production theory, that Anslo Garrick was the end of the original episode run and everything that came after was greenlt after the show became a hit, is that most of the episodes in that second half of the season are especially formulaic. The Good Samaritan episode was okay, but from there you have episodes like Madelline Pratt and Ivan. And the structure of each episode fits a very narrow formula - James Spader rarely, if ever, interacts with the cast outside of Elizabeth Keen and Harold Cooper. Even once Diana is killed and he comes back to the unit, he's not present at the location for most of the episodes - everything he says is communicated over the phone and dictated by Liz. And it feels like these briefing scenes were all shot on the same day, with the same cast.

So the second half of the season drops in budget and quality. Nothing can really compare to the aired pilot and Anslo Garrick, though there's a fantastic arc where Liz knows Tom's a bad guy but the topic hasn't been broached yet. The scene where Tom has to do a hit and run to escape is fantastic, and while I knew it was coming, the episodes that first revealed his turning were fantastic.

Now, how does the "Reddington is Liz's mother" theory factor into season one?

There's a crackpot piece of evidence, in that in the Madeline Pratt episode, Reddington adopts a very catty persona to disarm a security guard and assault him. There are two possibilities, that Reddington was putting on a camp gay act as a means of disarming the guard, or he briefly slipped into when he would run point for the original Raymond Reddington as his wife. I'm basing this off of his reaction to the act after being questioned, to which he seems surprisingly lost for words and coy when he says "I dunno. It felt... right."

But more consequentially, I want to talk about the end of Berlin.

This is under the assumption that Reddington hasn't lied to Liz yet on the show. Maybe that'll change or get retconned later, but I believe that the only things he "lied" about were through omission or deliberate misdirection (i.e. his perchant for changing the subject) rather than telling her the wrong thing. He doesn't lie about killing Sam, even with the fallout that decision causes. He doesn't lie about Tom. And given that this is true, it means that he wasn't lying when he said he wasn't Liz's father. The circumstances are unfathomably complicated by his own admission, and he's related to her. And the end of Berlin has his scarred back shown, as if he was the victim of a terrible fire.

Granted, this could be a seperate thing that they retcon later down the road to fully sink the familial relation. But I choose to interpret this as proof that Liz's mother was burned, but that she survived where the original Raymond Reddington didn't and chose to take up the mantle of Raymond Reddington. Further exacerbated by my knowledge that the original Raymond Reddington is dead - short of his remains being doctored by the Alchemist before his demise in season one, of course. Further exacerbated by my belief that Raymond hasn't outright lied to Liz yet.

He's not her father, but he's related to her by blood. Her father is dead, in the sense that Sam is dead, and he refuses to tell Liz who her biological dad was - assuming Reddington's comments are true right to their core, which may be a stretch, the real Raymond Reddington has been dead for 20 years despite Raymond Reddibgton still being active and dangerous. Both Sam and Raymond are dead - Elizabeth Keen has no living father.

Given that Raymond Reddington was her father, and that this imposter has burn marks from a fire all over his back that's presumably from the same fire, and that Liz's mother as portrayed later in the series was a body double for the original who's a loose end Reddington tied up - it's fully plausible that Reddington is her mother having taken on the mantle.

averagejoel posted...

I'm not sure what you mean by "launcher" here, but if you purchase a game through itch.io, you can actually launch it through the desktop app

Huh, okay. So itch.io does have a launcher.

I was under the impression that they were a GoG-like service that offered DRM-free game downloads from indie developers.

I've heard of this guy, apparently he nitpicks everything and spends entirely too much time describing shit as like unnecessary or contradictory or nonsensical when it's cleared up by shit that happens later in the movie. He's got a reputation for being one of those nitpicky critics who blast movies for "plot holes" when it's something any reasonable person could infer based on context clues, arguing in bad faith and having a chuddish fanbase who counter his critics with "well you just didn't watch for long enough!".

Everything I've heard about this guy makes him seem like an insufferable douchebag. And I wouldn't say it's the medium of longform video essays that's at fault, because I've watched Noah Caldwell-Gervais videos and Joseph Anderson videos and all that - opinionated, critical videos that manage to paint a robust picture of what they're talking about without being a douchebag about it. Mauler himself just sounds like a douchebag.

I dunno why you wouldn't want to use itch.io. They don't have a launcher, you download the game files directly and install them to your computer to access whenever you like. Like maybe you prefer Steam's framework with achievements and stuff and that's fine, but the extent to which you're using itch.io is more or less paying for the games.

Growing pains, just like Spyro.

Oh yeah, there's a lot of tension about radiation right now. On the other end of the scale, you have people who say that nuclear attacks aren't a big deal because nuclear fallout would only be a problem for two weeks.

ExtremeLuchador posted...

Trying working in hospitals or care facilities with elderly patients. They can say all sorts of nasty things to you. You'll end up in jail if you retaliate in any way.

In regards to "old people are out of touch and cranky", that's no excuse to yell racial slurs at someone. Just because old people can be like that, and often are, it doesn't give them a free pass to do that shit anywhere. Most people know to be decent in public.

In case you're equating the responsibility of a fast food worker and an aged care worker - sure, you're gonna be a massive asshole and go to jail for beating elderly people under your care. But this was a Dunkin' Donuts, where a man was confronted with unprecedented racial abuse, not an aged care residence. The guy got racially denigrated in his own place of work by a dickhead, somewhere that a reasonable amount of people don't blow up and sling racial epithets at him. If he worked in aged care and some racist asshole under his care said something to him, the circumstances would be different - I'd still empathize with the guy for lashing out at racist abuse, but "talk shit, get hit" doesn't work when the person you're hitting relies on you and the power you have over them to live their lives.

They serve food and drink, so by all means they could be the ultimate arbiter of someone's date if circumstances dictated. But the responsibilities of being a Dunkin' Donuts manager and being an aged care worker are inherently different, and when you have a person provoking hostility for no other reason but to be hurtful and rude, people are going to react differently whether they're in a Dunkin' fucking Donuts or Shady Pines Residence for the Distinguished Senior.

Yeah, old people are racist, and that would seep out in places where the oldest and most frail of our population are placed to live out their final years. That doesn't mean that what the deceased did was at all excusable, and while the loss of life is unfortunate, there is a clear difference between "aged care nurse kills senior under their care in fit of rage" and "fast food manager reacts to racial abuse because someone got a burnt bear claw and watery coffee".

Also, halo's comment is true about Australia. In the late 2000's, there were a spate of drunken assaults at a popular pubbing spot in Sydney that killed people.

Two of the effects these killings had were pub lockout laws - which I don't entirely agree with, since they're state wide vs. the localised nature of the assaults - and the wider proliferation of information regarding the effects of blunt force trauma to the head.

There was an attempt to rebrand the term "king hit" to "coward punch" - which I disagree with again, not because it isn't a well-intentioned step to reduce violence, but because slang proliferates for its sound and popularity and the attempt to hamfist "coward punch" through the media was very noticeable and annoying - and people who punched on and killed people at King's Cross faced the full brunt of their charges as an example.

Like guys would punch people in the back of the head or just sucker punch them, and not only would the impact cause irreversible damage to their soft tissue, skull and brain, but the afflicted would fall over due to the force and hit their head again on the cement. It was the second impact that tended to kill them.

The bulk of these punishments were put into effect at the time, with the occasional news story to this day about a coward punch manslaughter where the perpetrator goes to jail. Otherwise, the King's Cross news all but vanished after this whole debacle happened. But yeah, the police cracked down hard on physical assault, especially in regards to public assaults between strangers in which one of them is killed by a strike. To this day, you can get jailtime for fucking up a stranger under the influence of alcohol, or due to disproportionate anger or what have you. That's how it is in Australia.

I have another question. I know that the quality of the show diminishes at a certain point, to the point that the season 7 finale had to be animated in CGI due to COVID fucking the production. I've also seen scenes set in a courtroom, and there's a lot there I'm wary of - the set is ugly, it feels like folks are phoning it in and the way the scenes are shot are kind of flat. Not that a majority of season one has been particularly flash, but the cinematography has shone a lot in the standout moments of the season. The courtroom stuff was middling as hell.

My question is, at which point would you say the budget/enthusiasm begins to diminish? Because season one is fantastic.

So I just finished Anslo Garrick: Conclusion. This is the episode that hooked.me on the show back in the day.

First of all, Ritchie Coster as Anslo? TDK's Chechen, the rival trainer in Creed? Fan-fucking-tastic. But ALAN ALDA as a significant storyline villain, at least for this season? And Coster, Alda and Spader all interact? How much did this episode cost for those names alone?

Second, this episode is a significant ramp-up. I'm assuming if the show didn't do well, this would have been the grand finale - like how HIMYM would have ended halfway through season one with Vanessa or whatever being the titular mother. But the Anslo Garrick two-parter is genuinely like a movie. It's excellent.

And lastly, the episode ends with Liz asking Red if he's her father. His pause before he says "no" could be anything - he's lying, and it's the first time he's outright lied to her in the show for whatever reason.

But if we're looking at this through the lens of Reddington being Liz's mother who's undergone reconstructive surgery to replace the original one who died, there's a twisted kernal of truth in there. This man isn't her father - he was her mother. And in that sense, he wasn't lying to her.

Noumas posted...

Katie was great, she was sweet but still strong willed and fearless.

I thought you were talking about that weird phase in the later seasons when they seemed invested in incest plot line, like years before game of thrones.

Oh yeah, the incest stuff was season 3 too. That's what got the season off on the wrong foot, and the creep shit of the two incest plotlines - one with actual incest for shock value, the other a lurid manipulation tactic that calls a prominent relationship into question after it had been consummated multiple times - exacerbated how creepy the rest of the season was.

Like even without the incest, the show's sleaze is just more abundant in season 3. With the incest? Season 3 is even moreso the nadir of the show.

Kurt_Russel posted...

Normally, when I black out, I tend to scream at people/walls/gamefaqs, etc...
Then I promptly piss myself and pass out next to a dumpster behind kroger, with no recollection of who I spoke with, or the events that transpired beforehand.
If you blacked out, and somehow made it to your class (while also blacked-out) and spoke to your professor/ whoever, and went on about your merry way, leaves me somewhat baffled.
Im not even interested in the details I probably missed, but even without those, HOW?

I mean when I black out, I tend to be fairly amenable if a bit weird in that "drunk-ass motherfucker" sort of way. It's traumatic to black out because I have a lot of anger buried just below the surface and I'm always worried it's going to spill out in some way or another, but it never seems to.

All that blacking out does is erase memories, the person you were when you were blacked out is basically just a version of yourself acting on instinct. At least, that's how it is for me - I just wanna drink until I fall asleep and get to wherever I need to go. I assume TC is similar, his blacked out self is functional enough to keep him alert and assimilate well enough in a crowd.

The fact that they were shots probably plays a part in this as well. Direct alcohol intake means a more direct drunkenness, as opposed to drinking 8 beers or premixed bourbons/whiskeys.

Haha, get fucked.

Though I'm not looking forward to right wing media losing their shit and insisting this makes Joe Biden a war criminal or some deranged shit.

Are you able to ease it somewhat with music? If you're used to sleeping with music or the TV or something, hopefully that external stimuli can give you something more calming to focus on.

Like the sound and sensation is probably awful, but maybe that distraction could help or something. idk. Hope it gets better for you soon though, it sounds like a fucked up thing to have to live with.

Swagnet0 posted...

so your answer is..

My answer is that new music is fine, it's just a matter of weeding out the stuff you like. For every GOAT-tier musician or series of legendary top 40 hits, there are thousands of albums that nobody gives a fuck about any more. Music has always sucked ass, and music has always been fantastic - it's more or less a numbers game as to whether you're gonna find something you like.

That goes equally so for new music. Like I said, Phoebe Bridgers makes great music. There are plenty of people today who are making great music who you might love today, or in five years time when you realise what you were missing. Either way, that good music exists right now, and it's new.

I'm more inclined to stick with what I already know I'll like. It's a chore looking for new music, if I'm looking for something else I'll either look up a bunch of internet radio stations or scour the "This is [X]" Spotify playlists of my favorite musicians. But that very rarely works.

Like I'll pass the time farting around with the Mountain Goats or Counting Crows like I've done for years, but for a recent example, Phoebe Bridgers makes phenomenal music.

Victims of genocide die twice: first in the killing fields and then in the texts of denialists who insist that nothing happened or that what happened was something different.

Panayiotis Diamadis, Australian genocide scholar.

I got a fishin buddy and his name is Sherm

Tom Clark posted...

Brilliant show. It went a bit off the rails at one point where it seemed that there was no longer a "straight man" role for the wilder characters to play off, but it pulled it back.

Oh yeah, season 3 was the nadir of the series. The first two seasons had men behaving badly, Denny's rampant sexism and Alan's unabashed sleaziness, but season 3 had Alan's sleaziness go from silly, endearing fun to just outright slimy. There's a string of episodes where he creeps up on women from behind and sniffs them, taking these long dragging inhales right in their ear and talking about having sex with them. Again, the sleaze in earlier seasons was bearable, but season 3 Alan Shore has not aged well at all. At one point he pinpoints a woman being pregnant just from sniffing her.

That was also the season with Clarence/Clarice, who comes back in season 4 as Clarence with his cross-dressing reduced to a footnote. Again, I adore Boston Legal and the show was consistently pretty great. That scene of Alan and Denny talking came from season 3, and that's one of my favorite scenes in the show. But my god, it was a low point for Alan Shore and the cast at large - another revelation was that Denny Crane kept a sex doll replica of Candace Bergen's character in a closet, and he'd periodically go there to have sex with it. It got to be too much.

Katie Lloyd saved the show in season 4. She's a newcomer who begins to share an office with Jerry, and the first episode of the season has her tackling a murder case to defend a misunderstood black man who'd faced a lifetime of hardship after being falsely accused of rape and murder.

Katie brought a lot of life back to the show, acting as something of a straight-woman but also something of an empathetic heart to the show. She wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty, and she wasn't stone-cold serious all the time. By all means, Carl Sack filled the role of straight-man once he was introduced, even when he loosened up a little. But when she was on screen, you could be sure that her humanity and her ability to bring the best out in anyone was going to make for a compelling contrast from the usual shenanigans.

Jesus, the first season is so good. I can't wait for Anslo Garrick, it's the first episode of the show I ever watched.

pegusus123456 posted...

I gave up on the show in like S3 when James Spader's voice could no longer compensate for the horrible writing, but the learning about this plotline really made me tempted lol

I might make this a watchthrough topic, building evidence or expanding on the theory based on what I see.

AirFresh? Who is AirFresh? My name is Guy Incognito.

I sure hope we got that one over here. I prefer Mother over Monster, but A) Aussie Lemonade - come on - and B) that shit sounds delicious.

I've decided to watch the show from the start through the lens of Reddington being Liz's mother. And I've gotta say, even though James Spader is being his usual charming James Spader self, the show holds up remarkably well with that plot detail in mind. I'm four episodes in - love the Stewmaker episode, I've gotten like three quarters into season one before - and there's been a comment about Lule hating men while tongue-kissing Reddington, the way he dotes on Liz being almost motherly, and when Liz asks about her parents in episode 3, Reddington laments that "the answer isn't anywhere near as simple as the question".

I've gotta bump at least once for that last video clip.

But I shit in the glovebox, so all I can say

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https://youtu.be/RPZtX9rDzGY

Don't share someone else's gym shorts, they might have crabs.

Flawed masterpiece that unravelled the further you played, hampered by its cancellation and enforced crunch but arguably a victim of its own success because so much money and time went into developing both the FOX Engine and MGSV proper.

When the game works, it's one of the best stealth games ever made. It truly nailed open-world stealth. That doesn't excuse it for literally being unfinished, leaving plot points on the cutting room floor that had to be elaborated on in special features including the final story mission of the game and a whole third playable area, and finishing with a lazy and pandering plot twist in a series known for heady, convoluted plot twists in the context of an ever-deepening political conspiracy.

It's understandable why the game ended the way it did, a deadline was enforced at a point where the team literally had to staple the game shut at the end and ship it. The parts of the game that benefit from the most care and polish are excellent. But because of how the development cycle ended, the whole product will always be compromised, and that's a shame.

I bought Golf with your Friends recently, it's a 6gb download and my Switch is at capacity at the moment. Can't wait to be able to clear some room and play some galf

Endangering national security to own the libs

Xavier_On_High posted...

* Scrunch up a ball of lavatorial napkins
* Hold against sphincter as you express, thereby muffling exuberance
* Lower product gently to the ground

You should be doing this anyway, regardless of the presence of silence monsters

Ah yes, the Poop Elevator. I know this technique well.

PoundGarden posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/4/8/AAe3REAAC_4c.jpg

fucking lol

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Assorted highlights of his rant. Like I'm sorry for removing context I guess, but whenever somebody goes "I'm not hallucinating guys", the resulting breakdown tends to be pretty wacky and funny to skim over.

Dang, I was going for one of those troll topics from ages ago when people were drumming up the age of consoles to send people into a sort of age-induced tailspin for a second.

Time flies, doesn't it?

Black Mirror has the Star Trek episode, with the neural clone of the coworker, and similarly I would count San Junipero. Though in both cases, the living people maintain their own mindset and way of life while mental copies live out seperate lives in the digital realm. So maybe it's not accurate to say they fall under the term of isekai, but at least in the star trek episode, the main character has to learn that she's a digital copy.

There are people born after 9/11 who not only are old enough to smoke and drink (by Australian standards), but who have careers and families.