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ZeldaTPLink posted...

Eh I just don't "feel" it. I like Monika for being tragic, I could see myself voting for her in most matches, against characters I don't know. But it feels to me like actually rallying her to win it all because "the meme says we should only vote Monika" leaves a bad feeling in my stomach, because the actual game wants you to feel the opposite. I mean, she did kill all those girls, then metaphorically killed herself for her sins.

I feel like this gets glossed over a lot, but keep in mind that the other girls aren't "real" like Monika is for most of the game. As the player, you get to experience them as normal fictional characters and learn their stories and relate to them. But from Monika's perspective they might as well be cardboard cutouts that she can never have any meaningful interactions with. This is notably different from your Undertale example because that game actually adapts to the "self-aware" elements. In DDLC, the game breaks or goes out of it's way to undermine her and she has to actively alter it to make any difference. I think it really adds an additional level to the tragic angle.

Also why people say Monika did nothing wrong.
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CoolCly posted...

I don't accept the Bene Gesserit's influence as an explanation for everything happening as ordained. I accept it as a useful tool that Jessica definitely exploited. It makes sense when Jessica just "happens" to say exactly the thing they are expecting, because she's intentionally manipulating them and knows all about the previously implanted legends by Bene Gesserit who have visited the Fremen in the past.

But it's very clear that this isn't what's happening with Paul. He isn't saying things because Jessica told him to - he very clearly observes the reaction the common Fremen have to offhand comments he makes. It even kind of annoys him.

You might make the argument that Jessica manipulated Paul into unknowingly saying these things, but I don't agree with that. Paul is very aware of Jessica's manipulative nature and can usually tell when she's trying to subtly influence him.

Plus there's the fact that what happens with the Fremen isn't actually what the Bene Gesserit as an organization intended - Jessica just utilized them with her knowledge because of her love for her son, not for the aims of her organization or for the realization of the Kwisatz Hadarach. The Mother Superior was not pleased when Paul faced the Emperor.

Well I think you actually touch on most of the reasons it was happening with these observations. It's not exactly that Paul consciously is trying to manipulate them, but as the Chosen One he doesn't have to try. The Bene Gesserit have set up this convoluted plan with this religiously susceptible civilization, and even though it's not what the Bene Gesserit intended, Paul and Jessica are "close enough" that they can pretty easily co-opt it. Once they get the ball rolling, the prophecy is self-fulfilling. It barely matters what Paul says because he's the Chosen One and whatever he does must be what the Chosen One would do.

It's been a few years and I only read the first 3 books, so forgive me if I'm talking out of my ass, but a major theme of the books was Paul's inability to affect the destiny that was engineered for him.

And yeah, the first book is well-written but still a total power fantasy.
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I'd be interested. I keep falling in and out of reading comics. Haven't kept up with anything since Metal ended.

1) Have you read comics before? If so, what is your history with the medium?

Yeah, I got super into DC around the Morrison Batman and Johns GL era, right before New 52. I've read a lot of the history since then but fell behind on most current stuff after Rebirth. Also read various amounts of some recent Image series but not current on anything.

2) Are there characters or creators you are interested in learning more about?

Too many to name really. I've almost entirely neglected Marvel so hitting on those classics would be cool

3) Do you have interested in comics outside of the traditional DC and Marvel universes? Would you be interested in comics that are sci-fi, fantasy, or even more literary works grounded in the real world?

Absolutely, I think I'd give most things a shot.

4) Are you adverse to language, graphic violence, drug use or nudity?

Nope
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As a Wild player, the Aviana nerf was the best one if you wanted to hit combo druid as hard as possible. But I dont think that's the right call and it feels kinda lazy. I'd rather see a nerf to Melon and Plague which are busted enablers and see if it's still a problem. That also would affect Standard.
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https://twitter.com/PlayHearthstone/status/1050053350333587456?s=20

Nerfs coming. I'm surprised it took this long.
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Ok I'll bite

What exactly was similar about GotG and SS marketing? They both used 70s music in a trailer? They both are about comedic antihero teams?
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Phase? I still see girls with Daddy's Little Monster shirts around occasionally. Harley Quinn is huge and WB knows it. She's going to be in a planned Birds of Prey movie and there was a "Joker and Harley" concept floating around recently we might see if that one goes well.

That's a lot of Harley
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I would assume that the oscar nomination is less of a factor than it making a bunch of money at the box office.
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Iksar and the comment above Donais's show it a lot better but he's not even wrong that the article is biased. The data's fantastic but the analysis, while probably mostly correct, is off. And the last section is literally just saying every major design innovation for the past two years is shit. Frankly, I'm surprised he wasn't less civil.

Though, I will declare my own bias: I kind of love that Donais isnt above shitposting? The results are always hilarious and you definitely can't say he isn't transparent.
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If they had actual board game online I'd get this for sure, but since they don't I'll pass.
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Tagging this
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They already animated how King Crimson works in Futurama. Araki just made it more confusing by his weird art for it.

Now, Soft Machine, that one I still can't wrap my head around.
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Yeah everything about it looks solid except for how it looks like they're characterizing Arthur and Mera as "comedic dumb male and smart female"

The suits look FANTASTIC and while I like the visual direction of the Atlantis stuff, it gives me Green Lantern vibes where it was in all the trailers but they spent about 5 minutes on Oa.
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I thought Narancia was a girl initially, but from what I read online that's pretty common. He is definitely too cute. (boat hype btw)
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BlackMageJawa posted...

Stone Ocean's translation feels a bit off though.

Where the FUCK is Mickey???
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Pretty easily the worst of the new Star Wars movies. The characters were forgettable and the plot was just bland until the final segment. Which was INCREDIBLE but the whole movie should have had that tone instead of pretending to be a normal Star Wars for the first 2/3rds.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Secondly, why waste Annihilation on this? Annihilation is a really good story that could be used for an all-space character movie against Annihulus. Missed opportunity!

I'm worried that with Gunn gone they will be less gung-ho about doing space stuff, since he was the driving force behind that. If Captain Marvel does really well and Guardians 3 isn't a mess, maybe that could change. But also with all the Fox rights coming in, they could just ignore space entirely if they felt like it.
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As a Magic player, I apologize for how crazy this release probably is for you
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Probably my favorite of the MCU Avengers. I say "probably" because Thor has been great on the last two movies. That said...I totally expected him to die in Civil War, so it's kinda about time.

Surprised to see people not really liking him. I think he's been pretty great in the role of keeping the rest of the MCU cast grounded. Though Banner and Peter are doing most of that recently.
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I think Nintendo gets a bad rap for it because they really ran new (New!) 3DS models into the ground. 2 years feels like a pretty quick turnaround for a new Switch, but the PS4 to Pro was 3 years so it's not that far off.
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Ranticoot posted...

Street Fighter is possibly at its all-time low in reputation while Spyro has that trilogy coming out idk

yes but the internet's love of thicc women is at an all-time high
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Delayed until November

God dammit Kanye pulled a Ye and scrapped the album, didn't he?
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Cybat posted...

Noooo you guys missed Wonder Woman

oh well

Probably because it was actually good

Also since it takes place literally 100 years before everything else, Scarlet still has a lot of liberty to change everything except Diana's origin.
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Ghost Town performance was great! Until it got cut off. Other two were not good but at least I Love It was funnier than most of the SNL skits.

and apparently he went on a big political rant on stage after so

that's fun
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No problem. In that case sub it out for Batman v Superman. Might as well get it out the way.
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Green Lantern x4

Ok but seriously:
Green Lantern
Thor 2: The Dark World
Avengers 2
The Killing Joke (do limited theatrical releases count?)
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b a n g a r a n g
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Honestly I'm wondering who they'll get to replace Nimoy if Old Xehanort shows up again. I can't remember if he's been in new scenes in trailers or not.
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Enough with the hot Bowser please.

So you do think it's hot tho
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This is a weird nickpick but I felt both impressed with the dialogue and underwhelmed by the actual plot. I haven't read a lot of Spider-Man to compare it to but the story came across as bland most of the time. That said, the dialogue writing is so good that it leads to a bunch of strong scenes sprinkled throughout, particularly at the end.
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It makes me think that they're going for the gritty crime realism like the Azzarello comic
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Yeah they definitely had some gems, and I'm sad to see them go. I remember reading a big article on the development of Tales From the Borderlands and the company seemed to be pretty badly run with people switching projects constantly.

But TFTB is fantastic, play it if you haven't.

Edit: Found the article, it's a great read but spoilers obviously
https://quarterly.camposanto.com/tales-from-the-borderlands-the-oral-history-d33bb5f146e6
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Please actually go back and watch the trailers for the first Wreck-it-Ralph. They were just as silly and focused on the over-the-top references with absolutely zero indication the movie would be as good as it was. The only difference this time is that it's no longer a novel concept. It's way too soon to judge. Even the most cookie-cutter of the modern Disney movies have been good recently.

Also unironically good use of Rick Astley, don't @ me
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Boros looks really boring but it seems like the thing that can snowball pretty easily
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Spider-Man is absolutely the superhero of choice to tackle serious and controversial social issues like police brutality and rehabilitation of criminals. What a blunder by Insomniac!
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I feel like once GLC comes out we will be able to compare it directly to the GL movie and tell exactly how much input Johns had in his "creative officer" role versus being the head writer.

Sucks to hear about Cavill, I feel like he was doing a great job with what they gave him and would have been perfect with the right material.
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neonreaper posted...

Before the patch my crime bonus meters were full before starting the fights but now that seems to be fixed ? Aw man

You mean the bonus objectives? I don't think I was actually getting the extra tokens from them so I think that's a good thing. I had been assuming it was per area or something and not per fight.
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8 definitely has the most extremely good highs but as other people have said, I think others are more consistently good overall. I'd go with 9, then 6, then 7 (which might be a contender for best if the instrumentation wasn't so shitty).
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I distinctly remember the B8 hype for that game was a major factor for me buying the CE for that game, which was being slept on so hard that Amazon still had copies in stock a day or so after the release. Probably my best impulse buy to date.

So yeah thanks for that.
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If you don't like wacky boy and dog adventures, I'm not sure if the show is for you. That feels like the soul of the show to me and the occasional lore is just a bonus.
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I had stopped at some point in S6, so I've been catching up on the last few seasons recently in preparation for this. Just got to S9 so two more to go. I don't think I'll make it in time without some serious binging but whatever.

This show has been such a wild ride. It's kind of lost its original magic as it's delved more and more into its own lore, but even in this back half of episodes there's gold shining through. I really liked the Islands miniseries in particular. Still, watching it as it aired was an experience and I'm kind of sad to see it go. It feels like the end of an era for boundary-pushing cartoons.
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azuarc posted...

For that matter, how good is Dr. Boom here? It's not a mech deck, and I'm not a big fan of the card without a specific plan to leverage it...which, of course, is hard to do when your hero power keeps changing.

Boom is good on his own - every hero power except Kaboom is good value (and that's good against aggro). Zap is solid and the 3 1/1s and discover a mech are generally removal + board. The real problem is staying alive if you don't roll 2 mana gain 7.

I was looking at Odd Warrior decks because I was thinking of crafting one, and those seem to get by on threats with just double Assembly, Stonehill, an Elise, Baku, and Boom. If you don't want to run Elise, maybe Direhorn Hatchling? I'm a fan of that card and it has a similar anti-fatigue effect as Elise does while also giving you a decent body + a 6/9 later.
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Turn 3 Mountain Giant is pretty exciting, I'd say.
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swordz9 posted...

Sucks he was fired. It would be cool to see him work on something else like TMNT as others have said or maybe he could make the first good entry in the DC movie universe

wonder woman already came out tho
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LapisLazuli posted...

Once the paint wore off the lack of established history for the universe started to reall break down. Also almost all of the best talents they had were replaced by nobodies once they left. Stuff like Swamp Thing and Animal Man were incredible, as were many others, but once they were done we had nothing.

btw I mostly agree with this, but only as far as the main heroes go. I can see that being a huge turnoff but there was still a handful of great B and C list books getting made. I'm not really sure if the A-list is any better or worse off now than they were.
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I DO like Tomasi. Has DC come out with any other good animated movies recently? The last good one I saw was Batman: Year One. Also The Killing Joke, but that was just weird.
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I see way more hate for the N52 now that it's gone than I ever did while it was around. It's really strange because it was not really as bad as people are making it out to be now.
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I couldn't figure out how to beat the egg mirror puzzle so I set myself up for a 50/50 and took it to complete the challenge.

Skill really isn't a factor in this game!
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Geralt?
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I noticed that too, it was definitely a bit off. Unless the griffin was secretly genderfluid all along.
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