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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

Far Cry does NOT need to go that direction, it is best as an island FPS or abandoned in the middle of no where fight to survive game like the series has been for years.

To be fair, only two of the 6 or so entries are set on an island.

Who cares? New Stellaris tomorrow!

Okay.

5 was fun, but I don't really have strong feelings about the series one way or another. They are pretty much fast food of gaming; I don't expect anything, but they deliver some stylish, substance free, action.

Coming in the new year, the brand new "We need to print some more money" skin set for Fortnite!

Hexenherz posted...

you can duck and still blind fire so you're not completely exposed

Game changer.

I also have to say that, while jarring, the super-powered tanks are sort of growing on me. They take so many explosives to blow up, but I sort of get it, since it makes them feel like they've got some weight like they should.

rikasa posted...

it's just one of those shows you can always put on and enjoy. for me that's probably Always Sunny and for a lot of people in our generation it's The Office

I'd say How I Met Your Mother too, if it wasn't for the shitty ending.

PETA are hypocritical assholes, but I'm pretty sure they are doing this now just for the free publicity. They do like two or three of these campaigns a month.

No. It's a pretty gross symbol and it has been used to campaign against civil rights for years.

Hexenherz posted...

- A bombed out city with a massive destroyed cathedral as the center point, and a library and movie theater.

Devestation is my nightmare. As someone who enjoys sniping, it's a fucking meat grinder.

AvantgardeAClue posted...

Yep. Just like Battlefront 2. Exactly like Battlefront 2, going by how badly it's selling.

Yeah, we want to have to pay for new content like we used to complain about, damnit!

AvantgardeAClue posted...

All my gripes with it are gameplay based, although their shitty handling of the PR over the summer certainly wasn't a good look.

How so?

And what issues are you having with gameplay? Grand Operations? I like it. The variety in mission types keeps it fun and entertaining and gives the multiplayer a sort of narrative experience. Not to mention how epic it feels to get to day three and be behind by two only to pull out a win. Oh, and when the sudden death actually triggers, it's fucking epic.

AvantgardeAClue posted...

Battlefield 5 is a Battlefield 1 mod with almost half of the weapons being straight from Battlefield 1 and not being nearly as interesting. Throw in some hubris and questionable gameplay decisions along with a tentative road map and it's a hard sell even for me at $30.

Uhhh ... have you even played it? It's not even remotely like a mod. Completely new maps, completely new weapons, new weapon customization, new weapon specializing, new (faction specific) vehicles, character customization, different setting, new modes, etc. It's only like a 'mod' in the sense that both games are large scale FPS games. Either you are full of shit, or you have been playing games with some seriously dedicated full time modders.

anth0ny posted...

Ricemills posted...

any country that bans winnie the pooh cant be the good guys.

fucked up if true

It is true. There was an image of President Obama and Xi Jinping walking was compared to a picture of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger walking. It's pretty common for totalitarian dictatorships to do this, though.

Bio1590 posted...

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Bio1590 posted...

Is this why rates are going up again

Yeah, that's totally it. It's not the 800 million originals they make based on memes and viral videos ... >_>

Either way it's now $14/month in Canada which is fucking absurd.

Honestly, I don't think I'd really have a problem up to about $20. The issues are that Netflix Canada is seriously lacking in content, and that every network thinks that they can launch their own streaming package for the same cost, which has basically recreated cable in the digital space. It's absurd to think that people are going to pay $80+ for a number of streaming services every month, when the whole selling point of streaming was that it was what you wanted, when you wanted it, all in one place, for a fraction of the cost. People are just going to sail the high seas if this shit keeps up.

Bio1590 posted...

Is this why rates are going up again

Yeah, that's totally it. It's not the 800 million originals they make based on memes and viral videos ... >_>

R0N1N187 posted...

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R0N1N187 posted...

Would rather have Seinfeld.

I'd rather have Fraiser than either of them, honestly, but I enjoy all three.

Hulu has Seinfeld and Fraiser

Fraiser is also on Netflix.

Not in Canada. Nor do we have Hulu.

R0N1N187 posted...

Would rather have Seinfeld.

I'd rather have Fraiser than either of them, honestly, but I enjoy all three.

Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

Yeah I have lived in Manitoba and Saskatchewan my whole life.

I'm soooo sorry.

Edit: Is that Regina? It looks like Regina.

Gafemage posted...

Thoughts

I appreciate them keeping it because nostalgic comedies and Star Trek are pretty much the only thing I have Netflix for. However, I'm pretty damn sick of how much they have dropped in favor of their sci-fi movie quality level shows that they churn out every year, that last for a season or two, only to be cancelled because they suck. It's garbage, and if I had any serious alternative, I'd dropped Netflix in a second.

Anti-245 posted...

What does SJW Feminism mean?

It means that misogynists are desperate to blame a conspiracy that doesn't exist and can't talk back to them so they can stroke their own egos and pretend like they are too manly for anyone to argue with.

I always knew.

Depends where you are. I moved from the prairies to the coast, and it's like night and day. Sask has winter for six-seven months, about one month long springs and falls, and -50* temperatures for months at a time. Here on the coast, it gets like -10 at most and only snows like 10 days a year.

Oh yeah, I talked to the movement personally and she informed me that they were only out to discredit innocent conservatives just for the lolz, and that Kesha didn't fit that bill. She told me herself!

You know what I see more often than this? People bitching about how something is going to cause an outrage. It's fucking pathetic. They sit there complaining about 'special snowflakes', then get outraged when something doesn't cause outrage, or they sit there complaining about some bullshit SJW conspiracy against them. It'd be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic. They are worse than the people they blame for everything.

I guess they are the same ones who complain about how Nazis get punched or shit like that because of freedom of speech, but then try to shame or attack anyone who says anything they don't agree with.

bobbaaay posted...

like bbq chicken pizza,

Ah, so you just don't have taste, then.

Voxwik posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

There are no good or bad guys in the world. It's impossible to boil down any country into such a simple moral paradigm. I'd say that China's blatant disregard for human rights definitely makes their government, at best, pretty morally questionable.

There absolutely are bad guys, take the Taliban or ISIS as examples, or the North Korean leadership.

I used to naively believe there aren't bad guys. When you get the majority of a population to murderously demand the death of "apostates" and crack down on every aspect of private life, you are bad guys as far as I'm concerned. Nazis are another obvious example. I'm not sorry for saying that. Unapologetic serial killers and such are more examples.

I think in reality free will is an elaborate illusion, so I don't believe in outright hating people, but I absolutely believe some people are corrupted into an evil manner of conduct, and sadly there are some parts of the world where the brainwashing affects a majority of the population.

China is indeed quite a conundrum though. It's certainly not a good/bad situation there, as it is with more completely murderous societies.

I either wasn't clear or you didn't understand me. I was talking about entire countries. Yes there are obviously bad people. No need to fucking evangelize some condescending philosophy vomit at me.

Houston posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

Because they are all generic, far reaching statements. If you include Merry Christmas, you have to include the version for literally every holiday. Happy Holidays literally covers all of them.

Is Santa typically associated with other holiday traditions besides Christmas?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the stories I was read as a child regarding Santa was directly correlated with Christmas. He said Ho Ho, Merry Christmas. I don't remember him saying Ho Ho Happy Kwanza or whatever.

Here's the issue.

His appearance? You can thank Odin for that.
Leaving things out for him? Odin again.
His reindeer? Yep, Odin.
His trademark red suit? That one was actually Coca Cola in the 50's.

My point is that he might as well serve as a symbol for the holiday season since he's just an amalgamation of multiple different religious traditions, so saying he's Christian, despite having almost zero Christian influence, is stupid.

That doesn't change the fact that they don't have specific cards for each specific holiday, and instead using the generic 'Happy Holidays' to cover all of them. Again, no 'Happy Hannukah' or 'Happy Kwanza' or 'Happy Yule' or 'Happy Saturnalia' or anything like that. Stop acting like they are singling Christmas out just because they are treating it the exact same way the treated every other god damn holiday.

Houston posted...

What is that supposed to mean? I've been arguing the same point but no one has offered a counter argument.

I already explained why it's ridiculous.

Houston posted...

Why is Christmas blatantly excluded from Google's Santa cards? They have all the other wonderful inclusive phrases. So why not add Merry Christmas to it?

Because they are all generic, far reaching statements. If you include Merry Christmas, you have to include the version for literally every holiday. Happy Holidays literally covers all of them.

IslamMD posted...

Blazing Saddles

The rest, yeah, but not this. The whole point is that it is blatantly mocking racists.

Honestly, Family Guy used to do the same thing constantly.

Like, could you literally not?

Houston posted...

If you'll read previous posts

Likewise.

Houston posted...

Why was it not included when Santa represents Christmas?

I don't think we want to go down the road of which religious group Santa comes from ...

Racism and bigotry, brother!

Then, sociopathic primadonna behavior that fucked up wrestling for awhile.

Houston posted...

Isn't that a bit odd?

No. No one cares.

Seriously, why are people mad about this whole thing? Out of spite? You don't lose anything by including more people.

Not to mention the fact that Christmas is full of a ridiculous amount of things borrowed from other beliefs, and that 90% of what we think is 'traditional' is pretty damn modern.

Yeah, you know what? I sort of do. Don't get me wrong, I still love to watch some dark shows and movies, and I love me a dark comedy, but after work I tend to just flip on something silly to relax to.

Holy shit, he must have given Mueller something stupid juicy.

There are no good or bad guys in the world. It's impossible to boil down any country into such a simple moral paradigm. I'd say that China's blatant disregard for human rights definitely makes their government, at best, pretty morally questionable.

Zikten posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

Anything depicting skeletons is also censored for the same reason. So there might be a connection there, too.

yea in World of Warcraft, in china, the Undead race has no bones sticking out. they still have all their flesh

Yeah, that's right. I know MTG got hit with it to.

I was just saying that I know that has something to do with depicting ancestors, due to ancestor veneration being so important to the culture, and that has got to have an effect on censorship of time travel stories.

Too fucking many. Youtube is a cesspool nowadays. Half of them probably don't even believe it, they just know that saying something is awful for no reason will get clicks from both people that like said thing, and people that hate it. The problem is that impressionable assholes watch them and become convinced they are right and keep perpetuating the hatred circle jerk.

DarkRoast posted...

Banned pictures of llamas and alpacas because they remind people of mud crabs, which have a name pronounced similarly to "censorship"

It's like he read 1984 and went, "This is a great textbook!".

DarkRoast posted...

Banned any fiction involving time travel and historical fiction because it might show pre-Communist China in a "positive light".

If I remember correctly, there is actually another issue here because of Chinese cultural taboos about ancestors. Anything depicting skeletons is also censored for the same reason. So there might be a connection there, too.

IslamMD posted...

The fans seem right. She is rich why is she asking for donations to help her family member.

While I agree with that, I don't really know her situation, and the best solution is probably just to say nothing instead of harassing her about it.

LinkAndEpona posted...


Really now? Oh, I'm so hurt.

Parappa09 posted...

i'm happy to add more stuff when i'm cooking it at home like so:

For steak? Eh, seems like it's trying to hard to be fancy. Maybe for a roast or something from a slow cooker, but steak+grill+salt+pepper=good.

LightHawKnight posted...

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RainblowDash posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

Is BF flopping?

It's literally the best BF in years. They fixed like 90% of the complaints from the previous games.

Lol

Okay, you are trolling. Good to know.

Watched the Angry Joe review, and there seems to be a lot of problems with the game. Launched with modes still not finished, tiny amount of maps, weird stories no one cares about, historical inaccuracies, you can be bombed as you spawn, shot and killed as you jump from a plane, and subtitles are white with no black border so you can't read shit when it is snowing, which is a good portion of the game.

They fixed the plane/bombing already. More stories are coming, but that's subjective anyway. Yes, some modes are not included yet, but there are already like 10 maps and 8 modes, so I don't know what he's bitching about. Not only that, but all future content is free, which is a fucking gamechanger for BF.

The things they fixed though;
- Classes are balanced. Each has a role. Gadgets are almost all useful.
- Focus on squads; the map defaults to spawning on your squad, squadmates can revive anyone in their squad.
- Weapons are insanely great, you can customize how they function, and separately alter each piece of the gun's skin. From barrel to scope to muzzle, handguard, butt end, etc. You can basically find any range on any class, which is a godsend.
- Grand Operations are insanely fun. The Airborne round, in particular, is super fun.
- The stories are good and far more grounded than the multiplayer. I haven't completed them all yet, but they are closer to the historical stuff some people wanted.
- Historical inaccuracies is a bullshit complaint. The games have never been accurate. It's completely arbitrary to be into the series until now and only be angry about inaccuracies now.

Honestly, maybe you should stop getting your reviews from a Youtube 'celeb' whose whole gimmick is being negative about things. It's a pretty common gimmick nowadays, and the whole reason I don't take Youtube reviewers seriously.

RainblowDash posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

Is BF flopping?

It's literally the best BF in years. They fixed like 90% of the complaints from the previous games.

Lol

Okay, you are trolling. Good to know.

I don't actually know, but I have to have 10+ in Crusader Kings. I've got 1337 hours the last time I checked.

Take me to church (WHICH IS A LIE!)

Did you take one marijuana? Put the marijuana injector down and step away from the drugs!

UnholyMudcrab posted...

I don't feel like going through all of them, but my not-so-fun Theodore Roosevelt fact is that he lost both his wife and his mother on Valentine's Day 1884

And that's the last time the annual Presidential Valentine's Day Hunt was held at the same venue as the White House Sewing Bee.

Haha, she is just a five alarm dumpster fire.

ledbowman posted...

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ledbowman posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

ledbowman posted...

My thing with Santa is it totally destroys kids' faith in anything. Their parents, the government, god. You name it.

I mean, I was raised knowing Santa wasn't real my entire life, and I don't have any faith in religion or anything like that, so I'm not sure the correlation is as strong as your are asserting.

Right, your spirit was never broken.

... But I have no faith, so that's the opposite of what you said. You said learning the truth about Santa breaks people's faith. I pointed out I have no faith and I never 'learned' the truth because I always knew it.

Right I'm saying you never had any spirit to break (luckily?).

I was actually raised in a staunchly religious home.

Capcom has the weirdest love affair with crossovers. They just seem to want to corssover anything and everything, even when it makes zero sense.

"Oh, you want to borrow our characters from Monster Hunter for a Metal Gear game? Sure, why not!"
"You know what this zombie infested gore-fest really needs? Megaman!"

Metal Gear Solid, The Last of Us, Uncharted, Tomb Raider.

Pretty much all 3D person action games are like this.