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I voted Halo, because the original games/arc was pretty cool. Reach is still one of my favorite FPSes.
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lihlih posted...

What? Can't say anything about 2k20, but 2k19 was far from that.

2k19 was about shitting on the independent scene and anyone wrestling outside of the WWE. 2k20 was basically shitting on wrestling fans. In both your main character is basically a moron and a loser out of the gate (in 2k19 you kind of improve, in 2k20 you kind of don't). And it's only worse because of how the game mechanics work, where you basically start out as an inept dingus and have to grind your way to better moves, a cooler look, and actual stats.

It's a far cry from the days when you'd basically come in to story mode as a badass and got to feel cool right out of the gate.

Though in that sense, I suppose it's an accurate representation of how WWE books these days - they haven't been able to get anyone massively over for more than a decade now.
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Sounds like all your friends are on the down low and overcompensating.

You should tell them that.
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After a decade or more of teaching, teachers are just tired of all our shit.
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Far-Queue posted...

Is this good? I've been on the fence about this one

Probably depends on what you're looking for.

My opinion of it is mostly based on watching other people play it online. And I dislike platormers in general and Metroidvania-type games specifically, so you definitely need to take that into account when I'm reviewing something.

But it looks like a relatively fun time-waster. I definitely wouldn't pay $60 for it, and I'm not sure I'd even want to pay $30 for it (which is what they're actually charging), but if goes on sale for less I might consider it.

It almost sort of feels like a stripped-down version of No Man's Sky aesthetically, except there's actually goals. Neither the platforming or the combat seems overly complicated (which is a plus for me, but maybe a negative for others), and the doubling back to earlier areas to use new upgrades seems relatively simplistic (though I've really only seen the early parts of gameplay), so if you're looking for challenging gameplay it might disappoint.

The narrative mostly tries to be humorous (I've heard it described as a "less subtle Outer Worlds", which I'd agree is an apt description), which could be a plus for some people and a negative for others (but it's part of the appeal for me). And there are implications of a deeper plot early, but I have no idea if those actually pay off later, or lead to absolutely nothing (because again, I've really only seen the early parts of gameplay).
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Yellow posted...

If for some reason you listen to everything the Swedish guy with Tourette's says, than yes.

If you listen to the scientific community, then no.

WHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH.
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Far-Queue posted...

Most of the story modes in sports games I've played through are all bastardized versions of Rocky. Not so much the first Rocky, but the later films where there's some semi-villainous adversary (Clubber Lang/Ivan Drago).

"Up-and-coming [spin the sport roulette wheel] phenom faces personal and professional hurdles on their path to professional greatness. Can they overcome the odds and best [insert asshole heel-type] to become the champion?"

For the last two WWE games, the plot basically boils down to "Anyone who likes wrestling or wants to be a wrestler is a pathetic loser, so now you're going to play through 10 hours worth of us basically making fun of you."

I'll take Rocky over that. At least Rocky is attempting to be inspirational.
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If you're that bothered by the idea of other people sneezing, you're the one with the neurosis and should probably go outside yourself so as not to bother other people with your weirdness.
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Based on the retroactive timeline they invented for the games after the fact because fans wouldn't shut the fuck up about it, the only games I acknowledge the existence of all happened in the timeline where Link fails in Ocarina of Time.

So the Hero of Time didn't marry anyone, because he's dead in a ditch somewhere.
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keyblader1985 posted...

Didn't watch the video, but was anybody actually upset about this obvious joke?

You're living in an age where someone is offended about something at all times, forever.

Tribalism and outrage culture has basically made it impossible to say or do anything without someone, somewhere, being offended for some reason. And the Internet allows them to make their voice heard, so their outrage becomes disproportionately significant.
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OmegaM posted...

I've always assumed that the typical fantasy dragon just likes looking at "pretty" things (like gold) and wants as many of them as possible.

Personally, I've always assumed the whole "monster kidnaps princess" narrative motif stems almost entirely from this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_(mythology)#Mythology
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Who

ARE

you?
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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IHaveYouNowMyPretty
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What_The_Chris posted...

isn't that pretty much the same thing?

I'm assuming they mean the difference between games that have long-term season modes where you track stats and you're building up a team or a specific player over time, and games where you're literally playing as someone going through a pre-written storyline.

Personally, I've long since ceased to care about anything resembling a sports game in general. The one type I held onto longer than any others was the WWE games, but I went off them completely when they decided that things like "arcade-style play" and "fun" were less important than "online play" and "pathetic attempts to be more of a simulation". And then doubly so when they decided that it would be really neat to lock everything behind purchase walls and force you to either grind like crazy or spend money on microtransactions to even build up a single wrestler who wasn't shit. That's pretty much the exact opposite reason why I ever played those games in the first place.

But back when I did still play them, story mode was like 90% of the reason why (the other 10% was making insane create-a-wrestlers and stables and occasionally simulating matches between them).

The fact that the newer games HAVE story modes has piqued by interest at least a few times, but the fact that those story modes all seem vaguely insulting to the player and so terrible they seem to have been written by concussed baboons means they've never really led me to ever buy one of those games.

I'm kind of interested to see what AEW winds up doing with their inevitable game, since they've mentioned wanting them to be more like older titles, which would be right up my alley. If they have a somewhat fun and irreverent but well-written story mode, that pretty much sells me on the game right there.
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Zareth posted...

Yes.

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So you're saying global warning used to be real, but is now a myth? Gotcha.
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Mead posted...

whoever gets more views is the one telling the truth

So you're saying we should ask PewDiePie what he thinks about it?
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wwinterj25 posted...

I wouldn't mind Final Fantasy X been remade in the same way.

So you want them to change the story, fuck with most of the gameplay mechanics, and cut the whole thing up into episodic releases, then take years to finally shit the thing out?
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Journey to the Savage Planet
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The fun you're all having making fun of the orange man aside, I'd be willing to bet a great deal of money that a majority of Americans have no idea that Kansas City isn't in Kansas.



Mead posted...

more often than youd think, maybe thats just because I live in Missouri and love barbecue though

I can probably count on one hand the number of times someone in my life has mentioned KC as anything other than the location of a sports team. And in those cases, the state is almost never mentioned.

Then again, I live in the Northeast, and generally speaking, as far as we're concerned, unless you're in the Northeast or on the West Coast, you don't actually exist as anything other than empty wide open space we fly over on our way to other places.
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Lokarin posted...

Did you play the Shadowgate remake on Steam?

That would require me to not have a pathological hatred for PC gaming in general, and Steam specifically.



Nade Duck posted...

EVO The Search for Eden

it will never happen though. :(

Did you manage to evolve into a human, or was your final form just some odd sort of rhino beast thing?
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rexcrk posted...

I normally despise politically-based humor, but Citizen Kang is actually my all time favorite Simpsons Halloween segment.

I think it works because they're not really taking shots at one specific party, or even one specific person per se, as much as they're making fun of the system as a whole. And just doing a bit of playfully mild mocking of Clinton and Dole, rather than coming across like biased assholes.

Most of the political humor I despise comes across like "When the other side does stuff I don't like I'm going to tear them a new asshole via venomous mockery and humorous abuse, but when my side does the exact same thing it's okay." That's what usually triggers my "Shut up, both sides suck, and you treating a political party like they're your local sports team is half the reason we have these problems" response whenever people whine about politics.
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GanonsSpirit posted...

I liked the idea of The Genesis Tub, and enjoyed when Futurama got it right later.

I preferred it when South Park did it.
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Ogurisama posted...

Thats what pretty much every THOH segment. Very few are an original story/concept

Yes, but most of them expand on the source material in interesting ways.

I get that this was like the 5th Twilight Zone story they stole ideas from (and it certainly wasn't the last one), but it was the first one that felt like it added nothing of worth to the original idea. And most of what they did add was bad.
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Zeus posted...

Heresy! 50 Foot Eyesores had some great puns

It also had a shitty song at the end.

Overall, the negatives kind of outweigh the positives.



Zeus posted...

Homer Cubed was funny.

The only worthwhile parts of it were the parts they stole directly from the original Twilight Zone episode it was blatantly ripping off.
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Alpha218 posted...

5 is better than 6

Can you articulate why?

With a lot of stuff like this, people often have emotional biases that are almost entirely predicated on what they played first/most, while they wind up hating newer versions even if they're better.

On the other hand, there are often times when the newer thing is objectively worse than the older thing, for easily explained reasons.

Personally I've been on the fence about getting Civ VI for the PS4, but I also hated Revolution for multiple reasons.
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Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!
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I'm stroking out on the toilet just like Elvis. No violence for me! Unless it's the violence I do to the porcelain before my internal valves give out.
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By a strict definition of the term "childhood", it would have to be something on the Coleco/Atari or maybe NES.

So something like Maniac Mansion or Shadowgate. But a straight up remake with better graphics, not a complete redo where they change everything and I stop caring (like the Shadowgate sequels).
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Mead posted...

How do I close another users topic

You have to seduce Foxx, then get her to close it for you.
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Revelation34 posted...

Obviously not. Your bloodtype doesn't matter.

Lots of things matter that we'd never really think about. Even if it's only shifting odds of conception up or down a few fractions of a percent in either direction.

What you eat for lunch every day can play a role, no matter how minor. Anything that affects your body's general biochemistry can alter pH and other hormonal factors.

Granted, the range of variance might be so low as to functionally mean very little in mechanical terms.
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EclairReturns posted...

I assume that this episode was aired during the 1990s, around the time when dial telephones were still in use.

Technically, they weren't even "in use" then. Which is the point of the joke.

Though also technically, you can STILL buy and use rotary phones if you want to, to be a hipster. They just convert the signal to touch-tone.
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wolfy42 posted...

Wouldn't the robot master get the chip from Megaman thus giving them the same ability, and probably any abilities he had already absorbed with it?

If you're not designed to be adaptive from the start, you wouldn't really possess the ability to install a chip with adaptability even if such a thing existed and you were able to get it.

In other words, imagine Mega Man has the USB port that lets him install all of the other robots' hardware, but they don't have any ports that would allow them to install his.
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NightMareBunny posted...

Doctor Aphra is quite the character I'll say

The one thing I dislike about her is that they can't seem to decide whether or not she's an unrepentant villain character or a misunderstood fuck-up who sincerely regrets the things she winds up having to do, so overall she winds up having a shitty bipolar sort of personality.

That's a thing I dislike about Star Wars in general - they seem absolutely unwilling to allow for moral complexity 99% of the time. If you're bad you're a mustache-twirling villain, and if you have ANY ambiguity at all, you're going to redeem yourself and become a hero before the story is over.

Just once I'd like to see Imperials who are good people but who don't wind up betraying the Empire before the story ends, and who actually have moral reasons for supporting the Empire. Or even just Imperial main characters who ARE unrepentant bastards and who stay unrepentant bastards. That was one of the (many) things that discouraged me from caring about the single-player campaign in Battlefront 2.



NightMareBunny posted...

agents of shield was basically no name original characters most of the time with the actual marvel characters rarely doing much in the long run

Nearly every character that appeared WAS an actual character from the comics, though, and often characters who were never going to get movies of their own or show up in anyone else's , so it was nice for them to get a bit of time in the spotlight somewhere.

The real problem with Agents of SHIELD was that Disney wanted to push integration between the movies and the TV show, but corporate politics between Marvel Studios (the film division) and Marvel Television (the TV division) meant that the films categorically refused to acknowledge anything that happened on TV (and essentially treated it all as non-canon), while the TV show wound up being forced to acknowledge everything that happened in the films (which played havoc with their own plotting and planning).

The storylines where the show responded to what was happening in the movies tended to be some of the better episodes, though. Which implies it would have been pretty awesome if there had actually been anything resembling reciprocity.

It feels like Disney put their foot down and called bullshit on that sort of thing, though, which is why the Disney+ shows are apparently under the Marvel Studios umbrella rather than the Marvel Television one. Disney basically folded the TV division directly into the movie division, so there can be greater interaction and coordination between the two (which is why it looks like the Scarlet Witch, Falcon/Winter Soldier, and Loki shows will all technically be canon to the films, and may include a greater degree of cross-pollination between the two).
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streamofthesky posted...

Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace is one of the best Treehouse stories ever.

The other two are pretty bad.

This. This is actually the Treehouse of Horror (and more specifically, Homer) that made me realize I didn't like The Simpsons anymore.

It's pretty much when I stopped watching the show as a whole. The year after (Bart's evil twin and the election) felt like it was a bit better and maybe a cause for optimism, but the one after that was lame enough that I stopped caring about Treehouse episodes as well.

I did like Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace (Willie is awesome), but Attack of the 50 Foot Eyesores felt meh at best to me, and I really hated Homer (and even back then I thought the CGI kind of looked like shit).
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Mead posted...

never even heard of such an opinion

It's an opinion held by idiots and Europeans
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GreenKnight127 posted...

Start by completely re-casting the entire film. Idris Elba was NOT Roland.

Since we can't travel back in time and kidnap Clint Eastwood from the 1970s to play Roland, who would you cast?

He might get getting a bit too old for the role at this point as well, but how would you feel about someone like Nathan Fillion in the role? Keep in mind, if we're talking about a TV show, you have to cast someone low-enough tier that they'd be willing to accept working on a TV show, and young enough to potentially last for multiple seasons, but old enough to be believable as the character. That kind of restricts casting a bit.

The other thing to consider is that Amazon was going to make a Dark Tower TV show, but when the movie tanked they backed off the idea.



GreenKnight127 posted...

Start the show during Wizard and Glass. Work its way up to The Gunslinger.

I kind of disagree. I think you need to start with Gunslinger (where Roland is both at his coolest, and where you can focus on him without having other characters as distractions - especially characters who will ALL be dead soon), and work your way to Wizard and Glass as a flashback. If extremely clever, you can pull a Highlander and have flashback scenes interspersed with modern-day scenes, alternating, where it's very obvious that the situation in the past reflects the situation in the present.
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FrozenBananas posted...

Stephen King is our savior though

Yeah, but let's be honest - that boy ain't right.



Mead posted...

I dunno this doesnt seem like that big of a deal

The main problem is that the entire point of license plates is to serve as ID, not so people can get vanity boners.

And while you might love the idea of having a plate that is just four poop emojis in a row, more obscure emojis in combination can make it extremely difficult for anyone to actually ID your plate number (Umm, he was smiley, crying guy, poop, confetti, unicorn, and a sort of confused looking guy, maybe?).

The counter-point is that we live in a world full of cameras, so in theory no one is writing plate numbers own or reading them out loud as opposed to just taking a quick picture with their phone, but a) there ARE still people who don't have camera phones, and b) from a distance it might be harder to distinguish between emojis.

Though at this point, give us another decade or two and most new cars may be self-driving and GPS-chipped anyway, rendering license plates entirely useless.
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Vermont's kind of a breeding bed for crazy people. Partly because of stuff like the Free State Project, but also partly because the northern parts of New England in general are a nightmare made flesh (see also Stephen King).
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WastelandCowboy posted...

https://i.imgur.com/iyKzbz4.gif

Now all I can think of is that watching Atlantis: The Lost Empire would probably make for a more interesting time later today than watching the Super Bowl.
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Revelation34 posted...

Yes but it doesn't matter since Lucas himself supported the expanded universe.

"Supported".

Saying the equivalent of "Yeah, I don't give a fuck what they do, because none of it counts and I'm going to ignore it all anyway, but they can pretend it's canon if it sells more books to fanboys" really isn't a sweeping endorsement.

The whole reason they invented the whole bullshit multi-tier canon system was basically so they could lie and pretend everything was canon when almost nothing was really canon in any meaningful sense.

Disney, for all that people shit on them (and not for no reason), at least tends to make at least minor attempts to integrate the things they say are canon (like the cartoons) into the overarching narrative (ie, having the films or TV shows reference stuff from comics and books). They've done more to legitimately endorse their own EU than Lucas ever did.
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Mmmmm... forbidden doughnut.
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GanonsSpirit posted...

The Shinning is the best overall segment, but the beginning of Time and Punishment is the funniest scene.

Zeus posted...

"Time and Punishment" is the cleverest of the three, but it's hard to vote against "The Shinning."

I find it hard to disagree with either of these.

I'd be tempted to go with A Sound of Thund... err, I mean Time and Punishment, just because I get the reference and love time travel stuff in general. But to this day I literally cannot say the word "Shining" without pronouncing it "Shinning" in Bart's tone of voice, so that one certainly had more impact on me.

Like I mentioned in the other topic, this might be the best Treehouse episode of all time in my opinion. If not, it's certainly right up there.
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You've put far more mathematical thought into it than I ever have at any point in my entire life.

Round pizza? Cut it in 8 slices.

That's pretty much the sum total of the thought I've ever put into it.
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Cast a Deadly Spell
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The first one has a more concise story, the second is more enjoyable overall. The third one is easily the worst of the three.
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That's telekinesis Kyle.
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EvilMegas posted...

I wanted to do the 8/10 thing but I felt the new age of POTD wouldn't appreciate it.

Perfect post.
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Mead posted...

you dont know that

Show me one and we'll talk.
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