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Nemu posted...

If fiction influenced our real life actions to any major degree, civilization would have collapsed by now given mass consumption of media of all kinds.

Major civilizations have collapsed, if not outright fail to flourish, precisely because they are preoccupied with acting out myths or legends and/or drowning themselves in ritualistic entertainment / other rigid lifestyles for the sake of lifestyles. They fail to adapt or leave themselves open or aggress another group of people. A cultural gap can prevent them from trading or allying with their neighbors, if not spark war. A lot of that stuff is heavily, heavily carried from generation to generation by their songs, books or scrolls, art, sculpture, stories, and other traditions. Honestly, video games are just the next evolution. Instead of watching a yearly reenactment of your heroes, and playing out what you see with your kids, and quoting it in conversation, or remembering the scenes in your head, and modeling things or even yourself based on the standards presented in those experiences.... We can simulate it on a computer. It's no different. Think of it as cultural blueprints and impressions. What a person does in a virtual environment can be indicative of what they would do or straight up will do in the same scenario in the real world.

Does this monster scare you in the game? It will scare you if it were real too, if not much worse. Do you find this character attractive? Are you attracted to similar people in reality? Etc

C.) intensive card tricks for cold hard cash

The Force Unleashed

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/7/5/AAatkdAAC3wj.jpg

Logan's Run

Ah,
but you admit that it does look great

Old Hunters is addictive... Ironically, IF you can get past Ludwig.

TheGoldenEel posted...

I miss the good old days when comics werent so political

It's not that.

It's the designs

It's never too late lol

#itllhappen2u2, #eyecurseu

When you execute the evil monster but you're not sure it's evil and you strike a heroic pose..

... but the severed head is still talking and gurgling and lapping at the floor. Lol

#ivy,climbing_thecastlewalls

DarkRoast posted...

One of my favorite things about bloodborne, is in the expansion when you fight Ludwig and there's a brief moment when he seems to be granted clarity and humanity in his final moments, in order to go out the way he deserved.

This.

It's so memorable. But, the player can put together that Ludwig still exists in all these other worlds, and is truly doomed to this cycle of death, like Gehrman. Once you finish the hunt, it will revive him, and you have to wonder if the experience compounds and makes it worse each time. Amazing world-building unique to games, and leans heavily on player participation, unlike other mediums.

Zing

g0ldie posted...

Bloodborne also has a bunch of legitimately pitiable characters

Yeah, I considered that

But I look at Micolash, like Allant, and it's just like... No. This guy made a booboo. He's still making it. He won't stop. Lol

DarkRoast posted...

I always viewed the plot of Dark Souls and its sequels as a sort-of "what happens AFTER hopelessness?"

The lesson being that hope isn't about the destination - it's about the journey. It's not whether or not the world can be fixed - it's that the "world" for these people (and by proxy, the player) is the purpose you find in the process of doing it.

That's more along the lines of 2.

3 delves into the prospect of purifying the world.

Dark Souls

It's to the extent that we aren't sure who the villain really is, or if the player is the villain. Gwyn is depicted as both a martyr and a cruel god, while the other Lords are highly debatable in terms of how bad they really are. Nito, for example, is running his own covenant to take back the powers of death from a cult of Undead who rose against him. Seath is actively attempting to unlock manipulation of the curse and immortality. The Four Kings appear to be challenging the player or guarding Kaathe. It's really only the Bed of Chaos that stands as a definite villainous presence. The pygmy is another story. Clearly, some of these people are ushering in the apocalypse and creating a world of rot, but it's not exactly clear who and what the right solution is. If you didn't need their Lord Souls to open the Kiln, there is much less reason to kill some of them. Even then, whether you would kindle the flame or take the mantle of dark lord, there is a question of whether or not even opening the Kiln for Frampt & Kaathe is heroic.but it's like, "What choice do i have?" and you could just go hollow and let the world be, which is confusing

2 & 3 touch more on these points

You can't beat Top Gun.

Top Gun

Donald Trump didn't do shit besides rile people up against each other in explosive ways.

Dangerously explosive.

Whatever you think of President Biden, at least he isn't that.

https://youtu.be/xoMgnJDXd3k

Kloe_Rinz posted...

wow marvel is so brave

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/1/7/AAatkdAAC3uF.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/9/5/AAdvQkAAAoLz.jpg
Did someone say "punching Nazis"?

Don't forget York Hunt.

Is there a difference between gay rights and gay pride? Does that effect whether or not an article of artwork can appropriate for a school setting, as with any other subject?

York Hawk is on the loose.

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What makes you think id get it if I did?

They're all trash, tbh.

Makes widgets and iTunes 04 look superior. I'd just as soon have Windows Media Player back lol

.... No, seriously. I can run Kotor on my phone and my computer would literally eat 10 old computers whole and still have room for dessert, and these media players have about as many options as skydiver with a failed parachute. They just want you to keep listening to their suggestions. Bottom line. No equalizers. No screensaver magic. Just shit. Ads.

Compared to what?

Fuck Time Crisis

Duck Hunt? House of the Dead?

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Wait I'm confused

Jack & Stan's creation, or that of the comics themselves?

Also

Dont talk about Todd McFarlane like that.

The special effects use to create the Deviants are
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/7/0/AAatkdAAC3cK.jpg
Promising

Dead Aim was good.

Good not great

Definitely not the first of its kind either

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/6/0/AAatkdAAC3cA.jpg

It's like Ancient Aliens meets Twilight Zone, a Disney Cartoon, and Lost In Space .... but with superheros. Therefore, yes

Bucky wasn't always 12. Like Robin/Nightwing, he was later updated, and grew with both the material & audience

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/2/4/AAatkdAAC3bc.jpg

Found it, have you?

Same reason you can't actually exactly zoom in and enhance images, especially digitally compressed images, like you see in the movies.

Bigger film
Bigger lense
Outside the atmosphere, which blocks a lot of light
And the lense is specially designed to capture certain radiation which we can use to reconstruct stuff you can't normally see

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/9/1/AAatkdAAC3a7.jpg

I choose C.) metaphor for the tranquilized masses with wool pulled over their eyes following the leader over to that cliff

It might.

Marvel seems to be taking as many jabs against DC as they can these days. I think they're trying to cut their throat.

Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...

But I spent all my money on Pokemon

....

You can get the money to buy Elden Ring by the time it launches. Correct me if I'm wrong and I'm sure someone here will be able to point you in the right direction maybe?

sabin017 posted...

2001: A Space Odyssey

Yknow,

I haven't watched 2010 (the sequel) in almost 20 years. I wonder if it would be better or worse than I remember it..

Tetsuo

Oh no

Pls don't

That would be AWFUL

Yeah but it's not.

Looks fat =\= is fat. This woman is clearly fit as a friggin fiddle. You've been deceived.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/2/1/AAanyVAABf2t.jpg
She aint skinny. She has a nice layer of fat concealing some serious lean muscle build-up. Look at that shin bone on her left leg, and the calf. That is not fat. Look at the definition between her hip and pelvic area. She has a bit of a higher fat content near her chest and rump. Actually.....

..... this is a really cool picture in terms of anatomy. Wonder how close the artist stuck to the model, if they used a model, etc

Bringing in another character helps clear the air

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluteus_maximus