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TopicApparently direction indicators in games is a problem now.
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 2:05:45 AM
#177
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5e3292f5.jpg
TopicWhy don't we deploy the Space Force to take down Russia's nuclear satellites
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 2:04:03 AM
#3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CrTJEY8zNs
TopicCoomer whines about the new Xmen cartoon and gets rekt
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 1:41:39 AM
#27
creativerealms posted...
Type that one handed?

Um, zing?
TopicHave you tried the much sponsored Magic Spoon cereal?
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 1:36:30 AM
#66
Smashingpmkns posted...
This cereal is next to the poptarts at the grocery I go to lol like it isn't even good enough to be with the other cereals.

That's intentional separation though. It's like how they put toys that are meant for adult collectors in the electronics section at Walmart.
TopicCoomer whines about the new Xmen cartoon and gets rekt
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 1:34:21 AM
#18
Incredible posted...
Rogue's ass was never important.

Her whole body of work was important.
TopicHave you tried the much sponsored Magic Spoon cereal?
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 1:33:24 AM
#64
Sugar isn't what I crave in the morning. Even if Magic Spoon is a one-to-one recreation of the flavors of cereals that I might have enjoyed as a child, it just isn't the taste I crave first thing in the morning.

Besides, corporate mascots were half the fun. Yeah, I'll admit it.
TopicCoomer whines about the new Xmen cartoon and gets rekt
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 1:29:34 AM
#13
Returning_CEmen posted...
Hes not wrong

TopicOriginally silent characters but were made worse with speaking
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 1:28:55 AM
#27
sabin017 posted...
Ryu Hayabusa, there's a cutscene in NG2 where Volf (one of the bosses) is just rambling on and gloating while Ryu is remaining mostly silent and stoic and it would work so well if he was actually a silent character. I'm not up to speed with what they did to him in NG3 but I heard it was a misfire.

Ryu had dialogue in the Nintendo and Sega (Master System) games.
TopicX-Men '97 trailer
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 1:26:27 AM
#173
pegusus123456 posted...
But really though, watch this and tell me Rogue's big-ass hair is better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCB6SwLzdH4

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5c63870b.jpg
TopicApparently direction indicators in games is a problem now.
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 1:19:59 AM
#174
Punished_Blinx posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e8d04004.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/adeb35af.jpg

I feel like I'm selecting floor tiles.

Left is slippery. Right is not.
TopicX-Men '97 trailer
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 1:17:47 AM
#170
pegusus123456 posted...
It's a more attractive look than her 90s TAS look fite me irl over this

Name the time and place, brother!
TopicApparently direction indicators in games is a problem now.
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 1:13:31 AM
#172
pegusus123456 posted...
Because graphics are nearly photo-realistic now so having an entire cliff face look like that will be far weirder and immersion-breaking than a few splashes of yellow

I stand by what I said about color-coding. You can tell in black and white photography what is climbable and what isn't. Even when they're just hues, you can tell what is what.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/eecc0d3c.jpg

They don't need to lather it with paint. They just need to make it a slightly different color and of a shape that looks like it was meant to be climbed. If natural platforms on a mountain wall are immersion breaking, then we need to do away with platforming altogether.

And the next Mario game to feature Bowser's castle had better include a restroom on every floor, Bowser's personal bedroom, and multiple guest rooms.
TopicX-Men '97 trailer
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 12:55:33 AM
#168
pegusus123456 posted...
She still has the accent.

Yeah, but she dresses like a rejected member of the Hex Girls from Scooby Doo.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/88ab2ce8.jpg
TopicApparently direction indicators in games is a problem now.
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 12:52:46 AM
#169
Let's go back to game design 101.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/1a3d2302.jpg

See that grey marble area? You can't scale that. The player is dropped off in a location for which he or she will naturally want to explore their environment. This area offers a low-risk opportunity to find out what you can or cannot climb. And everything resembles actual earthy colors within the limitations of the game.

This was nearly three decades ago. Why do they suddenly feel like they now have to paint rock formations yellow to show the player that they can climb?
TopicX-Men '97 trailer
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 12:42:05 AM
#166
I passed on that one because Rogue was a goth instead of a southern belle.

>_>
Topicanyone remember that CEman who was like 20-something and got w/ that 15yo cegal
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 12:17:36 AM
#10
CE's aspiration figure.

I don't remember this story. I'm guessing it's made up.
TopicShort guys who act overly aggressive are annoying
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 12:15:34 AM
#38
GeraldDarko posted...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_complex

Research

In 2007, a study by the University of Central Lancashire concluded that the Napoleon complex is a myth, described in terms of the theory that shorter men are more aggressive to dominate those who are taller than they are. The study discovered that short men were less likely to lose their temper than men of average height. The experiment involved subjects dueling each other with sticks, with one subject deliberately rapping the other's knuckles. Heart monitors revealed that the taller men were more likely to lose their tempers and hit back. University of Central Lancashire lecturer Mike Eslea commented that "when people see a short man being aggressive, they are likely to think it is due to his size, simply because that attribute is obvious and grabs their attention".[10]
The Wessex Growth Study is a community-based longitudinal study conducted in the UK that monitored the psychological development of children from school entry to adulthood. The study was controlled for potential effects of gender and socioeconomic status, and found that "no significant differences in personality functioning or aspects of daily living were found which could be attributable to height";[11] this functioning included generalizations associated with the Napoleon complex, such as risk-taking behaviours.[12]

No surprise here.

Black and angry.
Short and angry.
Gay and angry.

When others are angry, it's because they're angry. When these individuals are angry, it's because of what they are.

Disclaimer: I don't compare "short discrimination" to discrimination faced by LGBTQ individuals or members of underrepresented ethnic groups. That'd be a total "My classmates didn't like me because I had red hair" play. But there is a small overlap in that it is treated as cause-and-effect when it comes to being angry. You're angry because you're (you).
TopicHenry Cavil casted as Dr Doom
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 12:08:02 AM
#34
I wouldn't be surprised if they found an excuse to have Sue mention that she dated a Black guy before she met Reed. Or they might have Johnny date a Black woman who dresses in 1960s fashions.

That might be the extent of what they do with the time period the film is set in. Reed is a professor, right? There will probably be a student in a dashiki somewhere on the campus. Not an important character. Just a walk-on extra to give a shoutout to anyone who knows what his attire signifies.

TopicHenry Cavil casted as Dr Doom
FortuneCookie
02/16/24 12:05:04 AM
#33
Doe posted...
IDK like am I crazy to think they are stepping into a minefield with a 1963 date? It's the most politically charged post-WWII decade of the 20th century. The magazine Thing is holding is the issue one month after the Kennedy assassination in November. And the decade is fetishized by MAGA as when America was "great" and what we must return to.

They have to address some of that or it will feel weird and disappointing.

The MCU has gotten political before.

This is the period the most recent Indiana Jones movie was set in. That film addressed the contributions of Black soldiers in World War II. There was a little bit of commentary as well in that the veteran in question was working as a busser. That's hardly the way that a nation's heroes should be treated.

Other than that, the only other Black person in the movie was a villain who was killed mid-film by the Nazis that she collaborated with. That felt weirdly out of place. I think Fantastic Four will do a little bit better, but who knows?

They might do commentary. They might play things safe.
TopicShort guys who act overly aggressive are annoying
FortuneCookie
02/15/24 11:44:35 PM
#33
It could be that a person is angry and short, not angry because they're short.

(And 5'8" is really only an inch below average in height.)

TopicHenry Cavil casted as Dr Doom
FortuneCookie
02/15/24 11:43:07 PM
#30
Doe posted...
An all white Fantastic Four is gonna beat up a Doctor Doom of Color a year before the Civil Rights Act was passed?

https://twitter.com/screentime/status/1757812820878426552

Black people existed in 1963. Quite a few of them were fighting for a good cause.

That said, it doesn't make sense that Fantastic Four would be set in the 60s. Superheroes were revealed to the world in real time as the movies unfolded. Then they retroactively put Captain Marvel in the 1990s. Now, four astronauts from the 1960s are turned into superheroes and the world still doesn't here of superheroes for three or four decades?

creativerealms posted...
So you think it will be anti-woke and Disney are pandering to the ASJW crowd?

Have we gotten to a point where it's automatically regarded as racist / anti-woke for a White protagonist to fight a Person of Color antagonist?

If anything, it would present opportunities for "wokeness" since you would have a non-Anglo Saxon individual in the 1960s putting the world on notice with his scientific mastery and military might. He could be part Iron Man, part Killmonger.
TopicIt's pretty sad when gun violence is being discussed on ESPN.
FortuneCookie
02/15/24 11:32:35 PM
#1
When I go on my lunch break at the hospital, I'll typically sit by the cafeteria TV. They alternate between news (local Fox affiliate) or sports (ESPN).

Today, they were discussing the shooting that killed 1 person and injured 22. I thought to myself, "I thought the TV was on ESPN." Then I realized it was. They were talking about the Kansas City parade shooting that followed the Super Bowl. They also discussed LSU running back Trey Holly being charged for attempted murder after a shooting from last week.

It's a sad state of affairs when gun violence makes its way to the sports page.
TopicX-Men '97 trailer
FortuneCookie
02/15/24 11:22:41 PM
#160
Amakusa posted...
That's the pilot for Pryde of the X-men which wasn't made a series. Notably the X-men arcade game was based off this.

A strong contender for the best arcade beat 'em up of all time and a strong contender for the most unlikely licensed game of all time. There have been games based off of cartoons that were cancelled during the first season, but I don't think any other games are based on a pilot that didn't get picked up.
TopicHenry Cavil casted as Dr Doom
FortuneCookie
02/15/24 11:20:55 PM
#22
Since the Fantastic Four are all White, I imagine Doctor Doom will be played by a Person of Color.

That's not a complaint, just a prediction. Latveria is a fictional country, so it's peoples can look however the studio wishes them to.
TopicRemember when they replaced Roy in Brawl with literally another blue hair Marth?
FortuneCookie
02/15/24 12:39:46 PM
#20
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/763554ac.jpg

Morton is better anyway.
TopicHenry Cavil casted as Dr Doom
FortuneCookie
02/15/24 12:29:24 PM
#8
Too muscular.
TopicAbout Kamala Harris
FortuneCookie
02/15/24 11:53:23 AM
#24
I hope Biden steps down after he beats Trump a second time.

Better to have new blood in the White House. She may be a prosecutor, but she's young and she's a member of a demographic that has been denied the opportunity to become president. Sometimes -- hell, most of the time -- change has to come about because of force rather than readiness. If we're gonna wait for America to be "ready" for a female president, we'll have on in the 2080s.

If we have a Black woman as the President of the United States in the immediate future, that opens up doors to greater opportunities. I don't care what anyone says. Any woman, and any member of any minority group, would have a better chance of getting into the White House once a Black woman has been president.

I know she's unpopular, but sometimes you just have to swallow those pills. She couldn't be any worse than Trump or Biden. She doesn't blame Chinese people for COVID or Latinos for America's crime statistics. And she remembers where she was last Friday.
TopicX-Men '97 trailer
FortuneCookie
02/15/24 11:26:12 AM
#65
VampireCoyote posted...
no way its badass

and she is supposed to have the hugest tits she always does in the comics

It works better for Rogue to be the busty one.
TopicWhen Shigeru Miyamoto dies, Nintendo games will finally be released on PC
FortuneCookie
02/15/24 11:05:42 AM
#10
Live long and prosper, Shigeru.

Once you go PC, you die as a console.
TopicX-Men '97 trailer
FortuneCookie
02/15/24 11:03:01 AM
#57
Storm's Mohawk is something that I go back and forth on.

On one hand, it's a unique look. On the other hand, it's unsexy. Since she out-boobs Rogue in this version, she's tasked with carrying the load of what it is to be a sexy X-Woman and I'm just not feeling that haircut.

>_>
TopicJust watched Madame Web
FortuneCookie
02/15/24 12:01:41 AM
#2
I liked the part where she said, "It's webbin' time!"
TopicI'm Sonic, I hate cops
FortuneCookie
02/14/24 11:51:20 PM
#4
Rouge doesn't

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/abbe35b9.jpg
TopicRemember when that dude punched that Kangaroo to save his dog?
FortuneCookie
02/14/24 11:36:18 PM
#2
The kangaroo is back

IN POG FORM

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/aeb9c25d.jpg
TopicRussia pushing for nuclear weapons in space with anti-satellite missiles.
FortuneCookie
02/14/24 11:15:55 PM
#19
Oh, goodie. A new arms race.
Topicnew godzilla x kong trailer
FortuneCookie
02/14/24 11:08:02 PM
#66
Prismsblade posted...
Yea, I think people are just using minus ones success as an excuse to bash the franchise. Even though the monsterverse movies have been on par with the vast majority of Godzillas films up till now and single handling kept the franchise relevant untill now.

Also while Toho did great with shin and minus one they cant keep relying on standalone movies and or terrible/forgettable anime series forever.

This is honestly like going from The Dark Knight to Batman Forever.
Topicnew godzilla x kong trailer
FortuneCookie
02/14/24 12:40:43 PM
#5
AceMos posted...
perhaps as a sequel hook but this films antagonist is skar a giant ape

>not an original foe
>not a return foe

This is like playing an old video game where the new boss fight is just a pallet swap of an existing boss.

The last film also made Kong a total wimp, so why should I care about another ape? This is the worst option they could have gone with. It would have been better to have had no sequel at all.
TopicFantastic Four cast officially confirmed
FortuneCookie
02/14/24 11:51:44 AM
#35
Winterking posted...
But real talk: who is playing Doom?

Knuckles
TopicFantastic Four cast officially confirmed
FortuneCookie
02/14/24 11:49:40 AM
#31
Wait a minute....

I'm surprised Disney didn't diversify the team. Pedro is Latino, sure, but you're still looking at a team of four White people.
TopicFantastic Four cast officially confirmed
FortuneCookie
02/14/24 11:43:13 AM
#27
alphagamble posted...
Funny how none of the actors are as good looking as their counterparts in the 2005 film

It'll be the best Fantastic Four movie, but that's not saying much.

If Disney has a swing and a miss, people will swear that Fantastic Four is too dated or too boring of a property to be done right.

It's not like the Fantastic Four are regarded as the sexiest team in comics. Their story can still be told well. I'm just getting some signals from this cast that Disney is probably off on the wrong foot.
TopicFantastic Four cast officially confirmed
FortuneCookie
02/14/24 11:36:12 AM
#21
Oh, great. My lookalike actor gets to play the biggest cuckold in comics.
TopicNYC man bashed in head with bat by stranger who calls him 'dirty Jew'
FortuneCookie
02/14/24 1:43:19 AM
#21
It always frustrates me when people act like no one bad could ever share the same politics, same religion, same opinion on any subject. They always have to be wolves in sheep's clothing. A true sheep never does any wrong.

Is your cause that weak? The "few bad apples" metaphor came from a period in Europe when atheists were put to death and Jews were seen as witches. It is and has always been a bigoted slogan meant to justify bigotry. It isn't some universal truth just because it has a ring to it.

There are members of my religion that are total shitbags. There are people on the same political divide as me who are total shitbags. There are people of my nationality, who believe in my nation as much as I do, who are total shitbags.

Don't ever pretend that dirt only exists on the other side of the dividing line or that admitting there's dirt is the same as saying "both sides are the same." It isn't. There were soldiers in World War II on the Allies' side that committed rape, that murdered civilians. It doesn't mean that the Allies and the Nazis are two peas in a pod. One is collectively a whole helluva lot worse than the other.

TopicNYC man bashed in head with bat by stranger who calls him 'dirty Jew'
FortuneCookie
02/14/24 1:23:50 AM
#16
Calling Israel's government out on genocide isn't being "far left."
TopicNYC man bashed in head with bat by stranger who calls him 'dirty Jew'
FortuneCookie
02/14/24 12:39:22 AM
#5
Dragon56 posted...
I am well aware of the "both sides" trope but this is actually a both sides situation. Blatant antisemitism and a lack of strong opposition to antisemitism since Oct 7th.

I'd joke about all bad things coming from Republicans and all good things coming from Democrats, but someone would just reply "This, but in earnest."
Topictransgender girl stabbed 14 times in attempted murder
FortuneCookie
02/14/24 12:28:53 AM
#2
Disgusting.

I hope she makes a full recovery.
TopicPoll: People who identify as anything other than human are mentally ill
FortuneCookie
02/14/24 12:17:02 AM
#25
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/921ce4ad.jpg
TopicMeanwhile at the Madame Webbbb premiere
FortuneCookie
02/13/24 11:43:15 AM
#11
Ricemills posted...
You can't see her belly button, she's using a skin suit.

The lack of belly button means she's a genie.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bf23fb8b.jpg
TopicWhat if we convince the right that Trump is a woke liberal?
FortuneCookie
02/13/24 11:39:42 AM
#12
It would be a bad move because they would want the candidate furthest to the right instead.

They wouldn't be calling for the president who says there are "plenty of good people" among white supremacists. They would be calling for the one who openly shouts "Sieg Heil."
TopicMeanwhile at the Madame Webbbb premiere
FortuneCookie
02/13/24 11:36:11 AM
#7
She looks like she's being roasted alive.
TopicDo you like the Friday the 13th movies more or the Nightmare on elm street
FortuneCookie
02/13/24 11:30:34 AM
#15
If I'm allowed to say that A Nightmare on Elm Street Part III is the end of the Nightmare trilogy, and disregard the shitty sequels that followed, I'd go with that. If I have to take the respective series as a whole, Friday the 13th.

The original Friday the 13th lags behind the first Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street entries for quality. Yet, the series is the most consistent. It doesn't make you care about characters only to kill them off in the sequel.
TopicRemember Pyro from the first 3 X-Men movies? He's looking rough in DP3
FortuneCookie
02/13/24 11:23:03 AM
#14
I didn't even realize that guy was supposed to be Pyro. lol.

It stinks that the movies were afraid of letting the characters dress like comic book characters
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