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| Topic | Janet? Marty? |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 11:44:15 PM #8 | CRON posted... Marty Janetty? "Jannetty tried to dive through the window to escape. Did you see that? What an act of cowardice!" |
| Topic | Hulk: Ultimate Destruction |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 11:42:04 PM #11 | It's nice to read that there's a good Hulk game. He hasn't fared the best overall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZLKbIWS2gY |
| Topic | Hulk: Ultimate Destruction |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 11:01:53 PM #3 | The title sounds like it was named after a wrestling fan who remembered Hulk Hogan vs Ultimate Warrior. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e9df094f.jpg |
| Topic | the batman fanwank over suicide squad really misses the point |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 10:54:04 PM #69 | Toonstrack posted... Thats an emotional standpoint, not a logical one. Like I said before it begs for the story and world to bend itself over backwards fellating this character rather than being realistic and, as things happen, having characters die because they already in a situation they can and maybe should die in lol. If you want to talk about realism, there's no such thing as a superhero. Especially a "human superhero." Could a unicorn heal wounds by touching them with its horn? Could they breathe fire? Could a unicorn live for centuries and never age? Maybe, maybe not. It depends on whatever rules you establish because a unicorn does not exist. Humans exist and their limitations are well-defined. If you're an expert boxer and an okay painter, people are impressed because you're multitalented. Batman's an ace at everything he does. That's not realistic. The story bends itself time and again so that he always wins, always has a card up his sleeve, always has some prior knowledge that'll get him out of even the worst of situations. Why should that abandon him in his time of death? Why should a human who has punched out robots get shot in the back by a pickpocket that he didn't see hiding in the corner because it's realistic for a hero to die in an anticlimactic or underwhelming manner? The Coen Brothers could probably make that death work. Christopher Nolan might be able to make that work. Quentin Tarantino could have people swearing it was the greatest moment in superhero cinema. For most people writing or directing a scene of that nature, that would be a major letdown. Every scene is hand chosen. None of this is real life. None of it is plugged into a simulation. You can't feed a dozen Batman stories to a supercomputer and ask AI, "When and how would Batman logically be killed if this were real?" I'd give Batman two weeks tops before they traced him back to stately Wayne Manor. Security cameras, police radar, extensive searches on who would have the resources and motivation to become Batman. It's all pretend. So why not give the audience something that is emotionally satisfying? |
| Topic | the batman fanwank over suicide squad really misses the point |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 10:40:09 PM #64 | Toonstrack posted... Thats not realistic writing. Applying some protective status to a character simply because people like him is the definition of pandering; plot armor, all sorts of things we generally view negatively. Batman is plot armor personified. Why shouldn't he call upon it when it's his time to die? He's the world's greatest martial artist -- mastering 127 styles -- because he had money and time to train. He's the world's greatest detective because he had money and time to train. He's the world's greatest costume designer because he had money and time to train. He's the world's greatest driver and pilot because he had money and time to train. He's the world's greatest inventor of gadgets because he had money and time to train. He possesses an encyclopedic/photographic memory of virtually all documented human knowledge because he had money and time to train. He can take robots, demons, aliens, beings with superhuman strength, and sometimes even gods in combat because he had money and time to train. No super powers though. It's all money and training. Dude trained 744 hours a day since he was a youth. It could have been anybody in his position. We just didn't have enough time or money. |
| Topic | Dream Warriors or Wes Craven's New Nightmare? |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 10:34:32 PM #8 | It depends on the context. If I'm allowed to declare the first three films a completely trilogy, and disregard the rest of the movies, I'd go with Dream Warriors. If I have to take the series as a whole, New Nightmare becomes the more satisfying of the two films. Major Series Spoilers |
| Topic | the batman fanwank over suicide squad really misses the point |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 10:28:58 PM #60 | Some heroes should die. But, almost invariably, they should receive a John Wayne death if they do. That's where the character is mortally wounded in ambush, but gets the bad guys before they go. That's when a character temporarily survives a losing battle and dies surrounded by friends who mourn them. That's where a character safely makes it off of a sinking ship, but dives back into the water after hearing that a child is still below deck. They hand the child off to the rescue team, but get their foot trapped in the process. They say their meaningful last goodbyes just before the water covers their face and seals their fate. If you have the hero chasing a bad guy across the street, only to have them inadvertently run over by oncoming traffic, you'd better be intentionally aiming to piss the audience off. And you'd better be financially secure because another opportunity might not be in your immediate future. Note to mods: Those are not spoilers for any John Wayne movies or any specific movie. I was using the term "John Wayne death" to refer to the hero character receiving all pomp and circumstances upon their death. |
| Topic | the batman fanwank over suicide squad really misses the point |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 10:09:18 PM #54 | Doom_Art posted... They are fictional characters and people have seriously weird attachment issues with this kind of stuff. Flashy gimmicks will get people to give the first volume a chance. Emotional connections are what bring them back for the fourth. If I'm watching a movie, and I don't care if a character lives or dies, it means I'd rather be watching something else. |
| Topic | How many of the MCU movies have you seen in theaters? |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 9:43:44 PM #23 | Iron Man Guardians of the Galaxy Captain America: Civil War Black Widow Those are the only ones that I recall seeing in the theater. |
| Topic | the batman fanwank over suicide squad really misses the point |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 9:31:56 PM #48 | Gurifisu posted... It's not that deep. The game sucks for plenty of other reasons. Hating on it simply because they killed your favorite character is borderline childish. No, no. I'm calling that the Star Wars Rule. Or the He-Man Rule. Take your pick. It's absolutely a reason to say fuck this show/game/book/etc. |
| Topic | the batman fanwank over suicide squad really misses the point |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 9:24:49 PM #46 | Dungeater posted... didnt brainiac mind control batman in superman the animated series I only remember that because it gave us the Superman-dressed-as-Batman vs Bane fight; the one where Bane conveniently had a new super-steroid that made him capable of punching Superman. |
| Topic | This was the right way to start Black History Month. |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 9:19:59 PM #33 | Questionmarktarius posted... Now, go watch Dolemite. @Questionmarktarius Thanks for the recommendation. I watched it tonight. Edit: Damn. It looks like their account is no longer active. |
| Topic | Killer Mike (useful stooge for NRA and rapper of 0 songs you know) arrested |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 8:46:28 PM #3 | The other topic said he did the music for Aqua Teen Hunger Force. |
| Topic | Does Sydney Sweeney show full frontal in Madame Web? |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 8:16:27 PM #26 | That's not web. <_< |
| Topic | Fuck the haters. Masters of the Universe has been awesome so far *spoilers* |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 4:23:16 PM #22 | creativerealms posted... And he didn't even stay dead. This is why killing the wrong character is a critical mistake. If you kill off the heart of the series, fans lose interest because their favorite character is gone. If you bring someone back from the dead, fans get mad because life and death struggles have no stakes to them. You just simply don't kill the wrong character. |
| Topic | Does Sydney Sweeney show full frontal in Madame Web? |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 3:52:56 PM #15 | DKBananaSlamma posted... Airplane! was PG and it showed titties. Yeah, but that was before sex and nudity were the greatest of life's evils. After the PG-13 rating came out, there was a year or two in which brief nudity was acceptable. |
| Topic | Does Sydney Sweeney show full frontal in Madame Web? |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 3:28:20 PM #12 | I like playing "object permanence" when it comes to actors, characters, and nudity. If Halle Berry is Catwoman, then Halle Berry topless (Swordfish, Monster's Ball) means Catwoman topless. If Margot Kidder is topless, then Margot Kidder topless (Sisters) means Lois Lane topless. |
| Topic | 20-point deficit on handling economy highlights Biden's struggles against Trump |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 3:25:40 PM #9 | Aren't NBC the ones who said that drug use was rampant in the Whitehouse pre-Biden administration? As in it happened during the Trump administration, but they're name-dropping Biden to make it sound like it's his problem. |
| Topic | Does Sydney Sweeney show full frontal in Madame Web? |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 3:21:43 PM #7 | I regret that she isn't playing a character that I'm more familiar with. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f8d3a747.jpg I know Spider-Woman has ballasts of her own, but cats are categorically sexier for character theming than spiders. That's why MJ says, "Face it, Tiger. You've hit the jackpot," instead of, "Face it, Spider. You've hit the jackpot." |
| Topic | My moose is preggers! |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 3:13:21 PM #9 | Did you require a stepladder? |
| Topic | Earthbound 64 looked cool back in the day |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 1:22:45 PM #30 | I guess Motaro isn't bad. I kinda forgot about him. It does have some good characters, but it sacrifices too many of the established ones in favor of ones that are rather lame. |
| Topic | Earthbound 64 looked cool back in the day |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 1:21:38 PM #29 | Kamil posted... Wasn't that Striker's finisher? Mortal Kombat 3 was dumb in general. I prefer Rain than here is some Bozo looking street cop. Sheeva was a welcome addition. (And, no, not in a Death by Snu Snu kinda way.) Sindel was alright. The rest of the characters were pretty lame. They replaced the ninjas with robots and most of the newbies were uninspired. |
| Topic | Reminder: The most powerful villain in DC is this dude |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 1:11:09 PM #12 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axjrRECNxt4 |
| Topic | Earthbound 64 looked cool back in the day |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 1:07:49 PM #27 | Kamil posted... Early Playstation games had terrible load times depending on the game. I think Mortal Kombat 3 had like a 30-45 load time from character select to fight. Waitality |
| Topic | Donkey Kong on Gameboy is a 10/10 game. |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 11:52:16 AM #4 | I like that the final boss fight has him going full King Kong. By the same token, Bowser went Godzilla a year later in Yoshi's Island. |
| Topic | wait Killer Croc from Batman is just some dude with a skin condition? |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 11:50:47 AM #43 | Ivynn posted... Batman wouldn't buy Twitter and turn it into a shithole lol. Well, more than it already was. Elon Musk needs to stop being shorthand for "rich guy" by people. It's not shorthand for rich guy. It's shorthand for "richest guy in the world" or "super rich." The joke that Batman has so much money but doesn't use it to help Gotham needs to end, because he does use it to help as much as he can. He has dozens of charities set up, helps fund orphanages, and does all sorts of philanthropic work. The problem is Gotham is a corrupt shithole so he can only do so much as Bruce Wayne. I think you underestimate how much could be done by the world's richest man. What you're talking about is throwing around a little charity money out of his excess wealth. Batman could fundamentally change Gotham City. If he's a millionaire, they can make it so that the best he can do is go out and become a vigilante. As a multi-billionaire, he could systematically fix the problems within Gotham City; from the corrupt police down to people hustling to make a living. He would never eliminate individuals who hurt others for shits and giggles. There might still be some small room for Batman in settling domestic violence or beating up some gang members who are a part of gangs from choice rather than need. But there isn't any kind of scenario in which an Elon Musk or Bill Gates dressing up like a rodent-themed ninja is the best way to solve a city's problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yjI5238Zxc They should have left him as a millionaire. Let Batman take the L on one category. If you're the world's smartest person, that's a good thing. If you're the world's strongest person, that's a good thing. If you're the world's richest person, it means that other people are starving while you're hording life-saving resources. |
| Topic | Earthbound 64 looked cool back in the day |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 11:17:38 AM #16 | With the benefit of hindsight, Nintendo made the wrong choice in going with cartridge-based games. I would have hated the load screens every time I entered a world in Super Mario 64 (which likely would have been called something other than 64), but we could have had Luigi. We could have had more bosses. We could have had Final Fantasy 7 on a Nintendo console and a sequel to Super Mario RPG. The Disk Drive would have given the console a little more power, and there were plans to have a Super Mario 64 sequel where you could ride Yoshi, but it never caught on in Japan and never made it to the West. |
| Topic | wait Killer Croc from Batman is just some dude with a skin condition? |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 11:14:13 AM #37 | AceMos posted... yea killer croc typically only wants money to get surgery to fix his condition (how ever that is gona work) Yeah, making him Elon Musk with muscle pretty much ruins Batman. Canonically, he would be the wealthiest man in the world if he consolidated all of his assets. He has the money to solve every problem in his stories except his own grief. He doesn't actually care about crime. He just needs an excuse to beat up the less fortunate. Hell, even his parents getting killed only happened because they were too cheap to hire a bodyguard. It's not like Bruce had learned much either. He has a huge mansion with one 70-year-old man to take care of it all. That's one of the problems with trying to make Batman "perfect" in every field. Perfect 10 looks, perfect 10 strength, perfect 10 intelligence, and perfect 10 wealth means that he has the resources to solve his problems and opts not to. They should have left it at him being a millionaire who can afford a fancy car and a plane. |
| Topic | This was the right way to start Black History Month. |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 11:07:05 AM #32 | pedro45 posted... Thank you! I'll have to look into that. Thanks. |
| Topic | Earthbound 64 looked cool back in the day |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 12:36:00 AM #7 | At least Ness made it into Super Smash Bros. |
| Topic | Remember when Moneypenny had VR sex with Bond? |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 12:31:15 AM #5 | Kim_Seong-a posted... I simultaneously love and hate this movie lmao In some ways better and some ways worse than Die Another Day. It's so lifeless and uninspired. |
| Topic | More AI nonsense: AI is now being used to cover up women |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 12:23:11 AM #44 | Dudebusters posted... Maybe try saying something like that next time instead of fucking insulting them with "it hurts to look at" Oh, you have every right to call the dress ugly if that's how you feel about it. |
| Topic | More AI nonsense: AI is now being used to cover up women |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 12:22:14 AM #42 | GrandConjuraton posted... Personally, I think the tattoos look terrible, too... but if they make her happy, that's the more important thing than whether or not someone finds her visually appealing. Agreed. Better for her to be who she is than who someone else wants her to be. ~ Someone Else Dudebusters posted... Alright then. You hurt to look at. You physically hurt me to look at. I am in so much pain. I wish I could stab my eyes out instead of looking at you. I didn't say "she" hurts to look at. I said "that," as in the disparity between the two photographs. The potential that she had vs the path that she's chosen. Had I seen her as she was, I would have probably thought, "She'd look a lot prettier without those tattoos," and move on. Like I do anytime someone tats herself up like that. Being confronted with the side by side, it hurts to see wasted potential. Anyway, her looks are chosen. Mine, I can assure you, are not. |
| Topic | More AI nonsense: AI is now being used to cover up women |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 12:09:45 AM #30 | BucketCat posted... people get mad when people use AI to make girls less clothed...now they're upset that people are using AI to make girls more clothed??? It's lousy to take somebody's choice from them. Even if it's as simple as, "I don't like that red dress. Let's see what it would look like as a blue dress," that's taking away someone's personal choice of expression. |
| Topic | Jared Leto to play Morbius the Living Vampire |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 12:07:05 AM #15 | CE_gonna_CE posted... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8811da8c.jpg Has it really been two years since they crowned a new highest grossing movie of all time? Oh, I guess this one just started. Either way, time flies. |
| Topic | More AI nonsense: AI is now being used to cover up women |
| FortuneCookie 02/04/24 12:04:44 AM #24 | Dudebusters posted... Then keep them to yourself instead of saying somebody "hurts to look at" if you can't take pushback. Freedom of an opinion is a two-way street. You've every right to call my opinion lousy. I called the guy out on trying to "normalize" her in a photo manipulation. That's my only obligation here. I'm not going to withhold my opinion on what I see as the disparity between what she is and what she could have been just because someone showed the "what could have been" without her permission. I can't pretend to not see what I've seen and I'm not good at withholding an opinion when I want to give it. (You've every right to judge me on that too.) |
| Topic | Why don't people like Jared Leto? |
| FortuneCookie 02/03/24 11:54:13 PM #17 | They hate him because he "ruined" the Joker. He wrote the screenplay for Suicide Squad. He directed Suicide Squad. He was the clothing designer and makeup artist for Suicide Squad. He personally came up with the grills and the DAMAGED tattoo for Suicide Squad. He ruined the Joker. |
| Topic | TikTok star slams men for decline of masculinity. Says men need to pay. |
| FortuneCookie 02/03/24 11:51:26 PM #75 | I too have opinions without being physically attractive. Why should I begrudge her? |
| Topic | More AI nonsense: AI is now being used to cover up women |
| FortuneCookie 02/03/24 11:35:58 PM #19 | Dudebusters posted... People like you are why these AI coverups exist in the first place. Maybe try being less judgmental. Imagine if somebody told you that you hurt to look at. Shut the fuck up. What in the living fuck is wrong with you? I didn't take her choice of looks from her. I didn't photoshop her to be tattoo free. I'm disappointed in him. If you think I should have a broader perspective on what I find attractive, that's none of your business. My preferences aren't anybody's but my own. But I'm not the one who tried to "normalize" her or show the world what she would have looked like otherwise. I'm just saddened by the disparity in what she looks like and what she would have looked like without all that ink. |
| Topic | Which did you play first? Super Metroid or Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island? |
| FortuneCookie 02/03/24 11:27:47 PM #2 | I'm not really sure. I would have gotten both in 1995. I probably played Yoshi's Island first. On the best sick day ever, I stayed home from school and beat Super Mario Bros. 2. Later that night, when I was feeling better, I went to the store and my mom bought me Yoshi's Island. Since Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World came with my SNES, I would have beaten Super Mario World, Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario Bros. 2 within a relatively short time frame. Oddly enough, I didn't beat Super Mario Bros. 1 until a year or two later. I do remember reading the instruction manual for Super Metroid and thinking, "Samus is a girl...? That's pretty cool." Come to think of it, that was probably the first game with a female lead that I ever played to competion. |
| Topic | Are you Normally a hater? |
| FortuneCookie 02/03/24 11:20:22 PM #2 | No. My name is David and I'm normally a Hayter. |
| Topic | I just finished watching True Blood |
| FortuneCookie 02/03/24 11:19:25 PM #2 | How many episodes? |
| Topic | More AI nonsense: AI is now being used to cover up women |
| FortuneCookie 02/03/24 11:14:53 PM #16 | AceMos posted... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e703f6d5.jpg That hurts to look at. So much better without the tattoos. But, yeah, also wrong to rob her of her freedom to choose her own expression. <_< |
| Topic | Fuck the haters. Masters of the Universe has been awesome so far *spoilers* |
| FortuneCookie 02/03/24 11:13:16 PM #14 | DnDer posted... There was the acclaimed Gotham Central that has almost fuck-all to do with Bats, and I don't think anyone was pissed at that. Did they advertise it as a Batman return and kill him off though? It's one thing to have a show set in the same universe. It's another to kill off beloved heroes. *cough* |
| Topic | Fuck the haters. Masters of the Universe has been awesome so far *spoilers* |
| FortuneCookie 02/03/24 10:13:20 PM #5 | Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted... Sure but the new series is titled Masters of the Universe, heh If you called a series Gotham, and you killed off Batman, people would be justified in being mad. |
| Topic | Avatar Live Action Removes Sozin's Comet. |
| FortuneCookie 02/03/24 10:12:05 PM #93 | AceMos posted... my favorite movie of all time is the land before time The Land Before Time is a damn fine film. That was my favorite movie as a child and it still holds up exceptionally well. |
| Topic | Fuck the haters. Masters of the Universe has been awesome so far *spoilers* |
| FortuneCookie 02/03/24 10:08:09 PM #2 | No child called it Masters of the Universe. We all called it He-Man. |
| Topic | C/D: Your mind is never quiet. |
| FortuneCookie 02/03/24 10:07:12 PM #18 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote] My strategy is to take the last five movies that I watched and try and piece them together to form a coherent narrative. This character would be the protagonist, this character would be the antagonist, this character would be the friend, this character would be love interest. It has probably an 80% success rate. It's complicated, but stress free. The sleepy mind just kind of passes out from the strain of itself. Some of the time, I fall asleep just trying to think back to what the last five movies that I watched were. |
| Topic | Avatar Netflix to show the Genocide of the Air Nomads |
| FortuneCookie 02/03/24 10:01:22 PM #69 | Fenrir_Howls posted... Except from that point theyre the outsiders and depending on whats adapted and how it wouldnt work as a recurring point, and sexism comes up again showing its a cultural issue which is why people are wondering what else is being altered. Like I said, it's like telling a lie and the way that people may have to come up with multiple lies to justify the first untruth. |
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