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That deconstructed video is pretty cool. I'm rooting for Metallic Madness myself, but Flying Battery wouldn't be a terrible top spot.

Anyway, I'm going to randomly share this fan-made version of Tornado Man's theme that makes it sound like Flying Battery because I love it so much and I was reminded of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNInVQhtGyo

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Do you know how long I've been waiting to post this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2OWC5Hosv8

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Also, I want to clarify my last post. I don't dislike dice rolling (I actually really enjoy it), and I think randomness is important in games to keep people on their toes and make things fresh, but I HATE games where your entire turn is decided by what you roll on the dice. Even if it uses Yatzhee-style re-rolling it's still really annoying (and I think Yatzhee is much better about it, since you can decide what you do with your roll, instead of the roll deciding what you can do).

It just plains sucks to have a turn where, if you need to attack, you don't roll enough attack. Maybe you roll a bunch of healing instead, but you're at max health anyway, so you basically waste your entire turn. I never like that feeling. I just don't like games that are based all around your dice rolls, or where your entire turn is frequently wasted by dice rolls. For example, there are a lot of games that to include RPG-style mechanics, but want to simplify things by not having an accuracy stat or to-hit system. So whether EVERY attack will hit is decided by the same dice rolls, often with rates as low as a two or three out of six chance, which is awful if you need to attack every turn. I feel dice rolling is fine to add unpredictability, but if it's the sole deciding factor on whether or not you actually do something on your turn then I'm not going to think highly of the game.

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I really hate dice games, so Bang doesn't do much for me. Also it sucks to be eliminated early.

Though I love how the first game I played of it ended with the last players, the Sheriff and an Outlaw, dying simultaneously in a blaze of glory.

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Decrypto seems too difficult for me. I either end up giving clues that go right over people's head, or the other team figures out everything after the second round.

Meanwhile the people I play against end up using some random indiscernible in-joke for their clues only they would ever know that would give Alan Turing nightmares. It just never ends up being as fun as Codenames when I play it.

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Takenoko looks so good but I always feel like I'm floundering all the time I play it. It seems like a lot of times my plans fail not because someone worked against me but because they accidentally did something that randomly hurt what I was doing. Being undermined by blind chance is kind of disappointing.

Then again, maybe I wouldn't feel that way if I won more... but I really like the aesthetic of the game a lot at least.

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I feel like the vast majority of games I've played haven't shown up yet. So either you haven't played them or they're really good...

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I just bought Coup the other week. It seems like a fun game that combines decent strategy with good "I can't believe you just did that" moments that I love in tabletop games. It's really quick too, so it's good as quick game to play when you don't have a lot of time for longer games, or if you do have time you can simply play multiple games of it in row (which really makes the bluff mechanic more interesting. Is that player using the same bluff they did last time? Or are they telling the truth now?).

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It's hard for me to rate that game because I never really had a good "game" of it. I've only played in groups of like twenty people, and it was always with a mix of serious players, people who just wanted to screw around, and people who had no idea what they were doing, so it was always just a big mess.

Still funny at least, but I never think of it as anything other than a party game to waste time as opposed to a strategy game I should actually try to win.

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I still remember that one lv40+ (or whatever) enemy that just stands still on a really tiny bridge blocking off a portion of Primordia. I died so many times trying to run past it.

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Sushi Go is good fun. I like it. I almost got it as a White Elephant gift a couple of weeks ago but it was stolen from me. I got Push instead. I consider it an upgrade though.

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Skell fanfiction

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I like Boss Monster. I love the aesthetic of it, and it's pretty fun. I never felt like it was too strategic though. I always just kind of rolled with the punches of whatever is drawn (for heroes and rooms).

Also, the first ever game I played of it someone played the Jeopardy card as the very first move. ...Not great.

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You said you weren't going to do "judge" type games. Does that mean Telestrations isn't going to be ranked? That's an art game I always enjoy playing.

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Seginustemple posted...

Isn't it kinda funny that half of the plot points in Star Wars are about securing plans for the ultimate project? Characters are always concerned about designs/schematics, blueprints and maps.

Is anyone else kind of concerned about how easy it seems to be to build planet destroying weapons? The Death Star seemed like a really unique piece of technology that took an unreasonable amount of time and resources to make, which is why it's such a relief it when it was; the assumption being that it was not something that could be achieved so easily. ...Then they make a new one a short time later. Then a bunch of terrorists make an even bigger one. Then there were thousands of small ones made into a fleet.

Maybe it's supposed to be analogous to nuclear weapons... Hopefully in the next trilogy every single planet has one and the entire saga is based around signing non-aggression pacts with each other.

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MichelBollinger posted...

I don't think we'll ever understand how the studio that set up the MCU was unable to manage this.

I think it's clear you need someone like Kevin Feige to make it work like the MCU. All the other cinematic universes that have crashed and burned is proof of that.

Of course, having blueprints for a trilogy isn't as hard as creating a massive universe, so I only assume they didn't feel like the movies needed a strong overarching direction because they felt Star Wars fans would eat it up no matter what. And they were half right...

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Mallow looks like an old piece of gum in a diaper.

Geno all the way.

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FFDragon posted...

Didn't Not Penny's Boat bring up the Holdo manuever and everyone laughed at him?

Yeah. Which is why it's really weird that it's used again a short time later.Maybe it's a 2-in-a-million chance?

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And Adam Driver took the role because he was promised that Kylo Ren wouldn't have a similar Redemption Arc like Darth Vader.

...Oops.

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Isn't this just the game being merciful?

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https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Pyrokinetic_Combat

Hell yeah

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KokoroAkechi posted...

on on these crawls.

Does anyone else imagine that they are meant to be read in one of those old time news bulletin radio voices?

I just keep thinking of Episode III's crawl where the first sentence is just "War!"

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"Baby Yoda's like 50 years older than me! HE'S the pedophile!"

Hahahaha

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Someone stop me from buying Iceborne again.

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Star Tours > everything else

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The prequels are not good. But I can't honestly say I enjoyed them less than the sequel trilogy.

One thing I've noticed is that the sequels actually end up causing me more displeasure outside of the films themselves. I rewatched the original trilogy recently and I couldn't help but enjoy them less with the knowledge that it's all pointless. The victories they've won won't matter in the sequels, and all the heroes are going to die miserably. It's really hard to watch the ending to Return of the Jedi with any sense of hope knowing that now the First Order is going to rise and destroy all the peace that everyone fought so hard for, that Han and Leia are going to give birth to a mass murderer and end up bitter and separated, and that nearly all the new Jedi are going to be purged again. It just makes me fucking depressed now. What a galaxy of misery.

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I've played Werewolf several times and yet I'm not even sure if it was ever played correctly. It feels way too random. I don't really get a lot of fun out of it aside from "Ha ha, that happened."

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Epyo posted...

I wouldn't consider myself a star wars fan really, but c'mon, you have to at least like A New Hope. There are some moments in A New Hope that are like, pure movie magic:

* Obi-Wan's "Use the force, Luke" echoes in Luke's head, and then Luke shuts off his targeting computer
* Han shows up to the final battle right when all seems lost, and he saves Luke from Vader's tie fighter
* Obi-Wan intentionally losing the duel with Vader, to ensure Luke will come back stronger than ever

Luke shutting off that targeting computer has gotta be one of the best moments ever in a movie.

Yeah, I didn't grow up watching the OT, but that moment in the Death Star trench never fails to make my heart swell. It's such an amazing piece, and never get tired of it.

Peridiam posted...

I sat in a 4DX chair and treated it like a 2.5 hour amusement park ride. Enjoyable, but also :(

You can go to Galaxy's Edge I guess.

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Season finale is up:

The opening bit with the two Stormtroopers was amazing. I loved that scene where they missed every blaster shot.

I was kind of disappointed that after the tension of being surrounded by an army of Stormtroopers, where it looks like there's going to be no easy way out, they just... shoot them all in a big firefight. Even if seeing IG-11 blow everyone away was cool, it was a really lame way to resolve things. They don't even suffer any consequences for doing something so dangerous and unlikely to work until the Moff returns (also, Moff Gideon leaving and giving them more time to come up with a way to escape felt like sloppy writing). The fact that it ends with them going BACK into the cantina and being trapped again was a bizarre piece of storytelling.

That said the episode was still fun to watch. The gondola ride down a lava river was a really neat looking visual setpiece. IG-11's sacrifice was also well done. Things seemed to wrap up pretty quickly after the Moff's TIE Fighter was taken down though. Like I said, I kind of have a problem with how they basically just killed EVERY Stormtrooper instead of finding a way out through a more interesting or clever way. It feels way too easy. But I still look forward to a season 2 and seeing where this story goes. This entire series has been a great way to experience stories in the Star Wars universe, and even if I have a few problems with the plotting, I've always found it compelling and enjoyable.



Also... I like the Mandalorian much better with his helmet on. Please, show, never remove it again.

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As someone who has been playing a lot of tabletop games recently I really look forward to this.

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Leafeon13N posted...

Master Codebreaker

Ah yes, another plotline that seemed to go pretty much unresolved.

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JJ Abrams had zero plans for the series. He just threw random loose ends out there and expected other people to follow up on it.

We never found out how Maz got Luke's lightsaber, remember? "A good story for another time" my ass.

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TheRock1525 posted...

Pinball Yoda was awesome as a kid and complete shit as an adult.

It's amazing how bad the cgi looks these days. There's "dated", and then you have that stuff that looks like it came from a PS2 FMV.

The problem is how they went all in by making entire scenes and sets cgi, which sticks out so bad compared to it just being a character or object on a physical set. That really hurts the lightsaber battles since it looks like they're fighting on one of those pre-rendered Final Fantasy map backgrounds.

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I honestly don't think any of the KH games outside of KH3 are worth playing anymore these days. The gameplay is just too dated and not well-designed to be that much fun.

I replayed through the whole series over the year leading up to KH3's release, and while I'm not saying they're outright terrible, I don't think I would have enjoyed it if I wasn't already a fan of the series. It's hard for me to say to someone who has never played the games before that it's worth picking up now. There are a ton of rough edges in the games, and they're only gotten worse over time as game design has progressed.

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Before going to the theater to see Rise of Skywalked I decided to rewatch the original trilogy on Disney+. Made it through the first two movies, and partway through RotJ I just resorted to watching Youtube footage of only the Luke scenes towards the end of the movie.

You know how there's a Jar Jar-less edit of Phantom Menace? They should make a edited version of Return of the Jedi and call it the "Just the Luke scenes Edition".

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Re-releasing this instead of just porting Persona 5 seems like a great idea.

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I wasn't sure if the Star Destroyer scenes counted because I couldn't tell if they were supposed to be in space or in the upper atmosphere like in Rogue One.

Also, the Wedge box always seems to trip people up. It's based on a joke from the comic. It's not if Wedge himself appears, but a shapeshifter.

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So this new trading system is not great. I almost traded an Eternatus with a Master Ball to a complete stranger. I don't know why they don't tell you the name of the person you connect with when you start a trade (I eventually found out you can see the name if you put your select cursor on an empty space in your box, but that's still a poor UI decision)

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Also, I hadn't worked on my Darths and Droids bingo card yet (https://www.darthsanddroids.net/bingo/Episode9/), someone help me.

I don't remember if any scene is a "clear visual echo of Episode VI". I mean, there were a lot of scenes on the second Death Star, but I'm not sure if that counts as a "visual echo". I don't know if I'm missing anything else.



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All I could think of during the Leia scenes was this:
https://youtu.be/U58IdBjMeS4

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The thing is I can totally see him turning traitor just because of how he was treated over the past movies. Which is why the reason he actually gives for turning spy is so lame. It would have been much better if he did it solely out of revenge or didn't feel like he belonged in the Order anymore, but apparently he just wanted to troll Kylo? Whatever...

The plot point also could have been used to make his role more interesting, and cause complications for the first order or the resistance. But nope, he just dies immediately afterwards. Wasted potential.

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Man, that movie was crazy. I didn't hate it, but it was quite a mess, and all the course-correcting made me laugh out loud. I really wish they had made this trilogy having a plan from start to finish, because it's clear this style where JJ Abrams sets things up without having any idea where it's going to lead, Rian Johnson taking the reins and doing his own thing, and then Abrams coming back to tie it all together just did not work. I'm surprised it wasn't a complete trainwreck, but it got kind of baffling at times.

Random thoughts

• I admit I was a fan of Palpatine quoting his dialogue from Revenge of the Sith. Dumb fanservice, but yeah, I liked it.
• I'm truly sorry, I don't mean to be disrespectful, and I know they didn't have much choice, but the scenes early on with Leia were just awkward as hell. It was so distracting and off. You can tell they were just cobbling together random lines from unused footage of her, and it might have been fine in small doses, but there was stuff like the line about droids were it was just unnecessary and strained how believable it was that she could actually be there. It looked like something out of a parody, it was so poorly done.
• I agree that the constant shifting of locations in the first part of the movie felt unusual. I didn't dislike those scenes, but it really felt like stuff that should have happened in the last movie. Having various adventures of different plants is great, but feels out of place considering the grand, looming threat occurring in the finale of the trilogy. The best thing about it however is FINALLY seeing Rey, Finn, and Poe actually doing stuff together, something that was completely lacking in the previous films.
• I really liked Rey in this movie a lot more than the previous two. Having her struggle with her heritage and her possibly going to the Dark Side was genuinely interesting, and again, it helps that she actually has strong interactions with her friends, who she never really seemed to be that close with in the previous films.
• Also this movie is honestly probably the best C3PO has been in the films since the first movie. Funny enough without being too whiny and annoying.
• The whole "I told you your parents were nobodies, and what I meant was they PRETENDED to be nobodies" was awful, awful writing. I don't mind Rey being a Palpatine, but stuff like that really hurt the plot.
• The whole idea about Hux being the spy could have been great if it was expanded more. Instead he does it for really dumb reasons and then is soon killed. Ends up being one of the most pointless characters in the trilogy.
• I really disliked everything about the clues to try and find the Emperor. It felt like something out of a video game. "Find the next macguffin to lead you to the next level and get the macguffing after it". I also think the plot point of the knife being used to point where exactly the wayfinder is on the Death Star is incredibly stupid. Couldn't the angle of the wreckage have changed at any point over the years? I mean, it's floating in an ocean, constantly being hit by waves, it could have shifted for any reason... And I may have missed the specific details about the knife and the person who made it, but did they go to the wreckage, stylized the knife around it, and then leave and be like "Well, if I ever need to find it again at least I have this knife"? It just feels like dumb, "National Treasure" style writing. There's also the fact that they never even use that Wayfinder, so... yeah, completely unnecessary dumb plot points? Could they not have used anything else to move the plot forward?
• The reference to the Holdo maneuver as being a "one in a million" shot was another cheap piece of course-correction. I'm kind of glad they did it, but it was still awkward.
• Pretty much everything about Rey confronting Palpatine was the worst part of the movie for me. I still don't really understand what his plan was. He says he wanted Rey to kill him and for her to take on his legacy (and spirit?). I thought that was going to be some kind of trick or part of a larger plan or something, but it doesn't matter because then he just steals her and Ben's life force? Why couldn't that just have been his plan in the first place? At least have it be one or the other. It feels like sloppy writing to just have it change what he wants. He's supposed to be Palpatine, the biggest manipulator in the entire series. The one that spends decades on his evil plans. How was any of his aimless plans supposed to work? He wanted Kylo Ren to kill Rey, but apparently it was his plan all along for her to come to him??? And why does he still do the thing where he constantly tells Rey what he wants her to do even though that guarantees she won't want to do it? It's like when he taunted Luke about going to the dark side, if he just said nothing at all his plan could have worked. It was such a waste to bring back a great villain like him and not have him be competent or interesting at all.
• I also really dislike how he was defeated. The great thing about Return of the Jedi is that Luke doesn't win by fighting him or anything. It was really subversive to not have the villain be killed by the hero in a standard way. Considering the theme for this movie was of Palpatine wanting Rey to kill him and how that would be a negative thing, it seemed like the set up for her to find a different way to resolve things... and then she just straight up vaporizes him. Okay. What a terrible way to end it. At least having all the Jedi talking to Rey was a great moment, and it was nice to hear so many Jedi from sources outside the movies show up too.
• Seeing Wedge come back was amazing. I'm so glad they didn't kill him off in TFA like they were originally planning to.
• So happy that Chewie finally got a medal (not counting the MTV one).
• I really wish they had done something with the broom kid.

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Imagine how much larger the viewership would be if it was hosted by the Schick Hydrobot.

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This was a bad year for me Switch-wise.

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Episode 7:

Well'p that was pretty great. What a cliffhanger. Love it when shows reunite characters from past episodes, and I was always hoping IG-11 wouldn't be dead. Some great character work all around too. Nick Nolte's character was fantastic, and even though he wasn't around for long I really felt hit hard seeing him dead. What a great way to reveal it at the end too.

Still, I don't exactly know what the Mandalorian was trying to do with his plan to meet up Karga. It was obviously a trap, and him gathering allies to help seemed like a good way to have a contingency or plan a counter-trap and... he doesn't really do any that? All he did was have some backup, and only got out of the trap because Karga changed his mind thanks to coincidence. It doesn't really make the Mandalorian seem any good at what he does.

Also, sorry for fans of him, but Giancarlo Esposito did not make for a threatening first impression. The scene with all the Stormtroopers surrounding the heroes was amazing, and then he steps out and delivers his lines in such a goofy way I laughed out loud. I'm going to miss Werner Herzog a lot...

Still, can't wait for the next one!

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KingButz posted...

Came in expecting #1

I will agree that Traitor is a big snub

Great_Paul posted...

2 - Nines

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So I just found out the other day the person who wrote Batman v. Superman and Justice League is credited on the screenplay for this movie.

I'm not going to read any reviews; I'm going to try to go in with a fresh opinion, but I can't help but be terrified by how bad this could possibly be.

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No known Clone Troopers. Those guys are boring.

10 - Finn
9 - The Stormtrooper that got mauled by the Wampa
8 - The Stormtrooper that shoots Leia in Return of the Jedi
7 - The Stormtrooper than stuns Leia at the beginning of A New Hope
6 - The Stormtrooper that Leia shoots and kills before she does the rope swing
5 - The Stormtrooper looking for the droids who Obi-Wan used the Jedi Mind Trick on
4 - The Stormtrooper that did the Wilhelm Scream when he fell off the platform and died
3 - Candace
2 - Nines
1 - The Stormtrooper who bonks his head

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The Playstation controllers are extra thicc now.

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IV > V > VI > I > III > II > VII > VIII

Most people rate Empire better than A New Hope, but IV is easily one of my favorite movies of all time.

None of the prequels are good, but I like Phantom Menace more than most people do (Darths and Droids really helps make it more palatable).

I had a hard time deciding whether Attack of the Clones was worse than The Force Awakens, but in the end I decided that while VII wasn't as excruciatingly bad, its unoriginality made it a lot less interesting. The Last Jedi is just plain awful in every metric though.

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