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| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 24 [smfffc] |
| Jeff Zero 09/06/17 2:49:25 PM #29 | |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 22 [smfffc] |
| Jeff Zero 09/04/17 9:48:50 PM #172 | |
| Topic | The first Inhumans tv show reviews are showing up |
| Jeff Zero 08/31/17 9:32:21 PM #4 | they really threw Iwan Rheon to the dogs with this one --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - The enemy always wins. (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/28/17 1:58:07 PM #346 | I really liked the finale. I'll post more later maybe when I'm not about to clock in to work. I'll need to rewatch Season 7 to give it an "official" ranking, but tentatively: 6 > 4 > 1 = 3 = 7 > 2 = 5 Lots of equaling makes for a dry list, I grant you, but there are differing strengths and weaknesses at play and I don't have the spoons to get more technical until I watch the whole thing again. --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - The enemy always wins. (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/28/17 1:52:54 PM #343 | Tormund is so not dead. --- |
| Topic | Star Trek: The Next Character Ranking [TNCR] |
| Jeff Zero 08/28/17 1:51:17 PM #347 | Just a lot of people here who irritate me. More than usual, I guess, or else (and more probably) I don't feel like I have to deal with it as much as I once did. There are several of y'all I do still genuinely enjoy chatting with but ehh. --- |
| Topic | Star Trek: The Next Character Ranking [TNCR] |
| Jeff Zero 08/28/17 12:31:31 PM #345 | the least I can do in my apathetic state toward this board is keep the project I started alive for the rest of you while I attempt to get over said funk --- |
| Topic | Target listing for "Bethesda: Game of Thrones" spotted? |
| Jeff Zero 08/27/17 8:35:23 PM #7 | I am feeling pretty confident at least one of those writing teams is hoping to break open the enigma of the Doom. Full stop. Aegon's Conquest feels like something some other team is probably pitching. We know that Robert's Rebellion will not be one of the prequel ideas, but I feel like it's too limited in scope for an open world game. Like, by far. --- |
| Topic | Target listing for "Bethesda: Game of Thrones" spotted? |
| Jeff Zero 08/27/17 8:23:12 PM #5 | I'm banking on the Doom of Valyria being one of the five prospective spinoff pitches. I'm banking on at least two more of those being things hardcore fans really want to see. I'm curious what Bethesda Game Studios, if it's them, would do in that regard. Maybe something set during the time period of the original Azor Ahai, the Long Night, etc --- |
| Topic | Target listing for "Bethesda: Game of Thrones" spotted? |
| Jeff Zero 08/27/17 7:23:44 PM #2 | There's actually been a rumor that this is going to be a thing. This and another game called Starfield (which supporters of the rumor claim Bethesda 'lightly teased' by presenting their logo with a starry background at E3 this year.) EDIT: Had I read the article before posting, I'd have seen that it already states what I said. --- |
| Topic | Secret of Mana remake coming February 15, 2018 |
| Jeff Zero 08/27/17 7:10:48 PM #55 | pjbasis posted... People aren't nostalgic for old tv, especially non-animated, since it was just shitty sitcoms and episodic crime shows until like 10 years ago. The Wire The Sopranos Rome Star Trek Deep Space Nine Battlestar Galactica 24 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Angel Farscape Babylon 5 Deadwood Carnivale Dead Like Me Roots etc There was actually a fair bit of serialized fare prior to 2007. Not nearly as much, but it was out there. --- |
| Topic | anybody here big on android games and also like writing |
| Jeff Zero 08/27/17 6:40:45 PM #19 | |
| Topic | Jeff Zero & Leonhart in Different Houses: Now Featuring Zero Jeff [JZLF] |
| Jeff Zero 08/27/17 6:36:07 PM #5 | |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 16 [smfffc] |
| Jeff Zero 08/26/17 6:50:20 PM #58 | |
| Topic | just had to say goodbye to my kitty. |
| Jeff Zero 08/26/17 9:06:20 AM #9 | |
| Topic | DCEU News: Joker & Harley movie replaced Gotham City Sirens |
| Jeff Zero 08/26/17 9:06:01 AM #3 | What is your reaction? UNMOVED --- |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 14 [smfffc] |
| Jeff Zero 08/25/17 5:07:28 PM #349 | |
| Topic | Secret of Mana remake coming February 15, 2018 |
| Jeff Zero 08/25/17 5:04:04 PM #38 | Everybody buy this thrice so I can get SD3 --- |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 14 [smfffc] |
| Jeff Zero 08/25/17 5:03:12 PM #346 | Gameplay means more than just battle systems and customization suites. It's the minigames, the moment-to-moment exploration, the relative interest (or disinterest) in what lies beyond that next beaten path. Final Fantasy frequently excels at some of this. --- |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 14 [smfffc] |
| Jeff Zero 08/24/17 6:42:27 PM #92 | !!!!! Leon don't let EstelleBright vote, IT IS NOT ME --- |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 14 [smfffc] |
| Jeff Zero 08/24/17 6:40:51 PM #89 | |
| Topic | Star Trek: The Next Character Ranking [TNCR] |
| Jeff Zero 08/24/17 12:58:27 PM #337 | |
| Topic | Calm down auto-correct. |
| Jeff Zero 08/23/17 4:29:05 PM #2 | auto-correct words into emojis, wow --- |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 13 [smfffc] |
| Jeff Zero 08/23/17 1:08:28 PM #39 | |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - The enemy always wins. (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/23/17 1:06:35 PM #117 | SeabassDebeste posted... Doesn't the Yunkai takeover happen mainly off screen? It's more comparable to Casterly Rock/Highgarden than to this episode. The difference (IMO) is that Yunkai spends several minutes on Jorah/Daario/Grey Worm traipsing through doing battle, establishes Daario as at least partially trustworthy, tries for an "epic" three-against-twenty action sequence. None of it really hits the right notes for me. --- |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 13 [smfffc] |
| Jeff Zero 08/23/17 1:02:14 PM #21 | |
| Topic | Star Trek: The Next Character Ranking [TNCR] |
| Jeff Zero 08/23/17 10:15:43 AM #334 | |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - The enemy always wins. (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/23/17 10:14:39 AM #109 | I honestly had my concerns with the notion of Alan Taylor directing a battle episode of any sort, as it seemed likely he would be doing, especially once the preview landed. He's never proven himself to me in this regard -- I know it had corporate red tape all over itself, but Thor: The Dark World is a decent example of my trepidation. He's great at up-close introspective shots. He's great at memorable small-scale moments. He's kind of a mess at this. Compounding matters is the fact that when 7x05 aired and there were a couple of brief shots of the redshirts -- some random number of them, I don't remember -- I turned to my friend and said, "that's not a good establishing shot. The internet is going to be confused next week when those poor blokes start dying." Most people I've spoken with seemed completely oblivious to their existence until they started dropping. Even plenty of fodder in the Star Trek shows establishes itself on some level before croaking, even on TOS itself. The battle in "Beyond the Wall" gets a lot better once Daenerys arrives, because the pure CG spectacle of her dragons and the Night King obliterating one of them is superior to much of the more human efforts on land beforehand. There are a few nice shots in the leadup, like some of the angles used when Tormund gets knocked down, and a couple of Jon's strikes. (Probably courtesy of Kit being fairly well-trained at this point.) But all told, it's messy and loses its characters and confounds people with its redshirts. When the audience expects big death and gets peons, my point about GoT willingly subverting "deathxpectation" in favor of surprise life is continually proven, and not necessarily for the best. Critics this week are literally calling for important character blood to start shedding again, haha. I still rather like this episode despite its issues, but yeah, that was one of the weaker duke-outs. Beats job fare like the Battle for Yunkai in "The Rains of Castamere" (which holds that episode back more than folks will ever notice; it's so poorly-directed and lacks any punch whatsoever) and earns plenty of points for pure spectacle toward the end. But it can't be discussed in the same vein as Blackwater, Castle Black, Hardhome, Winterfell. --- |
| Topic | Star Trek: The Next Character Ranking [TNCR] |
| Jeff Zero 08/23/17 10:01:17 AM #332 | I do love that Moriarty is Miles from The Nanny. (I thought it was Miles? Was it Nigel?) --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - The enemy always wins. (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/21/17 11:43:52 PM #53 | Anagram posted... Jeff Zero posted...Fucktons of people still don't even realize Jon is a Targaryen. The odds are there for the possibility. Meera name-checked him at the gate of The Wall in 7x01 unnecessarily and when she left Bran in 7x04 she said she had to go be with her family now. Given that I doubt we've seen the last of her, I give Howland showing up a solid 75% chance for Season 8. You won't get more than a few lines of real value, though. --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - The enemy always wins. (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/21/17 11:41:58 PM #52 | FFDragon posted... I really hope they don't keep dropping that "bomb" like it's some sort of actual revelation though. Likely. And the internet will explode with a protest of "who even didn't know at this point?" and a sizable counter-protest of "um, excuse me, not everyone watches every episode sixteen times in their mom's basement, speak for yourselves, I didn't know" and a counter counter-protest of "wtf?" --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - The enemy always wins. (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/21/17 11:37:05 PM #46 | Fucktons of people still don't even realize Jon is a Targaryen. --- |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 11 (RULE CHANGE!) [smfffc] |
| Jeff Zero 08/21/17 5:14:03 PM #40 | Cid Highwind If he's already safe then OOPS, gotta clock back in --- |
| Topic | Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XIX: Day 11 (RULE CHANGE!) [smfffc] |
| Jeff Zero 08/21/17 5:10:49 PM #24 | Cloud Strife First of His Name, SOLDIER of Dragons, etc --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - Says here 'Ragger' had 'Anal'... (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/21/17 1:29:47 PM #470 | mnkboy907 posted... I feel like this may have been the last time anyone goes beyond the Wall, so this was like their last chance to "resolve" the hanging Benjen plot. So they wrote for Jon to stay behind as a way for him to see Benjen. Though I mean they could've easily just had them find Benjen while on the hunt for a wight and still had him die while buying Jon enough time to get back on Drogon or whatever. Pretty much. Benjen literally can't go south of the Wall, so they threw him 45 seconds to go out in a (literal) blaze of glory, making good on his promise to Bran last season that he'd keep fighting until he couldn't. He saved Bran. He saved Jon. He did plenty. And now his watch is ended. --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - Says here 'Ragger' had 'Anal'... (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/21/17 1:10:14 PM #466 | StifledSilence posted... The Benjen ex-machina and the one Walker conveniently surviving to be captured were the only things that bugged me. Great episode otherwise. This is where I stand as well. And I think Benjen ex Machina won't bother me as much in the coming years, although I imagine it'll bother the fanbase at-large more and more, haha. The one wight surviving is really dumb though. --- |
| Topic | Star Trek: The Next Character Ranking [TNCR] |
| Jeff Zero 08/21/17 12:59:27 PM #327 | Tom's best episode is "Thirty Days", and there's no real contest. He chronicles the events of a recent mission whilst serving time in the brig, and the underwater visuals of said mission are genuinely matched by good writing. Tom is a sympathetic character in this episode, with appreciable motivations. His descent into demotion is sympathetic, because he wanted to do the right thing. He spends the hour writing to his estranged father, logging his alleged mistakes. It shows a depth to a man whose snark is finally maturing into something greater. It's too bad, then, that after "Thirty Days" Tom only occasionally continues this paradigm shift. Too often, he reverts to the trickster reject whose pranks aren't funny. But there is growth, and certain select episodes demonstrate that, so Tom -- like most (but not all) of Voyager's cast -- is a better person in the back half of the series. --- |
| Topic | Star Trek: The Next Character Ranking [TNCR] |
| Jeff Zero 08/21/17 12:59:22 PM #326 | The good news is that after 148 hours I'm finally running out of things to do in my Dragon Age: Inquisition replay. I've got, like, 40-50% of the content left in Jaws of Hakkon (hard to say, honestly; first time here) and then however long Trespasser takes me. I got way more absorbed in this game than I anticipated. It's the first time in years I've really, truly been absorbed by a video game long-term. Once it's cleared, I'm not picking anything else up for weeks, because TNCR and my B5 topic have both become embarrassingly stagnant (insofar as my own content is concerned; y'all are great) as @VengefulKaelee can attest on both counts. There is no bad news, really. Well, unless you're a fan of... 55. Tom Paris  "Why am I starting to get the feeling you don't like me very much?" Best Episode: "Thirty Days" Worst Episode: "Parturition" I'll be honest with you. I have no idea where that GIF is from. But if it doesn't get capture the funk, nothing will. Thomas Eugene Paris tops the board insofar as "characters Quinton liked more as a kid" are concerned. You've seen me say this twice previously, and you'll likely see me say it at least one more time. But there is no one on the magnitude of Paris except Paris. When I was a boy, I found his cynical "wit" funny. I loved how he bucked authority and did his own thing. I thought he was too cool for school. I wanted to be like him -- delinquent yet piloting an impressive starship far away from the real world. I was charmed that he didn't much care about reaching Earth, because he felt like there was precious little waiting for him there. It all clicked. Then I got older. The lines became cracks. Tom's a scathing idiot whose sense of humor is, in fact, not great. The show wants you to think he's funny. He is occasionally funny. Robert Duncan McNeill is too talented an actor not to make the forays into decent writing shine for what they're worth. But so much of his script is whining, unjustly. So much of his script is insulting others in some snide attempt at endearing us to him. Maybe it works for kids, but it shouldn't work for adults. The chip on his shoulder gets overplayed to the point that he becomes an asshole for the sake of being an asshole, and I'm not sure this was what the creators intended, but whoop, there it is. He also has an obscene fascination with the 20th century, because UPN thought it needed every conceivable way to connect to modern viewers. Problem #1: it's dull and every wink at the audience comes across as a stutter. No one cares that you know what a Ford Model-T is, Tom. No one cares that you wear Hawaiian t-shirts. No one cares that you eat popcorn and watch old Paramount movies. OK, Paramount cares, but I bet that's awkward for CBS these days. Problem #2: other aspects of the show get so corny and casual audience off-putting sometimes that Tom's attempts at pulling in a bigger crowd must surely have fallen on deaf ears, anyway. Better luck with Seven, y'all. Tom's got his relationship with B'Elanna, which, unlike some of my peers, I enjoy. Yes, it sort of neuters B'Elanna herself. As you can see, I have not ranked her yet. In fact, I don't believe anyone has. This is because she is superior to Tom. So it's unfortunate that Tom spays and neuters his B'Elanna, because Tom himself was castrated straight out the gate, but nevertheless the two of them share some good moments together that reveal another side of the character. Even Tom gets a few decent moments out of it. I guess. --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - Says here 'Ragger' had 'Anal'... (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/20/17 11:19:02 PM #356 | Well I'm a fair-weather shite-lover so I'm gonna mosey over to WatchersOnTheWall's comments/forums for this one I think since the overall reception there is far stronger lol I'll think of some more to say later on when I'm through gabbing eagerly over something I enjoyed Only thing I didn't like was the amount of scenes spent with Jon's team surrounded; there's no great way to handle that, because if it was rushed then March of the Gendry is even more nuts, but it honestly dragged a bit for some of those scenes --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - Says here 'Ragger' had 'Anal'... (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/20/17 11:08:03 PM #349 | I think I was somehow oblivious to the people predicting what happened to Viserion. I'm not sure how, considering I posted in this topic, too! --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - Says here 'Ragger' had 'Anal'... (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/20/17 11:03:41 PM #341 | DoomTheGyarados posted... Great episode overall, with a few problems. I'd give it a 9/10. Me too! Same rating, I think. Not the show's best "Niner" but certainly not the worst. --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - Says here 'Ragger' had 'Anal'... (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/20/17 11:01:26 PM #339 | Then I love shit. I'm cool with this. --- |
| Topic | is Bran the actual worst character |
| Jeff Zero 08/20/17 9:08:49 PM #24 | azuarc posted... Bran al'Vere? Bran al'Vere, at least three books in, is a nonstarter of a character Raisin Bran is what my friend calls Bran Stark however He thinks he's being witty --- |
| Topic | is Bran the actual worst character |
| Jeff Zero 08/20/17 9:05:26 PM #20 | XIII_rocks posted... OliviaTremor posted...No he isn't. I highly disagree with that assessment. His dialgoue writing is not anywhere near where it used to be and it has nothing to do with hin being second fiddle to Dany I very much agree. --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - Says here 'Ragger' had 'Anal'... (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/20/17 8:55:06 PM #317 | So, pretty great episode overall. 8.5, I'd say. For reference, only two episodes out of 65 and counting are sub-7 for me, though, so do take that with a grain of salt --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - Says here 'Ragger' had 'Anal'... (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/20/17 8:52:07 PM #316 | "Isn't it your job to talk him out of stupid fucking ideas like this?" Oh Tormund, my Tormund So this Jon/Davos/Jorah/Tormund/Gendry scene is short but sweet. Not a wasted line, several funny ones. The follow-up with Sandor and Beric and Thoros hopping in is also good of course. "You're The Hound. I saw you once at Winterfell." yeah for like two seconds Jon. Impressively photogenic memory --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - Says here 'Ragger' had 'Anal'... (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/20/17 8:49:51 PM #315 | xp1337 posted... Jeff Zero posted...Sam lit the net on fire not catching Gilly's Rhaegar thing. These two are the longest-lasting couple on the series btw haha shite you're right --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - Says here 'Ragger' had 'Anal'... (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/20/17 8:49:39 PM #314 | So with Sam ditching out on Oldtown as I'd figured he would, and with the maesters not likely to chase after him considering the show never bothered having even Randyll Tarly chase after him, I reckon one of two things happens with Sam: the maester dream is never again moved along, or he survives the series, returns, and it's all Broadbent can do to shrug and give him a "saved-the-world" chain I seriously thought Arya was spying on Littlefinger macking on some redheaded chick at first and was like"this is where we're taking this?" thank goodness I was mistaken, his singular devotion to Tully lineage is one of his defining creeptastic qualities Littlefinger's possible plan -- to frame Sansa for Arya so the sisters feud and Arya can be eliminated, I suppose? -- is the first real thing he's done all season, and I'm glad he's doing something. Curious to see where this goes. They knew we'd pause on the letter Arya finds, and I was surprised when I discovered it was the letter Cersei forced Sansa to pen years ago. Really not what I was expecting --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - Says here 'Ragger' had 'Anal'... (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/20/17 8:44:29 PM #312 | This is another good Cersei/Jaime scene. Both actors always bring fire, but if the writing can't match it, it falls flat. Well, again, I'm not so keen on the "there's a baby again" twist but we'll see what happens I guess, both these characters' long-term livelihood is so unlikely, anyway Jon/Gendry instabros, love it I really thought if Gendry ever came back he'd smith dragonglass. Maybe he still will, if he survives this ordeal, but yeah, still Tyrion giving Jorah the coin is good. Meawhile, Jon misunderstanding Jorah's and Daenerys' body language is the only thing about their interactions together I've actively disliked. The rest I love. Mmmm, especially their theme music You know it's a darn good thing Daario got left behind. This Jon/Daenerys/Jorah starefest would be uncontrollably dire Sam lit the net on fire not catching Gilly's Rhaegar thing. These two are the longest-lasting couple on the series btw --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones Season 7 - Says here 'Ragger' had 'Anal'... (SPOILERS) |
| Jeff Zero 08/20/17 8:34:02 PM #311 | xp1337 posted... man counting the show's derailment of stannis against him is low I really needed to insult Stannis to faux-prove my point, though, is the operative xp1337 posted... Jeff Zero posted...This plot to pilfer a wight is so hilarious haha, it might be. I dig it, but it's a bit... TWD --- |
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