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kateee posted...

who has not seen Perfect Blue yet by the way?

and i guess for everyone: have you seen Satoshi Kon's other works?

Only Satoshi Kon film I've seen was Memories, which he wrote for (he wrote the best segment by far)

I have seen Paranoia Agent though, which I loved

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kateee posted...

when did you first see it? it's so fucking intense that 'boring' seems so weird applied to it looking back

Around the year it came out or so, I think I was like 14 or 15? Then I saw it again years later in college, on a big screen in a film course, and it seemed like a completely different movie than I remembered

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kateee posted...

question for everyone: do you have any examples of movies you significantly changed your mind about after revisiting them after a long time? i think the usual question is something like "what's a movie you loved in your childhood but hated as an adult?" but that drastic of a change is hard for me to imagine (although do share if you have something that fits!)

The first time I saw No Country for Old Men I thought it was boring and didn't care for it, but now it's in my top 10 movies.


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Murder by Death

This didn't fuckin age well at all, did it? This strikes me as essentially like the 70s version of the Scary Movie franchise. While some of the references are to things fairly timeless (Sam Spade, Hercule Poirot), a lot of the other characters are based on things mostly lost to time, some for very good reason. The fact that they give the mind-numbingly bad parody of a racist Chinese character so much screentime just kills any good will I could've had for it. It barely attempts to make fun of what it's parodying, instead just kind of repeating the same bad decisions of the original work. The film isn't really funny, and there's no real mystery to be had here because it's all just nonsense, and it barely even pretends to be more than that. The "murder" of the murder mystery doesn't happen until about 3/4 of the way into the movie, spending the first hour and change on lazy gags.

What's most disappointing is that it's actually a good concept. I'd be all down for a movie taking shots at famous detective characters, and there's plenty to choose from (it makes me laugh to think of the likes of Encyclopedia Brown and Mystery Inc. competing with perhaps Dexter and Adrian Monk), but it requires some actual thought to be put into the situation and mystery aspects. What we got felt mostly thoughtless.

3/10

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Perfect Blue

It's been near the top of my watch list for a long time

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MaleB8er posted...

Get ready for 100+ remixes of Don't Think Twice

there's gotta be a way to make this relevant to the horror topic

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Kero Kero Bonito - It's Bugnax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQTk4eK2fP4

I mean there's a good chance you've heard it given how popular it got earlier last year but it also came out years after this topic accepted nominations so idk if it counts

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Black Narcissus (1947)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Murder By Death (1976)
Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)

Not ranked

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also just now realizing I never posted a rating for Hunt for the Wilderpeople but that was a 8 as well

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The Love Witch

The Love Witch strikes me as a movie that has a lot to say, though I'm not entirely sure what it all is. There's subtext everywhere, from underlying themes of sexism inherent in society to classic 60s horror styling. In particular, influence from Psycho bleeds throughout the film (though, if I'm being honest, I don't know that Hitchcock's the best person to be taking feminist inspiration from, unless that was the point in which case ignore me).

I think maybe this film requires multiple watches? So much of this is bizarre that it's hard to process, and I have a lot of questions. So I understand that in this society, witches are a thing that people have accepted do actually provably exist (I mean, we have wiccan irl, but there's a certain acceptance of them as beings who can actually do magic). Are we intended to view Elaine as victimized by the men around her, taking the blame for their deaths when, as she said, what happens to them was not her doing and she shouldn't be made to be a monster simply for being the target of their affection? Though that theory becomes much more difficult to grasp when she does, in fact, kill a man directly, who's shown her no harm beyond refusing to love her.

Samantha Robinson is excellent, though nobody else in the film really comes close to her in terms of performance (unless you count the costume and set designer, who's the real star of the film).

Overall it's a movie that either 1. I'm too dumb to fully get after one viewing or 2. has messaging made unclear by its desire for style. Whichever it is, it's not forgettable.

8/10

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Stalker

man, I just... I don't fucking know. I simultaneously have really strong feelings about this film, and very little feeling at all. I'm in love with the concepts behind it. The very idea of The Zone is fascinating; it's something revisited in Annihilation, Wilder Girls, Color Out of Space, and it's always so interesting and has so much potential for further explanation. Ideas like the room being close and easily within reach, but the Stalker's insistence that the Zone itself will punish you for taking the straight path. There's one moment late in the film where the Stalker dips his hand into water, only for the camera to cut up and the group is in a room entirely filled with sand, and it's stunning. Much like the film suddenly cutting from sepia to color the moment they are in the Zone. On top of that is incredible cinematography, with dozens of stills from the film that could be works of art on their own.

BUT at the same time, the film doesn't work for me at all. The main characters don't even begin to come into their own as characters until a solid hour in at least, and even then, they never truly feel very distinct. Naming them solely after their jobs is an intriguing choice, because it presents them solely in the way society views them, but the film also makes little attempt to ever develop them as more than that. The philisophical discussion is interesting... until it isn't. This movie screams of a creator that is overly self-indulgent; someone that won't let their film be edited where it desperately needs to be. At a certain point, your stylistic intentions get in the way to a point that isn't and shouldn't be acceptable to the viewer. A long, still take on an expression slowly reacting to a situation can be powerful. A long, still take on expressions that don't even slightly move simply doesn't have that power, especially when this is repeated just so many goddamn times. In a film so driven by its sense of encroaching dread and terror, why does so much of it feel like filler?

I want to enjoy this, because on paper I adore so many things about this film. It's kind of like Kateee said, it's a film that requires multiple viewings, but I also have very little desire to watch it again. It's a film that is years ahead of its time and also hindered by the limitations it places on itself.

no rating seems appropriate for this, so I guess 7/10

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The Love Witch
Man Bites Dog
Antrum

ranked

watched Synchronic last week, and it was pretty decent, but I've had The Love Witch downloaded on my laptop for probably 4 years now and still haven't watched it

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this is like the 3rd time where one of the nominations is a movie I've watched in the last couple weeks

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Best Stalker review I've seen:

https://letterboxd.com/bransonreese/film/stalker/

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oh nice, guess I miscounted

goddamn the Infamous soundtracks are just absurdly good, and Ascension Parish is on its own level

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wallmasterz posted...

This was a great read. Thanks for doing it!!

Thanks for reading! It's something I'd wanted to do for a while

jcgamer107 posted...

this would probably go in my Top 25 just for the music stages

music stages were easily the high point of the game


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The full list:

1. Worms Armageddon
2. WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain
3. Journey
4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
5. Kirbys Epic Yarn
6. Castle Crashers
7. Kirby Air Ride
8. Jackbox Party Packs
9. Overwatch
10. Uncharted 4
11. Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale
12. Bloodborne
13. Kirbys Return to Dreamland
14. Portal 2
15. Guitar Hero: World Tour
16. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed
17. Halo 3
18. Tekken 4
19. Tony Hawks Underground 2 & AW
20. Counter-Strike
21. LittleBigPlanet 2
22. World of Warcraft
23. The Jungle Book
24. Crash Team Racing
25. Soul Calibur

and some honorable mentions:

Rayman Legends (2011) - Played with my girlfriend, and we loved it, but for some reason never finished it
de Blob (2008) - An underrated single-player game with a surprisingly addictive multiplayer mode involving trying to have the most painted areas in the time limit.
Mario Party and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (various) - These mostly fit together, as they're basically collections of addictive minigames that are stupid fun
A Way Out (2018) - Another underrated game that requires steady cooperation from someone close to you who'll appreciate the story as well.
Minecraft (2009) - Yes, I, like everyone else, have played Minecraft. It's fun.
Red Dead Redemption (2010) - I played the online of the first one a lot, but not the 2nd, despite the 2nd having much more content online. I think I was just burnt out after finishing a 100 hour story. Maybe I should go back at some point.
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (2020) - It's so dumb and so frustrating and so fun.


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1. Worms Armageddon (1999)
System: Sega Dreamcast
Played with: my childhood friend group

So this is it. My original "favorite game" for years before the spot was eventually overtaken by more complex, narrativ-driven, single-player games. That doesn't stop it from easily being one of the most fun games I've ever played. This game alone defined a decent chunk of my favorite moments as a kid. This was the all-nighter, where I would go to the house of my oldest friend (who I've mentioned several times in this topic previously), and together with a few other friends from our neighborhood, we would hang out in his basement, getting ourselves a pizza and a 2-liter each, and stay up through to the next morning shooting, punching, bombing, drowning, and holy handgrenading each other as goofy-looking worms with silly voices. It's a time that lives forever in my head as "the good 'ol days," even if they weren't always that, and while we played through dozens of games as a group, it's a time most prominently defined by this game. It's the bright, colorful graphics. The fact that you could name your own teams of worms, which gave the identical pink squiggles a touch more personality. It was the customization, the music, the variety of weapons and tools and terrains. The simplicity of the controls and the complexity of the most truly impressive plays. To this day, I still break out my Dreamcast now and again for the sole purpose of booting up Worms Armageddon, and to this day I still am not as good with a ninja rope as I want to be. When I think of the pure, childhood joy that really turned me into an adult who still loves gaming, I think of Worms.

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2. WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain (2003)
System: PS2
Played with: my dad and sister

Pretty much every WWE game of the 2000s can be squeezed into this spot, as I played almost all of them, but it was clearly Here Comes the Pain that set the standard for a wrestling game. I haven't watched the WWE in about a decade or so now, but when I was a kid at my dad's apartment, it was an easy thing to bond over. Many of my all-time best gaming memories came from these games. For a while there when I was a kid, my dad wasn't able to afford cable, so we spent most of our weekends with him watching movies and playing endless royal rumbles. There was something just so much fun about being able to play as someone like Mark Henry (or later, Great Khali) and just pick up opponents and overhead throw them out of the stage. Likewise, it was a blast managing to scrape through as Rey Mysterio against the odds. The backstage areas were a fucking blast, and I'll never forget the hours I spent riding around on a motorcycle or forklift or throwing people off buildings or wacking them with mannequins. In a wrestling game, of course. (While the later games continued to have backstage sections, they tried to play it more realistically, drastically limiting the environment and interactive options and in doing so made for a less fun experience.)

More than anything else, these were games that allowed me to bond with my dad and sister, and in a time when we really needed it. We created dozens of characters and factions and played through the stories several times over and played every type of match over and over and never got tired of it.

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3. Journey (2012)
System: PS3, PS4
Played with: anonymous strangers

Before its release, Journey had been on my radar for a while. Something about it was immediately striking. It's served as indie inspiration for the last decade, defining a visual and musical style all its own. It finally came out when I was in college, and I played the whole game in one sitting in my college dorm.

There something so powerfully unique about Journey's multiplayer. There's no local co-op, only online. When you play online, there's no matchmaking, no profiles, no voice chat in in-game communication beyond a single button. You can press the button for a BWOOP or hold the button longer for a slightly longer BWOOP. Weirdly, that's all you need. The game is designed in such a way that you can certainly get through it alone; much of the gameplay consists of platforming, light puzzles, some stealth, and perseverance. But man, is it just such a better experience with someone, anyone, at your side. Sometimes your partner will just disappear, and you can never quite tell if that's the other player disconnecting or you just not being able to find them. It's completely on the players to work together or not, but more often than not I found myself having a bizarre, almost loving friendship with the other anonymous player. I'd find them waiting for me when they didn't need to, and I'd do the same for them, and we couldn't share anything more than the smallest blips. The whole experience is done short of 3 hours, but in the end, I found myself with tears welling in my eyes as the joyous music played across the approaching mountaintop, and I knew my time with this ghost companion had come and gone. It's difficult to make yourself finish the game and leave them behind.

Shortly after, I brought the game home to have my girlfriend play it, and watched her go through it, experiecing it much as I had. Even watching the experience is wonderful, no small part due to its wonderful art and music. Years later, I got it again on PS4, and again I played through it, though as the years go by, there are less and less players available online, leaving me sense a bit of nostalgic loss at the original friendship.

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shit I need to finish this already

4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008)
System: Wii
Played with: girlfriend, several other friends

Yes, as much as I love Playstation All-Stars, I've gotta give the edge here quite easily to Smash Bros. And not Ultimate and certainly not Melee (seriously, why the hell does everyone go crazy for Melee, it was decent but not nearly as good as every game in the series to follow). While Ultimate has Brawl beat in terms of characters and stages by a lot, and I appreciate that, Brawl has gotteen by far the most hours out of me. The new additions had me hyped more than probably any other game in the series (Meta Knight, King Dedede, Sonic, Snake, hell even Ike ended up being my favorite blue-haired swordsman). The timing was also great, because in 2008 I was in 10th grade, with plenty of time to spend on Smash Bros., the coolest game in high school. I also got a girlfriend around this time, and we played through all of Subspace Emissary together.

Subspace Emissary. Goddamn, what a mode. THIS is what I'd been waiting for from a Smash Bros. game from the start, and it boggles my mind that they've never bothered to return to something similar. I really had my hopes up for Ultimate to return to form after the initial World of Light trailer, but while that mode was fun enough, it wasn't nearly what Subspace Emissary had been. The inspiration it borrows from the many Nintendo platformers (especially DKC and Kirby) is easy to see, and it's so much fun jumping on goomba heads and navigating platforms as a variety of crossover characters. Then the boss fights came along, and the cutscenes, and it was just everything I ever wanted from Smash. I mean I watch stuff like this and still can't believe this actually happened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKHQXuXE8qc

part of me's convinced Nintendo just paid people to shit on this game years later so they wouldn't ever have to live up to all that.

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(re)Watched Marnie tonight, for the second time after initially watching it as part of the Gauntlet ranking

One thing that threw me off the first time through was that the implied romance between Marnie and Anna seemed like a weird mislead given the end reveal, and while it didn't really take away from my experience, it definitely confused me.

I think on a rewatch, I can appreciate the situation more. I ended up reading a review after that delved into how Anna's experience is remarkably similar to that of a queer child, and the more I think about it, from the gender nonconforming outfits to the obvious attraction/romantic interest Anna holds toward Marnie, the more I feel like the queer aspects are something the creators truly wanted to come across despite potentially being limited by cultural and societal restrictions for films in mid 2010s Japan.

This film works best in exploring Anna's (and Marnie's) self-discovery of her identity, in every aspect. She spends the whole film figuring out who she is, where she stands with her family and in her community, and she does so by sharing her experiences with Marnie, who had gone through a similar experience of self-discovery much earlier.

Overall it's a very pleasant film. Not one that sits with me deep, though it probably would've been had I not spent such a significant chunk of early 2020 watching coming-of-age anime.

8/10

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Badlands (1973)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Stalker (1979)
El Topo (1970)

ranked

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definitely didn't think that was going to be my top song but I'll take it

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MajinZidane posted...

I need to know if Halo will make this list

tag

Johnbobb posted...

20. Unreal Tournament (1999), Counter-Strike (2000) & Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)

Johnbobb posted...

17. Halo 3 (2007)

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5. Kirby's Epic Yarn (2010)
System: Wii
Played with: girlfriend

For my money, the best Kirby game is actually one of the spinoffs that doesn't even have the series' iconic copy abilities. What it lacks in powers, it more than makes up for in everything else that makes the franchise my favorite. Incredible music, iconic style, and pure concentrated joy bleeding through every ounce of its gameplay. This is the best game I ever played through with my partner, largely due to all the little touches that make this so endearing for multiplayer. Things like the ability to grab your co-op partner and throw them like a ball (with the bonus that there aren't really deaths in this game so the consequences for trying to have fun are never dire). The ability to just jump on your partner's head and ride them like a moving platform. The little BOP that your partner will do if you dash into them (also, dashing turns you into a car, and it's adorable). It's near impossible to be unhappy while playing this game; nothing else I've experienced has ever so easily put a smile on the face of the player. There's nothing else out there like it (and yes, that's including Yoshi's Wooly World). We played through the full game together early in our relationship, and it's one of my best memories with her.

On a semi-related note, I liked the game so much I made a custom moveset based on its non-Kirby main character

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Iw7pGLsmWk


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knocking the top 5 to page 2

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6. Castle Crashers (2008)
System: Xbox 360 I think
Played with: oldest friend

Jump back about a decade and a half. I lost my dad in 2007. Shortly after, my best friend moved away. Things were weird for a while there until he managed to get his own place in Gettysburg, a little over an hour from where I lived at the time. It took a while before I got the chance to go up and see him (I was 16 and hadn't been driving long, so making that trek seemed intimidating). When I did, everything felt really odd, but the way we connected and made things feel normal were the same way we always had. With video games. He recently got Castle Crashers, a game I thought looked neat, so we booted it up.

We played through the entire game in one sitting, probably about 10 hours straight. It was a fucking blast. The game is hilarious and just really goddamn fun, with some of the best beat-em-up gameplay I've experienced. I don't think I'd ever played through a game in a way like this; it was like marathoning a show the whole way through, bouncing from castles to deserts to swamps in a never-ending flurry of goofy hijinks and physical humor. It was exactly the right game at the right time and holds a special place in my mind because of it.

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7. Kirby Air Ride (2003)
System: Gamecube
Played with: Oldest friend

Kirby Air Ride has been #1 on my list of most-wanted game remakes for years now (though I would also be more than happy with a sequel). There isn't another game quite like it. Not content just being a kart racing game (which it absolutely succeeds at), Kirby Air Ride really shines with City Trial, a mini open-world adventure on a map full of vastly different locales all squeezed tightly together, full of hidden secrets and unlockables. Things you found in the map could alter your following races or they could alter your game altogether. But the secrets were really only a bonus, because the map is just so damn fun to navigate, especially given that you can pick up various Kirby powers to attack your opponent, not just in races, but in fun exploration. Everything in this game is just a blast, and it only becomes more fun as you go on. While many of the karts are typical of what you might see in a kart-racer to some extent, then you unlock things like the Wheelie Bikes and Meta Knight (who doesn't even use a kart, instead just flying through the stages). I loved the game so much that years back I drew City Trial as a Smash Bros. stage:



and then let's talk about the music because goddamn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KamjTqi4VjI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=begvoKpL-TM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTOt8uUBj4A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0-TRGMg9R8

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Before Sunrise (1995)
The Outpost (2019)

Literally just watched The Little Things this week

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8. The Jackbox Party Packs 1-7 (2014-2020)
System: PS4, Discord, Twitch
Played with: friends, both irl and on B8

I own every Jackbox Party Pack, and every year I look forward to the new pack of party games. There's really no equal when it comes to pick-up-and-play video games for groups of people who aren't necessarily gamers. I've done this with small friend hangouts, with larger parties at my home, with my tabletop group, and more than all, with Board 8. Whether hosting or joining in, Board 8 Jackbox nights are always just a fun time. Hell, there are people on this board that I mostly only interact with via Jackbox. Quiplash, Drawful, Bracketeering, You Don't Know Jack, Trivia Murder Party, TeeKO, and so on... the games are hilarious, and often those playing along are as well (and sometimes they aren't, but it's still fun). Jackbox with this board has become less of a game and more of a way to connect with the board's community, like catching up with old friends over drinks. It's been years of good times with ideally years more to come.

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Snake5555555555 posted...

No arguments there, Overwatch is definitely one of the most spectacular MP experiences I've had too. Reaper & Mercy still rank as some of my favorite VG characters. I get a lot of pushback for this opinion but what really killed the game for me was the startling lack of new events every year. One year of recycled events seemed okay at the first since there was an attempt to shake them up then year after year after that it was really just the same thing every time and it got so tedious with nothing to look forward to besides new skins. Eventually even Archives succumbed to this which was the most disappointing of all as I loved learning new bits of lore every year, it was pretty much the last straw that made me stop playing all together, until recently actually. CTF Blitz is hella fun. Still I am looking forward to OW 2 as well especially for the campaign.

Yeah, the characters are great. Reinhardt, Roadhog, Ashe/BOB and even Tracer (who I love but am terrible with) are all among my favorite characters now. And I actually agree with that, seeing the same events reused year after year really killed my interest a good bit, especially with no single-player mode to fall back on or anything like that. Now when I go back, it's for shorter and shorter amounts of time, and when I play it's usually just deathmatch, though I also love CTF Blitz.

I will say the new mode they introduced this event was a nice step in the right direction, as the mode is fun, but also barely playable, as it only has 6 players, and goes too long, so literally half of all games I've played in the mode have ended pre-emptively like 8 minutes in because of too many people leaving the match.

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9. Overwatch (2016)
System: PS4
Played with: girlfriend, coworkers, but mostly strangers

If you told me four years ago that to this day, I would still be picking up Overwatch once every month or so, I wouldn't believe it. It's rare a multiplayer game sticks with me this strong, for this long, but Overwatch was just something special. It's the toxic relationship I can't quit. Every time I think I'm done, I never actually delete it from my system, because I know that no matter how many times I give up on the game out of frustration, I'll just keep coming back. I love the characters. I love how everyone is so distinct and memorable, complete with fleshed out lore and backstories and constantly evolving relationships. I love the little moments. Waving to someone as Roadhog as you watch them fall into the hole in the middle of Ilios. Coming to a silent truce with the other Widowmaker in Deathmatch, where out of some sort of mutual respect you never kill each other no matter how many times you have the chance. Group dancing on top of the flag in capture the flag as a show of inevitable victory. Charging as a Reinhardt, only to get launched into the air by a Junkrat mine, making you fly (still charging) into the ulting mercy and slam her into a wall. When you win, it feels so good, especially when winning with friends. When you lose, it's because the other team played cheap and everyone on your team sucks and the RNG is against you the whole time.

I'm still sad this game didn't feature split-screen (as unfortunately games tend not to anymore), but I still found fun ways to play with my partner. Primarily, playing mystery heroes (or my favorite mode, Mystery Deathmatch) and switching out every time you die. There's something bizarrely addicting about the game I can't quite explain, and even though I'm sick of Overwatch, I'm still hyped for Overwatch 2

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Camden posted...

How's the latest season? It's on a growing list of shows I watch that I haven't got around to seeing the latest season of. My tv backlog is going to catch up to my gaming one at this rate...

pretty good. Maybe not on the same caliber as some of the other seasons, but still considerably better than any other crime show imo

It's worth watching for Jessie Buckley alone

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oh yeah I watched Fargo again last night

Fargo is honestly one of the first things I'd think of as a near perfect movie. At the very least, a near perfect crime thriller. Everything here is just fucking incredible. A handful of great actors giving career-best performances (once again, William H Macy got robbed at the Oscars). Music, cinematography, dialogue, everything is top notch. Marge and Norm are probably the most wholesome couple ever put to film. So many little dangling threads to follow without it ever being distracting or hard to follow for even a moment. And it's fucking hilarious, and it's disturbing, in a dark balance that nobody manages to do quite like the Coen Bros.

10/10, easily one of my favorite movies. This is like my 5th watch of it I think and I like it more every time.

Also, I highly, highly, highly recommend the tv show.

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some of y'all are sucking the fun out of this

I definitely don't think the reveal was too obvious, especially given that Agatha Harkness isn't exactly the most mainstream Marvel villain, so unless you already know (or look up) every character associated with Scarlet Witch and Vision beforehand you're likely not going to see it coming (ie most of the people watching). It'd be different if it was like an old man with a mysterious red/purple helmet who keeps moving metal things around.

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10. Uncharted 4 (2016)
System: PS4
Played with: strangers online

Every once in a while, a multiplayer experience comes along that doesn't seem like it should work, but does, and does so excellently. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is one that always comes to mind; it's team-based hide-and-seek game was flawed but unlike anything else out there, and I was honestly a little sad to see it never return in future titles. The same thing happened in Uncharted 2. Uncharted 2 was hands down one of the best 3rd-person shooter titles to date, with an amazing story, great characters, smooth gameplay and thrilling set pieces. What didn't get nearly enough attention was the multiplayer mode. I'm almost always the type to choose story mode > online, but something about the multi-level, fast-paced, almost goofy action on the multiplayer kept me coming back.

It was really all-but perfected by the time Uncharted 4 came along, with grappling hooks making the maps even more fun to navigate, and with the humor of the series managing to shine through constantly. One of my favorite moments of online gaming came from this; the game featured a system where you only get partial credit for "downing" an opponent, and once they're downed they can be revived, killed or will die after 15 seconds or so. At one point, I downed an opponent, and instead of killing them, I danced. And without mics or communication of any sort, the entire rest of my team over the next few seconds saw me, ran over, and joined me, dancing in a circle around the dying opponent. The fact that the multiplayer mode had us playing as the heroic characters of the story made the event that much funnier. Something about seeing the wholesome but adventure-loving Elena Fisher twerk above a dying man while surrounded by her friends and allies just brought a sense of joy and camaraderie to my heart that most online games haven't been able to match.

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No More Heroes 3

World's End Club and Knockout City seem interesting at least

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paperwarior posted...

Just to get it out there
The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Oh shit

Replacing Snoop Dogg

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Up

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Hunt For The Wilderpeople (2016)
Okja (2017)

HftW is the only one I have seen yet, though I'd be plenty happy rewatching Okja. Really any but Marriage Story I'd be down to rewatch


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"ok sure"

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Snake5555555555 posted...

The ending of After Midnight is spectacular! (though I'm surprised you saw it comin') And the long-shot with just Hank and Anna talking, I mean I was hanging on every word though I definitely get it being an agonizing slow burn, which I enjoy that type of thing in the right context.

I think part of my mind was just thinking the whole time "this is too sweet of a moment, they're not just going to leave the thread of the monster hanging." I'm still torn over whether the monster was actually real or not, but either way I love the way the ending was done. Him killing it with the antlers or his prized 10-point buck was a nice choice (although, are they supposed to come off that easy? I'm no hunter but I was under the impression they didn't just pop off like that lol)

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HM:
Pearl Jam - Dirty Frank
probably a handful of other clipping. songs

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clipping. - Story 7

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Snoop Dogg - Serial Killa

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jcgamer107 posted...

The whole cast is great, but William H Macy especially so, I think.

to this day it still upsets me he lost Best Supporting Actor

hell, it upsets me he was even nominated for Best Supporting Actor and not just Best Actor despite probably having the most screentime of any character

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Johnbobb posted...

Tom Petty - Free Fallin' (won: falling, freedom)

I'll fully admit, this one made me laugh

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Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo6U1p6dWs3IOFzAi3baSA_mDCsOQuGJo

Full Results:
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Favorite_Song_About

Hall of Fame:
Elton John - Rocket Man (won: unnamed boy, space)
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood (won: named boy, famous person)
John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads (won: America, driving)
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (won: tonight, heart)
The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun (won: spring, sun)
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane (won: air, severe weather)
Weird Al Yankovic - Eat It (won: food, taste)
ABBA - Dancing Queen (won: dancing, being young)
Tom Petty - Free Fallin' (won: falling, freedom)

Don Henley - The Boys of Summer (won: summer | ru: long-distance love)
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen the Rain (won: water | ru: rain)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh) (won: snow | ru: winter)
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams (won: loneliness | ru: vague dull undercurrent of existential pain)
The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby (won: named girl | ru: loneliness)
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (won: flirting | ru: phone)
The Killers - When You Were Young (won: unnamed boy | ru: being young)
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing (won: work | ru: money)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird (won: freedom | ru: flying)

Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69 (ru: summer, year)
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (ru: teenage rebellion, smell)

Recent Results:

1. Truth: All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret | Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth | Metallica - Sad But True | Cyndi Lauper - True Colors
2. Wanting: Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way | Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
3. Being Young: ABBA - Dancing Queen | The Killers - When You Were Young
4. Being Dumb: Weird Al Yankovic - Dare to Be Stupid | Green Day - American Idiot
5. Being Poor: Kanye West/Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger | ABBA - Money, Money, Money (tie)
6. Money: Pink Floyd - Money | Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
7. Being Rich: Billy Joel - Uptown Girl | Peter Gabriel - Big Time
8. Being an Outlaw: Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal | Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive | M.I.A. - Paper Planes
9. Prison: Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run | Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock | Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
10. Police: N.W.A. - Fuck Tha Police | Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name
11. Freedom: Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird | Tom Petty - Free Fallin' (tie)

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Is it concerning how many good songs about murder there are? Should it be? Probably!

1. Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name
2. Dream Theater - Home
3. Reba McEntire - The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
4. Nick Cave & PJ Harvey - Henry Lee
5. Eminem - Stan

• You can nominate TWO songs for today's theme
• Tomorrow any with multiple nominations will go into the playlist. Songs with 3+ nominations will guarantee a spot in the poll, while those with 2 will be first come first serve.
• Feel free to suggest future topics
• A YouTube playlist with all the poll songs will be posted in the topic. I highly recommend listening to any songs in the poll you don't already know

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