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LightningStrikes posted...

Dredd shows you can make a great film and keep the helmet on. Unfortunately that movie bombed!

The helmet is intrinsically tied to Dredd's character though. He's someone who has killed his ego to become an avatar of the law. I think Samus has enough personality at this point that going the helmet-heavy route would be a mistake. It would have been a mistake in all those Marvel movies, too.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Bro she's be out of the suit for like 70% of it minimum.

Counterpoint: she's mostly be in the suit, but her helmet would disappear in Marvel fashion

voltch posted...

Like didn't Edgerunners lead to a huge spike in CP2077 players?

https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-edgerunners-helped-push- cd-projekt-to-the-best-third-quarter-in-our-entire-history/

(remove the space)

Don't think this is the same situation though. Mario has a cultural near-saturation even without the movie.

Did anyone have a good voice outside of Bowser? What about Luigi?

ZenOfThunder posted...

Xenoblade, which will be the biggest box office bomb of all time

It hurts how accurate this would be

Nier

Leonhart4 posted...

n_n

God don't make me feel old

This reference is older than most Fortnite players

There's a shortlist of users that ruin streaks. It's extremely obvious if you've consistently voted in these topics.

In retrospect, I have no idea how Farnsworth and The Trix Kids ended up with those streaks

Absolutely no chance that gets replicated these days

KCF0107 posted...

Not that I need to defend myself, but I have never liked the characterizations and character usage from Danganronpa, and I would probably only say yes to a handful of characters. Chiaki is not among them. I hope this answer satisfies you Nanis.

This is where I'm at, although it's especially DR2 that I'm not a big fan of. I'd only say Yes to two people from that cast.

Oh good, now I won't need to hold back so I don't ruin a streak

No

GreenMario posted...

I stand by the Movie being at least decent. I think it should have gotten like, minimum fresh rating of like 60% for being a functional movie that's fun for the right audience.

Posted by an account with Mario in the name

(I haven't seen the movie)

If DeSantis is on the ballot, then Biden auto-wins because no fucking way that Trump doesn't run as well to stoke his ego

abstain

Side bracket poll is where the real good stuff is today

I hate this issue because so many people on the left are intentionally obtuse about it, but the alternative is letting Republicans ban people

But like

Inviso posted...

This is some extreme TERF bullshit. "Women are weak and inferior to men, and therefore any trans woman is inherently advantaged in competition and should be excluded to protect the weak women. I support women's rights!"

Women are literally weaker than men yes. There's a reason separate leagues exist. If you merged them, women's presence in sports would vanish overnight. Is that going to happen if trans people play sports? No, but this sort of post that tries to make a false equivalence reads as absurd and is the worst kind of argument to make

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LeonhartFour posted...

Eh, I think a lot of it is confirmation bias because people hated the announcement of Pratt as Mario before they ever heard him say a single line, too. I think he's been fine, but people want him to sound like Charles Martinet and that was never going to happen.

(It's okay for Mario not to sound like Charles Martinet, too. The original Mario cartoon voice was just fine, and it sounds more like Chris Pratt than Charles Martinet)

There might be some confirmation bias, but I think you're really underselling people just straight-up not liking the voice. Maybe it ends up fine in the actual movie, but every example they've put out has not been questionable at best. It doesn't have to be Charles Martinet, but it still has to be good. And it's not.

Leonhart4 posted...

Yeah, but they aren't disliked the way Chris Pratt is by a lot of people

Like he had one or two lines in the original trailer and a bunch of people were immediately talking about what an awful fit he was

One of those was the Mario line though. The one you'd absolutely not want to mess up when putting out a trailer of one of the most iconic characters in history. Who already has a similarly iconic voice to draw inspiration from. Like...that was their best foot forward?

It's not like people were wrong, either. Pratt was bad in the second trailer too.

Leonhart4 posted...

Another reason this movie was never going to get a 95%+ score is people being biased against it from the start because of this...!

I don't think it's fair to call it bias. It just legitimately doesn't sound very good from the trailers. People seemed receptive to every other voice except Mario's.

YoBlazer posted...

Giving such meticulous attention to detail has always been so impressive to me. Suggests that the devs put their hearts in this one (RE2 had similar impressive details, RE3 didn't).

I'm pretty sure that the RE3 devs were actually not the RE2 devs.

Zigzagoon posted...

I dunno, I feel like I keep seeing that going around and just feel like it's an excuse not to even try.

Take Puss in Boots 2 for example. It's a sequel for a side character from a franchise that died off 10 years ago. It's cute and funny, visually gorgeous... but also had a ton of heart and real messages that people can relate to, as well as character growth.

And then seeing people just say... well that's not what Mario is. Mario should just be stomping... GOOMBAS and Bowser being Bowser.

Why can't we have both?

I'm just trying to understand the argument. Are people saying that there's absolutely no way possible for a Mario Movie to get 95%+ by both critics and audience? I just think that's a lazy way of thinking I guess.

Agree with all of this

Paratroopa1 posted...

Unpopular opinion, apparently: I think critic reviews of animated movies, as an aggregate, tend to be pretty spot on, and I think they're going to be spot on for the Mario Movie

I would MUCH SOONER trust the critic reviews of the Mario Movie over the audience reviews, though I would sooner trust a friend's review of the reviews of a community I'm associated with like B8

Friends and community > the critic reviews on RT > the audience reviews on RT

Agree with all of this too!

UshiromiyaEva posted...

No option for like them both the same for different reasons, big mistake!

Not a mistake. No coward's options in this topic. Choose an island and die on it.

Kneejerk reactions are fun.

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Disco

Bane_Of_Despair posted...

Generally more linear experiences stick with me more than open world, open world leaves so much more to be forgettable after you play it even if while playing it is fun enough

It depends, but in general I'd agree with this barring some exceptions like Elden Ring and BotW.

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Yes

I think it's also important to watch Seinfeld with the understanding that it's the originator of a lot of modern comedy. If something on the show feels cliche, it's probably because that's where the cliche started.

How does someone on a gaming-dedicated website in 2023 not have Steam?

Elon has loved ones?

Well as someone who's actually played Control, I'm kind of obligated to vote.

Team Jesse

Not that Jesse will be doing much. I think she's the weakest combatant here (although not that far below Selvaria). She does, however, have familiarity with the Oldest House and its weird shifting geography. An enemy team who tries to travel through it the first time is going to be tripped up, at least for a little bit. I think this applies especially to someone unstable like Kefka, who is going to try to carve his own path when walls start moving the wrong way, then get even more annoyed when his attacks don't harm the environment. Jesse's team will essentially get to choose the terms of initial engagement.

Power rankings goes:

Kefka > Sora ~ Sephiroth > Zero > Selvaria > Jesse

Zelda

Why FF14 Kefka?

I think Team Zero has slightly more overall firepower but this is a fairly big terrain advantage for Jessie.

Thorn posted...

It doesn't help that historically evangelicals actually supported abortion up until the 70s and 80s when Reagan start mobilizing them as a political bloc (and a lot of it was tied up in opposition to desegregation too)

The only real major religious bloc opposed to abortion rights in the US before the 70s was basically the Catholic Church. The Southern Baptist Convention officially called for the loosening of abortion restrictions in 1971 and 1974 (after Roe).

So it definitely raises an eyebrow wrt sincerity when you see these groups abruptly flipped on the issue 50 years ago. You can make a case that people younger than that were then raised in that environment but given the average age of politicians...

Yup. Conversations like these can be significantly shortened when you realize most people, especially conservatives, don't have opinions of their own. They just regurgitate what the news tell them to feel. If Fox News declared that the government should help fund kids' lunches, the change would be drastic amongst its followers. That's why I don't find much value in trying to figure out the exact nuances of how anti-abortion people feel, because their feelings didn't stem from their own thoughts to begin with.

Thorn posted...

Wasn't Gunn the target of a bad faith "whataboutism" "cancel" spearheaded by the right because something had just come out about their own and they wanted "revenge"?

I have to admit I didn't pay too much attention to it all.

This is correct. I'm sure some left-wingers were purity testing as well, but it was largely the right doing...what's the opposite of astroturfing?

Undertale

I used the pod abilities plenty, but whenever I wasn't, yeah the R1 button was constantly held down.

Also man, Strive cutscenes look so low budget compared to Xrd's

Yeah I think that swings it to 2B for me. Sol is hardy but without his regeneration it's a tough sell. The constant rain of Pod bullets + 2B's other skills, plus her maneuverability makes it really hard for him to get in and land that one punch he needs.

Essentially:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zM4KGYQ9A

(except 2B dodges at the end)

How good is Sol's regeneration?

EDIT: Oh, his healing factor has been suppressed apparently

KanzarisKelshen posted...

Out of curiosity, what do you see when you look at 2B

Because I see 'couldn't beat Engels without a flight unit and a dedicated hackerman'

Like...she has no plot hype. Literally zero. We have instances of her failing at taking out dudes you would absolutely take, say, Raiden to manhandle.

2B's cutscene showings are actually kind of bad. The gameplay feels extremely powerful, but Nier Automata characters move at 1/3 of that speed when the game takes away control from you. I chalk some of that up to budget and tone reasons, though.

The scene with him running towards the missile is very fast, although it's more of a building up to top sprinting speed thing. I don't think Sol is nearly that agile in close quarters combat, although he's still pretty quick.

One point against Sol in this sort of fight is that he's canonically not good at fighting. He just muscles through things in the GG universe by being stronger and regenerating. His fight scene with Ky in Xrd is a perfect example of this, as Ky is significantly less superhuman than him and beats up Sol when Sol asks him to stop fighting fair. There's even a post-match bit of dialogue where Sol lectures someone on always striving to improve their skills and be better, then ends it with "Me? Yeah, I don't that shit myself."

Against an opponent with machine precision, that's a huge detriment. He's not going to outmaneuver or outsmart 2B. It's really just a matter if he can outstat her and land a good hit before she wears him down.

This is taking me back the Most Powerful Character contests where people would grab Fate/Stay Night character factoids to make everyone from there seem like incomprehensible godlike figures. This was back when almost no one was familiar with the series.

Argument: "This character moves so fast they're impossible to track with the naked eye. Luck itself favors them. Their weapon is unbreakable and forged by the base components of reality. Their shield is unbreakable, except when it isn't, and that time didn't count."

When you actually play the game: "So they also lost to a 16-year old high schooler."

(I'm exaggerating for comedic effect...somewhat.)

Yeah that video is good too. It provides consistency for Sol being extremely strong. If you think he gets in on 2B then she will be turned to scrap pretty quickly.

KanzarisKelshen posted...

Really saying this when I posted cutscenes of him doing the shit he should do, smh

Most of them are lore wiki moments. Like saying 'Sol can destroy the Earth if he punches really hard' is ludicrous when that doesn't vibe at all with his strength portrayal in 99% of his cutscenes. Saying he's running 5200 meters per second is nonsensical because doesn't even match the actual speed shown in that very cutscene! One-punching the big monster is by far the moment I take the most seriously because it actually feels consistent.

Leaning 2B. Sol has some nutty lore wiki moments, but to be blunt they aren't at all expressed in his 3D cutscenes or gameplay so I take them with a grain of salt.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Also I'm going to anti vote Berserk because in no universe should you go anime first and then manga, that's just offensive. And I LIKE Berserk '97 and highly recommend watching it. AFTER you read.

You aren't going to get most anime types to read without baiting them with an unfinished adaptation first

Berserk. Then read Berserk

Gun control when it happens when it threatens politicians, not peasants. The limited control we have now partially came about due to Reagan being scared of the Black Panthers.