Posts by blackdog

Quote from Beck

On 5/17/2019 at 9:55 AM, Beck said: Yeah but she's never burnt innocents. She's always harped on about being the breaker of chains and freeing people from tyranny and then she goes and one ups her dad and actually burns everyone in the city.

I'm not happy with this season, everything feels super rushed and not much of it makes sense. So many character arcs have just been disregarded or fizzled out. I'm not claiming to be a writer or anything, I can't write for shit, but there's been a noticeable change since they ran out of book material.

Quoting a friend from Facebook: She destroyed Quarth, in Mereen she kills all the fathers/head of families without any due trial (for as corrupted you can’t say ALL men were terrible), she kills a traitor (fine)… and his prostitute/slave by locking them in a trunk, Kal Drogo promises to destroy Westeros for her and she’s very happy, likewise when she rounds up the Dothraki to go over the sea, she doesn’t use the “democracy” argument.

A tyrant is a tyrant, even if benevolent, they always on the razor edge.

I did find a bit extreme burning the city, but I think her portrayal was pushed to hint that, before the “ill use fear”. I think in her eyes the people she burnt were criminals to support the Lannisters and not rebel(?). She also looked very paranoid and I thought Tyron’s head would roll in the first episode really.

All of this not to justify or say the writing is amazing, like I said I’m not happy, but I think the previous season was worse.

Also not sure how much the lack of source material is to blame, the fact that books are not coming out makes me think Martin is quite involved in deciding where things are going, I mean we know the book ending will be different and how can you ensure that if you don’t discuss how to evolve the story and hit certain beats. Also Martin has publicly complained of fan theories being actually true so he changed stuff. That can’t be good for narrative, not only he had to come up with one new ending but two lol

I'm kinda at peace with it, other shows I follow are at the top right now

DC keeps churning out great animation movies on Batman, they have now animated the super classic Batman: Hush

seems incredible they can’t seem to make good live action since Nolan. Reeves has no pressure to deliver with his take today they set the internet ablaze with the (unconfirmed) news that Pattinson will be the new Batman

Quote from [HP]

2 hours ago, [HP] said: Fuck end game. John Wick ftw, it's my bday on monday, we'll get a sitter to go watch fucking thing.

I would have gone tonight if I hadn’t to tidy up and do touch ups to the house ahead of the baby shower Sunday

I’d go Monday but it’s the last of GoT and we might go help a friend with her house.

#firstworldproblems

The movie is coming out today ? I will probably see it before Endgame lol

Just watched Jim’s review and I see what the scores previously posted mean. I feel like I want to try myself to believe, but a lot of what he says sounds familiar, like scavenger hunts and progress bars were all over Mad Max, a game that I liked but that really preyed on the OCD impulses of gamers. I’m particularly curious about the driving: in Mad Max was good for what I’m concerned, and in video it looks like Mad Max’s… but given the Just Cause precedents, what he says sounds believable.

Ye this mash of different cities seems super interesting/exciting.

Want to see more.

Happy to see they got inspiration from Italy as well ✌?

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6 hours ago, [HP] said: I've watched a couple playthrough videos, the screen VFX are a bit annoying, and man there is a lot of asset popping everywhere, specially when you're flying around with a drone.

Gonna be honest here, this game did not capture my interest. I might pick it up later when it's half price or so.

Is that on console or on PC as well? Don’t remember having popping problems with Mad Max and JC(3)… but they are also quite lighter games to run in comparison (I think).

It seems very fun, if I hadn’t a giant back catalog and habit of only buying half price or less, I would prioritise this. I also still have to play Rage tho, might be the next game I install.

All the changes here, this is quite an heavy update!

Noclip has released their documentary

Season 5 will feature some famous people like Miley Cirus ?

Quote from Klems

5 hours ago, Klems said: LOL who cares.

Just annoys me more shit like this rose to the surface rather than reviews and interesting content.

Game journalist seem to not like their job anymore. They can’t seem to be able to stick to game (p)reviews anymore: they have to make it political or controversial for no absolute reason.

Rage is the latest case with articles and YouTube commentators focusing on the latest and most ridiculous shit I’ve heard in a while: some have been complaining about the marketing campaign (“I forgot was coming out!”) and the ludicrous accusation from Polygon founder that the devs are mocking him and people affected by his disability (upper lip something)

what

the

actual

fuck.

What about all the fat people naming and shaming then, never thought of that before. Maybe this guy even got a laugh or two off that kind of jokes/gags.

Fuck these people, this could represent why the digital revolution can be bad: when they had to take into account printing costs they would never thought to generate sales through tabloid-like content.

Motherfuck, Stan Lee was abused toward the end of his life!

Can’t say I’m really happy about how’s going, but today was another hilarious day of wannabe writers manifesting their disdain for the show runners on social media.

That Daenarys was a (benevolent) tyrant was clear from the beginning, and that she

Spoiler would flip

was quite the given, considering her family past. I mean, what better Chekhov’s gun than all those stories about the Mad King wanting to “burn them all”? They had to pay it off. Also Varys had a line about how Westerosi would “flip a coin” every Targaryen king…

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22 hours ago, Pampers said: then why link to 40 videos about the drama lmao

News and record keeping, mostly… Pitchford and Gearbox are an influential entity.

It is also quite hilarious seeing an adult person throwing a tantrum like a child.

What I was thinking when I said sometimes I get irritated by drama, is menial stuff like the mapper raging for ten tweets in a row about some douche trolling him on some forum for retro games. Maybe if you weren’t reacting like that you wouldn’t get such trolls. Or those SJW type of devs that need to express their outrage for an “impolite” Starbucks barista on their indie game page. I follow you for the game you are developing not your political views.

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7 hours ago, [HP] said: Industry drama became a video game, a very dangerous for your sanity video game that bounders on politics and insanity. Fuck all of that shit, people need to go back to get laid and worry less about what others "tweet" and "outrage" about. Lmao

This.

I do sometimes get very irritated when I see devs going ballistic… I know that in a certain way “this is your life”, but at the end of the day these are just games and your job shouldn’t be your life.

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On 5/10/2019 at 8:44 AM, [HP] said: I never got into FF. Even back in the day when everyone was raving about FF7 I always found the turn based combat really monotonous and boring af, really.

But the cinematics and art style overall are some of the best shit out there.

Same for me, I remember trying the PC demo and couldn’t understand/like the turn based system. That demo made me put all JRPG in a box that I never wanted to open.

Seeing what it seems a revision and a move to real-time combat, makes me consider the chance of trying it eventually.

I’ve seen people complaining about this already, I wonder if Square has come up with a solution a-la Fallout, allowing for both combat modes to exist, depending on player’s choice.

On the big things mentioned above I have been very disappointed, but I’m somewhat not as angry and I dunno why. Maybe watching TWD has numbed me down.

For as bad as certain aspects are, I keep thinking that at least feels better than last season, when they were globetrotting and basically time travelling around to speed up things the way they did. At least now everything is following a (somewhat) logical sequence.

I think the only thing that was really tilting me was the Last of the Starks gathering and not seeing Sansa’s reaction. (Same we haven’t seen her then discuss with Tyrion.) Also I get really annoyed that the characters have started to address Daenarys as “Danny”, that never happened before and seems just fan-service to follow the memes.

Im not sour at all that Jon not only knows nothing, but also does nothing. Yes he’s been always referred to as The One, but the show never developed him as such. His character never fucking learns anything, he keeps doing the same mistakes, and he doesn’t as well do anything really heroic*. But in this it’s at least a constant, I don’t like it, but at least I can explain it by seeing Jon as “too good at heart” and that’s why he keeps hammering his own testicles.

*The highest moment he had was the Battle of the Bastards.

Also an explainer