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Croatoan posted:Anybody notice the actress who played Roxette in Striking Vipers also played Mantis in Guardians Of The Galaxy? I didn't know before but Mantis is kinda hot. Weird that an actress in a big budget movie would be hot. Also Pom Klementieff sounds like the name of some kind of citrus fruit. That's all I've got for now, thanks for your patience!
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I watched The Waldo Moment for the first time earlier this year, and I thought it was entertaining if not as tightly plotted as some of the others. I thought Tobias Menzies' speech was a little too on-the-nose, though... then I googled it and found out that episode came out long before Trump started his campaign. I wouldn't call it a bad episode, just a little weaker.
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Thundercracker posted:Striking Vipers bothered me in that it's portrayed as this secret thing between bros, but it's obviously a mainstream game on what's essentially Playstation VR. It went on way too long for the wife to not have at least caught a news blurb about "The video game that's actually a gently caress club. Think of the Children!" . Like, imagine you being able to gently caress the characters in Mortal Kombat XI today, not even virtually but with QTEs . That'd be blasted on every conservative tabloid within minutes of discovery. Spoken like a guy without a VR headset haha. That kind of thing is going to be intrinsic to any VR experience, all the more so when it's as realistic as the VR setup in Striking Vipers. You're there. You're controlling what feels like your own body. You're probably going to be able to perform any action your real body is capable of, plus throw fireballs or whatever. You could probably gently caress the horses in Barbie Horse Adventure if you wanted to, just because you're there, standing behind the horse. If there was going to be an outcry, it would have happened when they originally released the Playstation 7 or whatever it was. e: Actually, I'm watching USS Callister now and there's no genitals in Space Fleet haha. That would turn a Star Trek game into some nightmare fuel imo. Phenotype fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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Jun 12, 2019 14:01
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Tehdas posted:The ending for htdj improved it for me, then again as a programmer it might because i’m so familiar with the style of algo that the episode was showing. Yeah, I thought it was perfect, and I even made a little "aww" noise out loud when I realized they were about to meet for the first time. I'm not sure exactly why that twist ending seemed so much stronger than the one in Playtest, which I really disliked. Both of them kinda ruined the premise of the episode you'd just watched, but I think Playtest's just made the previous fifty minutes a total waste of time, whereas in Hang the DJ, the entire episode helped build toward the impact of the twist.
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Jun 20, 2019 14:45
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Just watched the episode with Aaron Paul. woo man. uh. drat, that's bleak. jesus. If I go on to the next episode, is it going to cheer me up any?
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Jun 17, 2023 02:10
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Donnerberg posted:Beyond the Sea: It's likely for the bragging rights of landing a human on a new planet. This would be during the space race after all. Drones wouldn't be prestigious enough. who would have to know?
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Jun 17, 2023 05:07
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Honestly, the thing that felt most forced to me was the murder hippies. It's not against nature or whatever for an astronaut to pilot a robot so he doesn't have to spend all day staring at the aluminum walls. I guess it's not cool if you Facetime your family if you've gotta travel somewhere, huh?
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Jun 17, 2023 21:46
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Finished the first two last night, not a huge fan of either. The first one just ran a little long, felt like we'd gotten the picture after 45 minutes or so. Not a bad setup, just fairly predictable and didn't do much with a full hour. Very glad they didn't show more of the husband debasing himself on stream, I was afraid they were going to get much more gruesome with it. Bete Noire wasn't bad either, just felt a little thin. I was waiting for some kind of social commentary, idk, something more than just she hates you because of high school and yep, she's just got a magic computer that's doing all the weird stuff, no need to dig any deeper into that. It's always vaguely disappointing when you spend forty minutes watching increasingly creepy things happening to the protagonist and then it's just like welp, it's all because of this device here, no mystery necessary. And that ending was fun, but again, didn't really seem to say anything. I'll dig into the rest this weekend probably. Hasn't felt like they've jumped the shark yet, but I'm hoping a few of the remainder wow me a little more.
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Got through the next two, Hotel Reverie and The One With Peter Capaldi That I Can't Remember The Name. Reverie was kinda mediocre, I dunno. I thought they were going to get much more dangerous with it, especially once she got predictably trapped in the simulation, but they decided to make it more of an impossible love story when I was expecting the movie people to learn they weren't real and to turn violent (and, since they made a point of talking about it, possibly remember how racist they were). Enjoyed the Thronglets episode thoroughly, but again, I feel like they could have done more with it, although I knew they'd never let us see the results of the singularity haha. Maybe went into what happened during the 30 years of living with the Thronglets that they skipped past? We never got any information on them aside from the fact that they were talking to him. Not on my list of best Black Mirror episodes, but definitely the best for this season so far.
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Apr 12, 2025 15:09
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I would have been like "no thank you I'll just write a ten second speech real quick"
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ram dass in hell posted:whole shows great lock yourself in a room and eat mushrooms watching it for 2 days straight. very simple. then you'll be all caught up. you'll have entirely lost touch with reality but you'll be caught up
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