Thompsons posted:

The Last of Us 2 looked so violent and miserable that I couldn't help wondering if it was originally designed as a videogame remake of Hostel.

Hemingway To Go! posted:

could rattle off a list but you know what, i think this expresses my feelings the best
https://twitter.com/RepJoeKennedy/status/1005114067059728384

Junpei Hyde posted:

anyway infinity war talk should prob go in CineD idk

Junpei Hyde posted:

look if you can't avoid spoilers on a topic that isn't really super relevant to the thread then idk what else to tell you

my condolences tho, CineD is mostly a trashfire

Terrible Opinions posted:

See this is perfectly fine and good. However the movie should also refute the idea that the "greater good" he is aspiring to is even good at all.

Wheat Loaf posted:

I think $250 million was the budget including reshoots and it was less than $200 million originally, but I've also heard that it had been going over-budget when Lord and Miller were directing anyway.

Wheat Loaf posted:

My hawt take is of course that Episode IX will underperform both TFA and TLJ.

TheMaestroso posted:

Gonna give this a bump, because I just watched her Tim Burton video and it's legit fantastic.

Groovelord Neato posted:

i got a migraine yesterday reading cd defend pa kent.

business hammocks posted:

AND THEY TRIED TO PROMOTE IT WITH A WEBSITE ENCOURAGING CHURCHES TO WRITE SERMONS ABOUT SUPERMAN.

Groovelord Neato posted:

i couldn't wrap my head about their defense of him dying to a tornado, something clark could easily save him from. the whole point is to kill him in a way clark can't help him (heart attack) so clark learns that his true weakness is he can't save everyone.

Jimbot posted:

Pa Kent's "maybe" wasn't the answer anyone wanted to hear but he believed it was the best one because the situation, for him, was a complex one. He believe Clark, and the world, were not ready for each other. He believe the world would shun him and didn't think his young son wasn't ready to carry the weight of expectation on his shoulders. He died for those convictions and it shaped Clark into the person we see through the films.

nine-gear crow posted:

Star Wars is kind of slowly becoming That Thing All The Racist Kids Like in public cultural perception

Nuebot posted:

A lot of furry social groups really, really suffer from that dumb internet nerd thing where it's a bunch of people who view themselves as perpetually maligned and bullied in life, specially during their school years so online they want to be super inclusive and accepting of everyone to the point where it becomes detrimental to their communities. Because by the time they start realizing maybe they shouldn't let literal pedophiles and nazis hang around and scream, shout and post whatever horrifying things they want - the simple act of saying "Okay, no more of this" gets their whole community up in arms over it. It's very easy for places like that to be taken over by creeps because most people don't want to speak out, out of fear that they'll be the bully now and punished accordingly. Most furry sites I've been exposed to treated things like "kink shaming" worse than actual bigotry and harassment. But anecdotal evidence and all.

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Geek Social Fallacy #1: Ostracizers Are Evil
GSF1 is one of the most common fallacies, and one of the most deeply held. Many geeks have had horrible, humiliating, and formative experiences with ostracism, and the notion of being on the other side of the transaction is repugnant to them.

In its non-pathological form, GSF1 is benign, and even commendable: it is long past time we all grew up and stopped with the junior high popularity games. However, in its pathological form, GSF1 prevents its carrier from participating in -- or tolerating -- the exclusion of anyone from anything, be it a party, a comic book store, or a web forum, and no matter how obnoxious, offensive, or aromatic the prospective excludee may be.

As a result, nearly every geek social group of significant size has at least one member that 80% of the members hate, and the remaining 20% merely tolerate. If GSF1 exists in sufficient concentration -- and it usually does -- it is impossible to expel a person who actively detracts from every social event. GSF1 protocol permits you not to invite someone you don't like to a given event, but if someone spills the beans and our hypothetical Cat Piss Man invites himself, there is no recourse. You must put up with him, or you will be an Evil Ostracizer and might as well go out for the football team.

MariusLecter posted:

Everyone should read, Roadside Picnic, btw.

stillvisions posted:

For me that was the missing takeaway from Ghostbusters; plenty of male-led generic action comedies/reboots make mad bank at the box office and the world shrugs and says "that's Hollywood". For Ghostbusters the sexism isn't found in the "you must like this movie and declare it good or else you're a bad person", the sexism is found in the "this movie must best a classic comedy in every way or else it is trash and must not be seen by anyone". That movie got painted into a corner where crowds needed the nod of universal acclaim to see it, and critics tried, but ultimately it wasn't enough.

sexpig by night posted:

they're hack frauds!

I Before E posted:

You all hated Lamps, but through this they've contributed to this thread's best post in pages.

Leal posted:

Dapper_Swindler posted:

Uncharted is basically modern Indiana jones aka pulpy adventure poo poo. the hero is always a wise cracking dude with a body count.

Calaveron posted:

If I lived in a darling little seafront chalet you bet your rear end I'd be OK with my parents telling me how they melted a bunch of nazi faces off to get said riches

Jimbot posted:

4 is just what happens when you take an already ridiculous premise and try to take it to serious territory. Not to say that there isn't a place for asking these kinds of questions or exploring the ramifications of killing hundreds of dudes on your adventure, but the fourth entry in a series is hardly the place to start that. Same goes with Shadow of the Tomb Raider or whatever the new one is called. It's not exactly the best time to be exploring the problematic and ethical issues of tomb raiding and meddling with things you don't understand. Those are certainly interesting and great topics to explore but not so much in the third entry of a series.

Alaois posted:

normal, non-evil PMC work, like

Psychepath posted:

Every game should have Alpha Protocol's "orphans created" counter, where you can marvel at how the 9 men you killed were all widowed and had 54 children between them after each mission.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

pretty much. honestly it depends on the game. like stuff like spec ops the line makes you feel bad for everything you kill. because the whole thing could maybe be solved if everyone one calmed down for a second.

RareAcumen posted:

Anyway, can someone explain ludonarritive dissonance succinctly? Is it just when gameplay and cutscene clash or is there more to it?

business hammocks posted:

They should include a scene with Laura Dern or Sam Neill complaining that the bottom fell out of paleontology and they have to be adjuncts at 65 because of Jurassic Park, even though real dinosaurs are totally different and worth studying.

khwarezm posted:

In all seriousness, the whole scales rule feathers drool thing annoys me since I must have missed the memo where it was decided things like a Harpy Eagle or Cassowary are big 'ol pussies.

a cartoon duck posted:

Twitter is in fact a hellsite that exists purely to amplify human misery and we as a species would be better off if it was shut down permanently.

Terrible Opinions posted:

At will employment is a tool to turn workers into slaves and should not be defended.

DoctorWhat posted:

are they capable of moving past that, do you think?

Jimbot posted:

a lot of them made by a guy in his 40's.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

That’s sad because the multiplayer is boring as hell.

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CanardPC did an in depth investigation on Quantic Dream and found tons of garbage behavior from David Cage and staff. For the sake of brevity, some of the lesser bad things included:

- 600 images of photoshopped employee heads onto porn and nazi imagery, including captioned calling employees "whores".
- Displaying said images publically in the office and messages telling employees to "stop loving things up bitches".
- Employees being called into the HR department, yelled at, and having their contracts ripped up, and then forced to sign a new one demanding more work and less pay.
- 70 hour work weeks at minimum pay, leading many employees to suffer nervous breakdowns.
- Creating fake misconduct reports to fire employees before the end of their contract, in order to avoid paying them.

There's a lot more that's being considered in the next lawsuits involving Quantic Dream, but to sum it up with a quote from the General Manager Guillaume de Fodaumiere, "It is perfectly legal, and it is none of your business."