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DarkSol posted:We need some Ijon Tichy sci-fi comedy movies. There was also a German TV show that ran for two seasons. No idea if it's any good. I watched the first episode, and it was kind of charming in a really bad sci-fi sort of way. 
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Waffleman_ posted:It still kinda bugs me that the Assassin's Creed tagline is literally the title of the first Jojo opening. Sono chi no sadame, AssAss
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I actually sort of liked The Congress. The animated parts much much more than the live action parts. Mr. Squishy posted:What, are you kidding? You stab the Pope in one of them! Yeah but not really due to religious reasons. I haven't played the Pope one but I assume it's the one where you are playing a presumably Catholic Italian nobleman so you're probably loving up the pope because he's a jerk/templar. Unlike the first game where you are a member of a group whose main goal was to strike terror into the heart of the enemies of their interpretation of Islam. Which included a couple of Caliphs. Historical assassins would get as close to their target as they could. Kill them and then just lay down their weapons and allow whoever rushed in to kill them. That level of devotion was very scary to their enemies. Which would make a pretty good basis for a roguelike game. Infiltrate a fortress or palace, find the target and kill them. If you fail it doesn't matter because you're only one of many expandable young men.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I actually sort of liked The Congress. The animated parts much much more than the live action parts. I believe that one is you're fighting the Medicis or the Borgias, who are in with the Templars. Historical assassins would get as close to their target as they could. Kill them and then just lay down their weapons and allow whoever rushed in to kill them. That level of devotion was very scary to their enemies. Which would make a pretty good basis for a roguelike game. Infiltrate a fortress or palace, find the target and kill them. If you fail it doesn't matter because you're only one of many expandable young men. [/quote] Yeah, you're essentially a human cruise missile. All that training and resources put into a single unit to accomplish one thing: killing the target. Anything else is irrelevant.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Historical assassins would get as close to their target as they could. Kill them and then just lay down their weapons and allow whoever rushed in to kill them. That level of devotion was very scary to their enemies. Which would make a pretty good basis for a roguelike game. Infiltrate a fortress or palace, find the target and kill them. If you fail it doesn't matter because you're only one of many expandable young men.
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Young Freud posted:I believe that one is you're fighting the Medicis or the Borgias, who are in with the Templars. Yeah, you're essentially a human cruise missile. All that training and resources put into a single unit to accomplish one thing: killing the target. Anything else is irrelevant. [/quote] It the Borgia you are fighting, with the pope being Alexander VI.
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Went to a Larry Cohen double feature last night and they were promoting this new Cohen doc coming out with this poster. I'm a huge Cohen fan so I'm pretty hyped. 
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Mr. Squishy posted:What, are you kidding? You stab the Pope in one of them! And that pope outright states that he doesn't believe in God: 
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drat guess the pope was the real mr robot all along
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Alhazred posted:And that pope outright states that he doesn't believe in God: I think it's safe to say Rodrigo Borgia was not a pious man.
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Lol I didn't know the pope was glowing and you were duking it out in a space arena. Anyway, poster for a Tony Conrad doc striking!
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Actually that is in the Vatican but it is over a hidden alien computer. Borgia is glowing because he's an endgame boss.
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Assassin's Creed is a series where Henry Ford gave Hitler magic space mind-control powers because of how much he hated the Jews. Said space mind-control powers are also responsible for Rasputin and Gandhi, and John F Kennedy was assassinated to steal that power from him. After Nikola Tesla faked his death and defected to the Nazis the nuclear bomb was invented as a way of destroying ancient alien artifacts, like the one Tesla stole all his ideas from. Just like Leonardo DaVinci. Hitler also faked his death with a body double at the Führerbunker but killed literally five minutes later when he stepped outside of it, foiling his attempt to reunite with his secret ally and collaborator Winston Churchill. Everything about the mythos of Assassin's Creed is hilarious and offensive on some level, the religious stuff is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Guy Mann posted:Assassin's Creed is a series where Henry Ford gave Hitler magic space mind-control powers because of how much he hated the Jews. I honestly wouldn't put it past him.
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Stalin was one of the good guy Assassins
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Improbable Lobster posted:Stalin was one of the good guy Assassins No, he wasn't: http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I think it's safe to say Rodrigo Borgia was not a pious man.
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Guy Mann posted:Assassin's Creed is a series where Henry Ford gave Hitler magic space mind-control powers because of how much he hated the Jews. Said space mind-control powers are also responsible for Rasputin and Gandhi, and John F Kennedy was assassinated to steal that power from him. After Nikola Tesla faked his death and defected to the Nazis the nuclear bomb was invented as a way of destroying ancient alien artifacts, like the one Tesla stole all his ideas from. Just like Leonardo DaVinci. Leonardo was legit, he's your buddy and comes up with a bunch of stuff on his own.
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Nov 27, 2016 17:52
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If you miss the button prompt to hug Leo, you're a bad person.
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Nov 27, 2016 19:25
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Never mind, these games are bad again.
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Waffleman_ posted:If you miss the button prompt to hug Leo, you're a bad person.  I know...
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I played very little Assassin's Creed, and I remember reading the wiki article about Templars and thinking it's the stupidest thing ever.
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Star Wars: Rogue One, a film by Eli Roth.
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A rebellion built on ho's and pee.
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I can't quite articulate why, but having a Star Wars poster on a white background just looks wrong.
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"What happened to the Background Layer, Carl? You know what, forget it, I don't want to know. I have to send the PSD files to the printers in 5 minutes."
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Gorilla Salad posted:I can't quite articulate why, but having a Star Wars poster on a white background just looks wrong. Also: 
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Palpek posted:It's like it's all happening on Hoth. A movie about a rogue squadron of gungans would seriously be the most epic idea for a Star Wars sequel
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Gorilla Salad posted:I can't quite articulate why, but having a Star Wars poster on a white background just looks wrong. I kinda like them precisely because they look different than most Star Wars posters. Does anyone know how to poster thing works when you go to an IMAX? Is it random?
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Force Awakens had a different one each week or something. I remember people trying to trade.
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I think those ones are UK only, I might be wrong though. Also I like them, they're the first actually competent Rogue One posters I've seen.
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Nov 28, 2016 15:08
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The droid is all like: Dude, why are you walking like that?
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Those would be great if they were painted instead of photo collages. Every Star Wars movie has had a painted poster, I'm not sure why they aren't doing it for this one.
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This movie, and so its posters, are different from the main series. I guess you could call it, heh, a rogue one.
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It doesn't even have a title crawl.
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Nov 28, 2016 16:54
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No, it will, but the text will come from the top of the screen.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Those would be great if they were painted instead of photo collages. Every Star Wars movie has had a painted poster, I'm not sure why they aren't doing it for this one. Maybe Drew Struzman got sick of painting lasers and cashing enormous checks. He probably wanted to focus on his horrible, horrible original work.
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Mierenneuker posted:The droid is all like: Dude, why are you walking like that? Maybe it's his costume. The costumes look 99.9% on point in the trailers for everyone else, but Riz's costume looks like he's a cosplayer who wandered onto set one day for some reason.
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Inzombiac posted:Maybe Drew Struzman got sick of painting lasers and cashing enormous checks. Not to say that wasn't the case back in the 70's and there have been some interesting poster debates where the billing had to get creatively arranged to wrangle out actor's demands, such as The Towering Inferno.
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