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where did the image of the upgrades dolores gave to teddy come from? did she just change his attributes or did she combine him piccolo style with another host or mind?
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Lycus posted:Are we approaching the point where the thread becomes mostly "I'm done with this show" and anti-"I'm done with this show" posts? Just like the show, this season's hostility is more tepid than last years 
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May 23, 2018 18:22
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ptkfvk posted:where did the image of the upgrades dolores gave to teddy come from? did she just change his attributes or did she combine him piccolo style with another host or mind? Seems like the later, if she was just changing his attributes it would be just messing with those sliders, as we've seem before As for where did she got the file(s), I have no idea edit: thinking about it, I wonder why changing the sliders werent enough in Teddys case, since Bernard managed to completely change that bad guy character to the oposite doing that
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May 23, 2018 18:25
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Becoming extremely lovely after the Storm Of Swords section and shockingly even worse after you get out of the bits of A Feast For Crows is just staying true to the books though. The last 2 seasons of GOT are better than the books? Who read all the Dany chapters in ADWD?
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May 23, 2018 18:33
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Westworld has yet to have a line of dialogue as awful as the bad pussy line, so it still has a long way to fall to hit the lows that GoT has managed to achieve.
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May 23, 2018 18:41
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whatever7 posted:The last 2 seasons of GOT are better than the books? *raises hand* Truly GRRM is the greatest troll of all time, he got so many of us to read that last Danny chapter
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May 23, 2018 18:42
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whatever7 posted:The last 2 seasons of GOT are better than the books? I'm not sure if we're agreeing or not but if I wasn't clear: AFFC is 90% terrible, ADWD is 99% terrible. The show polished the turds and is definitely better than the books (mostly because what GRRM needs is a real editor and the show has no choice but to trim the fat), but that's not to say that the show has been any good since like the Hound/Brienne fight. The seasons beyond ADWD have been very bad too but I have absolute faith that the soul behind how bad they are is GRRM and the showrunners respect for whatever lovely little outline he gave them on where the story was going. Edit: I do respect the hustle evident in the man though. He managed to make millions off of a book series he quit putting any effort into almost 20 years ago. He literally has not published a complete chapter in ASOIAF since 2000. You can't even combine AFFC and ADWD which are supposedly 2 halves of one story, he removed the actual climax of ADWD to save for the next book....which will never actually come out. AFFC seriously ends with an authors note saying "lol sorry half of this book is missing but I'm working on it". Intel&Sebastian fucked around with this message at 18:55 on May 23, 2018 |
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May 23, 2018 18:49
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spudsbuckley posted:This show is firmly into "skip through in 5 minute chunks" for me. You are one of those who always falls asleep while watching OG Bladerunner yeah?
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May 23, 2018 18:56
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Yeah but that "Enhance. Stop. Pull Right. Stop." scene is pure narcotics.
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May 23, 2018 19:07
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WampaLord posted:Westworld has yet to have a line of dialogue as awful as the bad pussy line, so it still has a long way to fall to hit the lows that GoT has managed to achieve. that's the best line in GoT
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May 23, 2018 19:09
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The show is a downgrade from last season but I’m fairly certain most of the issues with the meandering wouldn’t be present if we were binging the whole season. In season 1 I felt the same about episodes 3-6, that they were okay but sort of aimless and meandering. Then the final few episodes blew me away I mean it’s still possible that the season will end with a wet fart but I trust the show runners to not have let it get that bad. At the very least I’m still having fun watching these new episodes and they’re still visually and technically impressive. If you loved season 1 I’ve yet to see anything bad enough that you should quit watching this season. (That said, Dolores’s plot needs to get interesting soon)
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May 23, 2018 19:17
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WW season 2 is very much in Lost territory for me now: the underlying mysteries may not get a satisfying resolution and the premise doesn’t stand up to a moment’s thought but it’s great fun to watch and the characters are engaging (with the current exception of Dolores).
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May 23, 2018 19:25
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In defends of GOT, the show has way more characters I can hold on it than WW. In fact different people have different favorite characters is the best aspect of GOT. Bronn getting his castle is the reason I keep coming back to torrent GOT. whatever7 fucked around with this message at 19:34 on May 23, 2018 |
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May 23, 2018 19:29
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IMO the only plot line spinning its wheels is Delores/Teddy, but they’re still clearly working toward something, even if it isn’t always interesting.  It’s not season 1 quality, but  if you seriously think season 2 is a huge downgrade.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Season 2 does feel like a downgrade but there's no way around it when you're losing Hopkins and don't have a throughline as strong as Dolores' journey from S1. Last two eps have been very good though and the march towards whatever two-weeks-later Bernard is up to is getting better everytime they visit it. I haven't re-watched it but my memory of S1 is that I didn't realize how much I didn't realize until late in the season (i.e. I thought it was going one way and then it went another), whereas in this season I feel like I'm watching Lost again. Confusing things keep happening, and I know it doesn't make sense, and I know it won't make sense until the end of the season. It's just poorly paced compared to last season. Still enjoyable, though.
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May 23, 2018 19:32
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AttitudeAdjuster posted:WW season 2 is very much in Lost territory for me now: the underlying mysteries may not get a satisfying resolution and the premise doesn’t stand up to a moment’s thought but it’s great fun to watch and the characters are engaging (with the current exception of Dolores). I agree that WW is pushing it a bit now, but there's clearly a difference in how WW is definitely building up to something and has been planned from the start, while Lost was blatantly being made up as it went along season-by-season.
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May 23, 2018 19:36
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Boing posted:I agree that WW is pushing it a bit now, but there's clearly a difference in how WW is definitely building up to something and has been planned from the start, while Lost was blatantly being made up as it went along season-by-season. If Westworld had been carefully planned from the start, they wouldn't have needed to do that big production shutdown in season 1.The rest of S1 simply isn't as elegant like the beginning of the season, especially the pilot. Lost wasn't made up as it went along, a lot of the stuff revealed through the life of the show had been thought up since the beginning, but you can't simply "plan" 20+ eps of plotting like that, especially back then.
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May 23, 2018 19:45
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Last season was incredibly slow and was mostly just world building for 6 episodes until they started doing reveals and throwing twists at people. This season is way faster paced so far, I don't get the "It's incredibly slow" complaints
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May 23, 2018 19:49
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My issue with season 2 so far is they want that big end of season clusterfuck to get people hyped for season 3 but dont have enough for all the plotlines to do until then, they would almost be better not showing delores but showing the aftermath of her presence in various places.
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May 23, 2018 19:49
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The thing is, season 1 felt meandery and convoluted at times too, but I all came together at the end. Upon rewatch, season 1 feels insanely tight and it’s so obvious how things are being set up. I’m hoping this season will be the same way and start falling into place around episode 7 or 8.
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May 23, 2018 19:49
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Zasze posted:My issue with season 2 so far is they want that big end of season clusterfuck to get people hyped for season 3 but dont have enough for all the plotlines to do until then, they would almost be better not showing delores but showing the aftermath of her presence in various places. S1 had the same problem, but Hannibal made corporate power struggle very fun to watch. Also, the fact that most of characters can be revealed as host create tension.
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May 23, 2018 19:54
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Yannick_B posted:Lost wasn't made up as it went along, a lot of the stuff revealed through the life of the show had been thought up since the beginning, but you can't simply "plan" 20+ eps of plotting like that, especially back then. Most of Lost was made up as they went along. ABC picked up the show because they wanted a dramatic version of Survivor. Damon Lindelof told a lot of hilarious stories: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lost/lost-writer-gives-detailed-account-of-show-idUSTRE78O2JM20110925 "[...] Abrams liked the idea, and also had another: “‘There should be a hatch on this island! They spend the entire season trying to get it open. And there should be these other people on the island,’” Lindelof recalled Abrams saying. “And I’m like, ‘’We can call them The Others.’ And he’s like, ‘They should hear this noise out there in the jungle.’ And I’m like, ‘What’s the noise?’ And he’s like, ‘I don’t...know. They’re never going to pick this thing up anyway.’” or on how the show just responded to what fans wanted to see in later seasons: “The show had to become sort of an exercise in, ‘Here’s what it’s going to be, guys: We’re going to come out and we’re going to play our set, and once the set is over you guys can shout out what songs you want to hear and we’ll do those for the encore.’ And that was the way that we modulated it, and maybe it worked and maybe it didn’t."
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May 23, 2018 19:56
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From the promo pictures, it looks like next episode will have all the storylines.
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https://twitter.com/wenzlerpowers/status/999087190574616581?s=21
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So how was melee combat supposed to work in Shogun World before the hosts started waking up? Back when Delos still had control over the park? I get the idea of pistols firing blanks or plastic bullets etc, but how do you prevent a host who's slashing at you with a forged katana blade from hurting guests?
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The hosts have to play-fight with you anyway, because 99.9% of the guests have no idea how to use a sword. It's more like an interactive story than a regular video game. Lycus fucked around with this message at 22:10 on May 23, 2018 |
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May 23, 2018 21:58
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The guns couldn't have been blanks or wax bullets. The answer to both is magic.
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May 23, 2018 21:58
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AndyElusive posted:So how was melee combat supposed to work in Shogun World before the hosts started waking up? Back when Delos still had control over the park? This has been discussed at length in the last few pages.
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May 23, 2018 22:03
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Delos is hiring. https://www.deloscareers.com
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May 23, 2018 22:06
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It works by not being explained at all and letting nerds either get mad about it or explain it away for them
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May 23, 2018 22:09
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Like ork weapons, they only work if you believe that they work
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May 23, 2018 22:12
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I'd be hella down for WAAAAGHHHworld
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May 23, 2018 22:18
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Why can't the swords just cut you? Shogun World is supposedly a more intense experience, whatever that means, and the show's set in a world where flesh wounds can be near-instantly healed by a small portable device. All you'd have to do is program the hosts to not aim for the neck and leave space in the narratives for guests to "wake up some time later in a good samaritan's house"
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May 23, 2018 22:20
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40k world would be fuckin incredible.
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May 23, 2018 22:41
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JaySB posted:This has been discussed at length in the last few pages. Ah, I figured the last few pages were just complaints about the Delores story arc and comparing the show to Lost while pining for the days of Season 1. I guess I was wrong! I'll go back and check out the swords discussion that I missed.
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May 23, 2018 23:16
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I want an I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream world
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May 23, 2018 23:19
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Elias_Maluco posted:Seems like the later, if she was just changing his attributes it would be just messing with those sliders, as we've seem before my theory is that she used a copy of MIB and put it on top of teddy. she wants something terrible, not a white knight.
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May 23, 2018 23:26
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She turned him into a sexbot
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drunken officeparty posted:She turned him into a sexbot QuoProQuid posted:
I dunno what kinda thing you're into, but personally, I'm not confident about New Ted's performance.
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