gradenko_2000 posted:

Xcom 2 was worse than xcom 1

Hmm

quote:

Initially when watching Civil War, I found myself immediately drawn to Cap’s side. Personal freedom, loyalty to your friends, mistrusting the powers that be, these all spoke to me – a former misfit supreme – on a deep, deep level. They felt far more important than Tony’s emphasis on security and safety. But rewatching it this time, at the end of 2020 the plague year from hell, I found my perspective…shifting.

Now when Tony argues in favor of signing the accord, I find myself agreeing with him. The argument for boundaries and oversight in order to protect large populations of people from a dangerous force, feels like the right thing to do. We are currently living through the worst pandemic since 1918 and a large part of the reason America is so far behind the rest of the world in dealing with the virus is because there is basically no oversight. We have become the ruins of Sokovia. Three hundred thousand Americans are dead and millions more are infected every day. We need individuals to agree to sacrifice some personal freedom in order to keep the majority of people (and those most at risk, like the elderly, the immunocompromised, and our essential workers) safe. Following the rules, staying inside, valuing the lives of others over our own non-essential whims should be the priority. As Tony says, “without boundaries, we’re no different from the bad guys.”

uber_stoat posted:

*kill a bunch of aliens on a boat, mission doesn't end*
*spend an hour searching giant cruise ship for aliens top to bottom.*
"welp, i guess the only place left to look is this tiny closet"
*opens door*

uber_stoat posted:

*kill a bunch of aliens on a boat, mission doesn't end*
*spend an hour searching giant cruise ship for aliens top to bottom.*
"welp, i guess the only place left to look is this tiny closet"
*opens door*

Taintrunner posted:

watched blade runner 2049 in 4K

thought to myself drat that’s an optimistic view of the future

Tubgoat posted:

Chapo Trap House reviews WW84 in depth and this is worse than I could ever have imagined.

mandatory lesbian posted:

Well yeah, its chapo

Loveshaft posted:

Echo Chamber posted:

pop culture writing was a mistake
https://twitter.com/themarysue/status/1343625184838868994?s=21
so you don't have to click:

Echo Chamber posted:

pop culture writing was a mistake
https://twitter.com/themarysue/status/1343625184838868994?s=21

Lib and let die posted:

i mean he's literally an arms dealer

the first movie opened up with a demo of how good his missiles are at turning caves full of brown people into caves full of skeletons

Lib and let die posted:

i mean he's literally an arms dealer

the first movie opened up with a demo of how good his missiles are at turning caves full of brown people into caves full of skeletons

quote:

There's an army who can conquer all the enemy's great bands
It's a regiment of Christians guided by the Savior's hand
When the mushroom of destruction falls and all it's fury great
God will surely save His children from this awful, awful fate

Loveshaft posted:

Hodgepodge posted:

sadly, daddy isn't going to save us from the nuclear fire. he evidently has left the difficult task of not committing suicide in order to turn the earth into an irradiated cinder in our own hands.

Atrocious Joe posted:

doesn't the USSR still exist in Blade Runner 2049

Lib and let die posted:

nah, it was thoroughly hosed by FROMSOFT's insistence on it being a PvP game first and foremost, a sin they revisited again with 3.

i don't hate ds pvp, but i hate the multiple, obvious areas that are like "ok and this is where you push the START STREAMING button for your weekly fight club because twitch is a new and expanding market that we need to capture" and the whole NG+ gimmick being...literal red phantoms added to bosses, the direction they were going is clear as day, and the PvE experience suffered for it, imo

the entire bonfire ascetic system was specifically so you could target areas to get PvP-build necessary drops from. they sort of un-hosed it with the DLC area, at least in 2, but imo it was very clear that DS2 was a labor of love for DSPvP fans, with a half-baked PvE experience stuck onto it.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

I think that song posits that daddy put a big loaded gun in our hands, and if we do a Bad Thing with it he's going to swoop in and fix the situation, but only for those of his children who say nice things about him.

Victory Position posted:

sounds like you got roasted lmao

Taintrunner posted:

I started watching How To With John Wilson and holy gently caress this took a loving turn in the opening five minutes

we go from petting a cat to a philosophy department to wrestlemania to a failed Chris hansen wannabe in absolutely no loving time at all

Bootleg Trunks posted:

Idk why they don't let you just play with your friends in souls games but insist on a weird summoning system. Its like a Nintendo approach to online multiplayer

Fleetwood posted:

I read an interview with Miyazaki back when Demon's Souls first released and he said it was meant to be like when a stranger helps push your car out of a snow bank during a storm and then you never see them again

Atrocious Joe posted:

doesn't the USSR still exist in Blade Runner 2049

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

amazing show, best of the year imo


there’s a segment with, what without spoiling anything, i’ll call an “activist” in episode 4 that is the hardest i’ve laughed all year

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

amazing show, best of the year imo


there’s a segment with, what without spoiling anything, i’ll call an “activist” in episode 4 that is the hardest i’ve laughed all year

Fleetwood posted:

Doom Patrol is pretty good

I watched it right after WW84 as a pallette cleanser and is crazy how different they are in terms of quality.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

I've really liked the trend of shows that we've gotten recently that involve broken people with super powers with stories that actually develop them as characters. Umbrella academy, and the boys were both really good too.