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!Klams posted:Craig Mazin (of Chernobyl fame) makes a case that screenwriting is actually the hardest job in the world. Not like the most important, or highest risk, but just the most difficult to get right. And, I don't know that I'd disagree. gonna take a guess and say that doing something like trying to save someone while they're dying on the operating table is harder than screenwriting e: actually thinking about it, he literally made a show about the people who had to contain chernobyl and still said that. dude must be a colossal dipshit site fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Aug 23, 2021 |
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i mean, most operations are successful and most tv shows and movies suck rear end so maybe he has a point
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People who have done screenwriting: this is hard to get right, and if you do it wrong, there's no way to fix it Everyone else: excuse me, have you tried doing sometjing as hard as scanning a box twice while someone yells at you??
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Aug 23, 2021 03:51
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why cant it be fixed is your backspace key not working or something
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Aug 23, 2021 05:06
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I haven't played the Mass Effect games before and I'm up to 3 and its barely an rpg anymore, its just a dated shootyman game with annoying shield guys First one is the best btw
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Aug 23, 2021 08:40
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Caesar Saladin posted:I haven't played the Mass Effect games before and I'm up to 3 and its barely an rpg anymore, its just a dated shootyman game with annoying shield guys Preach
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Aug 23, 2021 09:36
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I only ever played half of the first one and I liked what I played, but I never hear anyone talk about how Mass Effect is just Star Control 2 but in 3d. You fly through the galaxy, stick your unwanted human nose in interstellar conflicts, sometimes you tool around the surface of planets in an armoured moon buggy shooting wildlife and mining resources, you go through a hundred dialogue trees where the wrong response can make enemies, there's a thousand pages of lore you can safely ignore, it's just Star Control.
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Aug 23, 2021 09:53
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The best mass effect game is Andromeda
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Aug 23, 2021 10:05
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fridge corn posted:The best mass effect game is Andromeda i played like 2 hours of that and it was boring, and then they tried to make me do sudoku to open a door and i quit and never looked back
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Aug 23, 2021 10:07
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fridge corn posted:The best mass effect game is Andromeda https://i.gifer.com/77SP.mp4
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Aug 23, 2021 10:09
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I mean, say what you wan about Andromeda, but it definitely has the most expressive characters in gaming. They never express anything close to what the devs intended, but still
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Aug 23, 2021 10:31
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steinrokkan posted:I mean, say what you wan about Andromeda, but it definitely has the most expressive characters in gaming. They never express anything close to what the devs intended, but still That's part of what makes it so great tbh
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Aug 23, 2021 10:56
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Caesar Saladin posted:i mean, most operations are successful and most tv shows and movies suck rear end so maybe he has a point I mean, exactly this. Obviously an operation is more important and more stressful. But it isn't harder to get right, I don't think. There's a saying "if your third act isn't working, there's a problem with your first act". And that's like, SUPER insightful, helpful advice borne of years of experience. That's as close as it gets to someone telling you how to solve your problem. Imagine someone going "I've done this all my life: If theres blood coming out the ears, there's a problem on the inside" and the doctor going "AHHHHHhhhhh, that's pretty revelatory, thanks, this will really help!"
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Aug 23, 2021 14:11
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Uhh... any job is going to look simple and less complex than the one you do for a living. You know all the detailed intricacies of your job but other stuff your knowledge is surface level at best.
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Aug 23, 2021 14:55
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Caesar Saladin posted:I haven't played the Mass Effect games before and I'm up to 3 and its barely an rpg anymore, its just a dated shootyman game with annoying shield guys absolutely ME2 loving sucked rear end and most of the crew's issues being slight variations of "I HATE MY DAD!!!!  " was pathetic and it's sad that people hold up that loving game like it has good writing
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Aug 23, 2021 14:57
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Caesar Saladin posted:I haven't played the Mass Effect games before and I'm up to 3 and its barely an rpg anymore, its just a dated shootyman game with annoying shield guys ive only played the first one and it was boring af. never understood the appeal of that whole series. the action is bad and the "rpg" part seems to consist of navigating very badly written dialogue trees. when i see fans talk about this series they spend a lot of time talking about characters "romancing" other characters and i dont get it because all of the characters are so unappealing and wooden, also thats such a weirdly stilted way to talk about sex. it was like a "space soap opera" written by someone who's never even seen an actual soap opera and doesn't understand how drama works (nor ever played a fun space video game for that matter) Earwicker fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Aug 23, 2021 |
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Aug 23, 2021 15:27
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none of my Bioware characters have ever hosed and they never will
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Aug 23, 2021 15:38
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:none of my Bioware characters have ever hosed and they never will This is the only way to prevent more Bioware characters.
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Aug 23, 2021 15:48
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i actually play as the biggest rear end in a top hat possible in every bioware game i don't really in other RPGs. just Bioware.
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!Klams posted:I mean, exactly this. Obviously an operation is more important and more stressful. But it isn't harder to get right, I don't think.  performing surgery is not as hard as writing the script for the newest marvel movie
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Aug 23, 2021 15:58
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surgeons are just plumbers who have to pay more attention to washing up
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KonvexKonkav posted:
honestly i bet i could take an appendix out with like, a year of practice but i doubt i could ever write a movie that people would like
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Aug 23, 2021 16:01
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part of the issue with this dumb comparison is that no one is even working with a consistent or objective definition of what "getting it right" means when it comes to writing a screenplay or any other kind of art like if a pilot "gets it right" the airplane takes off and lands again with everybody still alive and uninjured and the plane undamaged. what does it mean for a screenwriter to "get it right"? does every member of the audience have to like the movie? does every member of the audience have to be emotionally moved by it in some way? or does the movie just have to do well enough to earn more than was spent on it? those are very different metrics of what success mean; a lovely movie can still be financially successful and a good one might struggle to find its audience. and if we aren't talking about financial success then its down to subjective taste and emotional experiences of the audience, which vary over space and time for a huge number of reasons. Earwicker fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Aug 23, 2021 |
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Aug 23, 2021 16:02
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My posts suck but you must understand that posting is very difficult
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Aug 23, 2021 16:11
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I think I'm coming around on it actually
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Aug 23, 2021 16:15
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Just keep at it and eventually shitposting will come effortlessly
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Caesar Saladin posted:honestly i bet i could take an appendix out with like, a year of practice but i doubt i could ever write a movie that people would like Porn scripts are not that complex.
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Good soup! posted:absolutely 2 has some good moments but dear lord do people gloss over so much awfulness. The entire core plot, the thing not tied into any of the side content, is downright insane. I'm always boggled when people act like ME3's crap came totally out of nowhere.
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Zil posted:Porn scripts are not that complex. You need to be a true artist to come up with exchanges like "but I poop from there"- "not right now you don't!"
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KonvexKonkav posted:You need to be a true artist to come up with exchanges like "but I poop from there"- "not right now you don't!" Yeah honestly, the guy who wrote that knew what he was doing. That is both funny and sexy.
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Rutibex posted:surgeons are just plumbers who have to pay more attention to washing up Sure thing, Mario
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Sure thing, Mario Mario was a Doctor too. drat it's all starting to make sense.
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John Murdoch posted:2 has some good moments but dear lord do people gloss over so much awfulness. The entire core plot, the thing not tied into any of the side content, is downright insane. I'm always boggled when people act like ME3's crap came totally out of nowhere. You are a resurrected messiah figure assembling a group of extremely thirsty followers to go and perform an abortion on a giant human-robot hybrid, what's so hard to understand about that
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I feel like that summary isn't complete without mention of the space nazis vs. the bug men.
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That's my favourite aquabats album
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QuarkJets posted:You are a resurrected messiah figure assembling a group of extremely thirsty followers to go and perform an abortion on a giant human-robot hybrid, what's so hard to understand about that Sounds like a jRPG when you put it like that
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QuarkJets posted:You are a resurrected messiah figure assembling a group of extremely thirsty followers to go and perform an abortion on a giant human-robot hybrid, what's so hard to understand about that i loved xenogears
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flavor.flv posted:That's my favourite aquabats album Same
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site posted:gonna take a guess and say that doing something like trying to save someone while they're dying on the operating table is harder than screenwriting
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site posted:gonna take a guess and say that doing something like trying to save someone while they're dying on the operating table is harder than screenwriting Granted, there's a higher bar to becoming a doctor than becoming a screenwriter. But that high bar doesn't exactly select for the best and brightest doctors.
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