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edogawa rando posted:I thought the latter half that shows that Caleb is ultimately just a "Nice Guy," who only seeks to rescue Ava because he wants to put his weewee in her was made pretty clear in the film. I mean, it's a film with heavy themes of "men feeling entitled to women's bodies." I agree the film is making that exact point, and Shaun has pretty much hit the nail on the head with this one. I think it's very deliberate that there is just enough ambiguity for someone who is themselves a "Nice Guy" to miss it because they entirely relate to Caleb and only see Ava through the same lens as him. The average Wikipedia editor probably falls into that category, so I can see why the misunderstanding happened there. Perfect ending for the film in my opinion since it really hammers home the theme of who you relate to and why.
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SFDebris once had a good section in his Matrix reviews about how AI could and probably should have radically different mindsets from humans. Interpreting Ava to be manipulative is fair if not bland read. But even then I wouldnt call her malicious (Let alone a Terminator) RareAcumen posted:The world simply isn't ready for another one. That's why they've limited the female cast to a max of 3 ever since 4. FF5 makes up for that by eventually having only one man in a team of four, since the other one gets replaced halfway. DeafNote fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Jul 15, 2022 |
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Jul 15, 2022 15:22
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I had such a fundamentally different experience with FFX compared to basically everyone else. Gamestop randomly tossed it in as a freebie when I bought a used PS2 and I tried it out but I was at the exact wrong age to either mindlessly noodle around with it or instantly invest 200% of myself into it. Ultimately everything about it was infuriating to me, especially the (intentionally) confusing nature of the intro. Granted, I didn't have a lick of JPRG experience past Pokemon and maybe the GBC version of Dragon Quest 1. Also obviously no manual or strategy guide to help. I suspect nowadays I'd have a wee bit more appreciation for it, but I still don't have much JRPG experience and there's never been a point where I've been like "y'know, today's the day I finally play FFX". That day hasn't come for FF6, 7, 9, or Chrono Trigger either...
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Jul 15, 2022 15:23
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DeafNote posted:SFDebris once had a good section in his Matrix reviews about how AI could and probably should have radically different mindsets from humans. 5 is less than 10-2
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Jul 15, 2022 15:26
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DeafNote posted:FF5 makes up for that by eventually having only one man in a team of four, since the other one gets replaced halfway. Possibly to prove a point I kept the men as mages and support types and let the women be the fighters and such in my only playthrough thus far.
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Jul 15, 2022 15:38
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John Murdoch posted:I had such a fundamentally different experience with FFX compared to basically everyone else. Gamestop randomly tossed it in as a freebie when I bought a used PS2 and I tried it out but I was at the exact wrong age to either mindlessly noodle around with it or instantly invest 200% of myself into it. Ultimately everything about it was infuriating to me, especially the (intentionally) confusing nature of the intro. I'm sure this won't do much to push you along, but Chrono Trigger is a phenomenal gateway JRPG. Enough has been said about the general production values of the game, but it really isn't that hard or convoluted a battle system.
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Jul 15, 2022 18:48
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Chieves posted:I'm sure this won't do much to push you along, but Chrono Trigger is a phenomenal gateway JRPG. Enough has been said about the general production values of the game, but it really isn't that hard or convoluted a battle system. Realistically, if I was going to randomly pull a JRPG off the shelf to play, it would absolutely be CT.
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Jul 15, 2022 19:26
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Framboise posted:My biggest issue with Remake was the pacing. Forcing a bunch of (while mostly optional) sidequests about bit characters you can't really give a poo poo about into chapters you can't backtrack to, thus meaning you had to do them right then and there was really stupid. Even if some of the sidequests were fun, making it so I had to do them at that moment or miss out was really annoying. Saying he's lying isn't really accurate but yeah I don't know how they're gonna go about it considering they're also remaking Crisis Core which is coming out BEFORE the big late game reveal that game is even based on. You should watch Maxamillion Dood's theory videos on what they're gonna do. I think he's probably gonna end up being pretty accurate on how things are gonna go.
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Jul 15, 2022 19:32
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aHbrdrvT7M Timbah On Toast's new video about the year or so before James Blake released his first album is fascinating, the Harmonimixes in particular are something I'd never heard of but they're beautiful.
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Jul 15, 2022 21:18
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I Before E posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aHbrdrvT7M I had no idea James Blake had become such a mainstream success. My only knowledge of him was Carles at Hipster Runoff always bringing up James Blake as the king of dubstep, though that was clearly a gag about how Blake's dubstep was so different than the stuff that was starting to peek into the mainstream. This had to be 2008-2009. EDIT: Come to think of it, Carles and HRO would be an interesting subject of a video essay. Then again, the format and humor was so tied to the blog-era of the internet that I don't know how you could accurately convey it with video. LanceHunter fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Jul 15, 2022 |
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Jul 15, 2022 21:55
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LanceHunter posted:I had no idea James Blake had become such a mainstream success. My only knowledge of him was Carles at Hipster Runoff always bringing up James Blake as the king of dubstep, though that was clearly a gag about how Blake's dubstep was so different than the stuff that was starting to peek into the mainstream. This had to be 2008-2009. it's such a shame he realized he has a nice voice and could make bland singer-song writer dubstep infused pop music. his early stuff was  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oI5HvfxgpU
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Jul 15, 2022 22:08
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Framboise posted:My biggest issue with Remake was the pacing. Forcing a bunch of (while mostly optional) sidequests about bit characters you can't really give a poo poo about into chapters you can't backtrack to, thus meaning you had to do them right then and there was really stupid. Even if some of the sidequests were fun, making it so I had to do them at that moment or miss out was really annoying. The trailer for Part 2 (titled Final Fantasy VII Rebirth) is out and features a lot of the Kalm flashback, which the devs have said in interviews will be the start of the game. (Which makes sense, it's the perfect excuse for a tutorial if nothing else.) It seems like Cloud's identity crisis (he's not so much lying as completely misled as to his own identity) is going to be a central part of Rebirth, and in the trailer, it also seems like Tifa might be putting the pieces together a little earlier than she does in the original. As for topping the ending to Remake, I think it can be done. My guess is that Rebirth will end at the Northern Crater, which is where Cloud is manipulated into giving Sephiroth the Black Materia and the WEAPONs are released, which is going to be suitably bombastic for a finale. Then part 3 (which is confirmed to be the last part) ends with the grand finale.
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Jul 16, 2022 02:44
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Harrow posted:The trailer for Part 2 (titled Final Fantasy VII Rebirth) is out and features a lot of the Kalm flashback, which the devs have said in interviews will be the start of the game. (Which makes sense, it's the perfect excuse for a tutorial if nothing else.) It seems like Cloud's identity crisis (he's not so much lying as completely misled as to his own identity) is going to be a central part of Rebirth, and in the trailer, it also seems like Tifa might be putting the pieces together a little earlier than she does in the original. It's been my pet theory for a while now that Rebirth's big twist is going to be Aerith surviving the City of the Ancients, but at the cost of the White Materia being destroyed by Sephiroth. Because Sephiroth's big kick in the Remake timeline is trying to "defy destiny", because he, like Aerith, is a refugee from the original timeline. So he knows that killing Aerith is the root cause of his defeat. Aerith knows that too, so the struggle is going to be between her trying to engineer her death to see destiny fulfilled, and Sephiroth trying to find a loophole to see destiny defied. So destroying the White Materia takes Holy out of the equation, and takes Aerith out of the Lifestream so she can't stop him this time. So Part 3 is going to have to be about finding a way to stop Meteor without Holy this time. So this way people get their decades-long wish to see Aerith live, but it comes at such a high cost it'll make them wish she actually hadn't. Especially because it's too easy and predictable this time around for Aerith to go gladly to her death thinking she's saving the world with her sacrifice. Ripping that away from her and forcing her to live in the aftermath of it all is a much more gripping story hook than forcing everyone to go through the pain of losing her all over again. That's how I'd do it if I were Nomura, Kitase, et al. But know knows what craziness is going to unfurl in it.
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Jul 16, 2022 06:49
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Ann Reardon is edging into Tasting History's territory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZaL86RDGIU Erik of Internet Comment Etiquette exposes the woke menace that is the Lightyear film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dF6sLT8LCk
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Jul 16, 2022 07:37
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Mr.Radar posted:
Next time you post something like this, please give a heads up that the video has a two second clip of a lesbian kiss several times throughout.
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Jul 16, 2022 07:51
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Mr.Radar posted:Ann Reardon is edging into Tasting History's territory: I'm disappointed Erik only left one funny unhinged comment in that video, but it was on the toilet nazi guy's rant video so I'll take the W wherever it lands I guess.
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Jul 16, 2022 09:41
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Shaun's video on Ex Machina made me want to go watch what I'd previously disregarded as a vaguely uninteresting plot device when I was deciding to watch the movie the first time around.
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Jul 16, 2022 11:27
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Mr.Radar posted:Ann Reardon is edging into Tasting History's territory:
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George complains about corporate sponsorships https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2LFItDncso
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Jul 16, 2022 13:48
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nine-gear crow posted:It's been my pet theory for a while now that Rebirth's big twist is going to be Aerith surviving the City of the Ancients, but at the cost of the White Materia being destroyed by Sephiroth. Because Sephiroth's big kick in the Remake timeline is trying to "defy destiny", because he, like Aerith, is a refugee from the original timeline. So he knows that killing Aerith is the root cause of his defeat. Aerith knows that too, so the struggle is going to be between her trying to engineer her death to see destiny fulfilled, and Sephiroth trying to find a loophole to see destiny defied. So destroying the White Materia takes Holy out of the equation, and takes Aerith out of the Lifestream so she can't stop him this time. So Part 3 is going to have to be about finding a way to stop Meteor without Holy this time. So this way people get their decades-long wish to see Aerith live, but it comes at such a high cost it'll make them wish she actually hadn't. Especially because it's too easy and predictable this time around for Aerith to go gladly to her death thinking she's saving the world with her sacrifice. Ripping that away from her and forcing her to live in the aftermath of it all is a much more gripping story hook than forcing everyone to go through the pain of losing her all over again. I really like this theory, and I have a feeling you'll be correct to some extent. My vision of it is that Aerith will sidestep out of the way as Sephiroth is coming down at her, OR alternatively she does die and the third remake game is finding some bullshit way to resurrect her like a GameFAQs rumor come to life. VII was 3 discs, right? Did the third really have much game left at that point?
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Jul 16, 2022 15:02
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Chieves posted:VII was 3 discs, right? Did the third really have much game left at that point? The original had three discs, and the third one is basically just the final dungeon, some side quests, and a shitload of prerendered videos. But remember that as of the end of Remake, we're not even halfway through the original's disc 1 yet. Aerith's death is at the end of disc 1, which I'd say is roughly the halfway point of the original's story. My personal theory is that Rebirth (the title for part 2) is going to end at the Northern Crater, which is partway into the original's disc 2 and the moment when things go from bad to worse. A classic way to end the second part of a trilogy is with everyone at their lowest, after all. That leaves most of disc 2 and all of disc 3 for Part 3. That said I also think the remake trilogy is going to include a lot of story elements that weren't in the original. FF7 Remake includes a lot more Wutai stuff than the original, even before factoring in the Yuffie DLC, so I'd imagine a second Wutai War is going to be a plot element, too. Not to mention (Remake ending spoilers) whatever the hell is going on with Zack. The FF7R devs have talked in interviews about how the story is going to follow mostly the same outline, but with events shuffled around, and a new mystery that won't be resolved until the end, so it'll be interesting to see how it all shakes out. They're also promising that Rebirth and Part 3 will both be very large games and include a lot more than people are expecting. Apparently the reason they hadn't publicly committed to doing three parts until last month wasn't because they were considering four or more parts--it was because they were considering only doing two parts. I can't even imagine what that would've looked like.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Sappho Lesbo is a Star Wars name as well. There's a non-zero chance that name happened because some author wanted to have an extra fancy name and just flipped through a lexicon of famous Greek people and randomly landed on "Sapphos, from Lesbos" "Sappho Lesbo? Sounds good, that's one name done. He he, people will think I'm super smart when they notice that's a name from Ancient Greece!" 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDkGLFGbTsE Danny watches the Netflix Marmaduke animated movie. It is surprisingly ugly and Pete Davidson (who voices Marmaduke) sounds like he would rather be anywhere else.
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Jul 16, 2022 20:26
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Look Star Wars has a species of "near human" Asian people called thr Epicanthix. Yeah, like the folds around people's eyes. At least the Serocco from Kotor 2 are actually humans, they just all come from the planet of Korean boy band hotties.
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Jul 16, 2022 21:50
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Arc Hammer posted:Look Star Wars has a species of "near human" Asian people called thr Epicanthix. Yeah, like the folds around people's eyes. (He's surprising in that he actually turns good though, that doesn't happen much for Dark Jedi. Does immediately get killed afterwards though, so no credit given.)
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Jul 16, 2022 23:22
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Arc Hammer posted:Look Star Wars has a species of "near human" Asian people called thr Epicanthix. Yeah, like the folds around people's eyes. don't forget the Pyn'gani https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Pyn%27gani quote:The Pyn'gani were a Near-Human sentient species[1][3]—a classification for species very similar to Humans, but which through any number of factors evolved unique adaptations to their environment.[4] As such, the Pyn'gani were bipedal and closely resembled Humans but had a brown skin pigmentation.[1] They adapted to tolerate the extreme cold of their homeworld.[5]
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tracecomplete posted:...aaaaaaand the one you're most likely to know of has a yellow lightsaber. That’s Rey
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Jul 16, 2022 23:45
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tracecomplete posted:...aaaaaaand the one you're most likely to know of has a yellow lightsaber. lol come on
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Goon Boots posted:lol come on Believe it: 
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Arc Hammer posted:Believe it: For what it's worth, Jan Ors in the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games is also (mostly) portrayed by/as an Asian woman and nothing about her is depicted as being racist in the slightest.
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nine-gear crow posted:For what it's worth, Jan Ors in the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games is also (mostly) portrayed by/as an Asian woman and nothing about her is depicted as being racist in the slightest. Yeah. Jan is from Alderaan, I think.
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nine-gear crow posted:For what it's worth, Jan Ors in the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games is also (mostly) portrayed by/as an Asian woman and nothing about her is depicted as being racist in the slightest. Oh I know, but Jan is also an asian human and not a near-human species that happens to be named after eyefolds associated with asians. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Epicanthix Everything about this article reads like someone made them space Japanese, and then decided to make them a separate species. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Jul 17, 2022 |
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nine-gear crow posted:For what it's worth, Jan Ors in the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games is also (mostly) portrayed by/as an Asian woman and nothing about her is depicted as being racist in the slightest. Yeah, I don't think "Epicanthix" actually came from the game. I think that was retroactively applied to from like a card game or something, but it's been A While.
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It's not from the game, no, but whoever picked that name and wrote an entire "inscrutable Asian" culture around it has some 'splaining to do.
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tracecomplete posted:Yeah, I don't think "Epicanthix" actually came from the game. I think that was retroactively applied to from like a card game or something, but it's been A While. Yeah, it came from the Shadows of the Empire novel as a way of explaining why there's Asian people in space instead of just describing them as looking like Asian people because it turns out Steve Perry is really kind of  when you get down to it and Shadows of the Empire was actually a really racist novel for its time.
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Dash Rendar heated gamer moment
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quote:"Whoa, I didn't realize that the name of the Epicanthix species was probably derived from epicanthic fold. That's… uncomfortable."
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muscles like this! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDkGLFGbTsE I mean that doesn't result in a funny video though e: movies like marmaduke I assume Netflix is able to get exclusive rights for pretty cheap, compared to something that likely cost over $50m like Sea Beast (just assuming). and it is, of course insulting in its existence, but it also is just there for the sake of content volume. it's interesting how many european animated films they have, if you just go through the family animation section. so much stuff i'd never heard of and... well, maybe better than marmaduke, but probably in the realm of 'marginally mediocre' compared to Netflix's "official" animated output like Klaus, The Willoughbys, Back from the Outback, and Sea Beast. The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Jul 17, 2022 |
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