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Hbomberguy posted:The best bit about being a cutting-edge CineD weirdo is that you get to see the same ideas slowly filter into everyone else's heads as they naturally think about things more and more over time. No, fallout 3 is still good thank you
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Dragonatrix posted:It is the great short-sighted irony of the internet left that if you don't believe the exact same things as them, and march in step wholesale, they will turn on you in an instant and you are a traitor to the cause and probably a nazi. lmao sure thing thats exaflty what were talkin about here bro
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i love how its not ok to call people out for being literal nazis with swastikas and everything like hot drat bro do you even hear yourself
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I actually do think we should literally kill the Nazis, thanks
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Max Wilco posted:I can't remember who said it, but someone pointed out that there is sort of a 'take no prisoners' approach in these kind of affairs. The whole, 'you're either with us or against us! You're either part of the solution or part of them problem' thing. Yeah I guess saying it's never ok to be a Nazi is pretty discriminatory. Why can't people be more tolerant?
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Sarcopenia posted:How do you even make Charmerd withouth the blatant chauvinism and 90/00 outfits. That's like 89% of the original show. Maybe they'll compensate by making the elders even bigger dicks? I mean, the show was produced by the main stars, and apparently a lot of the weird revealing outfits really belonged to them.
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Spark That Bled posted:I'd like to point out that when most game critics talk about the Wii nowadays, it's mostly in the context of the massive amount of shovelware that was released for it. That console sold a lot, but the only games people talk about are all iterations on Nintendo's big franchises, and updated ports of older games. WRONG, IDIOT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GxGdaK2mpM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv1VLaYUxyQ
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Allison, as in movie nights Allison? Huh.
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DoctorWhat posted:Monhun plots are loving nothing and the ludonarrative dissonance in them is off the charts. The reflexive, defensive refusal to take Walker's article in good faith proves the article's necessity. It's a real bad article and reads like a college freshman discovering postcolonialism for the first time. They loving pay money for this? Jesus christ I could write that poo poo in my sleep
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Sonic the hedgehog may present himself as the savior of the people but in truth his motivations are not "way past cool" at all, but rather, symptomatic of the deep obsession with marxist-leninist dialecticism that plagues post-post-war America. The player is told that Robotnik (note the Jewish name, a case of clear anti-Semitism) is capturing animals to encase in robots, but is this really true? Perhaps he is offering gainful employment, which is accepted as the communist doctrine espoused by Sonic provides nothing at all. Sonic himself is given all the goods he wants (hot dogs, shoes, even scarfs in some interpretations) but the "liberated animals" are clothed in nothing... or are they clothed in new, robotic clothing bought via the free market? One might argue that Sonic is a game for children, and unlikely to contain these ideas. However, that is exactly the point: much like socialism, it is merely a fantasy, an impossible dream only children could accept. Also the graphics are pretty good and the controls are smooth, 8/10
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Some other reviewers have criticized Pac-Man for promoting over-consumption and giving rise to the obesity epidemic that is currently sweeping post-post-post-war America. While the correlation may exist -- sociological studies will be needed to confirm it -- this is a clear misinterpretation of the intended message. True, Pac-Man as a title does bear this concept out (Pac referring to the Sac 'n' Pac line of general stores, and thus obviously connected in dialectic to the consumption of high-calorie foods) but remember that this title was changed from the original. Initially he was known as Puck-Man, and we must therefore turn our gaze from America and towards Canada, where hockey is the sport of choice. Recall Puck-Man's actions in his game: he consumes healthy fruits, and is rewarded, but remains in danger from the "ghosts" who, in their various colors, must surely relate to the various teams in Canada's highest hockey league. Puck-Man is unable to defeat these teams through mere healthy living and training; he must consume pellets to do so. These pellets, or "power pills" as they are sometimes called, must surely correlate to something. Perhaps this is a statement upon the necessity of steroid abuse in sporting competition? Or, perhaps, it is merely telling us that hockey is over-violent, and success only comes through the destruction of others and years of treatment for concussive injury. The jury is still out, but no doubt we will learn more in time. Also the graphics are pretty good and the controls are smooth, 8/10
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Arcsquad12 posted:Again I get flashbacks to my renaissance seminar. You can't just omit evidence within the text that contradicts your argument and expect a good response. Some individuals have claimed, spuriously, that Spec Ops: The Line is in some way anti-war. This is an intriguing concept, but the opposite interpretation is true. Who can forget the dangers seen by our heroes as they enter the city? Who can ignore the atrocities visited upon the people? These acts are only stopped by the entrance of an American force, who are able to put a stop to many of the troubles occurring within the city of Dubai. True, some losses occur, and some mistakes are made, but we can forgive these just as we can those in the wars upon which the game is commenting. This concept is supported even further by the appearance of a man who continually plays Vietnam-era music over the radio. The correlation is clear: much like the Vietnam War, any war in the Middle East will be unpopular but, ultimately, necessary and good for America. The fact that many of the atrocities seen in the city were caused by an American is further support of this: the United States must protect other countries from all danger, even that which was caused by past Americans. Their responsibility continues unabated. For, as Rambo said in the seminal pro-soldier film Rambo First Blood, "they drew first blood." Also, remember that the game's protagonist only considers turning back when he has lost his mind, gone insane -- I leave this particularly obvious message up to the reader to interpret. Also the graphics are pretty good and the controls are smooth, 8/10
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Wheat Loaf posted:Sonic's arms are not red. They are blue, LIKE THE DEMOCRATS
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Yeah, Grand Theft 9 was pretty bad
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Conal Cochran posted:His arms are a peach skin tone, you fake nerd. 
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Roth posted:Dragon Age and Mass Effect both feature races of people are explicitly discriminated against in parallels to discrimination actual groups of people have faced. I've played a quarter of the way through the first Witcher years ago, and I recall discrimination against non-humans was a somewhat major recurring theme. Nobody has ever said this. What people are saying is that it's also easy to make very stupid unsupported claims about specific political messages.
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Libluini posted:What about Stellaris? In that game you can not only have slaves, but eat them too! Is a space game more or less abstract than a computerized board game? Or would your head explode if you find out all the horrible, horrible stuff you can do to your own or others populations in Stellaris? Stellaris manages to make slave cannibal aliens boring, which is an incredible accomplishment when you think about it.
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Alaois posted:Demon's Souls was a spiritual successor to the FromSoftware-developed King's Field games, the first of which was published on the Sony Playstation in 1994. DS is almost nothing like Kings field apart from "have knight" and "use sword" E: I own probably every PC hunting game, but apart from a very shoddy LP I did ages ago I haven't really shown any off. If people are curious I can post about them, though. It's true that Cabela's games often pay lip service to conservation, either by penalizing you for shooting does instead of bucks or by explicitly establishing that every animal you shoot is already a man-eater. In one of the games you play as a park ranger and game warden on vacation. Another, bafflingly, has a plot about secret government experiments causing every animal to be dangerous, meaning it is definitely 100% ethical and good to kill them with a truck-mounted LMG. corn in the bible fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Feb 1, 2018 |
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The things that people mean when they say "Dark Souls" are, I think, slow deliberate combat and maneuverability. Most of King's Field is spent circle-strafing stuff, because there's nothing to the combat except waiting for the bar to fill before striking. If you mean exploration, then I guess that's true. Otherwise, it's a "successor" in that they're medieval and stuff like that, and there's some items that reappear, but I don't think anyone who enjoyed playing King's Field would at all necessarily like playing Dark Souls or vice versa. And that's what we were talking about, right? Comparing it to Monster Hunter, etc? Thematically they are related but gameplay-wise they're almost completely different.
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Yeah, Max Landis is a terrible person, but that's only because he's the product of the ultimate helicopter parent.
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financially racist posted:reminder that soy is less efficient than chicken as a food source and also that soybean farming is a rapidly increasing cause of deforestation in the amazon rainforest Veganism isn't about the environment, it's about killing things.
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cat doter posted:is that one of the various episodes about weird wispy gassy things loving one of the lady crewmembers because it sure wasn't a lingering example of the writer's misogyny!!!!!! It's the one where they go to Space Scotland and Crusher fucks a sexy ghost who is, yes, made of gas sometimes.
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Any episode of Discovery
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Enterprise Finale is stupid, but I can't rank it worse than Code of Honor. At least it's merely boring and lame, rather than awful and racist.
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He's going to make vanity projects for Will Smith's kids?
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sadly none of the dceu movies are redeemable on any level
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What was bizarre to me is how unsuited The Mummy was as a film designed to set off a series or FILM UNIVERSE (if you use stupid buzzwords). Like, if they went more heavy on the adventure aspect I could see doing a bunch of that period horror stuff with a central adventurer to unify it -- a lot of old horror had a character like that, whether it was serious horror or more of an action thing. Tom Cruise could have gone off to be the Texan guy in Dracula, and to be one of the people who visits Frankenstein's castle in Frankenstein, etc. But instead he's turned into a weird mummy-themed superhero? Where exactly would that lead to? What did they even think they could they do with that character?
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Kibayasu posted:The Brenden Fraser movies were the only recent things people even remotely gave a poo poo about when it came to the old Universal monsters. That’s the only reason. But it's not a fun adventure like those movies; it's drab and grey and boring as gently caress.
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business hammocks posted:They could make a really good psychological thriller with Tom Cruise about why he's afraid to age. Like he could play a successful doctor or accountant or something who is relentlessly pursued by a 55-year-old man who takes care of himself but looks age-appropriate for a man born during the Eisenhower administration. Spike Jonze can finally make Being Tom Cruise, but the portal leads to Young Tom Cruise's body while he's filming Jerry Maguire
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Also you have to buy RS Siege and it has a lovely starter edition that destroys your cash gains to force you into buying stuff.
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the fact they needed to add a secret nuke timer to make it clear that these people are mega super evil is pretty telling. Nolan didn't have the balls to have it be an ideological struggle so every criticism of the old regime can be silenced with BUT THERE'S A BOMB TOO
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nine-gear crow posted:Good books often form the basis for bad movies. I have yet to see the inverse occur. Jaws
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The new budget literally implements USDA Lootboxes (they're called Harvest Crates, I'm not joking) so yeah uh good luck lol
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Arcsquad12 posted:I think the worst thing about American reality TV is the "music". Distorted strings and frantic drumbeats are loving everywhere and they try to ramp up the drama over the stupidest poo poo. Yeah, it's like the score to Hannibal
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the actual black panther comics have a supervillain whose plan is to use market forces to institute libertarian capitalism in wakanda and also he has a giant death machine in case it doesnt work
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Have you people just not read the Black Panther comics
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Interesting. The art style reminds me of some issues of Constantine, I think. My point is that the filmmakers didn't decide to add a CIA guy, that's actually a major part of the most famous era of Black Panther. He's the perspective character, because the idea was that Black Panther can do anything he wants but is too busy with running a country to gently caress around with crime and stuff. Plus, Chris Priest wanted to make fun of the government. So the protagonist is a useless idiot racist CIA guy who can vaguely try to help, but fucks up because he's worthless, and then Black Panther saves him for political reasons or whatever. Eventually he actually improves as a character and helps Wakanda and then is mostly blackballed from any more real government work as a result. So the real question would be why did the filmmakers make CIA stooge Ross useful? E: Also, comics Black Panther isn't really heroic, so much as just very powerful. It's a weird adaptation of a weird source material. He wants to protect his country and it's interests, and prevent American imperialism, but also stay in power if possible because he's a world leader and not a superhero. It's worth looking into Priest's Black Panther if you're interested; it was very influential. corn in the bible fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Feb 25, 2018 |
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Don't worry hbomb: all you really need to do is point out that Night in the Woods is a toothless version of stuff like Clementine, or Meg, Mog, and Owl. Both of those comics are much better dark comedies about animal people living out shiftless, bleak lives than Night in the Woods, a game whose primary mechanic is interminable twee dialogues. It predates those, you idiot. e: you also seem to understand nothing about horror, the game, or even Lovecraft. An amazing series of stupid, wrong opinions. loving Christ dude corn in the bible fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Feb 26, 2018 |
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I Before E posted:Meg, Mogg, and Owl actually predates Night In The Woods' release by at least a few years. However, the development of NITW predates it and a lot of the stuff in it was indeed written back then.
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