latenightnoir
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- Comment on Anon feels an urge 8 hours ago:
In all seriousness, does the urge really get THIS bad?
- Comment on HAPPY FLAT FUCK FRIDAY 19 hours ago:
Eeeey, I’m in this one! Happy Today, everyone!
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 2 days ago:
I mean… c’mon, it’s New Vegas! Who wouldn’t!
- Comment on Anon wants $3 million 5 days ago:
Yeah, it was unfair of me to propagate the stereotype (speaking as a Romanian myself). We have a lot of good people around here, who’re just doing their best to be decent and get by.
But it’s not easy being an honest citizen in a country where the most prolific thieves are the people who’re supposed to govern it… Corruption has been the main thing plaguing these lands ever since the Revolution, when the profiteers saw an opportunity to sell this country for parts…
To be clear, I’m not siding with the former “Communist” regime, which was a Totalitarian cesspit, but I sure as fuck don’t agree with the mockery of Democracy which came after that, either…
- Comment on Anon wants $3 million 5 days ago:
They should’ve tried doing this in Romania, the entire bus stop would have disappeared overnight…
- Comment on Yes biologists use tiny tiny tweezers to change DNA 6 days ago:
yoink
- Comment on Mobius tape 6 days ago:
Mooom, the duct tape is turning non-Euclidean agaaain…
- Comment on Anon lives with his sister 2 weeks ago:
This stings so much the more I think about it, to be honest. This discussion about the former glory of GTA made me realise just how much potential would be lost…
As a side note, I sincerely thank you for your replies, it’s been so refreshing to lay things out on the table like this!
- Comment on Anon lives with his sister 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I agree in that they’re not really given anything interesting to do with that depth. It felt like one of those shows which you keep running in the background because you take some interest every now and again and is irrelevant enough to allow you to ignore it completely for a couple of hours.
Again, I feel this is more to do with the fact that they focused on the Online component to the point where it almost feels like they’d initially planned on having your player character act as the fourth (the selection wheel is the main clear indicator of this to me), which is why a lot of the story’s there instead of the single-player. Concrete example and a bit of a spoiler, but Franklin does get that bow for his character arc in online, and you as the player character directly help both him and yourself with it. And many of the “quest givers” in Online are the same as in single-player, some of which even hint at what the SP characters have been doing (off-screen).
It’s very unfortunate that they tied that story content to such a deliberately hostile multiplayer (I’m referring to how it pretty much encourages everyone to grief everyone else), because there are some neat moments which get lost in the slaughter… Same goes for RDO, although with much, much less hostility - actually enjoy roaming around and doing missions and unrelated stuff in Online, most of the time it feels as though I’m playing single-player.
Yeah, that’s why it feels like Seinfeld to me, it’s like the point is just to watch these people try to go about their lives with the added context of them being high-profile criminals. Could’ve been a very interesting character study even so, but it does kinda’ lose the plot after a while and the developments start meandering all over the place. Even that psych profile at the end gives me the feeling that it was their initial direction, but, again, I think the Shark Card Gods needed appeasement and back we go to the Online component…
I share that list with you, except for Bully, because I always forget that game exists for some reason, and RDR1, which I’ve just now started playing thanks to the PC port release. It really does feel like it has that same flavour of ambition as RDR2, even from the starting bits! And, again, I agree, although I’d argue GTA III had a fun enough story (“of its time” elements notwithstanding) for the time when it came out, it was good enough to keep me moving forward and wanting to see where things ended up. I think of it as a decent enough pilot which didn’t yet have its tone figured out. Also, I’d say GTA V is about on par with Vice City overall for me, although Vice City was more focused, not gonna lie.
I can certainly understand what you mean about it being a grind to play through, especially with your preference for single-player, I did feel the need to push myself through it a couple of times, yeah… And, same, jumped into IV afterward and ended up playing it through to the end again, and in a much more binge-y way. Oh, and Saints Row 2, 3 and 4 are gloriously campy, yes! Love them for entirely different reasons, but I do love them nonetheless!
Same… would be nice for them to lean into those storytelling chops they demonstrated with RDR2, they could blow a lot of contemporaries out of the water if they really gave it an honest try. And I, too, fear that online monetisation will, yet again, take priority…
- Comment on Anon lives with his sister 2 weeks ago:
In terms of story complexity and depth, I completely agree with you. RDR2 is even better than GTA IV, and that was a pretty hard act to pull to begin with!
As an overall game, though, I do see it somewhat on par with GTA V overall.
Sure, the story’s nowhere near as gripping or even smart necessarily, but the characters do have depth, the narrative content makes sense, and i does have some interesting interactions between the characters which humanise them just enough for me to want to see the story through. It kinda’ feels like someone tried to pull off Seinfeld in the world of GTA and sort of succeeded in creating a game about nothing much as far as the themes are concerned.
This is compensated a lot by the Online component, which seems to be the second half of the story - there are a lot of returning characters, we get to see the evolution of some favourites, the missions and objectives themselves pretty much go nuts way more frequently than the single-player ones. It’s clear that Rockstar focused a lot more on the online component that time, but the story content’s still good and even more interesting overall.
Now, credit where it’s due, RDO does a lot more to keep the multiplayer in the sandbox, with far fewer activities being relegated to dedicated lobbies, and has a lot more NPC interactions as well, but it still feels relatively barebones when compared to GTAO (this loops back to my first point about it receiving less love, thus less development post-launch).
But, yeah, again, GTA IV (especially when including TBoGT and TLaD) and RDR2 are THE epitome of Rockstar storytelling.
- Comment on Anon lives with his sister 2 weeks ago:
If we’re talking about GTAO, I agree. However I have a different opinion about RDO, it had the potential to be less of a griefer cesspool than GTAO, but Rockstar had even less motivation to prevent cheating than they did in GTAO, so…
- Comment on Anon lives with his sister 2 weeks ago:
Can’t speak about the mad part, but what I meant about RDR2 is that it obviously got less love from the community than GTA V, which is why it’s essentially been shuttered in terms of any expansions/online components - while GTAO keeps receiving new mini-expansions even with GTA VI around the corner.
Not to mention there are no talks about furthering the series…
That’s why I consider it underappreciated.
- Comment on Anon lives with his sister 2 weeks ago:
Easy, you start hanging out, gather a crew of like-minded cowpokes, set yourself up with a Posse, and LAN Party your collective way to Legendary status!
As a side note, RDR2 deserves a ‘GTA VI’ more than GTA does, such an underappreciated game (and social commentary!)
- Comment on Anon banters with a friend 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes, we’re assholes doing asshole things.
But sometimes, juust sometimes, we become the Universe’s instruments for slapping some sense into others.
- Comment on Anon is a philosopher 3 weeks ago:
This is exactly why Existentialism is fascinating to me, the question always stays the same, but the answers are as varied as the people who are offering them. Which pretty much leads to the conclusion that THE answer to “what now” is “learn what floats your boat then keep it sailing.”
- Comment on Anon is a philosopher 3 weeks ago:
Nietzsche’s philosophy had a lot in common with Camus’s, the main difference being that Camus framed very similar ideas in a very “Pop!” and relatively hedonistic way (of the times, not necessarily his doing).
They both essentially focus on the absence of meaning and its tangible effects on the human psyche, while encouraging the individual to persevere in Individuating in spite of there being no pre-defined purpose for doing it - do the growth for growth’s sake, for your own soul’s sake, if you will.
Imo, they also differ in the fact that, I feel, Nietzsche also somewhat hinted at the human being taking up the reins of the God it killed, becoming godly unto itself. I don’t think this came out of a sense of superiority, rather that he felt we had a responsibility to pick up the works of the God we killed.
Camus just wanted us all to be Promethean offshoots, laughing our asses off in the face of God and doing our own shit.
- Comment on Anon watches anime 4 weeks ago:
Dunno what to say, thinking about the financial requirements of going through the type of education which would help one participate in something like the Manhattan project, plus the financial requirements of sustaining said project, I’d still say it’s cheaper to realise one has a passion for anime and gaming:))
- Comment on Anon watches anime 4 weeks ago:
Not trying to deny your reality, just saying that it’s rather a problem with too little cooperation and compromise than a problem with divergent dynamics. This is speaking from personal experience.
I’m more of a homebody and I actually seek out partners who are more outgoing and social precisely because I can compromise with that and said compromise leads to a relatively organic way of incorporating more social contexts in my life (organic as in not requiring me to go out of my way to get them). And, from what I’ve seen, the other side of the compromise - partaking in more shared activities while cloistered - seems to be well received. But, of course, this implies possessing the willingness to cooperate and compromise (within reason), which are the two most important requirements of a functional and healthy relationship.
In short, my experience is that the grand majority (say 90%) of my previous relationships have failed at a collaborative level, with the outliers being due to other major and unrelated factors (past traumas, familial troubles, poor timing, etc.).
- Comment on Anon watches anime 4 weeks ago:
Which is good news, because passion’s cheaper to get!=)))
- Comment on Anon watches anime 4 weeks ago:
Passion trumps anything else. Makes one an entirely different person, it’s like having a certain glow.
- Comment on Anon experiences German humor 4 weeks ago:
These two are from Romania, specifically about people from Ardeal (the region encompassing Transylvania) - which means they’re aimed at the fact that people from Ardeal are slow (haha, so funny, Southerners…):
- John and George were out on the field sewing all day and were heading back to the village. Suddenly, it starts raining fiercely, so they huddle under some walnut trees and decide to spend the night there in case it wouldn’t let up.
Later on, while sleeping, George is suddenly woken up by a foul smell. “John.,” he said softly, “did you fart?”
“No, George, must’ve been the dog.”
“Oh, ok.”
A couple of minutes pass, then George suddenly has a realisation: “John, the dog isn’t here, though…”
“Oh, don’t worry,” says John half asleep, "I’m sure it’ll turn up eventually."
- John, George and Mary were at the bus stop, waiting for the bus. They’ve been there for half an hour, sitting.
“The bus isn’t coming,” John says softly.
After a couple of minutes, George replies matter-of-factly: “it’ll come, I’m telling you.”
A few more minutes pass, then Mary chimes in: “if you two keep arguing, I’m walking home.”
- Comment on Victim Anon 4 weeks ago:
Fair enough! Truthfully, I think I managed to escape the brunt of this experience with Windows. I always set my network connection to Metered after every install (started doing this since 8), which prohibits Update from doing its thing.
- Comment on Victim Anon 4 weeks ago:
Aaah, good point, I forgot they started with that spammy shit early on…
- Comment on Victim Anon 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, I wouldn’t have a nice day if someone decided to install a significant update/upgrade/fork of an OS on the family machine without prior notice, either…
Nowhere near corporal punishment levels, but most certainly “clean uninstall your programs daily” levels. Would still make a backup of any saved games/projects, I’m not a monster…
- Comment on Anon's lacking pissing habits 1 month ago:
Try hearing all of your neighbors pissing…
I swear to Christ, I think I’ve stumbled onto the one apartment building with both paper-thin walls and filled to the brim with neighbors who aim straight for the water…
- Comment on Duh 1 month ago:
That is beyond admirable! I’m sincerely keeping my fingers crossed for you, hope with all my heart things’ll go your way!
- Comment on Duh 1 month ago:
Again, it is well within your prerogative to not accept such behaviour! I honestly view it as yet another traumatic maladaptation and treat it as such - even though it’s causally not their fault that they believe/behave thusly, it is their responsibility to keep it in check.
But I’ll be straight with you, I think you may be underestimating yourself and overestimating the average person. Critical Thinking really isn’t innate, it’s a skill. A skill which a lot (I’d even go as far as to say a large majority) of people thoroughly lack, because it is a skill which needs training from very early on, as it builds upon itself. I don’t think there’s a general educational schema on Earth at the moment which in any way truly encourages Critical Thinking, if there ever has been one. From what I’ve seen, it tends to come into play way later, which means there’s a lot of catching up to do by that point, so the horizon it affects tends to remain narrow.
Not to mention the utterly insidious and imperceptible nature of ideological corruption. It’s incredibly hard to see the brainwashing if one’s been going through it since before one started forming coherent throughts. It permeates even the subconscious.
I’m not trying to play the perfect being over here, I’ve seen myself being as dumb as a rock at times and I know that I have a llllot of learning left in front of me. But realistically speaking, just because we’re dumb doesn’t mean others aren’t even dumber…
- Comment on Duh 1 month ago:
Oh, noo… Oooh, fuuuuck… I honestly don’t even know what to say, I’m just so very sorry you went through that… Hell, that you’re still thoroughly going through it, I imagine! Jeesus, what a fucking mess!
- Comment on Duh 1 month ago:
Oh, man, I’m sorry… Only ever got as far as “engaged,” but it was bad enough when it went to shit. Can’t even imagine how it must feel after a commitment of that magnitude…
- Comment on Duh 1 month ago:
Wholeheartedly agree! But if one can have both love and infatuation, why not take advantage of it?