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- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 1 day ago:
I’m from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all.
- Submitted 1 week ago to greentext@sh.itjust.works | 10 comments
- Comment on There is no greater loss than that which is inflicted in the name of war. 1 week ago:
This is the best comment any drawing I’ve ever done has gotten.
- Comment on Just how visible is your butthole to a gynecologist? 1 week ago:
Yippie kay yay,
ButtholeMr. Falcon. - Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 10 comments
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? 2 weeks ago:
If three people all have different terminal medical conditions, which are currently making their state of life excruciating, and will kill them shortly, and there is one healthy person who can be killed and their organs repurposed to restore quality of life and stop the medical condition to all of those people then utilitarianism says it is moral to do that.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 2 weeks ago:
Politicians seem very good at misunderstanding things when it suits them.
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- Comment on That 16-bit Terminator 2 throwback doesn't feature Arnie's likeness, but it did license the guy who played adult John Connor for 30 seconds in the film's intro 4 weeks ago:
Similar to the 1997 point-n-click Blade Runner game. The rights to all the aspects of that movie were such a mess that the developers decided not to use any footage or audio from the game because they honestly couldn’t figure out who owned what, and made it follow a new main character which was an obvious “Not-Deckard” who was chasing replicants in a similar but ever so changed variation on the plot of the movie.
- Comment on That 16-bit Terminator 2 throwback doesn't feature Arnie's likeness, but it did license the guy who played adult John Connor for 30 seconds in the film's intro 4 weeks ago:
That’s why I called it “16ish”. It isn’t but it is trying get those nostalgia neurons firing. Point is, the aesthetic is intentionally not photo realistic, so missing out on Arnold’s face isn’t the biggest problem in the world.
- Comment on That 16-bit Terminator 2 throwback doesn't feature Arnie's likeness, but it did license the guy who played adult John Connor for 30 seconds in the film's intro 4 weeks ago:
The headline seems a bit overly snarky and dismissive of a small studio dealing with the kind of licensing problems that just come with big properties. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened in a game.
It sounds like without the image rights, there would be any closeup cutscenes of Arnold’s face, but given that the game play is a 16ish bit throwback aesthetic, it actually doesn’t seem as distracting as it sounds.
I mean, this looks fine to me:
Maybe they aren’t allowed to do an accurate Arnie voice impression, but if all the character audio is crunched up to feel more retro, that might not be a problem either.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 4 weeks ago:
I really enjoyed it as an XCOM combat-ish game that felt like there was work done to make it feel like it belonged in the Gears Of War universe. It’s not infinitely replayable because the campaign has mandatory side-missions that are generated from a limited template and begin to feel stale once you’ve seen all the templates, and by the endgame you have so many special abilities unlocked in your squad that it kind of drifts away from any semblance of feeling like combat tactics and into a puzzle game about min-maxing abilities to combo chain them together (this opinion might read a little oddly but if you’ve played enough turnbased tactical games you notice many game riding this line, with some going extreme one way or the other).
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 5 weeks ago:
The expectation that it was an open world modern style Fallout game does seem to be a theme among people who didn’t like it. That wasn’t helped by pre-release marketing that emphasized it came from the studio that made New Vegas (despite the writers and game leads all being different).
I went in to the game without expectations and found the structure of the game closer to a classic BioWare RPG. Rather than a single huge open world it was a series of curated hubs to travel between. At those hubs there was space to explore but it was more limited and curated than a full open world. The more curated approach meant that the game could be designed with certain builds in mind since players would interact with certain areas coming from known directions, allowing alternate routes or quest solutions for different builds to be placed.
Accepting it as a hub based RPG that leaned into a specialized build made the game click for me.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 5 weeks ago:
Setting aside prices, I’ve seen an unexpected amount of sourness directed at the first game. While the first game wasn’t a greatest of all time RPG and had flaws, I found it overall enjoyable enough and it was clearly a project with some passion that I didn’t regret sinking time into it.
I expect similar of the sequel, with hopefully improvements based on feedback from the first game. I plan to have fun with the game, and it is a bit tiring to see things like the pricing prompting people to badmouth the game itself when they are separate things.
Am I going to pay $80? No. No I’m not. This is a single player RPG though. There’s no FOMO of getting left behind on the multiplayer unlocks or the lore of a new season. It’s a singleplayer game. Put it on the wishlist and buy it on a sale. Simple as.
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- Comment on Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 - Official Teaser 1 month ago:
The last Black Ops I cared about was 2. I could almost feel the developers of that one screaming that they wanted to break out of the COD mold. It actually had a lot of cool, if underbaked ideas. There were the sidemissions where you commanded an NPC squad ala Brothers In Arms, there were the pre-mission loadouts where after beating a mission set in the past you could go back and load up with future guns, there were multiple endings driven by choices in the missions.
There was a lot of stuff going on in that game which if it had been given a longer development cycle than the COD treadmill, and more freedom to stray from COD mainstays could have been something interesting. All of the above features could have really been pushed and refined beyond the small implimentation they ended up as. BO2 also tied the setting back to the cold war era roots, which makes it far more interesting that the pure cutout angular girder future design that is just the most generic looking thing ever. Call Of Duty Advanced Warfare was forgotten for a reason and it’s disappointing that Black Ops ended up eating all its aesthetics.
None of this matter of course, since no matter how many story trailers they release or how much people like me talk about what could make single player good, in the end the series is kept alive by tweaked out multiplayer addicts so I suppose it is all just a waste of time to think about.
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- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 month ago:
- Comment on ‘S.W.A.T.’ Spinoff Planned By Sony With Shemar Moore Set To Reprise His Role As Hondo 2 months ago:
I tried watching SWAT and found it tiring, since almost every episode ended in some kind of action set piece takedown. Done on a TV budget, those setpieces tended to be underwhelming. The show being in a theoretically realistic setting started to clash with the team getting in so many high profile gunfights.
I just don’t think the formula exactly works. There’s two directions it could go to be great. One, turn it into The Shield with some quality drama and running plots with heavy themes. Two, turn the city into a Robocop/Predator 2 type over the top hellscape with absurd overarmed gangs of cackling thugs roaming the streets.
I doubt the show runners are brave enough or interested enough to do either.
- Comment on Is andor still worth watching if I've never seen anything else Star Wars? 2 months ago:
Yes. It’s probably an even more interesting experience going in blind to the universe because you have no idea which characters are safe.
- Comment on What are some examples of series that only have a good first season, and should be dropped after that? 2 months ago:
The Vice President’s brother!
It gets comical how the characters say that phrase so much instead of using his name, for audience benefit.
I appreciate each season changing things up with a different central conceit. As absurd as the Central American super prison and spy craft seasons were at least the show kept changing instead of spinning its wheels.
- Comment on 'The Simpsons' announces new Milhouse voice actor following Pamela Hayden's exit 2 months ago:
I am asking, sincerely, what they see in it and how they don’t get distracted by the gravely, old sounding voices. It is difficult to find these people.
- Comment on 'The Simpsons' announces new Milhouse voice actor following Pamela Hayden's exit 2 months ago:
I suppose there is a business argument to be made, but I’m more curious about the audience perspective. Who are these 2 million viewers? What do they like about the show? Do many of them actually even care and rewatch new episodes or is it just background noise?
- Comment on 'The Simpsons' announces new Milhouse voice actor following Pamela Hayden's exit 2 months ago:
I don’t think this comic exactly applies; I’m not commenting about people not knowing some bit of trivia. Even if you didn’t grow up with the classic Simpsons, I don’t know how you can’t notice how old and stiff all the main cast sound. Marge sounds older than the voice acting for her mother in classic episodes.
- Comment on 'The Simpsons' announces new Milhouse voice actor following Pamela Hayden's exit 2 months ago:
I don’t know who is still watching new episodes. Obviously someone, because the show keeps going, but I just don’t get it. Occasionally I see some youtuber say “Actually the show is good again.” and I check it out and never even get to thinking about the plot because all the voice acting is like a punch in the face. All the characters either sound distractingly old with their original voice actors or they sound totally wrong with new ones.
- Comment on What are some examples of series that only have a good first season, and should be dropped after that? 2 months ago:
I actually think season 2 of Prison Break was a perfectly natural and well done (for the intended tone) continuation of the story. I know people snarkily point out the title doesn’t strictly apply anymore, but I think convicts on the run from a manhunt fits. The show was from the beginning always a political conspiracy thrilled baked inside of a prison story anyway.
The following seasons get increasingly absurd, but they are enjoyable in a silly way.
- Comment on What are some examples of series that only have a good first season, and should be dropped after that? 2 months ago:
Whole season 2 of The Mandalorian had the distinct flavor of introducing executive producer mandated spin-off hooks, I still found it quite good overall. The finale was the perfect ending to the Mando and child storyline.
The perfect ending. We didn’t need anymore after that ending.
Everything Mando related after that has gone totally off the rails by undoing that ending, and the show has become a parody of itself.
