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- Comment on Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris 10 months ago:
Haha, he nearly passes out when he realizes he crashed the game. That kid is amazing.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award 10 months ago:
Anyone who expected Starfield to win Most Innovative Gameplay, are you offering divination services to the public?
It was an easy call to make. Steam Awards are voted by the public, so it’s all about name recognition.
The other finalists in that category were Shadow of Doubt, Contraband Police, Remnant II, and Your Only Move Is Hustle. Of all these, I had heard about Starfield and Remnant II.
I’m sure some of these games are awesome and I want to check them out by virtue of being finalists, but it was pretty clear Starfield was gonna win on brand recognition alone.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award 10 months ago:
Steam Awards, like any publicly-voted award, is a name recognition contest.
- Comment on Unity warns of likely layoffs following runtime fee decision 1 year ago:
Not disputing your main point, but they fired CEO John Riccitiello over this.
- Comment on Ways of designing intimacy in games - GameDeveloper 1 year ago:
“How dare they show a titty in my murder simulator.”
- Comment on Why Are Modern Blockbusters So... Not Very Good? | Some More News 1 year ago:
There’s a form of recency bias at play. We tend to compare recent middling movies with the ones we remember from the past, which tend to be the exceptions. But trust me, there were some very shitty blockbusters in prior decades as well.
Give it a decade or two, and people will remember the '20s as a decade of amazing blockbusters. I mean, heck, we had Barbie and Oppenheimer in theaters at the same time just a few weeks ago. The fact these two movies were released the same weekend is gonna blow people’s minds in twenty years.
- Comment on What is a film whose trailer alone presaged its success? 1 year ago:
Just to add to this… When I first saw the trailer, I became completely obsessed with the film. I visited the website and read a bunch of short stories on there about the world of the Matrix.
And besides all that, when I finally sat down in theaters and watched Neo take the red pill, I had absolutely no clue what was happening. Their marketing material 100% avoided even spoiling the very premise of the film. All they did was build a mystery.
- Comment on Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’ 1 year ago:
Johnny Depp was a toxic boyfriend and a chronic substance abuser. So was Heard, but the fact she’s a dumpster fire of a human being doesn’t make Depp a saint despite what the internet tried to tell you.
Just two shitty human beings who made each other miserable.
- Comment on 'PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie' Beats 'Saw X,' 'The Creator' To Top Domestic Box Office 1 year ago:
I enjoyed The Creator for its visuals but the bad script makes it impossible to recommend it. Might do well as a brainless Star Wars surrogate in streaming, and it might turn into a cult classic down the line, but I’m not surprised it’s bombing.
- Comment on Cyberpunk patch 2.01 now available 1 year ago:
I’ve played it in January 2022 on PC (so about a year after release), going through a second playthrough on Steam Deck now.
Compared to two years ago, the game is not that different IMO. I enjoyed it immensely the first time, and I’m loving it enough now to just play it again. A lot of very noticeable changes with 2.0, with the entire perks system rebuilt and such. Not a major game changer IMHO but it’s all good stuff.
As for Steam Deck, it’s 100% compatible and looks great. I’ve noticed very few frame rate issues.
I wish people could let go of their resentment towards the game’s launch woes, because this game is a genuine banger with an amazing setting, great gameplay, and a kickass story.
- Comment on Cyberpunk patch 2.01 now available 1 year ago:
Made it possible to properly switch to Arm cyberware by cycling through weapons.
Oh, haha, I was wondering if I was crazy. The only way I could see to equip the Mantis Blades was to hold Y and select it there. Didn’t feel very intuitive.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 player finds “rarest” ending where characters are dogs and cats - Dexerto 1 year ago:
Don’t know if this counts as an ending proper rather than a funny and very rare unintended effect. I doubt the devs planned for it or even realized it could happen.
- Comment on 'Oppenheimer' Surpasses 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Becomes Highest-Grossing Biopic of All-Time 1 year ago:
What truly annoys me about biopics is that Hollywood makes no attempt these days at these being true to the real-life characters they’re portraying. They’re 100% fiction using well-known public figures as the source of their verisimilitude. Movies like The Social Network and The Imitation Game, to name just these two, have barely any resemblance to their real-life counterparts. That’s also true of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Given that, I don’t even understand what’s the point of them.
- Comment on Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom | Teaser 1 year ago:
Oh noes! The villain wants to destroy everything the hero holds dear. Whatever will he do!
- Comment on Monarch: Legacy of Monsters – Official Teaser | Apple TV+ 1 year ago:
Big G looking good. I’m with for a show where he’s a peripheral presence. Hope the writing is solid.
- Comment on No VFX in ‘Oppenheimer’? “Clearly Not True” Says Film’s Oscar-Winning VFX Supervisor 1 year ago:
I don’t get why people fetishize practical effects and the absence of CGI. The issue is always when VFX is shoddy and obvious, but there are tons of invisible CGI in modern movies, and it’s often banal stuff like blood or cars in the background.
CGI is its own form of artistry and creating great CGI is absolutely a craft.
- Comment on Blue Beetle Takes Down Barbie With a Not-So-Super $25.4 Million Weekend Box Office Victory 1 year ago:
Loki had my interest until the last episode of season one. Now I’m worried season two will be an extended trailer for Kang Dynasty.
- Comment on Blue Beetle Takes Down Barbie With a Not-So-Super $25.4 Million Weekend Box Office Victory 1 year ago:
Superhero fatigue must be a thing…The reviews for this movie are glowing but I still don’t feel like checking it out.
I can already imagine the protagonist being torn between his newfound role as a superhero and the demands of family, only to realize after a long series of humorous situations that he can serve both by being true to himself, and… Yeah.
- Comment on What show took you the longest to get into? 1 year ago:
I don’t blame you. 😁 For me, the turning point was in the very last episodes of season one. Stuff happens that really breaks expectations and sends the story in a more interesting direction. I also remember season 2 being vastly superior.
If you made it through season 2 and didn’t like it, the show might not be for you! But if you’re stuck somewhere in season 1, it’s definitely worth powering through that.
- Comment on What shows had awkward or otherwise poor returns from cancelations? 1 year ago:
For me, it was definitely Arrested Development. The original run was super tight and hilarious, and worked as a self-contained story. Then season four happened and… yeah.
A clear example of a show jumping the shark between seasons.
- Comment on What shows had awkward or otherwise poor returns from cancelations? 1 year ago:
The 2009 series was a reboot, though. Not a sequel to the original.
- Comment on What show took you the longest to get into? 1 year ago:
I have such a troubled relationship to The Expanse S01 too.
I read the novel and thought the writing was meh, so I dropped it at some point.
Then my friends were telling me the show was great, so I gave it a go but got bored at about the same point and stopped.
So other friends insisted it was great, so I tried it again with my wife. She complained about the show, but we decided to really see what this show was about and stick with it no matter what.
Turns out I thought the story was heading into some sort of “space zombies” tale, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. And the characters I thought were so bland and indistinguishable in S01 gained so much nuance that they’re now so clear in my mind years later.
It’s definitely one of my favorite sci-fi shows of all time. I guess it’s worth listening to your friends and sticking with things sometimes.
- Comment on Disney to Crack Down on Password-Sharing Too 1 year ago:
Of course they are. Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown was a success and raised their subscriber numbers. They’ve proven that people will by and large put up with it despite the backlash.
Cat’s out of the bag. Expect all other platforms to follow suit.
- Comment on Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is a fractured mess and easily the worst of the series 1 year ago:
I watched it last month and it’s telling that I can’t quite remember what it was about. They’re trying to save Rocket for a big part of it, and there’s a lot of flashbacks to how Rocket came to be. But then that gets resolved and it becomes about… the High Evolutionary, who wants… something? He wants Rocket because he’s smart, and he’s gonna go do… something? And Adam Warlock is there, except he’s a joke character?
I enjoyed it overall, but I have a much clearer recall of the overall dramatic arc of the Christmas Special.
- Comment on It's Party Time: Baldur's Gate 3 is Out Now 1 year ago:
That’s fantastic! Thanks!
- Comment on It's Party Time: Baldur's Gate 3 is Out Now 1 year ago:
Awesome. Enjoy! And thanks. 😁
- Comment on It's Party Time: Baldur's Gate 3 is Out Now 1 year ago:
Definitely interested, if you don’t mind providing an update! I’m especially interested to hear how it plays on the gamepad. If it’s not great I might just wait for a time when I can play on PC, but I’d love to jump on it on Deck if it turns out to be a fairly good experience!
- Comment on It's Party Time: Baldur's Gate 3 is Out Now 1 year ago:
How does it play on Steam Deck?
- Comment on Box Office: ‘Barbie’ Struts to Record $26.1M Monday for Warner Bros. 1 year ago:
BCU confirmed.
Can’t wait for the one where she makes out with G.I. Joe.