Voroxpete

@Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s exactly what makes it so “mid” to my mind. It’s not an atrocious disaster like Gollum. It’s not appalling bad, or even moderately bad. It’s just… There. The shooting isn’t dreadful, just dull. The map, the movement, the exploration… None of it is exactly bad, but none of it left any kind of impression on me. Like you said, it scratches that “running around and collecting stuff” itch, the numbers go up, you unlock new powers, etc. But it all just kind of passes straight through you and at the end you’re left with “Well, that sure did kill a few hours.”

  Horizon: Zero Dawn suffers from all the usual modern open world hallmarks, the map littered with things to collect, the towers, the grinding to level up abilities, etc, etc. But the story is an absolute banger, and even a lot of the random collectible junk is full of little moments of deeply moving storytelling. I remember collecting every single one of the vantage points because I absolutely needed to hear all of the short story you unlock by doing it. It has zero relevance to the plot, but it’s just a great piece of writing. In comparison Ghost Wire is just, sort of… There.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ghost Wire: Tokyo.

  It sells itself on cool aesthetics, but the moment you get past that you realise it’s just a very, very generic open world shooter with incredibly bland and boring shooting layered over an impressively faithful recreation of Shinjuku. And even the aesthetics wear thin very quickly, being largely just a whole lot of “Hey I know that anime” level stuff cribbed from Japanese culture. The game is mostly just running around a map collecting stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m here to say Portal as well, specifically because, once you really look for it, you realise that about 85% of the game is tutorial. Like, seriously, basically everything leading up to “The cake is a lie” is teaching you the skills you need for the final sequence. It’s a massive tutorial followed by one level of actual game, and it’s beautiful, precisely because you don’t even notice that the tutorial hasn’t ended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More like a bacterial infection imo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is vitally important to understand that throughout the “potato famine” Ireland was a major exporter of food to the rest of the UK.

  Irish farmers were growing all kinds of crops. Grains, carrots, cabbage, lettuce, etc, etc. All of these were sold to pay for the oppressive rents that they were forced to pay to English landlords who had stolen all of their land.

  The potatoes the Irish grew were for subsistence, because all of the rest of their crops went to market. Even when the potato crops failed, there was more than enough food for everyone in Ireland, if the English would simply suspend rent collection for a short while, until the crop failures had passed.

  Many motions to do so were put before parliament. All of them were rejected.

  The Irish famine was not caused by a disease. It was caused by the intentional cruelty of the English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Capitalism is when pay money for things. I am very smart.”

  Jesus Christ, I am begging people to actually learn what capitalism is before writing takes likes this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, yeah, that’s fair

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Port que no los dos?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Given how good a job they did with 40K, I’m confident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  None of what you’ve just said connects back to your previous comment in the slightest. You started by saying that they cut too much from the TTRPG and that the world was too shallow, and then when I asked you to elaborate you just went on about augmentation systems.

  At this point I’m not convinced you actually know what it is that you don’t like about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really not sure what you mean by this. Are you talking about the game at release, or after they patched in all the intended content?

  Outside of what I assume you mean by the “scripted gameplay” of the main story there are dozens upon dozens of side quests and weird little points of interest to discover (well over a hundred, easily). A lot of them help to elaborate on the setting in interesting ways. What exactly were you expecting that the game didn’t deliver on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the most well-acted, charismatic, complex or interesting anti-heroes/villains, or general antagonists you've watched in TV?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Limiting myself to just stuff that’s current/recent;

  Luthen and Dedra from Andor Punisher, Kingpin, and Vanessa from Daredevil Born Again Ubel from Frieren

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Catchiest video game song?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a triumph…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Andor' Season 2 Debuts to Nielsen Viewership High With 721 Million Minutes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard agree. The original trilogy has some truly great moments, but nothing on the level of Luthen’s “sacrifice” monologue, or “one way out.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Andor' Season 2 Debuts to Nielsen Viewership High With 721 Million Minutes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Andor is, without hesitation, the best piece of Star Wars media ever made.

  Yes, even including the original trilogy. I said what I said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m actually OK with games costing a bit more to sell if they cost a lot to make; god knows, the devs deserve to get paid properly. But, one, that money won’t actually make it to the devs, and two, any time Randy Pitchford is for something it’s really hard not to automatically be against it, on the assumption that he’s so consistently wrong about everything, and just such an unbelievable piece of shit, that just assuming he’s in the wrong is the safest bet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, why do they let him talk? The man is a walking PR disaster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Derek Smart unveils ACE Platform, a multi-blockchain ‘virtual town hall of engagement opportunities’ | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who are definitely real people and not his sock puppet accounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Derek Smart unveils ACE Platform, a multi-blockchain ‘virtual town hall of engagement opportunities’ | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus Christ, he’s still alive?! I haven’t heard that name in years.

  For those not blessed with the knowledge of our divine Lord and saviour Derek Smart, God’s gift to fame designers, oh boy, grab your popcorn, this is going to be good.

  And by “good” I mean that whatever Derek has come up with will manage to be the most objectively terrible version of that thing possible, and he will aggressively defend it as the greatest thing that has ever happened in the history of everything, ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Cox Calls Fan-Favorite Marvel Crossover His Least Favorite ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Episode: ‘I Wasn’t Into It’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that episode felt weird and forced. It really didn’t seem to fit the overall flow of the season.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix now offers dialogue-only subtitles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And let’s be real, theatrical is a much smaller slice of sales than it used to be. It makes no sense to not do a separate audio mix for hone theatre.

  Also, most modern TV has the same problem, and there’s absolutely no excusing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix now offers dialogue-only subtitles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, this is a good thing because some people have audio processing issues.

  But also, maybe they could just try not mixing every show and movie with the dialogue so low that it’s completely unintelligible??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hayden Christensen Teases Return To ‘Star Wars’ Universe In Darth Vader Role: “There’s A Lot Of Rich Stories We Could Still Tell”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Rogue One definitely has some issues worth criticising, but I really do like it a lot. For me it’s easily up there with the original trilogy. In fact if I were to rank just the Star Wars movies, no other media, I’d probably put it at number 3, despite its flaws.

  It’s a movie where an absolute banger of a third act has to do a LOT of work to make up for a very weak first two acts, but my god the third act is so fucking good that it somehow pulls it off. The space battle, the assault on the tower, everyone doing their little part to help push towards one tiny little victory… that fucking Vader scene… it really does stick the landing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hayden Christensen Teases Return To ‘Star Wars’ Universe In Darth Vader Role: “There’s A Lot Of Rich Stories We Could Still Tell”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I will grant, if they start adapting the Kieron Gillen Vader comics, that could be pretty fucking cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hayden Christensen Teases Return To ‘Star Wars’ Universe In Darth Vader Role: “There’s A Lot Of Rich Stories We Could Still Tell”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard agree. Andor is the best thing anyone has ever done with Star Wars.

  Yes, I’m including the original trilogy. I said what I said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hayden Christensen Teases Return To ‘Star Wars’ Universe In Darth Vader Role: “There’s A Lot Of Rich Stories We Could Still Tell”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but maybe you shouldn’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix’s Sci-Fi Series '3 Body Problem' to Film Seasons 2 & 3 Back-To-Back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess that depends why you liked the books.

  For my part, I had issues with both the show and the books, but very different issues.

  Cixin Liu, in my opinion, exhibits all the best and worst elements of Isaac Asimov. His books are big on themes and complex scientific and philosophical ideas, but lack even the most basic elements of character and story structure. These are elements that lend themselves well to short form fiction and poorly to longer narratives, which is why I love the robot stories, but really don’t care for Foundation all that much.

  The series swings too hard in the other direction, IMO, downplaying the big ideas in favour of much more focus on characters and structure. In doing so it often demands that we spend a lot of time focusing on ordinary human drama when - in my experience - we really want to be focusing on the really cool scifi shit that’s going on. Granted, this wouldn’t be a problem if the characters were more interesting, but I found most of them fairly dull and unlikeable, even if they are at least more fleshed out than in the original books. The structural changes are also a mixed bag, with a lot of elements being presented in a more chronological order, with the unfortunate result that it becomes quite unclear what the point of a lot of this stuff is actually meant to be. Liu’s narrative is less constrained by a need for strict chronology and this gives him more ability to put events together in context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What TV show were you highly excited for, but ended up quickly disappointing you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof. Yeah, that one really hits. Great start, then creative differences collapsed the whole endeavour and it just went to shit.

  And it’s not like I can even recommend the book anymore given, well… y’know.

  Just a fucking mountain of disappointments on disappointments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What TV show were you highly excited for, but ended up quickly disappointing you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Picard lost me the moment they had a scene where a bunch of down on their luck blue collar workers were complaining about shitty rations and being forced to work on a holiday.

  WHAT PART OF POST-SCARCITY LUXURY GAY SPACE COMMUNIST UTOPIA DID YOU INBRED FUCKING DOGSHIT FOR BRAINS MORONS NOT GRASP?

  Seriously, Picard is a Star Trek show written by people who have apparently never watched a single episode of Star Trek in their entire lives. Unbelievably poor grasp of the basic concepts of the setting, and of Roddenberry’s core thesis. And it’s not like you can’t make Star Trek grimy if you want to. Deep Space Nine did it frequently, playing with concepts of liberty vs security and so on. But the writers of Picard were just too lazy to engage with the core ideas of the setting and instead just wrote a bunch of generic, broadly science fiction filler and then slapped the Star Trek logo on it.

  Discovery I feel more kindly towards, even though it was also terrible. It at least makes some kind of an effort to be Star Trek, which automatically puts it above Picard, but god that is such a low bar. It still has the same basic problem of being written by people who seem to be deeply embarassed about the idea of writing Star Trek. They had to go in and try to retcon in a bunch of crazy tech, rewrite huge parts of the setting, throw out everything about the Klingons and start from scratch, all out of some kind of weird hatred for the universe in which they were telling stories. Also, dear god it was just incredibly slow and dull. Some of the worse pacing I’ve ever seen.

  Thank the lord almighty for Strange New Worlds. If you’re soured on all the new Trek and skipped it because you were worried about it being more of the same, holy fucking shit go watch it now! Strange New Worlds is perfect. It’s a Star Trek show written by people who absolutely adore Star Trek. It’s a love letter - a love anthem - to the original series. And it manages to somehow find an unearthly balance between being one of the most campy and fun takes on Star Trek, and one of the darkest and scariest. There’s a musical episode, and there’s an episode that’s basically “What if the plot of Aliens happened on the Enterprise?” and somehow both of them fit in the same show perfectly. Also, THE KLINGONS ARE FUN AGAIN! They’re loud and boisterous and drink blood wine and yell Qapla while they headbutt each other and it’s fucking great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nick Frost Comments on Potential Hagrid Casting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna be deeply disappointed in any actor that takes a role in this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of your unpopular opinions, hot takes about shows, streamers, the wider industry etc?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I definitely want more shows that have a clear ending in sight and a plan to get there, but the problem with Netflix is they don’t set out to make a two season show, they set out to make a five or six season show, then kill it at two with loads of dangling threads.