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Yeah the 80s never left. We are still struggling thanks to the choices made in that decade. The entire economy freaking snapped in half

I found this topic and went oh I know all these and then at the current crop of pictures Im like okayI know none of the ones people didnt get yet.

I mean heartbreaker by pat Benetar? that one might be accurate. Either that or you put the lyrics of rip it out by ace frehley instead but thats less likely.

my brain just goes look at this photograph for the manga couple with a photo. But I dont think thats even the song name.

I feel the flag face one is likely some sort of red white and bruised or some other sort of pun. Probably a country song I never cared about because its country.

and then a person with hearts looking at a tractor. My brain is just saying old town road which I bet is completely wrong.

Too much backtracking between worlds. I get the idea but it wasnt executed as well as it could have been. The levels were too large and slow to traverse for the cutting between them to feel natural or not convoluted.

ellis123 posted...

Not even in the top 50 for overrated 90's villains.

I would like to see that list if it isnt even top 50. I mean how many well-known villains from the 90s in gaming are there?

TendoDRM posted...

Imma just say, I don't know who this "Musashi" guy is he keeps bringing up, but I knew of Yasuke. So really, which one is "better-known", not that that matters anyway? As mentioned, Yasuke is a perfect choice for an AC game, as the characters are not meant to be well-known historical figures. That would kind of go against the whole assassin "we work in the dark to protect the light" mantra.

musashi miyamoto. Probably the most commonly used historical figure from the time. Hes basically the default samurai cameo for any fiction taking place in that time period. He had 3 confirmed duels, some poetry, and outside of that a lot of myth and feats that cannot be confirmed. Basically like Johnny Appleseed. More folk hero and legend that has a bit of historical accuracy.

Saying that we dont know what Yasuke did is kind of a moot point when the new shogunate un-personed him and destroyed almost all records of his existence.

Likethat kind of makes it hard to find any set number of duels or battles or anything.

Heck, even with people like Musashi Miyamoto, we still dont have any actual evidence that he was in the battle of sekigahara. He claims he was, but theres no proof.

There actually was a historical black samuraia pretty famous one too. His name was Yasuke.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yasuke

like, I never even knew there was an assassins creed Japan game but even I knew about Yasuke. Hes a pretty famous figure for the era. Like were talking musashi miyamoto levels of fame, here. Yasuke literally worked for nobunaga.

how far back are we going? Because I see everyone here is picking from the 80s. But action movies and action movie stars have been around since the dawn of movies. Flynn as Robin Hood, captain blood, etc was a huge box office draw.

That hypothetical roller coaster of consecutive smaller loops

okay sosomething is off about the writing. It looks toouniformed. Like its a typeset pretending to be handwritten.

how old was the person in question when they supposedly write this? Theres also a very suddenly a word a 35 year old would use, followed by a 4-year olds misspelling, followed by Internet forum using a symbol instead of a word going on.

and that page is perfectly flat. Not a single crinkle? Really?

like, see people saying this is project veritas butholy crap I think they would make a better fake than this. This is beyond fake. This is not even a good photoshop. Photoshop would at least texture the paper.

Longshot. Likedude has magical rape excuse powers. How is this man a hero? He should be one of the best reoccurring villains.

edit: and yes I realize the in-universe excuse is that the woman secretly wanted it. But thats still a violation of personal choice. She said no, then his luck powers happened and then after that she said yes. She could still want it all she wants but still say no. The no was her choice. The yes was his powers. Thats still against her will. Shes allowed to go against her own wants.

Zero from mega man x4.nope. Not beating cap with mjornir.

Stone cold crazy is one of the speed metal songs in contention. I think helter skelter came before it though.

Okay so lets break this down. You picked a bunch of queen songs that were all opera-inspired to prove that they didnt all do opera-inspired songs. Look I have the 3 disk best of queen set. I like all those songs. Theyre still all the same genre. That was my point.

Beatles switched it up.

and yes. Load and reload are good. They gave us fuel, where the wild things are, bleeding me, fixxxer, devils dance, I forgiven 2, until it sleeps, outlaw torn, the house Jack built, and to hell with it attitude is fun.

And you know what, you dont even have to like any of those songs. point was, Metallica has phases. They went basically punk (kill em all is 3 notes and speed), to slower metal (lightning), to inventing thrash (master), to basically prog metal (justice), to hard rock (black), to heavy blues (load/reliad), to an orchestra (S&M), to a purposely unpolished and disgusting sound (anger), to an acoustic album (helping hands), to basically a hybrid of every style in one (hardwired and 72 seasons). The only thing they havent done was a rap/rock hybrid in the 2000s. Or a techno-metal.

my point was that bands that keep changing have longevity. The mainstream, after 5 years, is sick of you. Doesnt matter how good you are, the mainstream moves on to the next thing. Those that regularly bring something new are the ones that get remembered by the mainstream as the best.

youre not seeing mainstream coverage of sengetsu by Iron Maiden. Youre not seeing of the newest Judas Priest album. Etc. Youre seeing mainstream coverage of Metallica doing an Elton John cover and people speculating if garage inc 2 is happening.

that and ace frehley because holy shit hes not dead and these songs are so much better than whatever kiss is doing right now with the avatar retirement thing. Its a perfect storm of people hating Paul and Gene and wanting the heart of the band to do well and that demos made from the 70-90s sound so fresh once again to modern music.

heck, I could throw kiss up as a band with longevity because they changed. They may be treated as a joke but theres a reason why they had the cruise, why they lasted so long, why they have people buying their merch forever and ever and ever. They went through very distinct eras. Original hybrid era (kinda rock, kinda jazz, kinda metal), to a disco hybrid, to an attempt to be prog, to more traditional metal at the time (creatures), to a hair metal band focused on ballads, to grunge, to acoustic, to the reunion tour of lies, to the nostalgia act. If kiss always sounded like 1973 kiss, theyd wouldnt have remained. Theyd have been a flash in the pan for 5 years and then dropped out after the elder and creatures initially bombed.

Powdered_Toast posted...

The frame rate, for one. It would probably feel weird to play it without the slowdown.

oh. I was expecting some odd bug or code that did something wrong. Like how Pokmon gen 1 has attacks that do nothing like they are supposed to.

Okay so

1) of course its about panty shots for a clearly underaged school girl. When is it not? Every time someone goes screeeeee they are censoring art its always about perving on children. Every single time. Seriously, get fucking help.

2) their solution was to wear track pants under the skirt? Couldnt she justwear the track pants and call it a day? Like who seriously wears bottoms over other bottoms? This is like wearing boots over shoes, or wearing a hat on a hat. Its justmakes no sense from a fashion standpoint.

Starks posted...

Oh god we can finally fix Star Fox 64

what was wrong with star Fox 64?

Okay so this is like one of those questions where technically Queen are better musicians in every way, but the Beatles are still better. Its not about technique or skill. Its about the whole.

Queen did opera-influenced stadium rock.and opera-influenced stadium rockand more opera-influenced stadium rock.

The Beatles however, swung wildly between classic rock, psychedelic, folk, sound collages, parody, odd conceptual things, the first ever speed metal song, etc. It got to the point where every song on an album could be argued was in a different genre entirely. They may not have been good musicians but they were amazing at a vast swath of content.

this is like how metal heads argue about metal. Yeah, Iron Maiden probably are better musicians than Metallica. But Iron Maiden also has played the same galloping triplets for 85 different songs. Metallica switched it up from thrash, to heavy blues, to acoustic, to having a full orchestra behind them, and all of them still good. If Metallica came out with an a cappella album, I wouldnt be shocked. Thats why they remained on top. They werent afraid to do something new. Did it always work? No. But they never stagnated.

beatles never stagnated. Queen did.

I think I might have caught the tail end of it once. I remember someone calling someone a stripperthen some big black man yells no. Shes a dancer. Then the big black man sprints full force at the villain, tackles him, and beats the shit out of him.

it was hilariously bad in that 30 seconds.

was that showgirls? Or some other stripper-related movie? Or...dancer related movie?

Jesus fucking Christ. 41 thousand times over the daily recommended amount? Theythey do realize that vitamins are drugs right? You can overdose on them.

Rusty bucket bay

So first off, 900 a month is. Nothing. That doesnt even cover rent. No one is going to pick the money. Not when the other option is literally infinite money plus the benefit of screwing over snake oil salesmen and corrupt corporations and giving the profits to the people they exploited.

Oddly enough wave race blue storm popped in right before Luigis Mansion.

The first time the entire party already decided it was Clintons time. He lost a one on one race.

the second time he was actually winning the same way trump won the primary. He had 40% for but the other 60% was mixed up between multiple people. The Democratic Party noticed this and EVERYONE dropped to support Biden, except the one person who siphoned some votes from Bernie.

basically, if we had ranked choice voting instead of winner takes all, wed probably be looking at Bernie vs Trump in 2020.

but the system isnt set up that way.

So does castlevania symphony of the night. Statues.

Yeah. Yet when they did head on which was basically just a mix of 2 and black, it came across as just bland.

4 deserves more love.

everyone swears small brawl is amazing but I never played it. The levels are super destructive though. I like that aspect.

i think the idea of a battle royal is a good one for the multiplayer mode. So ps3 had a neat idea. It just wasnt good.

I keep trying to care about anything Witcher. And it always come across as an edgy 12 year olds fan fiction who just discovered curse words. The best thing in the entire series is Dandelion and hes criminally underutilized in everything.

Yes. I dont know who, but I know Ive seen that stipulation before. Probably in wcw.

Or Quentin Tarantino.

but anyway, I will say that there is one aspect in all this i dislike. The idea that his fetish is a coping mechanism for trauma that needs to be addressed.

no. What the fuck is it with professionals saying that any sexual arousal from anything beyond missionary is somehow not normal? Like I know Freud is used in a historical context, but most his theories have been completely disproven. Stop kink-shaming the guy. So he likes feet. So what?

yeah, I believe him now. This was just a case of someone with autism not getting social cues and no one being frank enough to just tell him.

hell, Im shocked that he was the one being preyed upon by the one person with an older man fetish.

I hope it wasnt protons on that was the friend who accidentally said something harmful. I meanJon is a bit of a step one is rage kinda guy. So I hope those two friends are cool.

i hope he comes back when hes ready to. Projared made it back after clearing his name. Chugs can too.

Why is the one guy in the background of the PJs green? Is he sick?

Saladworks.

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter yes

Tomb Raider II yes

Silent Hill yes

Gran Turismo maybe? Not sure if I played the first or not

Killer Instinct yea

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver nope

Pokemon Snap hell yeah

Duke Nukem 3D yes

Donkey Kong Country yes

Mega Man X yes

Never saw it but wasnt supernatural considered good in both versions?

Wellbecause Bayonetta was actually good. So she can get away with it.

thats really the issue. 9 times out of 10, when you see a game with some big breasts front and center, its code for this game sucks and were using boobs to compensate. So after 30+ years of the industry pulling this trick, people got fed up.

realisticslly, you can pull off anything as long as its good.

The worst episodes were the dramatic makeovers. Soignoring the fact that nine times out of ten a perfectly cute and normal looking person would have the sexy reveal as a blob of plastic and silicone

theres no happy ending.

each episode starts out with some 40-year old asshole complaining about ugly this person from grade school was. Soyoure a 40-year old man who still feels the need to mock someone you havent seen in decades? Okay.

then they do the frantic reveal and suddenly the 40-year old asshole is like omg youre so hot now lets go on a date. This man is still a shallow piece of garbage. He is still a terrible human being.

but the audience claps and theres happy music and Maury is smiling as he calls for a the next commercial break. No Maury. This is not a happy ending. This is a bad breakup waiting to happen because its a relationship built entirely around artificial Bull shit.

No, Im pretty sure the mothers fault in all this is pretty evident. That much was already discussed and I had nothing to add to it. She killed her kid. all Im saying is,

1) if the babys screams could be heard from a camera outside the house, someone should have noticed just by chance. People had to have ignored it. I understand that for an hour or two. Some babies cry a lot. but eventually i would think someone would have the curiosity to check to see if anyone was home or needed help or call the cops for a noise complaint or something. Anything that would have gotten the ball rolling. I just feel like there had to be an opportunity to save this child that was missed. Im not asking for any of them to go on trial or anything. I was just making an observation.

2) as per the womans intent, its just that my neighbor worked in a criminal psyche ward so Ive heard the long diatribes about what constitutes a psychopath vs a sociopath, etc etc. so when I looked at the details, I dont think this lines up with contempt. I think it lines up more with someone who has lost grip on reality and cause/effect. What specific brand of mental illness, trauma, or drug caused it? I dont know.

its still horrible. That goes without saying. I just feel like people are jumping to the wrong motive

and I spent the better part ofhow ever long that was editing and rewriting this so hopefully I was clear and concise enough. Now to see how many responses I missed whilst typing this.

1) holy shit did no one call the cops or bust down a door? Neighbors, a baby is crying, with no adult in sight? Id imagine someone should have called after1 day of constant screams at the latest? How did literally no one intervene? I feel this infants death is on way more than just the mom at this point. Dozens of people had to ignore this. What the heck are all their excuses?

2) She gave the baby 3 bottles. If youre going to starve someone, you dont give them food. She has another child that she didnt starve to death. All this says to me she actually thought everything would be alright, and shes just walk home back from vacation to a happy, healthy, smiling baby.

so not that it makes much of a difference, but Im not seeing the contempt that everyone is jumping to. I see someone who, for whatever reason, completely lost her grasp on reality. like one day something just broke. The method doesnt match the motive.

Im glad to see Robin Hood tied for the lead right now. That was for the longest time considered one of the bad ones but I always thought it was wrongfully maligned.

Who do I report this to? The way I see it this is either:

A) a massive scam to get lonely men to spend thousands of dollars

or

B) human trafficking

so fbi?

By this definition a very famous nirvana album cover is child porn. In fact, every naked baby photo is.

This happens in soccer all the time. Every few years FIFA winds up firing like a dozen refs

Hey Carnosaur 2 is great. Its just an Aliens rip-off but its a hilarious one. Carnosaur 3 is even dumber. It wasnt until Raptor that the reused stock footage really got out of hand.

Well half of that list is probably just x men characters.

Okay so basic concept is that is a parallel for the war in the Middle East.

Spice is oil. Spice makes space travel possible in this world.

the Harkonen are the USSR. They want the spice/oil for themselves and are evil.

The Atredes are British/American. They also want the spice/oil for themselves. They are the good guys but its still a matter of who enslaves the native population this week type of good guy.

the Fremen are the rebel fighters native to the country. So the taliban. They will fight anyone who comes to their planet trying to take their spice/oil.

no body is a good guy. Its all shades of grey.

thats the basics.

to get more complex, there is an added layer of the messiah figure prophecy.

Basically, Pauls mother is part of a religion. That religion is the largest in the world, and has purposely married off into the wealthiest and most influential families of every planet. Said religion also speaks of a messiah coming and they say that to every region/culture they slip into. That way, in thousands of years, the native populations believe this messiah figure is their own native myth.

basically, the Catholic Church (or whomever our real world parallel is) has purposely used religion to brainwash the masses to accept whatever puppet messiah they put in front of the natives. So the religion shoves Paul out there to placate the taliban and give the church a legitimate claim to the spice/oil.

and then there is the world bank, which is purposely manipulating prices to keep the war for spice/oil going in order to make the most money.

once again, nobody is the good guy.

now then. Thats basically it. Yes there are magic powers, other stuff like that. But at the end of the day, its a story about a child raised to be a puppet figurehead caught in a war for oil with everyone on every side trying to manipulate him.

and then the book also adds in the fact that you can read everyones inner thoughts. Which. Is hard to read because there will be 20 people in a room with 20 different inner thoughts.

Yes. We had societies long before the concept of police. Nowdo I want a thief taker general back? Not really. But we can invent something beyond the current police system.

Ive got who do
Ive got voodoo
Ive got things I aint even tried
and hes got friends on the other side.