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MrMallard posted...

Anyway, y'all should try Whittakers if you can get it. It's a New Zealand brand, and it fucks severely.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/9/AAbh80AADxrp.jpg

Try some of this, and then see if you can go back to Reese's.

Their Coconut block is damn divine.

Yeah Game Pass has streaming already. They're planning to give the ability to stream your owned games as well

Also lol;
https://twitter.com/PLAION/status/1575766741644627971?t=Vs9c0T2hEVYvMbL_KsTvWw&s=19

https://twitter.com/yoda/status/1575851369445355521?t=CEYhUadpeWIOHDqxaVdXzg&s=19

Taste the goodness of the biscuit with the honey sauce

Forest_Temple posted...

Disney has always told fairy tales for kids, numb nuts, why would people be upset about that. Its about changing an iconic character that people grew up. How about creat an unoriginal character instead of changing one thats well established and incredibly iconic.

It is for kids yes.

So why are adults getting upset? Did you care if a show you watched as a kid was different from what your Dad watched?

ellis123 posted...

And mathematically speaking they are an irrelevant figure. When Pinocchio was announced it came with three tweets. The first tweet showed off the poster/box art (it's not either but you know what I mean) and got 100 replies. The second tweet showed off some of the cast and got 250. The final showed off the fairy and got just shy of 100,000 replies. The fairy, of course, was black in this version of Pinocchio.

So yeah, saying that the dislikes aren't only from racists is the sort of "I smell my own farts" truth where you aren't exactly wrong but everyone knows the crap that is going on.

Fucking hell the internet is shit

LightningAce11 posted...

I dont get this guy. He says to have compassion for his grifting audience, but then goes on to attack minorities, women etc.

Hes considered to be logical and cold but every time I hear about him he is crying or raging about something.

He dishes out insults but is surprised when people push back. It seems like all these free speech advocates really just want an echo chamber and no response from anyone.

It's all the same shit with these incel and alt-right grifters.

They pretend they look up to them because of some respectable reason like "They're a good debater" or "they are just trying to help people"

But turns out every single time they actually have a following because they rant and rave against leftists, women, trans people or whatever else.

Like it's hilarious when people are like "Jordan is just reaching out to these men when no one else will!" acting like these guys are looking for actual help and not just people and groups who validate their toxic opinions and personalities. This isn't a constant coincidence it's part of the appeal.

I'm actually shocked this is happening considering the Disney acquisition.

Probably why WETA isn't involved though.

cjsdowg posted...

Since whom ever the bad guy is would have needed to get a lot of things rolling to have them meet at a friends wedding, everyone else be a jerk ass to her, and then handsome Josh come in being handsome and nice. There are just mean people in the world and he should have been just one of those jerks. ANYWHO...

I don't think it needed that much planning. He didn't need other people to be mean to her in order to successfully flirt. Considering he isn't seen talking to anyone else there be probably just snuck in too.

On top of that if Hulk King watched her latest trial they knew that Jen was feeling lonely and vulnerable.

https://twitter.com/MinnMaxShow/status/1575521931817734149

lol

I have fond memories of Destruction Derby. Especially that 8 track that always had the carnage in the middle.

Also when people say that Sony have never acquired a video game publisher that means they forgot about Psygnosis.

It really is a major example of how god damn hard it is to enter the video game industry.

Fun fact it was the Bethesda purchase Microsoft did that ultimately scared Google away the most. They saw the kind of money Microsoft was spending and Google thought "Oh man what the fuck are we doing here?" so ultimately that purchase has already paid for itself. Microsoft is fine having Sony and Nintendo being their competition in the console gaming space. They want to be the big tech conglomerate that has the space mostly to itself.

Mon Mothma's home life is so shitty too. Her husband being some 'apolitical' douche who finds the struggles and inconveniences of others outside his vision boring or irrelevant. A guy who has fun trolling his wife by forcing her to have dinner with Emperor lackeys.

Not someone who is an Empire devout or obviously evil. Just someone who absolutely benefits from their social status living during an oppressive regime. Someone who is privileged and does absolutely nothing positive with it and just goes along with evil because it doesn't inconvenience him.

Seriously how the hell is this a Star Wars show? There's so much depth to the lives these people live. It's not just typical rebels vs empire stuff. Hell this is the most oppressive the Empire has actually felt and they haven't used a single Stormtrooper. That single Tie-Fighter was used so effectively.

Yeah I think EA, Activision and Take Two are ruled out.

You're looking at companies who are bigger than Bethesda (or maybe around the same considering how much things have inflated since then) but not as big as those.

Xatrion posted...

Wasn't there talks for someone to buy EA recently? Can't remember who it is.

Amazon but it was hogwash.

Looks like they have invested money into;

• Activision
• Take Two
• EA

Along with acquiring 5% of Capcom and Nexon.

I think Capcom probably fits that figure the most?

Smashingpmkns posted...

Wow now everyone can play Pokmon at white people's weddings

So honey now
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
Maybe we found love right where we are

Those slo-mo gunfights with dust blowing everywhere still look really impressive. It's just fun gunplay through and through. Shotgun blasts gibbing an entire soldier is fun and those soldiers really do still impress trying to find routes around you.

The environments really date it though. It's in that awkward period of a game looking pretty good but not really designing something that actually holds up like a real place. Apparently water treatment facilities are just a random maze of concrete hallways leaving to nothing in particular with people setting up desks and vending machines wherever they can. It's obvious they designed the level layout fist and then designed the environment around it.

Also the scares are really tame. It's just constant high pitches violin screeching while you see a man slowly walking or a little girl running away lol. There's no actual threat from any of it. But it's also a bit charming.

Didn't expect a Game of Thrones crossover

Luna will probably be okay. Unlike Stadia they weren't stupid enough to require native ports and it supports cloud saves with native PC versions.

Like Microsoft they are also using it as a way to show the capability of their cloud servers and it's being bolstered by other stuff.

Jordan Peterson isn't criticized and disliked because he shows 'compassion' to incels. He's being purposefully dishonest and setting up a strawman to make it seem like he is a victim.

He is criticized for validating incels with bullshit like this;

Violent attacks are what happens when men do not have partners, Mr. Peterson says, and society needs to work to make sure those men are married.

He was angry at God because women were rejecting him, Mr. Peterson says of the Toronto killer. The cure for that is enforced monogamy. Thats actually why monogamy emerges.
Mr. Peterson does not pause when he says this. Enforced monogamy is, to him, simply a rational solution. Otherwise women will all only go for the most high-status men, he explains, and that couldnt make either gender happy in the end.
Half the men fail, he says, meaning that they dont procreate. And no one cares about the men who fail.
I laugh, because it is absurd.
Youre laughing about them, he says, giving me a disappointed look. Thats because youre female.
But aside from interventions that would redistribute sex, Mr. Peterson is staunchly against what he calls equality of outcomes, or efforts to equalize society. He usually calls them pathological or evil.
He agrees that this is inconsistent. But preventing hordes of single men from violence, he believes, is necessary for the stability of society. Enforced monogamy helps neutralize that.

He's an outright misogynist who cries 'woe is me and woe is them' when talking about lonely men but says;

Mr. Peterson, who grew up in Fairview, Canada, a small town in northern Alberta, spent his career teaching psychology at Harvard and then at the University of Toronto, all while running a clinical practice.
The lesson most patients need to hear, he says, is grow the hell up, accept some responsibility, live an honorable life.

to everyone else along with bullshit like this;

The left, he believes, refuses to admit that men might be in charge because they are better at it. The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they dont want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence, he said.
Mr. Peterson illustrates his arguments with copious references to ancient myths bringing up stories of witches, biblical allegories and ancient traditions. I ask why these old stories should guide us today.
It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp. Yeah, he says. Why?
Its a hard one.
Right. Thats right. You dont know. Its because those things hang together at a very deep level. Right. Yeah. And it makes sense that an old king lives in a desiccated tower.
But witches dont exist, and they dont live in swamps, I say.
Yeah, they do. They do exist. They just dont exist the way you think they exist. They certainly exist. You may say well dragons dont exist. Its, like, yes they do the category predator and the category dragon are the same category. It absolutely exists. Its a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists. What exists is not obvious. You say, Well, theres no such thing as witches. Yeah, I know what you mean, but that isnt what you think when you go see a movie about them. You cant help but fall into these categories. Theres no escape from them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/jordan-peterson-12-rules-for-life.html

So yeah fuck him. He enables these incels to be at their worst and validates them by placing the blame on women instead of themselves.

InfinityMonster posted...

Yeah, this show is definitely a step up. This episode was especially good with the new ISB and Mon Mothma stuff. Mon Mothma looked great. Can't believe they've kept the same actress from RotS and Rogue One. It was also great to see Coruscant again.

Karn is a wildcard right now. I wonder if he'll be a third side or if he'll end up helping Andor.

Karn is so compelling to me. His life is at a complete crossroads right now. Either he learns from what he did, thinks about the consequences of his actions and strive to make amends or he doubles down, blames everyone else and gets suckered into extremism.

Both are completely believable.

This show really nails the politics of actually living in Star Wars during this era.

Pretty sure at this point executive producer means "You have done enough work to get residuals on this film forever so you can go and still get paid."

Damn no posts?

This show is a league ahead of the other Star Wars live action stuff IMO. It has an actual range of characters with their own believable actions, motivations and responses that have ramifications that go well beyond what they could expect or imagine. It doesn't rely on fan service to be interesting. Cinematography and locations are top notch. Even if this didn't have the Star Wars branding it would be an actual good sci-fi show.

It'll be a total shame if it gets overlooked but I suppose not overly surprising since the pitch doesn't seem to be interesting on the surface.

CreekCo posted...

That was really just for that year because we were all on lockdown and its an outlier.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.23.22275458v2.full.pdf

Since we are outside again, the cause is now actually Covid. Dont just go believing the first thing you read.

Another issue that conservatives spent a lot of time downplaying funnily enough

Where is Jackie? Is she safe? Is she... alright?

DavidZ2844 posted...

What does Feige being spread too thin mean in this context? I have absolutely no idea how to interpret that statement

He is handling too many different things at once so stuff like Blade isn't getting the attention from him that it needs.

FigureOfSpeech posted...

speaking of kevin sorbo, I just stumbled upon this (decided to bump this topic and put it here rather than making my own topic since I went to search to see if a topic about this was made already. If anyone wants to make a new topic for it, feel free)

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kevin-sorbo-lets-know-hed-172800529.html

As proof that there are secret forces still on his side, Sorbo goes on to say that he took meetings with Netflix about the companys plans to open an inspirational division. These plans were eventually scuttled, though, because, Sorbo says, theyre afraid of the backlash from within the Hollywood elites if [Netflix makes] a movie thats got a positive message in it.

I wonder which poor Netflix receptionist has to keep dealing with this asshole.

Sad_Face posted...

I don't recall saying anything about profits, though I understand how you came to that conclusion. But the context is regarding cultural relevance.

What expectation did you think they had? It's a single movie that didn't get a follow up for over a decade. We'll see soon how much 'cultural relevance' it has or how much that matters.

It's obvious for something like The Mummy. They wanted that to be the beginning of a new cinematic universe. It didn't happen. For Avatar James Cameron basically gets to do whatever he wants which includes taking over a decade to make a single sequel. Which is unheard of for a movie this successful. There has been no derailed plans due to lack of cultural impact whatever that means.

It was always sold on its spectacle anyway. On that front it more than delivered. It's still impressive now which is why it is still managing to make money with IMAX 3D releases. Which wouldn't happen for a movie that had no impact.

I like Reese Peanut Butter Cups but I suppose that's not because of the chocolate lol

BloodMoon7 posted...

Why does American chocolate taste bad anyway? Is it because capitalism? It always seems like everyone else has great food and here I am eating my McRubble sandwich.

Honestly I think it's mostly a culture thing. For whatever reason chocolate isn't as big of a thing in the US as it is in other countries. Which yeah leads to the cheaper stuff and designs with the longest potential shelf life being the most popular.

When I was in the US I was really surprised at the chocolate bar section in grocery stores. It's mostly peanut related stuff!

Does the US not have Lindt? It's a pretty big brand here in Australia.

They have some cool flavours too.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/7/9/AACT2jAADuQH.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/9/2/AACT2jAADuOw.jpg

Lol

Sad_Face posted...

The expectation to be wow'd, that it'd match the sheer amount of paid marketing buzz pumped into it.

Being the highest grossing movie of all time and setting a new high bar for 3D and CGI characters didn't match their marketing buzz? Really?

It's seen as an educational failure more than a result of an impediment. Which people are going to see as an advantage. With text there's no way to know who is on the other end.

People are also more willing to be critical and harsh over text compared to in person.

I'm so sorry to hear what your wife and you are going through. Bloody hell.

It's okay to not always feel fine and okay. Losing a partner like this is always going to be a a big, sudden and heartbreaking shift for your entire life even if logically you know you will be okay in the long run.

DoDontTry posted...

By not advertising them with other models?

What other models are you referring to?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/2/4/AACT2jAADuKk.png

DoDontTry posted...

I like how they are insulting their appearances by implying they aren't normal.

Where did they imply that?

Background_Guy posted...

I genuinely don't see how anyone can be upset about this unless they really really hate women.
I've read through the whole article and can't find anything that would negatively affect anyone.

A lot of gamers are really self-centered and get really touchy over stuff like this because they somehow see it as an attack or criticism on themselves.

It doesn't help when they purposefully use disingenuous clickbait titles like the one here to try and get more #Gamers angry.

Oh yay. Another topic where weirdos get angry because they don't know Dove advertising campaigns.

Dreepapult posted...

So what is the deal with Roblox. Is it like Minecraft but it's free?

It's also more open and ripe for exploitation I believe since people can develop content to charge for?

It actually seems the closest thing to what these companies want as a 'Metaverse'

Will_VIIII posted...

There's a high correlation between people cheating on their wives and workplace misconduct at the company they work for.

There was some big revelation about that when the Ashley Madison account leak happened and users who had documented misconduct.

Makes sense. Work is the place most people are spending their time seperate from their home life. Although in this case that doesn't even seem to be the case. If the guy also worked with his wife and still cheated then damn they were both playing a really dangerous game lol

https://twitter.com/ZwiezenZ/status/1574489937117937664?t=GRroH6U2ie70nHIIAbLKGw&s=19

Lol

Noumas posted...

But... it didn't even have him say something like "we'll find another way" or "there's gotta be others" or something. Its almost like the game is implying that he's dooming humanity to save ellie.

And then she says ok without conviction, which really seemed like she totally didn't believe him at all.

And the game just... ends.

Yep. It's awesome.

Do you value portable gaming? That's the biggest factor. You're looking at PS4 level games (or less) on the go. So that's really what it comes down to.

I wouldn't worry about Valve stopping making them. They're definitely gonna make new models for them.

radical_rhino posted...

BotW succeeds in every way that Assassins Creed fails. The only meaningful similarity is climbing towers to unlock waypoints.

BOTW succeeds by simply focusing on the fundamentals on what makes an open world game fun. Mucking around and finding things.

A lot of open world games are more designed like a buffet of content. Go to these mission types and do the thing. Here's a whole bunch of skill trees and things to work towards as well. Don't forget about our epic story!

It's not that the latter design is bad but it was getting tired and also lost a bit of focus on what the strengths of an open world game can actually be. Providing freedom to the player.

I think it's an interesting dynamic overall. Even when I think of GTA it doesn't bombard with the player with too much missions and 'content' to do at once.

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

BOTW isn't a good game if it means investing 100's hours to make it bearable.

The first half is the best part.