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Probably, the first game was pretty good.

Though probably not until it's on sale. Here in Canada it'll be 90$ + tax which will definitely put it over $100 and that's too much for a single game IMO, even if its really good, so I can't justify doing that unless I have to.

Zikten posted...

He is a rapist and he murdered his neighbors dog I think. Fuck him. He shouldn't be ignored. They SHOULD mention that he is in prison or dead on That 90s Show. Turn it into a joke

While I agree on the whole "**** him" front, his character in That 70s show was very much a burnout who was actually trying to not be the same ****-up that's hes been around forever. And a big reason Hyde didn't (as of the end of That 70s Show) was Red and Kitty, really the only two significant characters from the original series still around. it wouldn't be super in-character for them to be making jokes about how Hyde is a ****-up.

Though it could be cool if they want to get really dramatic, where they could acknowledge Hyde did something horrible, and why none of the parents really want to actually address the topic. Or at least Red and Kitty can if nobody else shows up. A great episode to bring Mila Kunis in for too.

jesus wtf are they doing that it needs that much space? When Ubisoft basically remade Ancient Greece in AC Odyssey it was only like 100 GB.

I hope this doesn't become the standard. I want my Xbox Series S to be useable until the mechanics stop working, not because game developers decided that games need to be 600 GB.

Calwings posted...

I always liked John Cena, both in his WWE character and as a real person. What I disliked was Vince's booking of Cena in the main event scene.

Hard disagree. Roman in 2014-2018 was superman-pushed way harder and way faster than Cena ever was. Vince gave him main event after main event and even fed him The Undertaker at Wrestlemania and none of it ever got Roman over as a face. He got booed harder than Cena ever did too, to the point where fans even booed The Rock just for helping Roman and raising his hand at the 2015 Rumble.

Roman is only more tolerable in recent years because Vince had the sense to do with Roman what he never did with Cena, and that's turn him heel.

This so much. Nothing Cena ever did came close to the regular heat face Roman got.

Honestly, one of the best moments in WWE history was Cena returning at the 2008 Rumble, getting a big pop, and the fans going "wait, we're supposed to boo him" and then booing him. It certainly didn't help that the other option to a Cena win was a HHH win and nobody wanted that.

I think people are still stuck in the "isn't it cool" part of something like Chat GPT, where most people haven't really learned how ChatGPT is actually useful.

It'll be really interesting to see something like ChatGPT develop further, because there's definitely a ton of real value to be gotten from stuff like that.

dameon_reaper posted...

I think its just different chips. Like Pokemon. Pretty useless IMO

A handful of extra minor differences, 4 has different side-character stories you play through depending on the version, and 3 has one swappable boss. other than that Meagan gets "Double Souls" or "Crosses" with the various "friends" he makes along the game which vary between version. IIRC in 3 it was required to trade with the other version to get all the chips, but in none of the later games.

Definitely a pretty minor change. Enough that each version is distinctive, but not enough to really make it worth wanting to play both unless you're a really die-hard MMBN fan.

Cool. I don't have many friends to pokemon with, so this is an easy way to get that pokedex spot since we still don't have Home connectivity for me to GTS the rest.

I never played the first or second game, so I'll definitely be picking this up... eventually.

I also still have my copy of 3 and 6, but I actually like 100+% or whatever it was those games and so I don't want to just start them over. I literally had to cheat to finish 3 with those stupid trading requirements.

SiO4 posted...

The National Audubon Society Field Guide book series is fantastic.

The Rocks and Mineral one probably changed my life.

The Rocks and Minerals one is literally so good is was one of the required books when I took a mineralogy class in University. Would 100% recommend basically any of them.

If you want old-school nature writing, basically anything by Rachel Carson is worth a read. Similarly a Sand County Almanac is another classic.

If you want to go a little tangential, I really liked The Monsanto Papers (Carey Gillam),The Uninhabitable Earth (David-Wallace Wells), Merchants of Doubt (Erik Conway and Naomi Oreskes) and This Changes Everything (Naomi Klein). The latter 3 are purely about climate change, which can sometimes produce books of sketchier quality (though those are usually the "climate change isn't real" side)

If you want to get really tangential, The Immortal Henrietta Lacks basically uses biology as a backdrop for a story about the titled woman, who basically had cells stolen from her that became HeLa cells, the "immortal" cell line that revolutionized cell biology a couple decades ago.

idk like ~10?

I think Roman is honestly being limited by how much of a focal point WWE makes him. Him being on a whole level above everyone else just makes him as a whole less interesting because you know nothing is going to change. The entire goal of like Cena and Austin were to try and convince the audience that the top star wasn't a whole level above everyone else.

If you spend a decent amount of money, anything should last quite a while. I have wireless earbuds and headphones I've used consistently for like 2-3 years now that all still work very well.

Though I've found wireless earbuds are more likely to **** up over something, they'll have smaller batteries, or some weird connection issue to mean they just never quite work for some reason (I've had issues with Samsung's wireless earbuds, though the Galaxy Buds Live I've had for like 3 years with no problem)

Just don't buy the cheap brands and you should be fine.

Norman_Smiley posted...

does she have any say in the new series? Is she a producer or something?

She's reportedly involved with the show... in some way. Probably similar to the "consultant" role she had in the movies, where she had a couple things to say but was mostly hands off.

They probably won't let her really shoehorn in any of her dumb takes in the show though. HBO isn't particularly known for their conservative slant.

BN4 was always like that. It makes it a little bit easier that the story is a fair bit shorter than the other games.

But yeah, the BN4 games are considered the worst in the series for a reason.

whateveroh posted...

Yeah, but don't you fight Medusa or something, or enemies who have powers?

Kind of? There's a handful of the mythological stuff showing up, but its pretty muted.

If you want a similar game that goes all out on the Greek Myths, look up Immortals: Fenyx Rising. Which is very much "The AC:Odyssey guys had a ton of extra cool stuff that they couldn't fit into the kind-of realistic AC vibe, so here's this game to make up for it"

This isn't even trans-hate thinly veiled as a newsworthy event. Its literally just trans-hate.

And I don't think it even actually works like that. By having some asshole who has all the benefits of being a male powerlifter completely stomp all the womens records including the trans women also competing pretty decisively shows that the trans women competing are decisively NOT the same as the men competing. That there is a huge gap between cis men and trans women, which is somehow not the conclusion of the article in the OP...

Like this article says the exact opposite of the conclusion the idiot who wrote it is trying to convey.

FearlessMango posted...

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/09/1161921856/there-are-about-3-u-s-train-derailments-per-day-they-arent-usually-major-disaste

of course this gets more news focus now due to recency bias and what happened in Ohio

IMO "3 derailments a day" tell me there is something that seriously needs to be done here tho. It doesn't matter if its just the Ohio stuff making it more clear - there is still clearly some work that needs to be done across the whole industry.

Again?

I know this was actually a semi-common occurrence before recently, but damn this is just begging for a whole top-down restructuring if we just have to expect this many train derailments as part of like, normal activity.

Supersex420 posted...

Somehow it's completely better now but maybe the live show suffers.

Yeah the new album is actually quite a bit better as far as the vocals are concerned. IIRC after he blew out his vocal chords he made a real attempt to like actually learn to sing and scream and stuff properly, when he never actually knew how to do any of that beforehand.

Supersex420 posted...

Toronto

lol wow that's so weird. I kind of just assumed they would be playing there. They are basically playing everywhere but Toronto.

Where aren't they playing?

They're going to like every big-ish city in southern Ontario, aren't they?

"You're going to challenge the Great Cthulu?!
He makes the Great Barrier Reef look like an average barrier reef"

I could see Skinner have easily finished in like the top 10 if he didn't get the bad draw to have to go up against Homer.

Nah, I'm not really a big fan of Survival Horror games like RE.

I've been playing the RE3-Make lately to try to gauge how much I enjoy these games and its just not really for me.

Solid_Sonic posted...

Well if they were doing it overtly they'd be open to lawsuits if it ever got traced back to them (technically they still are but there's plausible deniability).

Something something they're rich enough to fight it yadda yadda corrupt justice system...

Even this doesn't matter when even if these companies are caught explicitly doing this and explicitly hurting people with it, the most that would come from this is a fine that isn't worth what that company got for selling all that data to begin with.

saspa posted...

You know it's a shame too because Kassandra is actually pretty likable. The voice actress and motion capture person they got for her was great, full of personality and very vibrant. I appreciate how well they were able to animate things like kassandra rolling her eyes or looking exasperated, and if the game's story was better it would be really up there because they had a likable protagonist in Kassandra.

Even with the dumb dialogue choice decisions. Props to her for being able to sell me on jerk Kassandra and nice guy Kassandra in the same scene regardless if it makes sense.

I remember when the game first came out the two voice actors did a fun little video answering random questions on Twitter and showed both Kassandra and Alexios were just fantastic and charming all around.
https://youtu.be/FY-0Ot7rVq0

theAteam posted...

I always figured we're already past the point of no return. Like even if we're not already over the cliff we have too much momentum to stop ourselves before going over the ledge.

Part of the big issue with this is that the worst case scenario isn't "We're all gonna die" its "Life is going to get vastly worse for the people on it" and that disconnect means a lot of people simply ignore it because of stuff like

iPhone_7 posted...

Final Warning #2757973226798437

The rock that is planet earth is going to be here a couple more billion years regardless of what we do with it, but that doesn't mean it'll be remotely habitable for humans either.

This isn't a situation where we can all save the day in the 11th hour like a movie, and each of these final warnings are more "okay heres ANOTHER LEVEL OF SHIT THATS ABOUT TO GET MUCH WORSE" because we can't be bothered to do anything about it.

pegusus123456 posted...

No, I mean the quality of the writing is just worse if the cure was never going to work.

I disagree with this. I think the writing is better if a cure isn't really feasible. All the Fireflies are just clinging on to something because they have to in the bleak and depressing world they're in, like how Ellie is clinging to her immunity meaning something, and by the end of the story Joel is clinging to Ellie.

The Fireflies also just need something to keep them going.

These guys just seem to get worse and worse with every new piece of info that comes out.

Undoubtedly, given the comic seemed to get similar levels of hate that Velma did just for existing.

And comic fans are way worse than like, Scooby doo fans. Scooby Doo has had so many reboots and shit it doesn't usually lead to much issue when a character changes (see: Fred changes basically every iteration), Velma just wasn't very good on top of that. Also cutting the dog out is like "wtf is that". Velma is really obviously a completely unrelated show that got a Scooby Doo coat of paint because some studio exec thought it would sell better.

I am not star fire was directed at a different audience than typical comic readers. And to many of them, that sin is unforgivable.

Hoodroar posted...

In his tweets it's mentioned that only 24% of its players beat it, so it's not just a matter of finishing and moving on.

for big open world games stuffed with filler like Hogwarts Legacy its usually more "get bored and move on" than "finish and move on"

This sounds like most single-player hyped games that end up only just being okay. It's played for a couple weeks, and then people finish it, decide there's nothing else to do and put it down. Maybe there's an extra week or two of play while people try to like 100% them or something.

Elden Ring still gets played because it's considered a legitimately phenomenal game.

This was always going to happen. This is what happened with like, Assassins Creed Valhalla, The REmakes, The Quarry, etc...

Its silly to pretend that Hogwarts Legacy behaving the way you would typically expect given gaming trends towards single player games is some kind of slight against it.

For the PS3/Vita they made remakes of the Sly Cooper Games on PS2, and in order to get those platinums you basically just had to complete the game. And there was a platinum for all three sly games, for both PS3 and Vita.

The Telltale Walking Dead Collectors Edition (Which was the whole series, so all 4 games) gave you a platinum literally just for completing the game. Nothing extra, no collectables or anything like that, just play through the game one time.

I don't think there's necessarily a problem with just retiring the term, though it would need to be replaced with something else. And the video's suggestion of "turn-based" RPG isn't bad, though then there are some iffy ones in there. Though "Character-Driven" or "Narrative" RPGs are just bad.

There are multiple types of RPG for a reason, and the people who like Final Fantasy 7 won't necessarily like Dark Souls, just because they're both RPGs. I get wanting to change the name because the J can be misleading, but it still serves a useful purpose to explain a certain type of RPG and needs to stick around in some sense.

And this might be recency bias, but "JRPG" doesn't mean "RPG from Japan" its a very specific style of RPG. and is subject to whatever random trends the larger gaming community goes through. Of ****ing course Undertale is a JRPG. And like every other genre, it'll be subjected to whatever whims of the community think is cool at that moment. Open-World collect-a-thon Action games are ****ing everywhere right now, and most of them suck. But that's the cool thing right now so they'll be made until they aren't popular anymore.

I haven't actually seen the finale for the show yet, but in the game the Joel is obviously 100% in the wrong. He does it for sympathetic reasons, but its absolutely in the wrong.

And then Joel throws the sympathetic reasons away and makes them selfish with the worst thing he does, when Ellie asks him to tell her the truth, Joel lies to her face, and Ellie knows.

Probably medium-ish length. Its looking like I very much need a haircut, but haven't gone out of my way to get one yet.

Though I think the show did a really good job of illustrating that there aren't really important sections of the first game with the actual zombies.

All the important plot points are about Joel and Ellie's conflicts with other people, the zombies are in the game to add some extra gameplay and be the setting and that's it. And that's something the show doesn't need. That's not to say they couldn't have been used more, but like, they don't actually matter that much.

The important things the zombies did in the game were also in the show, it just turns out that the only plot-relevant things the zombies did were A) Infecting Tess, and B) Infecting Sam.

lww99 posted...

Im curious to see how theyll handle the dogs for part 2.

those were so damn stressful in the game.

Or the ****ing wall zombies. Literally the worst part of part 2.

Pikachuchupika posted...

Stephanie Hsu should have won supporting actress. She killed it in the movie. Jamie lee was good, but did not have the presence that Stephanie did.

Honestly, I'm surprised Jamie Lee was even nominated for that. Like yeah she was good, but she wasn't like remotely close enough to the main story I'd really count her as an important supporting character.

Pokemon Yellow, so like 1999-ish?

I bought a Pixel 6a around the holidays this year, so I'm good for another couple years.

We're at the point where there's really not much upgrading going on year-to-year so there's really not as much a reason to upgrade so often.

The only reason I upgraded from my last phone was that the battery was basically shot.

Yeah the idea is the guy currently spreading that rumor is pretty unreliable.

That said, Wyatt has been pretty cringe basically since he came back, so not like, a huge surprise.

If y'all didn't know, Brendan Fraser just won the oscar for best Actor for The Whale.

In case anyone didn't know what was going on here

I bought 2k22, so not unless its on a big sale or like ends up like crazy well-reviewed or something.

I think I'll use them like, once every couple years or so when either a lot of people are coming over, or its like, a picnic or something and you're eating outside.

I don't really know what other reasons there are to use paper plates.

Its hard to really be that upset at GRRM. I imagine he doesn't have the slightest idea how to tie the story together either, and after seeing how bad the reception was to the show (that GRRM like, gave notes for or an outline or something like that IIRC after they ran out of books) that it might just not be worth bothering to try and finish, since its kind of impossible to live up to the hype.

Questionmarktarius posted...

There may not be a PS6, or Xbox whatever.
Maybe a "Pro" for the existing generation, but that's it. If games start appearing that explicitly do not support XSS, then we know it's happening.

I could see PS6/next-next-gen Xbox to be basically the last ones actually. I think there's a little bit where PS5/XSX still struggle, with stuff like 4K and 60+fps and raytracing and whatever altogether. But going much beyond that is where the changes really get into the "is it really worth upgrading more" territory.

And also, just money. Who cares if the PS7 isn't actually any better than the PS6 in any way you could actually tell?

The highly-anticipated game based off of a popular UK property sold incredibly well in the UK?

Colour me shocked.

Supersex420 posted...

I hear it's not the best game in the world

Yeah its supposed to be pretty meh. Which is funny to me because if the people most upset about the game would just like, shut up for a little bit, the entire discourse would just kind of die because the game isn't interesting enough to carry the hype.

MarthGoomba posted...

Because that's what we are discussing

It's poor value to pay a subscription fee just for most of your library to be temporary and give you even worse value when you want to play DLC. You're ALWAYS better off just buying the games you want individually.

Absolutely not. There are countless games on Gamepass that would fall under the category of "not worth the price, but definitely a good game". That game you'll play for maybe 10-15 hours, but once you finish you put it down and never pick it up again.

Definitely a good game, but will that game be worth $40, $50, $60? Probably not, especially if there are also a dozen other available games that fall into the same category. With a $15/month sub fee, you can play all of them instead of waiting a year or more for them to like, show up at a used game story, maybe for a more reasonable price.