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SilvosForever posted...

I remember thinking Eric Clapton was one of the great musicians out there.

Then you learn about all the racist tirades on stage etc.......it's a fucking shame.

Yeah, this one stings. I'd always romanticized his life - especially how he wrote the song of his career to steal George Harrison's wife - but a documentary I watched a few years back de-mystified all that. That same documentary covered the racist tirades, but...well, he was drunk off his ass for that entire decade, and I personally don't put much stock in in vino veritas, so I was willing to give him a pass as long as it was behind him. But his recent anti-vaxx crusades put the nail in the coffin towards admitting that yes, sadly, he's exactly that breed of asshole.

SimulationSwarm posted...

I wonder what his approval rating here in Florida is currently. Things are about to get so shitty here with school starting and prices going up everywhere for shit

I can only speak anecdotally, but it fluctuates with the wind. I have relatives who one month claimed he made them ashamed to be Republican, and in another they were fawning over how he'd make such a good POTUS.

SimulationSwarm posted...

Same, and I say this as a Floridian. Everyone involved in his campaign is dogshit and I want to see their careers go down in flames.

I'm with you there, bruddah. Living under DeSantis' rule during the pandemic was revelatory; it was the first time in my life I was ever conscious of a politician's grandstanding incompetence directly threatening the health and safety of myself and my family.

Super IV is the only Classicvania I ever really got into, but that was a damn good game. I wouldn't mind seeing a revival.

It's okay-to-good. A solid kids movie. Didn't quite have the charm / heart of the Sonic movies (shocking thing for a Ninty fanboy to admit).

Still, the live-action SMB movie left me genuinely depressed as a kid, so the new one is at least a huge and welcome step up from that.

And now for another round of 'find the political bias in Monolith's topics...' ...oh, nevermind, it's right there in the topic title. Bit of a letdown, really.

Kaldrenthebold posted...

Whomever was on his team telling him to keep chewing that culture fat in Florida for years really fucked him up. I mean, I'm sure he did it all himself, but if people were telling him this atrocious fascist shit would work well on the national stage, they should be shit canned.

Well, that's exactly what propelled him into the national spotlight in a 'no such thing as bad press' kind of way, with Fox propping him up as the next big thing and CNN writing piece after piece about how dangerous he'd be; otherwise no one would've paid attention to him. But like you said, if he was smart, he would've pivoted away from that once he stepped on the national stage in earnest and adopted the 'sane, reasonable alternative to Trump' veneer that myself and others feared the most.

Thankfully, he's quite the opposite of smart. At this point I think he's a true believer of years of Republican propaganda - someone who genuinely believes the 'silent majority' has been waiting for a white savior like him to rise up and lead them towards taking the country back. I doubt he has even an ounce of conniving political savvy, and just got lucky as hell that A) the majority of Floridian voters are, well, Floridians, and B) the pandemic handed him a golden opportunity to paint himself as a big man against those snooty libruls and their public health measures.

"Donald, honey, please don't make me wear the Hillary mask again..."

itcheyness posted...

Yes, but now people are paying attention to him and realizing how weird and off-putting he is.

He's also veering even further right than Trump on policy, which is killing his chances at broader appeal. Policies he thinks he can defend with the same blind whiny stubbornness as Trump, yet without an ounce of charisma to sell them.

Gotta be honest, I have never been more invested in seeing someone's political aspirations fail than Ron DeSantis. And while I certainly won't count my chickens before they hatch, the past couple of months have been very rewarding.

Not weird in the slightest. It is however WRONG! Wrong-wrong-wrong-wrong, wrong wrong, wrong wo-wroooong!

BakonBitz posted...

Probably just so they can have a more accurate depiction of the source material, since as someone said they had to cut a lot of stuff for the movie and also (IIRC) had an entirely different ending.

IIRC the final showdown and conclusion were more-or-less the same on the larger beats. It's just that a noteworthy percentage of the moviegoing audience walked away thinking that Knives was just as good if not a better match for Scott than Ramona; for a number of reasons, the books don't leave you with that ambiguity. One of those cases where you can't expect to reach the same destination when you cut out a good chunk of the journey.

I don't mind Vivi taking this. I don't have the undying love for IX the way some people do, but he's definitely the game's best character; I like Tifa better, but from the start she was kind of the 'expected' character to win, and it'd be nice to shake things up even a little. Unlike the Simpsons, there's no obvious single best character like Homer in the FF franchise, so it didn't feel right that the results of this tourney would similarly feel like a foregone conclusion (if that makes any sense).

BewmHedshot posted...

Just one?

He clearly also has a choking / breathplay fetish. Those are his hands *Inglorious Basterds spoilers* choking Bridget von Hammersmark to death, resulting in Diane Kruger being choked to unconsciousness irl. When Conan asked him about it during an interview he quipped that the did it 'for sexual gratification' in a way that clearly wasn't 100% in jest.

Now admittedly I'm only about halfway through TotK at this point and things could change by the end, but I'm not nearly as compelled by the story this time around as I was with BotW. Zelda in particular; in BotW she was actually an interesting character when she was a headstrong yet insecure tech-nerd, but as is often the case she's eventually reduced to a bland archetype who has all her problems solved by praying really hard and having light magic come out. The latter seems to be 100% her character in TotK; between that and past sages over-explaining very obvious things, TotK's eponymous tears are thus far waaaay less interesting than BotW's memories.

The tears also suffer more from being revealed out of order. BotW's memories were more character-building vignettes, whereas the tears are more of a mystery unfolding; so when one of the first tears I discover on my own just happens to be Ganondorf knifing Queen Sonia, it doesn't really serve the intended reveals as well.

Oh, it's not a swindle. What you do is, see... you give Twitter all your personal identification numbers... and if one of them is lucky, they'll send you a prize!

I'd have to agree. I like and even love a lot of the improvements TotK has made, but it hasn't grabbed me like BotW did; BotW was literally a 'let the dishes pile up in the sink for a month' experience.

Plus exploration is a key selling point of both games, and the aesthetics of a vast, beautiful world are a big part of exploration; TotK kinda fucks this up with random floating shit perpetually hanging in the skyline and giant oozing holes everywhere.

rexcrk posted...

Apparently thats part of the appeal

It's a dedicated sub-fetish, yes. Personally I can't stand dirty feet.

(I feel like there's a pun in that last sentence that I'm not clever enough to do anything with)

Gritty posted...

Bruh

you people are not ones to talk

I'm forced to ask, both seriously and ironically, "what do you mean by 'you people?'"

An elderly, ailing Democrat / liberal clinging to her position of power long after she should have retired, what could possibly go wrong?

Pay Respects to Biden.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Why do her feet look dirty in that right pic? >_>

What would you expect them to look like if she's walking around barefoot in a 70's-era movie theater?

The only person who remembers Andrew Cuomo is the driver of the bus under which he was thrown.

I put up a pretty good fight against a King Gleeok when I decided to fly over to the platform above Eventide Island for funsies. Maybe had 9 or 10 hearts and mid equipment, managed to get it down to half health without using any Keese eyeballs.

Later I finally decided to put my nose to the grindstone and beat an Ice one (it was flying around the snow plains near the Hebra fairy fountain and I knew I'd have to ferry the musicians in that general direction, didn't want to take any chances). So far that's the only one I've beaten.

What really grinds my gears is the last phase of the fight where they fly up into the stratosphere beyond the reach of even a long-range Keese bowshot. How the fuck are you supposed to even get to them? I just barely managed to Autobuild a hoverbike and get it off the ground before getting pummeled with Ice-Meteor, and I know that's not the intended method. Are you supposed to Recall the giant icicles and ride them up to it? (I didn't think to do that during the fight and it just dawned on me while typing this post that that's probably the solution).

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MM has a couple standout tracks, but a good chunk of its soundtrack is nauseating, almost to a literal degree. Granted that's the tone they were going for in certain areas, but that doesn't make it any more palatable. I added the full MM soundtrack to my playlist some years back, and after a while I ended up deleting the majority of it because I couldn't stand listening to it anymore.

BotW gets unfairly shit on for its soundtrack being too minimalist, when it's packed with excellent tracks that stand among the franchise best imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj07-YU5cTk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yR7B7nwD3k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDCctvADCQI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVDGXXIq4b4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYOpjK1ZriI

Don't get me wrong, I'm still a huge fan of ye olde midi soundtracks, but a MM song that's so simple by design that you can play it on an in-game ocarina can't really hold a candle to the sweeping orchestral majesty of BotW's best.

For all his many, many, many many many many many other terrible faults, Trump was (and presumably still is) pro-vaxx. This is one of the main reasons I consider DeSantis to be a more dangerous candidate, assuming we're unlucky enough to ever have him get said candidacy off the ground.

Akuryu posted...

So are they just remaking the 2010 film in animation? Same cast, writers, etc. Edger Wright producing. What's the point? The 2010 movie is great. Can just watch that.

The source material was heavily truncated; Books 4, 5, and 6 were largely omitted from the movie. A series would likely be a more faithful adaptation by simple virtue of having more time to tell it.

I am intrigued. My chief complaint with the movie was that there was simply too much material to cover in a feature-length film, and the vast majority of my favorite book got cut out.

Plus I'll probably be more forgiving of the various miscasts if they're just providing voicework.

Mearcstapa posted...

You just know Trump's campaign is going to slap the mugshot on their merch and the MAGAs will wear it like a badge of honor.

Oh, most definitely. But it will still be a major blow to Trump's ego. For the vast majority of Republicans, the fetishization of rebel / outlaw culture loses its luster once you yourself become an actual criminal. Hell, seeing his ugly mugshot plastered all over t-shirts and banners at his rallies might end up demoralizing him even further.

BunkerBoy posted...

He won't let them. He's going to look terrible in it. Mugshots don't airbrush or primp you

Trump will have about as much control over this as he had convincing his base that yes, the Covid vaccine is in fact a good thing. The cult he created is a runaway train at this point, and he has no actual power to steer it; he just happens to be going to the same direction 99% of the time.

"I used to hate the smell of your sweaty feet. Now it's the smell of victory!"
"...Oh, shut up."

Let's all take a moment and spare a thought for poor DeSantis and all the other Republican POTUS hopefuls, who cream their pants nightly over being able to bury Trump by chanting 'LOCK HIM UP' with the rest of us, but are forced to toe party lines and fellate Donnie with this 'political weaponization' bullshit narrative so that they don't upset his voting base that they're desperately trying to poach.

And now let's point and laugh at them, because a single thought spared was more than they deserve.

I've been doing some thinking, and I got some ideas to improve the prequels. Uh, one: Padme needs to be louder, angrier and have access to a time machine. Two: Whenever Padme's not on screen... all the other characters should be asking, "Where's Padme?"

I see we've finally reached the point of the topic where most of the posts start mysteriously disappearing.

Jupiter posted...

My only knowledge of Aerith comes from FF7:R which I just played and beat a couple months ago. Gonna go with Aerith. I don't dislike Tidus, but I loved Aerith's fun personality when she was traveling with Cloud in the slums.

I gotta ask: did they keep the bit where she's huffing and puffing to keep up with Cloud and he teases her with "funny, I thought you were supposed to be cut out for SOLDIER?"

GATTJT posted...

Well, Tidus put up a hell of a fight, but unless there's a last minute surge, looks like he's a goner

He certainly did a hell of a lot better than I thought he would, given CE's habit of never looking past 'AH HA HA HA HA.'

TheGoldenEel posted...

I mean, the shrines in this game just have you use the same four items over and over again.

first in a possibly interesting way as a tutorial, then one more time as a challenge

lets not pretend this game doesnt have a strict formula it adheres to, that is basically exactly the same as the previous game

This doesn't contradict the point I made about the 'traditional' items / abilities becoming useless outside their respective dungeons, which was the larger point. This was becoming a major series problem by Twilight Princess and even Wind Waker (the latter of which seemed to go out of its way to limit the number of surfaces the Hookshot could actually attach to, nevermind the fact that you didn't get it until the ass-end of the game). I didn't even bother playing Skyward Sword, which should tell you how stale the 'traditional' Zelda formula was getting for me at that point.

PraetorXyn posted...

I was going to say, the gall to call a linear game bloated when comparing it to an open world game thats actually a few hours long and padded to fill out a hundred plus hours.

As much as I hate to rain on your parade of landing a prize-winning contradiction, 'traditional' Zelda dungeons (particularly in the 3D eras onward) end up feeling bloated because you are more or less stuck there until you complete them. The reason why myself and others saw the Shrine formula as a breath of fresh air is both their bite-sized approach to puzzle solving and the fact that they are optional, stumble-upon, and the vast majority can be done in any order.

And judging by your earlier complaint that you'll never 100% BotW due to the Korok Seeds - a mechanic that so painfully obviously serves as a deconstruction of the standard collect-a-thons, in which a ridiculously large total amount of collectibles is available yet the bar of functional in-game rewards so relatively low that you will find more than enough organically, and not only are you never incentivized to collect them all, the game actually razzes you for doing so - BotW's 'bloat' might just be a you problem.

lucariopikmin posted...

Great way to make sure that no one takes your opinion serious. You're nothing special whatsoever, you're not a "real" fan and you won't be missed by anyone.

After all these years since the release of BotW (and with the same attitudes repeating themselves with TotK), I still want to see the Venn Diagram between the people who espouse the following:

A) "Games shouldn't strive for mass appeal. Try to please everyone and you end up pleasing no one."
B) "BotW / TotK, hailed as masterpieces by many, didn't appeal to me personally; I therefore conclude that they are trash games, and everyone who likes them are sheep, and all the reviewers are paid shills, etc."

PraetorXyn posted...

Unfortunately, the lemmings love the new direction, so thats what Nintendo is going with, and Zelda is basically dead to me.

Speaking as someone who's been a fan of the series for at least as long as you have and loves the current direction of the series, please let the door hit your ass on the way out.

Pretty much sums up my feelings about it:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/8/6/AARIckAAEwSy.jpg

Tyranthraxus posted...

What's a punkf?

*Dusts off my Sean Connery impersonation*

"The day is mine, Trebek!"

cjsdowg posted...

did he call Mulan a heifer ?

One of Mushu's running gags is that he thinks Mulan's horse is a cow. "Dishonor on your cow" is my favorite joke from that movie.

5'10", 270 lbs.

our allies are appalled with what's going on here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQwPeHctfw8&t=30s

"It's a miracle!"
"No, Ultrasuede is a miracle, this is just good timing."

Starks posted...

If not for two switches, adult ocarina of time would have been almost entirely open world.

Yet ocarina is still better because it was linear and motivating.

I've said for years that if the entirety of OoT's playtime was like its middle 3rd, it would be the GOAT Zelda. But it isn't.

radical_rhino posted...

buffets were only worth it when I was a teenager/early 20s and could eat a ton without getting fat.

This, except that they did make me fat in my early 20's.

"I imagined the scenario perfectly in my mind, therefore it is not a mere hypothetical." - ejolson, probably

bluezero posted...

"Pig fucker" also doesn't work

Have you tried "Bear fucker" yet?

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

There are Korok seeds, shrines, bubble gems, and hidden items all over the map, what do you mean no rewards?

He's probably talking about horizontal growth, i.e. new abilities and things that change how you play the game and interact with the world. Which TotK does have; not as much as a 'traditional' Zelda game with Hookshots and Power Gloves, but at least more than BotW. A few things that come to mind are the Autobuild ability, the robot sage companion, and armor with certain abilities, such as the tunic that lets you last in the Gloom for a few seconds before taking damage.