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Starks posted...

AI is unleashing decades worth of new ideas that people weren't creative enough to draw themselves.

AI has had no effect on people's creativity. It's just that when the ideas for what you typically see in AI art popped into our heads, those of us with creative talent always had to ask ourselves if it was actually worth our time and effort to produce it. The answer was almost universally 'no.'

Rharyx211 posted...

Disney deserves to lose even more money if they keep pumping out garbage that feels like it was written by AI.

"I need that map."
"That's too bad."

As much as I loathe to praise the machines, AI honestly could've done a better job.

Squall28 posted...

I wonder how they're gonna reconcile the adults not having these other emotions in the first one.

It's a big stretch, but it could be that since the movie is largely Riley's POV, she (and by extension the viewer) can only perceive others as having her own limited range of 5 emotions.

roos1046_Reborn posted...

She looks like him wearing a wig.

Now you cannot unsee the two of them repeatedly saying 'wow' to each other during sex.

LearntoRead posted...

I can't watch it where I am not, but I for anything that gives Lewis Black more money.

The irony between username and post here is off the charts.

Reminds me of a great old joke about a rabbi getting the mother of all nitpicky tax audits.

Auditor: "So, what do you do with all the candle drippings?"
Rabbi: "Well, we send them back to the candle factory, and when they have enough, they send us back a free box of candles."
Auditor: "So, what do you do with all the matzo crumbs?"
Rabbi: "Well, we send those off to the matzo factory, and when they have enough, they send us back a free box of matzo balls."
Auditor: "Alright then...what do you do with all the foreskins?"
Rabbi: "Well, we send those off to the IRS, and when they have enough, they send us back a little prick like you."

When reached for comment, Wilson was quoted as saying "Jetski"

FortuneCookie posted...

It's weird to see actual deaths come about because of the ghost's arrival. They kinda shied away from that in the previous films and this one is like, "People fuckin' froze to death!"

I just hope the villain is anyone but Gozer. They are way too dependent on him/her/them.

I get the vibe that they're going to veer even harder into the Stranger Things-esque comedy / horror blend than they did in Afterlife. Which to me is fine, even if it reeks of 'that's what's popular now;' I like the new cast, but I don't think they can carry a pure comedy on their own, let alone one on the level of the OG Ghostbusters. As long as it's at least something fresher than Afterlife's nostalgia-fest, I'll consider it a marked improvement.

For the record, I didn't hate Afterlife; I liked parts of it, and saw there was potential for better movies in this framework. When given the choice between having my fandom shamelessly fellated (Afterlife) or aggressively shat upon (Ghostbusters 2016), I'm probably gonna lean towards the former.

>Downloads update
>Fires up the game
>Selects Funky Kong
>Race starts, hits the gas
>"AHHH, N-N-N-N-N-NAIII!!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCKT5U7rHp8

I'll definitely give it a shot, even though Pixar sequels outside of Toy Story don't have the best track record with me.

"Friends? Ha! These are my only friends: grown-up nerds like Gore Vidal. And even he's kissed more boys than I ever will."
"Girls, Lisa. Boys kiss girls."

Ryven posted...

3, The last battle is a 1v1 instead of a massive pirate ship battle royale which, with every ship lined up seemed like it was heading towards

I agree with everything else you posted, but my god was this ever a massive letdown in particular. For some reason I never think of Pirates 3 alongside other mid-00's threequel letdowns (X-Men 3, Spidey 3, Revenge of the Sith, Matrix 3), so I appreciate you reminding me.

Come to think of it, I'm more inclined to agree with the OP now that I remember I liked Dead Man's Chest pretty well, and the only reason I don't spare a thought for it nowadays is because At World's End caused me to retroactively dislike it.

Admittedly it might be because I watched the show piecemeal before sitting down to watch it from start to finish, but the Randy Newman theme fits the show perfectly imo.

People say I'm crazy
'cuz I worry all the time.
If you paid attention,
You'd be worried too!

Shishiwakamaru posted...

I do remember one newer episode where they do a throwback to the original theme song at the end which was cool.

They did that specifically as a gag to make fun of purist fans who couldn't accept change (iirc it was a whole meta-bit with Sarah Silverman's obsessed fan character).

Not for nothing, but I can pinpoint the exact moment I knew I liked TO:R more than FFT, and that was when (Big Tactics Ogre: Reborn spoilers) Vyce gets executed in the Chaotic path. I've always hated Delita, I especially hated TO's 'Delita-but-smarmier' version of the archetype, and I was so pleasantly surprised and overjoyed when he got exactly what was coming to him for playing the game of thrones as far over his own head as he did. And of course the cherry on top is that he comes back as a random zombie during Cressida's big rescue mission, just in case you thought his pan-the-camera-away death scene left any ambiguity.

bobbaaay posted...

No waaaaay. I hate the PSP version - but that orchestral soundtrack is second only to SOTN in its greatness.

I did specify 'might' because I haven't played TO:R long enough compared to FFT to form a fair opinion on the soundtrack.

VeggetaX posted...

Does the game have unique special classes and cameo guest characters?

Yes to the first, and unlike Cloud, Cressida is actually well worth the effort to recruit. So the second isn't really that big of a selling point in actuality.

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After the Switch version came along and fixed my biggest issues with the PSP release, I'm finally and surprisingly inclined to agree.

FFT might still have the edge on soundtrack, though.

MatzoTov posted...

When's the last time a movie came out that was not a sequel, remake, reboot, continuation, or contain some semblance of the phrase, "based on true events?"

Creativity is dead. It's easier to just repackage old shit for nostalgia over actually creating new stories. People will watch it regardless.

Today I learned that pillars of auteur-driven 70's filmmaking such as Dog Day Afternoon (based on true events) and Apocalypse Now (remake of Heart of Darkness) were creatively bankrupt.

My parents will probably love this, they adore that show. Plus a post-pandemic Mr. Monk is a wellspring of material in and of itself.

Large Marge is like Peter Griffin's dad: the Pope himself could tell her to take it down a notch and she wouldn't miss a beat labeling him a Christian in Name Only.

I never really cared for FFT's story all that much, I was there for the gameplay. You don't like that opinion? Blame yourself or God.

Soooo...Republicans want to do everything in their power to keep anti-Republican voter turnout sky-high for the next several years? Bold strategy, Cotton.

A (seemingly) original plot, the remaining OGs (seemingly) having meatier roles this time around, Patton Oswalt, and Kumail Nanjiani? I'm definitely intrigued.

Plus I liked the new cast they brought in for Afterlife; the only real letdown was that they didn't have much to work with outside of retreading the plot of the original and an endless parade of memberberries.

Rick and Morty s3. Loved the first season, really wasn't feeling the second season overall, and I'm surprised I made it as far as I did into season 3.

One Punch Man s2. Just kinda lost interest. It felt like the show was starting to go a lot harder into making the whole hero organization the focal plot, which felt like the exact type of thing OPM was parodying to begin with.

Welp, guess this is going to be the first Wednesday in years where I won't have a new ZP ep to watch. RIP.

mystic_belmont posted...

The best thing about Republicans losing the abortion issue is they won't learn. The Republicans will just keep pushing.

Inability to adapt to a changing environment is a core trait of conservativism.

I know it's been awhile, right, but I'm not gonna get humped by a giant red gorilla in space, okay? No thank you.

I guess the tokens were fungleble after all.

I can definitely agree that I liked V's story more than IV. But I never really cared for IV's story, like, at all. V at least had its moments.

I liked V, but in all the years since I finally played it all the way through, I haven't had much impulse to revisit it. I got into the main series for the story first and gameplay second, if that; and anytime I found myself looking for rich job class-centric gameplay, the Tactics series scratched that itch far better.

Final Fantasy 6: Deathgaze. Don't ask me why, but being randomly attacked by that fucker while flying has freaked me out ever since I was a kid, to the point where I always beeline straight to Thamasa to stock up on Holy Rods after getting the Falcon, and immediately troll the skies for as long as it takes for him to show up just so I can get him dealt with asap.

Majora's Mask: anything involving or even remotely adjacent to Goron Rolling.

Yeah, it's funny how Thanos singlehandedly made everyone forget that the MCU was routinely chided for having shitty undercooked villains for the better part of a decade.

Guide posted...

You think it's funny?

You think it's funny if I write "feces-laden card"?

Are you gonna laugh reading "ass alphabet"?

Does the concept of "P-mail" amuse you?

You think that's funny, huh?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0c0fb5bb.jpg

Shadow_Don posted...

Its just crazy how uninformed they are.

So you want to throw out half the agriculture industry and push the country into a famine? Brilliant idea.

Well, of course! Then they get to blame that on those gal-durned immegants as well!

Gotta pay for that $30M-per-ep final season of Stranger Things somehow.

Heartomaton posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d5b63e04.jpg

Aquaman: "Th,they're nipple guards for running. Olympic athletes use them!"

R1masher posted...

Why is the pic upside down?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/38142f82.jpg

Error started making trouble in my neighborhood!

TheSavageDragon posted...

"Holding up" implies it was ever any good to begin with

Pretty much. The first movie had some potential in that the opening hour was about as close of a 1:1 book-to-movie adaptation as you could possibly hope for, but things quickly spiraled out of control after that point. It's hard for me to imagine going into the third movie with high expectations.

Pretty shocking, but not entirely so. I've been getting subtle hints lately that an 'end of an era' moment was coming when he started prefacing videos with the 'subscribe to my Patreon for the uncensored version because I'm tired of caving to Youtube's policies' bit. Hell, I didn't even realize he'd stopped saying 'fuck' until he pointed it out.

At any rate, I'll be very interested to see where he lands and will do what I can to support him. Hopefully all the old vids stay up on Youtube - those year-long compilations are my go-to background noise.

Zero Punctuation

But you're not focusing on the positives of AI, like...*checks notes* writing my term papers for me, and churning out weird Elsa art.

Incidentally, my grandparents were swindled out of thousands by a similar scam that didn't yet have the benefit of AI voicework. Can't wait for this to become the norm.

Anis? Does she have a sister named Vagena?

Heartomaton posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/aab9223f.jpg

This is high in the running for the all-time stupidest meme I've ever laughed my ass off at.

The middle two eps of the season almost killed my interest. I think Renslayer as a character became a complete waste of time after her S1 arc was over, and my reaction to her getting unceremoniously pruned towards the end of ep 4 was just "yep, that's fitting." Plus at some point I was watching these two (two and a half?) factions fighting over who got to have the honors of flipping the switch on the big sci-fi contraption, and it dawned on me that "holy shit this is just Fallout 3's water purifier plot all over again;" I almost nope'd hard out of the show at that point.

Ep 5 has me interested again, though. It was some nice character-building, and it finally resolved the primary nagging question I've had this entire season, which was 'seriously, why does Loki suddenly give this much of a shit about the TVA and protecting lives?" It wasn't a particularly profound motivation reveal, but it was sweet nonetheless.

Got the Covid shot 4-6 weeks ago. Just scheduled my flu shot for this afternoon, incidentally; a bug is going around my office, hopefully it's not too late.