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KommunistKoala posted...

meanwhile trailer for Rock/Ryan Reynolds Uncharted also came out today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj0wz7zu3Ms

this is like the Hitman's Bodyguard but Uncharted

gonna love it


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That looks alright as a movie but it didn't feel like I was looking at Nathan Drake or Sully

Actually, if I squint hard, it looks like a very young inexperienced baby Drake and an older more experienced Drake (but certainly not Sully old and experienced).

It's like watching Suits where I feel like I'm looking at young Jeff Winger and older more experienced Jeff Winger Jeff Winger.

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Ballad of Fallen Angels is one of the greatest anime episodes of all time, I had to go rewatch it immediately after I saw this trailer. Still holds up

I never connected with Ed and Ein though. I wonder if there was something I was missing and if I would feel differently today.

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concernedape too busy being willy wonka over here to give me adjustable day lengths for multiplayer in stardew >:|

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man i came in here and thought you were all raving about BBIG, but it's some other stock i didn't see any prior chatter about what the heck guys

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How long was book 2 released online over? Is it the same length as book 1? It felt like book 2 ending came so fast as I read through

I noticed you took Book 1 down from being free online - I'm curious how that works out, switching from free to play to premium purchase. Are you concerned new readers wont dive in now that it's not freely accessible or do you think you'll reach even more people with these published releases?

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that was awesome

i agree that the acting is over the top, but this certainly just looks like an over the top wink at the camera trailer on purpose. it's intentionally stylized after the intro, and I expect the tone to match this trailer about as much as Cowboy Bebop actually matched its intro.

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well like always i buy board 8 meme stocks without the slightest bit of due diligence so i was already in lets go to the moon boys

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$175 cloudflare dafuq

I keep thinking I should cash out before this thing tanks, and it did tank a bit, but it just keeps going up. it's gotta crash after earnings like you said right Menji????

whats the deal with this BBIG. it sounds like you believe it somehow has both meme potential and good long term fundamentals? It's doubled recently which feels like its gonna be like all the other Board 8 meme stocks that I buy into and crash in the next week or two

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Mobilezoid posted...

Why explode them at all, in every previous game they just shot them.

I liked Squid Game but didn't love it. Most of the games were needlessly unfair or too RNG-based. The main dude was lame the whole way through (North Korean girl was the best and should've won). It was a neat concept overall, just could've been executed way better.

https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Epic-Handshake.jpg

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I'm a little perplexed why people seem to love it so much. I originally wrote the reaction off as being a lot of peoples first asian death game and they are stunned and engrossed in the violence, which is fine. Red Light Green Light is pretty brutal if you aren't expecting it and that can get you pretty invested in watching through to the end. The tenseness of people trying to complete a mundane task and having people brutally murdered next to you can be very impactful, which the first two games delivered on.

But its getting SO many positive reviews everywhere, it's way more than I'd expect. IMO, as someone whos seen a lot of these types of games, the games mostly weren't very interesting themselves - it was only the fact that people are dying and the impact that's having that makes it gripping. So obviously that makes this show look weak compared to something that accomplishes that tenseness while also having interesting games.

But mostly importantly.... the characters and writing were really bad. There's a couple characters that are aight, but the main character in particular is so unbelievably unlikeable - which is fine as a character trait, but he never grows or changes or even really understands anything about the nature of the situation he's in. He just alternates from acting pathetically selfish to pathetically incompetent but optimistic about teamwork. The ending was particularly bad - he fails as a character in so many ways I can't even keep count. Spitting on the memory and wishes of everyone else by going into a catatonic state and not using they money and therefore not helping anybody, completely being unable to have any sort of rational discussion with the old man, not at all stepping up to be a dad to his daughter or to whatshernames brother, then actually deciding to do something with his life... and just dumping the brother on another person to deal with, AND bailing on his daughter again right after getting her hopes up that he's coming to see her, and then finally thinking he's going to do something "badass" by coming after the organization after being clueless and helpless the entire games and completely flopping his opportunity to talk with the person who literally organized the games. What is he going to accomplish? He's the most proven worthless player in the games, but somehow the show wants us to believe other wise. All of these things I just complained about arent' necessarily bad endings for a character like this - a pathetic character can continue to be pathetic. But the show doesn't seem to want us to think he's pathetic - we are supposed to root for this guy and think that he does have genuinely good merits, and that he did the right thing in the end, and that he's actually going to do something about that organization in the sequel bait. Ugh. This is all just a nightmare.

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NFUN posted...

starting at the last good season is a genius strategy

I think it's a way better strategy than starting something bad and getting turned off. The main reason it's so good for this is that the Eleventh Hour is a really good fresh start for someone who hasn't seen anything before.

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Definitely start with the reboot

You can either start with the first episode of the first season, which is the 9th Doctor, or you could start with the first episode of season 5, which is the first episode of the 11th Doctor - the Eleventh Hour.

My experience with the series was that I randomly saw a commercial about an upcoming season premiere and it looked interesting. I didn't know anything about Doctor Who at the time. I watched it and it was wonderful. It hinted at so much beyond while accomplishing so much else within the episode. It felt like a fresh start. Turned out it was the season 5 premiere. I watched that season and absolutely loved it. The 11th Doctor will always be *my* Doctor because of this.

I eventually went back and watched season 1-4. Honestly, the first episode of season 1 sucks ass. I was blown away how bad it was. I'm so glad that wasn't my introduction to the series. The 9th Doctor is fantastic, but that ep didn't do him any favours. Still, I'm glad I watched s1-4 too, they are excellent.

Starting with season 1 will be fine but just go into it realizing the first episode won't be good and the season will be pretty hit or miss in general.

Personally, I have yet to get into the old stuff. It looks like it could be good but I keep trying to start from the beginning and watch what I can find, but it's not really hitting for me. The right thing to do might be to just jump around to different Doctors and see highlights but it's pretty overwhelming.

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I'm also out.

Things I liked:

• the ringworld is awesome and exactly the kind of scientific wonder I love about the outer wilds
• the owl elk people are visually neat and fit in the Outer Worlds style perfectly
• figuring out the history of how they got here through the slide reels was initially pretty interesting

Things I don't like

• the linear nature of this adventure doesn't fit inside the time loop structure very well. Normally, you spend your loops exploring new places learning new things, and then the loop ends. Even if you didn't explore the place fully or missed something, your ships log will update with useful information of hints to direct you to other places, and will direct you back eventually if you did miss something. this means loops are almost always meaningful. even if you missed something important, you can go explore another thread and will eventually work your way back around. in this DLC, if you are missing a clue, you are pretty much stuck until you just slam your head against it and figure it out so you could move forward. this is a vital piece of outer wilds that is missing
• Examples of this are at the very beginning - the very first time I went to the satellite I guess I bumped into it because I was flying in to fast, but it didn't bump my ship or anything. The satellite was offline and spinning and I spent some time trying to interact with it and eventually gave up. So then I went back to the radio tower and tried thinking of some other lead until my buddy told me to go back. it turned out I had a misunderstanding of something and there was really nothing to progress until I realized that.
• Then when I realized you could see the black spot from the satellite - I flew into it. and came out the other side. Twice. If I didn't have a buddy telling me to keep trying I don't know how I would have ever proceeded.
• More time loop trouble - it doesn't feel like a new loop adds anything. Like I mentioned, in the base game, once a new loop starts you might take the opportunity to go check out another lead. But every time the loop restarts here I always feel like I'm just running straight back to where I was. this just doesn't flow together, I just feel interrupted
• More ships log - it's honestly just useless. the progress in the base game feels like you are accumulating so much knowledge, but if you aren't clicking on something then the ships log will nudge you into the direction to go visit to click back into place. in this place, the ships log barely updates and when it does, it just usually says "i went to this house and saw a painting" and that's it. If there was some knowledge of how to proceed, you will never know it from the ships log, and you'll never find it again unless you just happen to go visit that place again and look at the slide reel again and maybe get it now. what does this mean? it means when you don't know what to do and can't find any new info, the only thing to do is just go look at literally everything again and try and figure out if you missed something
• too many hints just come from the slide reels. these were great at first but massively over relied on.
• I really hate dark areas where you can't see anything. I'm just squinting at my screen trying to make sense of what I'm looking at. So this shadow realm is just.... awful. you move slowly, you can't see anything, and it's very mazelike. I've done two walk arounds and haven't really determined what I'm supposed to do there. I was expecting some exploring to bring me to some neat revelations, but it seems I'm supposed to do a lot of exploring and puzzling out what to do there. But honeslty, I have no concept in my mind on how everything there even fits together. And the idea of exploring it more and trying to map it all out and figure it out, with the time loop interrupting me... is just not something I'm going to do

This DLC has exhausted my good will. I don't know how far I am but this is it. Visually and atmospherically it fits well with the Outer Wilds, but gameplay wise it just does not fit. Which is disappointing because I think the Outer Wilds is one of the best games of all time.

I'm honestly very glad this isn't in the base game - it would have brought everything to a screeching halt. I recommend this game to everybody all the time, but now it will always come with the disclaimer of "definitely don't get the DLC until you beat the base game".

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masterplum posted...

Are there any artifacts closer to the tower. Getting one in the lab first is a pain

there's one in the first town - there's a ghost matter house that actually has very little ghost matter if you look at it with your scout. if you find a way in there's an artifact

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Jesus the Travincal in Hell is really fucking me. Too much lightning.

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POE is definitely the natural evolution and I love so much about it. The sphere grid is a lot of fun to customize and the orb system does a really good job of creating liquidity for trading without just going to straight gold auction house but not making it really difficult to to find the exact trade you want.

but it does get too complicated. it feels like so much research and stuff is necessary to really play the game, because you'll just make a terrible build that fails and you can't really fix if you just play the game and that ain't fun.

Diablo 3 definitely has the best gameplay of how fun your character is to play, but that's not really where gameplay ends It also matters what you are *doing* with your gameplay - what are you fighting against? I think Diablo 3: ROS is AWFUL at this. It doesn't really matter what my build is - I'm just throwing myself blindly against whatever my highest torment is. Either I'm succeeding or I'm not, but I'm never really putting any thought into the strategy against different enemies or caring what abilities they have. Ironically, Launch Diablo 3 was much better at this - there was a lot of thought you had to put into fighting the different monster traits, especially in Inferno. I remember having to respect Fire Chains or Frozen or Mortar very seriously - but in ROS I literally don't care what they do. That's such a big failure.

Diablo 2 is really turning out to be the best of all worlds in my experience right now. I'm not sure if other builds will feel this way but my summon necro feels like I need to do a lot of intelligent maneuvering to direct my boys and avoid everything monsters are doing.

I haven't done any trading but hopefully there's an active market and it's not too painful to use.


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i wasnt gonna but i opened moonmoon's stream and heard the music and sound effects and i found myself installing the game

i'm playing a summon necro - one of my favourite builds of all time. in most games im usually just trying to relive the summon necro and looking for any minions / pets i can get, so this is very satisfying

I'm near the end of act 2 hell, i didn't think I would get this far so quickly

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DeepsPraw posted...

I had that issue too. I think you have to press X to open your eyes.
I had to go in the menu and turn back on all the button prompts, since Id forgotten how to play

Huh. I'm pretty sure I mashed every button but maybe that was it. I ended up nuking my save on my Epic account but even a new file didn't work. I ended up just buying the game on Steam and it works.

I was having a miserable time though. I think the breadcrumbs to get into this are fine as yet another breadcrumb when you are figuring out the game in a first playthrough but when you've installed the game just to get into it, it's pretty annoying to get going. It got better though once I flew into the black spot. Even that was annoying since I flew through it twice with nothing happening and had to restart the loop to try again twice. But once I was in there, damn that place is awesome. I wasn't expecting that at all but at th same time it's exactly what I expected from this game. I haven't gotten far but I'm super excited about the ringworld.

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ok when i try to load my previous save it just does a black screen and my dude never wakes up at the campfire, game seems bugged

if i start a new expedition and clear my save will i be able to directly do the DLC?

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uh oh im not good with spooky things

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It's been a week but i'm still surprised to see this is an established genre in english writing.

I'm *extremely* familiar with this genre... in anime/manga/webtoons/lightnovels/manwha. I've experienced dozens of isekei/tensei/wuxia or whatever that do this. But I've never even heard the term LitRPG before this topic. I'm curious to look into what the landscape is like.... What are the biggest stories?

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Is the revenue from this actually turning out to be significant enough to be your primary income? I wonder how much you get from that paperback. I would have guessed like 3-5 dollars

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WandaVision is god tier except for the parts at the end that are garbage tier

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the idea of a rug going under all that stuff sits poorly with me. if thats your goal, then you should just have carpet to begin with.

give me the Don't rugs

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I'm playing Darkest Dungeon and this might be one of the best games ever made

I'm in the end game but I don't know if I can actually beat this game though... even though I'm on baby mode...

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i dunno how 11 could be so low. a stunning return to form.

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start an ongoing list or schedule of recurring things that need fixing / cleaning / maintenance / replacing

there's obvious stuff like mowing the lawn every one or two weeks, or cleaning things like the bathtub that you might not have bothered with in rented apartments, but there'll be plenty things like replacing a filter on the heater or cleaning a bbq once or twice a summer that you might have never known were a thing. does your washer and dryer require maintenance once a year? do you need to do a big weeding a few times a year to keep the yard under control? how old is your hot water tank and does it need replacing in the next few years?

personally I tend to forget about a lot of yearly things until they are way past due. a schedule can help you stay reasonably on track.

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gonna need to print those screenshots and frame them on your wal;

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I always hear that authors like you get so screwed by audiobooks. People buying the audiobook and then listening to it and then returning it so you don't get paid, or Amazon giving the book for free and you get nothing for it.

If you are investing money into getting an audiobook made you should poke around on if it's even possible to make a return on it lol

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is there actually paper backs of this thing

amazon.ca said there is 1 new available

i'll read it when it arrives on monday

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it's come to my attention that seven nation army actually is top 50. i am satisified enough.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4MLVcujpVY

iconic

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yeah i agree that is a problem if seven nation army is top 100

if you need to specify top 100 then that must mean its way too low. we should be talking about top 50 or 25 here at least

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i was really interested in this but watching a bit of stream gameplay im very not interested

it just looks like a normal fps playthrough - I'm not sure what the loop aspect is really adding to things.

maybe there's more to see than i'm getting now htough

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But what IS good is The Forgotten City. I just finished this masterpiece - now this is what time loop games should be look.

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Xiahou Shake posted...

I posted my overall thoughts on the game in the other topic, but to get specific on the story:

There are definitely some interesting things going on with this story but, as I said in the other topic, I'm pretty certain a lot of it won't land with most folks. My own interpretation is that the entire time loop is an imagined part of a hypnosis session with the dad, trying to get the main character to realize why it's best to walk away from his incestuous romance. That's why every return to the library starts with "you're back," why the cop looks and sounds exactly like the father and why the only endings that actually break the loop are either giving up on the relationship or accepting the memory-wipe hypnosis.

It's kind of neat IMO when you cast how ugly the reality is against the beauty and emotion of the "perfect day" non-ending you can get, but this exact contrast is what I feel will turn off the average player who was probably hoping the actual ending would be more like the non-ending, minus the late game reveals.

I don't know if I would say this is interesting. I think this explanation is correct,t's the only explanation I've heard that actually makes fits with what happened. But is it satisfying in any way? Does it make us feel resolved with what happened with these characters, or that our time in the gameplay was in any way meaningful? I'd have to give it a gigantic NO on every front.

The way these revelations actually happen is just disjointed and meaningless, but even with reflection I don't think they are improved. It's just a bunch of made up nonsense by the dev without much attempt to tie storyline or characters through.

Thinking about it just makes me even more annoyed by the game.

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this actually could be good, it's a pain how bulky smartphones are

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that looked like a retread in the worst ways

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oh somebody already had an image like that damnit

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https://twitter.com/realShadoroth/status/1435688624071135233

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXuNJ267Vss

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Yes, I bought Virgin Galactic at 33 and I'm holding

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fus4Xb_TLg

GET FUCKING HYPE BOYS

this my favourite book series and will be the greatest show of all time no room for disappointment on this train

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That looks really cool. Are you actually collecting cartridges?

Also: Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis.

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damn Fukai Mori is good

how do i get this on spotify

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329 miles

it feels pretty far, but i guess in this topic its nothing

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i feel like he does that in his own movie too

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lmao Xander what the fuck

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looks like mephisto memes are back on the menu boys

it was refreshing that Strange was actually down for Parker's dumb wish. I feel like normally they'd have him be responsible here and say no and have Parker make it happen himself and screw it up. But now they get to screw it up together!!!

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