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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Superhero Movies & Comics General
« on: November 19, 2017, 05:03:29 AM »
This is a real ad for JL.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Superhero Movies & Comics General
« on: November 17, 2017, 12:38:32 AM »
Of course it's not you; the CGI is obviously horrendous. That's why I posted it.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/justice_league_2017/
lol it's another dud
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/justice_league_2017/
lol it's another dud
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Superhero Movies & Comics General
« on: November 16, 2017, 05:51:16 AM »A couple of the gags were amusing, but I feel like a lot of it was very shallow, bottom-of-the-barrel memes and references of the sort that Deadpool's most vocal fans - idiots on the Internet - are most fond of. The reference to reddit especially concerned me. I don't want the filmmakers paying attention to reddit or anything said there, let alone trying to cater to them. There's something about Deadpool that makes redditors' brains fall out of their heads and start eagerly writing "jokes" in which Deadpool runs around yelling about chimichangas and Internet memes. Take a look at this, for example. I'm not cherry picking. Every reddit post about Deadpool dissolves into cringe that inexplicably garners hundreds of upvotes.
On the notion of JL:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/justice-league-gets-delayed-rotten-tomatoes-score-43-percent-1058391
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Superhero Movies & Comics General
« on: November 15, 2017, 05:14:17 PM »
The reviews are out, and while RT is hiding its own aggregation for some dumb reason until midnight, we can still judge the general consensus for ourselves:
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/justice-league/critic-reviews
It looks to be yet another chopped-up mess, and even the reviews tending positive come with a lot of reservations.
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/justice-league/critic-reviews
It looks to be yet another chopped-up mess, and even the reviews tending positive come with a lot of reservations.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)
« on: November 14, 2017, 05:34:45 PM »What is the moral philosophy of the LOTR?
The short answer is simply that power corrupts. More broadly, Tolkien presented qualities like hope, perseverance, and inner strength as being how good triumphs over evil rather than through martial prowess and ambition. It's not a badass action hero or a mighty king who takes down Sauron; it's a small hobbit. Now, Shadow of War flips this idea on its head by suggesting an ends-justify-the-means approach to defeating Sauron, where the hero fashions a new ring of power and uses it to dominate, enslave, and slaughter thousands of orcs across Mordor, all in the name of finally defeating Sauron. Such an interesting idea deserved to be followed up on. They should have let us overthrow Sauron and have the player end up as the ruler of Mordor, leaving it to the imagination just how similar to Sauron they've become. Instead, the story and its momentum are utterly derailed at the last second for an extremely weak reason, you're given a boss battle with Sauron in which there are no stakes because you're not playing as the main character anymore, and even after you're victorious, Sauron still manages to win in a cutscene - which is exactly what happened in the DLC of the last game. If they were never willing to let us beat Sauron, they should never have been presenting "beat Sauron" as the main goal. And then we're finally given some bullshit about how we need to keep fighting on to ensure that one day Frodo can succeed in his quest and I furiously told the game to go fuck itself.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: November 10, 2017, 11:07:00 PM »What about 2020?
Hillary 2020: It's Still Her Turn!
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Superhero Movies & Comics General
« on: November 08, 2017, 03:30:28 PM »
(10/17) Oh, and it looks like there's been some extensive recoloring of the movie, including a few scenes we saw in previous trailers. Everything is now a (very ugly) hellish red, and there are tendrils or some shit growing out of the ground...is this leading to some bullshit repeat of the villain's plan from MoS, transforming Earth into an alien planet? And yeah, the comedy isn't working here. It feels like it's very standard "ha ha I'm self-aware" Whedon humor that he'd use in a standard Whedon production, and it clashes terribly with, well, pretty much everything else going on in the trailer.
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WSJ has a story that I won't bother linking to because fuck them and their paywall, but it's essentially summarized here. It's not good. A nightmarish post-production process, an enormous budget, endless experimentation in trying to meld the work of two extremely different directors together, and so on. It's SS all over again.
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WSJ has a story that I won't bother linking to because fuck them and their paywall, but it's essentially summarized here. It's not good. A nightmarish post-production process, an enormous budget, endless experimentation in trying to meld the work of two extremely different directors together, and so on. It's SS all over again.
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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Some unanswered questions
« on: November 04, 2017, 04:43:48 PM »
We can go into space, but we can't sustain spaceflight, because it would require constant burning of fuel. There's no "field" of UA that can be escaped like with gravity.
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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Who would benefit?
« on: October 31, 2017, 06:30:51 PM »Hold on!
If they “portray the earth as round in their supposed photographs” how are they not “deliberately setting out to deceive anyone about the shape of the earth”?
As if the Earth is flat the photos must be fakes.
The deception is centered around faking space exploration, not the shape of the earth. Imagine if it was the 1950s, and somebody asked you to design a fake photograph of the earth. You wouldn't stop to seriously weigh your options on what shape you should make the earth look like, would you? No, you'd just design it as round. As RE'ers are so fond of reminding us, mankind has "known" that the earth is round for thousands of years. It wasn't a big mystery leading up to the space race.
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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Who would benefit?
« on: October 31, 2017, 04:17:50 PM »
The conspiracy benefits by embezzling their funding - money that's supposed to be spent on exploring space, but instead ends up in their pockets. They aren't deliberately setting out to deceive anyone about the shape of the earth. They portray the earth as round in their supposed photographs and models simply because that's what they expect it to be.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Star Citizen
« on: October 28, 2017, 06:58:32 PM »
Did you experience unparalled immersion?
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)
« on: October 28, 2017, 01:24:42 PM »
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
The ending of this game is awful. It's a cowardly, last-minute attempt to bring this series in line with the continuity of the LotR movies, and not only is this effort laughably unsuccessful, it cheats the player out of an awesome climax they're going to feel they deserve after playing through the story. The devs didn't have the balls to follow through with what the series had been steadily building up to and fully divorce themselves from the official canon. I know that nobody in the world is going to be playing this game for the story, and rightfully so, but the lame toothlessness of the ending really is that frustrating. I was genuinely onboard with the loopy fanfic feel of the game up to that point, and enjoyed the blatant disregard of the moral philosophy of LotR for its sheer audacity.
That's far from the game's only flaw. The combat is a good deal harder than it was in Shadow of Mordor, but it doesn't quite play fair in how it increases the difficulty. Battles now seem to be a lot more chaotic, with enemies that require different keystrokes to dodge or counter all attacking at the same time, attacks are harder to dodge or counter, last chances and executions are trickier to pull off, captains have a lot more defenses and immunities in general, and the beasts you can dominate and ride have been nerfed to the point of near-ineffectiveness. If you have fond memories from Mordor of riding a caragor or graug around and slaughtering orcs with gleeful abandon, be warned that your mount will be very, very quickly killed if you try that here. The drakes - yes, they're drakes, not dragons - are no better. You are not going to be soaring triumphantly over Mordor as you consume the armies of Sauron in flame. You are going be turned into a pincushion by the orcs below as you awkwardly do your best to maybe blast a few of them with your short-ranged breath before you die. Also, there's an unfortunate MMO-like feel to the game, as indicated by the general structure (short and repetitive) of the missions from the main quest, the focus on collecting and upgrading gear (the microtransactions are annoying, but can be ignored fairly easily), and excessive grinding being essentially required.
The good news is that the grinding is a ton of fun. The return of the Nemesis System from Mordor, now even bigger and better, is this game's saving grace. There are dozens of orc captains, all with their own colorful, distinctive personalities and plenty of unique situational dialogue. Once I poisoned a barrel of grog and was promptly tackled by an assassin who specialized in poisoning, who then yelled at me that I was an amateur and using too high a dose. There's another captain who confronts you if you gather intel on him. Another is draped in spider's webs and claims that he has become "one with the spiders." Some of them will cheat death and return to you markedly different, sometimes even with a new name and fighting style, like an orc who now has a claw in place of a lost limb, or an orc previously beaten by poison who now is a shambling, diseased wreck. My personal favorite was a bard who plays (and fights with) a spiked lute, and sings every line of dialogue. It's a blast to meet all these wacky characters and then decide whether to kill or recruit them.
So, if you liked the previous game, you'll almost certainly like Shadow of War as well. I don't regret buying it, and I'm sure I have a lot more playing to do before I'm through with it. But it's incredibly messy and inconsistent, and I am a little disappointed on the whole that it's not as good as it ought to be.
The ending of this game is awful. It's a cowardly, last-minute attempt to bring this series in line with the continuity of the LotR movies, and not only is this effort laughably unsuccessful, it cheats the player out of an awesome climax they're going to feel they deserve after playing through the story. The devs didn't have the balls to follow through with what the series had been steadily building up to and fully divorce themselves from the official canon. I know that nobody in the world is going to be playing this game for the story, and rightfully so, but the lame toothlessness of the ending really is that frustrating. I was genuinely onboard with the loopy fanfic feel of the game up to that point, and enjoyed the blatant disregard of the moral philosophy of LotR for its sheer audacity.
That's far from the game's only flaw. The combat is a good deal harder than it was in Shadow of Mordor, but it doesn't quite play fair in how it increases the difficulty. Battles now seem to be a lot more chaotic, with enemies that require different keystrokes to dodge or counter all attacking at the same time, attacks are harder to dodge or counter, last chances and executions are trickier to pull off, captains have a lot more defenses and immunities in general, and the beasts you can dominate and ride have been nerfed to the point of near-ineffectiveness. If you have fond memories from Mordor of riding a caragor or graug around and slaughtering orcs with gleeful abandon, be warned that your mount will be very, very quickly killed if you try that here. The drakes - yes, they're drakes, not dragons - are no better. You are not going to be soaring triumphantly over Mordor as you consume the armies of Sauron in flame. You are going be turned into a pincushion by the orcs below as you awkwardly do your best to maybe blast a few of them with your short-ranged breath before you die. Also, there's an unfortunate MMO-like feel to the game, as indicated by the general structure (short and repetitive) of the missions from the main quest, the focus on collecting and upgrading gear (the microtransactions are annoying, but can be ignored fairly easily), and excessive grinding being essentially required.
The good news is that the grinding is a ton of fun. The return of the Nemesis System from Mordor, now even bigger and better, is this game's saving grace. There are dozens of orc captains, all with their own colorful, distinctive personalities and plenty of unique situational dialogue. Once I poisoned a barrel of grog and was promptly tackled by an assassin who specialized in poisoning, who then yelled at me that I was an amateur and using too high a dose. There's another captain who confronts you if you gather intel on him. Another is draped in spider's webs and claims that he has become "one with the spiders." Some of them will cheat death and return to you markedly different, sometimes even with a new name and fighting style, like an orc who now has a claw in place of a lost limb, or an orc previously beaten by poison who now is a shambling, diseased wreck. My personal favorite was a bard who plays (and fights with) a spiked lute, and sings every line of dialogue. It's a blast to meet all these wacky characters and then decide whether to kill or recruit them.
So, if you liked the previous game, you'll almost certainly like Shadow of War as well. I don't regret buying it, and I'm sure I have a lot more playing to do before I'm through with it. But it's incredibly messy and inconsistent, and I am a little disappointed on the whole that it's not as good as it ought to be.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: October 27, 2017, 03:48:13 AM »
Hillary's political career will never die as long as she continues to receive this kind of attention. Irrelevance is what kills you in politics, not notoriety - something that Trump has surely proved by now.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: October 26, 2017, 06:59:43 PM »
We should impeach Hillary at once!
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: October 19, 2017, 02:10:35 AM »http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/18/politics/donald-trump-myeshia-johnson-recording/index.html
Ecch, it feels dirty to agree with Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Why? Do you believe her - and by extension, Trump's - side of the story? I don't. Either Trump or Wilson is lying, and it's almost certainly Trump. He has a history of disrespecting veterans, being crude and insensitive in the face of tragedy, and blatant dishonesty.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: October 14, 2017, 08:42:39 PM »why is anyone pretending trump gives a shit about the flag code
I'm sure he had no clue what was going on or what was expected from him, but regardless, he didn't explicitly violate protocol here.