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That wuxia game, Phantom Blade Zero, looked interesting also.

I went and saw this movie and that is the first Marvel movie I have seen since the 2018 Ant man sequel.

I was about to mention that: we played a lot of 2nd ed. in the Forgotten Realms through the '90s and for some campain I played a drow priestess of Eilistraee. This got me rummaging through old stuff and found some rule books and some lore books (Mystara stuff for 2nd ed. and the wonderful...

Are we leaving the super hero era to enter the brand era? Behind the scenes with Air, Tetris, Blackberry and more product oriented with Barbie or Super Mario Bros... That's not a new thing per se, The Social Network comes to mind and weird things like Battleship happened... but I can't think of...

At some point, John Woo's production company option'ed or maybe even bought the movie rights for Metroid. That would have been a weird one. As far as doing a single protagonist movie, I feel like many horror and adventure movies, without even touching the more arty things, have huge chunks in...

Since we have a thread here about a french thriller, let me recommend one : Undercover / Enquête sur un scandale d'État (litteraly: Investigation on a State scandal). Not an action movie, more of a political / journalism thriller with two pillars of french cinema: Roschdy Zem (as a shady...

Always looking forward to a new Wes Anderson movie, but I think there is something to note: The screenplay and/or story of his films are always collaborative efforts and there are different co-writers. Owen Wilson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums), Noah Baumbach (The Life Aquatic...

Still very unique, but a mixed bag for me. Reeves is not getting younger and many of the choreographies feel labored and approximative now. In the earlier films, Wick survived because of his mastery allowing him to stay in control of messy situations, while here it sounds like he makes it...

This headline makes it sound like Twitch is suddenly losing money because of its policies, while it never made money. Also, Twitch is part of Amazon who just laid off 18k people with 9k more on the way, so it stands to reason that the brand new CEO of Twitch has to find a way to make a buck and...

Every year, five buddies and myself compile our 20 favorite movies of the previous year and compile the lists into a top 20 overall. For 2022, our lists had a record low number of american films (note that it's not in perfect synch with the Oscars because our thing is based on release date in...

Let me spoiler this off-topic "take it to DM" post. Just a bit of fact checking for '70s chilean politics...

Only in these parts can one call dictator a democratically elected president that got removed from office by a coup and replaced by a military junta for almost 2 decades (during which thousands of political opponents went "missing" - people still to this day are combing the Atacama desert...

Ok cast. Meh director. Bad screenplay writers. La Reine Margot this will not be. It probably will sell a lot of tickets though.

How is writing 70+ tv show episodes over a 20 years period not worthy of the veteran label in your book?

Two things: 1) The police has been known to be very bad when it comes to dealing with streamers being harrased. 2) When you have a gigantic community, it's unavoidable to have a number of nutjobs among the lot and that includes both nutjobs that will try to stalk you AND nutjobs that will go ham...

A part shocked me in that article : "Bloys hadn’t heard of the Naughty Dog/Sony PlayStation game — nor had his head of drama programming, Francesca Orsi — before TV writer Craig Mazin brought it in to them as a prospect." You would think people responsible for a fiction delivery service would...

By all accounts, Amy Hennig had absolutely nothing to do with The Last of Us. She was working on Uncharted 3 and then Uncharted 4 until her departure and that game was in part rewritten and then completed by Neil Druckmann, Josh Scherr and others. Note that both were on the writing team of...

@Rajaah maybe your confusion comes from the fact Ishin is not a new game, it's a re-release (somewhat remastered I think ?) of a game from 2014 that previously was available only in Japan. My understanding is that future mainline Like a Dragon games will go on with the RPG formula.

There was a big Kotaku article about it. It should be noted that while it uses the "new" moniker "Like A Dragon" the combat is action based like the previous Yakuza games (that were all titled "Like a Dragon" in Japan). I never played Ishin, but I played Kenzan, the previous samurai spin-off set...

Crystalis is very playable. I think one of two things are somewhat confusing in the progression, but as a whole it is pretty smooth. Kid Icarus is abominable as it is plagued by the dark side of early '80s japanese game design: cryptic stuff and dumb and imbalanced stuff just because it's...

I stand corrected, my sanity check was not thorough: when I tried to add the "straight" tag in Twitch the drop down menu proposed dozens of variations of it, but not this exact word with this exact spelling (I got fooled by "straíght"). I suspect the idea behind it is that "straight" is loaded...

Fake news. Actually not fake news.

I stand by my original take: in season 1 you have one character that is odd and speaks in a strange way and it works well, in season 2 everyone is odd ans speaks in a strange way and it does not work.

Saw that the other day as the resident Shyamalan apologist. I didn't read the book (wasn't aware it was one), so I can't comment on the changes he made when writing the screenplay. It's cleanly directed, but lacks the occasional moments of brilliance Shyamalan sometimes provide. It's competently...

Just saw Pathaan, a hindi blockbuster that just got a worldwide release. Long story short : the plot is a mess, de dialogues are extremely bad, the over the top action scenes are not as enjoyable as in some other indian films, but if you have some nostalgia for the Reagan-era hard bodies in...

You haven't played the games nor have you watched the show, but it's plain to see that knowing nothing does not prevent you from giving your opinion.

Since it's mostly a US thing, maybe it has more to do with people going from xbox to playstation?

The poor man's Mission: Impossible with a dash of Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent that goes nowhere. Also they should have left the McGuffin as an abstraction, because it both makes no sense and invites a number of questions that the film does not address. Still watchable, but not great.

Very surprised at the number of people who knew nothing about the game. I guess if you did not have a PlayStation 3 or 4 (and now 5) you were unlikely to know much about it.

Surprised to not see Babylon on the list. I have not seen it, so maybe it's deserved, but it felt like the type of movie that could end up on that list.

The brain works in mysterious ways (as does the youTube algo, so you probably have seen that before) : EDIT: Media embedding for youTube does not deal with shorts and I feel it's important to see it as a short for the constant looping. so here is the link : Which one can you hear ?

It goes to show I don't follow the music scene closely at all. I didn't now The Smile, a band with Radiohead's Thom Yorks and Jonny Greenwood along with drummer Tom Skinner was a thing :

As much I would love some babylonian adventures, wouldn't that require a new character or some time travel ?

It's so ruined that the latest AGDQ and SGDQ are the two editions that gathered the most money :rolleyes:

What a strange take. "People who donate during a charity event are really idiots. Why don't they donate to charities outside of special events?" What? The whole point of charity events is to get donations that would otherwise not spontaneously exist and also, charity events that are reoccurring...

Let me give you the best advice : don't do anything the other people proposed. Try to forget whatever they said (which should be easy as none of it makes much sense if you don't know the game) and just play the game blind. Why ? Because you can only do it once and that's the best way to...

Gaming hard in TIS-100 :D Thanks again @DickTrickle ! That's one strange game. I guess some people have a nostalgia for when programing was some insane feat of optimization and work under constraint so this is a recreation of that in a gamified format using a fantasy architecture (each box/unit...

Amazing games. Moving as if sunken in molasse also added a fever dream like quality to them :D It also features one of the coolest exploration game idea ever : you find a map, but it's a very old map, so it's outdated, and comparing the map with the world allows you to get where some now hidden...

Grabbed TIS-100 (copy) . Thanks ! :)

I thought that for cables of reasonable length carrying a digital signal like HDMI meant all cables were basically the same ? Or did we reach an information density that makes manufacturing impact even short cables ? That sounds like a question for @Vorph .