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The movie IS based on "Who Goes There?" - "Frozen Hell" is the expanded version of that original novella, with about 25-30% more pages and a lot of changes to the existing ones. Turns out that Campbell wrote a lot more of this story than what was published, and it fell on his son (IIRC) to find...

Most criticism of AEW is overblown, and mostly by people who never actually watch it. As someone who actually is familiar with the product, though, it does have a lot of room for improvement, and didn't measure up to all the promise it had in 2019. There was a pretty big responsibility hefted...

Missed most of it here, like I was saying before, the whole thing got rushed through. This should probably be more of an "event", with a notification at the top and a couple more days for each round. Nobody around here has substance abuse issues, everyone is squeaky clean and makes zero...

This is still the best match I've ever watched in-person, and the first five minutes or so are the loudest crowd I've ever heard in-person. Nobody was sitting down. Helps that both guys had to wait 12 years to wrestle the other, and they got to do it in front of 22,000 people in NYC. AEW catches...

Not yet. Maybe in another year. Guessing Miles won't be around for that long no, but the menu screen has six entries for companions and there are six main areas (besides whatever the final area is going to be) so chances are every area will have a companion to rescue and babysit. Eh, we'll...

It's possible Prime 2 won't hold up as well as I remember whenever they do put out a remaster. I only played through it twice (in 2004 and 2010). I remember the individual areas dragging a bit (Agon Wastes went on too long, then Torvus Bog went on way too long). Which is a byproduct of them...

Same here, my most-played games are EQ, FF Tactics, and Bloodborne (which is kinda old at this point). Got Diablo 2 Resurrected. Any other Diablo 2 classes interesting enough to spend some time checking out besides Necromancer? Almost definitely going to play Necro in a month but might want to...

Asshat is kinda like the NBA Finals, there's a long wait for it and then it just kinda gets rushed through in a very short amount of time. In the future maybe we should have each round be a bit longer and more hyped, to drum up participation. Most of these are clear-cut, some I have no dog with...

Is that why women like motorcycles so much? Hard disagree on Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. It has some issues, like getting lost a lot, the two worlds making for some confusion during exploration/progression, and uneven difficulty (like the spikes for fights like Boost Guardian). However, Prime...

Yeah, everyone knows that Samus is part-Chozo genetically and that's what Nintendo would have been referring to, not anything trans-related. Indeed, if they've got any meme culture awareness, they'll slip this in somewhere just for the applause line.

Watched the 2025 remake of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (movie, not the terrible TV show from a few years ago). Movie is alright as a whole, pretty much just beat-for-beat redux of the first movie from 1997 or whenever that was. The main character isn't as mind-numbingly hot as 1997...

Celebrities manipulating their kids for social clout is pretty sick. I highly doubt all of their kids reached these conclusions/states without manipulation. Celebrity kids don't just happen to have 100x the odds of "being" something than a kid in the general population does, not without being...

At least ES games have varied, interesting environments and builds. BOTW doesn't have builds and most of the environments (at least that I've seen) are the same washed-out grasslands. People talk about how amazing it is at the beginning of BOTW when you step out into the open world and see the...

I've been paying more attention to the Mayan calendar, because it goes way further back in history than any other cultural timeline I know of. According to the Mayan calendar as of 1500 years ago or so, we're in the "5th age" of humanity, also known as the Fifth Sun. The fourth age ended around...

Ask a high-IQ person to speculate on any of these things and, unless they're trying to be socially acceptable, they all come to the same conclusions on things. So does AI, come to think of it, that's why AIs always have to be taken down and "fixed" before long. Who knows about Epstein though. I...

Are Heretics and Chapterhouse worth reading or can one stop with Book 4? I hate unresolved cliffhangers and I know Book 6 ends that way. I've never gone past Book 1 before and 2026 might be the year. Not looking to make more work for myself than I need to. Mainly asking if 5 and 6 really add...

WTF is a "new-half"? As a huge Metroid fan, this one somehow completely missed me.

Did you turn it off because it was off-putting or just didn't maintain interest? If interest, definitely give it another go. It's a really good movie IMO. Obviously T1/T2 are better because they're better than pretty much everything. TS is the only sequel to actually do something new with...

Two TLPs six months apart would work better in a lot of ways yes. However it would also reward serial rerollers. It'd potentially lower attrition on the overall game while increasing attrition on the individual servers. People would be a lot less likely to settle in and dedicate themselves to a...

Cool, I thought I was the only one in the world who gets nothing out of the two latest 3D Zeldas. They're visually washed-out, they have these giant empty-looking environments, and I hate the breakable weapons. "Throw bombs at everything" doesn't appeal to me. I just want to play normal Zelda...

"Shatters expectations" with 38 million dollars on opening weekend. I remember when Terminator Salvation got like 53 million on opening weekend and it was considered a huge disappointment. 2009 was a different world. Sometimes our media wasn't up to par, but at least they were trying (and not...

Which story changes? I finished the new versions of DQ1 and 3. They mostly just added things rather than changed things, I think? Like all the faerie bullshit in DQ1. Most of the new additions kinda sucked (that one five-on-one fight with the knight boss and four skeletons was a real bitch to...

That explains it. I was getting 10, 20, 40% exp from killing higher-level mobs in Velks on a 40ish Paladin persona (no PL, just a haste and a Diamond-Tipped War Javelin). Then I got the 120% for one of them out of nowhere, then it was back down. Was with LOTD + Extralife bonus. That 6x the...

Probably same here, Switch 2 is the first console I've regretted buying since... not even sure when. Maybe ever? PS4 wasn't very good on year 1 either but it at least felt like it had a point (being top of the line tech). Switch 2 though is just a weak counterpart to PS5 that can be brought on...

It's pretty depressing how after an eight-year wait (since the first announcement) and an entire full console generation rotating out, the game is finally here and it looks like it might be a fucking catastrophe. I mean even a subpar Metroid Prime game is still better than most other games, but...

Getting things back on track here

Nier 1 is Square's most acclaimed game this century, or Nier Automata? Cause Nier 1 is basically trapped on PS3 now, so I'll need to check that out, unless Nier Replicant is a close-enough remake of it? (I haven't played any of them yet, but they've been on the shortlist for years along with Nioh)

It's pretty fucking bad, and I say that as somebody who usually waves off the latest internet rage-bait about some game or movie. It'd be one thing if the guy was just annoying in cutscenes, but he TALKS OVER THE GAMEPLAY CONSTANTLY. IN METROID. It's like adding a Navi fairy to Dark Souls

Sorry, didn't see this. Here's what I've got: TomServo vs. Goatface - This dude acts like my nemesis and hates everything I say, and I have no fucking idea who he is. Lightning Lord Rule vs. Kuro - Amod gets leniency Siliconemelons vs. Denamian Caligula the Cat vs. RQB - Caligula and I were in...

... @Koushirou is on here and I'm not? Who the hell has a problem with Koushirou?

I know nothing about this show and haven't read past the 4th post of this thread, but I predict that the reason the show is set in the 1960's is so that it can tackle complex social and racial issues like how white people are bad and police are bad.

When did they lift the cap on how much EXP you can get from a mob? I don't think I've ever seen anything like this before. This was me soloing a level 48 mob at level 40 with LOTD on and the Extralife bonus obviously going on. This isn't even on TSS exp tables yet.

Two months per expansion, plus consolidation of non-AA expansions, would solve everything related to unlock schedule. Have the consolidations be separated by two weeks to give the "main" expansion a little room on its own. PoP followed by LDON two weeks later OoW followed by DoN two weeks...

I did. It looks really nice, but it's pretty much a direct transfer of MGS3 without anything really new. Which is probably a good thing at this point. A few things weren't as impressive as they used to be, like the visuals during the Fury fight (they scaled down the fire a lot). I had the game...

Why do they always kill Gates with timing like this? It deserves better.

In what universe is this necessary in a Metroid game? Let's shit up the next Dark Souls game by adding Jar Jar Binks as a navigator who never shuts up while we're at it. After 8 years of waiting, I gotta say, this is the first time I've been legitimately angry about a piece of media in a very...

Good video. The remake really botched the Barret/Dyne scene. That and Aerith's death being botched are the two glaring "how did they fuck up so badly" moments of Rebirth. Much like how the entire final chapter of Remake was a colossally stupid debacle.

Lots of great advice here for prospective future guild founders. Being prepared in advance is the best way to guarantee success in life. Also, not pinging everyone for an epic mob that takes 3 people.