Fabricant451

What shows/movies are you watching?

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I checked it a few days ago and the show was resting at 10% on Rotten Tomatoes. By the time I woke up the next day it dropped to 7% audience rating. Literally any place you look (Metacritic, IMDb, Google User reviews, etc.) there isn't a lick of goodwill towards it.

@Kuro

I gave it the benefit of the doubt when all there was to go on were character designs. But like within three minutes into the first episode I was regretting even trying to give it a fair shake. It is so bad and worse it thinks it's being clever with constant wink and nods to tropes and references but none of them work at all. It's like those "And then Deadpool walks in!" Reddit posts except written by Twitter.

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Velma is so bad that every side of the culture socio-political spectrum can hate it for different but also valid reasons. Thanks, Velma, for bringing people together to make fun of your genuine awfulness.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

The lore in any given Zelda game is hardly complicated or convoluted at all, it only becomes so when people try to do timeline bullshit. You could easily make any given Zelda game into the foundation for a movie because they all follow the same basic premise of normal dude chosen by the gods goes on a quest to defeat the bad guy and save the princess.

Anyway.

I finished God of War: Ragnarok and I don't think they should make more of these games both because of the way the story ends and also because it and 2018 are just not very good as action games because of their slavish devotion to their own cinematic aesthetic. It's a game that overstays its welcome and suffers the same problems as 2018 only worse because it actually feels like padded length at multiple points.

Anime & Manga! Oh my! (Anime/Manga Thread)

Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire has a scene where a baby lowdiffs a dragon so it rules

Anime & Manga! Oh my! (Anime/Manga Thread)

The first anime I was into, discounting the Sailor Moon dub since that was early morning kid anime time for me, was Dirty Pair and Dirty Pair Flash which aired on Friday and Saturday nights on Shotime. I was young and didn't really get it other than "girl cops in cool adventures" but when I re-visited it as an adult I loved it even more as some prime 80s anime vibes.

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Glass Onion was a lot of fun and really cleverly written that I can't imagine someone not enjoying it unless they want to be smarter than the media they consume. Knives Out is probably better as a 'murder mystery' but Glass Onion is much wittier and more clever but it's less about a whodunit and more a whydunit.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Marvel's Midnight Suns is shockingly addictive and way more involved than I expected. The strategy part is fun and tactical enough but also with enough random elements to keep it challenging but never in an unfair way. The character writing is surprisingly well done even if you don't know or care about the comic characters. And the activities at the base go beyond just hanging out with Doctor Strange and Wolverine, like there's an entire map with exploration and little puzzle solving and collectibles to find. What a surprise gem

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Cuz it came out 5 years ago and I barely remember what I did 5 weeks ago.

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I don't get the Vegeta reference, but I thought he was one dimensional and cartoonish as a villain.

@BangoSkank

They give him a second dimension but the important part is that, like Vegeta being obsessed with surpassing Goku, Quaritch is now obsessed with surpassing Jake. Only in this case 'surpassing Jake' means 'fucking killing him and his entire family for no reason other than obsessive petty revenge'

It rules he rules

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I havent seen the new Avatar.

First one was pretty and I enjoyed it but it had a very predictable cookie cutter plot.

Main Guy Colonizer meets natives. Native girl saves main guy colonizer from his own stupidity. Main Guy Colonizer falls for native girl. Main Guy Colonizer gradually grows to understand and identify with native tribe and girl. More colonizers come. They're all total dicks. They want to kill all the natives or steal all their shit or turn their sacred lands into a Super Wal-Mart. Also they're obnoxiously racist. MGC sides with the natives once he sees how cartoonishly evil the other colonizers are. The End.

But the visuals were gorgeous and the alien design was cool. Cool animal designs. Good effects. And Zoe Saldana. Goddam Zoe Saldana. I don't care what kinda alien she is in what movie, that there Zoe Saldana. Goddam.

I hope Way of Water is less predictable, I'm not too optimistic having heard about the return of Evil Racist Scar Face General Man. You remember him. The guy with a scar on his face who was evil and racist and in the military.

@BangoSkank

They weren't colonizers in the first movie they were miners they were there just to mine a mineral that would be worth a lot of money. Well other than Sigourney Weaver who was trying to teach them english that was pretty colonizer. Also the bad guy is great he's not nuanced at all he is just marine mercenary man who drinks coffee while napalming a sacred location and it rules and he's even better in the sequel because he is the Vegeta now. He is just Blue Vegeta.