SleepingSilence

What shows/movies are you watching?

I mean I've read and watched a lot of fantasy and I think fantasy is largely all garbage piles so maybe it's just not the genre for you.

@Fabricant451

To be fair fantasy is a lot easier to pull off (and in turn a lot easier to screw up). I know a lot of fantasy works just come down to the whole "it's magic I ain't gotta explain shit" cliché.

@Kuro

Well I'm sure the law of averages suggest that most genres are filled with mediocre works.

But I think you're correct (Kuro). In that, I think the "explaining everything" bit is part of it. Because both of them rely on suspension of disbelief, using largely unbelievable/unlikely concepts. So when Fantasy says "magic and emotion", cliché as it might be, its a lot easier to buy. Versus when not smart people attempt to make up bullshit science jargon on the fly. Because its both so much closer to reality/therefore far less believable.

Also, fantasy is and has been far more broad in its use in media, generally speaking. Where as, a whole lot of scifi shows, do a lot of the very same things. I'm sure if I found some comics or something less soap opera-y. (Got a lot of scifi hand-me-downs from my parents.) I'd find the western Steins:Gate.

But I have to keep trying. If you don't try something based on usual taste, you'll miss the best stuff of its kind.

What shows/movies are you watching?

I've read and watched a lot of science fiction. (Most recently a cancelled show called, Dark Matter. Where it botched the premise and mystery element fairly quickly.)

And I've still struggled to find anything in the genre that I could call "my favorite", aside from a few anime. (Which seems to be the only exception, for how often I find myself feeling indifferent to this genre.)

*shrugs*

Word association Game!

Boat

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

I have almost finished playing "Haiku, The Robot". (Easy Hollow Knight. As it's described.)

And man, I've been waiting for something like this to come out of the metroidvania space for a while now.

I adore its art design, the world connectivity, how it got movement right, the gimmicks that make it stand out, the character interactions and little lore spaces. (Honestly, it only needs a much better soundtrack to make everything else 'pop'.)

However, the biggest objective flaw with the game, is how a majority of these enemies pose no threat to you whatsoever. To the point where you feel kind of sorry for destroying them. Some even seem broken. Like the Jellyfish enemies that shoot no-damage lightning sparks at you. (And a lot of people also say that all the bosses are too easy. And sure, compared to Hollow Knight and its contemporaries, they're all fairly exploitable.) But I think most of the bosses are balanced fine. Due to how slow the healing system is.

Except the final but not really boss that I'm on right now. And how it seems borderline unfair, with how random and unpredictable his movements seem to be throughout his various phases. But I'll keep at it. (After all, I gave Ender Lilies far much more of my time. And yet, I've enjoyed my overall experience with this game, for much longer.) So I'm glad I got this one.

Edit: Finished everything despite the game claiming otherwise. And yes, that boss was still pure nonsense.

What shows/movies are you watching?

@Fabricant451 In action movies and scenes that are supposed to be tense. Completely predictable outcomes do hinder the experience a wee bit. Especially when its a longer "when will they be saved" scene. But I don't have a problem with a story/plot being cliché. If its done well—and the movie does do most of its scenes well.

In fairness to it, I haven't seen anything better in theaters. And there's nothing wrong with a crowd pleaser. (It's almost refreshing to see a movie being made for the audience to enjoy.)

Maybe I'm just too hard to please. :P

What Are You Listening To?

I've heard a bunch of decent/listenable tracks over the past few days. But I keep finding myself listening to music from prior years instead.

What shows/movies are you watching?

A movie doesn't have to kill characters to up stakes or tension.

Maverick is far and away the best theater experience I've had in recent times and Tom Cruise is saving cinema once again what a crazy motherfucker. It's not the best movie I've seen this year (but it's a solid third), that honor goes to Everything Everywhere All At Once.

@Fabricant451

My mixed feelings about Everything Everywhere All At Once aside.

I do agree that killing off any of the characters, probably wouldn't have fit what the movie was going for. But it easily could've been a little less predictable in places. (The last 'protags saved at the last minute scene' was one flashback away from being a Shonen anime.)

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My boredom (and youtube's shitty search algorithm when I was looking up music) made me watch "Origin". (Another bad "The Thing" knock off.) Which is another TV series that IMDB has scored way too generously.

But I'm still holding out hope that this seasonal anime will have something worth watching.

the alphabet game. lol

Zebrafish

Post a random fact about yourself.

On a side note, the 2000 words I wrote for my book over the past two days did not save. /boo frickin' hoo! :(

@Gunther

Oof. I know that feeling. What's the book about? :3

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I've been considering going back to read some of my old RP's/more in general really, in an attempt to inspire myself back into writing. (We'll see if that method happens to help me or not...)

Word association Game!

Painting