I was recently shown this hilarious Simpsons skit, but someone had to explain it to me haha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qause0z-9tM

I love those pulpy swing-for-the-fences ideas too. Sometimes people forget not everything has to be high cinema or literature.

Sometimes we just want some imaginative adventure that takes us away from the mundane drudgery.

That's how I feel about Adele. Rolling in the Deep might even be objectively good but it GRATES on me because you'd hear it EVERYWHERE. ALL THE TIME.

I think a lot of decent artists are foisted upon the public so forcefully they become loathed.

And a ridiculously haunted-house-like FPS sequence that was pretty freaking rad. It was a nice homage to the source material.

Battle: Los Angeles was actually a brilliant ayylmao invasion movie, I think, blatant cringeworthy video-gamey rah-rah Marine recruitment propaganda aside.

I really liked that it doesn't cut away to some scientists or The President who know exactly what's going on and explain it to us. It doesn't show the aliens being diabolical with subtitles in their mothership or something. It doesn't expo-dump to make sure we're following along comfortably. No.

You follow a bunch of Marines deployed straight into the claustrophobic fog of war after a whole ton of "WTF" just hit finally-not-New-York-for-once.

We the viewers only know what they know. They have to learn as they go, and so do we. And that's actually pretty scary.

The aliens also had such a cool and unique design. I loved their tech and the "pop pop crackle" of their machinery sputtering thrusts to stay aloft.

Yeah, that's the part that bugged me too. There was so much "subverting expectations" to be clever and huff ones' own farts...But no satisfying storytelling in place.

It was written like an on-the-fly television show like "Ah HAH this will be unexpected and get eyeballs and maybe we'll explain it in season 6!" . . .but it was a movie, and it was just over...and a bunch of empty threads kinda went nowhere for ~2 hours straight.

It was entertaining! I watched it and first said "WOW. That was like the BEST Star Wars in a WHILE." Then we thought about it...and realized nothing actually made any sense. Kinda like when you look at Ai stuff, weirdly enough. Lots of flash but it's clear there was no actual intent behind it.

Also Finn was supposed to be a force-sensitive Stormtrooper who grows a conscience and turns Jedi. Finn was robbed. That bothers me so much that he just got relegated to backseat supporting sidekick to a cardboard cutout who should've had some depth.

At least that part is seen as a bit problematic by characters of the story.

I got that one and still need to play it, because somebody explained that it was a lot different than people expected so they didn't pick up the more action-oriented gameplay like the devs hoped.

It was a lot more dynamic and run-and-gun than survival horror, but it kinda fit the over the top theme. Something like that.

So it won me over on a sale. I think having that in mind will make for a better first impression. :)

Wow, cool. Hasn't saw any problems in the art itself. Now see, thank you.

Anyway almost all of that is Supporting roles at best. I know I will get minuses for this comment too.

I still will watch it with my daughter, when she will apply to elementary school. And as others suggested, I will not pay money for that. Thank you, guys.

For games, I'd have to say Ultima. Most people who played the games before this one hate it and say that it deviated from the series too far, but I just love the post apocalyptic setting. It is so dark, and the game music by Nenad Vugrinec is really great.

Sure, it has it's flaws. Massive, massive flaws. And so many. Movement, and especially jumping, is a big mess. And the game makes you jump a lot. Onto moving platforms, too. So that was massively frustrating. But despite that and the fact that the game was never really finished, it is still really really good.

Honestly i really liked the relationships in it. The premise is really good too. I get why the later seasons just didnt deliver the same though.

You know, the fact that you wrote ex fiance actually kinda goes against your point

The Last of Us 2. I get the hate but I LOVE playing as Abby. Christ almighty is it a fun game. Dark, but fun.

The prequels are the only Star Wars movies that I regularly rewatch. The other 6 are never on at our house, and the spin off movies are completely ignored.

I think the high seas is the only ethical way to enjoy her content. I have my childhood hard covers but I’ll never give her money now. She seems truly evil. That’s coming from a Slythern!

How did you feel about Civ: Beyond Earth?

Scrubs s9 and the Star Wars prequels.

The games have some fantastic murder twists. After V2’s ass-pulls around its ending, and after 3’s first case, I felt like I was done. It was so weird that I could enjoy the individual murder mysteries, but once they got wrapped up in the overall crazy story they were trying to tell, I lost interest.

It sounded interesting, but I never obtained it, alas. :)

Canto Bight hits different after you burned out doing odd jobs at the sleazy casino on the edge of town

Beautifully said

Heh. When you're with someone for six years. Things change. At a certain point you have to discuss the direction in life you want to take.

Yeah the RE franchise took a detour around RE Zero. With RE4, it is really noticeable. It went from horror survival, you better conserve your ammo. Don't kill that zombie just run around him so you have enough ammo for the boss. To action horror, kill everything and everyone. We will drop a lot of loot for you.

I enjoy both styles, but understand the hate. After how RE4 was so well received they kept ramping up the action until the reset with 7.

This makes D&D very unfun. You don't win DnD. You enjoy DnD with friends.

For me it's sweet child o mine. It's a classic song, but I've heard and played it myself so many times that I can't stand it anymore. I always skip it when I can

Rogue One and Andor are pretty good

Yeah, as the DM i was very much tempted to call him on it a few times, but i figured it would do more harm than good. So I tried to get creative, which mostly worked.

I like both

Richard!

Yeah it's the best of the 3, but it's also just about the worst middle part of a trilogy they could do. It rejects the setup and doesn't really set up well for the finale, while going off and doing its own thing. The trilogy was pretty doomed before it, but it was the killing blow

Yeah, in the same month of this year she threatened to sue amnesty international forcing them to take down a report and posted an upskirt of someone she had a problem with. These aren't the most evil things she's done, but they are some real "are we the baddies" moments

Sex and the city for me. They're rich assholes. They're also outspoken, assertive, strong. They taught a lot to teen me, a nerdy people-pleaser. They were the ones who made me realize I could just say no to men, and that having standards was a good thing.

Yes. That's the point. It's about Nazis, fascism, the KKK (pointy hats, helloooooo) etc. Which is why it's so weird that she's joined the people who she says were bad.

That list above is bullshit. There's no need to make anything up. Just stick to the truth. The woman's behaviour is appalling.

Torment: Tides of Numenera

A lot of people give this game bad rep because its (in)direct ancestor was amazing Planescape Torment, the game with one of the best stories ever made. Sure Planescape was amazing, with all its bizarre characters and places, deep thoughts provoking story, vast amounts of book like conversations, that's all true.

But Numenera was ringing the exact same bell for me.

I get some of the hate it's not real Planescape, but that's because of licensing reason and we can't do shit about that. But world of Numenera was amazing replacement! It's just as bizarre, just as strange, just as different, I loved it!

I get some of the hate of "shallow" characters which is somehow true for some random NPCs, but that's in every game. But your companions were all interesting with interesting motives and background.

I don't get the hate of mechanics and combat. I honestly prefer its game mechanics to d&d, because we've already seen it million times and this was new. And it works well. And combat? Lol. That's the last thing this game is about so I don't mind it's not perfect. And honestly, combat in "the original" sucked even more.

All in all I did not expect much thanks to reviews but I was very pleasantly surprised. I highly recommend the game for all patient gamers out there.

It's mad max on the water, what's not to love? Now postman on the other hand...

Lily especially in this watchthrough I'm noticing how much she does manipulate him. Season 2 leaving of course just destroys him, and then she comes back and just expects to be taken back like it's nothing. Then expects the wedding and everything right after, wanting everything to move on like she didn't just destroy all trust with him. The really sad thing is she left to see if she could be a painter while he never prevented her from doing that while being together, as Ted said there are so many ones in NYC why SF? She wanted to go off and be single, and he took her back way too easily.

Then getting mad that he talks to his parents, or that he dreamed of maybe living somewhere else, or the credit card debt, or then being mad that he became a corporate lawyer to pay off her credit card debt. I feel bad for the guy

Thank you! I genuinely believe that Lily is the least agreeable character in the show. Everyone else’s vices are brazen and loud, but she manages to sneak around and not get noticed because of how cute her demeanor is.

I really like the 90s Romeo and Juliet, set in present day with the lines unchanged (mostly). I'm alone in this, I think.

We sing along because it was forced on us 😭 a few songs are ok I guess, they're like the junk food of music, small doses.

You're a good DM

I'm with you, I love that show. I liked friends too. I love trashy TV, it's like frozen pizza, hits the spot.

I like her character for this, gives her more dimension and imperfect characters are more interesting to me.

It's no scrubs

I quite enjoy The Big Bang Theory. It's not great art, but it's relaxing and not taxing.

It's sick.

"Fetch me my sword" grabs a gun named sword. Plus it has the best Mercutio.

Isn't it just a what if hack sign was a harem anime?

I think sitcoms are an art form, people compare them to high price dramas and they aren't. Sitcoms are your "friends" after a long day if work that you can count on to be reliable and low pressure. You watch them not for a good story necessarily, but to unwind after a day. Sadly I think that's been lost over the last few years.

Aww thanks <3

We're all here to have fun after all.

You see, i don't think so. I think it is definitely redirecting the setup, but apart from sheer number of remaining rebels, I think it tracks really well with ESB. The great victory from the opening movie reveals vulnerability and removes the threat of clean and instant apocalypse, but doesn't truly alter the new balance of power (sigh... JJ could have given us a functioning New Republic dealing with an insurgency of its own, but no...). Our chosen one meets a reluctant mentor who eventually acquiesces to train her. She has a troubling but cryptic dark side experience and leaves after learning some but not enough. Hero confronts a dark truth about her history but ultimately can't truly defeat the villain. Through pluck and sacrifice, our heroes live to fight another day and we are left only with the implication of useful resources ("the fleet" in ESB, the allies who hadn't yet answered in TLJ).

Now, I'll concede the time jump would have needed to be more like ANH->ESB than ESB->ROTJ for it to work, but I also think the set up for an Episode 9 where the call is answered/being answered could work. In Canto Bight we're made aware that the Alliance/Resistance's iconography is inspirational, and we learn that the Force is out there, and there are people who want to believe in the cause of both. Additionally, we have a villain who is struggling between the light and the dark, but ultimately rejects both, as he understands them, to make his own path and pursue his own goals, motivated by emotional torment and a tragic sense of abandonment. There's good bones there, much better than "here's a hatful of fan theories. Pick one and let's chase some mcguffins."

If a sociopath checks all the boxes for 'normal' except for understanding that other people have their own thoughts and feelings, they're still a sociopath.

Not saying their ex-wife is a sociopath, just saying that you usually need multiple litmus tests (colloquial) before you can determine a greater truth about someone.