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He gets to be Keith David! Drugs? Fuck, tell me when they make a drug that feels like you’re a TV legend whose voice sounds like God’s sexier older brother

I totally get that concern, some of the QTEs in Dread are not my fav (the Experiment Z-57 boss is a big exception though, I loved that QTE sequence). I think I only got away from an EMMI a few times in my whole playthrough.

But I have to say, I do love the tone and pacing of Dread, and the more “Doomguy”-style Samus they’re evoking. I’m willing to bet this new one will have some of the missteps of Dread, but if it builds on what Dread got right that’ll be good enough. I’m probably skipping this console generation entirely though, so I don’t really have much of a dog in this race (unless they go wide with this release or I manage to emulate it, either is fine by me).

I have a buddy who watches those Nintendo directs religiously, video games are like his special interest. I’m honestly surprised he didn’t bring it up, I hope he’s ok lmao

Thanks, I hadn’t heard of this one!

What is the schlorping?

What kind of fool bounds across rooftops in gloomy weather? That’s prime trudging weather right there, don’t you even farm aura?

Waiting for this in fabric form so I can have my giant Cybersix-style cape powering some pneumatic jump boots. I’ll be unstoppable on that ten minute school run

You calling me a freak of nature? How dare

I think that’s obvious just by how simplistic it is lmao

It may be an uncouth boast, but in the interest of medical science I feel compelled to share. I sent this to my wife and she said “there have been times where it feels like you’re poking my brain”.

I may be a freak, but I’m no freak of nature. I share only to assure anyone lacking confidence that it really is a matter of “how you use it”.

The big difference, if I’m putting myself in those shoes, is humility. Big achievements are made carefully over a lot of small steps. Any idea you can just leap onto because you think you’re a genius is almost guaranteed to be worthless.

Fair enough! Quality itself isn’t the be-all end-all.

No! That’s the depression talking, complacency is on the loose. KOTOR taught me well, apathy is death.

You’re fine lol, I kinda could tell something was off

Good! Then I have no bones left to pick

The problem with that is that Netflix and other platforms notice this. And they start prioritising “background content”. Blah!

Life is too short. There is so much good media out there that you cannot watch it all in your lifetime. If it’s not creatively groundbreaking and/or gripping entertainment, it has better be at least educational. Who’s going to lay in their deathbed and wish they watched more mid TV shows?

Man I’m from America originally, I’m talking shit from a genuine place right now. What kind of loser is proud of where they’re from anyway

That’s a weird way to say “over 65% of humanity” lol

Silver lining: What if he brought together the whole region by fighting everyone? Wouldn’t that be heartwarming, in a way?

Given the cruelty of this comedy murder, I would say they’re the only ones that count

Evidence found at the scene point to a professional hit. Our psychological profilers are looking for a comedian with at least two Netflix specials.

This is how you end up becoming a ‘critic’, in the sense of “this is someone who is media literate enough to speak more about whether a show has broken new ground creatively, rather than just saying whether they have succeeded in being merely entertaining”. A lot of people simply don’t care about the creative merits of a production and just want to be entertained, but enough of us are harder to please that good critics with worthwhile observations are always in demand.

You done good, buddy

Same, I’m big and tall but anyone with fighting experience can fold my clothes while I’m still in them.

Someone in the comments there said the same author called SD Gundam “perfect from start to finish” like a month ago but I couldn’t find the article where he said it. I basically agree with all his picks though, a lot of anime was needlessly bowdlerised and made (more) insipid at the altar of “localisation”.

It’s funny because I’ve cut things off with people and didn’t do the symbolic knife gift, and they keep bugging me. And then the one time I accidentally leave a knife behind at a friend’s, suddenly there’s a definite distance between us and things die off organically. Interesting coincidence, can definitely see how this superstition came to be.

In my family there’s a tradition that if you give a gift of a blade, you have to make the recipient pay a penny for it. Might be related somehow.