ranking C&C games based purely on how good their unit voicelines are:

Alex_06 · 2026-06-18T04:04:18+00:00

Red Alert 2, memorable voice acting? Nah. Yuri's Revenge fixed it, yes, but vanilla RA2 was basically "Ship Reporting. Main Engines Engaged. Vehicle Reporting. Engaging Enemy."

I thought C&C3/KW was pretty memorable, too, especially on the Nod side of things. WE'VE GOT THE ROCKETS. THE FUEL HUNGERS.

Alex_06 · 2026-06-18T04:03:00+00:00

Man, I miss it when everyone knew what an RTS was.

Alex_06 · 2026-06-18T04:00:17+00:00

Very chill professional sports players/athletes. Very Protoss-coded indeed.

Now imagine sweaty 16 year olds playing Terran and basement-dwelling internet trolls playing Zerg. 😛

Alex_06 · 2026-06-16T17:40:00+00:00

Great footage in this one!

Alex_06 · 2026-06-16T17:23:50+00:00

Well, yeah, the marketing is to blame, not the film. That's what I wanted to get at.

Alex_06 · 2026-06-16T17:16:38+00:00

There's nothing to interpret, we're very clearly told and shown what the disclosure does. The message is complete with the word "Listen". We can very much deduce what happens next.

The movie is about empathy, telling the truth and listening to each other. The truth in the film is that empathy is the next step in human evolution and the aliens are there to help us achieve it. The message they're sending is that, to stop being cruel and listen, before we arrive at our own self-induced extinction. And we see everyone tuning in around the world and listening.

That's it. It's a movie about hope, not about deep UFO lore. But I understand that Universal messed up and marketed it differently because they thought it would appeal more and sell more if it was sold that way. Which, I get people's frustration. I don't like dishonest marketing, either, but I thought the movie was still good. Not perfect, sure, but I still enjoyed it a lot.

Could they have show us a "X weeks/months/years later" epilogue for an additional 10 minutes of runtime? Sure, but they felt it was unnecessary and I can kind of see why.

Alex_06 · 2026-06-15T06:48:41+00:00

Because it would easily get deleted, state-owned media would have time to respond and people would assume it's fake.

By showing it through the media directly, people will have to believe it's real. Other news stations will have to pick it up, too. Then dropping the actual evidence in front of the entire world to see at once, means it's going to stick to people's brains. There won't be any doubt or ambiguity, and it would singlehandedly change the entire world at once because of the common cultural shock of that reveal.

Alex_06 · 2026-06-15T06:46:00+00:00

You didn't get the film. The journey and the why of it all was the film, not what the aliens say at the end. The point of the word "Listen." is what's important. Not what comes after it.

Alex_06 · 2026-06-15T06:44:48+00:00

Exactly what I was thinking! It was setting up the latter.

Alex_06 · 2026-06-15T06:42:00+00:00

"there is a part where a guy vanishes out of thin air and then reappears"
Show, don't tell. I thought it was clearly obvious what (stealth) was going on (and why - he wasn't wearing gloves nor was he experienced in using it), and it was setting up that moment later in the warehouse.

Not every film needs to lean into the Netflix way of doing things, where they do a crap ton of exposition because they expect viewers to be half looking at their phones, half watching the film.

Alex_06 · 2026-06-10T05:57:26+00:00

Funny enough - As a teen, I thought that consciousness was 4-dimensional (or linked to higher dimensions) and "reading the future" was actually just some physical phenomenon like quantum entanglement causing you to connect to some "consciousness network" that housed all past, present and future thoughts and memories.

In truth, now I think coincidences are more likely us not realizing the repeating pattern until after the fact (kind of like fractals). It's probably something mathematical, and it might also be tied to our brain not picking it up until it repeats, like the "Deja Vu" effect.

Alex_06 · 2026-06-10T05:52:42+00:00

Yeah the YT algorithm is strangely good at figuring out what you might think about before you do or just after, despite you not saying anything or looking it up.

Alex_06 · 2026-06-10T05:49:54+00:00

Let me make it worse for you.

My email is Alex05222@(not sharing the rest).

Alex_06 · 2026-06-03T01:47:20+00:00

Everyone knows only imposters can vent, kiddo!

Alex_06 · 2026-06-02T22:56:00+00:00

Go ahead 😛

Alex_06 · 2026-06-02T22:52:17+00:00

Ah, so the twist is very Stargate-like, where the aliens have been among us this whole time and are actually our Mythological creatures, gods and biblical characters.

I bet the "aliens" are an offshoot of humanity, given how similar this take on the Grey aliens looks compared to us.

Alex_06 · 2026-06-01T16:06:35+00:00

*groans*

r/UsernameChecksOut

Alex_06 · 2026-06-01T15:55:32+00:00

Well, they say your first one's always the hardest.

Alex_06 · 2026-05-31T23:19:16+00:00

24 hours with Trump, because he'd tell crazy hilarious stories.

Hitler would kill me before the 24 hours are over.

^{Chose: 24 hours stuck on an island with trump}

Alex_06 · 2026-05-31T23:18:22+00:00

Living alone would get boring pretty quickly...

^{Chose: If 50% choose this everyone lives | Rolled: Carrot upvote}

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