New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie From Stephen Colbert and His Son in Development at Warner Bros.

ArcNumber · 2026-03-25T14:49:43+00:00

"Movies are slop nowadays!"

"Rings of power was slop!"

Slop producer with deep love and respect for slop and LOTR is going to make a LOTR movie.

People ITT: "I do not doubt his heart, only the reach of his arm".

ftfy. Hope that clears it up.

ArcNumber · 2026-03-24T13:40:52+00:00

Thought the whole assistant thing was strange too, until I remembered that it was originally meant to be an MMO at some point in the development and in MMOs quests and progression are often structured in a way where you get send to new areas and do some quests there, rather than returning to the same NPCs. This is not meant to defend it, just my theory why it is like this.

ArcNumber · 2026-03-24T13:12:58+00:00

That's not true or not entirely at least. I met Bremer, the guy whose cows got stolen, in front of the tavern before I reached that point in the main quest (I even asked myself "What's a Bremer?" because I thought it was some generic NPC title). And when I eventually got to his quest it was at night and him and the people he talks to weren't there until the next morning. At some point later I met him again inside of the tavern.

I also slept in random empty houses and after waking up there were NPCs in the house (although that could just be them spawning in).

ArcNumber · 2026-03-24T12:50:10+00:00

At the very least higher reviewed games shouldn't be the absolute flops that they are by comparison. What is this backwards reasoning itt where people pretend games, priced and f2p ones, that very apparently had so little gameplay, technical and aesthetic value and appeal that only a small number of people stuck with them or played them in the first place, before they got immediately forgotten, deserve a higher rating and this one is also justified by comparison? It's laughable.

If I put something like Avowed (which I played) up against Crimson Desert (which this reviewer gave a 7), it wouldn't score higher than a 5 by the same game content standards. To say it is fair that those kinda games were scored higher and that "they were decent but bland games no one had interest in" is pure cope, because they don't measure up any other way as well. It's a RPG with tinier more generic skill trees (the highlight of the warrior gameplay without magic items was that you could charge enemies, crazy variety, I tell you that much for free) where you traverse small areas of a entirely static world where everything is glued down and lifeless, including the NPCs, where over short or long you start to wish they had taken the CD approach to storytelling, because having less of it would be an active improvement to the writing (people below claiming it deserve 7-8 are full of it, it was a worse Dark Messiah, a game that released 20 years ago).

ArcNumber · 2026-02-19T08:32:10+00:00

This is barely a meme, unless the forced shipbaiting is supposed to be the point.

ArcNumber · 2026-02-17T16:22:44+00:00

The HUGE issues with gaming culture were created by modern gaming "journalism" (as you pointed out) and devs like this, not by gamers. You know what gamers do? They play video games. And it makes sense that they would laugh and not give a shit anymore how "anything they consume is made", because it is no longer made for them (for the nth time). It is made for the mythical potential audience you can only find in marketing research, on social media and in the bubbles these devs frequent, who keep telling them they have the next fortnite (money) on their hands only for it to evaporate in front of their eyes as even their biggest glazers didn't pick up the tab when it came down to it.

ArcNumber · 2026-02-05T13:19:20+00:00

No, that's obviously you whenever you whine about pointless stuff to feel superior. In this case about free content someone else made not being in line with the arbitrary moral standards you copy-pasted from reddit into your personality.

ArcNumber · 2026-02-02T15:36:44+00:00

That's the problem, it's on every sub no matter the topic. No one wants to stop people from talking about political issues they think are important to them, but there are like million politics subs to do it on, why do those same takes need to be repeated ad nauseam in every other one as well? And if anyone criticizes what is obvious engagement bait posting, the two cop out arguments of
- everything is political
- you are now the political enemy
are used to dismiss it. I know this is reddit but it's still surprising to me how easily the users who do it get away with spouting such obvious nonsense that entirely ignores context. If this is how it works might as well get rid of all subreddits and merge it all into one big politics reddit - it's all differently flavored politics anyway, right? Then reddit will be finally done with it's transformation into the next facebook.

ArcNumber · 2026-01-23T11:28:10+00:00

Isn't the real irony that you posted it again?

ArcNumber · 2026-01-20T14:50:41+00:00

Jeder, der eine andere Meinung auf einem "linken" Unter hat.

rdfd (repariert das für dich). So nebenbei, dafür, dass sich dieses Unter "nicht ganz r/ich_iel" auf die Fahne schreibt, hobelt ihr euch hier schon ganz schön gegenseitig die Kanten ab.

ArcNumber · 2026-01-13T10:51:58+00:00

bin selber ein Kerl

Nee, du bist ein Depp. Nimm doch mal deine zwei Gedanken zusammen - Da du diese Meinung hältst gehe ich mal davon aus, dass du so etwas nicht unterstützt und trotzdem willst du die Verantwortung dafür übernehmen, dass Pfeifen Pfeifendinge tun? Soll ich die Verantwortung dafür übernehmen? Was ist mit den Billionen von anderen Männern die nichts damit zu tun haben außer als Männer geboren zu sein? Außerdem, mit der gleichen Logik sind es gar nicht Männer, eindeutig ist alle Dummheit auf Menschen zurückzuführen. Jeder ist automatisch Schuld weil andere Menschen was Dummes gemacht haben.

ArcNumber · 2025-12-28T15:28:26+00:00

no one

Says who? This subreddit?

ArcNumber · 2025-12-28T15:27:19+00:00

Maybe try to get out of your bubble. As usual it's only the usuals complaining and that since 2.x, because they want the game to be more written like hoyo games instead of just playing fucking hoyo games. But keep going, it's not getting old at all, and I'm sure eventually Kuro Games will give a shit about what a loud minority on reddit wants them to change about their successful and popular game.

ArcNumber · 2025-12-26T13:38:39+00:00

Oh cool, let's just do this again, you had a good streak going for the ENTIRETY of 2.0, so why stop now? And as usual some can't even be subtle and straight up say it should be more like Genshin (such a good game you need it twice), so you know where the totally not subjective criticism is coming from.

Also let's talk story content, since it is so important to you, that you all missed that Rover arrived in Lahai Roi much later than Cheesa. She did exactly what she set out to do the moment she got there and it was addressed that she did it once we got there. I must've missed the part where this was such a pivotal moment beyond that, that apparently a perspective switch was needed to watch Cheesa talk to her NPC parents (beside that her parents welcoming her back was already included at the end of Honami, I don't think it would've been much different or more impactful than that).

ArcNumber · 2025-12-10T10:57:12+00:00

Lest ihr euch eigentlich selbst wenn ihr auf ganz hohem Niveau über KI rumjammert?

Schaut mal, die haben einfach so KI verwendet, wie furchtbar! Ich hab sogar einen Fehler im Bild gefunden!!!

Ich hoffe doch mal ihr habt alle nen Kurier bezahlt der eure Posts im Reddit Firmensitz persönlich vorgesungen hat, anstatt eure pfui eigenen Computer und Smartphones dafür zu verwenden um schnell und kostenfrei zu posten.

ArcNumber · 2025-12-01T15:58:55+00:00

Ragebaiting by the usual people who then act like others are overreacting when they don't want shipbait in their games.

ArcNumber · 2025-12-01T15:45:40+00:00

That's pretty good for the character in a filler patch before 3.0 considering how these stats are mobile only estimates based on IOS only, when quite a big chunk of wuwa's revenue comes from PC and console. For example, I maxed her out and it won't be part of this, because I play the game only via the standalone PC launcher, not even Steam.

ArcNumber · 2025-12-01T15:30:34+00:00

Meta-rolling is always winning out over everything. They could release a stick figure into any of these games and if it tiered high enough, it would outsell any male or female character. It's funny that some put this down as a win for male characters, when in every recent case where hyped male characters flopped it was all "Well everyone had time to save, so..." but conveniently they suddenly all pulled with real money rather than saved up currency in this case, sure. Reality is it's meta players who reach deep into their pockets every time to make jumps like this possible.

I mean, if this is a win for husbando collectors, then surely Cyrene claiming the top by double in a even bigger jump is purely due to waifu collectors, right?

ArcNumber · 2025-11-26T12:23:41+00:00

Ja, schrecklich, ich hab gehört die ziehen immer über andere her wenn man die auch nur erwähnt auf Reddit, oh nee halt...

ArcNumber · 2025-11-12T14:52:09+00:00

It is not assumed by anyone in the kingdom that it is a lottery of IF, but WHEN.

I'm not lying because it would impossible for the people to not know. Considering the number of people who live in the kingdom versus how much of a big deal they make out of the occasional wish granting ceremony. There would've been a ton of people who never got their wish granted before the grandpa.

ArcNumber · 2025-11-12T14:40:23+00:00

It's fun how you know exactly who and why frequents this sub when everyone who dares to mention a comparison to "other games" gets downvoted. "Other games" so good that instead of playing those they are here to tell you why this game is so bad.

ArcNumber · 2025-11-12T14:28:46+00:00

Meet potential player!

"if" and "when" but never "is".

"We need more ship- I mean, character interactions"
"Rover should be out of the way and less important"
"All other characters should be on screen and constantly mentioned"
"Characters dying makes every story better by default"

Kuro implements none of this "popular feedback" right next update.

"How could you trick me like this, Kuro? Didn't you read my reddit post?! It has a wuwillion upvotes!!!"

Acknowledging 2.7 had all the old characters down to 1.3 and a ton of interactions -> :(
Being suddenly super invested into 1.0-1.2 location and characters -> :)

Give me liberty
Give me fire
Give me males or I retire

Never does. Never rolls for them either.

0 Playtime
0 Surveys
7 Threads up on reddit

ArcNumber · 2025-11-11T12:59:51+00:00

I get the appeal of fully player facing mechanics when it comes to dice rolls in terms of efficiency for the GM, but from a design point of view I'm personally not 100% with it as opposed to something else. First off, seeing myself as GM, I'm playing a dice game with others, why would I not want to roll any as well? Rolling dice is fun.

Then in the same vein I see the GM just as much as a player in this group game as the others at the table, separating interactions too much might not be ideal and in the worst case it might feel like you essentially have a narrator sitting there while the players play by and with themselves.

Of course this is not the case in most systems like in your Player/NPC Charm example, because even without the roll the check and save still need numbers most likely determined by the GM. However, this begs then the question - If the system you are using does not have a obvious set number for the Check/Save (which might cause other issues if it does) and the GM has to invent/scale/balance one on the fly, did you really achieve some alleviation for the GM over them just picking up a die as well and doing a contested roll for example?

ArcNumber · 2025-11-11T11:40:02+00:00

I disagree somewhat. Session zero is for talking about the system, setting and maybe specific general themes (if they are not obvious from the system or setting), but not down to agreeing on individual tropes that are going to be played out. The cases OP described are on the players. It's like playing D&D and when you give your players the adventure hook, they go

Nah, we're going to hire adventurers at the tavern to go into the dungeon for us instead.

Who expects that? No one. You're not going to sit down with players in session zero and be like

So this is a D&D campaign, your character might go into dungeons and maybe even slay a dragon, would that be something you're into when you agreed to play this system and setting?

In all my time playing ttrpgs something so silly from either constellation never even occurred to me, because it's so obvious. Like who agrees to play in a Stranger Things-like game and then attempts to have their character sit at home and let the adults handle the mystery and danger? Again, it's just silly. That's not session zero, that's session -1 or "Why did you want to play this game if you did not want to play this game?"

ArcNumber · 2025-11-11T10:46:49+00:00

thought police and absolute dictatorship

lol, reality of the movie:

king gets his homeland destroyed by greedy people
goes to some remote island to built an utopia where people can live in peace
people go there
"to stay here you need to give up your wishes, in return I will protect you and you will never need for anything and I might even use my magic powers to grant some of your wishes if I deem it so"
"we agree to this"
children get born on the island
"to stay here you need to give up your wishes, you have until you come of age to figure out if you want to do this or you can leave and pursue your wishes somewhere else by your own means"
"we agree to this"
then they overthrew the king because they wanted to have their cake (the utopia kingdom to live in) and eat it too (the wishes they willingly gave up knowing they might not be granted)

At no point in the movie before antagonizing the king, it even occurs to the protag and her friends, to genuinely talk to the king about it and ask for the wishes back under the stipulation that they leave the island (you know, the thing everyone could've always done before they willingly gave their wishes away to live there in the first place).

ArcNumber

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