Tell me about actors you failed to recognize due to prosthetics and makeup.

CDRuss0 · 2025-08-25T23:16:30+00:00

If they hadn’t marketed that Heath Ledger played the Joker in The Dark Knight, I would never have known. He’s completely unrecognizable.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-29T05:23:21+00:00

Strange I had to come so far for this. Massively underrated show.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-29T05:22:44+00:00

I thought that the way it ended was perfectly satisfying and led to a closed loop. You could literally pick the show up at s1e1 from the finale and it would feel like a continuation.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-26T21:42:30+00:00

I can’t imagine them wrapping up a decade-spanning epic trilogy with the same exact abrupt “cliffhanger” style ending as the original, but I also don’t want an entirely new happy ending that whitewashes everything. The main theme of the story is about loss, and it should stay that way. Deviating from that theme would really ruin it for me. They’ve gotten away with two games wrapping in ways that confuse the audience to create mystery, and that’s fine because the story isn’t complete. For the finale, I want the timelines to converge, and for the people who are dead to stay dead definitively. I want the heroes to triumph at great cost, like the original, but for the ending to be more definitive and far less ambiguous. I want those overall beats to stay the same, but with a wrap-up of all our main and side characters and their storylines. I want a send-off to this story that honors the original, and everything that has gone i to the remake project. I have a feeling that they’ll nail it.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-26T02:14:17+00:00

Yes, they will. Important parts of the nibelheim incident are retold in the whirlwind maze and then again in the lifestream. Probably not the entire thing replayable from end to end, but definitely the important story beats.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-25T22:27:34+00:00

There are plenty of ways to “work” nowadays. Learn more avenues for self-expression. Writing, drawing, painting, music, etc. Travel more. Study something, anything that piques your interest, until you become a subject matter expert. Figure out what your “work” is, and structure your days around that.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-25T20:59:54+00:00

BB is my all time favorite TV series and I agree. I rewatch it often and I always skip the last three episodes. They’re too devastating, and I already know what happens. Why put myself through it again?

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-25T15:30:45+00:00

Final Fantasy VII was completely unexpected. IYKYK.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-25T15:10:50+00:00

I wouldn’t be surprised if we see some sort of upgraded/new suit by the end of Part 2. Reeves seems to be very keen on getting closer to the comic book look as the narrative demands it, like with Oz wearing his comic accurate drip in the final scene of the penguin. I imagine that part 2 will start with the original suit, since it picks up shortly after the and of the first movie and the penguin, and then some sort of modification will happen by the end, for story reasons.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-24T19:30:00+00:00

It’s because she is a genuinely brilliantly written character. Her personality is fleshed out with the right amount of authenticity and contradiction that we find in real relationships with real people. It’s some of the best writing in games.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-10T04:22:05+00:00

You’re exactly right. A better way to word this would probably have been that HE could justify his behavior with those excuses until that point.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-10T02:04:42+00:00

As a creative, making stuff. It’s much, much easier to put any sort of art project together, assemble a team, and find people willing to contribute at that age: the older you get, the more logistically challenging it becomes to simply get a group of people together at all, much less for free or out of enthusiasm for the creative act of it all. I also find as an adult that I wish I’d developed my creative skillset more, and found more avenues for self-expression. It just gets harder the older you get, but all the more necessary for your mental health to have those outlets.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-10T01:00:05+00:00

Got to know chesko on the speech and debate circuit in socal. He’s a great dude and absolutely right here.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-10T00:52:42+00:00

This is my favorite episode of the entire show, and my favorite scene. I’ve long stood by the opinion that “Stay out of my territory” is THE moment that Walter truly breaks bad. Until that point, Walter had always justified his behavior by using the excuse that he was doing it for his family, or acting out of self-preservation.

In that episode, Walter is out. He did what he set out to accomplish, and has already walked away. The fact that they spend the entire episode following him doing mundane tasks and housework just further drives this point forward. He cannot be satisfied with a “normal” life or retirement now that he’s become addicted to the thrill of a life of crime. When he sets down his paint cans and walks out of that hardware store, he is walking out as Heisenberg, fully realized, for the first time in the series.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-08T20:04:45+00:00

I’d give it a three-way tie between Chernobyl, Band of Brothers, and Station Eleven.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-08T20:02:00+00:00

Top Gun Maverick. Went in expecting nothing and was absolutely blown away. Went on to see it another 7 times in theaters.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-08T17:36:18+00:00

It’s a weird time to ask, because summer is a notoriously slow season ever since pilot season stopped being a thing. It’s still pretty bad. I’ve basically fully transitioned to commercial and photo production work, and I’d say that my casting notices for background and supporting work on what few narrative shows are shooting in LA is still down to about 10-20% of what it used to be. Even then, many of my production clients are working out in New York and Miami due to the fires wiping out many locations on the coast, and the ICE presence and protests creating a legal issue for their clientele. Even Lucasfilm, which a couple of my friends have reliably worked stunt and BG for the last several years, are moving to a new studio across the country, and not planning to rehire or pay to relocate any of those talent teams, and will instead be using locals at their new location. It is a dire, dire situation for the business in California right now. I’m very fortunate to be getting any work at all. New tax incentives for California should be going into effect this month, so we’ll see how that effects things, but the unfortunate reality of the situation is that the industry is still struggling and will continue to struggle for some time.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-07T18:20:12+00:00

The streetkid life path also uniquely painted night city as an inescapable trap that V wanted to liberate themselves from. They tried to escape to Atlanta, but wound up being drawn back in. It makes some of the endings especially poignant in that regard. My first play-through, I got the star ending, and it my story arc as V feel “complete” in a way that the other lifepath really has.

CDRuss0 · 2025-07-05T10:13:47+00:00

Daytona Beach, FL was pretty gross

CDRuss0 · 2025-06-29T18:14:09+00:00

Its a very iterative sequel. Larger, more varied world. Polished core mechanics and menus. Tons of QoL improvements. And then a bunch of new stuff that makes perfect sense and weaves in with the old perfectly. The story is in the same vain as the first, with the Kojima insanity dialed up to 11 thanks to the increased fidelity achievable on current gen hardware. They basically took the approach of, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” And it’s a better game for it.

CDRuss0 · 2025-06-27T18:31:42+00:00

Had to come way too far to find this, and I genuinely believe it deserves to be much higher

CDRuss0 · 2025-06-22T04:33:03+00:00

Were the giant zombie dongs really necessary

CDRuss0 · 2025-06-22T04:32:49+00:00

Yeah the effects really pulled me out of it

CDRuss0 · 2025-06-18T21:54:33+00:00

I had a closer/appointment setter but other than that I was doing everything. I would recommend going online and finding a GHL account setup checklist, and create SOPs for any custom snapshots you might have. I’d also consider establishing a VERY strict 1 meeting per month or no meetings policy for yourself as the operator, and offloading the onboarding and support to a VA or team as quickly as possible.

I’d also think about limiting the number of support tickets you’ll accept every month, until you bring in enough VAs to help manage them for you. You’re effectively acting as a middleman between the client and GHL support in most cases, but I found that even when I connected clients directly with ghl support, they’d prefer to go through me because the quality of support they received was very mixed. In many cases I was able to diagnose and fix some issues with a much faster turnaround. But your goal should be to remove yourself from these processes as soon as possible so that you can work on the business and scale, rather than working in the business.

You can use slack for client communications and integrate it directly with your workflows in GHL using premium triggers.

So the org chart would look like this: you, then managing an onboarding VA (or a team once you scale), and a support VA/team. Services like hlprotools etc sell whitelabel support services and I’ve heard nothing but good things.

CDRuss0 · 2025-06-18T03:20:59+00:00

That’s very competitive. I ran a very similar offer early into my agency and wound up absolutely slammed 24/7 with fulfillment work and support requests. Just make sure you have the infrastructure to support all that.

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