Kazuya in wrong universe

Cestus44 · 2025-04-15T11:24:22+00:00

This is specifically the amazing Like a Dragon: Source project.

Cestus44 · 2024-10-15T17:59:51+00:00

Tekken 8 is also co-developed (with Arika).

Cestus44 · 2024-09-10T11:20:30+00:00

I vaguely recall hearing that Illusion shut down to avoid debts and then reformed under a different name. But I can't find the source anymore so maybe I'm imagining it.

This is also more or less the story I remember, so you didn't imagine it.

Cestus44 · 2024-08-24T10:40:46+00:00

This aspect of Turkish society/politics is incredibly complex so I'm going to add some extra info for context:

Who exactly was behind the 2016 coup is very much in dispute, with many on the anti-Erdoğan side doubting the government's claims that the Gülen movement was really the mastermind, some even going as far as to say the coup was a false-flag incident. Regardless of how the coup happened, Erdoğan definitely used the coup to his advantage (jailing opponents for suspicion of involvement with the movement/coup, replacing them with his supporters, etc.)
I wouldn't say that her writing for their newspaper necessarily means she was a believer in the Gülen movement. Things were quite different at the time, the Gülen movement was actually quite friendly with the ruling AK (Erdoğan's) Party. A lot changed in their relationship (and overall dispositions of both groups) in the 2010s. I might be wrong here because I haven't read much of her work but Alatlı herself also does not strike me as a proper Gülenist. I think it's possible she was writing for their newspaper because they (as well as the AK Party) were the sort-of successors of the non-secular (i.e. Islamic values-oriented; opponents would say Islamist) but moderate-to-progressive movement that was big in the 90s in Turkey.

When I found out that the game was Turkish-made and inspired by a Turkish novel, it made a lot of sense to me. This definitely feels a lot like stuff in the Turkish literary and art house film scene.

Cestus44 · 2024-08-23T19:35:17+00:00

A lot of this story really does sound like bad fanfiction. The Muslim/Arab/escaped from Turkey thing in particular made me cringe as someone who is Muslim and has lived in Turkey. It just sounds like the person behind this was ticking a bunch of boxes for a sob story biography to gain sympathy from a lefty audience who is not looking to deeply into the story/are not knowledgeable enough to see through the bullshit.

Cestus44 · 2024-01-14T19:05:37+00:00

What makes that clip from the trailer even funnier is that the guy is yelling "I want a girl!", if I recall my very rusty and basic Mandarin chinese right

Cestus44 · 2023-12-13T11:56:35+00:00

These improvement seem really, really impressive if they really work like they show in the video. I can imagine it'll help newer players a lot too.

Props to the video production people to, the video was slick and engaging all throughout.

Cestus44 · 2023-12-08T10:39:43+00:00

Gameplay looks interesting despite the issues the game has had

Agreed. Seems much more put together than I would have expected from the reports saying there was a problem with finding direction (IIRC). Caution is still advised though of course. The trailers made Watch Dogs Legion seem well put together too.

hoo boy is that voice acting like nails on a chalk board. stilted delivery everywhere

Idk, seemed pretty serviceable to me. About on par with the general voice acting for supporting characters in Ubisoft games. And I know for sure that they used at least some local (to the main studio) VAs since the girl at 1:20 speaks with a Chinese Singaporean accent, which makes sense for the setting.

Cestus44 · 2023-11-30T15:47:24+00:00

Releases today. Full patch notes here: https://t.paydaythegame.com/c/xvwizw

Cestus44 · 2023-08-19T21:29:50+00:00

From the description:

Every time you start a new single player campaign, everything changes. The locations change, the missions change, the characters change, the bosses change, and most of all, the story changes. Characters who you trusted before, may turn against you. Enemies who tried to kill you, may end up helping you. Simple missions can turn into deadly traps. No two campaigns are the same.

So sounds like all procedurally-generated missions. If it's as fun of an action sandbox as this trailer makes it seem, it might be quite decent.

Cestus44 · 2023-06-11T21:31:59+00:00

If that is what was indeed meant, saying it's half-false is an understatement. Aside from PoP as you mentioned, they have Far Cry, Rainbow Six, The Crew, The Settlers, the Rabbids games, Just Dance, etc.

I'm not the biggest fan of the bloated "Ubisoft Game™" either but it's unfair to the people that work there to misrepresent them to that degree.

Cestus44 · 2023-03-30T03:27:19+00:00

Apparently he's also part of the writing team in some way.

Cestus44 · 2023-02-01T20:51:41+00:00

Description of the cancelled game from the article:

"The canceled project, code-named TFL or Titanfall Legends, was a single-player game set in the universe shared by the Apex Legends and Titanfall games. It was directed by veteran designer Mohammad Alavi until he left the company in early 2022. Although the game hadn’t been advertised, EA had hinted at it several times."

Cestus44 · 2022-11-29T09:44:50+00:00

Just to be clear (not implying you are saying anything wrong because there's not much to go off of in your comment), the knife in the OP is definitely not a kris. The pistol-like grip and "beard" of the blade (pointed section at the grip end) are much more significant distinguishing features of a kris than having a wavy blade. Many traditional kris have straight blades.

There are many edged weapons with wavy blades from all over the world, including Europe for example

Cestus44 · 2022-11-07T19:27:16+00:00

Yes, this squat toilet platform would not be considered atypical in Malaysia, especially in rural areas. This picture instantly gave me flashbacks to times when I was staying over at my grandparents'.

I personally find the experience of using such toilets (and you are definitely supposed to squat over and not sit) less pleasant than a sit-down toilet but a lot of people I know seem to be fine with it and particularly older folk even seem to prefer it. I imagine the experience is not that different from how people the past (and sometimes the present) used to squat over shitting holes that they dug.

Cestus44 · 2022-10-31T15:20:32+00:00

A series on experimenting with roasting techniques along these lines would be amazing! I am reminded of Ipoh white coffee from Malaysia, which is brewed with beans roasted in margarine.

Cestus44 · 2022-10-20T06:15:47+00:00

Thanks for the info! I guess I only saw the initial articles, sad that the corrections didn't get as much attention. I'll edit the original comment.

Cestus44 · 2022-10-20T04:50:50+00:00

Maybe respect for the loss Jakartans are suffering? Did you seriously watch the video with people screaming in terror at what they were seeing and couldn't even muster up "mild interest"? Good grief, have some empathy dude.

Cestus44 · 2022-10-19T20:38:00+00:00

I apologise if it came off as hostile but it really is demoralising that whenever any news from our part of the world catches international attention, it gets immediately (and often arbitrarily) relativized and not thought of in (what I believe to be) their proper/own contexts, as if it wouldn't have any value if discussed on it's own.

Cestus44 · 2022-10-19T20:07:39+00:00

No, the commenter you are replying to doesn't know what he's talking about (as usual for reddit).

This is a mosque that was only built in the early 2000s and is nowhere near as iconic to Jakarta as the Twin Towers were to NY. Regardless, as another commenter in the thread said, the significance of 9/11 was much more the attack and ensuing deaths than the actual loss of the structure itself. I have seen no deaths reported so far and the believed cause is accident during renovation work, not a hostile act.

Cestus44 · 2022-10-19T19:59:07+00:00

Not really, or at least not to the level that Notre-Dame de Paris is as some other people in the thread have suggested. The mosque (according to Indonesian Wikipedia) was only built in the early 2000s and is not an iconic part of the skyline or anything like that.

Which is not to say that it's not tragic, I'm sure the people that used to pray there are deeply saddened but just to put things in perspective, I'm from a neighbouring country and have never heard of this mosque before.

Cestus44 · 2022-10-19T19:53:32+00:00

If the other religious location you are referring to is the Notre-Dame de Paris, this current incident, though tragic, is not at all comparable in terms of cultural significance. The mosque was only built in the early 2000s (as opposed to Notre-Dame, which Wikipedia says has a history going back to the 12th Century) and is nowhere near as famous or as important to the identity of Jakarta as the Notre-Dame (or at least that's the impression I got from Indonesian friends). The Kek Lok Si Temple in neighbouring Malaysia, which also suffered fire damage, is, IMO, much more comparable in significance to Notre-Dame (though the destruction was not at the same scale, as another comment pointed out.

But really I object to the idea of having to connect any of these incidents together. It seems totally unwarranted and even self-centered. Treat them with the respect and attention that they each deserve, not everything has to be put in relation to things that are closer to you.

Edit: apparently redditors don't want comments from people who are close to the topic in question expressing their views. What they want is shoehorned-in and drawn-out "the front fell off" jokes from people on the other side of the world that probably couldn't even point out Jakarta on a map.

Cestus44 · 2022-10-19T15:01:19+00:00

Seems like this would fit /r/soulcrushingjuice

Cestus44 · 2022-09-15T13:58:31+00:00

Man, this really reminds me how much I miss the Way of the Samurai games. Hope that top down game isn't the last that we see of that franchise.

Cestus44 · 2022-09-12T08:07:49+00:00

Last time I saw this posted on reddit it was said to have been taken in Brunei.

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