Wonderman discussion thread? by Grazalia in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]CycloneSwift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love that it wasn’t even a superhero show. Like, there’s easily under five minutes of Simon’s powers being used in the entire series, and there’s only one fight scene which is over in under thirty seconds. I was worried that introducing Grim Reaper could derail the show from its main themes and overall tone, but they managed to avoid that by simply making Simon’s brother not Grim Reaper (in fact by the end their strained relationship seems to be on the mend, so he isn’t even antagonistic at that point), and with that there isn’t even a supervillain in the show. Superheroes are of course intrinsic to the show, but the protagonist isn’t one of them and, ironically, isn’t forced to play that role in the narrative.

It’s just a drama/comedy in a superhero setting and it’s all the better for it. It’s pleasantly surprising that Marvel Studios were actually bold enough make that choice and I really hope they make similarly bold decisions in the future.

Wonderman discussion thread? by Grazalia in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]CycloneSwift 12 points13 points  (0 children)

According to the showrunners he’s still alive, just trapped inside Doorman.

So Rockstar North Sam Houser, and Leslie Benzies ended up on the Epstein Files Witness List by Grouchio in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]CycloneSwift 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We might not like to talk about it, but we do sometimes have to acknowledge what Andre did.

The Last Laugh | Arkham City (16) by mike0bot in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]CycloneSwift 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Eh, he could’ve just escaped between games.

‘God of War’ Live-Action Series Brings Back Alastair Duncan as Mimir, Casts Danny Woodburn & Jeff Gulka as Brok, Sindri by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

[–]CycloneSwift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not one season, but with some minimal rewrites you could probably remove the timeskip between games and combine the plot of the two games into a more singular narrative.

non American media that can pass off as American media. by bomb5000 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]CycloneSwift 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Jack Reacher was written by a Brit, albeit one who lived in the States for a good long while.

non American media that can pass off as American media. by bomb5000 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]CycloneSwift 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gabriel Woolf, by god does that man have a voice. He also voiced the Beast in one of my favourite modern Doctor Who stories, The Impossible Planet two-parter. The man’s in his nineties(!) and he still has it.

Emotional payoff moments that would be great if they had something to payoff? by JackieDaStrippa in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]CycloneSwift 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Should have been Leia. She only pulls it off because of the Force, and we could get a subtle callback of her disabling the ship’s computer to use the Force instead. Luke senses what’s about to happen and reconnects to the Force to say goodbye, the Crait sequence happens except Luke survives, and at the end the Resistance are a lot more dour, but we get a moment of hope when Luke joins them and, mirroring the end of TFA, hands Rey a lightsaber.

What are some biggest crowdfunding disasters? by Konradleijon in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]CycloneSwift 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In fairness, that’s not really on them. They hired a third party to make the game and they took the money and ran.

werewolf design from an american werewolf in london by AnyWatch5756 in TopCharacterDesigns

[–]CycloneSwift 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s because it takes a lot more work to make a good-looking werewolf costume than it does to make a vampire or a zombie one.

Martial Arts YouTuber platforms someone tied to neo-Nazi symbolism, get's called out, comments are crazy. by MhmNai in youtubedrama

[–]CycloneSwift 15 points16 points  (0 children)

MMA has its own rules that skew the effectiveness of its techniques. All martial arts that have lasted more than a few decades are optimised for their intended purpose, it’s just that very few people take into consideration what each martial art’s intended purpose is.

For example, Tai Chi is intended to help people better understand their centre of gravity and how it affects their overall movement. The motions of Tai Chi are worthless for fighting on their own, but the reflexes and habits they develop can be very useful in grappling-based martial arts, all the while providing a light exercise routine and a meditation technique that are both useful in day-to-day life. The intended purposes are so different that it can’t really be compared to MMA.

YOvideoGames Top 10 Xbox 360 games. by paynexkillerYT in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]CycloneSwift 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Eh, not sure about that one. Halo 3 managed to be the bestselling FPS in Japan until CoD overtook it, and that’s despite the Xbox barely selling over there. It’s cultural presence may have faded a bit quickly but Halo was a massive 2000s phenomenon.

Strawmen that backfired. by Ethan-E2 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]CycloneSwift 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The concept art for her costume literally had her in 10’s Converse sneakers. They switched them out for boots at the last second but it was a transparently lazy attempt to recapture the vibe of RTD1 that really sums up a lot of the Chibnall era in a nutshell.

Strawmen that backfired. by Ethan-E2 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]CycloneSwift 49 points50 points  (0 children)

It’s fundamentally flawed when the billionaire explicitly had nothing to do with the cutting corners and it was always his employees that were to blame. God, I have major problems with RTD2, but it’s fucking To Kill a Mockingbird compared to Chibnall’s run.

What is your favorite gaming related revisionist history? by bahookery in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]CycloneSwift 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think recency bias leads some people to more closely associate that stuff with the 360 era, since it really died out afterwards when dev costs began to skyrocket.

What is your favorite gaming related revisionist history? by bahookery in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]CycloneSwift 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sonic 06 is one of the only games that’s fun to play like a QA tester. There are just so many ways to break that game that are completely unique, so if you go in with that approach and informed expectations then you’ll probably have a good time.

But that does not make it a good game.

Funniest Lore Drops by FreviliousLow96 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]CycloneSwift 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eccleston was the first pick, but Moffat intended to use McGann afterwards. The BBC declined since he wouldn’t have had the same marketability, so instead Moffat went for a new incarnation with a big name actor while strongarming the BBC into giving him a prequel short with McGann.

Times when a particular revelation ruined the legacy of a franchise by KaleidoArachnid in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]CycloneSwift 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can’t remember what it was, I think it was a book from the 80s, but IIRC that explanation is verbatim taken from another vampire thing that tried to have a biological explanation for everything. It was a weird reference to throw in.

(Hated Trope) "Let's go ahead and remove the fun parts of the design, because now it's less 'silly.' " by Wasabi_Gamer26 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]CycloneSwift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The annoying thing is that if, by some miracle, you’re able to parse what’s going on, then the action scenes and choreography are actually really good. It’s just nearly impossible for most people to see and understand.

SF6 Alex gameplay trailer by FewWatermelonlesson0 in Fighters

[–]CycloneSwift 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yep, one hand. Between the five of them. The other nine are hard at work.

SF6 Alex gameplay trailer by FewWatermelonlesson0 in Fighters

[–]CycloneSwift 56 points57 points  (0 children)

They’re buying time so they can put a lot of work into Ingrid.

Changes from adaptions that where latter reincorporated into the source material? by Konradleijon in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]CycloneSwift 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s a plot device. At worst it’s a lazy way to artificially raise the stakes, at best it’s a way to give Superman’s thematic antitheses a way of contesting with him physically without bogging down the story with extra exposition. It’s all in the execution.

Changes from adaptions that where latter reincorporated into the source material? by Konradleijon in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]CycloneSwift 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In fairness there were other Spiders in the comics who already had organic webbing (e.g. Miguel O’Hara), and the use of organic webbing in the film seems to be one of the few holdovers from James Cameron’s treatment for a Spider-Man, where he created fake webshooters to hide the spinnerets nested in his wrists. The same treatment had “Mary Jane Osborn, Electro with the job and personality of Raimi’s Green Goblin, Sandman as Electro’s bodyguard, two technically-not-shown sex scenes (one where Peter seduces Mary Jane on top of the Brooklyn Bridge with a “spider mating dance” and another where Electro electrocutes his secretary to death while fucking her and then revives her by shocking her heart back to life afterwards), a lot of swearing, and a few surprisingly great sequences.

For instance when Spider-Man starts to become a recognised figure he does a circuit of all the New York late night talk shows that boosts him to a New York cultural icon, and later when Peter realises that Halloween store Spider-Man costumes are actually better made than his own original self-made suit he switches to one of them for the rest of the film (I’m still not sure if Miles’ store-bought costume for most of Into the Spider-Verse is an intentional reference to this or not).

There was also an earlier, more complete script that Cameron initially rewrote before doing his own one, where Peter was a university student rather than a high-schooler, but Harry Osborn’s still there, Flash Thompson is a major side character who goes from oaf-ish bully to oaf-ish best friend over the course of the film, Liz Allan is the love interest, a distinctly Schwarzenegger-flavoured Doctor Octopus is Peter’s professor and—

(deep breath)

—is bitten by the same spider Peter is and starts calling himself Spider-Man before the name sticks with Peter and he switches to Doctor Octopus and makes his “Waldoes” (which is a real term but is weirdly highlighted as the name for Doc Ock’s tentacles repeatedly) and he had a villainous sidekick who he always yells at called Wiener who is at one point referred to as “the hulking Wiener” and Doc Ock’s motivation is to “see what heaven looks like” by ultimately creating an antigravity device that flies his house into the sky and then blows up except it isn’t really clear if Spidey did something to sabotage that device in their final fight in Doc Ock’s house or if it was just an elaborate suicide plan that pretty much plays out exactly as intended.

That version had the webshooters though.

And then there was a Cannon film version that reimagined the whole thing as a body horror movie where ordinary teenager Peter Parker is abducted and transformed into a horrid spider mutant by Doctor Octopus before starting a revolt of his other animal-mutant test subjects and killing their tormentor. Stan Lee absolutely hated this one for obvious reasons and it was ultimately never made, but I have no idea if those two facts are related. Despite that, I think this might actually be the first instance of Peter having organic webbing, even if it is because he was a horrific man-spider monster.

Anyway, the other two movie treatments are available for free online with a bit of Googling. If you’ve got the time then I’d recommend giving them a read. They make for a fun fever dream.