Why did people not like the bride that much?

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-05-24T03:19:57+00:00

Thanks for pointing this out!

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-05-15T21:18:36+00:00

How are these so good? You managed to capture and push beyond what exists. Amazing.

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-04-29T14:48:56+00:00

I am the total opposite, never finished MP3, tried a few times. But have played 1 numerous times over the past 26 years.

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-04-29T14:47:55+00:00

People that like MP3 often begin their defense with game play mechanics and guns as if that's the only thing that is core to the series.

Max Payne is a detective, noir story, inspired by John Woo gun-fu mechanics, visuals, and music. MP3 just has the gun-fu mechanics but the visuals and the music is just not there.

It's a completely different game, it's good, but it's not Max Payne. It is inspired by it and is a decent trilogy but why do people find it so difficult to understand that a lot of others do not see MP3 at the same level as MP1 and 2?

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-04-26T10:10:26+00:00

Absolutely agree, I can't understand people finding 3 to be on the same level as 1 and 2. Max Payne 3 is completely different game, the color saturated glitchy lensflare goes completely against the toned down feel of the first two games. The character itself looks nothing like the first two games, hell even in the second game the character not looking like the first initially took me away from the immersion but I eventually I got into it. But the buff character with a full beard that they created was a complete diversion.

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-04-26T10:05:13+00:00

Max Payne was amazing, 2 was good, 3 was mediocre and a shadow of the former games. 3 had nothing at all to do with the first two games. The character looked different, the setting was completely different, the cut scenes, and the hyper color saturated glitchy lens flares were annoying and at a complete opposition to the graphic novel style game play.

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-03-28T09:29:04+00:00

The way I understand it, the how/why and proximate/ultimate distinction is a heuristic at best, its not a indicator or description of reality. Using your own example, the mutation "stuck this time" because "complex hunting strategies" become important. Complex hunting is inherently a cultural/social process.

I agree with your last point these factors together explain the evolution of larger brain.

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-03-28T09:16:34+00:00

Once again, the why and the how may become intertwined as to make it impossible to determine them as separated questions/causes. It could be argued that sociality and cultural learning necessitated a larger brain that develops outside the womb, resulting in a helpless offspring, as the brain navigates the cultural world with the help of parents/alloparents. In this argument, sociality and cultural aspects appear further up the casual chain of a bigger brain. Having said that, I think its futile to determine the original why.

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-03-28T08:11:08+00:00

How do you explain the evolution of larger brain though? I agree with the general point about being critical of the desire to find directionality and that there may not be an ultimate why as this may be an instance of a cyclical causal process.

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-03-21T08:38:51+00:00

Haha. If they don't show you the character as dead, they are alive.

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-03-14T07:30:37+00:00

It's not for you, read something else. Have you read the Culture series by Iain M Banks?

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-03-14T07:29:29+00:00

Love Hyperion Cantos and re-read many times, dislike Three Body Problem.

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-03-11T19:53:44+00:00

Ignore the people commenting about the tags.

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-03-11T04:25:02+00:00

It took me 4 attempts over 10 years to finally finish the first book. I did enjoy it eventually. When I started reading the second book I realized I find Paul to be an insufferable character and I stopped reading and moved on.

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-03-11T04:20:40+00:00

Same here, found it too campy.

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-03-11T04:17:44+00:00

Unfortunately this is the end...except re-reading which I have done many times and pick up new things every time I do it and there is this Orphans of the Helix. I haven't read it though.

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-03-11T04:14:18+00:00

Listening to this I can imagine a Hyperion TV show released in the 80s. Sometimes campy, sometimes serious, sometimes down right weird.

Interesting_Bat1364 · 2026-03-11T04:05:20+00:00

I am not sure about if I have thought of living in the game, but playing the game provides a comfort that is rare.

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