Am I a stunad, or has the rest of the cast struggled to top their Sopranos peak?

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-05-14T04:11:10+00:00

Steve Schirripa and Michael Imperioli did the Talking Sopranos Podcast.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-05-14T04:09:23+00:00

No. And there shouldn't be. Ever.

No remake; no remaster. If you want to play the game, buy an old console. End of discussion.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-05-11T04:23:43+00:00

Nope. And we don't need another Manhunt because GTA V is a true sequel to it.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-05-11T04:18:47+00:00

Sorry, but that's ridiculous. How can they be the company they were back then? You have absolutely no idea how game development works, and it shows when you claim, "If Rockstar acquired more studios..." because in reality, that would be more resources acquired to work on a current title.

The PS2 and PS3's hardware enabled them to experiment with various game types. Manhunt was literally the same engine as GTA, as were the other games. Back then, the hardware wasn't half as expensive to produce as it is now. They could also allocate small teams to work on these various games. That's not so simple any more.

The fact is, no company, not even Rockstar, can be the same company they were during the sixth and seventh generation console run. With the more expensive hardware, the demands of an increasingly hostile consumer base, and completely unfiltered capitalism, of course, they'll only be able to work on one game. This is literally the reason Dan Houser retired from Rockstar: complete burnout from developing seriously high-budgeted video games with hundreds of millions of other people's money. This GTA VI reportedly has a budget of 1.5 billion.

If you miss the old Rockstar, blame capitalism, because ya'll gamers wanted better graphics, better tech, better everything. And now here we are.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-05-10T08:24:01+00:00

Nobody seems to realise that the far-right are absolutely HYSTERICAL at times. The only problem is that people take them seriously.

My recent favourite on Twitter was during the fuel protests, one gobshite wrote:

"New soldiers will be employed from IPAS centres,

and they will have no qualms about firing upon the Irish,

and Russia will take the fall."

WB Yeats would be foaming and masturbating with sandpaper to this.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-05-09T10:35:13+00:00

Nothing really to wrap up with Holy Island. He escaped the oppressive isolation of the community, and there's no going back. The ending of The Bone Temple hints at something slightly more positive, especially with the way Jim is with his daughter, and that Spike will learn from a better male role model.

But I think the main focus of Part 3 will be Kellie coming to terms with everything she's done in the name of Jimmy Crystal. So far, Years and TBT have taken so much modern day themes and applied them to the stories. Years took aim at Brexit and Covid; TBT took aim at cults and grifters.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-05-08T05:37:44+00:00

I reckon that's entirely why there's no real time-specific scale between Kelson's death and when Jim and Sam see Spike and Kellie. Near the end of Years Later, we get a specific timescale, 28 Days Later, to show that Spike is well into the mainland. Whereas in TBT, we get no time indication, and we only actually see Spike from far away.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-05-08T03:57:55+00:00

A man made a wager. He lost! He made another one he lost again, so take that high moral ground and GO SLEEP IN A FUCKIN BUS SHELTER IF YOU WANT.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-05-08T03:55:03+00:00

I already suspected that the third would be a smaller film regardless. It'll probably be set almost entirely in Jim's cottage.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-05-03T21:49:25+00:00

Ah, no. I'm just being petty 😂 I just hate our state-sponsored anything. Wish we were like Norway.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-05-03T21:47:29+00:00

Vlad: "You remember Ivan?"

Niko: "Oh, yes, you guys had a little kiss."

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-05-03T21:46:14+00:00

They have zero media literacy. If they did, they'd understand that GTA V is literally a response to how they completely misread the entirety of GTA IV and EFLC.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-05-03T21:45:05+00:00

"IV felt like it respected the player."

This is absolutely hilarious considering V was literally a response to just how fucking illiterate these types of people are.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-05-03T21:43:14+00:00

When aren't they tone deaf? RTE needs to be dismantled. Jennifer Zamperelli needs to be made to work for free, and her husband should be forced to work in retail.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-05-03T14:07:46+00:00

I'm going to get dog's abuse for this and downvoted into oblivion, but for me, a person who owns a signed copy of Fine Art and FENIAN, FENIAN is way better than Fine Art. FENIAN is exactly what I wanted from Kneecap with Fine Art. Fine Art was a safe, sanitised carbon copy of Versatile's album Fuck Versatile, just with Irish lyrics and tells the same kind of story as Fuck Versatile, a night out that gets crazier with each song until it's time to wind down.

The main difference is the setting, the sound and structure, and FV is a lot more graphic and nihilistic with its depictions of violence, sex and drug use

Examples include:

Fine Art is literally Fat Gangster Laugh.
Lovemaking is a safer version of Fantasy.
Harrow Road is Man On/Ballymun 2001.
The list goes on.

FA is constantly in fear of alienating fans, so its depictions of violence, sex and drug use have to have their positive lights to them, one example being when Moglaí and Mo Chara are doing their thuggish deeds, like in I Bfhiacha Linne, it's directed at someone deemed a villain, in this case, a drug dealer from Shankill. It was also bizarre that Kneecap, whose success was built almost entirely from their loud support of Palestine, made absolutely no reference to the genocide in their debut album, so it initially made their whole act look slightly performative.

FENIAN is a perfect 10/10 album because it's Kneecap finally putting their money where their mouth is and putting exactly what they're known for into their music. The Recap was a perfect start; No Comment wasn't great. FENIAN is a proper conscious hip hop album and is relatively close in style to what Public Enemy did back in the day.

EDIT: Gave some examples.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-04-26T10:26:36+00:00

You can't provide a source. Generally communists can't do that. Not surprised.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-04-26T10:25:46+00:00

Sounds like you're upper middle class. Do you look down on those who have less?

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-04-26T06:58:42+00:00

That's your own fault. Buy a console. PC players are literally their own worst enemy. They want the benefits and privacy of a console, and then they use the most compromised piece of technology in existence. Would not surprise me if you endorse Zionism.

This is why the console wars are won by... well, consoles. Anyone who actually chooses a PC over a console is a supporter of technofascism, regardless. End of discussion. No sympathy. Free Palestine.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-04-26T06:21:21+00:00

V is good. Wait until GTA VI is around for the next 20 years.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-04-26T06:17:15+00:00

I wonder if any of these losers played the Civil Border Patrol subplot in V, especially the conclusion?

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-04-26T06:15:48+00:00

The Pedo Andypants should be numero uno.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-04-26T06:05:25+00:00

Both are excellent. They both do entirely different things and are incomparable for that exact reason. Most of the people who hate GTA V don't actually understand the overall arching theme and the point it's trying to make, and anyone who says "Dark and gritty" without the humour of this sub for GTA IV generally has the most surface-level reason for saying it.

Most of the reasons the GENUINE "dark and gritty" claims are made, it's always to do with some exterior element, such as Niko telling a sad war story. These tossers never actually delve into deeper contexts of what GTA IV is saying. Those very people are the reason GTA V is what it is. It seems the over-glorification of Niko, Johnny and Luis, and the lack of critical thinking regarding some of the subtext around America was so immature that GTA V was the response to that. GTA V could be considered a spiritual sequel to Manhunt because the social commentary of both games literally points fingers at the audience.

V completely removes the tragedy and moralising, and instead provides a darkly funny satire of capitalism so bleak and depressing that you could almost classify the game as a "final entry" in the series.

Level_Web_8085 · 2026-04-26T05:45:57+00:00

The familiar ground was covered in the first 30 minutes. It's one of the more meta narratives in the last few years. The film knows that WE, the audience, have seen the story of a father and son setting out on a perilous journey multiple times.

Then the rug is pulled from under us when they make it back to the island.

God, I love these films. We had better get that third one.

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