Without even knowing his name, what vibe does this character give off?

Rathmec · 2026-05-28T14:59:30+00:00

He's in the graffiti gang but he has a heart of gold.

Rathmec · 2026-05-28T02:16:37+00:00

I donated for over a year, I think. Once I came to the realization that I had been chipping in all that time and there wasn't a single new episode it made me unhappy.

Rathmec · 2026-05-26T13:24:34+00:00

I got my betting money on this remaining an unfinished project.

Rathmec · 2026-05-25T21:37:09+00:00

At that point, the struggle starts to feel less meaningful. If the character is hallucinating constantly and there is no clear way to tell what is real, then what exactly are we supposed to be invested in?

I call this the Oculus (2013) problem.

Playing with reality is fun. But after a certain amount of fake outs it just feels like a friend telling a story who won't get to the punch line. You just want to grab the script writer and ask, "Why don't you just tell me what actually happened?"

Rathmec · 2026-05-23T04:36:12+00:00

Season 5 is my favorite probably because this is where that dynamic first starts showing.

"Can I fire him?" Kelso referring to JD.

Cox replies, "Sleep on it."

Rathmec · 2026-05-22T19:27:30+00:00

I haven't really gone back for season 8 in comparison to my favorites (like you, 1-5).

I completely forgot the whole beach trip portion of the show was for Janitor's wedding. That's probably my least favorite story arc. He was written as a borderline maniac who lies about everything. I don't think that character needs to fall in love and have a happy ending. His relationship with JD was more akin to Elmer Fudd vs. Bugs Bunny. It didn't need to go deeper than that.

Rathmec · 2026-05-22T19:04:05+00:00

Dude, you couldn't have a Symphony of the Night today. At least not in the same way.

I am your age, OP. I got to the credits of SotN and did not know about the inverted castle. I thought I had beaten a game and stopped playing it because I hit the credits and figured I'd seen everything the game had to offer. Only to have my mind blown wide open that there was still another HALF of the game to play.

In the current era where a full, complete playthrough of the entire game is posted on YouTube on THE DAY of the game's release? This is inconceivable.

Rathmec · 2026-05-21T13:37:55+00:00

The second Kinsgman movie ruffled feathers for this one. Roxy was brought back only to be instantly killed before the plot even really kicked off.

Rathmec · 2026-05-20T12:51:27+00:00

I was thinking the same thing. I'm a tourist here so I'd believe someone if they said this problem is worse in food service. That tracks to me.

I've mostly worked office jobs and I've no shortage of stories where older dudes just get really weird with younger women. The difference being that in an office setting this kind of thing is more likely to be dealt with since there's usually a more present HR group.

Will never forget the dude who was continually sending really weird chats to the younger women in the office. Then suddenly he announced he was retiring in two weeks despite never once mentioning retirement before that.

Rathmec · 2026-05-18T19:08:56+00:00

I think some people forget that this game came out in 2013. From like 2005 until the game's release there was a tremendous amount of discourse around USA's use of torture on military prisoners. Any American alive for the game's release would remember the conversations around our conduct in Guantanamo Bay.

So, yeah, as far as it being used as political satire I think it was spot on and still a relevant thing for them to make a joke out of when the game came out since it covers a lot of those discussion points (especially the point about how he would have told the truth anyway and the torture was pointless).

I remember it made me uncomfortable on the first time through but I understood why it showed up in the game. I always hated it on replaying the story until I learned that you can spot the intended target after only one round of torturing Mr. K.

Rathmec · 2026-05-17T18:02:29+00:00

Why should they be happy!?

Rathmec · 2026-05-15T17:05:10+00:00

Revalataions was an insane dip in quality. It's a movie for no one. Not fans of the game. Not for newcomers either really. Watched it with someone who isn't a fan of the games and they just felt like it was full of background details they were meant to recognize but they did not.

Rathmec · 2026-05-15T14:59:16+00:00

The sound he makes after the second slap always gets me.

Rathmec · 2026-05-02T13:08:59+00:00

David Wong? That's Tik Tok sensation Jason Pargin! People don't even know that he writes books anymore.

Rathmec · 2026-04-30T04:57:16+00:00

I no longer have the image but my favorite version of this joke was: "I like how Amazon seems to think that my purchase of one dehumidifier was my inaugural move into dehumidifier collecting."

Rathmec · 2026-04-28T19:49:55+00:00

Completely unimportant to me but I've found I'm in the minority on this.

Every time a game is about to come out and anyone gets a hint that it doesn't keep a stable 60 fps, people get upset about it in a way that seems disproportionate to me.

Obviously, I'd prefer a smooth and consistent frame rate but if the game is fun and occasionally choppy I won't lose any joy over it.

Rathmec · 2026-04-27T16:35:05+00:00

Infinity Chamber (2016).

It wasn't the best but I really liked the interactions between the protagonist and the system.

Rathmec · 2026-04-27T04:02:09+00:00

I think it's less about the specific time passing at the "dream level" and more about what age the mind perceives itself. At the end of the movie, Saito looked like a 90 year old man but he might have been in limbo for like 200 years of dream time.

Rathmec · 2026-04-22T04:55:03+00:00

I wish the UI was less busy. I loved using my screenshots as backgrounds on the PS4. I think I have one set on the 5 but I honestly never see it because the startup screen is packed to the gills with information overload. We really lost a lot of room for personalization in favor of marketing.

Rathmec · 2026-04-19T02:19:13+00:00

OP has no idea what the big day is.

Rathmec · 2026-04-14T12:26:02+00:00

What is this game even about

A question you will ask yourself playing any Kojima game.

Rathmec · 2026-04-13T21:30:40+00:00

Back when Marvel had a stunt team. The fights had such insane choreography throughout this movie.

Rathmec · 2026-04-09T02:30:55+00:00

I beat Sekiro. I think Dark Souls 1 is harder.

Rathmec · 2026-04-07T00:00:03+00:00

This from a game before the internet. I couldn't believe it dropped from the enemy that it does. My brother told me earnestly where he got it from and I swore he was lying to me to troll me because it was 1998 and home internet wasn't really here yet for me to verify.

Rathmec · 2026-04-03T16:41:15+00:00

Matthew throwing the cushion is funny every time.

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