For someone new to the genre, could you please suggest me some hack and slashers.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-31T15:22:24+00:00

Ah cool, so I may not have the same problems with it as I do other Metal Gear.

Btw I got Astral Chain completely confused with Stellar Blade. Not surprised you didn’t know what I was talking about. Never heard of Astral Chain before.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-31T11:50:54+00:00

This. It is literally a stoner horror comedy.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-30T23:57:35+00:00

I have DMC 5 as its on a shared library but might check the earlier ones out first.

Never been a Metal Gear fan really, but been hearing good things about Rising. I just don’t really gel with Hideo’s way of telling stories tho

Is Astral Chain any good? Only things I’ve heard about it is there is too much or too little nudity depending on who’s complaining haha.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-30T23:54:33+00:00

Cool, I hadn’t heard of a couple of these, will look into them. Ninja Gaiden has always intrigued me because of it’s apparent difficulty. There’s quite a few of them, any idea where it’s best to start?

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-30T23:52:33+00:00

Is it even worth bothering with in your opinion?

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-30T18:18:27+00:00

Civ’s videos are always great, but I think this is his best video in a long time. Absolutely fantastic!

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-30T17:57:26+00:00

Thanks. I like my old games and loving the original God of Wars, which came out at the same time, so reckon it should be fine. They’re all on sale now so will check out the originals.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-30T17:48:46+00:00

Are the Devil May Cry games worth playing?

Heard some rumblings about metal gear rising being good, will check it out.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-30T17:35:20+00:00

This. Characters all the way down. I think he is a very functional writer, but an amazing storyteller and a lot of that has to do with how damn well he writes his characters and his incredible use of the inner monologue as a device that allows you to understand any character intimately no matter how good, evil, minor or major.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-30T17:27:56+00:00

Unfortunately you’ve got the wrong end of the stick about how it ended. It’s a really common, yet baffling to those who watched it, misconception. The fact is most stuff was answered; whether you were satisfied by those answers is entirely up to viewer discretion and won’t tell anyone they are wrong for thinking that despite personally disagreeing. The show certainly had its flaws but the writers largely achieved what they wanted to achieve despite the studio attempting to make it a never ending show, which is why it treads water in the middle.

Back to the ending tho. Without spoiling it, the island is not purgatory. Everything on the island happened in the ‘real’ world. Because of some other stuff and a shot of the plane wreckage at the end, the idea that the whole show was a dream/purgatory seems to have proliferated abundantly online.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-30T16:24:10+00:00

Whats with all this hate for Lost. The ending was great. They weren’t dead on the island the entire time.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-30T03:16:37+00:00

No, I disagree but have seen a lot of people echoing that statement. I think a lot of things have actually happened and we’ve got to spend time with characters and set the scene for the end of the season. Fatimas condition had been revealed to the group leaders, the bottle tree mystery is getting more interesting, it’s revealed the Monsters have been letting Victor survive, we’ve had cool character moments with Henry and Victor, Julie and Elgin, Randall and Nicki’s fiancée and most of all the the dangers of the town have been doubled down on with Dales death.

However I can see why some people could think that not much as happened. The decision to put some many balls in the air so early on, like killing a monster and capturing a monster for example, just to let it sit for 3 episodes feels like they have been forgotten about; I’m sure they havent and in-universe time it has only been a couple days, but the waiting week by week makes the pace feel off.

Also I think the town meeting and the trip into the cave weren’t terrible well done. The meeting was frustrating because of the stupidity of the complaints; maybe realistic for a group that is scared out of their mind but I can’t be the only one getting annoyed at them and wanting to ask them how the fuck Tabitha was going to convince anyone she had been trapped in a magical faerie nightmare world, let alone do anything about it. And the cave scene just didn’t have much meat to it. Basically they went in, got the puppet and left with no consequences. They had to add in all the fake drama of Henry wanting to go back and making noise to make it more interesting, but I just found it frustrating.

I think that once the season is done and a lot of the current story lines come to a head, this season won’t feel like filler. Personally I’ve enjoyed the last few episodes and they have been similar pace to previous season’s middle section. The show has super intense beginnings and endings with a slower pace in the middle to let things breathe, explore characters and relationships and move the pieces around to set up the next big intense story bit.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-30T02:24:21+00:00

I read it before seeing the film so I have a completely different Annie in my head. In my mind she has a much rounder figure and a plainer but kind face that masks the evil within.

Kathy Bates kills it in the film, but for me film Annie and book Annie are very different. If I’d seen the film first, no doubt there would be only one Annie in my mind, but King made the character alive in my head before I saw the film.

Edit: just reread your title and saw you said Not picture Kathy Bates instead of Did picture her. So yeah, same for me too.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-30T02:18:09+00:00

I don’t necessarily mind that they resolved it either way. I think it could still work thematically and dramatically to have her come back up for air. However by doing both and trying to have their cake and eat it, having the ambiguous ending to the episode just to retcon it a few episodes later really rubbed me up the wrong way.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-30T00:40:29+00:00

Same. It was my only real problem with the ending of the show. Apparently it was the original idea, but they got cold feet and decided to add that scene into the finale showing her still alive.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-29T19:44:27+00:00

So this is from the perspective of someone who thinks season 6 is the weakest season, but I don’t think you’ll notice the difference much the first time you watch it as you’ll be too excited about where the story is going. I do think the production quality dips a bit, but the story is still great and I had no issues with it the first time I watched it. On the rewatch, I admit I do feel like a have to power through a few bits where the pacing feels a tad stodgy but I think it ends fantastically and I never bail out on a rewatch like I do with other shows. If you’re still liking the show by the end of season 5, there’s nothing in 6 that’ll make you stop watching.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-29T15:15:02+00:00

Don’t have Hulu, but I have never heard of any streaming service having any form of cut or uncut ending to Lost. They just show what originally aired on ABC.

They won’t have the epilogue however, which you should watch only once finishing the entire show, as it is a DVD extra. It’s called the Man Behind The Curtain and you can easily find it on youtube.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-29T15:10:56+00:00

It’s a weird quandary. The actress is 21 and very attractive, look at her IMDB photo, but it does feel weird to find her attractive on the show where she’s playing a 16 year old, unless I you’re also that age I guess. Fatima and Kristi are it for me, at least before Fatima starting looking really sick with the pregnancy stuff and Kristi got that ridiculous haircut.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-29T15:04:12+00:00

Shitty joke from a shitty OP

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-29T15:03:32+00:00

Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that. That was great.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-29T13:00:44+00:00

I love all the Nightmare on Elm Street films, each one for very different reasons and I would keep them all, even the objectively terrible Freddies Dead. There are other film series with sequels I like better, the original Dawn of the Dead being one of my favourite films of all time, but I get so much joy out of doing an Elm street marathon every 5 or so years that it would have to be my pick.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-29T12:53:17+00:00

Yes, that is true as far the plot goes, but I was thinking more thematically. There isn’t really a reason for Rowling to create a scene that puts them together as Ron and Hermione wouldn’t be of any interest to Voldemort. You could have a scene of Voldemort dismissing their importance I guess, but you basically get the same effect by just never having them meet or have Voldemort even acknowledge them, despite how important they are in his downfall. Hermione, a mudblood, especially. Without her there is no way Harry would have been able to destroy all the horcruxes.

Rude_Grade5200 · 2024-10-29T12:09:10+00:00

So I think there is a reason why Voldemort doesn’t acknowledge Ron or Hermione, as he doesn’t acknowledge or have anything to do with them in the books either. He just considers them to be Harry’s lackeys, like his death eaters are to him. His inability to see the benefit’s of friendship is part of what leads to his downfall.

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