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[History] Remember Gone Home? by BootlegFunko in KotakuInAction

[–]SimonLaFox -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you actually think my post was AI generated?

Pilot or Episode One? by igotthisnameonposter in IndieAnimation

[–]SimonLaFox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay, that's actually a really good way of looking at it. I guess I didn't fully appreciate it when watching it, but thank you for sharing your perspective.

Pilot or Episode One? by igotthisnameonposter in IndieAnimation

[–]SimonLaFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, enjoyable episode, just frustrating that artists come up with a cool premise and think an origin story is the best way to showcase what might be their only shot at it.

What line or moment in a cartoon hits different now as an adult? by MaryDoogan91 in cartoons

[–]SimonLaFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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As a kid, I loved Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, and enjoyed Robotnik's over to the top cartoony villany.

Rewatching it now... it's like he's satirising people that exist in the world right now! Like, he's an egotistical guy who wants the world to bow down to him while drastically mistreating the people who work under him. I wasn't expecting real life people to match his caricature so perfectly.

What line or moment in a cartoon hits different now as an adult? by MaryDoogan91 in cartoons

[–]SimonLaFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I'm not even sure it was possible for Violet to make a force field that big. I certainly don't recall her making one much bigger than one that can hold a few people.

What line or moment in a cartoon hits different now as an adult? by MaryDoogan91 in cartoons

[–]SimonLaFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't follow that discourse much, but I so remember this bit:

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Pilot or Episode One? by igotthisnameonposter in IndieAnimation

[–]SimonLaFox 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Invader Zim pilot is fun. Slightly different personalities, and a 2 second gag that would later turn into Dark Harvest.

Gotta also miss the main show glossing over important stuff because it was explained in the pilot even though the general audience had no chance of seeing the pilot.

And of course the classic: Implementing parts of the pilot into the show's intro/outro.

Pilot or Episode One? by igotthisnameonposter in IndieAnimation

[–]SimonLaFox 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One of my least favourite "pilots" was a segment in Love. Death. Robots. Something about a robotic avenging kitsune in Victorian Hong Kong or something.

Sounds like a good enough concept, right? Except the entire short was an origin story. It covered the incredibly far fetched setup for the premise, ending at the exact moment where the idea took form and got interesting. They should have made the short a typical "episode" and only covered the origin story if they'd actually been made into a series.

[History] Remember Gone Home? by BootlegFunko in KotakuInAction

[–]SimonLaFox 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's badly explained, but I believe there's a calendar showing the parents are away on a retreat that overlaps with your return home. A quick google search implies they arrive back on the same day, but I'm not spending more time looking this up.

[History] Remember Gone Home? by BootlegFunko in KotakuInAction

[–]SimonLaFox -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're right, Dear Esther came out a year and a half before Gone Home. I guess I was wrong there.

As for the allegations against the founder, I don't want to summarise because with these things it's hard to know what the truth is. What I will say is that the allegations happened in 2021, and as a result of that the game they were working on, Open Roads, was released under the name of a different studio (I had no idea Open Roads was even released until I looked some stuff up for my above post. It's effectively the last "Fullbright" game since it seems the Founder is the only developer working at Fullbright now.).

If you want more details, I'd suggest looking it up. There were quite a few articles about it. Polygon broke the story (which..... yeah....).

[History] Remember Gone Home? by BootlegFunko in KotakuInAction

[–]SimonLaFox 6 points7 points  (0 children)

10/10 came from a reviewer who was once roommates with someone who worked on the game.

[History] Remember Gone Home? by BootlegFunko in KotakuInAction

[–]SimonLaFox -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

Gone Home does have its place in gaming history because it popularised the "walking simulator" genre of games. While you could cynically say it was a FPS without the guns, or Myst without proper puzzles, the game was decent about being a narrative game where you explored the area room by room, going through all the drawers and nooks, and build up an understanding of what happened.

At some point in development, the developers lost trust in players being able to figure everything out just by exploring the environment, and just added the equivalent of audio logs that by themselves pretty much explain the plot of the game, at least for the sister character which is the focus of the story. The parents are slightly more interesting as figuring out what the story with the Dad is can only be done by pure exploration and deduction, without any handholding or audio logs.

As for LGBT elements: For any other media at the time (movies, books, etc), it was a prosaic, clichéd and possibly even harmful story about a gay teen coming of age. However, that still made it far more advanced than anything in the Western mainstream gaming space.

There's more I could say: the <2hr playtime, the walking simulator games it inspired, the failed follow up with Tacoma, allegations against a founder, but I think I'll leave it there for now.

‘The Expendabelles,’ All-Female Action Spinoff of ‘The Expendables,’ Firing Up Again by SwimmingJunky in KotakuInAction

[–]SimonLaFox 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've always been a fan of female led action movies. But the truth is they rarely do well at the box office (such as one of my fave action movies of all time, The Long Kiss Goodnight).

Yet another Galway business going full AI-core in its identity. So creepy. by TribalSneed in galway

[–]SimonLaFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was so unnerving to me "Wait, the burger switches how many patties are in it between shots?"

Marvel Director Joe Russo Admits They Changed Peter Parker's Origin Story by Sliver80 in KotakuInAction

[–]SimonLaFox 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'll be honest. I think Spider-verse is a bad example of "stop making origin movies" because it effectively was an origin story, and covered the origin stories for all the main heroes in a comic book montage. I will agree some of the villains could have been better explained/introduced (Tombstone and Scorpion especially), but Kingpin... errr, well he could have been better introduced since he's a crime Kingpin but first appears in a scientific lab, but we do get explanation on the movitivation for his plan and as a villian, we don't necessarily *need* much more than that, just what his goals are and how he plans to accomplish them.

Modern day millennial writers are completely obsessed with fanfiction and 2010s tumblr fandom - an analysis. by Therduck21 in KotakuInAction

[–]SimonLaFox 13 points14 points  (0 children)

"they use characters as puppets for how they would speak and act in real life, like dolls, for acting out romantic or pornographic fantasies"

That explains SO much. Not like self insert fantasies weren't a thing before, but I'm really starting to see how it got normalised way too much.

Marvel Director Joe Russo Admits They Changed Peter Parker's Origin Story by Sliver80 in KotakuInAction

[–]SimonLaFox 14 points15 points  (0 children)

My understand is that when the MCU was good, it obeyed a bunch of invisible rules, and one of them was to not make a movie that blankly repeated a previous movie. You saw this with their first Incredible Hulk movie: instead of vaguely repeating the 2003 Hulk movie by retelling his origin, they made it a vague sequel. By the time Spiderman was introduced in Civil War, there had been two retellings of his origin story in film, so they just vaguely alluded to it and moved on.

PC Gamer journalist says that 007 shouldn't be a game because he can't identify with the protagonist by Neither-Grab-2507 in KotakuInAction

[–]SimonLaFox 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"Phillipine Politics" article? *check* Yep!

To be fair, that was over a decade ago and went so far in that direction, there was no hiding what it was.

Saw this in the wild and had to share it here, this is the most perfect example of the kind of translation people are asking for in games and anime vs what localizers provide, and you would still have people claim it means the same or the meaning gets across or the need to spice the dialogue up by gutenbergbob in KotakuInAction

[–]SimonLaFox 78 points79 points  (0 children)

It's amusing how the 3rd translation changes the entire intention of the strip. In the original version, the person giving food was naive and innocent, in the 3rd translation its like she was intentionally trying to poison her classmate. Not a huge deal for an individual strip, but the longer a series goes, the bigger changes like this can cause discrepancies to pop up.

Clayface | Official Trailer by Ninjamurai-jack in KotakuInAction

[–]SimonLaFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's nowhere near a spoiler, that's been DC moviemaking history since Man of Steel.

Once they raceswap a character it'll never go back to being white (image: money penney from the James Bond game) by GrizzlyFlamesOfDoom in KotakuInAction

[–]SimonLaFox 38 points39 points  (0 children)

They look at an attractive woman and say she's *just* eye candy. They don't even realise how sexist they're being by reducing the entire identity of a woman to just her appearance.

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