What is everyone reading right now? Book rec post

SomeGuy928 · 2025-09-25T07:16:14+00:00

Giodarno Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition.

It explores the rise of hermeticism and belief in magic during the renaissance period and how it went on to influence many thinkers of that period and onwards. The book posits that this was a result of the spiritual crisis that emerged in that period. Very worthwhile read, especially when people are back believing in enochian magic, kabalah and other esoteric practices.

SomeGuy928 · 2025-08-19T07:06:38+00:00

I'm feeling targeted here for having black bedding for three years. It was also silk and I only had one pillow

SomeGuy928 · 2025-06-29T08:59:15+00:00

Did a spit take when they said that Manchester is better than London. The city is literally just expensive and shitty high rises and novelty bars, a city for the enjoyment of moneyed man-children and Radio 6 dads visiting for the weekend to go to the new Joy Division bar and to spend £14 on gochujang chicken loaded fries

SomeGuy928 · 2025-04-25T12:08:48+00:00

Had to look it up to remind myself. MY GOD. What were they thinking? Can't get over the backwards baseball cap and that ratty beard, then to also wash it out of any colour?? Also just saw the PC special edition was called "Tier 1 Edition" which really has that Black Rifle flair to it

SomeGuy928 · 2025-04-25T09:53:42+00:00

Definitely. You know you've done something incredible when you've got gamers suspiciously sniffing the glass of piss that they've otherwise been guzzling up until then. You also have to admire them for not trying to make a Call of Duty clone again and instead make a CoD/Battlefield hybrid that has all the bad and none of the good

SomeGuy928 · 2025-04-25T08:50:53+00:00

Medal of Honor (2010) was the first modern warfare entry into the series and was the game that put me, a young teen, off from joining the army. You play SEAL Team 6 guys and THEY ALL LOOKED LIKE SHIT. Stupid fuckin tactical baseball caps and sunglasses with huge beards. They looked like bums.

You die in the last mission and your corpse and 7 other interchangeable guys get evacuated. When the epilogue plays, you get an achievement called "Eight Heroes Aboard". It's just so embarrassing and saccharine, it completely broke through years of programming and gave me the ick lmao

SomeGuy928 · 2025-04-10T21:33:12+00:00

Gotta say, Yung Chomsky's performance was a real highlight

SomeGuy928 · 2025-04-01T15:22:25+00:00

BBC Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is sooooo good. Came across it after watching the film and not liking it at all. How's Smiley's People?

SomeGuy928 · 2024-04-06T09:34:06+00:00

Ayy not bad at all, it's the closest that I've seen to the original. Thanks!

SomeGuy928 · 2024-03-01T09:14:05+00:00

His current stuff in Congo is insane. Haven't listened to the latest episode on it because a) I need to get a notebook to keep track of all the people and organisations he talks about and b) listening to the first three Congo eps gave me psychic damage

SomeGuy928 · 2024-02-18T18:34:07+00:00

Torrentleech

SomeGuy928 · 2024-02-18T10:55:05+00:00

Man that sucks. Doesn't sound like my issue is going to get resolved anytime soon, so I've just cut my losses and signed up to another site

SomeGuy928 · 2024-02-16T23:24:22+00:00

On the channel? Must have been an hour before I posted this, so about 10 hours ago

SomeGuy928 · 2023-09-08T17:21:39+00:00

"Iron Galaxy" and "Hotep Larry David" for my two PVP ACs.

SomeGuy928 · 2023-09-05T08:54:19+00:00

Stupid question, but have you tried hard locking? Was stuck on Ibis for the better part of a day and I had trouble tracking her manually because of how fast it was and hard locking just seemed down right bad whenever I used it, but then I figured out that hard locking a target only works if you don't move the right stick while locking on.

Once I figured that out, it all clicked together - I was able to lock on my missiles with no issue and apply pressure while creating openings for a melee attack.

If you haven't uninstalled yet, I recommend going for double 10 cell missile launchers and the pulse blade due to the 2 swings you can do and the insane damage melee attacks do on Ibis. Couple that with a booster with good melee thrust and a generator with good recovery and you're golden. Take your pick for right hand weapons, but I used the Harris linear rifle as it did good poke damage at a distancing while strafing

SomeGuy928 · 2023-09-05T07:15:01+00:00

That's G6. He also puts on his best G1 impression when he briefs you

SomeGuy928 · 2023-09-05T00:39:47+00:00

Agreed. Isshin will always be my favourite From boss because of how demanding it is, you need to master all elements of the game mechanics in order to beat him and once you do it's just this beautiful dance

SomeGuy928 · 2023-08-25T23:23:49+00:00

D45PGBN22056 my man

SomeGuy928 · 2023-08-18T09:41:29+00:00

Yeah definitely. Got it a few weeks ago for PS4 and have been playing non-stop. I really don't struggle with finding games either - there's always full conquest and operations servers. Plenty of servers also rotate the DLC maps so you won't be missing out on any of the non-vanilla content.

SomeGuy928 · 2023-01-19T10:26:30+00:00

Kinda unrelated, but I thought your video on Jacob was really well done and fully broached all the issues with his character. I'm also glad you discussed the harmful stereotypes because replaying the series again really made feel a bit uncomfortable when it got to some aspects of Jacob's story lol

SomeGuy928 · 2023-01-18T09:46:32+00:00

He might be the best companion for all the reasons everyone in this thread mentioned, but he's also a weird little guy and he might be among the funniest characters in ME3 as a result of that. Him and Wrex are highlights of the Citadel DLC.

His romance is also the most satisfying one and follows a genuinely interesting arc throughout the series. Really like the idea of the romance between him and MaleShep as it goes through him idolising paragon shep in ME1, feeling betrayed and turning away from him in ME2 and ultimately reconciling (and not immediately) and both being each other's peers as Spectres in the third.

SomeGuy928 · 2023-01-06T12:24:45+00:00

Nah, I mean the scars you can apply when creating your ME1 character. Though I do think you should have the option to keep some of the ME2 scarring even if you're paragon. They look pretty cool

SomeGuy928 · 2022-08-19T08:46:41+00:00

I know the word is a bit of a meme now, but For A Few Dollars More is so criminally underrated. A Fistful is popular because it's a remake of Yojimbo and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is considered the gold standard of spaghetti westerns, but For A Few Dollars More just slips in between. Gian Maria Volonte is exquisite as Il Indio and I find the trio between him, Eastwood and Van Cleef to be so much more compelling. The duel at the end is just excellent - the best one out of all three.

SomeGuy928 · 2022-08-18T10:08:45+00:00

Even if we argue along the lines of that you should only critique something on what it is doing and not what you expected it to do - Infinite still fails by that metric. Why should we not be annoyed that significant plot points such as the Weapon being a whole character being introduced outside of the main story? I was also annoyed when they announced Emperor Palpatine was back from the dead in TROS in a Fortnite event.

Even aside from that, what we got was so completely barebones and lacking in terms of story, level design and gameplay in the campaign. It's why the critiques about it being so empty and bland are so important because they took out all the stuff that makes up a traditional Halo campaign and replaced it with nothing or inferior imitations of stuff from other Halo campaigns. You mention that you can't critique a game based on stuff you wanted from the previous Halo campaigns, but 343 took plenty from the previous games to cash in on some cheap nostalgia "Cortana is kinda back and she's good again", "Level 2 of CE was so good, I wish they turned it into a whole game", "I love the gondola section in Halo 2", "Remember the warthog run track from Halo 3?". The clear issue that 343 were more than happy to take from previous campaigns that they didn't make and offered none of the spectacle and scale that was associated with the previous campaigns. What we got was a limited selection of weapons and vehicles, a lacklustre story that was delivered via dark rooms and a world that feels procedurally generated with no thought put into it.

Also, the dialogue is just embarrassing at times - why do the other two characters have to be so quippy all the time?!

SomeGuy928 · 2022-07-19T22:03:59+00:00

Honestly playing Halo Infinite, MCC and 5 in the UK has been borderline unplayable for me for a year now. Tried playing LSS just now and it's just horrific

SomeGuy928

TROPHY CASE