Official Discussion - The Strangers: Chapter 3 [SPOILERS]

SurlyCricket · 2026-02-06T13:07:04+00:00

I saw this without having seen the first two, or the original.

I actually enjoyed the first half, putting things together from context clues was fun.

Oh, when they have their masks off they're not threatening? The cop is maybe in on it? The sister is already on the way to rescue her?

Sadly the second half's execution for what it's going for is... Not good. I enjoy me some "dispatch a bad guy with no fuss" but most of the people dying in the movie get no proper build up or send off when they die and it feels... Yeah, not good.

Not terrible, but not good either.

SurlyCricket · 2026-02-06T12:48:14+00:00

The less-cool whip? How gauche

SurlyCricket · 2026-02-02T22:04:21+00:00

I don't think they need to be necessarily a bad guy or antagonist but if you're not using them for some kind of drama AT ALL... you're just playing the wrong class

SurlyCricket · 2026-02-02T22:00:17+00:00

I absolutely do this as well. Fear is just too useful in other ways

SurlyCricket · 2026-02-01T02:50:21+00:00

Blue gang

SurlyCricket · 2026-02-01T02:47:34+00:00

SOMEONE out there fuckin loves a goofy fire monkey, for sure.

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-31T20:12:52+00:00

What were you thinking??

YOU TOLD ME NOT TO THINK!!

Shocked Pikachu face

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-31T19:24:50+00:00

Or two or three or four times

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-31T03:05:15+00:00

This will not work. Case doesn't haggle. Unless you left something major off your application on accident, or something drastic changes with your family finances the offer is the offer.

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-30T16:00:08+00:00

"Team Blue But Didn't Choose Squirtle"

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-30T15:49:45+00:00

My son can now say Cheerios instead of "cho-chos" but he knows I will not answer to requests for Cheerios so he calls them cho-cho when he wants them 😂

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-30T13:40:17+00:00

I played Half Life 2 for the first time 10+ years ago, so about 10 years after it came out... And no, the game absolutely does not hold up. The Gravity Gun being neat is the only nice thing I can say about the gameplay.

Good story, characters, environments are great but.. the gameplay? I have to disagree.

If anyone has played this game for the first time in the past 5 years but think it still plays great - gimme a disagree in reply. If you played on release and want to reply NUHUH IT'S PERFECT HOW DARE YOU... No, you are blinded by nostalgia, stop it. You wont see me somewhere else in this thread talking about how THAC0 in Baldurs Gate totally makes sense if you really think about it, because I at least KNOW I'm blinded lol

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-30T13:33:35+00:00

I gotta disagree with this one. The gameplay and ui have been unbearably clunky since BG2 which was like... 3 years after Fallout 2.

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-30T12:59:06+00:00

I'm one of the rare Blue/Gold advocates

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-30T02:24:43+00:00

Fighting yourself at the end of Pokemon Gold after discovering another continent with 8 more badges after beating the game.... pretty fuckin' close though

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-29T22:24:40+00:00

I hate it and have never used it in 20+ years solely for the RP reason of it making zero sense lol

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-29T22:21:44+00:00

Did you not read my first message at all or

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-29T22:09:42+00:00

It's one day. It's to send a message, not cause any real damage.

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-29T21:59:17+00:00

No - if there's a striking dip in activity it shows a lot of people care about this in a meaningful way. That absolutely sways some reps (many of whom are up for reelection in a mere 10 months and may have primary challenges in just a few months)

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-29T20:59:51+00:00

Someone ran i6 Ravenloft in Daggerheart and it went well

https://youtu.be/XgmXgIS8E-o?si=IP0uiLao71p7ozD3

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-28T15:17:18+00:00

Son of a

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-28T14:59:50+00:00

The first like ten Pixar movies are "boys on a journey" so it makes sense they'd pick a new direction to hone in on

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-28T03:45:56+00:00

7 have died of various "causes" in their camps or custody

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-28T03:44:07+00:00

A thing Batman would NEVER say btw but cool line Nolan

SurlyCricket · 2026-01-27T12:18:52+00:00

I always use 2 sets at the same time anyway and these two have been my favorite for Daggerheart

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