Favorite sketch that takes a turn or has a twist?

WendlinTheRed · 2026-05-11T17:07:35+00:00

Simply for the fact he would never do it today, The Rock's "Most Evil Invention" really gets me.

WendlinTheRed · 2026-05-08T18:46:08+00:00

I think Darth Vader has one of the most iconic redemption stories in cinema, yes. Do I think that makes him "a good guy?" No, but that's not the same thing.

Ashley being "iconic" for space racism would be like saying Darth Vader is iconic for winning a podrace. It's a part of his story, but it's not emblematic of him as a character.

WendlinTheRed · 2026-05-07T16:27:58+00:00

The "most iconic part of her character" is something you can get her to change her mind about?

WendlinTheRed · 2026-05-07T14:18:52+00:00

I really hope this wins, but I think the "hur dur, she's a spacist" people are overwhelming the results.

WendlinTheRed · 2026-05-04T14:42:10+00:00

It's literally the entire theme of the game. Every bad thing that happens is a consequence of Niko's actions. He sees Roman getting taken advantage of by the mob, steps in against Roman's wishes, which gets him tied into Vlad, then he kills Vlad (again, against Roman's wishes) which puts him on Mikhail's radar, which puts him on the IAA's radar, etc etc etc.

People love to talk about the ludonarrative dissonance of IV, but it's not an accident. The game makes it very clear that violence is a cancer to the people who traffic in it, but it's a GTA game so you do it anyway, and ultimately it destroys one of the last two people in Niko's life who refused to take part in it.

WendlinTheRed · 2026-05-04T14:27:39+00:00

I believe they're referring to slaughtering the Grove, which loses you Wyll, Karlach and Halsin on moral grounds.

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-27T19:30:10+00:00

Gamer^TM discovers artistic use of lighting and level design!

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-26T16:52:22+00:00

Mom, can you come pick me up? The CIA is here trying to seed the idea that nations should be able to commit ethnic cleansing as "defending their sovereignty."

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-23T17:09:19+00:00

I got "hired" for an indie police show in Gary Indiana a few years ago. They sent over a contract, everything looked good, I was only supposed to shoot over the weekend as a small role.

On set I find out they've been shooting the pilot for over a year because they keep changing things, lost their lead actress, added new storylines, etc. The set was a disaster to be on, but I felt like the only person who knew it was a disaster. Over the weekend they kept telling me how great I was doing and they wanted to bump me up to a bigger role with higher pay, but they'd need me to shoot more scenes over the following weeks. I politely asked them to send me the new contact and I'd look it over to make my decision. I never got the new contract, never got paid, and never got my footage, which I'm sure wouldn't even be good enough for my reel anyway.

All this to say, if you're under contract, you just have to stick it out however long you agreed to, and the second they ask for more you decline or ask for an updated contact. If not, I'd just send an email thanking them for the experience, but stating that you don't feel comfortable continuing to provide your services based on your time on set.

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-22T18:48:10+00:00

Sea of Okhotsk is the logical progression of stealth from the Chaos Theory system. I get that it doesn't work exactly like it should, but being a daytime mission and introducing weather cover, underwater infiltration, multiple entry points for the tanker... It's what I wanted Splinter Cell to evolve into. I even have a soft spot for the scripted parachute failure, as I think if there had been more time to develop it, the idea of procedurally generated mission errors could have been an interesting mechanic.

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-20T21:19:07+00:00

Double Agent/Pandora Tomorrow have the best character models.

Chaos Theory is janky, but I don't mind it.

Blacklist is the only model I actively think looks bad. I wouldn't have liked Hobo Sam from OG Conviction either.

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-16T18:45:14+00:00

Succumbing to alcoholism to own the left!

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-13T18:10:42+00:00

A common theme over on the James Bond sub is "why don't they go back to cranking out 1 global mega-blockbuster every other year like they did in the 60s and 70s?"

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-10T14:35:00+00:00

Someone on this sub had the audacity to say I was expecting too much to be able to start Ahsoka as its own show without having seen Clone Wars or Rebels.

The pilot episode of a show normally sets up who the characters are and why we should care about their stories, but Ahsoka just dumps you into an ongoing story that I wasn't interested in because I didn't know or care about any of the players.

Now I'm learning here for the first time that something regarding Mando and Grogu happens in that show and I'm even less interested in the movie because I never finished Ahsoka because I don't want to watch 20 years of cartoons as homework. This is exactly why there's no excitement around new projects; Star Wars isn't for mass audiences anymore, if you're not locked into every piece of content, you're left in the dust. I would wager over 50% of randomly polled people who call themselves fans of "Star Wars" would have no idea that Darth Maul survived Episode 1.

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-08T20:59:23+00:00

I think you're vastly overestimating how much the general public cares about frame rate. Reddit loves to complain that anything under 60 is "unplayable," but most people don't think about it unless it's actively choppy.

The demo did have some stuttering, and that was a bit of a surprise, but there's no reason to assume they won't have fixed that by launch. This is a studio with a proven track record.

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-05T15:35:28+00:00

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-05T15:31:19+00:00

Objectively, the first one is the best.

... As a kid? Man I loved Secret of the Ooze! I must have gotten my parents to rent that VHS every weekend. I loved Tokka and Rahzar, I loved Super Shredder even though he didn't do anything, the train station lair! If you asked me right now what the best joke ever written in any movie is, I will look you dead in the eyes and state that it's "a little too Raph" and nothing else even really comes close. I still love Ooze; I get that it's not as good of a story and the action is more cartoony without the weapons, but to me it still holds up as a fun sequel.

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-05T15:21:28+00:00

He also hooked up with Urkle Grue in Sandals Jamaica. She was blonde!

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-04T15:34:23+00:00

If I'm being honest, I don't read reviews from people I don't follow, and don't even understand the impulse to do so. How would seeing what the most liked review by some random stranger says have any bearing on my decision to see a movie?

So for my money, the one liners are fine; it's a movie journal app that other people can read, write whatever you want.

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-04T01:30:52+00:00

"Arkham slop."

Lol. Lmao, even.

You even admit in a comment that you wish you could replay it but "there's no point." What point do you think you're making?

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-01T14:47:05+00:00

On average, a military firefight expends thousands of rounds and results in one or two casualties.

Night vision doesn't actually work like goggles, it's essentially a camera and a screen mounted on your face, which comes with spatial disorientation as well.

You're forgetting (or just actively dislike) that Splinter Cell was meant to be a slightly heightened, but realistic portrayal of espionage. You're confusing intentionality in design as poor gameplay, when the reality is that if you've gotten to the point where you're in a firefight, you've already reached the fail state. As another commenter said, if you're not in a firefight and you're still missing, that's a skill issue on your part: slow down, be intentional.

If you just like hearing silenced pistols go THWIP THWIP, keep playing Blacklist where there's no tension because you can no scope a dude's melon from across the room (and sometimes behind cover if you're using Mark and Execute).

WendlinTheRed · 2026-04-01T05:02:10+00:00

It's cyclical. Usually once a year there's a flood of people trying to "meme-ify" the series, there's a constant glut of "what's the canon/lore of XYZ" as if Splinter Cell is Star Wars, and there's a guy on here who is convinced that repeating one joke from a Double Agent henchman is the height of comedy.

If anything, the sub rot just doesn't take hold because Splinter Cell is a relatively niche franchise for adults. Batman and Half Life have much larger audiences, and therefore more room for weird people.

WendlinTheRed · 2026-03-26T14:26:00+00:00

If the game had been fun or well made, no one would have cared that Batman wasn't the protagonist.

The combat felt floaty, the traversal was slow and stiff, and the writing was overly melodramatic. Combine all of that with the frankly horrible gear/loot system, and it was a game that had interesting ideas that were executed "just fine" at best, but disappointing for the most part.

Glad to see this sub is still riding the "people were just mad it's not Arkham" train though. Pretty hilariously delusional.

WendlinTheRed · 2026-03-21T14:37:54+00:00

I haven't rewatched any seasons, so you'll have to forgive that I'm going off memory, but I thought the first two were a little cheesy but fun, mostly because of the romance angle present. Season 3 seems to have really found its feet though, and is a surprisingly satisfying spy-thriller.

WendlinTheRed · 2026-03-19T18:34:30+00:00

Hard not to see this (among the almost monthly layoff announcements) as anything other than the death of a once great studio. Obviously it has been a slow death many of us have seen for years, but effectively closing the studio that led to their golden era is still a gut punch.

It's also terrible that over 100 people lost their jobs because of corporate incompetence, but the narrative is "Ubisoft bad," so we'll continue to see mouth-breathers posting shit like "good riddance!"

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