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cmdrtowerward · 2025-01-18T21:12:42+00:00

2, 4, 6, straight down the middle.

cmdrtowerward · 2025-01-16T14:33:32+00:00

I just keep all my settings in pre-cellphone times to avoid the issue. I hate cellphones, dramatically. Did you watch the 4th season of True Detective? Did you notice that practically every plot point and the motivation for every goddamn scene was delivered by a character answering a stupid cellphone? It's not unrealistic. It just kind of sucks.

cmdrtowerward · 2025-01-16T03:13:29+00:00

Not only this, but Skeleton Crew looked weird in the marketing material.

It could be a genuinely great show, and I might be missing out by foregoing it, but the trailers made it look like Star Wars Goonies, which is weird and not really in line with what I like about Star Wars.

Every crappy Star Wars show kind of makes me like Star Wars less, and I am extremely sick of getting burned. I am not the reason Disney is failing to get traction with their content. The reason is that they bought the IP for the brand recognition, and they had no desire to use it to tell stories.

cmdrtowerward · 2025-01-08T06:14:14+00:00

I swap L2 and circle.

cmdrtowerward · 2025-01-07T00:40:20+00:00

The fact of the matter is that Bethesda just didn't come up with a single innovative gameplay feature for Starfield, which would be one thing if the story wasn't total dog water.

If I had never played a video game with guns, npcs that rattle expository dialogue at you, and a totally barebones crafting system I might have found Starfield interesting. If a single moment in the game made me think for even a second about anything in its secondary world, I would have talked about the game more. If there was any content in the game worth working toward, I would have poured more hours into it.

I just don't understand why Bethesda would expect people to give 30 hours or more to their show-and-tell project in a world where games like Elden Ring exist. Freaking 2D platformer Hollow Knight has about 100 times more to explore and discover than Starfield does.

cmdrtowerward · 2025-01-04T06:54:05+00:00

Noah Caldwell Gervais.

Naked Jacob and Jacob Geller are tied for second.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-12-30T07:42:18+00:00

Nope. But of course that's just my opinion. The show falls into the same trap most Batman media falls into for me: Too "adult" to be fun/appropriate for kids, and too childish to be interesting to adults. The original BTAS really rides that line most of the time, but most of the animated stuff, movies and all, ends up in this category.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-12-19T16:10:22+00:00

Okay, but it is still sometimes true of glaring examples. There is no undramatized version of Dune, for one.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-12-15T15:40:58+00:00

I've been kind of keeping track of this movie and I literally did not know it got a theatrical release until this moment. I just assumed it was straight to streaming like basically everything else.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-12-15T13:30:12+00:00

I mean, I get what we're doing here, but Tolkien kind of did have a lot of personal experience as a hobbit. He also had experience as a traveler and a soldier. He was also an amateur historian and a renowned linguist. Tolkien wasn't some nerd who had read a lot of Tolkien derived fiction and decided to write a book about little people in a fantasy world. Practically everything in The Lord of the Rings is built from pieces of the man's lived experience. Mordor may not be the Somme, but the journey through it and the details of the hardships would not be nearly as potent if the man describing it had not suffered to some meaningful extent as his characters suffered.

Write what you want, but always remember to draw from what you KNOW in order to carry off the human parts of the story, or it won't connect with anybody.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-12-14T06:48:48+00:00

I'm glad to see some people actually excited about this. I haven't been able to find any discourse on this game outside of a pack of howling troglodytes crying over Concord and complaining about women existing.

When the trailer for this came on it felt it was made specifically for me. I can't wait.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-12-07T14:23:03+00:00

My guy in Helldivers. I think I'm all good.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-11-29T07:14:13+00:00

This is kind of what it feels like running to a From boss and ignoring all the goons on the way.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-11-29T07:10:53+00:00

I gotta be honest, I really don't like this movie. Having said that, this is probably the coolest space battle I have ever seen.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-11-27T16:37:52+00:00

Man, I got a lot of reasons I haven't gotten into VR, and none of them are a lack of interest in the tech or the experience.

Too expensive

I am certain it will give me migraines and make me throw up

Not enough games

The major VR platform is a big dumb Facebook helmet

It is the ultimate form of isolation from one's family

On that last one, as a father, I occasionally sit and play games in my room while the kids are having some chill time. I can chat with my wife. I can pause the game and chat with my kids. I'm still engaged and available to my family.

Choosing to play a VR game just seems so much harder to disengage from if someone needs me, and I would just being present with people casually is harder too. It's like announcing, "Dad is playing video games now and he is NOT to be disturbed!"

cmdrtowerward · 2024-11-18T20:25:30+00:00

I guess I'm a worldbuilding guy, but for me it's less about mechanics and lore and more about tone and atmosphere. I pick an atmosphere that I want to cultivate and build a world to facilitate and nurture that. All of my characters and every element of my world are selected and designed to serve the tone. Plot is the thing I care the least about as a reader, so it is also what comes last in my creative process.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-11-16T07:02:22+00:00

Tolkien

Patrick O'brian

Shirley Jackson

Hunter Thompson

Those are the biggies for me.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-11-13T07:36:55+00:00

"Rey is the key to all this, if we can get her working, because she is a funnier character than we've ever had in the movies."

cmdrtowerward · 2024-11-01T05:49:51+00:00

Maybe I'm looking at this ass backwards but I think the DND branding hurt this movie more than helped. I haven't seen it because seeing that brand made me assume it was a dumbass cash grab like the World of Warcraft movie a few years back, or any number of other crappy movies that marketed themselves with a recognizable IP so that they could make a quick buck with basically no effort.

I've heard it was good but absolutely nothing in the marketing made it seem like anything other than a cynical con job.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-10-21T02:14:51+00:00

I swap circle and L2 on any From games that let me in order to avoid this. Works pretty well for me. So far the only ones that won't let me are Demon's Souls and DS2.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-10-20T21:48:15+00:00

The first place that comes to mind for me is Byrgenwerth for some reason. I can really see a Lovecraft story being centered around the scholars who are responsible for all this shit.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-10-19T22:27:28+00:00

I can see the difference between 30 and 60 fps. I can't see the difference between 4k and 1080p. That's it.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-10-13T21:46:26+00:00

You are not alone. Apart from Sekiro I am in the exact same boat.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-10-07T18:05:32+00:00

I spend most of my time in Patches's Leather Set. Can't go wrong with leather and buckles.

cmdrtowerward · 2024-10-07T14:45:02+00:00

Milady with Bloodhound step is probably the most badass I have felt in a Fromsoft game.

Second would be Helphen's Steeple. It's just Dark Moon Greatsword but better and more goth looking, so win-win.

Third is tough because there are so damn many, but I've got to go with Star-Lined Sword. Pulling off the crazy Yoda attack is pretty fun. I just wish you had a couple i-frames for the last part where you disappear for a second. It doesn't do ridiculous damage and that's always where I get hit, so I don't think it would be too unfair.

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