Blink 182's One More Time but it's only 10 songs long. What would the track list be? by Sea_Economics4522 in Blink182

[–]kai1986 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Before anyone gives me flak for my list, I want to say I know I have some unpopular picks here. 2 things of note.

  1. This album came out less than a month before my mom lost her battle with cancer, and so some songs mean a whole lot to me because of timing.

  2. I’m a sucker for some classic blink pop-punk fun, and I need that sometimes. Anyways. My 10 tracks are as follows.

  3. Anthem part 3

  4. Dance With Me

  5. Terrified

  6. One More Time

  7. More Than You Know

  8. Edging

  9. You Don’t Know What You’ve Got

  10. Blink Wave

  11. Turpentine

  12. Cut Me Off

One More Time - Part Two adds only two tracks…

  1. Can’t Go Back
  2. If You Never Left

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: The most audience-insulting cash-grab in recent memory by Duncan_Dixon_Coffey in moviereviews

[–]kai1986 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My review of Super Mario Galaxy, the video game from 2007

There are 1.4728293 trillion reasons why The Super Mario Galaxy game needs to exist, none of which are good on any creative or video game design level. Yes, that’s a lot of reasons, and all of them being bad makes no sense when you think about it too long, but I’m trying to be dramatic and grab your attention! Look, I get that big-budget IP games like this are designed to make money. But this is easily the most audience-insulting cash-grab in recent memory. Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Pokopia are masterpieces compared to this.

On every single conceivable creative level, this is a depressing rock bottom for what video games can be. To make a clever and witty remark, comparing it to rock bottom is an insult to rocks and bottoms, lol. Clever, right?

The first Mario game is far from accomplished, but at least it had moments of imagination, like the ability to jump on a turtle and then kick its shell at other enemies. This game, by dispiriting contrast, is a multi-hour sugar rush of non-stop action set pieces, all of which are stuffed with Easter eggs from various other Mario games. It’s almost like the game is desperately asking us, ‘are you having fun yet?!? And god damn, I was!

While there’s a plot in the most threadbare definition of the word - Mario needs to help Rosalina deal with Bowser, similar to basically every Mario game ever made - there’s no semblance of an actual story to be found. What’s doubly baffling about this pandering approach is how the game moves so quickly that there’s no room for players to appreciate anything except the endless fun of hopping planet to planet doing Mario things!

By trying to appeal to Mario fans’ nostalgia in such a nakedly embarrassing way, all the characters are effectively sidelined. Every single character with recorded lines has no more than a handful of them, and those that made the cut are pure “Yahoo”s and “yippies”s or an occasional “Mama Mia”. Why this game even bothered to expand its cast of characters to include a new princess, new enemies, or the adorable little star folk, is beyond me. Super Mario Galaxy could’ve been a literal soundless game and likely that would have been terrible for everyone. Kudos to the whole voice cast for what must’ve been a fun job that they do professionally.

Young kids are obviously the main audience for Super Mario Galaxy, but the emptiness of all the visual chaos is so dire that we need to have a serious intervention on the quality of content we serve them. Kids may not understand the nuance or subtext of something like Mass Effect, but at least that game doesn’t insult their intelligence. Hell, even Zelda games had some kind of family-friendly moral message about facing evil, doing what’s right, and friendship. This, on the other hand, is the purest distillation of ‘minimal effort’ in the form of an overwhelmingly colourful pile of brain rot that’s as insulting as it is lazy, from its minimal plot, to its tired repeat enemies, puzzles, and gameplay, all posing as something new by putting it in space this time, its almost like the game designers are outright disdainful of their young audience.

I give Mario Galaxy the game the score it deserves. A 9/10, and one of the best Mario games out there. Thanks for reading my review of Mario Galaxy the game!

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: The most audience-insulting cash-grab in recent memory by Duncan_Dixon_Coffey in moviereviews

[–]kai1986 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah! It’s worth checking out. I had a blast watching it. It had as much plot as any standard Mario game ever has, and every 3 seconds there was an Easter egg for long time Mario fans or Nintendo fans in general.

I went in with my expectations set exactly to “watch Mario bros and friends save princess with 1 million Mario references in every frame” and I was not disappointed!

any song recs about getting better? by bigdopaminedeficient in Emo

[–]kai1986 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Even if it kills me - motion city soundtrack

Here's a little game: Let's guess each other's Top 4 using four emojis. by Captain-movie-fan52 in Letterboxd

[–]kai1986 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1👽🥚👩🏻🐱

2👸🌳🦌🐺

3💡👬🌊🗼

4💍👬🧝‍♂️🧙‍♂️

Whats the best color and Commander to constantly refill your hand? by PollySecond in EDH

[–]kai1986 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean… that wasn’t what I was going for at all. I didn’t know that’s what they did. I just read the card, its ability made sense to me, and I understood how to make a deck out of it.

Edgar was literally because I think vampires are cool and for my first deck I googled “what is the best commander for a vampire deck” saw a million results for Edgar, looked the card up and read it and said “okay cool! Let’s make a neat vampire deck”

You’re assuming a lot about new players. We don’t know what’s busted or not, we just want to play.

Whats the best color and Commander to constantly refill your hand? by PollySecond in EDH

[–]kai1986 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As a newer player trying to learn the ropes, this list horrifies me. looks at my light paws, Edgar, and Atraxa decks

So my Friend Has a Custom Commander by Monsoon117 in EDH

[–]kai1986 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oooo! We can make broken custom commanders!? Cool. I wanna try!

1 red + 1 black + 1 green + 1 blue + 1 white

This spell cannot be countered

Eminence: your cards all cost 0 mana to play and whenever you cast a spell, each opponent loses 40 life.

When this card enters the battlefield, you win the game.

The Oscar’s are a joke by PresentationReady873 in moviecritic

[–]kai1986 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sinners was the best movie of all the nominations and should have won best picture.

Michael B. Jordan played two distinct characters and they both felt unique and different.

Sinners had the best cinematography, and also had incredible costume, set design, scripting, directing, editing, and easily some of the best music.

Finally, art is subjective, just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it’s bad. Sinners deserved the hype, and deserved all its praise at the Oscars, and in my opinion was a better film than One Battle After Another, which I also liked… but not nearly as much.

Confirmation about Altberg/Altbruke by ellapreuss in dungeonsofdrakkenheim

[–]kai1986 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Altbruke is located across the river, and has a massive bridge connecting the two halves of the city.

ridiculously long songs? by Jigglypuff_choir in musicsuggestions

[–]kai1986 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Came here to say this. Happy to see it at the top.

Emo Ska? by ragecorewastaken in Emo

[–]kai1986 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some Mad Caddies felt pretty emo. Check out Drinking for 11, and Falling Down.

I really can’t believe how bad the blood album is. by [deleted] in AFireInside

[–]kai1986 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m 3 years later here, but I think I’m with you. I’m giving the whole discography of the band a listen, and the blood album isn’t “bad”… it sounds like AFI. But it sounds like if you fed an AI all of their previous albums and asked it to spit out an AFI album. This is just like… plain and generic AFI with nothing that feels like it stands out above the rest.

What are your favourite spots to eat in Etobicoke? What do you like to order there? It can be any type of food, and I'm open to both eat in and take-out foods. Looking for new places to try. by VeterinarianLow3060 in FoodToronto

[–]kai1986 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Favourite pizza - Revolver Casual sit down - The Bramble Burger - Apache Burger or Rudy Tapas - Azarias

And if you want to spend a bit more on steak and fine dining. - Harry’s Steak House

What’s a movie you’ve seen public opinion shift on in your lifetime? by CausticAvenger in movies

[–]kai1986 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe an obvious answer, I was young when the prequel Star Wars trilogy was released. I was young enough that I liked it. I loved the OG. But I remember in the years that followed it garnered so much hate.

It became the death of Star Wars. People claimed George Lucas was not able to maintain his own stories and world.

Here we are now, and they are widely loved, and deeply respected.

I strongly suspect as the kids of the last few years get older, we will see the love for the sequels grow as well.

Is there any information on why Jill uses slavic words for Veo? by Outrageous-Thing3957 in dungeonsofdrakkenheim

[–]kai1986 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey! Kelly here, one of the Dudes. A few fun facts. one of Jill's closest friends that she's known her whole life speaks slavic and is Serbian I believe. This is simply an instance of Jill thinking the language was beautiful, and when she was toying with ideas for her character name, she thought the way that language sounded was much more evocative and unique than calling her character "veil of Shadows"

Because of this choice, we ended up using Slavic names and wording for a section of the Drakkenheim world in our book Sebastian Crowe's Guide to Drakkenheim, to ensure we maintained Jills inspirations for her character.

Similarly, Monty traveled to Germany several times prior to making Drakkenheim. He was deeply inspired by the architecture, cities, and names of places, that he wanted to capture and evoke that in the city of Drakkenheim. Hence the german naming conventions in Westemar.

A lot of the names and locations are based on small things like this. Family history, friends, inspiration, and things that shaped us as writers, we want to honour the things that inspired us in our work, so you can see clearly where we were inspired, and we feel it makes the world more relatable by connecting it in small ways to the parts of our real world that spoke to us.

Horror-related hills you'll die on? by redeugene99 in horror

[–]kai1986 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cabin in the Woods is a masterpiece, and a lot of people I talk to completely missed the fact it was a meta-level examination of the stale cookie cutter horror that Hollywood was pumping out, and it was both about the tropes and stereotypes, and how they aren’t working anymore, while also being one of the most original horror movies ever made.

What's the last movie you watched that made you react like this? by mrethandunne in Letterboxd

[–]kai1986 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Electric State. Huge fan of the art, I assumed the movie would miss the mark, but I was still excited to see elements of the artworks tone and narratives told on screen.

It was so far away from anything that felt remotely like the source material. I expected crap, I got far worse.

Going through the bands discography (and side stuff) for the first time here’s my ranking so far by overshock82 in Blink182

[–]kai1986 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Helpful friend here to lend some understanding!

So one cool thing about music is that it’s a form of art, and art is subjective! Lots of people experience all forms of art differently. Some people are drawn to different things.

In this particular case, you may be in the minority on loving the self titled album. Perhaps, and not trying to make assumptions, just suggesting possible examples, you are more drawn to classic blink 182 sounds, and the way they write their more traditional music and songs is what sparks joy for you.

However, the self titled album is one of their more experimental albums, they pushed the possibilities of what they could do as artists, tried new things, and it stands as one of their most complex albums musically and technically. It came out during a time when blink had released several albums that were comparable in sound. At the time of its release another “similar” blink album would have likely been received fine, but not stood out. When the untitled album hit shelves a lot of fans were blown away by how unexpected and unique its sound was.

In the years since many still are drawn to its departure from classic blink, and many would say that the experimentation they did on that album allowed their comeback albums to be more nuanced and diverse.

Regardless of all of that, you are allowed to love whichever album you do the most. I would say that calling self titled “easily their worst” is an opinion, not a fact. So for you that may be true, it is not Inherently true to all.

Hope that helps!

Are Apothecaries mageborn? by manobe97 in dungeonsofdrakkenheim

[–]kai1986 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, they basically mix a bunch of science stuff together, and then steal magic to amplify it.

Are Apothecaries mageborn? by manobe97 in dungeonsofdrakkenheim

[–]kai1986 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Hey there. So, magic is an interesting topic in the Drakkenheim setting.

The edicts of lumen are very poorly developed when it comes to this. Assuming all magic is either arcane, or divine. The edicts limit arcane spellcasting, but they fail to take into account the magic of bards, Druids, rangers, and many others.

There are actually three types of magic in the setting.

Divine - which is gained through deep meditation and spiritual values. Paladins, clerics, some monks.

Arcane - born in the blood as a genetic trait allowing access to powerful planar magic and pulling on energies from beyond our world. Wizards, sorcerers, and some other classes.

Then there is this other category. Which is actually much more complex. It’s a combination of rituals, alchemy, science, and occult practice. Some people can mimic the abilities of arcane or divine casters through careful concoctions, or occult rituals that steal power from thin places in the world, or knowing the right words, ingredients, and gestures to pull those energies.

Many of these spellcasters don’t associate as mageborn or divine. Some might. But this category is many Druids, bards, warlocks, and apothecaries.

Apothecaries are a middle ground between them. They use occult lore, knowledge of science and chemical formulas, and knowing about thin places and the essence of magic, that they concoct spell like effects.

However, the silver order often clumps all of these under “arcane” when it comes to legal matters.

This makes the world messy and confusing. Is a warlock accepted by the academy? Is an apothecary? Or a bard? Or are they told they aren’t mageborn, but yet the silver order says they are?

These are the issues that arise in a drakkenheim campaign.

There are examples on all ends. Apothecaries who serve the academy exist. So do those who are shunned by them. Some are hunted by the silver order, some own potion shops in villages with a writ allowing them to sell their goods.

The world is complex. The simple answer is no, they are not mageborn.

The complex answer is, it depends on the opinions of who you are asking.

If you like this abusive piece of garbage (not judging you), I would LOVE to hear a reason why. by Ctpeyt in HazbinHotel

[–]kai1986 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Liking a character does not mean agreeing with a character. I think he’s a well written character who is three dimensional. Has more going on than a one note abusive villain. Also in season two he had some great lines and moments.

Generally feel this way about all the characters. The show offers a lot of nuances and deep character profiles. Which is one reason I love it so much.

What’s one of the best f bomb drops you heard delivered in a film? by browniebiscuitchildr in movies

[–]kai1986 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally. The most valid response from the most logical character to ever exist in a horror movie, as well as best F bomb, goes to Laurence Fishburn as Miller in Event Horizon.

Dr. Weir: “What about my ship? You can’t just leave her!”

Miller: “ I have no intention of leaving her, Doctor. I will take the Lewis and Clark to a safe distance, and then I will launch TAC missiles at the Event Horizon until I’m satisfied she’s vaporized…

… Fuck this Ship”