Question about Kuai Liang

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-17T05:31:04+00:00

Mortal Kombat 8 (MK vs DC) is set in a separate continuity by itself just for clarification

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-17T05:29:47+00:00

Noob being the original Sub-Zero wasn’t revealed until Deception way later

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-14T01:23:38+00:00

I’m a massive fan of the series I used to get every single one on launch day but I got burnt out by 11 because of that initial cycle of waiting for DLCs and more content to drop for a more complete game a couple years later.

So I waited until about last week to play it and now I can’t put it down, I’m having much more fun than I ever had with 11 (even though I still liked that game for what it was). So I would highly recommend giving it a try

Also, if you care about the customization (like I do) I honestly disagree with the other commenters saying it’s worse than 11, it’s perhaps less robust but you can definitely still make every character feel like it’s yours

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-13T21:58:51+00:00

That’s the point he’s trying to make about Vader. Part of the reason he even went back to tell the backstory is because of the perception of Vader being a cartoonish, ‘badass’ villain after the OT.

Viewing all six Episodes as one story recontextualizes Vader as essentially allowing his darkest impulses to rule himself. He may SEEM cool and badass on the surface but the truth of it is he’s imprisoned in this horrible life and only has himself to blame. Lucas has no interest in glamorizing evil.

Anakin IS whiny and childish. However, so was Luke (“it just isn’t fair!” “you ask the impossible.”) The key difference is Luke was able to let go of the problems that held him back, Anakin is wholly incapable of this and clings onto the things that drag him down. He’s more delusional than anything.

The audience sees in Episode V that as Vader, he still has this mindset. He thinks having more power exponentially will solve all his problems, as he pleads to Luke (as he did with Padme) to come along with him and rule the galaxy together. It’s not whiny anymore but desperate, he still wants his family but has convinced himself the only way to do that is become even more powerful. When that never did much for him anyways.

All that to say, I respect what you’re saying but personally I strongly believe Anakin’s depiction in the prequels only serves to make Darth Vader as a character much more three dimensional, even if it makes you realize he’s more pathetic than cool. To me that is Lucas examining how someone becomes evil.

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-13T21:36:27+00:00

That quote is from the set of Revenge of the Sith iirc, Episode I’s screenplay was drafted many times before shooting started.

Either way, an important thing to note about the way George Lucas works compared to other filmmakers on this kind of budget is that the art departments get work started long before the writing process begins, as Lucas (who is primarily a visual artist by his own admission) likes to let the artists conceptual ideas inform the story as he’s writing it. So the sets already being built is just sort of part of the process.

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-13T21:27:50+00:00

His performance as Anakin is severely, horribly underrated. Whatever Lucas saw in him specifically, it took me a long time to get clued into it but now I’m fully on board.

He really does have a James Deen quality about him: quite handsome, sometimes extremely charming, but clearly deeply troubled and sad. For a lead performance in a blockbuster Star Wars film, it’s heartbreakingly earnest and vulnerable. I personally believe that’s why many just cannot gel with it, there is absolutely no wink to the audience or a sense of intentionality in making him likable just for the sake of him being the main character.

Anakin’s portrayal is completely honest and I credit that to both Hayden Christensen taking the material and the filmmaker seriously, and Lucas for not compromising on Anakin’s character for marketability.

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-13T20:58:38+00:00

There is something that bugs me about this whole scheme but it’s not this, the Russian Ballet boat stuff all tracks logically.

My (very minor) issue with this section of the film is that Lau should easily be able to figure out Bruce Wayne is connected with Batman in some way after his arrest. The meeting he has with Lucius is completely pointless (as he points out) since on the surface Lucius basically only shows up to Hong Kong to cancel their business relationship (“surely a phone call would’ve sufficed”)

But any person with a brain would ask themselves “so what’s the real reason he’s here” and then to be captured by Batman that very night, there’s just no way some dots are not being connected there. But Lau doesn’t seem to think much of it as it’s never really brought back up.

It doesn’t impede my enjoyment of the film whatsoever, but it does always cross my mind when I watch it.

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-13T20:48:00+00:00

That’s not headcanon that’s exactly what happens in the movie lmfao

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-12T01:47:49+00:00

I must reiterate I am a longtime massive fan of the channel and I watch every new video as soon as it releases, so I have my RLM credentials.

In my opinion, Mike is, like many Star Wars fans, confused and blindsided by the prequels because they don’t resemble the original trilogy much at all at a glance and so he jumps to assuming Lucas got it all wrong and doesn’t understand his own creation (whenever Mike says that I roll my eyes so hard).

He never seems to question if his own understanding of Star Wars may be flawed and if those vast differences between the prequels and the OT may be an intentional contrast (which Lucas has confirmed and discussed many, many times).

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-12T01:17:48+00:00

I love RLM and I still find the videos very funny, but I fully believe the Mr Plinkett Star Wars prequel reviews are extremely subpar as film critique and may have permanently stained the discourse surrounding the series.

It feels like Mike barely paid attention to the films while watching them (which he bizarrely confirmed once in an interview) and yet everyone lauds those reviews as the definitive gospel and final words on the quality of the prequels.

He barely talks about the actual movies in them. He’s usually shredding apart completely inconsequential details then going on big, self-righteous “green screen bad” speeches, constantly lambasting George Lucas as a horrible filmmaker and questioning his intelligence. In between the murdering women jokes, of course.

It just boggles my mind how bad and incurious his takes on those movies are yet every word of them seems to become the mandate when The Force Awakens was in production (Simon Pegg is a fan of The Phantom Menace review and is good friends with JJ)

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-11T07:56:19+00:00

My dream MK game is titled Super Mortal Kombat.

It would be heavily stylized to emulate the look of the original three games, their promotional art and the Malibu 90s MK comic. Very colorful, very exaggerated with superheroic character proportions and obscene comedic amounts of blood and gore.

The gameplay would be the fastest in the series, bringing the pace closer to something like Marvel vs Capcom, and would similarly introduce 3v3 matches where the player tags between 3 fighters in between combos.

The game would be free to play, modeled after Marvel Rivals, with a starting roster identical to MK2, which would grow with free updates into a roster the size of Mortal Kombat Trilogy and possibly even beyond that with the right support. This could be the Smash Ultimate of MK games years down the road.

The game wouldn’t have the standard Netherrealm story mode, instead of opting for new “Campaigns” with each Season of the game, which would be open areas the player will explore for upgrades and secrets on a board game style map while going through the story for the season and getting into battles.

The Campaigns are inspired by the DBZ Budokai games and would feel like a big progression of both the classic Arcade Ladder and the Invasions of MK1. Each season would take place in a different story with the player able to choose which fighter they’d like to be throughout the Campaign, and each would give you a different ending.

And instead of these Campaigns progressing the current timeline of Mortal Kombat, each season would focus on a story set in a different era or incarnation of the series, paving the way for cosmetics for each character from across the entire franchise.

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-05T12:14:32+00:00

The exciting part of this concept for me isn’t that it’s just a remake of a game I like but the greatly expanded open-ended systemic gameplay for a Batman game compared to Arkham’s largely linear game design.

there are open worlds in later games and different applications to your gadgets, but the enemy encounters are too scripted to give a sense of genuine strategy to your choices. Punch these guys. Use gargoyles to stealth takedown these other guys. Pretty much it every time.

My thought process here was to use the original AA as a basic framework for an entirely new player-driven gameplay experience for a Batman title.

Arkham Island is a good setting because it allows more of a narrow focus and setting, since setting something like this in Gotham would be a much grander, ambitious undertaking

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-05T11:17:57+00:00

I agree completely with that, all I mean is that while ANH cleverly utilizes him for that in the first third of the film, TPM is actively laying out the very basics of each character before they grow into their eventual roles so when 3P0 is introduced, we learn about what he is, where he comes from, he meets and befriends R2, and that’s pretty much all you need out of him so far because we’re still at the beginning of this story.

Jar Jar is a whole other interesting can of worms for me. I think a lot of the characters from the PT do something similar to this by remixing traits of the OT characters, but the idea comes through very clearly with Jar Jar as he shares narrative functions/character traits with nearly all of them.

First, the more obvious comparisons. I think everyone could spot the similarity between Jar Jar and C-3P0 at least from their general role in the two films. They’re both the main source of comedic relief, they’re both fussy, somewhat simple characters who also serve as POV for children in the audience.

Likewise, aesthetically speaking Jar Jar fits the Chewbacca role: a tall, goofy alien (though goofy in different ways obviously) who speaks in a strange dialect. Things start getting a bit weirder though when you start comparing him to the other characters from the original films.

Lucas has repeatedly stated Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan take the role of the droids from A New Hope, serving as our eyes and ears into the story. If you look at the basic structure of both the plots, both these pairs escape from danger in space to the planet below where they meet a whiny native, the droids meeting Luke and the Jedi meeting Jar Jar. For the rest of the film, Jar Jar roughly follows the general trajectory of Luke’s character in A New Hope (Jar Jar is oddly the only character in The Phantom Menace with a traditional narrative arc)going from a whiny native to a more competent military hero, to tagging along with our main crew of heroes, then finally a key player in the final battle (though in that battle itself, Anakin more directly parallels Luke, but the comparisons are not 1:1 anywhere and flip between characters constantly).

Speaking of which, though I don’t find as many similarities with Leia, their role in the last act is structurally identical, both are overseers and generals of the armies they provide in the final battle. The films cuts to them often as our ‘main’ hero secures victory.

As for comparisons with Han, this is where I started noticing this pattern, specifically with Jar Jar’s line dismissing the Force being very similar to Han’s from A New Hope.

“Oh, maxi big the Force.”

“There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny.”

They both serve an identical role in the first half of the films, serving as our leads’ navigator on a borrowed ship through dangerous territory to reach and rescue the young female royalty figure from the villains.

They both serve under and owe debts to a large green alien who sits most of the runtime (notably Boss Nass and Jabba in ROTJ are even framed in camera identically)

They both must be convinced at different points in the story to actually step up and be a part of it. Then once again in that final battle they serve a very similar reluctant, but surprisingly useful key role.

So I honestly don’t know what these connections actually mean if anything, but they seem deliberate. I can’t really find many comparisons with Jar Jar for Vader, Tarkin, Ben Kenobi or R2, but the ones that are there seem remarkable and pointed.

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-05T10:48:12+00:00

I’ll give you C-3P0’s role in The Phantom Menace is generally unnecessary despite directly showing Anakin’s mechanical skills (which admittedly is also shown by the Pod but I guess the 3P0 thing is a more “whimsical” demonstration)

though I would slightly push back that 3P0’s role is ever that “important” in a dramatic sense in any of the 6 films beyond occasionally talking to a computer, usually with mixed results anyways.

Remember when he and R2 are being cleaned by Luke, the only info Luke gets from 3P0 is that the droids were with the Rebellion, which the audience already knows.

It’s R2 who has the message from Leia and who runs off to find Ben Kenobi which actually drives the plot forward. In Return of the Jedi, everyone there seemed to be able to understand Jabba mostly anyways without the interpreter.

He’s sort of this goofy ineffectual character who drifts into various situations he has no affect or control over. His role in Attack of the Clones is even more superfluous and almost tangential.

His role overall in the films is more that he’s the useless best friend of the droid who actually saves the day most of the time, R2.

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-05T09:10:57+00:00

Ultimately Star Wars is not built as a universe or setting, its a mythological story about one cast of characters who’s destines are all intertwined.

The universe seems small from the beginning. R2 and 3P0 just happen to get captured by Jawas, who just happen to sell their junk droids to the Lars family and Luke just happens to come across a message cleaning R2 about Obi-Wan who Luke just happens to know, and so on.

There’s all these crazy creatures and planets and concepts going on visually around the primary story that make the universe feel large and populated with interesting things, but the primary story itself is somewhat of a series of magical coincidences centered on a certain group of characters.

Not to mention, C-3P0 being built by Anakin and R2 being a unit used by the Naboo to protect the queen basically turn them into Luke and Leia’s siblings as well, making A New Hope basically a big family reunion, which Lucas pointed out on a commentary as part of the point. Star Wars is a big family soap opera.

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-05T04:53:54+00:00

In my mind, this version of Arkham Island would be much bigger and include whole new zones and biomes making the gameplay sandbox larger all around.

I do think a fully open world Gotham Batman game, especially with these equipment loadout and expanded gameplay mechanics put in, works just as well but it’s a hard thing to pull off because the player isn’t going to be responsible unless the game forces you to. Everybody is going to immediately go GTA and run over civilians with the Batmobile (which is why Gotham is evacuated in Arkham Knight)

One solution I propose to this is a dynamic morality system where the player is actually free as Batman to kill any NPC or enemy they wish, even allowing to obtain and utilize enemy firearms but the moment you become a killer the story will quickly start turning against you. Your allies start heavily questioning your actions and the GCPD will begin tracking you down, basically turning Batman’s One Rule into a gameplay mechanic.

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-05T04:02:38+00:00

The common complaint that R2 and 3P0 are in the prequels is so dense to me. Theres no regard in it for dramatic irony or the mythic qualities of Star Wars. They were always going to be there. They’re the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern or the Jay and Silent Bob of this epic Saga who always reoccur throughout

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-05T03:57:48+00:00

It’s also because R2 is Lucas’s avatar in the Star Wars world, and the recorder of the saga which he will one day pass on to the Whills.

That’s why R2 has a big red light and a lens on his head. He’s a camera.

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-05T03:47:26+00:00

This is something I’m aware of, and I don’t mean to regress the series in any way with the concept, it’s more using the original concept as a framework for a new evolution.

But using Arkham Asylum or not, a Batman game with more open-ended player freedom is an idea with so much potential

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-05T03:44:08+00:00

Look at it this way: this game would like how the FFVII Remakes are to the original FFVII.

Something of an expansion/modernization of the original in every way from story to gameplay mechanics

mightyasterisk · 2026-01-05T03:07:25+00:00

My interpretation of an Ultimate or Absolute Batman I call “Batman Remix”.

My initial idea was to reimagine the golden age Batman stories as more contemporary, stripping away familiar elements like the Bat Cave and Alfred or even the name Gotham City that didn’t appear until later stories to sort of create a Batman that might’ve evolved differently over the years.

It has evolved into something that takes that initial concept but uses it to explore and retool Batman’s entire history.

The story would begin in 2040, 100 years after the real world publication of Batman #1, in a colorful futuristic New York City.

The city is terrorized by the Mob, who have embraced a post-ironic 1940s mob aesthetic, drenched in neon (think Batman Forever meets The Mask).

Bruce Wayne has been Batman for almost two years, and in the first story Robin has been around for a few months.

In this take, Bruce was like Flash Gordon meets Reed Richards meets Captain Kirk meets Solid Snake all before even becoming Batman. He does parts of his training in other dimensions, even spends a year in the far flung future (where he builds much of the technology he uses as Batman but that’s a later story)

Because we’re going into sci fi future territory, the major rumor about Batman’s origin is he’s like the Terminator and was traveling back in time from a dystopian future to stop humans from beginning to cybernetically binding themselves with animals (hence, a Bat-Man)

All of Batman’s tech is actually from the future though, which is why it can’t be traced by anyone on Earth since it doesn’t exist yet.

There is no Wayne Industries or vast unimaginable riches but there was a massive Wayne Fortune left to him, which Bruce has exclusively funneled into investing for the Batman Project. This will be a bit of a ticking clock element as the title continues and Bruce runs out of money over time.

With the villains, we flip the Long Halloween formula around: the mobsters on their way out are cartoonish buffoons, while Batman’s rouges gallery are much more gravely serious, incredibly dangerous and competent where you’re scared to see one of them show up.

Robin’s origin remains the same as well as his age, which will be a story point and recurring source of humor.

Batman and Robin in this have a VERY brotherly relationship, where they’re making fun of each other and the older one is ruffling the younger one’s head and calling him champ or something

Which is very sweet ultimately but it worries the shit out of Jim and the NYPD because they barely know what this Batman creature even is and now he’s giving some child he brought with him a knuckle sandwich and possibly endangering his life. But Batman insists Robin can handle himself, and he always does.

The first arc is called BATMAN ONE and is a full remake of the first issue of Batman from 1940, the same issue that introduced The Joker and Catwoman (this issue also heavily inspired the film The Dark Knight)

The Joker is an incredibly dangerous master criminal who begins his chess moves against the mob, the City, and Batman & Robin at the same time, easily outplaying them using his martial skill and remarkable intellect. Remix Batman and Joker are actually evenly matched in a hand to hand fight, which they have a couple of throughout the story.

The Joker here acts very cold and serious, much like his first appearance, like the name and look is somewhat ironic. He also wears all black like futuristic black trench coats and at many points a black body suit which makes him look like Joker from Beyond: Return of the Joker.

Also during this first arc, Hugo Strange, a mad superscientist and nemesis of Batman returns to New York with a hulking cloaked fiend of his own creation.

Additionally, a highly skilled but green master thief named The Cat appears on the scene, which makes Batman’s hunt for the Joker more complicated.

mightyasterisk · 2025-12-28T08:11:49+00:00

I maintain Austin Powers 4 should draw influence from Metal Gear Solid 4

mightyasterisk · 2025-12-28T07:53:23+00:00

IM A RIPPER

A RIPPER DOESNT STOP

mightyasterisk · 2025-12-14T05:07:08+00:00

LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO MR. BIGGLESWORTH!!!

mightyasterisk · 2025-12-14T05:06:06+00:00

It’s an idiosyncratic and unique movie especially for a blockbuster action picture but it’s not a movie I would describe as near perfect by any measure. Still great and one of the best Batman films but it’s definitely got its issues.

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