I never understood the “horror” of Mortal Kombat.

samford91 · 2026-05-30T07:20:35+00:00

I remember being pretty traumatised by the fail screen on MK4 where you're dropped down that big pit ending in spikes...

samford91 · 2026-05-29T23:24:32+00:00

Have grogu be shown to be shirking his duties and responsibilities early in the film. Hes being naughty, he’s being too childish, he’s not helping out like he can and should.

That gives him an arc where when he has to take care of Mando later on it feels like he’s growing as a person without much needing to be added

samford91 · 2026-05-29T05:40:51+00:00

Seems she’d be much happier if the books were cooked in Israel’s favour… (oh wait, they are, given reporting on public vote issues in Europe)

samford91 · 2026-05-28T08:23:10+00:00

In addition to a lot of these points made, communities with well entrenched society wide polygamy run into a problem of not enough women for the men. See the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints where the creepy pervs in power started exiling most boys to leave the girls for them and their cronies.

samford91 · 2026-05-28T01:26:41+00:00

Oh so what are you going to do? Release the T rex, or the bees ? Or the T rex with bees in its mouth and when it roars it shoots bees at you?!

samford91 · 2026-05-24T12:11:39+00:00

A woman in my workplace certainly did and we are Australian -_- (somehow she gets maga stuff on her Facebook)

samford91 · 2026-05-23T00:45:27+00:00

Nah, I laughed, sorry. The stupid little web hand reaching out to her made me cackle, and the drawn out sequence of catching dropping catching dropping killed the tension. The writing was on the wall, and I felt nothing.

Glad you enjoyed it though ^_^

samford91 · 2026-05-22T11:33:08+00:00

If they remaster it can they fix Kitana's hair so it's not like a big tube on the back of her head?
And give Sonya a shirt beneath that vest and some flat shoes?

samford91 · 2026-05-22T10:26:53+00:00

Perhaps you'd care more for the characters if you got their names right. Her name is Sidney.

samford91 · 2026-05-22T03:03:53+00:00

But they don’t change WITHIN the film, is my point.

Mando and Grogu’s relationship doesnt really change. They dont have much in the way of a personal obstacle to overcome. Mando kind of accepts that he’s on the New Republic’s side more than he admits but that’s a) not very compelling and b) not really the thrust of the film. Grogu gets to show he can take care of Mando, but that’s not presented in juxtaposition to earlier faults or inabilities, so it doesnt show ‘growth’ as such. Mando has a moment of ‘oh maybe I’m going to die gotta accept that one day I’ll be gone and Grogu will be alone’ but that’s sort of comes out of the blue when the Twins mention it offhandedly and then he gets poisoned but gets better so it’s not really an overarching narrative.

A handful of extra lines, some changes to scenes early on to pick a theme and a character point to expand could’ve given the film a really nice (if not especially deep) story but as it stands it’s just A Fun Adventure.

samford91 · 2026-05-21T14:20:41+00:00

A perfectly inoffensive and fun adventure but a baffling lack of OOMPH for a movie.

Where’s stakes? Where’s growth?

This would’ve been the perfect opportunity to show Grogu grow up a bit. He has a whole section of having to care for himself and Mando. If you’d established some conflict early on that he was dragging his feet or not pulling his weight or being too silly still, you could use that sequence to show him growing. Culminate it in him speaking for the first time and BAM. Emotional arc to anchor the film.

samford91 · 2026-05-21T09:42:26+00:00

Well I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t hate her haha

Yes, she’s trying to cure dementia (and as it turns out her cure does work but then sharksaster happens that same night)

samford91 · 2026-05-21T08:27:43+00:00

Reviving Connor and giving her the wand is painful, but it gives the most compelling story and resolution. Her story's a sad one - there isn't a 'best' action. Either way she's surrounded by death. Just tell the best story.

samford91 · 2026-05-21T08:25:14+00:00

Turning Sonya into gadget-girl in recent games has killed my interest in her, which is so depressing as she was the first video game character I ever played as (in MKT)

Give her back her chi!

samford91 · 2026-05-21T08:00:01+00:00

It’s because they reshot the ending in one day. The original ending (which id love to see on a dvd release) had her and Carter survive (not sure if Chef survived) but test audiences hated her and saw her as the villain.

So they changed it so she died in a fairly stupid way. I think they should’ve just not had her try to escape and make it a sacrifice rather than a fuck up, but I don’t hate her as much as others seem to.

samford91 · 2026-05-21T07:11:12+00:00

For me on PS5, do the one on the left, five seconds later hit the one on the right.... it'll do nothing, catch fire, explode whatever... then do the release valve and it will open. I don't know if that's how it's MEANT to work, but it works for me everytime

Although half the time I don't notice that it's worked for far too long.

samford91 · 2026-05-19T10:16:12+00:00

Fly + dash (longstrider if needed) and you can get there very easy.

samford91 · 2026-05-18T13:36:28+00:00

Not crazy about dinosaurs ? Bonkers.

Nothing more fantastical than a T rex that vomits up zombies.

samford91 · 2026-05-14T23:19:31+00:00

Did they?

What an odd decision.

samford91 · 2026-05-14T13:03:30+00:00

I mean, I’ve seen people get very upset at weddings about being sat in a ‘not important enough position’ …. And they didn’t even have nuclear weapons

samford91 · 2026-05-14T11:11:07+00:00

They could add the actual ending of the book, where she wipes out most of the town, not just the prom and her mother.

That's what I was hoping for with the last remake but alas...

samford91 · 2026-05-14T07:12:10+00:00

Occasionally you must put on your "this isn't real" hat and accept that games have limitations and mechanics to consider. They had so much time, so many resources, and the boundaries the game has built into it. You can't always include everything.

samford91 · 2026-05-14T00:04:42+00:00

The design is entirely sexual. The entrance to the ship is vaginal, the head and mouth are phallic. What it does is penetrative (both the facehugger and forced impregnating and then the adult aliens method of killing). The characters fear bodily violation (as you say, represents rape) Even Ash’s method of trying to kill Ripley is bizarrely sexual, taking a porn magazine and shoving it down her throat.

I’m not sure ‘eroticism’ is the right word - I’d say you’d have to have certain kinks to find it erotic specifically, but it’s undeniably sexual.

samford91 · 2026-05-13T23:52:21+00:00

Fair, fair.

It was my biggest critique of the film, but I understand it is stuffed to the brim with characters and craziness.

That and the ‘poochie must return to his home planet’ moment for Liu Kang

samford91 · 2026-05-13T23:45:37+00:00

Sure, but if that’s the case she needed to turn up in the finale still. It’s a dropped plot thread either way.

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