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Yeah, Jennings has tweeted some cringey stuff but nothing at all on the level of what Mike Richards actively decided to say on mic. I didn't have an opinion before other than seeing that clip of him saying that he had to step up to host during the guest host thing because of COVID and if that half-hearted explanation is indicative of him from here on out then sweet lord, that show just becomes dull as dishwater to me.

To tie in to the literal very first page on this thread, I've been watching movies I likely have reviewed in this very thread 15 years ago (we're all old). Here are two of them:

The Rules of Attraction (2002) - 8/10

There's a lot in this movie that with 2021 hindsight is unnecessarily cruel (sexual assault just being passed over topping that list for sure) and yet all of the dark comedy still works (Fred Savage with a semi playing the clarinet, "My wife left me for my T.A.," the doctor trying to kill an ODing Jay Baruchel, etc). Great soundtrack, too. We miss the era of Shannyn Sossamon.

The Girl Next Door (2004) - 7/10

Ah yes, the first movie that EWB (shout-out to Numbahs and Beatnik) single-handedly got me to see. And I'm genuinely surprised this also held up especially given that if your hook for a teen comedy is sex or porn in the 2000s, it sours like milk (remember Sex Drive?). I think it's the stunningly loaded cast that makes this work, complete with villain Tim Olyphant, big hog Paul Dano, and yes, height of her powers Elisha Cuthbert, genuinely able to immediately make folks buy the premise. And then it's kind of four movies in one and gets wild by the end but hey, it's a ride.

And then I watched Lucy (2014) and I hated it so there's that.

I watched Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie for the first time in like eight years and while I still definitely think it's the weakest of the T&E output, time has mellowed me to how audacious it is and helped me enjoy it a lot more. It's way more fun a watch if you see it as some germ of what Tim later does with On Cinema and to a lesser extent his performance in Us.

Rest of the thread: I much like videos that delicately examine issues or give a nice long examination for a think I like.

Me: here's a cat video. Robin Seplut's content never fails to cheer me up, though. And his video titles, clearly a bit of broken English but there is no clickbait. This is exactly what actually happens. Plus, he literally takes up money on his PayPal to house some if these strays in an apartment. All around just seems like a good dude.

I really do wonder if they just don't have a way to port SR1 or think because of the jankiness of its play in 2020 (and the series' pivot by 2) that it's not even worth the resources. Hell, 2's PC version still is getting patched because of its bugs to this day so I can't imagine that's an easier port job than the two games that were mostly less broken and easier to pass cert.

Last night was a fun mess, like my Iron playing like dogshit for 58 minutes just to win 12-9 and Memphis finding a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. What a hoot.

So because GameStop had some thing, I bought a used Wii U, which was thankfully in good condition (I've heard the horror stories of used systems like that) and also weirdly had a copy of The Princess and the Frog: The Wii Game Y'Heard inside but I don't think the jostling hurts its ability to read discs.

Turns out it's a good system that turns extraordinary when, uhh, well you get not as legal with it, which I'm ok with knowing that it's not like Nintendo themselves will be printing any more games for it. It so obviously was a test for what Switch is now and I kinda feel bad that the ole thing didn't get to live with the insane software differentiation seen in this 18 months alone. Would put it squarely above the Vita TV in terms of flop hardware probably still worth getting on the cheap.

On 5/8/2017 at 04:41, Robsturgh said:

Finished the game over the weekend, I really don't think I like the last act of the game at all. 

Fantastic game otherwise though, may get round to a NG+ later in the year. 

I think P5 is my favorite game of the year by far but yeah, I'm kind of feeling conflicted about that last act.

But again, I'm picking at nits for a game I still felt was my favorite game since Doom '16 and turned me on to actually playing the rest of the series and being really excited to dig into everything. I already beat 4 and it's great! I'm going to play through 3! So don't take my thing as any real dislike, either.

I haven't played it yet, but I've heard good things about Night in the Woods and that kind of ticks the boxes you're going for here, @ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster so that'll probably be a good entry.

Going to do the "my god I really fell out of watching movies" honorary 2016 list:

1. Moonlight

2. The Nice Guys

3. The Shallows

5 minutes ago, thatshortguy said:

How much was it marked down to?  Oftentimes, you can build it (or have your short friend) build it for you and come out significantly cheaper.

The one I'm seeing is $375 with an i7 and their ole custom Nvidia thing.

EDIT: It's this one, in particular: http://www.gamestop.com/pc/consoles/alienware-steam-machine-i7-1tb/121863

4 minutes ago, Meacon said:

I noticed that. I think three "pop-ups" happened last night before I could even get to the main menu. Take your VC and shove it, 2K. I bought your game, I'm not giving you anything else. 

It's also funnier that they hard-sell it at exactly the time in playing 2K17 where I can pretty efficiently get VC from game to game on my own.

I saw that one of the Alienware Steam Machines is on clearance at Gamestop and I have a bunch of credit to dump out, so I need convincing to be talked off the ledge of getting it. (For my purposes, it pretty much does what I need, since current games are going to be for my consoles and I just want indie and last-gen games to run real good on it, plus the, uhh, emulation possibilities.)

I don't know if too many folks are getting it, but 2K is hardselling the VC sale so much that it literally replaces every single ad banner in the game with a pop-up for it. Really makes me want to not play for the week until it's gone.

I watched Carol and I liked it way more than GoGo and everything worked for me. Wish the screening I went to didn't have issues with the lights, though. As, umm, doofy as it sounds, a lot of why I wanted to see the movie was the visuals and for some reason, the theater was unable to turn the lights down. Makes me want to watch it again via other means.

on that same note, slight spoiler for one of the mechanics:

Witcher 2 for $3.29. Don't mind if I do!

Hopefully I like it so that I can then get into 3.

Does Witcher 2 have controller support?

I think it does. I know Witcher 1 isn't native, but I think 2 is.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2663201

Also, I'm seeing A LOT of games that are $.19. I think I'll do a random draw from my friends list (assuming they didn't buy them) of what to give out. Send me a PM if you're feeling fancy and aren't on my friends list already.

So I think we have the winner for my "get bored and spend my wallet cash giving everyone a cheap game" game of the sale: It's a game called Caster, which is $.20. Came out in 2009, apparently. Seems like a good time and it has cards.

Also, Chroma Squad's from the Knights of Pen and Paper folks so I guess I'll be throwing my $2.24 down for that.

It is not a fun game!

Damn.

So I think we have the winner for my "get bored and spend my wallet cash giving everyone a cheap game" game of the sale: It's a game called Caster, which is $.20. Came out in 2009, apparently. Seems like a good time and it has cards.

Also, Chroma Squad's from the Knights of Pen and Paper folks so I guess I'll be throwing my $2.24 down for that.

Has anyone seen any reviews or anything for it yet? I've seen a few YouTubers play it, but it's mostly people like newlegacyINC and Smacktalks, who seem like they were just starving for any kind of new wrestling game. Plus some of them are like 3 hour long gameplay videos that I don't feel like sitting through.

Do you want to sit through a half hour Giant Bomb one instead? That this game even made it that far is almost impressive.

Still likely have some money left over after holiday stuff. If I've played and own 14, are the avatar changes significant enough to warrant paying mostly full price for 15?

I have been playing a lot of Call of Duty over the last few days and it has been really pleasant to play online. All together, I have played for about two weeks now online and only ran into one idiot (though even he wasn't vulgar but just a blowhard). I had heard horror stories about what online play experienced had become and experienced it years ago when I used to play Halo online all the time.

Have I been just extremely lucky or is playing online games not as bad as it once was?

Maybe bigoted people are too busy sending replies on Twitter to people under the #Gamergate tag.

I guarantee WWE games are nowhere near 50gb.

It was 22 GB on install on XB1. Weirdly, though, they stretched the disc limit on 360. Wonder if that had influence in the past for features being taken out before just blatantly nerfing them this year.

Still haven't decided if I'm picking this up straight away, but reviews seem ok - not brilliant but not awful. Most of the criticism is around what has been left out which is to be expected. MyCareer seems to have been confused by reviewers as a story mode rather than what it is, a career mode.

Yeah, in fairness to the game, they're taking the NBA 2K approach and there's a LOT of generally superfluous games in the MyCareer in those games which weirdly adds to the feeling of a full on career.

I wasn't under any impression for a while that they would actually have it for rental anyway, but I find it funny that up until a few days before release, Redbox had the next-gen 2K15 on their coming soon tab. Then upon looking two days ago, it and the other big next gen release of the week Far Cry 4 were removed from all versions that weren't current gen. Still, you can search and find a Far Cry 4 next gen on the site but no WWE 2K15. This is even sillier considering both game versions have the Redbox achievement. Wonder why they suddenly pulled that rental plug.