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Male, 31 years old. (So I'm practically dead, as we speak.)
Likes (other than writing and roleplaying): I'm into all genres of music. I love to cook. I love the outdoors, and walking through the park near my house. (Yes, really.) I read a lot of thriller/mystery novels. And I usually watch seasonal anime. (Or cooking shows. Because Western Media provides even fewer things that are worth watching.)
But as for my many other neglected hobbies, I've played basically every sport. (Soccer and Bowling being my favorite of the bunch.) And I'm trying to play more video games. (Going through my never-ending Steam library.) Plus, I've dabbled in making electronic & metal music, and I used to play a number of instruments. (Guitar, French Horn, etc.)
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I've come to say that @Dark Cloud is dealing with things IRL and plans to come back later this week.
I've come to say that @Dark Cloud is dealing with things IRL and plans to come back later this week.
I think 2024 was pretty good for media. There were some great movies and some pretty decent television shows.
Maybe there's a few gems sprinkled in there. (I think Amazing Digital Circus has made a few entertaining episodes.) But overall, I'd struggle to give myself a "Top Ten" this year. (Even for video games. And I played a hell of a lot more of those than watch films this year.)
I guess I'd have to ask what you considered to be great movies and good television? (And if you'd consider them to be better than last year's offerings?)
Honestly, most of this year seemed to be spent on making worse sequels and unnecessary (at best) remakes to better things.
Just looking at "Top Grossing movies" of the year in comparison. (Via Wiki.)
We have John Wick 4 & Oppenheimer, Barbie (a thing most people seemed to like okay.) The Super Mario Bros. Movie (a thing most people seemed to like okay.) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (a thing most people seemed to like okay.)
Versus, bad sequel no one seemed to like, bad sequel no one seemed to like, bad sequel no one seemed to like, a lesser Barbie Wicked, and Dune 2. (And I really doubt this one is a better action movie than John Wick.)
And the shows everybody hyped up this year like "Shogun" & "The Gentleman" are pretty terribly written. (Even if I like "The Penguin", the plot is incredibly contrived.) And I refuse to believe the show featuring Concord characters was a good piece of entertainment.
(And my favorite anime of the year, was left unfinished.)
So, I don't know. Please do give me your recommendations to prove me otherwise. (Can always use a film to watch when I'm bored.)
Squid Game Season 2 is the best example of "The Idiot Plot" I've seen in recent memory. Where all the characters in it have to be impossibly stupid for the drama to work. (Every twist and character death is easy to see coming.) And aside from liking some of the actors. There's very little to recommend about it. It's far less compelling than Season One was. Every character arc and plot thread introduced goes unresolved, for what will very likely be a terrible 3rd season.
And an example of that blatant stupidity, is in the third game where it's trying to be a "999" (The game), where there's a limited number of rooms. (Fifty of the fuckers.) And you need to go into those rooms in pairs of a specific/basic number.
But it instead becomes closer to that one Saw trap with the four giant spaces that FIVE whole people needed to go into. And it was impossible to believe that so many fucking people died here, when the amount of rooms (versus the people who needed to go in them) only became relevant at the very end. So your only conclusion in the last few episodes is that these adults cannot count.
I really do hope there's some better television, movies, and anime on the horizon. Because 2024 was *not* a strong year for media.
And an example of that blatant stupidity, is in the third game where it's trying to be a "999" (The game), where there's a limited number of rooms. (Fifty of the fuckers.) And you need to go into those rooms in pairs of a specific/basic number.
But it instead becomes closer to that one Saw trap with the four giant spaces that FIVE whole people needed to go into. And it was impossible to believe that so many fucking people died here, when the amount of rooms (versus the people who needed to go in them) only became relevant at the very end. So your only conclusion in the last few episodes is that these adults cannot count.
I really do hope there's some better television, movies, and anime on the horizon. Because 2024 was *not* a strong year for media.
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19 days ago
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Rise Of The Golden Idol is a pretty tedious follow up to a game that had promise. The narrative is really lame and inexplicably watered down, compared to the prior game's murderous death cult plot. And unlike the last game's too long final chapter, I was getting a little sick of solving "How did bumblefuck steve hurt his leg?" mysteries past the first decent chapter.
Inspector Waffles was a more enjoyable narrative for its amusing puns and wholesome vibes. But its point-and-click adventure puzzle gameplay was *very* typical of its genre propensity for using moon logic.
Example: You need to give your female colleague a cinnamon coffee, before she'll give you a warrant for a murder case. (And you can't immediately call for her firing.) So you find a coffee machine in a unique painting and trinket selling shop, where the owner won't allow you to use it until you can find her something worthy of selling to her clients. So what do you do? Well, find an old love letter related to your murder case and spill some worse coffee onto it. Then seek help from a stranger in the apartment next door, that'll let you use their hairdryer to blow your soggy/ruined piece of evidence. And that...somehow...translates to being something that the art owner can sell...(Glad I looked that up, instead of wasting too much time on solving that.)
And I'm going to hold off on buying more games on Steam. (Tempting as it may be.) So I can focus on all the stuff that I got for Christmas. Last Epoch, you're next in line. Sekiro, you have to wait for the holidays to be over. I want to be happy for those...
Inspector Waffles was a more enjoyable narrative for its amusing puns and wholesome vibes. But its point-and-click adventure puzzle gameplay was *very* typical of its genre propensity for using moon logic.
Example: You need to give your female colleague a cinnamon coffee, before she'll give you a warrant for a murder case. (And you can't immediately call for her firing.) So you find a coffee machine in a unique painting and trinket selling shop, where the owner won't allow you to use it until you can find her something worthy of selling to her clients. So what do you do? Well, find an old love letter related to your murder case and spill some worse coffee onto it. Then seek help from a stranger in the apartment next door, that'll let you use their hairdryer to blow your soggy/ruined piece of evidence. And that...somehow...translates to being something that the art owner can sell...(Glad I looked that up, instead of wasting too much time on solving that.)
And I'm going to hold off on buying more games on Steam. (Tempting as it may be.) So I can focus on all the stuff that I got for Christmas. Last Epoch, you're next in line. Sekiro, you have to wait for the holidays to be over. I want to be happy for those...
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29 days ago
Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
I'm finally writing again. Huzzah. (But I am still playing a few games, and I do know what games I'm planning to play next. So I'll share that.)
Just finished Destiny 2's "The Final Shape" campaign. (For the most part anyway.) And it isn't going to change anyone's mind about how they feel about the game. The world's atmosphere looked pretty in places & the story is endless rambling between characters that I can't imagine many care about. I've always hated the platforming sections in this game. (This campaign is no different.) And adding yet another gimmick where more enemies are immune to all damage, is the only unwanted addition brought to us in the newest campaign. (The gunplay remains its strongest element. But I also think games like Titanfall 2 have it beat.)
Also, I've only just started "The Last Epoch". So my first impressions are all I can give. But the impossibly slow start up time for the game (that may have been partly due to my parent's lousy internet) made it hard to start and continue playing. And while I can already tell that the game will have a good variety of builds to play around with. (I'm the kind of person that likes to play a game to end credits and quickly moves on to something else.) So in terms of an immediate "I have to keep playing this" addiction, Grim Dawn clearly has this beat. (In part due to how the subpar voice acting/plot beginnings don't do this game any favors.) But most importantly, the start of the game is pretty easy. (Borderline challengeless.) So I haven't felt engaged in the combat yet...
Marvel Rivals is a little more interesting than Overwatch. (As someone with minimal fanfare for Marvel-related products.) But I don’t know how the balancing and everything else will hold the general audience’s interests. (I enjoyed Pokemon Unite when it first came out & that ruined itself pretty quickly.)
Fortnite’s season is more enjoyable to play than others. (Compared to recent seasons.) But it’s still plagued with poor balancing and the monetization has only gotten more egregious (it has four fucking separate battle passes) and they’re all slow to progress.
I plan to start the Rise Of The Golden Idol next. (Hoping it’s on par with its predecessor.) And then I’m finally giving Sekiro a shot. If I endured Lords Of The Fallen all the way through. Surely I’ll do the same for the game everyone claims is FromSoft’s best.
Just finished Destiny 2's "The Final Shape" campaign. (For the most part anyway.) And it isn't going to change anyone's mind about how they feel about the game. The world's atmosphere looked pretty in places & the story is endless rambling between characters that I can't imagine many care about. I've always hated the platforming sections in this game. (This campaign is no different.) And adding yet another gimmick where more enemies are immune to all damage, is the only unwanted addition brought to us in the newest campaign. (The gunplay remains its strongest element. But I also think games like Titanfall 2 have it beat.)
Also, I've only just started "The Last Epoch". So my first impressions are all I can give. But the impossibly slow start up time for the game (that may have been partly due to my parent's lousy internet) made it hard to start and continue playing. And while I can already tell that the game will have a good variety of builds to play around with. (I'm the kind of person that likes to play a game to end credits and quickly moves on to something else.) So in terms of an immediate "I have to keep playing this" addiction, Grim Dawn clearly has this beat. (In part due to how the subpar voice acting/plot beginnings don't do this game any favors.) But most importantly, the start of the game is pretty easy. (Borderline challengeless.) So I haven't felt engaged in the combat yet...
Marvel Rivals is a little more interesting than Overwatch. (As someone with minimal fanfare for Marvel-related products.) But I don’t know how the balancing and everything else will hold the general audience’s interests. (I enjoyed Pokemon Unite when it first came out & that ruined itself pretty quickly.)
Fortnite’s season is more enjoyable to play than others. (Compared to recent seasons.) But it’s still plagued with poor balancing and the monetization has only gotten more egregious (it has four fucking separate battle passes) and they’re all slow to progress.
I plan to start the Rise Of The Golden Idol next. (Hoping it’s on par with its predecessor.) And then I’m finally giving Sekiro a shot. If I endured Lords Of The Fallen all the way through. Surely I’ll do the same for the game everyone claims is FromSoft’s best.
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Well, after the longest writing hiatus/break I think I've ever had.
I'm finally looking for an RP or two to get myself back into the swing of things. So bumped.
I'm finally looking for an RP or two to get myself back into the swing of things. So bumped.
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2 mos ago
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Steam’s Autumn Sale just started. So go check your wishlists. And here's a few things that I've played, while enduring my parent's poorly trained & incredibly exhausting doggo.
VRChat runs like shit. (But this isn’t really a game.)
Perennial Order is left unfinished. Because despite liking its atmosphere, the dark souls-like characters and the challenge (in places). Some of the bosses were more obnoxious than entertaining. This one relying on multiple shitty gimmicks at once; fighting in an arena full of fog and requiring you to rely on sound cues to dodge attacks with terrible hitboxes. And I didn’t feel like I was learning anything with each attempt. (This game 100% needs health bars.) So maybe I’ll come back…but the challenge still needs to be learnable. And how do I learn to avoid attacks, if I can’t fucking see anything?
Drova:The Forsaken Kin is a competent ARPG. (Decent, simple combat. Decent rewarding exploration. One or two dark moments in the earlier parts that promise a darker RPG that doesn’t exist in reality.) With the most boring characters, quests, story and plot progression in anything I’ve spent over 30+ hours trying to like more. The pacing of this game is glacial and it does not respect your time. It does not surprise me that this was funded by the government. (And likely designed by committee too.)
Pseudoregalia is just a bit frustrating and dull. Not going to lie. (I enjoyed Cavern Of Dreams far more.) Hiding all the ability powerups in random far off places was not a good idea. When the game doesn’t start to have a good gameplay feel until you’ve unlocked nearly all the abilities. And it has a nasty habit of letting you get quite far into a platforming puzzle, with the very last part being impossible to progress until you’ve found another ability. The combat is pointless and doesn’t feel good. Making all the MP and health upgrades feel all the more hollow as rewards for exploration. Yet I will still likely finish it. (Thanks, sunk cost fallacy.) But this one doesn’t deserve the high praise.
Nairi: Tower Of Shirin is an enjoyable little puzzle game, thus far. Has lots of charm in its characters and the puzzles are decent (if a bit easy). I do wish the navigation through the map was a little less tedious. (Since there’s a lot of going back and forth between characters to do puzzles.) But it makes me interested in the sequel that just came out, with the caveat that it apparently *also* ends on a cliffhanger. So I assume this first part will not have a completed story either.
VRChat runs like shit. (But this isn’t really a game.)
Perennial Order is left unfinished. Because despite liking its atmosphere, the dark souls-like characters and the challenge (in places). Some of the bosses were more obnoxious than entertaining. This one relying on multiple shitty gimmicks at once; fighting in an arena full of fog and requiring you to rely on sound cues to dodge attacks with terrible hitboxes. And I didn’t feel like I was learning anything with each attempt. (This game 100% needs health bars.) So maybe I’ll come back…but the challenge still needs to be learnable. And how do I learn to avoid attacks, if I can’t fucking see anything?
Drova:The Forsaken Kin is a competent ARPG. (Decent, simple combat. Decent rewarding exploration. One or two dark moments in the earlier parts that promise a darker RPG that doesn’t exist in reality.) With the most boring characters, quests, story and plot progression in anything I’ve spent over 30+ hours trying to like more. The pacing of this game is glacial and it does not respect your time. It does not surprise me that this was funded by the government. (And likely designed by committee too.)
Pseudoregalia is just a bit frustrating and dull. Not going to lie. (I enjoyed Cavern Of Dreams far more.) Hiding all the ability powerups in random far off places was not a good idea. When the game doesn’t start to have a good gameplay feel until you’ve unlocked nearly all the abilities. And it has a nasty habit of letting you get quite far into a platforming puzzle, with the very last part being impossible to progress until you’ve found another ability. The combat is pointless and doesn’t feel good. Making all the MP and health upgrades feel all the more hollow as rewards for exploration. Yet I will still likely finish it. (Thanks, sunk cost fallacy.) But this one doesn’t deserve the high praise.
Nairi: Tower Of Shirin is an enjoyable little puzzle game, thus far. Has lots of charm in its characters and the puzzles are decent (if a bit easy). I do wish the navigation through the map was a little less tedious. (Since there’s a lot of going back and forth between characters to do puzzles.) But it makes me interested in the sequel that just came out, with the caveat that it apparently *also* ends on a cliffhanger. So I assume this first part will not have a completed story either.
The Penguin (7 Episodes): This show is pretty entertaining. Penguin and his mother are both pretty good actors. (The sidekick character not so much.) But the plot is incredibly convenience based, and there’s a lot of plot armor/stupid tropes in it. I hope it ends satisfyingly & doesn’t try to rely on a second season. Because rarely does a good season of a modern show get a good follow up.
The Wild Robot: It’s a nice looking movie, and I enjoyed the g-rated morbid humor where every joke is how animals keep killing each other. But the time-skip plot isn’t paced very well, and I find a lot of the forced sentimental moments to be a little saccharine for my tastes.
You Are Umasou: Amusing and well-animated. The 3rd act is rushed, and the subtitle translation might not be perfect either. (One Stormy Night might be a better version of this film.)
Talk To Me: A very good lead performance, and that’s about all I can say. Almost no one dies, and all the characters are unlikeable/stupid.
You Might Be The Killer: You know the pothead character in Cabin In The Woods? Well, this was an entire movie of that kind of humor. And despite how I made that sound, it’s actually entertaining.
Wake Up: A worthless film, where all the characters are unlikeable and die in very unsatisfying ways. Surprisingly apolitical for a movie about (fake) social activists boycotting (what is essentially) an IKEA.
Caddo Lake: M.Night’s take on Dark (that show on Netflix). I called the twist before it was revealed & I found the second half of the movie (where most of the plot happens) a little too dull to engage with. It’s acted okay, for what little that’s worth.
Hoping Re:Zero's 3rd season continues to maintain its level of entertainment. Though the fact that a major character reveal moment was done in a side project, shows that the complicated narrative of this arc might be a little hard to adapt properly.
The Wild Robot: It’s a nice looking movie, and I enjoyed the g-rated morbid humor where every joke is how animals keep killing each other. But the time-skip plot isn’t paced very well, and I find a lot of the forced sentimental moments to be a little saccharine for my tastes.
You Are Umasou: Amusing and well-animated. The 3rd act is rushed, and the subtitle translation might not be perfect either. (One Stormy Night might be a better version of this film.)
Talk To Me: A very good lead performance, and that’s about all I can say. Almost no one dies, and all the characters are unlikeable/stupid.
You Might Be The Killer: You know the pothead character in Cabin In The Woods? Well, this was an entire movie of that kind of humor. And despite how I made that sound, it’s actually entertaining.
Wake Up: A worthless film, where all the characters are unlikeable and die in very unsatisfying ways. Surprisingly apolitical for a movie about (fake) social activists boycotting (what is essentially) an IKEA.
Caddo Lake: M.Night’s take on Dark (that show on Netflix). I called the twist before it was revealed & I found the second half of the movie (where most of the plot happens) a little too dull to engage with. It’s acted okay, for what little that’s worth.
Hoping Re:Zero's 3rd season continues to maintain its level of entertainment. Though the fact that a major character reveal moment was done in a side project, shows that the complicated narrative of this arc might be a little hard to adapt properly.
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