SleepingSilence

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

Dude add me, I literally have nothing better to do than try to grind. Btw you can just do Relic grinding for free plat. Literally I made 25p by selling relics for 1p a piece and people flooded me with messages.

Do you play on PC or Switch?

@Dark Cloud

Switch at the moment. (So if you're on the Switch, sure. PM your friend code or something. (Apparently at some point it will be cross platform. But I don't think it is yet.)

But I just spent over two fucking hours trying to catch fish on Deimos. (Since its the only free roam place that seems to ever actually spawn fish.) And my Switch just froze/crashed on me. So bye bye to all of my progress. The 2nd day in a row I've lost hours of resources to free room. Fuck my life.

I just want the damn fish oil to make this damned archwing thing for fuck sake.

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Gravity Falls maybe? But I say that having not seen Gravity Falls.

@Fabricant451

I have. And I'd say it's 100% the most entertaining of the Modern Era. So give it a try. But no. (And Mable is basically a terrible, terrible character in terms of how she's written.) But that's neither here, nor there.

And the "story" doesn't even really kick in until its later seasons either. <- But that statement applies to almost every kids show I've seen. Hence why I wouldn't use "tone" as critique as to why I thought The Owl House was so mediocre. I'd use it's dialogue, character writing and episode plots to do that.

But yeah, 'comedy put there for kids to enjoy', is basically included in every kids/family/PG film, series, anime to ever exist.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

I'm playing Warframe again. For some reason. (It's because my friends are into it too.) I guess it's better than its more popular counterpart Destiny 2. But it's my only defense for the game that I can muster.

Because f*ck me the in-game currency is overly expensive and needed for everything.

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I didn't find myself compelled to watch beyond that despite everyone telling me that it gets 'even better'. That may be but I have the same response to that as I do when someone tells me "Yeah no, this game gets good after 20 hours."

My problem was its writing, largely. It was full of tonal shifts and obvious gags for the young crowd.

@Fabricant451

Off topic from your own opinion, but I was watching someone called "Southpaw" streaming Avatar. Where he (and those watching with him) were criticizing an episode about how the children cast of the show didn't understand the moral complexities of a weapon's merchant selling his wears to 'the bad guys'. (Like children were supposed to understand nuances in the first place.)

But when I see that kind of critique, in aims to knock something down a peg. My biggest question is "Well, what would you use to compare it with, that does it better?"

So back to your points. Can you think of a kids show where 'obvious gags for the young crowd' doesn't apply? Or can you think of a season one of a kids show that does its worldbuilding/lore better than Avatar? Please don't say Steven Universe or Adventure Time, I beg you.

Because I could even agree that the few least good episodes of Avatar are probably in Season One. (Plus, I also hate the 'it gets better later' defense.) So fair enough. But, I think Avatar shows "potential" pretty quickly.

Faster than any kids cartoon I've seen on Netflix, at the very least.

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Arcane was the best show to come out in a while. If you can get past all the clichés that piled on at once in the beginning. (And ignore how that scene of Vi/Powder's separation, that creates the whole future plot, is incredibly contrived at the very least.)

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@Fabricant451

Well, I could at least see that argument being used in fiction and animation. Say "Big Mouth", because at least it's not real...

But it would be like a snuff film that has rolling text of 'violence is bad' on it. And the person who gave it awards was subsequently convicted of being a serial killer. And the snuff film had thousands of 'tryout victims' going through the scenes dozens of times. Ya know. To find the best bare pieces of meat.

I digress. I don't want to think about this movie anymore. ^-^'

Anyway, I keep being told that Avatar the Last Airbender is good but I'm starting to think I was lied to.

@Fabricant451

I had the same thought about the Dragon Prince show on Netflix.

For some reason, I remember you talking about the Legend of Korra. Did you happen to watch that show first? Or am I confusing you with somebody else?

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the movie that wasn't even bad or anything

@Fabricant451

I'd rather imagine that you straight up didn't watch it, if you think that movie didn't have any replusive content.

Or you're that one reviewer on youtube that went 'it's supposed to make you think, look at the cute blonde one'.

But in perfect fairness, there's plenty of other terrible decisions/programming Netflix has made over the years. Just happened to be the final nail that made sailing the high seas seem all the more appealing.

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I love Matt Mercer, hate how people try to make D&D sessions exactly like Critical Role. Blech X(

@Dark Cloud

Copies of original works, are usually missing several parts that make it good in the first place. So I concur.

What are your thoughts on Inside Job?

@Dark Cloud

Trailer did not appeal to me. (Will never support Netflix, after Cuties.) But I know some people say that's one of the good ones.

But you gave me something good to watch. So I dunno. What are your thoughts? :P

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The most recent cartoon I guess you can consider it a cartoon i've been watching The Legend of Vox Machina, which is really good and hilarious so far, but very gory at times as well to.

@Nallore

Im so srry.

I implore you to give the actual "Critical Role" D&D streams the show is based off of a shot. If you have a billion hours to spare, that is.

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So, for some reason, I read more books than I watched western cartoons as a kid. (So because I basically watched anime exclusively as a teenager.) I've tried to watch more recommended cartoons as an adult. (Because I usually don't find bad things entertaining. Thus, I avoid the ones that get universally panned.)

Anyway, here's some more recent shows that I've watched.

Modern/Cal Art Era
First Seasons of...
Owl House - 4.5/10 That was a show alright?

Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart - 7/10 Fun enough. Episodes are very hit or miss. (Still prefer cartoons with an actual story/arc in them though.)

Older shows
Gargoyles - 8.5/10 First season is genuinely entertaining. (Like most cartoons, the gun control episode is always the worst one.) The second season is a massive filler arc and grows tiring to watch very fast.

Batman Beyond - ?/10 Yeah, this one feels very much "of its time". And something I might've liked more as a teenager. But aside from its art style in places, there's very little I enjoyed about the episodes I watched. It was simply okay/average feeling.

Adult Cartoons
Smiling Friends - 8/10 Very predictable humor a lot of the time. But pretty entertaining and well-animated in parts overall, actually. (Being shorter helps.)

Legends Of Vox Machina - 2/10 It's first two episodes are almost insufferable to watch. (Granted my tolerance for lowbrow "cussing/gross out" shit humor is fittingly quite low.)

Plans to watch in future maybe?
Infinity Train - I've been looking for actual story-driven cartoons. (And the only modern "best era eva" show that I've liked so far is most of Gravity Falls.) And this cartoon has the fewest "this show I praised endlessly and wasted hundreds of episodes on, now sucks a lot y god y" videos. So I'm hoping it managed to stick the landing?

Over The Garden Wall - Haven't heard a single negative thing said about it, really. (Plus it's a mini-series. So it's not that much time investment.)

Post a random fact about yourself.

@Dark Cloud Haven't seen that.

The second half of the season is pretty good.