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You must be a sophist. I chose a metric where we can discuss without injecting our own subjective opinion. We can objectively say that both actresses are acclaimed by the public, the critics and their peers. We can objectively quantify these thousands of subjectivities looking at the number of...

On what objective criteria would you base that ? PS: Jennifer Lawrence has 119 awards and 183 nominations out of 34 credits.

How does your science work ? Because the objective criteria is awards wins and nominations. Going by imdb, Larson has 64 wins and 63 nominations (with the most prestigious being an Academy Award in a leading role), Blunt has 22 wins and 96 nominations (with the most prestigious being a Golden...

What would be the title of that movie ? Tenet ?

What would be the point of remaking Primer ? It's not like it failed to achieve what it tried to do because of its budget. On the contrary, the film is great and original because it is designed to make the most of its non existent budget. A bit like The Blair Witch Project.

Personally I would not read too much into it. If it was more systematic or if there was a strong case to be made for each character having its color and possibly a symbolic attached to it, I might go for it, but here I think it's simply an aesthetic choice with the set designer, costume designer...

That was my pick for best film of 2019. A tour de force : the story is extremely predictable, yet it is surprising and mesmerizing the whole way through.

I was looking for another monitor and made some research and what I gathered is that HDR 400 is by and large no different than no HDR at all. The screens that have both 4k and a HDR that actually makes a difference are pretty damn expensive for what I have seen. In the end, I went for the "wait...

I have not played it, but it should be noted that some Souls fans consider Nioh to be trash tier, with Nioh 2 being better but not great. As I understand it, the problem with Nioh is that the difficulty is extremely cheap while in Souls game the difficulty is pretty fair.

I hope they patch that luck thing or you know trolls will use it and then invade people all day long.

Hey I saw that live ! He did not stream snipe. There was a tie breaker and 2 people from his team grouped up with two people of Lupo's team for one game. His teammate told him when to queue up to have a chance to be in the same game and help his team mates. It's of course shady as hell, but it's...

This reminds me of this sophism : All that's rare is expensive. A cheap horse is rare. A cheap horse is therefore expensive.

Morality aside, $67 is not much of a gamble.

Like board game it requires some planning and it's easier if you already have a circle of friend who might be interested in playing. Active MMO players should not have much of a problem filling a lobby. The same is true with PnP RPG / board game players provided you are part of club or have a...

A friend of mine is probably one of the leading expert in the world when it comes to movie posters. Among the things I gathered from our discussions that might not be obvious are the followings : Many poster formats are multi sheets. Most posters are folded, so a vintage movie poster that spent...

Whenever I see one of the NASA stream I am shocked at how abysmal the production is. I don't mean in term of budget, but in the inability to convey information. For the two main questions any person will ask when landing on the stream - What am I seeing ? Where are we in the mission ? - the...

The game does not have its own voice chat function (it has a written chat function, but that's a pretty crippled way to play the game). People use steam or discord for the voice chat and then people just have to know each other enough for things to be clear OR you keep a eye on the chat window...

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Knight, Temple Knight, Soldier and Royalty are supposed to be the most "beginner friendly" classes, but as soon as you find some gear and gain some levels, the starting class does not matter that much.

They run TV style ads though, so there is no click through to measure. I suspect it part of the business model : it's easier to pretend something has value when you cannot actually measure its impact (like you can with ads that can be clicked). To sell those ads at the best possible price though...

I don't get what Twitch is supposed to do though. They are forced to act on the DMCA complains or they can get sued/fined into oblivion and working some kind of deal with the different music industry majors where they pay a set sum or percentage feels like being the victim of a racket. In a...

I play these games in the dumbest way, so I sink hundreds of hours in them. As a result, I have to space them quite a bit to not get Yakuza fatigue and now I find myself with 0, Ishin, Judgment AND Like a Dragon to play. A lot of fun to look forward to, but also... I'll never be done before the...

Really ? Well... it has been 10 years since I last played it after all.

The character creator in Demon's Souls is in essence a cruel joke since you spend most of your time looking like a piece of beef jerky.

The random ads show up when no ads have been played in a while, so it is indeed possible that a contract like Hafu's goes both ways : Hafu has to play a set number of ads over some set duration, but Twitch is never rolling random ads on her stream. At least such contract would make sense. If...

My main problem with the new painting at this point is the strange face Thor is doing in the source material. If I was the one commissioning the painting I would have said : "this, but without the dumb face."

Diving into the bottomless pit that is my Steam backlog (I am sure many can sympathize) I played through Betrayer. It was originally released in 2014, but a mix between my crappy PC and probably crappy coding made it nigh unplayable back then. Fast forward to today and it's smooth as butter with...

China Bat Soup : the man, the legend, the cautionary tale.

You must have confused Switzerland with a country that is part of Europe :D And don't be mean, or we will stop doing your diplomatic work in Iran ! I did just eat 100g of chocolate though.

Audiophiles and videophiles really are people extremely dedicated to never enjoying anything.

I think the logic for streamers is that while it is clear and always has been clear than even modest streamers (like around 100 viewers) can make significant money by running ads, it also make viewers change stream and, as such, it is seen as something that stifles growth. And the streamer...

I have no problem with advertisement as a concept, but I am not a fan of their implementation in Twitch. At the very core, I think there is a problem in trying to use early XXth century advertisement techniques in a XXIst century medium : it's a lazy and bad fit.

I tend to severely abuse my controllers. A bad habit formed at a time when controllers could withstand such abuse with ease. Now that these things have more technology crammed into them than a space station, I probably should invest in a punching bag or something...

Yeah I saw that a year or two ago in a retrospective of kiwi films. Nothing ground breaking, but well done and very entertaining movie (except for one or two secondary characters if I remember correctly). Another somewhat recent film from New Zealand that I really enjoyed was Housebound. To...

It's going in the right direction at least. It's still unclear if it will reach destination though, but keep posting updates if the painter keep sending you some !

They did not do a tear down of the controller, so maybe it comes with its own over designed foldable stand ? :D

I am not even sure video game developers have much of a legal ground to prevent people from streaming their games, because the streamer playing is akin to a performance that adds to the game, so fair use can apply. Now, if a streamer plays the game and just says it's a garbage game that no one...

I tried to check which one of these I played and I was shocked to see Valhalla will be the 12th main installment ! And I only played the first three : 1, 2 and Brotherhood. I remember the Animus part in Brotherhood were neat, at least from a story perspective, with the main character escaping...

GTA 4 (and I include the DLCs) is a masterpiece. My only gripe with it is that the satire is borderline nihilistic : just about everybody everywhere is a terrible human being. It's a bit too much for my taste as it weakens the human drama, yet it still manages to be one of the strongest video...