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  1. Szlia

    Mental Exercise: Games where the plot is primarily exposed via found recordings.

    I think an early example of scenario through logs (not sure if they were audio logs) was BioForge by Origin.
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    Twitch.tv

    Let me get this straight. Is the argument here : Twitch is for streaming video games, so women should not stream on Twitch, because it has been established that women are not gamers by the fact an all women League of Legend pro team in Russia got destroyed by other pro teams ? Because, if it is...
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    Twitch.tv

    Just checked the stream and had no pre-roll also she put in her title "only ad free stream on Twitch" or something of that nature. Neither are conclusive (I can be lucky and she can be capping), but yeah...
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    Twitch.tv

    The whole situation is unclear because people use "demonetize" for two different scenarios : 1) Ads are ran but the content creator does not get money for it. 2) Ads are not ran at all. I think that when a youTube video gets demonetized because of copyright infringement (like using some...
  5. Szlia

    Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021)

    Snake Eyes, the De Palma film from 1998, was pretty damn good, wasn't it ? I only saw bits and pieces of it on TV since then, so maybe if I saw it today I would find it dated, but I remember really enjoying it back then.
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    Playstation 5

    It makes sense, but is also very strange. One would think that in this day and age, any color can be achieved with equal ease using synthetic pigments, but I guess it's not the case at all as there are for some colors cheap natural pigments ? In any case it's a strange throwback to ancient times...
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    Best movie of the past 20 years?

    Mad Max : Fury Road and The Martian are two solid movies that I rated 3 out of four stars. Here is a raw list of titles I rated 4 out of 4 stars between 2005 and now and I also added into the list some films that were not in there but were in my Top 20 of the 2010s as well as some films seen in...
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    Playstation 5

    What's the deal with the silicon chips shortage issue btw ? It's just a question of demand growth that outpaced manufacturing growth with a dash of COVID on top or is there something else at work ?
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    Twitch.tv

    Just so we know what we are talking about : out of the 360ish streams in the just chatting category that have more than 100 viewers, there is at the moment of this post exactly 1 hot tub stream with 500ish viewers.
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    Returnal (PS5) (April 30th)

    The lack of save is indeed very odd. Maybe it has to do with the way the world is generated ? But still, it feels like a technical hurdle that should be possible to overcome.
  11. Szlia

    Poll Which crayon did you use for the sun?

    Is this poll supposed to settle some drunken debate ?
  12. Szlia

    JRPGs

    I have been playing through Dragon Quest XI (60ish hours in I think) and a part of it made me want to create a little youTube video. It probably does not make much sense if you never played the game and is a (minor?) spoiler if you have not.
  13. Szlia

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    While I don't own or every used any 8bitdo controllers, I think I should note that the praise for those is not universal. The Mexican Runner who spent last month getting all the possible endings and speedrunning records imaginable in Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection, spend a good chunk of his time...
  14. Szlia

    Twitch.tv

    Chessbea is an actual person that, as far as I understand, has been involved with chess for years before chess streaming has been a thing. Hansen, who met her in person, said that she basically financed Hambleton's GM title (getting the title implies full time dedication to chess plus a lot of...
  15. Szlia

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    I read that DMX got a heart attack a couple days ago and is now in a vegetative state. 50 years old :( Not a huge fan or anything, but it Immediatly made me think of this track, or more exactly to the music video of this track and its great ending.
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    Twitch.tv

    Is there some PK offline, Lineage-style though ?
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    Playstation 5

    Very different games I think. Subnautica is an exploration/resource gathering/crafting game and Abzu is a more linear experience about the beauty of the underwater world. I have not played Subnautica, but it's supposedly very good. Abzu feels a bit like Flower or Journey, but not as great (it's...
  18. Szlia

    2021 Academy Awards: why even bother

    I actually saw Trial of the Chicago 7 in theater just before they got closed again. Enjoyable movie, but nothing amazing. Sasha Baron Cohen is indeed very good in it. Some of my friends have seen Mank and Promising Young Woman and liked them, so I heard of them, but I have seen neither. Pretty...
  19. Szlia

    Loop Hero

    Why would you say this and not say what game it was ? Is that some guilty pleasure you want to keep secret or something ? :D
  20. Szlia

    Playstation 5

    To be fair, it's Sega that choses how to name their game on the store. The thoughts and efforts put into these store metadata are often surprisingly minimal considering how important they are. Spend 300k man hours to create a game, spend 15 minutes on its store presence...
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    My Switch gathered dust for a couple months or three and now that I want to play it again, my right joy-con refuses to connect via bluetooth (but still works perfectly when connected and does charge). I guess it's Nintendo's way of telling me I need to buy an actual controller for when I want to...
  22. Szlia

    The Metal Thread

    Was not sure in what thread to post it..... I guess here is the place where most people might enjoy this ? I have been playing games of a TurboGrafx-16 mini (well, actually on the EU version called CoreGrafx mini) and on it there is this shmup called Lords of Thunder (original jp title : Winds...
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    More potential solution :
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    According to Kotaku :
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    Cyberpunk 2077

    @Bubbles For games that have a physical release, there might be a pretty long time between the moment they stop working on what ends up on the disk and the moment consumers have said disk in their hands. Cyberpunk 2077 went gold on the 5th of October and got released on the 10th of December...
  26. Szlia

    Eternals (2021)

    From the director, Chloé Zhao, I have seen The Rider and I would highly recommend it (it's the raw portrait of an injured rodeo rider). Her other two movies, Songs My Brothers Taught Me and Nomadland are suposedly very good too. Obviously that's no indication as to what will happen when she...
  27. Szlia

    Your top 10 movies, plus honorable mentions

    The correct reference for this thread would be Spinal Tap's amp :D
  28. Szlia

    Playstation 5

    Don't people like the controller's color anyway ?
  29. Szlia

    Demon’s Souls Remake (PS5)

    To be fair, the Souls game are not hard. They are hard at first because there are not many games like them that require a modicum of caution and restrain. Once you understand that, they are not hard. A later step is mastering them and realizing you can actually run around and be aggressive. I...
  30. Szlia

    Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)

    I thought it might be an adaptation of The Tartar Steppe - Wikipedia , but it's based on a 1980 book of the same title by south african nobel prize winner J. M. Coetzee (who apparently was influenced by Buzzati's book).
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    The Big Short (2015)

    @Sanrith Descartes I concede that I read these scenes in the worst possible way and I know that is absolutely not the intent. The intent, which, if I remember correctly, is even explicitly given by a voice over, is to deliver a very dry explanation in a way that keeps the spectators engaged. I...
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    The Big Short (2015)

    Blaming the poor for not knowing their place is a pretty strange take. Anyway, I enjoyed that movie, but had mixed feeling about it. Checking my notes about it, I was unsure about the didactic sequences using the stars. In a way it's nice that these explanations are there (the Wolf of Wall...