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Damn for a second I thought we were getting a remaster finally. I like the game a lot but it looks so dated on PS3 that I couldn't get into it the way I wanted to. Kind of stunning that they're charging $50 for a port. Lot of people gonna be real disappointed when they turn it on and see 2008...

Yeah that speech is the best thing in the movie. Too bad his kid didn't hear it in real life. But wait, you sure it was a suicide? https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/sage-stallones-mom-begged-surgery-weeks-death/story?id=16797074 Looks like he might have just OD'd

Yep. I wish we could recapture that but it isn't gonna happen. Pantheon's launch rush should be fun though. Only way to recapture that "magic" is to find new things that are, well, new and wow us. Which is rarer as we get more jaded and so on. Elden Ring kinda accomplished that for a lot of...

Yeah I always liked Rocky 5 as a kid. As an adult I recognize that it's a big step down from the others, but it's not like it's bad. What's really crazy is how well these movies have held up. They aren't campy or dated at ALL and they could be, very easily, if they were made by less-capable...

I don't think there is any cabal or widespread conspiracy to protect botters. CS does seem to look the other way more with some botting situations, because they don't want the headache, or because those people are bringing in a lot of revenue, who knows. Did they get away with it? Damn...

Tried out Arcanum, game is really cool. Surprised at the steampunk? aesthetic and the setting. No idea WTF to do so I roamed around the crash site for a while beating up wolves. Game reminded me of how much I love airships/zeppelins. Both this and TOEE have super-good music, I've noticed. Game...

So...is this game good? How similar is it to BG1 and 2? Or is it more like a modern game (3D etc)? I'm seven pages behind on the thread and don't want to spoil anything until I get to it, which'll be a bit. I see something about fucking a bear?

Just a quick tangent. The other day I explained to someone (who is afraid to try a Souls game, or something) why Elden Ring doesn't need a difficulty slider / easy mode and would actually be diminished by one. A) It has a built-in slider of sorts with all of the tools available to the player...

Been re-watching the Rocky series and it's worth pointing out that this really is one of the greatest movie series ever made, all nine of them. Yeah, 5 is kind of weak and 6 is kind of depressing, but all in all these movies are so much better than they had any right to be. The first and sixth...

Wouldn't surprise me if literally all human racial differences (and things like the Mike Brown thread) were simply because humans on some continents have had more time to evolve than others, or had more demanding environments that necessitated faster evolution. For example, people in Norway or...

Something else I hardly ever see anyone bring up is that during an ice age, a lot of new land bridges can form. Sea levels might drop and expose more area, smaller water bodies could freeze and become traversable, and so on. It's possible that ancient (like really ancient) peoples were able to...

Out past Gibraltar... like... Mauritania? Follow the coast out and you reach Morocco and then Mauritania. From their vantage point, Richat itself is "past Gibraltar" Not even sure what point you're making at this point but it's too tiresome to care. What? I'm not saying it's had the same name...

Finally finished Ghost of Tsushima. I think I beat the game a lot faster than I was supposed to because the second and third acts were both pretty short (while the first took me like 23 hours). Stopped doing side-content and focused on running the story and then it was just over. Good game...

I remember the first time I ever visited Boston, I found that as you drive down Massachusetts Avenue you go through what might as well be two different countries. First you have Harvard, MIT, super-nice areas, upscale restaurants and shopping, Berklee school of music, Christian Science Center...

LOL dude I want this war over with ASAP, unlike most people I don't care who "wins" or which side is "correct". Last thing I want is Poland doing things that'll escalate it. You sure are good at being incredulous at things that I offhandedly say are "possible" like I'm staking my reputation on...

Oakwynd has OoW and DoN combined right? That was a really good call if so. Any other expansions get rolled up? IMO they also need to do: PoP+LDoN DoDH+PoR TSS+TBS Basically anything with zero AAs needs to be rolled into something that does have them. Halving the time spent at level 70 is also...

While that's true, I myself played Demon's Souls after all the other From games (BB, Souls 2, Souls 1, then the Demons), and DeS Remake was the next one I played after that. So I don't have any nostalgia goggles for the PS3 version and actually played it at a time when it was pretty antiquated...

The New York Times? Weren't they the ones who broke the story that Saddam had purchased large quantities of uranium and was currently working on building nukes? They're literally Globohomo McNews. Either way, there are a lot of complexities to the crop circle phenomenon that I haven't seen...

If Politico thinks the Suwalki Gap is "the most dangerous place on Earth" they clearly haven't been to Venezuela or South Africa or Somalia. Or Chicago

It does seem that way. People have been griping about all the remakes for like 15 years now but it really does feel like we're running on fumes of things people remember liking rather than people actually liking the new versions / takes. Just recently re-watched Rocky 1 through 4 and they...

Next they should remake Mulan with an African actress and call her "Disney's first African princess" while changing nothing about the story. If you're gonna do a "first" of something maybe have that princess actually have something to do with the culture that you're purporting to represent...

What I said originally: Poland's a big question mark in the current conflict because I'm not sure if they're going to A) Get directly involved in the conflict to make it an active NATO conflict due to being afraid they're next, or B) Jump in and slice off their own piece of western Ukraine...

Dope video. Not sure people realize how important videos like this are for things like recruitment and rep. Triality definitely got it back in the day.

DeS is one of those rare games where both the original and remake are worth playing, neither is "definitive" or obsoletes the other. I think the PS3 version does have better atmosphere and better music. I remember that game transporting me in a way few can. The remake on the other hand looks...

Nobody thinks they're in a cabal, people just think there could be a certain level of leniency shown to high-level botters due to the revenue they bring in.

I have a feeling almost any "megastructure" we might find in space is gonna be long-since abandoned, given the astronomically low odds that we'd find someone super-advanced existing at the same time as us. I'm of the mind that advanced civilizations come and go regularly, with all of the menaces...

They have no fucking idea how old the universe is.

A woman is a person, place, or thing that identifies with characteristics of being female and also wants to be called that icky word. These people want to re-write the dictionary SO BAD with new definitions for words like "woman" and "racism" but they can't (yet).

That article (like most of Yahoo News these days) is opinionated garbage. I gotta say, this decent, emotionally-charged rescue movie sure has gotten a lot of people angry for some reason. The lengths and the verbiage some writers are willing to go to in order to find anything negative at all to...

I like how they call the movie "fantastical" What's fantastical about it? Reads like someone who didn't actually watch the movie. It's a pretty mundane movie all things considered, nothing really outlandish, no action set-pieces, no grand conspiracies. Just a guy rescuing a couple of kidnapped...

We don't need a Gladiator 2, the first was an extremely self-contained story and the main character isn't around anymore. I feel like there's some deeper reason why Dredd never got a sequel. Maybe it's too masculine, or the authoritarianism is too problematic (since it's patriarchal). Or maybe...

This belongs in a different thread at this point, but I could see Poland trying to seize part of western Ukraine if the opportunity presented itself, like if Ukraine's government and military collapsed or were about to collapse and most of it is about to fall to Russia, Poland may try to create...

Hard pass, especially after the last few posts. Even a year ago I never would have thought that Guardians of the Galaxy 3 would be a hard pass for me. Not in a million years. Wow.