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  1. Szlia

    Apex Legends new free to play battle royale game from Respawn

    Checked a little bit of this: Grey characters shooting at grey characters in a brown level. I can't muster even the tiniest bit of interest for this.
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    Retro Game Of The Month ~- CONTRA -~ NES - Feb

    "You can consider yourself a hero." Most passive-aggressive congratulation text ever....
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    91st Academy Awards - Hoping to be the most woke Academy Awards ever!

    To go back to the Academy Awards for 2005, I would say one thing they had going for them is that the best song was "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp"! Seriously though, the field was not so hot with Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night & Good Luck and Munich (4 solid but not exactly stellar...
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    91st Academy Awards - Hoping to be the most woke Academy Awards ever!

    In your analysis, you all seem to forget that Black Panther is also 2018's highest grossing film in the US. Infinity War is not that far behind, but it's behind.
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    Retro Game Of The Month ~- CONTRA -~ NES - Feb

    By the way, the pal version of the game uses robots instead of people and the japanese version of the game was on a custom cartridge that allowed more room for animated backgrounds and cut scenes between levels. I *think* the fact it used a custom cartridge makes it unplayable in some (all?)...
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    Retro Game Of The Month ~- CONTRA -~ NES - Feb

    You should not. It aged surprisingly well and is very enjoyable. I said it in the other thread, but I'll say it again: I recommend playing with the 30 lives code through the game several times and before you know it you will no longer need the code!
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    91st Academy Awards - Hoping to be the most woke Academy Awards ever!

    Oh and some notes about the Best Foreign Language Film category: Capernaum: released around here, Not seen. Cold War: released around here. Not seen. Looked a bit formulaic to me and I was not in the mood for this type of story (woman in love with crappy man). Supposedly very good though...
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    91st Academy Awards - Hoping to be the most woke Academy Awards ever!

    Released in 2017 in the UK but in 2018 in the US and across Europe, my top film of the year is probably The Death of Stalin. Other strong contenders were, in no order: One Cut of the Dead: japanese zombie tour de force. The Battleship Island (Director's Cut): over the top korean historical...
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    Dune (2020)

    This tantrum is even funnier when you google image search Zendaya.
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    Axiom Verge

    I have not played Axiom Verge so I can't give you my opinion on the matter, but my understanding is that people who played both tend to prefer Environmental Station Alpha. Sadly, many players see ESA and don't want to play it because of its low resolution visuals. I would argue though that...
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    Axiom Verge

    Obligatory plug to a metroidvania I tested during development and that got released at about the same time than Axiom Verge: Environmental Station Alpha. Here is an interesting comparison video. Maybe don't watch it all because it goes deep into spoiler territory by the end.
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    Poll VOTE - February RETRO GAME OF THE MONTH

    I played it recently. I recommend using the 30 lives code and then playing through the game several time. Before you know it you will not need the code and with a little focus you can 1CC the game like I did /flex.
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    Poll VOTE - February RETRO GAME OF THE MONTH

    Whoever nominated Urban Champion did not vote for it though.
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    I think I already made that comment in another thread, but in this films the characters travel to the future while in the first film they traveled to the past. The first film worked because going back in time allows for a lot of nostalgia, references, bitter sweet comedy, jokes based on the...
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    91st Academy Awards - Hoping to be the most woke Academy Awards ever!

    The first problem is that you think these films are "artsy fartsy." Roma might be the only one that could sorta apply (my understanding being that the Yorgos Lanthimos is good but significantly more accessible that some of his previous works). That being said, the Academy Awards did not shy away...
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    SpyParty (beta) - Practice your skills of perception and deception

    Hasn't this game been in beta for the better part of a decade? If not, it sure feels like it...
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    Poll VOTE - February RETRO GAME OF THE MONTH

    Well... I voted for the two games I own and have not beaten. I'll find a way to play Eye of the Beholder if it ends up winning though.
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    Polar (2019)

    You must not be an accountant...
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    1st 2019 Retro Game Of The Month! - Donkey Kong Country

    I played a little bit of DKC2 and it felt better. It's unclear if I got used to the style, if the camera is better or if the level design accommodates for the field of view better (maybe a little bit of all 3?). At first I thought Diddy's sprite might be a tad smaller, so I pixel counted its...
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    Feb Retro Game of the Month - Nominations!

    The problem would be to make a game list though. Shadow Man and GTA: San Andreas are the only two oldish games that come to mind with a black main character. You can add some brawlers and fighting games that have multiple characters and also many sport games (mostly basketball), but that's about...
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    Glass (2019)

    On a side note The 6th Sense is not Shyamalan's first movie, it's his 3rd. He first did Praying With Anger (in which he also plays the lead) and then Wide Awake (a comedy). Never seen those though, and I doubt many people did. By the way, there is something that I suspect is pretty rare in...
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    Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 - 2019

    Apparently the guy who puts the runs on youTube is sick so it should take a few.
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    If u could b any animal what would you be?

    Opposable thumbs > flying
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    Cowboy Bebop

    I will take the argument from the other side. Good old Jean-Luc Godard used to say that you cannot make a great movie from a great book, so you better pick a mediocre book. The idea behind this is that for a book to be great, it must use the specificities of its medium, so if you try to port it...
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    Curb your Enthusiasm

    I am in a TV show mood these last few weeks, so I am catching up on things and watched season 9. Still a lot of good comedy and observations in there with these marvelous "larrydavidisms" like outfit tracker, accidental text on purpose, fatwa sex, etc... I feel the writing is a little sub par in...
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    Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 - 2019

    Most games have multiple categories. Credit warps are usually their own category. Games where it's possible to heavily abuse the geometry or coding to the point the run, while technical, has not much to do with the actual game, tend to also have No Major Glitches categories or No Out of Bound...
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    Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 - 2019

    As I write this post, PJ's run of Actraiser 2 is about to begin. A must watch for sure. Note he will play on hard, not on the totally insane glitched difficulty level that he has been routing and running the last few months (aka difficulty 202, a mode of just about everything instakills the player).
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    1st 2019 Retro Game Of The Month! - Donkey Kong Country

    Yeah.... no. Dark Souls is not a shorthand to say "hard game where you die a lot" and even if it was it would not fit DKC, because that game is not hard, it's just poorly designed. When you die in Dark Souls, 90% of the time it's 100% your own damn fault (even Ron can see that). There lies some...
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    Retro Gaming Thread

    Played some Hatris on PC-Engine (aka TurboGrafx-16) the other day. This is a game that is rather famous for two things 1) Being made by the creator of Tetris 2) Being pretty bad. It is part of the big family of "stuff falls from the top of the screen and you need to stack it properly for it to...
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    1st 2019 Retro Game Of The Month! - Donkey Kong Country

    Garbage game beaten with a lame 47% but I am not going to try and find the missing percents which I assume are secret exits to levels that link to extra levels and things like that? This game is pretty extraordinary in that there is not one single good level in it and not an ounce of enjoyement...
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    How much real money have MMOs made you?

    Back in the days in EQ we would do Beer Raids. Mostly Avatar of War raids with some "guests". The proceeds were turned into $$ to buy booze for the yearly get together. I was not privy to the bankers' business, but my understanding is that it bought a lot of booze + the rent for a big cabin for...
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    VR Gaming - Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, HTC Vive

    Apparently there is no thread dedicated to Tetris Effect (PS4 & PSVR), so I guess I'll ask my question here as google fails me: does this game has an infinite spin mechanism or not? Like, on Tetris DS, everytime you spin a piece, it resets the timer for it to get locked, so you can spin a piece...
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    A Ghost Story (2017)

    I must say it left me a bit frustrated. It does not lack elegance and it manages the impressive feat of making a very very silly idea work, but the resolution is weak and many times during the film there are hints at interesting themes it could explore, but does not. In the end it feels like...