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My hot take is. Matrix 1 : interesting mess (overrated). Matrix 2 : masterpiece that has at its core the key question of the evolution of cinema when digital effects become indistinguishable from filmed reality (highly underrated). Matrix 3 : uninteresting mess (rated properly).

My choice of word was probably not the best. I trust you that the film's story does not match closely to the one of the games, but, correct me if I am wrong, it is faithful to the type of story the game tells, in the sense that it attempts to chronicle a war, so you have many places, many...

Played A Monster's Expedition (Through Puzzling Exhibitions) on PC. It's an indie puzzle game made by Alan "Draknek" Hazelden & friends. Draknek (and friends, though I am not sure if it always the same ones) is known for several very well designed puzzle games released in the last few years...

Saying Aliens was a dumb shoot'em up while Alien was a masterpiece of horror was really not a hot take back in the '90s. That was basically the take of all teenage smug film buff wannabe. It was already totally wrong then, as Aliens is superior to Alien in just about every way. I think we had...

This is wrong on both counts. The film is a pretty big co-production that involved a number of american, chinese and japanese companies, but the project was initiated and helmed by Blizzard that basically wanted to pull a Marvel and keep total control of their property instead of selling the...

Are you blocking youTube video integration ?

Michael Lonsdale, an amazing british-french actor died at 89 a few days ago. His career in movies spanned six decades and more than 200 parts. He was mostly active in french cinema, but is well known internationally for his portrayal of Hugo Drax, the big bad of Moonraker. You are likely to also...

There are famous examples of digital games that became unavailable like P.T. or Scott Pilgrim vs The World. Has it ever been the case for games that were also available in physical format ?

I am looking forward to Bethesda's take on Kinect Sports and Viva Piñata.

Voted 19th best film released in 2010 by my circle of friends (I had it in 9th place). Benefitting from a lack of consensus, the winner that year was the marvelously strange The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans. I think about Up in the Air from time to time because of the scene where...

@Tarrant Oooooooooooooh I don't use auto-correct so I never think of it. That would explain the constant misspelling. I feel a lot better now. The tilt is gone. Thanks :D

I am irrationally tilted by this. It might be a mix of playing a lot of D&D 2nd edition in the Forgotten Realms or because it's one of these rare case where the wrong spelling is a lot more common than the correct one, but... Baldur's Gate.

Mystic River is what put her on the map, and that's eight years before Shameless, so...

PC gaming, console gaming, movie watching, tv show watching, music listening, Twitch, youTube : headphones 99% of the time.

Pretty sure Street Fighter 2 was a 16 Megabit cartridge. Wikipedia seems to say it was even the first 16 Megabit cartridge for the SNES. How much of an actual impact it had on the manufacturing cost is a whole other question though....

I can sympathize with the Livejournal part, and it's true the "wow" effect was also almost nonexistent for me. I am not sure what you are smoking with the rest of the post though. Summons are the core of FFVI's story and there are chocobos in every single FF games. FFXV was intriguing with its...

Sunshine is a cool game, but, outside of a handful of sections that must be completed without the water skirting thingy, it is not really a Mario game because of the hovering. Galaxy was ok, but it felt more like a collection of random disjointed ideas rather than a game built around a set of...

@spronk What's a Gallium arsenide game ? About the pressure Sony is under, obviously there is some, but I would say it is more about the disposable income of their customers after 8 months of COVID than about whatever Microsoft is doing considering the Xbox One was almost a single market...

@spronk I am not sure what will be launch window and what has been kicked further down the road, but you might want to go check some of the previous generations launch line-ups if you feel this one is bad. Horizon was very well received and there is no reason to think the sequel will be any...

Question : Dolby Atmos is a sound encoding that is used for both multi-speakers setups and pseudo-3D algorithms for headphones ?

@Quaid the Super Nintendo (Europe) and Super Famicom (Japan) have this shape. The angular shape of the Super NES (and of its cartridges) is a US thing, as are the controllers with the fingers killing concave buttons.

It was a bit gimmicky but the magic square was used sorta : SATOR is the name of the antagonist AREPO is the name of the unseen forger TENET is the "fight the future" organisation OPERA is where the opening operation took place ROTAS is the free port company That being said I feel it's a meh...

I have not seen the Lynch movie in forever, but that new adaptation does not seem like a very fresh and original take on the material. I guess it does not have to be since the Lynch movie was released 36 years ago and Villeneuve delivers, but still.

The DAB radio design is for real ? It's weird, but why not.

Kids today.... the answer is Tennis for two.

I played Super Mario RPG for the first time a few months back on the SNES Mini. I absolutely could not reconcile the love people seem to have for this game with the actual game. The constant terrible attempts at comedy was too much for me (a couple jokes land, but out of 55676557). The lame...

@Quineloe Not exactly on the scale you meant, but there has been an event with a Super Mario World ROM hack relay race and each of the runner (who also are streamers - GrandPOObear and BarbarousKing for sure) played a 16bit version of themselves instead of Mario.

There are several problems with the game. The first is that it was not designed for verbal communication during the debate and voting phase, so if you allow too much time just too much information can be shared and impostors can at times be easily unmasked by a process of elimination (assuming...

Isn't that quote somewhat missleading considering the number of cheap games that are digital only ?

To wash down the disappointment I recommend two zombie comedies I mentioned before. A korean one The Odd Family : Zombie on Sale and a japanese one One Cut of the Dead (endure the first third to discover why it is pure genius). Or, again, Seoul Station, the animated movie set in the same...

Drunk streaming is ok, drunk posting is not.

The strange part with "mobile friendly" web design, is that current smart phone have big high resolution screens, easy and intuitive ways to manipulate image size, so there is really no reason to have these designs where the info / real estate ratio is so horrendous.

Lies very well.

If you want to see some Fall Guys wins, the go to guys as far as I know are Vellhart and OhHeyItsDavid. They probably have 200+ wins. It's not trivial to have an online leaderboard that is not hacked into, but it would be interesting to have one for a game like this. As it stands I think it does...

If T-Pain plays like he sings, you know he is using an aim bot.

Dude.... Joke aside, there are several dfferent takes on the myth of the vampire and I must say I prefer the "wet" vampires, like in Coppola's Dracula, that is greater than life with an unquenchable thirst for food, sex and violence. The hyper-living vampire. The opposite would be the "dry"...

I suspect an online edition will be significantly less successful, considering that in a normal edition, the runners and visitors typically do not stream during the duration of the event. It's a much fiercer competition for viewers this time around. The upside of an online edition though is...

I'll not debate the subtleties that separate the different editions of the game, but people seriously need to stop being delusional and understand why there are exclusivity deals going around. When you produce Assassin's Creed 87658765, Fifa 876876 or Call of Duty 65675, the fine people at...

Checked the list posted by @spronk . I saw 27 of those but there were also many films I never heard about. Of the 27 films I saw the only one I would not have recommended is Stardust, which did not do it for me (but I seem to remember we had some fans of this film on the boards back then -...

Two things about this : - There is a norwegian film of the same year on the same event (centered only on the attack though) called Utoya - 22 July. I have seen neither, but I think the norvegian film is a bit more of an art film ? Anyway it can be an interesting companion piece. - Anders...