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@yimmien with the almost two decades old meme!

For something completely different, I just saw The Rider, a drama set in the Dakota rodeo scene. The whole cast is made of non-professional actors playing just slightly fictionalized versions of themselves. This helps make some scenes extremely poignant and also allows for some breathtaking and...

Played a bit today. Got the first star. Let's just say I am not exactly enthusiastic at this point... obviously it will never stop being an eyesore, but maybe things will pick up a bit, be it storywise or gameplaywise.

Played a little more of my NES backlog. First, Gauntlet II. It is an endless dungeon crawling game. First five floors are set and then you get random floors out of a list of about 100, for ever. It is aggressively mediocre and totally uninteresting. In about 20min you see just about all the game...

I have not seen China Salesman, but in Wolf Warrior 2 and Operation Red Sea, the main antagonists are european mercenaries in the first and arab terrorists in the second. A strong theme in Wolf Warrior 2 is the great friendship between chinese and african people (even if the representation of...

Two of the most recent blockbusters in China have been action movies with chinese involved in Africa: Wolf Warrior II (a kind of Rambo 2 on amphetamines) and Operation Red Sea (more like, let's say, a kind of chinese version of Black Hawk Down). So this might kinda explain the existence of this...

Thanos is actually pretty well balanced as all his moves are impossible to cancel and have long wind up (the jump), long recovery time (the aoe drop punch) or long duration (the laser). If you are clever, it's actually pretty difficult for Thanos to kill you. Eat a crystal and time jumps...

In what alternate Marvel universe timeline did that happen?

I am not up to date with my NBA rule set... can you really tuck the ball against your body when you drive to the ring without it being a carry? Or is it like the travels?

For info, it's a weird remix of Smetana's Die Moldau. Best known (at least to me) for being in Tree of Life.

Autoplay in your twitch clip integration? It's more likely than you think!

How is that not a charge by James on Lowry at the end of the 2nd?

He shoots more 3s than entire teams though!

Open portal beneath feet of the antagonist. Close portal before antagonist goes all the way through. Roll credits.

It's pretty funny that out of the 6ish situations that could have ended in a penalty kick between yesterday's and today's matches, it's probably the softer one that ended with an actual penalty kick. It's hard to not feel it only got called because the ref knew it would have zero impact on the...

There are mysteries in life, like some basketball players unable to hit a free throw yet able to land threes from waaaay beyond the line like it's nothing.

It is fair to say that pass toward the keeper was garbage, but what's the final verdict on wtf the keeper did? Was that a major brain fart? A total misreading of Benzema's position? Did he lose his footing when running toward the ball? It did not seem the ball had a surprising bad bounce of...

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I really liked the first Avengers movie. It was a very clever game of mix and match with themes and individuals that collided or matched. That movie had 7 super heroes and a brilliant screenwriter in Joss Whedon. Infinity War has 20ish super heroes and no brilliance to be found behind the...

Just got back from eight days of intense move watching at the Far East Film Festival in Italy. Here are, in no particular order, the best ones (rated 4 or 5 out of 5). Steel Rain : pretty topical south korean espionage action thriller with a hint of comedy about a former north korean operative...

Dontnod was co-founded by one of the best french author of speculative fiction, Alain Damasio (his books and short stories are hardly translated though because of his brilliant but heavy use of neologisms and word-plays), yet the guy apparently only worked for Remember Me... meh.

Played and beat Mega Man for basically the first time. Back in the days I did not get why people liked this game. Today, I still don't. I guess you can say it's a solid game, as in not janky (well... except the magnet beam I guess). Nice music, nice visuals with a distinctive aesthetic. But, oh...

I am not sure if you are wishing dodge is tied to a button or if you hope it will still play well with dodge tied to a button, but dodge is indeed tied to a button in this game.

It is possible to do pretty detailed stuff with a 28x28 image size, but that requires a modicum of know-how.

I have to ask... Is The Meg nuts? sorry

I am going to guess Madrid would not have suffered three goals against Roma Juventus (oups!) if Sergio Ramos was playing.

It should be noted that Paulo Branco (the producer suing) is a very important figure of portuguese and french art house cinema from the '80s onward. He is considered though to be... if not a madman, at least some kind of film loving crook who is pretty good at somewhat controlled chaos and...

Might want to check Syun_N (one of the best Super Mario Maker streamer) if you are into Nintendo stuff.

The NES backlog massacre continues with Contra! Well... all my NES games are PAL so for some reason the game was rebranded and reskined with robots as Probotector. The game is, to my knowledge, functionally identical. You just happen to control a little robot and all the enemies are robots too...

I am an idiot and went and farmed the super weapon (99 for all non Don turtles so had to replay the same sub level 15 times... I guess it took 45ish minutes). I am now at the start of level 6 with all turtles almost at full hp and 226 kiai out of the 297 I had at first. In a dozen minutes I'll...

Ok... I have been playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the NES these last few days... it invariably ended with me being very pissed off, putting the cartridge back in the pile trying not to break it in half and invariably, the next day, I picked up the cartridge again thinking "That should be...

@a_skeleton_00 If you want a multiplayer combat game involving gargoyles, a bunch of people I know got you covered: It's only couch multiplyer and only for 4 people though. It's also a bit rough as it is a jam game. It was an original jam concept: instead of having many little teams working...

I don't feel like creating threads for them so: Hostiles: (previously mentioned in this thread) post-cavalry movie with Bale, as a veterant who fought indians all of his adult life, tasked to escort a dying captive indian chief and old nemesis to his home land. If you take each scene...

@spronk To be fair, with a shorter run time, the movie would feel rushed if you want to structure the story the way it is. Basically it goes character exposition -> meddling in the spy game -> formation as a sparrow . This takes about an hour and then you still have to make your spy vs spy...

Something very noteworthy in this game is the super badass music done with an instrumentation of pipe organ, harpsichord and violins (well... at least their MIDI version in the SNES chipset!). That being said, since I played it very recently I'll pass this time again. I wish everyone good luck...

This film is basically horror-comedy with a political/historical twist. There is a good dose of poetic licence (compression of the timeline, alteration of some events) but that's to be expected. Oddly, the main flaw of this movie is an abundance of riches. It's so packed full of themes, great...

You have been traumatized by the 3D mazes as a kid, but they are ridiculously tiny and only have one entrance and one exit. Other than that they are totally empty (with the exception of the hidden hp thing in the first maze that I found by accident the first time around). If it can make you feel...

In the PAL version the bullets of the gun go through walls so... yeah... it's easier!

Well... since the NES was hot, I also played through Fester's Quest. This top down exploration shooter game uses the Addams Family licence. I am not familiar with the Addams Family, but I don't think this story of alien invasion is exactly canon... anyway, you control the slow and 4 direction...

Buddy gaming Thursday remained retro the last two weeks. As my friend is a big fan of Metal Gear Solid, we played a game neither of us played before: Metal Gear on NES! Note that I did not say the original Metal Gear, because the NES version is a rushed port of the original that was released on...