The one time season 3 gets close to being cleverly subversive is when the Man in Black gets stuck in therapy with several virtual past versions of himself and they build up the whole episode to his Childhood Dad Trauma and when we finally see that flashback it turns out it’s him at 10 years old being a total asshole to his dad and he was just always an irredeemable dick and he knows it.
Thats why when you're buliding the Immortal Philosopher-Tyrant Machine you don't build it yourself directly you build very smart robots that then build even smarter robots that then build the IPTM
Thank God garbage in, garbage out does not apply to machine learning
You're going to regret the presence of this kind of obstinate negativity on your record after the Great Realignment
If I went to Westworld I'd endeavor to discover the upper limits of hat tipping and saying "howdy." You populate a world with a bunch of robots and I'm gonna be polite to em and see if they're having a good morning.
i only saw the first season of westworld, which seemed cool. are people against this because they don't have expectations that the westworld creators will do a good job, that it will be bad cause its fallout, or both?
Speaking only for myself, and not whatever internet backlash at large may be, season one of Westworld hit a lot of my Least Favorite Things checkboxes
-On a show about robots discovering sentience, the robots modeled on indigenous people were exclusively murderous plot devices. Other robots either got to grow, or were tragically prevented from growing. Indians were Indians who appeared from nowhere, murdered, left.
-It is a deeply nihilistic show that takes it as a given that when you remove "consequence" (however loosely you define that term), the default human behavior is cruelty and destruction. Nobody goes to Westworld to open a shop, or work on a farm. People only show up to Do Crimes. That's not how escapism works, for real people. It's not how people work.
-There was not a single character I liked. There was not a single character I was even curious about. Nobody had a favorite brand of chip, nobody had a band they were irrationally fond of, nobody had a hobby they were bad at but pursued anyway. Everyone was a mouthpiece for a (rudimentary) philosophy, a stand-in for an archetype, a means to deliver to exposition. Nobody was a person.
-(My pettiest grievance) The show regularly quoted and/or referenced Alice in Wonderland and Shakespeare, without actually engaging with the works. It had nothing to say about or with them, but wanted to be thought of alongside them. Real Creative Writing 201 shit.
I can't say whether or not they will do a good job with Fallout, because I don't know who else they might hire, how much they might listen to the people they hire, or any of that. I just know that I have actively disliked the intersection-of-past-and-future work that they've thus far produced, and that makes me deeply skeptical of further works in that milieu
I basically agree with all of this. I also just think that, in short, Westworld is a show that wears the trappings of Prestige TV but has nothing at its center. There are a lot of shows like this, which make a big deal about Being a Big Deal, but aren't as clever or thoughtful as they project.
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There's a whole couple of episodes in other parks (SamuraiWorld and Resistance/PartizanWorld (aka NaziWorld)) and a bunch of the "backstage" stuff has shown things like legionaries and vikings (iirc) and a dragon etc
The one in SamuraiWorld pokes fun at recycled plot and characters with just the names changed from the main park, but sadly there's not been a decent run of oh we need to hop between several settings to find a thing/go somewhere yet. I guess mostly for budget reasons but it's a shame to not use one of the main conceits of the setting like that.
If I went to Westworld I'd endeavor to discover the upper limits of hat tipping and saying "howdy." You populate a world with a bunch of robots and I'm gonna be polite to em and see if they're having a good morning.
I think this just means that you get disembowled for pathos by the first robot to get the robo-madness
Yeah, and then one of them was a Worms game that has real-time combat and the internet had a normal one and started declaring it a battle royale game and thus bad.
I mean where could I possibly get a turn based 2d Worms game with fully destructible environments? HOW DARE THEY TRY SOMETHING NEW!
Thats why when you're buliding the Immortal Philosopher-Tyrant Machine you don't build it yourself directly you build very smart robots that then build even smarter robots that then build the IPTM
Thank God garbage in, garbage out does not apply to machine learning
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i played the heck out of worms on ps1. also got some enjoyment out of worm online for dreamcast because holy wowzers, im playing this in my living room and my friend bill is playing in his living room but we're playing the same game!?!?! poor dreamcast; too weird to live and too rare to die.
If I went to Westworld I'd endeavor to discover the upper limits of hat tipping and saying "howdy." You populate a world with a bunch of robots and I'm gonna be polite to em and see if they're having a good morning.
I think this just means that you get disembowled for pathos by the first robot to get the robo-madness
Microsoft buys WB, frees Monolith, acquires NOLF license...and we all live happily ever after
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You're going to regret the presence of this kind of obstinate negativity on your record after the Great Realignment
I basically agree with all of this. I also just think that, in short, Westworld is a show that wears the trappings of Prestige TV but has nothing at its center. There are a lot of shows like this, which make a big deal about Being a Big Deal, but aren't as clever or thoughtful as they project.
the cyberpark where they fuck the robots is western themed
The one in SamuraiWorld pokes fun at recycled plot and characters with just the names changed from the main park, but sadly there's not been a decent run of oh we need to hop between several settings to find a thing/go somewhere yet. I guess mostly for budget reasons but it's a shame to not use one of the main conceits of the setting like that.
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I think this just means that you get disembowled for pathos by the first robot to get the robo-madness
The developers say it is a BR
I dont think that's necessarily bad, just not really what I'm looking for in a Worms game.
... wait
Eh, we all gotta go sometime.
A new Test Drive Unlimited is coming at Nacon Connect. I never touched either of them but I know people really loved the first one
that was TWO WEEKS AGO
Is two weeks a long time or not a long time, I literally don't know any more
No because they didn’t say Skate 4 it could be Skate Mobile for all we know.
it is simultaneously yesterday and back in the Carter administration
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anyone can be a toilet if you try hard enough
That slot in C-3PO’s face ain’t a mouth
this is all your fault
The only licensed skater is Ribs Man.
And really why play as anyone else?
i already made a bid at 350
I'm prepared to go as high as 370
375 if I can find an extra nickel in the couch or something
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riot simulator
Good news, Tonight We Riot exists!
Wait, 350 bucks or 350 cents?
A nickel gives him five so you do the math.
I'm not even sure Microsoft money could get the rights mess sorted out.