I was looking forward to Forspoken a year ago, but after trying the demo and seeing some of these reviews, imma hold off for a sale, I think. From this, though, the character models look pretty good? Except maybe some of them have weirdly low-res textures? And the overall game length/open-world-ness can vary a lot depending on how much of the side stuff you chase.
This is, by it's nature, a more technically-focused review, but they do touch on art direction and story a bit. No spoilers, I think.
I got a yoyo for Christmas from my wife this year.
Which one? From time to time I'll try to get into 1A but my skills are too much from, like, 30 years ago when it was a very different world. (ie, I can sort of do half of 2A badly)
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MorninglordI'm tired of being Batman,so today I'll be Owl.Registered Userregular
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I really loved the Forspoken demo and the combat genuinely gets pretty good for me in a way that I really enjoy.
I tooled around with the movement a bit and thought "Hmm, this feels a bit prototype like, maybe if I approach the combat like prototype and use lots of movement to setup my attacks so the enemies can't hit me?" and bam smashed the game to pieces, became a god.
But, sadly, nothing else really grabbed me, and my hands started hurting more recently, and I need to save money for something right now, and it turns out the PC version which I was gonna use for all my disability support needs sucks, so while I was gonna get it and play it at launch I'm not gonna do that anymore.
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
I got a yoyo for Christmas from my wife this year.
Which one? From time to time I'll try to get into 1A but my skills are too much from, like, 30 years ago when it was a very different world. (ie, I can sort of do half of 2A badly)
It's a yomega of some kind. Comes with two different bearings so you can do either returning tricks or sleeper tricks, though the sleeper bearing seems to never come back. It's fun, but boy do I suck with it. Same as you, been about 25 years since I was any good with them.
Hey I just had a weird thing happen, and I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced it and knows whats up: my Game Pass is showing exclusively EA Play games. It also is no longer showing any of my installed games besides Halo and Minecraft. I literally was playing Deathloop like an hour ago, no idea what the hell's up.
Also: Deathloop is pretty cute! I like it. Though it's not nearly as ambitious and cool as it could be, and the Eternalists are a bit too dim to actually make it fun to decide between stealth and action because you can do both so easily that it's not really a problem after you get your first few upgrades. I would be much more into it if it gave you a bit more space to play with setting up and knocking down stuff, like not even tons of things, just some fun ways to set up shit that will take care of a given Visionary for you without needing to do it in person rather than a single correct playthrough.
And the invasion stuff started as very tough and frustrating, then got incredibly easy and satisfying when I got ahold of a great shotgun with a 28-round magazine, slow-on-hit, and gave it a ton of accuracy upgrades that mean all I do is teleport within 50 feet of a Julianna player and blast wildly.
I got a yoyo for Christmas from my wife this year.
Which one? From time to time I'll try to get into 1A but my skills are too much from, like, 30 years ago when it was a very different world. (ie, I can sort of do half of 2A badly)
It's a yomega of some kind. Comes with two different bearings so you can do either returning tricks or sleeper tricks, though the sleeper bearing seems to never come back. It's fun, but boy do I suck with it. Same as you, been about 25 years since I was any good with them.
yoyotricks.com has a lot of helpful videos about tricks and stuff and a reasonable order to learn them in, for what it's worth.
I got a yoyo for Christmas from my wife this year.
Which one? From time to time I'll try to get into 1A but my skills are too much from, like, 30 years ago when it was a very different world. (ie, I can sort of do half of 2A badly)
It's a yomega of some kind. Comes with two different bearings so you can do either returning tricks or sleeper tricks, though the sleeper bearing seems to never come back. It's fun, but boy do I suck with it. Same as you, been about 25 years since I was any good with them.
yoyotricks.com has a lot of helpful videos about tricks and stuff and a reasonable order to learn them in, for what it's worth.
The unresponsive bearings (the sleeper one) need you to do a trick called a bind to get it to come back, you can't just do a regular tug. It's supposedly not hard to do, but I never got deep enough into yoyoing to bother putting on the unresponsive bearing and learning a bind. I just liked to throw it, let it sleep for a bit, then bring it back.
I also tried to learn 2a for a few weeks. Shattered both yoyos at the same time against a wall on accident (misjudged the string length) and never tried again lol
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
In 2021, Blizzard, a unit of Activision Blizzard Inc., implemented a process called stack ranking, in which employees are ranked on a bell curve and managers must give low ratings to a certain percentage of staff, according to people familiar with the change who asked not to be named discussing a private matter. Managers were expected to give a poor “developing” status to roughly 5% of employees on their teams, which would lower their profit-sharing bonus money and could hamper them from receiving raises or promotions in the near future...
Birmingham goes on to say he can’t work under a system like this, which he and other managers (who were asked to keep it a secret!) had managed to “circumvent or skip” for the last few years but which had recently begun to be enforced. He reportedly told staff he would be leaving the company if the policy was not reversed, but shortly after the email was sent he was called into HR and “terminated”.
I got a yoyo for Christmas from my wife this year.
Which one? From time to time I'll try to get into 1A but my skills are too much from, like, 30 years ago when it was a very different world. (ie, I can sort of do half of 2A badly)
It's a yomega of some kind. Comes with two different bearings so you can do either returning tricks or sleeper tricks, though the sleeper bearing seems to never come back. It's fun, but boy do I suck with it. Same as you, been about 25 years since I was any good with them.
yoyotricks.com has a lot of helpful videos about tricks and stuff and a reasonable order to learn them in, for what it's worth.
The unresponsive bearings (the sleeper one) need you to do a trick called a bind to get it to come back, you can't just do a regular tug. It's supposedly not hard to do, but I never got deep enough into yoyoing to bother putting on the unresponsive bearing and learning a bind. I just liked to throw it, let it sleep for a bit, then bring it back.
I also tried to learn 2a for a few weeks. Shattered both yoyos at the same time against a wall on accident (misjudged the string length) and never tried again lol
I read a D&D book where the main character used a primitive Halfling yoyo as a weapon and so I gave my sister a black eye while we were practicing yoyo combat
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
Lightspeed Lina, a 3D platformer that pays homage to a series staring a character that rhymes with tonic is looking fast and furious without the blue erinaceinae.⚡️⚡️
The mechanics and sense of velocity look soooo good!🥹
Will always remember my fourth grade best friend and I getting into a heated lunchroom fight over whether Gambit or Jean-Paul Valley Batman had the best superhero costume, circa 1995
Will always remember my fourth grade best friend and I getting into a heated lunchroom fight over whether Gambit or Jean-Paul Valley Batman had the best superhero costume, circa 1995
I got a yoyo for Christmas from my wife this year.
Which one? From time to time I'll try to get into 1A but my skills are too much from, like, 30 years ago when it was a very different world. (ie, I can sort of do half of 2A badly)
It's a yomega of some kind. Comes with two different bearings so you can do either returning tricks or sleeper tricks, though the sleeper bearing seems to never come back. It's fun, but boy do I suck with it. Same as you, been about 25 years since I was any good with them.
yoyotricks.com has a lot of helpful videos about tricks and stuff and a reasonable order to learn them in, for what it's worth.
I'll check it out. Before I start looking there, though, I gotta remember how to just... throw and return. I am rusty.
I think that exact stack system was what Microsoft used to use and Amazon does something very similar with it's mandatory PIP system.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
The "mostly" is what's intriguing to me, here. It suggests that sometimes - not often, but sometimes - it is not with the genitals. Whole lotta mystery, here.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
The "mostly" is what's intriguing to me, here. It suggests that sometimes - not often, but sometimes - it is not with the genitals. Whole lotta mystery, here.
With your stomach.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
austin walker wrote about forspoken writing and the response to it!
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Very good piece, lands on the point that I think sticks in my brain constantly with this stuff where it feels like the writing is trying to pretend it's above what is happening
Like every line is winking at you and saying "Yeah, we know this is all dumb, we are also embarrassed"
Very good piece, lands on the point that I think sticks in my brain constantly with this stuff where it feels like the writing is trying to pretend it's above what is happening
Like every line is winking at you and saying "Yeah, we know this is all dumb, we are also embarrassed"
Yeah, dont be ashamed of what you're writing... but if you are ashamed, maybe question why you're writing shit you're ashamed of instead of mocking it. Because you're as much just mocking yourself/tearing yourself down.
The other thing is like, it can work if deployed cleverly - Age of Ultron is many things, but Hawkeye's line where he's commentating on being a guy with a bow, while the island is flying and there's robots everywhere? And then he just gets back to kicking robot arse because yeah, he's a guy with a bow. There's robots everywhere, who cares, he's got heroing to do. That's good! That's fun, that underscores things - you can draw attention to the absurdity of a situation to reinforce the stakes of the situation.
Or to quote galaxy quest "This episode was badly written!"
It doesn't undercut the stakes of the situation. They've still got to get through the chompers! It's horrible! What kind of asshole did this!? Drawing attention to it just emphasis the fucked upness of the situation and reinforces the stakes at hand, instead of undercutting it
Also, you know, Galaxy Quest is a comedy and loves it's source material, so this doesn't feel cringe, it feels affectionate.
MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Incidentally, I had been thinking recently about the period around say, Iron Man 2008, and my recollection that there was this collective sigh of relief within the fanbase that finally, comic book movies weren't ashamed of comic books anymore
And as time passed, I actually don't think that has ever been totally true, I think they just changed the vehicle by which they communicate that embarrassment
(Sam Raimi's Spider-Man is probably the least ashamed of comic books)
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This is, by it's nature, a more technically-focused review, but they do touch on art direction and story a bit. No spoilers, I think.
Which one? From time to time I'll try to get into 1A but my skills are too much from, like, 30 years ago when it was a very different world. (ie, I can sort of do half of 2A badly)
I tooled around with the movement a bit and thought "Hmm, this feels a bit prototype like, maybe if I approach the combat like prototype and use lots of movement to setup my attacks so the enemies can't hit me?" and bam smashed the game to pieces, became a god.
But, sadly, nothing else really grabbed me, and my hands started hurting more recently, and I need to save money for something right now, and it turns out the PC version which I was gonna use for all my disability support needs sucks, so while I was gonna get it and play it at launch I'm not gonna do that anymore.
It's a yomega of some kind. Comes with two different bearings so you can do either returning tricks or sleeper tricks, though the sleeper bearing seems to never come back. It's fun, but boy do I suck with it. Same as you, been about 25 years since I was any good with them.
Also: Deathloop is pretty cute! I like it. Though it's not nearly as ambitious and cool as it could be, and the Eternalists are a bit too dim to actually make it fun to decide between stealth and action because you can do both so easily that it's not really a problem after you get your first few upgrades. I would be much more into it if it gave you a bit more space to play with setting up and knocking down stuff, like not even tons of things, just some fun ways to set up shit that will take care of a given Visionary for you without needing to do it in person rather than a single correct playthrough.
And the invasion stuff started as very tough and frustrating, then got incredibly easy and satisfying when I got ahold of a great shotgun with a 28-round magazine, slow-on-hit, and gave it a ton of accuracy upgrades that mean all I do is teleport within 50 feet of a Julianna player and blast wildly.
yoyotricks.com has a lot of helpful videos about tricks and stuff and a reasonable order to learn them in, for what it's worth.
I honestly thought @Endless_Serpents wrote this post and had to double take
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The unresponsive bearings (the sleeper one) need you to do a trick called a bind to get it to come back, you can't just do a regular tug. It's supposedly not hard to do, but I never got deep enough into yoyoing to bother putting on the unresponsive bearing and learning a bind. I just liked to throw it, let it sleep for a bit, then bring it back.
I also tried to learn 2a for a few weeks. Shattered both yoyos at the same time against a wall on accident (misjudged the string length) and never tried again lol
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I read a D&D book where the main character used a primitive Halfling yoyo as a weapon and so I gave my sister a black eye while we were practicing yoyo combat
I'm sorry, who?
I see.
Abs n' Pouches
hell yeah
you know, Azrael
I’m taking HR Management classes, and this was like, Week 1 or 2 “examples of bad ideas that you should avoid”
I'll check it out. Before I start looking there, though, I gotta remember how to just... throw and return. I am rusty.
Not the Azrael in the Arkham games though, that's a different Azrael.
Though in the comics I don't even know if that Azrael still exists, and Jean Paul Valley is apparently back somehow.
Your only mistake is thinking there are correct choices.
Every choice I made was correct
With my genitals, mostly
Pooro!!!
With your stomach.
Yes this prose is quite delightful to hear
https://www.clockworkworlds.com/post-cringe/
austin walker wrote about forspoken writing and the response to it!
Like every line is winking at you and saying "Yeah, we know this is all dumb, we are also embarrassed"
Yeah, dont be ashamed of what you're writing... but if you are ashamed, maybe question why you're writing shit you're ashamed of instead of mocking it. Because you're as much just mocking yourself/tearing yourself down.
The other thing is like, it can work if deployed cleverly - Age of Ultron is many things, but Hawkeye's line where he's commentating on being a guy with a bow, while the island is flying and there's robots everywhere? And then he just gets back to kicking robot arse because yeah, he's a guy with a bow. There's robots everywhere, who cares, he's got heroing to do. That's good! That's fun, that underscores things - you can draw attention to the absurdity of a situation to reinforce the stakes of the situation.
Or to quote galaxy quest "This episode was badly written!"
It doesn't undercut the stakes of the situation. They've still got to get through the chompers! It's horrible! What kind of asshole did this!? Drawing attention to it just emphasis the fucked upness of the situation and reinforces the stakes at hand, instead of undercutting it
Also, you know, Galaxy Quest is a comedy and loves it's source material, so this doesn't feel cringe, it feels affectionate.
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And as time passed, I actually don't think that has ever been totally true, I think they just changed the vehicle by which they communicate that embarrassment
(Sam Raimi's Spider-Man is probably the least ashamed of comic books)