I know one of my general critiques of the DC movies - with the exception of The Suicide Squad - is that they seem SUPER ashamed of being comic book movies. NOlan's batverse movies aren't bad at all, but they're also not very happy to be A Batman Movie - gotta have a Justifaction And Backstory For Every Gadget, compared to say The Batman (2022) which is a lot more gleeful about leaning into things like the batcar and Wayne being a bit of a nebbish nerd with too much money.
TSS is great in part because it just goes hard on "Yeah, there's these colorful weridos and they're dumb as shit and also highly dangerous". Where does Bloodsport's armor come from? How does it work? Why is it one of a kind? WHO CARES ITS COOL AS FUCK IDRIS ELBA IS GOING TO SHOOT A KAIJU WITH IT NOW.
I know one of my general critiques of the DC movies - with the exception of The Suicide Squad - is that they seem SUPER ashamed of being comic book movies. NOlan's batverse movies aren't bad at all, but they're also not very happy to be A Batman Movie - gotta have a Justifaction And Backstory For Every Gadget, compared to say The Batman (2022) which is a lot more gleeful about leaning into things like the batcar and Wayne being a bit of a nebbish nerd with too much money.
TSS is great in part because it just goes hard on "Yeah, there's these colorful weridos and they're dumb as shit and also highly dangerous". Where does Bloodsport's armor come from? How does it work? Why is it one of a kind? WHO CARES ITS COOL AS FUCK IDRIS ELBA IS GOING TO SHOOT A KAIJU WITH IT NOW.
I don't think the Aquaman movie had a lot of shame about being a comic book movie.
I don't think "ashamed of being a comic book," is really where the Marvel movies are at, or what's wrong with them. Their major problem is more that they're kind of...too much like event comics, where everything is sort of built to advance the next big thing rather than serve the story itself, and occasionally something interesting finds its way through
I haven't seen Aquaman, so it's entirely possible that's true that it's not ashamed.
And I agree with that take Eebs. Event comics suck, in general.
Unless it's Judgement Day by Kieron Gillian, which was actually really good
I'm working my way through this now. And it confirmed my suspicions from the movie, even though I'd never read them before, that the Eternals are just kinda shitty people. Also the mutants are pretty dumb. Everyone kinda sucks.
I haven't seen Aquaman, so it's entirely possible that's true that it's not ashamed.
And I agree with that take Eebs. Event comics suck, in general.
Unless it's Judgement Day by Kieron Gillian, which was actually really good
Event comics can be good! There are Avengers movies that are really fun to watch and are pretty unique even among blockbuster movies. The original Secret Wars was a blast, and I loved House of M a whole lot. The thing about events is that the events themselves can be really fun or entertaining, but often they warp everything else as they try to meet them. A show like Ms. Marvel, about a teenager in New Jersey, has to blow through seasons worth of plot in eight episodes because they've already announced she's going to be in a movie and they need to set that up. The Ant-Man movies were light and fun and had low stakes, and now...you have to watch Ant-Man 3 because how else are you going to understand the stakes of the new Phase of the MCU? I'd honestly feel better about it if they put a banner on top of the poster that said THE ROAD TO KANG STARTS HERE
I haven't seen Aquaman, so it's entirely possible that's true that it's not ashamed.
And I agree with that take Eebs. Event comics suck, in general.
Unless it's Judgement Day by Kieron Gillian, which was actually really good
I'm working my way through this now. And it confirmed my suspicions from the movie, even though I'd never read them before, that the Eternals are just kinda shitty people. Also the mutants are pretty dumb. Everyone kinda sucks.
It's pretty rad.
You should absolutely read Gillian's run on Eternals, which sets things up.
X-men Red by Ewing and Immortal X-Men by Gillian also play into it and are very very good, with a lot of powerful ideas and good stuff to say.
The Mutants side of the marvel comics has not so secretly been some of the best stuff they've been putting out recently. Also most everything Jeb Mackay has been doing, his runs on Black Cat, Moon Knight and Strange are great
I haven't seen Aquaman, so it's entirely possible that's true that it's not ashamed.
Oh, well, you should!!
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Just played the SteamWorld Build Demo and damn, it hits all of my favorite game genres. Its got a heavy dose of Anno and a touch of that dungeon keeper feel.
It's also not as complex as either source that its pulling inspiration from, so I think it could potentially be easier for someone to jump in.
Having watched all of about 5 seconds of forspoken video footage, the thing that jumped out to me was the quippy marvel-whedon feel of the one line I heard. Don't really like that style of writing, but I guess that's the times we live in. To have more of an opinion than that I'd probably have to pay more attention.
Playing a game called Sailing Era and getting legitimately humiliated for my geography knowledge when a quest for my Chinese Merchant/Academic is to go to Manila with no sailing charts.
Literally I went so south I fucking hit Australlia.
this seems brutal
like, I understand manilla is the phillipines and I know where the phillipines are, but fuck me if I know where in the phillipines it is or relative to some random port in china is would be
Fun bonus points it’s tucked away in a cove which means you only see it from your boat from a specific angle if you’re just scanning islands.
For some reason I feel confident that I *could* find Manila from a random port in China, but I can't tell if that confidence comes from the fact I live outside the US so I received a superior international geographic education, or whether it's just because I'm descended from Macau-Portuguese sailors and being able to find and fuck up Spanish holdings in the East Indies has just been instinctually bred into my cultural genetic legacy.
That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
+10
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I've continued to explore Kos in Odyssey and noticed a quest in a fort, which is always curious as they're hostile areas, so naturally I decide to check it out...
Playing a game called Sailing Era and getting legitimately humiliated for my geography knowledge when a quest for my Chinese Merchant/Academic is to go to Manila with no sailing charts.
Literally I went so south I fucking hit Australlia.
this seems brutal
like, I understand manilla is the phillipines and I know where the phillipines are, but fuck me if I know where in the phillipines it is or relative to some random port in china is would be
Fun bonus points it’s tucked away in a cove which means you only see it from your boat from a specific angle if you’re just scanning islands.
For some reason I feel confident that I *could* find Manila from a random port in China, but I can't tell if that confidence comes from the fact I live outside the US so I received a superior international geographic education, or whether it's just because I'm descended from Macau-Portuguese sailors and being able to find and fuck up Spanish holdings in the East Indies has just been instinctually bred into my cultural genetic legacy.
I'm from the UK but I can't promise I'd be any better at this if I was playing the 'adventurer' from Portugal honestly.
I haven't seen Aquaman, so it's entirely possible that's true that it's not ashamed.
And I agree with that take Eebs. Event comics suck, in general.
Unless it's Judgement Day by Kieron Gillian, which was actually really good
Event comics can be good! There are Avengers movies that are really fun to watch and are pretty unique even among blockbuster movies. The original Secret Wars was a blast, and I loved House of M a whole lot. The thing about events is that the events themselves can be really fun or entertaining, but often they warp everything else as they try to meet them. A show like Ms. Marvel, about a teenager in New Jersey, has to blow through seasons worth of plot in eight episodes because they've already announced she's going to be in a movie and they need to set that up. The Ant-Man movies were light and fun and had low stakes, and now...you have to watch Ant-Man 3 because how else are you going to understand the stakes of the new Phase of the MCU? I'd honestly feel better about it if they put a banner on top of the poster that said THE ROAD TO KANG STARTS HERE
I was really enjoying the Loki show, and then the final episode happens and I just went "who the fuck is this asshole and why should I care?"
+4
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Playing a game called Sailing Era and getting legitimately humiliated for my geography knowledge when a quest for my Chinese Merchant/Academic is to go to Manila with no sailing charts.
Literally I went so south I fucking hit Australlia.
this seems brutal
like, I understand manilla is the phillipines and I know where the phillipines are, but fuck me if I know where in the phillipines it is or relative to some random port in china is would be
Fun bonus points it’s tucked away in a cove which means you only see it from your boat from a specific angle if you’re just scanning islands.
For some reason I feel confident that I *could* find Manila from a random port in China, but I can't tell if that confidence comes from the fact I live outside the US so I received a superior international geographic education, or whether it's just because I'm descended from Macau-Portuguese sailors and being able to find and fuck up Spanish holdings in the East Indies has just been instinctually bred into my cultural genetic legacy.
I'm from the UK but I can't promise I'd be any better at this if I was playing the 'adventurer' from Portugal honestly.
I'm also from the UK and when I hear 'Manila' I just think of the envelope/jail puzzle from Monkey Island 2
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
I haven't seen Aquaman, so it's entirely possible that's true that it's not ashamed.
And I agree with that take Eebs. Event comics suck, in general.
Unless it's Judgement Day by Kieron Gillian, which was actually really good
I'm working my way through this now. And it confirmed my suspicions from the movie, even though I'd never read them before, that the Eternals are just kinda shitty people. Also the mutants are pretty dumb. Everyone kinda sucks.
It's pretty rad.
You should absolutely read Gillian's run on Eternals, which sets things up.
X-men Red by Ewing and Immortal X-Men by Gillian also play into it and are very very good, with a lot of powerful ideas and good stuff to say.
The Mutants side of the marvel comics has not so secretly been some of the best stuff they've been putting out recently. Also most everything Jeb Mackay has been doing, his runs on Black Cat, Moon Knight and Strange are great
I started with that Eternals run, actually. That's where I learned that they all sucked. Except Ikarus, he seems alright.
But yeah, the x-men side is weird and I'm enjoying it so far.
I haven't seen Aquaman, so it's entirely possible that's true that it's not ashamed.
And I agree with that take Eebs. Event comics suck, in general.
Unless it's Judgement Day by Kieron Gillian, which was actually really good
I'm working my way through this now. And it confirmed my suspicions from the movie, even though I'd never read them before, that the Eternals are just kinda shitty people. Also the mutants are pretty dumb. Everyone kinda sucks.
It's pretty rad.
You should absolutely read Gillian's run on Eternals, which sets things up.
X-men Red by Ewing and Immortal X-Men by Gillian also play into it and are very very good, with a lot of powerful ideas and good stuff to say.
The Mutants side of the marvel comics has not so secretly been some of the best stuff they've been putting out recently. Also most everything Jeb Mackay has been doing, his runs on Black Cat, Moon Knight and Strange are great
I started with that Eternals run, actually. That's where I learned that they all sucked. Except Ikarus, he seems alright.
But yeah, the x-men side is weird and I'm enjoying it so far.
Look, Sprite only tried to genocide the Eternals once. It's fine, she's cool. And Makari has done nothing wrong! Nor has Kingo.
Just ignore the giant God judging humanity (it's actually kinda funny the way Kingo just sort of poofs out of the plot).
One of the reasons I'm digging the X-Men side, especially X-Men Red is how much it digs into the characters involved, and the ethics.
Also Fisher King is just great, design wise, personalty wise and everything. As is Khora of the Burning Heart
I haven't seen Aquaman, so it's entirely possible that's true that it's not ashamed.
And I agree with that take Eebs. Event comics suck, in general.
Unless it's Judgement Day by Kieron Gillian, which was actually really good
I'm working my way through this now. And it confirmed my suspicions from the movie, even though I'd never read them before, that the Eternals are just kinda shitty people. Also the mutants are pretty dumb. Everyone kinda sucks.
It's pretty rad.
You should absolutely read Gillian's run on Eternals, which sets things up.
X-men Red by Ewing and Immortal X-Men by Gillian also play into it and are very very good, with a lot of powerful ideas and good stuff to say.
The Mutants side of the marvel comics has not so secretly been some of the best stuff they've been putting out recently. Also most everything Jeb Mackay has been doing, his runs on Black Cat, Moon Knight and Strange are great
X-Men Red is so good. A lesser writer would have just portrayed the people of Arakko as warmongering barbarians (and some of them definitely are), but they are so much more interesting in this.
Also enjoying Legion of X a lot, though I think its predecessor, Way of X, was better.
(Also agree on Immortal, Moon Knight and Strange)
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+1
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For some reason I find cell shaded animation in games more impressive than super high fidelity 3D stuff. I assume it's just because I see so much less of it, but whenever I see a game animated like this my brain is like "wow how did they do that." Like cell shading is only for pre-determined animation like TV and the fact it can also be used for interactive stuff is somehow mind-blowing.
When Jack in Stranger of Paradise says, "bullshit," and then puts on his headphones to listen to some butt rock as he walks out of the dungeon, he isn't calling the setting bullshit. He is calling the idea that Chaos is not a real thing he can kill with a sword bullshit.
Because he has to kill Chaos. Chaos stole his lunch money. Mom says it is his turn to kill Chaos
Oh right, a new season of Doom Patrol somehow came out instead of being canceled. I should probably watch that sooner rather than later - now there's a show unafraid of getting comic book weird.
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TSS is great in part because it just goes hard on "Yeah, there's these colorful weridos and they're dumb as shit and also highly dangerous". Where does Bloodsport's armor come from? How does it work? Why is it one of a kind? WHO CARES ITS COOL AS FUCK IDRIS ELBA IS GOING TO SHOOT A KAIJU WITH IT NOW.
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I don't think the Aquaman movie had a lot of shame about being a comic book movie.
There's no shame here...
And I agree with that take Eebs. Event comics suck, in general.
Unless it's Judgement Day by Kieron Gillian, which was actually really good
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I talked to Cuno
Cuno was mean
Cuno made me sad
Game over
Perfect game, 100/100
I'm working my way through this now. And it confirmed my suspicions from the movie, even though I'd never read them before, that the Eternals are just kinda shitty people. Also the mutants are pretty dumb. Everyone kinda sucks.
It's pretty rad.
Event comics can be good! There are Avengers movies that are really fun to watch and are pretty unique even among blockbuster movies. The original Secret Wars was a blast, and I loved House of M a whole lot. The thing about events is that the events themselves can be really fun or entertaining, but often they warp everything else as they try to meet them. A show like Ms. Marvel, about a teenager in New Jersey, has to blow through seasons worth of plot in eight episodes because they've already announced she's going to be in a movie and they need to set that up. The Ant-Man movies were light and fun and had low stakes, and now...you have to watch Ant-Man 3 because how else are you going to understand the stakes of the new Phase of the MCU? I'd honestly feel better about it if they put a banner on top of the poster that said THE ROAD TO KANG STARTS HERE
You should absolutely read Gillian's run on Eternals, which sets things up.
X-men Red by Ewing and Immortal X-Men by Gillian also play into it and are very very good, with a lot of powerful ideas and good stuff to say.
The Mutants side of the marvel comics has not so secretly been some of the best stuff they've been putting out recently. Also most everything Jeb Mackay has been doing, his runs on Black Cat, Moon Knight and Strange are great
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Oh, well, you should!!
It's also not as complex as either source that its pulling inspiration from, so I think it could potentially be easier for someone to jump in.
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I refuse.
What now?
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I banish you to the Trench!
Cuno breaks my heart.
Hitting that kid brought me zero satisfaction.
You fool! as an undead penguin, i draw power from deep aquatic enviroments
Wait, hang on, this is the video game thread not the TTRPG thread
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Fuck
unique
For some reason I feel confident that I *could* find Manila from a random port in China, but I can't tell if that confidence comes from the fact I live outside the US so I received a superior international geographic education, or whether it's just because I'm descended from Macau-Portuguese sailors and being able to find and fuck up Spanish holdings in the East Indies has just been instinctually bred into my cultural genetic legacy.
Oh you motherfucker
I'm from the UK but I can't promise I'd be any better at this if I was playing the 'adventurer' from Portugal honestly.
I'm also from the UK and when I hear 'Manila' I just think of the envelope/jail puzzle from Monkey Island 2
I started with that Eternals run, actually. That's where I learned that they all sucked. Except Ikarus, he seems alright.
But yeah, the x-men side is weird and I'm enjoying it so far.
Look, Sprite only tried to genocide the Eternals once. It's fine, she's cool. And Makari has done nothing wrong! Nor has Kingo.
Just ignore the giant God judging humanity (it's actually kinda funny the way Kingo just sort of poofs out of the plot).
One of the reasons I'm digging the X-Men side, especially X-Men Red is how much it digs into the characters involved, and the ethics.
Also Fisher King is just great, design wise, personalty wise and everything. As is Khora of the Burning Heart
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X-Men Red is so good. A lesser writer would have just portrayed the people of Arakko as warmongering barbarians (and some of them definitely are), but they are so much more interesting in this.
Also enjoying Legion of X a lot, though I think its predecessor, Way of X, was better.
(Also agree on Immortal, Moon Knight and Strange)
Stranger of Paradise 10/10 writing
For some reason I find cell shaded animation in games more impressive than super high fidelity 3D stuff. I assume it's just because I see so much less of it, but whenever I see a game animated like this my brain is like "wow how did they do that." Like cell shading is only for pre-determined animation like TV and the fact it can also be used for interactive stuff is somehow mind-blowing.
Because he has to kill Chaos. Chaos stole his lunch money. Mom says it is his turn to kill Chaos
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You could just buy the original for like 4$, it's still real real good
also it still looks quite good for a nearly 15 year old game
If it's a mess, get the very good old version.
i've been waiting for months and it hasn't dropped below 20