DoctaMario

1 hour ago, TheInfernoman said:

As I have grown older, I prefer the whole season drop va week to week. Why? Because It's easier to watch at a pace I prefer. I feel there's more to discuss woth more context vs the week to week. 

 

Having said that, I can tolerate either way. 

I stopped watching Shogun til the whole season is dropped. I can't do the week to week thing anymore, it's not like it's the 70s.

On 4/13/2024 at 4:32 AM, MillionX said:

Vee got some time with that new Rogue Prince of Persia game

 

Wait so they basically made a Dead Cells-ed PoP game??

On 4/13/2024 at 1:26 AM, Hecatom said:

 

Yes, we can try to play there, I just need to install it today.

 

It seems I have it installed

 

I am just missing the season pass 2 😅

I'm bummed you guys are playing on PC because I actually tried to jump on and get some games and this game is legit dead online :(

50 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

This isn't controversial, people say this all the time. The controversial opinion is that Pho is over rated as fuck. I've had it a few times and it's fine. The way people rant about it is insane tho, it's not nearly that good lol. I would rather have Ramen lol. 

 

Reminds when I had my first In & Out burger and all I could think was "This is it?" 

Vietnamese is the one food I absolutely can't get into. Maybe I've just never had the right stuff but I don't understand why people seem to love it so much.

1 hour ago, DangerousJ said:

1984 ?

 

For me....

 

Terminator 

Ghostbusters 

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

But what about

18 hours ago, RSG3 said:

Yes it reeks of another scam run at the collectors market. 

It's been awhile since I've unwrapped a new NES cart, but couldn't that kind of thing be faked?

I went and checked eBay and as of Wednesday there was another one up there going for $10k and had a bunch of people watching it. Non-esit-edit: now it's up to $15k

And someone's selling the BOX ONLY to Simon's Quest for $100. Who tf are these degenerates?

That's bonkers. I love Castlevania more than the next guy but paying $90k for a sealed copy is absolutely ridiculous and makes me wonder if they're doing this to try to drive up the price like they were with that SMB cart.

52 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Okay, I want to make sure I'm not in The Twilight Zone or something. I keep seeing story's and videos about "Natasha Ramos claiming" to have sang Jenny From Block and people being shocked. I know for a fact that this all came out more than decade ago. Did I miss something?

She apparently did the reference lead vocal and BGV arrangement vocals (that they probably left in because JLo is shitty singer and it probably helped pad out the mix a bit and was cheaper and easier than trying to get JLo to re-sing all of it)

That sort of thing has been going on for a long time though. That protege girl group Rick James had called the Mary Jane Girls apparently used to do some vocal pinch hitting on Paula Abdul's records for the same reason.

25 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

I did the same thing with Bobby Caldwell when he passed away. I watched a bunch of people watch his "What You Won't Do For Love" video and flip out when sings "I came back to let you know" stands up from the bench and you see he's white. One dude actually stopped the video and called his mom on his cellphone to ask her about it. 🤣🤣🤣

 

 

Rick Astley is another one. When "Never Gonna Give You Up" first came out, it got a lot of play on black R&B stations because the single was just a vinyl with a white label and no picture or anything. Course once they found out he was a ginger I think the airplay on those stations tapered off lol

1 hour ago, Red Rock Candy said:

Thread from 2003 about how much Steam sucks and will never succeed.  

 

https://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/46976/official-steam-sucks-thread

This might be unpopular, but I think Steam's success has been a net negative for gaming given that they're a defacto monopoly and that they normalized internet-as-delivery-method and non-physical games.

5 hours ago, RSG3 said:

With how many day 1 patches there are it's kinda true.....

It kinda defeats the purpose of buying physical if the version of the game that ships physically is outdated before it's even released.

21 hours ago, MillionX said:

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**edit----they seem to be more against black men dating interracially, of course.  When black women do it, suddenly they are suspiciously quiet about that or start up with various reasons why they don't take issue with that.

Eh I dunno. Search out that Instagram pic of Zazie Beets at a premier with a white guy and you'll see a bunch of black women saying some 1950's deep south white-man-confronted-with-a-white-woman/black-man-couple  tier stuff about her and her boyfriend. Let's just say racial purity beliefs are not the exclusive purview of white people lol

13 hours ago, Sonichuman said:

                                              

They haven't told anyone really to fuck off regarding DEI stuff because the community manager that Grummz is attacking actually mentions about the different people that are involved with HD2.  Based on what I've read (which is actually in the tweets above the Grummz screen capped), they banned some transphobic people and it seems to have been somehow confused with them banning people for asking for LGBT items in the game.  They restricted topics having to do with anything like that in their discord in general just to avoid the hate garbage that comes with it.  

 

It'd be kind of weird for them to tell people that that want DEI stuff to "fuck off" when the community manager actually mentions about the diverse people that helped make HD2.  Regardless, saying HD2 is anti-political even if he's potentially trying to say that it's anti-political in one aspect is still a false statement since the game in its design in what it's doing is still very political.  It's like saying X-men is anti political because it's not making a direct statement about the Israeli-Palestine conflict.

What @Hecatomsaid makes more sense than how I put it, but that's what I was getting at. They're not trying to make some kind of statement like a lot of media seems to be trying to these days.

19 hours ago, Sonichuman said:

  

I don't know how you have so little media literacy to somehow think that Helldivers 2 is anti-political.  And yeah this is a real tweet by this guy trying to go after HD2 community manager.  I had to double check to make sure.

Edit:  IGN put up their review for HD2 on Twitter and apparently people are upset and or realizing that they're playing as fascists or upset that they said you're playing as fascists?

Arrowhead literally has to come out and say what they're not being subtle about it apparently.....amazing.

I haven't played the game and only have been reading about it, but....

Hasn't the dev of H2 basically told people that want dei stuff in the game to fuck off? Maybe that's what people are talking about when they say it's "anti political?" It doesn't have any characters, designs, or storylines that a lot of other dei influenced companies are using? If that's the case, then mentioning the story seems to be missing the point.

Again, could be wrong, but it would make sense especially since there seems to be a backlash against games with a lot of dei stuff in them brewing.

Nikka is good stuff. I like that a lot of the Japanese whiskies have a scotchy flavor to them.

39 minutes ago, DangerousJ said:

 

Be careful if Mechwarrior lives in your neighborhood..

2 hours ago, Camacho said:

Crimzon Clover is so fucking good, definitely my favorite shmup. No  second loop nonesense, straightforward (but deep) mechanics, no annoying loli crap or cringey story to get in the way either. I do wish there was a difficulty step in between Novice and Arcade though, the jump is pretty steep.

I've had that ish on on wishlist for probably close to 2 years based on people here saying how good it is and it never goes on sale lol

Man Gran Turismo 7 takes up like half my PS4’s hdd. I deleted a bunch of stuff, freed up something like 160+ GB and was able to play yesterday but there was an update today and it kept telling me that I didn't have enough space for what turns out was a pretty nominal update, so I just deleted it. Guess that one will be a PS5 only game for me.

7 hours ago, OPTIMUS124 said:

Not sure what context was missed. It's honestly one of the more straightforward videos. Regardless of whether he was drunk, she lied on the report, stating that Riley had another open container when she was the person who created it. 

 

 She did not do herself any favors by opening a sealed container and then placing it back in the car and then stating that it was open ON VIDEO.

 

I haven't had any success finding the full traffic stop, but here is Officer Oliver's full deposition on the matter at hand. 

 

 

An abbreviated version of the deposition showing that Officer Oliver stating "she didn't remember" multiple times during the deposit

t'll likely fall into the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.

 

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree

 

 

 

The context of how he was driving, if he was weaving all over the road, and what made them stop him.

Did he actually have a mixed drink in the console or was that bullshit?

Was he actually drunk while driving or did he refuse the field test just because? How do cops prove someone is drunk if the suspect doesn't handle themselves super sloppily and refuses a field test?

I can't say she did the right thing but it's hard to have sympathy for this guy either. It's possible booze is the reason he's got a suspended license.

10 hours ago, Sonichuman said:

This is so fucked.  I"m glad most cops are required to wear camera's now because what in the actual fuck.

Was this cop hopping the footage would get scrubbed?  I don't know what the thought process here was.

I hate these videos because there's always so much context left out. Dude didn't do himself any favors driving on a suspended license and refusing a (voluntary lol, they need to stop acting like these are actually a choice) sobriety test, but I'm curious about when she said he had a mixed drink in the console. Wondering if that was true or bullshit. Either way, they got the guy on the suspended license and probably figured they could upcharge him to DUI and make better stats. This type of shit doesn't help anyone though.

Found @Chadouken's Twitter account

4 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

@SonichumanThis situation in Gaza has hipped me to the fact that Israel has been doing all kinds of fucked up shit for decades and they never get called on it. Hamas, rightfully so, got crushed for October 7th. Israel skates on everything though. This current situation in Gaza is the first time I've seen them sort of called out on their BS. They are literally an apartheid state and the world at large seems fine with it.

Israel has funded Hamas in the past and encouraged them a bit because they were seen as a rival to the PLO and Fateh groups. Some "enemy of my enemy is my friend" type stuff.

And this is basically just another front for the Islamic people. Yes they have a right to be pissed that Israel took their land, but if they weren't fighting Israel, they'd be fighting someone else because that's pretty much what they've done for their entire history.

There's really no good guy here and this will never be resolved unless one side legitimately genocides the other. That's the only way either of them will get any peace.

3 hours ago, RSG3 said:

This is an issue for the "Souls" games in general, the amount of people who include Sekiro in that category is pretty painful and people are calling Stellar Blade a Souls game now to, and like yea i see the influence but fucking nooooo!!!!!

Yeah I agree, Sekiro has fuck all to do with souls yet because you rest at a "bonfire" and From makes it it's somehow lumped in.

2 hours ago, RSG3 said:

People didn't enjoy that game flow. Look man I'm not telling you your wrong for liking Bloodborns PVP I'm just telling you the stuff you like the general community hated. They hate healing as it is, make it fast and give us 20 of them isnt gonna make them suddenly like healing more. 

 

 

I think the problem is lumping Bloodborne in with souls games. It shares some mechanics I guess but it's really very little like them and should be treated as its own thing.

2 hours ago, RSG3 said:

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I think we're about to be talking past each other again. Docta's from Mars, RSG is from Venus I guess 😂

But you wanted to know what Disney Princess programming is and I think (I hope) we can agree that people being led to believe they deserve something just for existing is destructive.

3 hours ago, Reticently said:

Entertainment is generally escapist, or it isn't entertaining.  Blaming entertainment for peoples' sense of entitlement just seems futile to me, because basically no one is going to consume entertainment showing people enthusiastically settling for ugly, stupid, broke, assholes.  Like, maybe any one of those things, but then that character is going to have unrealistic redeeming qualities in the other areas in spades.

 

Is it a real problem though?  If there's some bimbo type out there insisting on "top 5% income, 6'4"" dating material, eventually they're going to age out of the prime dating pool and just be choosing from the "I'll only date virgin pornstars who want to be my tradwife" leftovers anyway.

I'm not blaming entertainment, but people take cues from entertainment and things are normalized through it.

Is it a problem? Maybe, especially in a time when women are making more money and 1 in 5 of them won't date a man who earns less than they do.

1 hour ago, RSG3 said:

Because it's so fucking fast it's really really difficult to punishment and a fuck load of pepple really hated that. You get 20 suoer fast heals, makes rhe fights drag out for a long time, people didn't like it. Fuck people bitch about healing with Estus and that shits slow as fuck and easily punishable, so yea they loath blood vials. I still get hate mail from people for using Crimson Flasks when invaded in Elden Ring, as if their personal house rules mean fucking anything to anyone. 

Ive found you can predict when people are going to heal because they'll try to put some distance between you when their health gets to a certain point. If you're ready, it's not too bad parrying that and it'll usually lead to a kill so it's worth it. But you can also stay on them so they don't have a chance.

What's the crimson flask do? Invasions are a free for all. Anyone trying to put any kind of rules on those is basically just publicly saying they suck lol