TheMightyEthan

Death's Door I grabbed the Switch version of this instead of the Playstation one because I figured it'd be nice to play mobile, thought it would look great on the OLED, and also it's not so demanding that it'd be an issue on the TV, and I was right about all three. This game is a lot of fun, very old-school Zelda except minus the overworld (there's a little hub area, but it's more like the castle in Mario 64 than it is Hyrule), but without the fiddliness of the old school combat. Combat is fast and responsive, and it feels great. There have been a few frustrating parts, but only bosses, and it's never made me want to quit. I'm on the second world of at least 3 (as far as I can tell only 3, but I don't know yet if it pulls an Ocarina of Time and unveils a second stage), and so far I highly recommend it.

Death Stranding is Game of the Year, every year.

The transition would be rocky, to say the least.

You could outlaw guns, that might have helped somewhat. *Edit - Also the parents are charged with 4 counts of manslaughter each, but for some reason the prosecutor announced the charges in a press release before the court appearance so surprise, surprise, they didn't show up.

I read one, or possibly half of one, of the prequels, and I do not recommend them.

I made some drop rolls and a frozen pizza as a test, and it worked great.

No, that's not it, though now that you mention it I do remember that one too. The one I'm thinking of was similar but jankier.

When I was a kid there was a show I loved that I can't remember the name of, it was one of those kid game shows, and all I remember about it is that at the end the final contestant had to play this "VR" side scroller game. I have no idea what it looked like from their perspective, what the audience saw was obviously green-screened, where we saw them side-on with the game background scrolling behind them, and they had to physically jump over obstacles and duck under lasers and stuff. It was badass.

RIP

Yeah, I didn't realize the grips were rubberized and textured when I got it, but I love it.

Bought Death's Door for Nintendo Switch. Almost got it for Playstation, but decided I'd rather have the portability for this one, and it looks like too fast a game for remote play to be viable.

Microwave gave out, and we needed a replacement before we could eat dinner, so one trip to Walmart later and we have this. I'm actually happy, cause I've been wanting a toaster oven but we don't have enough room on our counter for another device, but this one fills both rolls.

What is the use case for that?

I see they're going back to the style of the Halo 3 ads. Good call.

Oh gods, I forgot about the sex-nuns.

You have a Series X controller that's already wearing out?

Every other preview I've seen has said that while it has a few elements that on paper seem like they should feel like Ubi open world, like securing the FOBs, in practice the game as a whole does not feel like that.

I'm sure it was a deliberate choice, I just think it was a bad one, it made her seem like a nervous wreck (not just that one scene, it happens more than once) which I didn't think fit the character. There are tons of scenes in tons of shows where characters play inner turmoil without breaking down sobbing. I just wish they'd been more subtle about it. The really weird thing to me is that once shit really starts to hit the fan she does start playing it that way, inner freaking out covered by outer calm, I just wish she'd been that way the whole time. Still, considering that's one of only two serious complaints I have about the movie, they're doing pretty great. No movie is going to be entirely devoid of problems.

It's been too long since I read them for me to remember which ones were the good ones. Sorry. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ As far as how to show her struggling to keep calm, in the scene with the box you have her standing extremely rigid, maybe show her deliberately taking long, slow breaths, in close up you can show that her jaw is clenched, that kind of stuff, so she's obviously tense, and have a voice-over of her saying the fear mantra so you know she's doing that in her head. Then my wife pointed out if you did that at that scene then mantra would become code for her being worried, and later you could show her being really upset/scared by actually whispering it out loud instead of just thinking it.

Yeah, I think all the Frank ones are worth reading, even if (as is inevitable), some are better than others. I did not like the prequels his son wrote though.

I also saw Dune and really liked it, though I wouldn't say it was perfect. For one, Jessica was freaking out too much most of the time. I get that shit is going down, but she should be composed, she's a Bene Gesserit ffs! And there are ways to portray someone having to work to stay composed while still managing to do it. It lacked subtlety and I thought really detracted from the movie. As my wife said, "Do they really just think people are that stupid? Dune should be better than that." The other thing was the last line of the movie be Like come the fuck on, you might as well have a character shout, "There's going to be a sequel!" Especially since that character shouldn't even know anything special is happening. I hate shit like that, and it being the very last thing left a bad taste in my mouth (though thankfully the rest of the movie was good enough that it didn't ruin the experience). But overall the movie was fantastic, it's up there with the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies in terms of how good an adaptation it is. The fact that my wife, who usually rolls her eyes at me making her watch sci fi, thought it was really good should tell you how good it is.

In spite of myself I'm actually getting pretty fucking stoked for Infinite. It looks pretty rad, so I'm hoping they learned the right lessons from 4 and 5. In a preview one outlet described it as "Silent Cartographer: The Game", which if it lives up to that sounds dope af.

Nothing can make up for not including that absolute unit.

Forza Horizon 5 This game is good, although I didn't fall in love with it like the last two. I did like the setting better than 4, and the actual racing is as good as ever, but I felt like the easy they changed up the progression kind of made it lose a sense of cadence or something. Instead of showcase events unlocking at set intervals, there are points that you get that you can use to unlock them, but they're mixed in a pool with the ultimate races from all the disciplines, and some other stuff, and you pick which one to do next. Something about that made it feel less ridiculous and awesome than previous entries. At the end I just kinda felt like it petered out. 4/5

On Kinda Funny Games Daily they were talking about all the stuff WB owns that could go in there, and it's honestly a lot of really cool characters, more than I realized.