That’s a lot of money that random people seem to care a lot about.

Exactly. Like maybe you could have the scene play out like it does, but then after like when Will and Mike are talking on the tower, have Murray and Hopper have a little aside where Murray asks “did you ever think Will was, you know” and maybe Hopper being Hopper, just kinda shuts it down by refocusing on the task at hand. Imo it’s in-character for each, and doesn’t really take time away from other, more important things.

Maybe I’m just thinking about this too much.

I just watched Stranger Things 5 because I’m finally able to finish it.

Holy shit there were too many long drawn-out exposition scenes. Like take when Holly and Max are finally going to escape Vecna’s mind, and the portal opens up and it’s right fucking there, it’s so close you can literally taste the fresh air on the other side… And they stop dead in their tracks for Max to go on this 5 minute long speech to Holly about why she realized she didn’t really need the music or a boyfriend or whatever and the true strength was inside them all along and yadda yadda yadda. Like the entire show stopped dead in its tracks for that scene.

And then it did it again for Will finally coming out to his friends, and every single one of them just accepts him for who he is; which is great that he has a support system like that, I just think it would’ve added some depth and realism to some other characters if they still loved him as a friend/brother, but also had some reservations about him because he’s gay.

I also hated the 18 month time skips, of which there were two. Imo they were completely unnecessary and shoved in at the last minute to at least attempt to explain why everyone was ten years older than they were the last season. They should have started this season with the main kids in their senior year, with shit having been relatively dormant (but maybe the odd “stranger thing” happening every now and then) the entire time between 4 and 5. That way you can keep Holly 10 without the age difference between seasons being so glaringly obvious, especially because she’s such an “important” part of this season; and you could add that the goings on of the past few years is breaking her psyche and allowing Vecna to wiggle his way into hers and the other kids’ minds. It also raises the tension and stakes from the start, putting our main cast on edge but maybe a little complacent because of how much time has passed between significant events.

I love that he’s just a straight up warlord now. It fits his character surprisingly well imo.

I saw Avatar: Fire and Ash this weekend and I honestly thought it was awesome. It felt like Avatar 2.5, but I actually liked it more than the second one. Quaritch is my new favorite character in the series.

I watched the new Toxic Avenger movie and also had a blast watching it. It takes itself seriously to have a message, but not too seriously that it will literally rip someone’s arm off and try to put it back on the wrong way. Fun gross humor, pretty good acting, fun soundtrack and everyone just seemed like they were having a fun time making it.

I also saw The Color Out of Space (2019) for the first time, and my personal hype honestly lived up to it. It’s the right amount of weird and fucked up that you’d hope to find in a cosmic horror movie. I was actually surprised at the body horror in it, too.

This picture makes me want to play some Bladesong

There’s a demo on steam, and it’s basically a blacksmithing game. It’s not so much a sim, but there is a story mode and a creative mode. The story is there to teach you how to play the game and such, and creative is creative. It being a demo, not every piece/technique is available to play with, but there’s still a ton there that you can play with. You can change the length, width, size, shape and angles of your sword blade, and there are all kinds of attachments for crossguards, hilts, pommels, handguards, engravings and even different materials to play around with, like changing size and scale. People have made tridents, spears, katanas, scythes, forklifts, fish, and pretty much whatever else with the game’s tools so far; someone even made a badass anchor-sword.

“Positive One”? Just “Godzilla One”?

I just like movies and being entertained. Sometimes I want a deep story with intricate twists and turns and complex characters. Other times I just want to watch big explosions and watch a bunch of lasers flying at people.

There’s room in this universe for all kinds of movies. I don’t get why so many people here feel the need to come in and say “yeah well I didn’t like it/it’s not a good story because I found it boring.”

Stop generalizing your opinions as if it’s how everyone feels; you’re dangerously close to closing yourself in an echochamber of opinions.

Apparently not. People here act all high and mighty when it comes to movies doing well with general audiences. Watch, in just a couple years we’ll get posts on Lemmy saying “the Avatar movies were actually pretty good, I don’t understand the hate” just like on reddit.

This community is turning into r/movies every goddamn day, where any time someone posts an article or something about a popular movie most of the community feels the need to jump on a hate bandwagon and act like their own farts are better moviegoing experiences.

Shit they even remade Nosferatu and it was awesome

Personally, I like movies that are 2 hours or longer. Especially when you see them in the theaters, as it feels like it’s actually justifying the stupid costs of everything.

It feels like I’m actually going to a bit of an event.

They hate you because you speak the truth.

I mean an argument could be made that the factions and such were already a thing in the lore before Bethesda, but I doubt anyone at Interplay/Obsidian were coming up with the Atom Cats, the Railroad, or even the Institute.

So you’d rather it stay a niche, relatively forgotten game from almost 30 years ago?

Lol no. If Bethesda hadn’t taken up Fallout, it would have been forgotten in the dirt with Brotherhood of Steel, or Van Buren.

They brought Fallout to a more modern audience with 3, making it fully 3D and putting you right into the action. Imo, if the series has stayed isometric, most people would have forgotten about it after Tactics. It’s just the natural evolution of games.

Tbh I don’t care. Fallout wouldn’t be where it is today if it weren’t for Bethesda

I still haven’t watched Pearl, X, or Maxxxine

I mean sure. Especially if you’re coming from Oblivion or Morrowind, where even the archery was pretty rough.

I do like VATS though. I actually liked 4’s version where it would just slow down the world instead of completely pause it.

I’m interested in those tripod feet things

You could start with simple wooden structures that you upgrade and could change the layout/theme just like in the first, there could be added defensive placements and dedicated guard jobs too. I’m imagining with this scenario, attacks would come from both sides of the buildable area; you could make turrets at some point to replace the human guards, and there could be a verticality aspect to it, like building turrets and other things on higher levels and it gives an accuracy/damage bonus.

I’d also like the ability to send out more scouts and mission parties. With more locations to visit, and more enemy types like the Brotherhood or Enclave. I don’t remember if you could in Shelter, but it’d be cool to see other vaults you could visit on missions, either functioning or ruined.

I mean that was partially the point. They left in a lot of the bugs and glitches because fans liked them, it added to the charm of Oblivion.

I mean just listen to the dialog and how NPCs act. It’s literally just new graphics with good ol’ Oblivion, and that’s exactly what a lot of people wanted.