Why not make all entertainment into propaganda on how to not be an asshole while you're at it? That season of Game of Thrones would be just swell.
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Why not make all entertainment into propaganda on how to not be an asshole while you're at it? That season of Game of Thrones would be just swell.
Just the smoking thing is fine.
I'm ok with everything but the cussin'.
No cussin'!
It's not censorship if it's just one thing and I'm okay with it.
I liked having a cigarette now and then, it never had this mega-addictive quality for me. But I think it's probably for the best that we cracked down on them as much as we did. Obviously, your body you choice etc etc, but getting that out of sports/sports advertising/kid&family themed stuff was good.
It is really hard to judge. We've all but decided that refined sugar is as bad as smoking. And suvs increase fatality rates in car crashes.
Sweets should probably reduced by 90%.
I love it when one of those hilariously oversized pickup trucks drive past me and the bumper is at the same level as my face. Nobody that's driving in Seattle needs one of those for any real reason.
Or most of the country. If you can afford it, you're probably not off enough to use it.
I'm not advocating for lawful censorship. Only self. Also cussing doesn't create one of eye leading causes of death in people.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
Sugar does.
Oh shit.
Netflix doesn't give notes, your shitty corporate dream is dead.
I remember renting NES games as a wee lad, and of course the carts and instructions would spend some time in smoker homes (my parents were non smokers as far as I can remember). Not full time, not enough to reek, but just enough to take on a distinctive aroma. I kinda liked it. On rare occasions, you can find it recreated in an old game you might pick up from a mom and pop store, but it's rare.
Nah that's dumb. There aren't a lot of movies where the protagonist is popping lifesavers in 1/2 the scenes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Its so normalized you just don't notice it.
Someone is always eating a candy bar, sucking down a soda, eating a little cake, etc. Sugary food boxes in the background of any kitchen scene. A lot of free roaming games have drink machines. Dead Rising used sugary foods as healing items, etc.
nuka cola
Yep, whole levels in games dedicated to it
https://youtu.be/RNleuNPl-zY?t=1m40s
Pepsiman. Never forget.
Zool.
Not to be confused with Zuul, who created the ultimate embodiment of sugary death.
Well the number one drink in movies is coffee followed by alcohol btw. And things in backgrounds aren't salient props.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Nah you're twisting the intent and context. It's just a pet peeve. There will always be smoking, it just seems gratuitous atm.
ok
The only thing I ever found cool about cigarettes in movies was how everyone had Zippo lighters. I don't smoke, but I wish I had an excuse to own one! They're so neat.
I think you get a lot of utility in film when one smokes in a conversation. The lighting w the zippo, the commonality of both characters tucking away to smoke, one person not talking has an activity to watch, the smoke billows and looks great in shadows.
Perhaps I'm just getting older so stuff I like has cigs in it though. I don't recall any in Marvel movies.
There was a big push to get the shit out of movies in the late 80s and onward. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of tax credit for doing so. I know TV networks got something for making those antidrug cartoons.
You're seeing more smoking because the 20 and 30 somethings are rekindling an interest in old movies and pre90s culture.
There are also nonUS markets to consider. Europe and China still smoke. Germany has fucking cig machines mounted in the corner of city blocks and packs up front where we'd put candy bars by the register.
Surely you've noticed the conscious effort to include eruope and asia in movies? All the transformer and marvel movies have had at least 20 30 minutes in notUS.
Indonesia gets people hooked on cigs when they're like 8 years old.
Everywhere I've travelled has been smoking friendly—especially the middle east which was basically full of gross chain-smokers. Most of those countries have prominent tobacco ads too btw. VICE actually has an agency division that produces tobacco advertising (among other taboo stuff).
Smoke–free public places was the best accomplishment for the smoker health though so I suppose this agenda is already as far as it can go.
A lot of movies have a disclaimer at the end of the credits these days saying that they received no financial incentive for showing the use of tobacco products.
I always watch the credits. I remember being surprised the first time I saw it.
Yeah well, Milo and Otis says no animals were harmed during its production so...
That is my #1 favorite thing to do at movies! I love the wacky names of the crew!!!! Herbert "The Chaser" Rodriguez!Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
"Key Grip"
Your mom knows all about it.
Who's the best boy?
You gaffer.
^^Nice
Brian and Rob were such cut ups.
GARY SAMPSON
none of the games I purchased and installed last night and while at work, will work. all the dead risings are broke because of fucking windows market live fucking bullshit
I bought FFXIII to play for some reason then it said it was 60gigs and I noped the fuck outta there and got me a refund.
That's the sound of dual language and high res videos.
Aint nobody got time for that! compress that shit, square!
That's an interesting point to make. I expect high quality, uncompressed assets with physical media. I currently do for downloaded content, too, but I don't really care for streaming video because it's just so convenient.
I play so few games. I hope they don't start compressing that stuff.
Don't compress that just because Satsuki has stone age internet! Just buy the disc when it hits $15 in two months.
Oh no I have excellent internet, I just don't want to clear specific space for it or wait like ~10 minutes.
I doubt the transfer files were 60gb. Just after it gzips on your end. Still a problem if your PS4 is full.
you'd think we'd move past that and just download the big things for the first 10 hours of the game and let the rest of that shit download in the background while you play.
Especially a hall walker like FFXIII.
Games are already doing that.
Don't Xbone games do that? That's how it worked for Forza Horizon 2.
Yeah, it's been a slow trickle of companies doing that for probably close to ten years now.
I am preemptively maximum bored by everything that's going to be said about peegate.
It's going to be a slow trickle.
A gentle flow.
POLICING THE PRESIDENTIAL PEEPEE POLICY
Just left an eBay seller negative feedback. This is the second time out of two that a seller has outright lied about the condition (or even color!) of an item. I was so excited last night when I got home and saw that the item arrived almost a week earlier than estimated (came from Canada), and then I opened it up and looked at it. I was PISSED. So pissed that I sent a message informing him that I was about to leave a negative, and just so that he knew that it was based solely on his misrepresentation and not ebay buyer scam bullshit that I didn't want a penny back or to return. I'd keep his trash and maybe he'd be more honest in the future.
Makes me so angry that I know my life as a seller is made more difficult because of assholes like this.
I don't leave negative feedback. But I buy things hard to find so I can't afford to be blocked. I've lost at least 500 over bad sellers and had to start making sellers send me pictures that my boxing requests are met before I will pay. (I will send more for shipping if necissary)
I do not understand the weird relationship ebayers have with shipping. Like why will a buyer take the cheapest option on something they care enough about to open a case on? Why take economy on the 150 sealed game? Why choose free on the 3 disk? You're going to get a stamp, you do know that, right? And sellers that sell expensive items and then pack it like ass. I've, no joke, received things in Russian potato sacks.
Also. Yes. Fuck that seller. I dog everything I sell. I don't know why anyone would lie or up sale on ebay.
Since Ebay is an asshole to sellers, I automatically send the more expensive stuff (over $100) in a padded box with signature confirmation. I take the hit on shipping, but I feel like I'm saving myself some headaches. But yeah, spend $80 on a sealed PS1 game, then waffle on the $6 box and instead gamble on a free bubble mailer seems awfully stupid. But again, I think it's because the buyer knows that if something happens to it during shipping ebay/paypal will be more than happy to fuck the seller and give a full refund.
I don't think that much thought goes into it. I think its the same people that put $6000 of rare rpgs on a $15 wallmart dvd case.
The people that put $20,000 worth of games on a $25 Walmart book case annoy me more.
I missed Martin Shkreli at UC Davis but then it got cancelled bc protestors :(
You're weird.
i know :(
allergies still distorting my world.
I just looked up the price of some Gamecube games to fill a few holes. Holy fucking shit.
What are looking for?
I'll fill your holes if I can.
Oh baby!
Off the top of my head, Luigis Mansion, Battalion Wars, Timesplitters 2, F Zero GX, Rogue Squadron 3, any RPG other than FE and Paper Mario.
I ordered a modchip...
Sorry to be such a tease, but I only have F-Zero, and I'm not ready to part with it just yet.
What's bugging me is that I have so little energy these days that I spend my weekends just loafing on the couch and frequently napping.
I think I'm getting cabin fever, and there is nothing around where I live that's worth leaving the house for.
That's ok, I should have bought it for five bucks when I had a chance.
You wanted the Japanese version of Luigi's Mansion, right?
please say yes please say yes this is my one chance please say yes
But I'm Murkan!
Why on earth would you want that turd Rogue Squadron 3? Stick to Rogue Leader.
Curiosity, mostly, I never played it after the bad reviews. I certainly wouldn't pay much for it.
F-zero gx sells for a lot now?
The flying felt like stuff that was left on the cutting floor from the first two games (but was at least still playable) while the stuff where you are running around on the ground was just atrocious.
It's about a thirty dollar game now on the low side. Which isn't unreasonable I suppose, but I used to see it for $5-10 all the time and somehow never picked it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by bbobb
It's well worth $30
Have any of you guys played this game?
I feel like it kind of crosses a line. Obviously the bad guys are ww2 germans. But it has been white washed. And the allies have an Irishman dressed like a leprechaun. And the toon aspect seems shallow. Like these guys saw 5 looneytoon shorts.
I give a lot of ww2 entertainment a pass, because I think it makes a good gateway for kids to develop a desire to learn about history. But this seems too far removed. Like a kid could play it and not in a million years think this stuff was ever real or develop a desire to learn more.
It would probably be ok if they had just moved a bit further out like Metal Slug and be a wink and a nudge to those in the know, while being its own thing to kids.
Shamefully I probably will buy some of the models for the game, if only to kitbash it and have a little Schrodinger in NY outfit coming out the copola.
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That definitely seems like a Mr. Show sketch and I'm doubting its realness. But on the other hand, nothing surprises me at this point. It just seems so ridiculous and fake and I want to know the path of how this got green lighted.
It feels like an attempt by a business person to throw successful shit together to get his own successful shit. Overwatch and World of Tanks are both popular right now. Metal Slug is a cult classic. Maybe someone really loved those toon games on the gamecube?
They probably contracted the tanks out of Meng, who is making the kits. Otherwise, just from looking at it, no one involved has a deep understanding of the history or early cartoons. Like a 1940s style cartoon made by someone that had only seen the work of someone from 1980 that had made a copy of 1940s cartoons, but never had actually seen any themselves. It looks very farmed out with no central group that is invested.
I thought this was an iOS game at first glance.
I don't see anything objectionable about it, aside from the mediocre style. I grew up watching Hogan's Heroes, and I still took WWII history seriously when I learned about it.
I find it more disturbing that the weebs are playing shit like "The Maiden Rape Assault: Violent Semen Inferno"
You got a download link for that?Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
Yeah. Just to have perspective.
I was e-arguing with some MRA on Facebook and he started bragging about his youtube channel..............and then I looked it up, and he is 16. Ugh, i was arguing with a 16 year old. Gross.
You should ask him how he feels about NAMBLA.
The internet. It is both a blessing and a curse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Satsuki
Fucking seriously, man. I feel bad but that'll learn me to go fighting with strangers.
You know what is stupid? The Resident Evil Pure Evil set is over $170-200+, and it is just Greatest Hits of RE0 and RE1, which aren't worth that much. The cardboard box is worth over $100.Quote:
Originally Posted by GohanX
I always meant to pick up a RE chainsaw controller when they were everywhere for $15. Never did though. Now they're 10X that.
Not as silly as a $100 box, but jeez.
Lol that's nuts.
I pulled out Mario Kart and it still has the receipt in it. I bought Double Dash, Wind Waker, Pikmin, and some other game I couldn't make it (Wave Race?) for $40 total. I miss those days.
Btw, I found out that all new Xeno mod chips have nothing but red leds now and I'm not the only one who has redone the mod several times because they thought it was busted.
I passed on the chainsaw controller too, thought it was uncomfortable to use. How naive of me to use these things.
That was the same reason I kept passing on it.
I've figured for a while that mra's were mostly young boys scared of their own dicks. Maybe angry at their shitty mothers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Satsuki
And like 3 45 year old losers making money selling them shitty ebooks.
I went to school with one of those guys. "Evolve." I can't recall his real last name. George something or other. No clue what he's up to now.
v true. I was tempted to email his mom with screenshots of some of the shit he's spouting, but i figure i'll just leave it be. he'll meet some feminist he wants to fuck soon enough and his attitude will change.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Probably swing the other way and over compensate and be annoying.
Eventually drop a kid and find something better to worry about.
tell his mom?
I havent ruled it out yet. If he pops up again I will.