The Gaming Den

Everything about Inuyasha is infuriating to me. Especially the fact that I spent time watching it.

MGuy wrote:Everything about Inuyasha is infuriating to me. Especially the fact that I spent time watching it.

That speaks well of you.

Caprica has lost me. It's like all the boring episodes were taken out of Battlestar and remade with shittier actors and less money spent on effects.

That sounds exactly like Battlestar to me.

I actually like Caprica, but I'm not familiar with the BG universe.

The fact that Soul Reaver 2 took me only three days of casual play to finish.

...Oh, and watching Raziel's voice actor in some of the bonus features.... I've never experienced such a bizarre juxtaposition between actor and character...

Maj wrote:I actually like Caprica, but I'm not familiar with the BG universe.

I recommend watching the BSG mini movie thing that is the start of season 1

Maj wrote:I actually like Caprica, but I'm not familiar with the BG universe.

I recommend watching the BSG mini movie thing that is the start of season 1

Stars Wars Attack of the Clones is on right now.

And it's at the spot where Anakin killed all the sandpeople.

Ye gods, I realized I haven't seen this movie since right after it came out--and my psyche seems to have blocked out how god-damned AWFUL the acting was, particularly on the part of whatever-his-name-is playing Anakin Skywalker.

Well, I can certainly say that this is the moment that this webcomic lost me...

http://www.everydaydecay.com/

A webcomic artist/author being honest...

I have a lot to say so I'm going to get to the point first and explain after. I'm stopping EvD updates online. The archive will remain up but there will be no more pages published. I'm sorry it took so long for me to tell you; I've been attempting to wrestle with this internal conflict that has been plaguing me for several months. I needed to be absolutely sure. For the last four weeks I've logged into my update manager with every intention to write out what I thought I wanted to say, each time finding myself more conflicted than before. How do I let 10,000+ people down? It seems brutal honesty is the only policy and something everyone deserves, myself included.

The truth is, I don't like to draw.

Now I'm waiting for OotS to do the same. Really they lost me a long time ago, I just want it to finish.

My policy is that if you don't like or want to create entertainment, then don't. Ever. Just stop right there. Don't do one more comic. Just walk away. I don't blame you. You entertained people for as long as you could and aren't feeling it anymore.

This only applies if your material is free. If you actually requested money for your material at any point then you should at least have the decency to finish. I mean, I still don't think that you should finish if it gets to the point where you're going 'I hate this comic', but unlike people providing free material you deserve to have your artistic talent spat on and people to be skeptical of future products.

This is why I don't get mad at Rich Burlew's snail's pace of a schedule. Even though he does charge for books, all of his comics (except for Start of Darkness, which I view as complete and his hands are washed of it) are available for online for free anyway and you're just paying for bonus material. I'd be disappointed if he decided to just up and quit OotS but not angry.

"I don't like to draw"? WtF, man, then don't. Throw your years of work away.

Or maybe, find something to make it more interesting.

No one likes even the 'most fun' things when they become chores. Sheesh.

-Crissa

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a pretty good series, but after a while it went to the creator's head and he began expecting us to put up with bullshit plots like:
*Buffy goes catatonic, and the story follows her allies attempts to pull her out of her Quiet.
*Buffy gets poisoned and thinks she's in an asylum and the show was her delusions.
Does motherfucker think I'm not going to fast forward past that shit?

Well, being as when it was aired you couldn't, sure.

-Crissa

Flashforward.

If you reveal a Point of View character to have secretly bee a double agent, that isn't suspenseful - it's retarded. Janis' Face-Heel turn made no sense. She'd been a point of view character where we'd actually seen her flashbacks and inner monologues. That show is dead to me now. I'm not even watching the remaining episodes.

That kind of lazy writing and bullshit slight of hand must not be rewarded.

-Username17

Huhhhh?

I haven't seen the show, but nonetheless I am forced to say that that doesn't make a lick of sense. Could you deconstruct what happened for us, plz?

Lago PARANOIA wrote:Huhhhh?

I haven't seen the show, but nonetheless I am forced to say that that doesn't make a lick of sense. Could you deconstruct what happened for us, plz?

OK, here's the deal. It's a worse cheat than the big reveal that Boyd is the owner in Dollhouse. And that's saying something, because that one was literally impossible given the physics of the show, because Boyd had been unaffected by numerous scramble beams and pulses that took out everyone who had ever been through the machines.

In FlashForward, the core conceit is that everyone on Earth passes out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds and during that period they are shown a future that is a period of 2 minutes and 17 seconds from a specific point six months in the future at 10 PM Pacific time. And yeah, way too many people are doing pivotal things at that exact moment to be plausible (for fuck's sake, it's 1 AM at night on the East Coast), but it's part of the drama, so whatever. So the show pops into the head of various protagonists so that we can see their little future segments at close third person. And yeah, that's weird as hell, because these are just visions, so they should only be available from first person perspective, but whatever. I'm sure that would have been hard to film - especially for the sequences when two or more characters are interacting directly in a vision.

So Janis is an FBI agent. She's one of the protagonists, and a big part of the show is her coping with her vision, where she is pregnant. So you follow her around, watch her get up in the morning, watch her date a hot chef chick, watch her go to fertility clinics, watch her recover from getting shot in the fucking stomach by the bad guys, and so on. And then after ratings fell and they had captured the mole in the organization, they end with a big cliff hanger where she reveals that she is also a mole. Dun Dun DUN!

Except that's fucking retarded, because we've been inside her damn head and we know that she wasn't betraying or planning to betray team good and that she wasn't involved in the conspiracy in the first place. It's so far out of left field that it's really clearly a last ditch plot change to try to generate buzz about their show. Their show that has been steadily losing ratings because the A plot moves too fucking slowly.

-Username17

FrankTrollman wrote: Except that's fucking retarded, because we've been inside her damn head and we know that she wasn't betraying or planning to betray team good and that she wasn't involved in the conspiracy in the first place.
-Username17

Um... wow. That's pretty godawful.

I'm trying to think of worse plot twists I've seen in entertainment and right now I can't think of anything. And I'm plundering the usual depths of Naruto/ST: Voyager/Star Wars Episode II.

FrankTrollman wrote:
OK, here's the deal. It's a worse cheat than the big reveal that Boyd is the owner in Dollhouse. And that's saying something, because that one was literally impossible given the physics of the show, because Boyd had been unaffected by numerous scramble beams and pulses that took out everyone who had ever been through the machines.

Not sure where you are having a problem there. Boyd hadn't gone through the machines until shortly before his death. Boyd was in Boyd's orginal body from what I recall.

EDIT: Fixed tags. I hope.

So, Clash of the Titans disgusted me enough I forgot to post about it here.

Zeus = God, Hades = Satan, Perseus = Emo Jesus.

They seriously fucked this one up the ass, and I hear they want to make it a trilogy...

Neeeek wrote:

FrankTrollman wrote:
OK, here's the deal. It's a worse cheat than the big reveal that Boyd is the owner in Dollhouse. And that's saying something, because that one was literally impossible given the physics of the show, because Boyd had been unaffected by numerous scramble beams and pulses that took out everyone who had ever been through the machines.

Not sure where you are having a problem there. Boyd hadn't gone through the machines until shortly before his death. Boyd was in Boyd's original body from what I recall.

You recall incorrectly. The big reveal was that Boyd was the owner since before echo was echo, but that Boyd was not the owners original body, he was a mother fucking body selected by the owner for shits and giggles.

And so in fact Boyd definitionally went through the machine before echo ever did, and so any time an active anything went off, he should have been actived.

The new Dresden novel.

This is weird, because it has several moments that absolutely rocked me.

But the ending. Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhh

I'll spoiler this:

Dresden loses shit left and right in this book. His house, his office, a lot of other things. A few people die, etc.

And, on the last fucking page, Dresden gets shot from behind while he's just waiting on what happens next. It ends with him falling into water and thinking the light at the end of the tunnel is an incoming train.

I mean, you know Dresden won't die. But it's absolutely no closure, no sense of satisfaction in the ending.

Fuck. If I'd know that, I'd have waited another year for the next one so I could read them back-to-back.

I liked "Riddlebox," "Hokus Pokus," and "I Want My Shit" as much as the next guy. But Miracles is too far. I think the Insane Clown Posse is not invited to my birthday parties any more.

-Username17

It really falls flat compared to my favorite SoaD song, Science. The Posse should grow a pair.

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They *must* be kidding. These are the guys who did Hellalujah.