May I ask...what is a “Lil Xan”?

Don’t worry, it made me smile! Thanks for clarifying.

I’m not actually sure which posts you’re replying to. My one post duplicated and I have the original comment up there too. If you’re trolling me, A+.

I always thought that was sorta the point of Jack’s characterization. He was always evil, the Overlook just let him “indulge” for once.

I genuinely think the film is hailed as a masterpiece solely because Kubrick is attached to it. You don’t see that for other directors (Hitchcock, Fellini, Scorsese, Lang, you name it). The works that were considered great still are, the ones that weren’t are still considered bad. Kubrick’s the only director who tends…

I think it’s purposeful. Kubrick likes some out there performances in some of his movies, the issue is that it deflates the horror in horror rather quickly. It may work in camp, but The Shining is clearly not meant to be a campy picture.

It happens; you can’t like everything.

It happens; you can’t like everything.

I wish, I would actually have some money and some talent.

I hate to admit, but I sort of don’t like The Shining. I like many of Kubrick’s works, and I think he has 3 or 4 masterpieces. Still, I just never got this film. The craziest thing is that I am a big horror fan and should instinctively respond to something like The Shining (especially since I am a Kubrick fan!), but I…

Oh I don’t think Anthem will kill Bioware (if it does it’s not related to any view I have of Bioware since I dislike them now for vastly different reasons than most who dislike them, and people who like them would hate me even more than the rightwingers that always bitch about Bioware now).

I didn’t say the elves are strictly African, but there is an obvious parallel there. There’s city elves, forest elves, and then ancestral elves. Do I really need to explain this further?

“Which characters have been ”dropped” or changed personality? Each entry have had diffrent characters and taken place in diffrent regions of Thedas.”

Sorry, but I still diasagree. Many characters have been dropped, radically changed design and personality, and the seies pendants most of its time introducing new characters across the games anyway. Technically, the “setting” hasn’t changed but it’s not really the same. Mainly theee deferents locations in each game,…

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It’s amazing. Weird as shit, highly originally, and intelligently directed and written. Cronenberg’s going to be hailed as a genius when he dies, and I imagine many of his films (especially those 90s ones) will be reevaluated.

Still haven’t caught it yet! I’ve been meaning to but just can’t find the time. It’s on my to do list!

I hope, for the sake of Bioware, the game turns out to be a success. Sadly, they stopped making games I was interested in a long time ago. There’s no studio that I know of which makes RPGs that aren’t massive in scale and demanding in time investment. I want those bite-size RPGs like Kotor back.

He’s technically wrong about that (obviously), but in a way he’s right: Dragon Age is dead, spiritually. Every single game in the series has shifted in gameplay, story, tone, style, and character. There’s no constant across the three games. Whatever DA4 is going to be, it’s not going to be a true sequel to any of…

Love Cronenberg. My favorites of his are Crash, The Brood, Dead Ringers, eXistenz, and A History of Violence (and God, Crash really needs a reevaluation, it’s fucking magnificent - eXistenz too).