“Anyway I hate to seem like a prude but I don’t think most sex scenes in books, TV and movies are even necessary for the story or exist for any reason other than to titillate the audience. Which is fine in its place but shouldn’t be shoehorned in just to make something more popular.”

This reminds me when Robert Wise went to Shirley Jackson and told her his theory about “The Haunting of Hill House”, that everything was on Eleanor’s head, and she replied that it was a very interesting theory but not what she intended to portray.

At last, one cinephile here.

Judge Dredd at least has GREAT production design. Do I excuse that one only for the production design? Yes I do.

Never understood the hate for Oscar and Rhinestone, never will. At worst, they are inoffensive films.

The thesis is very clear: the show made a huge effort to connect the movie universe, and the movies did not, so the show had to adapt and twist all the time. 

Looks gorgeous.

This is a total normal exercise for 9th grade, part of the ethics discussion. Now, I hate trolley problems and I would frame this as the kind of fantasy we like to get ourselves into because we would love to be the ones to pick who lives and who dies and justify it afterwards through some kind of moral compass we…

Software is like drugs: only the first bumps are free. 

I have been years hearing RUUUN. Though he says something completely different. I mean, never trust me again on anything.

I think you North Americans are not aware at all of how much of indie cinema you lost. You had your John Sayles, your Hal Hartley, your Alan Rudolph, all those weirdos doing weird adventurous stuff which now you can only find out if you follow the horror genre, the only one where experimentation is allowed.

Going in my mid 40s and I am so into electronic music. What I listen around is not as incredibly sad as in 2004, the year we all got dumb and we were listening to rehashes for so many years and all the experimentation that happened between 1999 and 2003 vanished, but still there is so much lost potential because in…

I cannot believe it. It is almost the same thing that happened with Skyrim, where the inventory was practically unmanageable without the inventory mod. Again and again, Bethesda never learn from their UI mistakes. 

I see this as a very good sign that coders in general will be asked to work for free, for exposure in software. Because they are not doing anything new, just recycling free libraries. It starts in mods and translations, will follow with games, then with general software.

my takes

Classics, but also the arguably best of them all, Pool of Radiance, has many interface issues (you have to manually memorise the spells every time and manually heal during rest)

RUUUUUN!

I am going to fight on Wrighteous86 hill: in a game context, if you can pick up something, it should be useful for something, even on rpgs. If not they are red herrings. It is not OCD: it is the way game design has taught us that if something has an interaction then it’s relevant. It is not real life, it is the game…

it is incredible to see. It is just the way Edward Zwick frames his stories, that always rubs me the wrong way in the sense of I feel someone is poking my eye. Technically it’s awesome for sure. 

my take is that The Outer Worlds was ok on that matter and its problem is that it was basically the same game as Deus Ex Invisible War: extremely claustrophobic, with barely anything to do apart from the scripted stuff.