Hunter5024

I saw The Killing Joke, and documented my thoughts in this thread. It was Bullshit. This left me in a sour mood and I decided to watch something funny to wash the taste out of my mouth. Unfortunately I have this sneaking suspicion that I've seen every funny movie, so I went hunting for something semi-recent and stumbled across Spy, which I decided to watch because its Rotten Tomatoes score is really high, and I thought Bridesmaids was alright. So I watched Spy and came away wondering why it scored so highly. It seemed like embodiment of a middle of the road comedy, with the only highlights being Jason Statham making an idiot out of himself. So I was 0 for 2 on movie watching this week. Then my friend put on Leon The Professional, which I had never seen before, and it was fucking awesome. Pretty closely ranked with The 5th Element for my favorite Luc Besson movie.

Killing Joke is my favorite Batman comic so I decided to see this in theaters last night and walked out disappointed. I get that the length of the original comic means they had to add content if they wanted to turn it into a full movie, but it's like a full 30 minutes before they've adapted a single page of the comic this movie is named after, and none of the added material has anything to do with the story. The movie literally works better if you don't watch the first third of it. I expect they decided to have The Adventures of Batgirl at the beginning because if there's any major criticism of The Killing Joke, it's the awful treatment of Barbara Gordon's character. This doesn't fix that at all.

The Killing Joke itself was an incredibly straight forward adaptation. Regardless of quality I didn't think the animation, voice acting, or music elevated the story at all. I would've been better off just reading the comic again, because the adaptation really didn't bring anything new to the table, and a lot of the iconic imagery was watered down for the sake of making it simpler to animate. They even fucked up the last shot, none of the implications of the original artwork were there. My friend (who has never read the comic before) was just confused by the abrupt ending. I had to explain to him why The Killing Joke is even considered good, which is maybe the worst case scenario for an adaptation.

Sounds like what I expected. This still leaves the question of how powerful it is compared to the Wii U.

Right now I'd be tempted to say Stellaris, but for all the things that game does right there's quite a bit it also does wrong, so it'd be hard to give it the top spot. Another contender is Uncharted 4, but that doesn't quite feel right. I wouldn't rule out Fire Emblem either, but I'd say the sheer amount of content they released is actually working against it, I'm feeling pretty Fire Emblemed out (which is partially my fault for buying a copy in Japan before U.S. release).

I think the problem is that people's opinions are just very precious to them. I doubt this is a recent phenomenon.

I somehow sank 73 hours into Stellaris without even really trying to. I played The Horde, a military dictatorship populated by a race of fanatically militaristic, demon-looking lizard things with a penchant for slavery. I spent most of my game being the biggest asshole on the block, expanding as quickly as possible to keep my nearby allies in check, and picking fights whenever it suited me. Needless to say it didn't take long for everybody in the galaxy to hate me. They hated me so much in fact that they set aside all their differences and formed an alliance, and then every empire in the galaxy simultaneously declared war against me. "I'm fucked." I thought, and then after a few skirmishes and captured planets, I realized I was winning. I eventually "beat" the game after I'd genetically modified my lizards into 6 subraces that could withstand any climate, and then colonized all of the planets in my borders (which is currently about half the galaxy). I think my time with Stellaris has come to an end for a while, because I've reached the point where even selecting my main fleet cuts the frame rate in half, and conquering the remaining half of the galaxy sounds more tedious than fun.

The core game in Stellaris is a fantastic realization of its vision. The number of options you have to customize your empire is incredible, and roleplaying through all of the unique scenarios that your empire encounters makes for a lot of really awesome stories. There's some stuff on the strategy side of things that they still need to figure out, but I'm confident that they will. This is my first Paradox strategy game but their track record for post release support is incredible, and I can't wait to see what kind of stuff they come up with. I know I could just as easily start another race and sink another couple dozen hours into this game, but I won't, because there's just too many awesome games out right now to focus on just one. 5/5 will play again.

For some reason I just can't seem to get into the longer series that I'm normally most comfortable with, so I've been reading a lot of shorter novels. I read The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle, which I'm still sorting out my feelings about. It kind of dragged, and it's really not what I'm normally into, but there were some pretty beautiful passages and concepts. Maybe I'd like the movie better. I would give it The Only Unicorn, out of All Remaining Unicorns.

After that I jumped right into Neil Gaiman's Stardust, which I really enjoyed. It was a charming adventure that didn't overstay its welcome. After reading it I watched the movie again and decided I like that a bit better, the actors make the book's somewhat thin characters a lot more likable, and the added content only increased the story's charm for me. I'd give it roughly 80% of the innumerable stars. I think I'd like to read a little more of Gaiman's stuff after this, if anyone has any recommendations let me know.

Currently I'm reading The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy books, I'm on the third one. I absolutely loved the first book. While I was reading the passage about the sperm whale I actually had to stop for a minute just to process how funny it was, that's never happened to me while reading a book before, but it happened multiple times throughout the first one. I love the characters, the plot is absurdly fun. Fantastic book. The second one was a small step down in quality, if only because the plot was less satisfying and the jokes didn't land quite as often. However the chapter about the grammatical complexities of time travel may be some of my favorite words ever printed. Still pretty early in the third one, still waiting for it to pick up steam. I will report back with my findings.

I chose Instinct because Zapdos is my favorite bird, and Instinct has downtown Tucson on lock. Since making the decision I have discovered that Valor has my neighborhood way more on lock, so I'm going to try and fix that somehow (or probably not actually cause I can't see myself ever getting Pokemon this powerful, cause this game is a huge time sink and not really good enough to justify that time).

It seems kind of silly to get upset that this game is in America, like I totally understand the sentiment for games set in modern times, but for this particular game the only difference the location will make is raw geography. And in terms of landscape Colorado is an A+ choice, it's beautiful with a ton of diversity.

I think if someone has trouble eating a Rocky Mountain Oyster, then they just haven't come to terms with the reality of meat.