ItHas2BeSaidKVO

I don’t care for the pop culture vom-fest that Fortnite has turned out to be, but I can’t lie, I think this is pretty cool. The question is though, what’s the stats on the team, because I assume they can’t be great (only watched a few eps so far, so don’t know if they’re any good by the end of the current season).

So I went and did what most of the internet believes is self-flagellation which was to see Morbius. It was one of those movies I got over-interested in simply due to it being delayed so many times due to COVID (see also, No Time to Die and A Quiet Place Part 2), and it gave me a good excuse to finally get around to watching both Venom and Let There Be Carnage (TL;DR review: LTBC is better then Venom mainly due to Harrelson fully leaning into the schlockiness of the concept, but I did quite enjoy the banter/shitcanning between Eddie and Venom). And you know that they say: in for a penny, in for a pound.

Honestly, it's not the hot trash everyone's making it out to be. It's just a very formulaic, by-the-numbers anti-hero movie. The CGI is fine and has some neat effects but not spectacular, the science of how he becomes superhuman is very hand wavy, he figures out and masters his superpowers like instantly, you never buy that his female doc co-worker would ever want to jump his bones, and Matt Smith is a very cookie-cutter villain (but at least he looks like he's having fun).

The mid-credits scene can fuck right off though, in that it attempts to set up an idea the movie spends pretty much it's whole runtime trying to rally against.

Overall: 2.5/5.

Not exactly dumb, but losing the muscle memory when taking a break from rhythm games ie. Guitar Hero and having to get the touch back.

Maybe he can do that thing constrictor snakes do when they’re swallowing large prey that takes up their whole mouth where they have a little windpipe that pops out to ensure that they can still breathe.

@rahf: I respect your opinion on the story and I’m not having a go at anyone in this thread. I just had a moment where I read those articles articulating why it’s problematic and I thought, ‘Damn, these are really salient points that I as someone who doesn’t have a close association with anyone on the spectrum never actually thought about’.

@rahf: I was just meaning in terms of the ableist themes of the DLC, not necessarily the story itself, which I think is impactful and thought provoking (I say this as a physically 'able' person who hadn't even thought about the issues of the DLC before I read some articles on it long after I played it).

Just a word of warning which might read like a ‘get woke son’ comment, but Overlord is actually pretty problematic in the story it tells if you think about it for more than 5 seconds, so just prepare yourself for that.

What they’ve always been, an industry circlejerk? (I kid, but then again, I don’t really)

If you’re cool with ethically questionable practices, emulators (even on iphones with a little bit of work) are a damn good time.

@hcaulfield: I’m not sure about whether you can get it three months for $1 (xbox.com only has it for one month), but they were doing things like that for new customers when they first started the subscription (I did the thing a lot of people did where they let you change your xbox gold sub up to three years to the Game Pass Ultimate service (Gold + Console Game Pass + PC Game Pass), thereby getting something like just over $500 worth of value for only just under $250), so I guess I’ll just say the obvious answer and google it about whether that 3 month offer is still valid.