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@sloppydetective: My biggest gripe with TV is the manufactured cliffhangers and endless plot, just to sell more ads.

I mean, yeah, that’s the revenue model, but it leads to bad stories, so how are these things making money?

The Shield had a tight plot and every season pretty much had a place in the arc. Deadwood was great until it just ended. Game of Thrones was nearly perfect, but those last two seasons were aimless.

I had hoped that Netflix’s model of no ads and no appointment TV would have helped, but they’ve had a rough time getting out of TV’s nature, as well. Because they need to guarantee certain output, they’ve usually signed shows to x episodes at a certain range of minutes each.

Maniac was a show on Netflix where episodes felt like chapters in a book. One episode might be 75 minutes, another could be 20. I thought that very much worked in the show’s favor...just tell the story as it needs to be told.

I’m happy to give a movie an hour to let threads develop. I usually don’t form much of an opinion around shows until I’ve at least seen three episodes.

The exception is shit that shows itself to be fucking moronic early on and doesn’t let go. The Last Jedi, Jurassic World, that Ghostbusters reboot from a few years back...

Kurt Sutter’s Bastard Executioner started off so fucking stupid that I was out within 120 seconds. My wife watched the two hour premier, for some reason, but never made it any further.

Slow is never the problem for me. Moronic drivel, though...

Granted, I’ll watch some bad shit, sometimes, because it can be fun. I think it’s bad shit that thinks it’s good that I just cannot suffer.

@htr10: Usually bumped by bot accounts, but then someone starts talking about the topic again. Totally harmless, the latter.

To stay on topic, I dug Watchmen, but I never read the comics. My understanding is that comic fans found it too safe, too much a copy of the source, and that it didn’t get enough of the texture and flavor that the comics presented...but again, I’m just a guy who saw the film and read a little feedback at some point or another.

Hey! A real Pizza!

I watched a little of that video you posted from another event. Thanks for sharing. I thought Nier: Automata had some outstanding music and did really cool things with it. As an avid concert-goer (rock bands at nightclubs), it’s really bizarre to see footage of the game, people reading lines from the script, etc. on stage.

This isn’t something I’d attend, so it’s cool hearing that it worked for the target audience.

I remember seeing video of Arika Yamaoka performing Silent Hill music in more of a rock setting and thinking I’d be interested in seeing that. I think Silent Hill might have my favorite music from a video game series.

It’s cool, seeing where music in games has gone. I think old 8-bit stuff had to be very inventive due to the lack of tracks that could be overlaid. Stuff like Mario, Zelda, Metroid, River City Ransom, and Maniac Manson still stand out to me.

Then you had this time were so much was orchestral, because games could sound like movies. A lot of character was lost then. I think Nier is a GREAT example of taking arrangements and doing cool things with them for the medium.

A good tomato bisque can be pretty fucking amazing! Good call!

@sloppydetective: Yeah, it’s not quite a gondola...more of a horizontal elevator...if there’s a name for those. I think you hit a button and wait for this platform to come your way. I want to say it brought you to some object toward the end of the game, maybe right before the maze. MAYBE it’s right before you get the walkman, or right afterwards...

EDIT: Looks like it’s while following Ahti’s visions:

https://www.ign.com/wikis/control/Finnish_Tango_Walkthrough

There’s a screenshot of the control panel and another of the gondola/lift/platform in that link at the bottom of the page.

@rebel_scum: I asked my wife about this thread. She agreed that the one true answer is burgers.

Gyros were a close second for her. I wouldn’t have thought about it this way, but as soon as she said gyros were number 2, I understood before she explained:

Who the fuck is going to run a gyro restaurant in the middle of some small town without knowing how to make gyros?

I like the logic, but I still probably wouldn’t trust it to guide me through a minefield of potential vomit.

@themaniacsgnome: “Pizza Pizza: a pretty good option for self-loathing and self-pitty”

@sparky_buzzsaw: Outer Worlds is an interesting one. It’s great in the opening, but it never really does enough interesting things with story or mechanics to make it a game you want to keep going with....or maybe it doesn’t propel you, I guess.

I finished it, and it’s worth doing the loyalty missions, for sure, but I was ready for it to be over.

Very cool game with some very cool moments. I dug the devil-may-care attitude. I think that attitude may have stopped it from making me care more and making me want to go back to it.

Like I said, I made it through, and I enjoyed it (I quit A LOT of games, these days), but I wasn’t totally hooked and dying to see what happens next...It felt like the foot came off the gas eventually.

I loved that there didn’t seem to be level scaling, though. I hate scaling. Going to an area they warn you against was really fun, just dipping a toe in and seeing how far you can go without regretting it...I hope they keep that going in any potential future installments.

@notnert427: I can get down with all kinds of pizza, as long as it’s made well.

I do love that you can have a thin crust pizza, for

example, without smashing your diet’s head in with a rock. I rarely get a deep dish/Chicago/Detroit style these days as they’re fucking deadly for...that said, they can be super rich and delicious.

There’s a pizza place I used to go to in Hartford, CT that had a lasagne pizza. It was fantastic in that I-hate-myself-afterwards sort of way.