From that montage at 3:09: is Con Air basically an FMV game? I feel like at least 1/3 of the shots wouldn't look at all out of place in the movie (the low angle of mustache cop, the guy in the red bandanna, the guy at 3:20, the slow-motion explosion).
I genuinely don't know how to rank this and Face/Off. This is bad and misses the mark in _so_ many ways, but I feel like Face/Off was bad _in premise_ (e.g. the direction of Cage/Travolta) which I find much more off-putting than just not coming together. It seems like Con Air was just a dumb/generic action movie but it knew that , whereas Face/Off was trying to be something more or was more deliberate in the ways it was bad. As a result, Con Air is probably the worse movie, but I found it to be more watchable.
Metalheads are generally nice and fun people, and you won't get forced into a mosh pit if you don't want to be (the crowd might push into you, though). Just relax and have a good time, it's not as scary as you might think. I remember being terrified before my first one back in the day.
To add to that, there's an unspoken etiquette to it that, despite looking violent and a mess from the outside, keeps things quite safe and friendly (seeing a circle pit stop dead because someone's fell over, then only resume once they're back on their feet/safely out of the way is quite a sight).
Abby skipped right past the option to turn into a vampire at least ten times in the first 20 minutes of the video. It even had the vampire symbol on it. And then keeps the rest of the video neglecting vampire options and choosing more flirty options. Were they not looking at the chat this time? I bet someone in the chat noticed that during the livestream.
She tried the turn option, and he declined -- you have to be better friends -- and when she asked the vampire options (e.g. vampire history) the dude didn't know anything.
But I never had to "do checks" to make sure I was dreaming. I always knew 100% that I was dreaming. There was never any ambiguity.
Some people just realise they are dreaming; others need to do a check otherwise they don't realise until they wake up. It's also something you get better at, weirdly enough -- I started occasionally noticing when I was dreaming some years ago (without any actual effort on my part), and now lucid dream most nights, just because I got used to noticing.
Pro-tip: "There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." is dead on.
I feel like Konami re-releasing MGSV, without Kojima, is exact the _wrong_ way to go about getting good-will back. Unless you massively reworked it, it would just be seen as a cash-grab, and doing that without Kojima would prompt a certain amount of backlash.
Maybe I am not remembering Far Cry 3 and 4, or it is just opinions being opinions, but I am not sure what either of those games had to "say." They made an over the top exploitation game like they always do with Far Cry 5, but all this expecting some grand message on militias is kind of silly.
I think part of it is that the initial pitch that Jeff saw suggested that it was going for something more meaningful, and the impression I got from the podcast is that it not only has nothing to say, but goes very deliberately out of its way to NOT say anything. FC3/4 didn't have anything particularly meaningful to say either, but I don't recall either game actively trying to not do so.
@crimsonjester: I forget where it was, a podcast or video, where Dan mentioned that it was ALWAYS a competition, even playing co-op games with friends as a kid. If there wasn't a score, it was exactly that... getting the best power-ups and health items before his friends did. It sounds insufferable haha.
It's come up multiple times (e.g. QL: NES Classic - 58:30-1:01:30, followed in another video with Jeff saying to Brad "He thought you played Mario Bros. by screwing over the other player....", somewhere in TITR: Contra about making sure he got the best power-ups, and probably other places). Insufferable is exactly right - I think Drew put it best in Mario Party Parry (6?): "Dan is that kid you invite over to your house once, and then NEVER again" (paraphrasing).
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