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    I think the question is because there's some confusion on whether or not this is the Prometheus follow-up by Ridley Scott or the Aliens followup by Neil Blomkamp which are both in production. But yeah, this is Scott's Prometheus follow-up. I'm not holding my breath, Prometheus was one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. Intriguing plot ideas and fantastic visuals completely ruined by contrived coincidence, meaningless plot twists, random space-zombies that are never mentioned again and some of the dumbest characters in Sci-Fi.
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    Pretty sure (90%?) that that happens to all employees who leave though.
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    Ah, it's so much more fun when you're just going with it and roleplaying a complete jerkwad. Also damn, I've seen very little combat. Am I just snarking my way out of it or something?
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    Westworld

    Blarghagh replied to ktchong's topic in Way Off-Topic

    For me it was more... "What door?" I ****ING KNEW IT! "He's been here forever" MY SHINY METAL BEHIND!
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    I can deal with camp but I didn't expect it at all. So now I'm going in as Voldemort. How do I load up custom portraits? Noseless Ralph Fiennes coming in.
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    Well it wasn't just that name, it was just a bit of vocal point. Like I edited my previous post to say, it was walking straight into a field of heads and corpses on pikes and the opening shot of a giant statue crying blood. Twas a bit much. Well, dark isn't bad by default. Pillars was plenty dark what with the whole babies with no souls and murdering Gods and the whole reveal about said Gods. But I rarely felt it was cartoonishly so, which this game kinda unexpectedly punched me in the face with. Like I said, I didn't read anything about Tyranny in advance, I guess this didn't really fit my expectation of a new Obsidian Isometric RPG. I'll come back to it in a day or two with adjusted expectations, maybe I'll react to it better.
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    I can't help it, it forcibly reminds me of girls in black dresses with too much make-up pretending they're a witches coven or grown men and women sleeping in coffins because they truly believe they're vampires. I tried to get over it but every time I read it I dreaded the rest of the game being just as goth-bedtime-story edgy (which is why I'm asking if it is). Graven Ashe. It's about as subtle as Voldemort and it gets spammed at you over and over. Maybe I'm going about this wrong. I'll try again and make a character named Mortiferous Chaos or Killaman Slaughtermaster and just try to be as edgy as possible. EDIT: Seriously though, serious question, is there a lot of tryhard edgelord nonsense? It's not just the name, really. It's just demonstrative, but then there's the whole bleeding eyeball statue as the opening shot and the heads on pikes everywhere. Am I in for something that's trying way too hard to be dark? I went into this knowing literally nothing about the game, so I assume I just had the wrong expectations. I went into PoE with mostly a roleplayer mindset but that seems to be fairly difficult for me with Tyranny so far.
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    I just started Tyranny, but it hasn't grabbed me so far. About an hour in I got so annoyed at reading the edgelord name "Graven Ashe" that I quit. Does it get better or if that sort of thing annoys me am I in for a painful ride?
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    I like that you call the special lady you share a home with "your lactose intolerant". I don't know what you're talking about.
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    I think that's the point, redneckdevil. (Also, IMO Wikipedia is more trustworthy than most encyclopedias as long as you go the extra mile and verify or add to their sources. I'm an armchair archeologist, it stuck because I was a dinosaur nut as a kid, and I've yet to find an encyclopedia that isn't riddled with errors or outdated information about the subject. I use that as an example because it's something I can recognize mistakes and false information in, but I have no reason to believe the same doesn't hold true for any other subject and I just can't notice. Wikipedia as a user-generated platform has its flaws and can get screwed over on subjective or divisive topics and you're better off finding your own sources at all times, but **** the idea that old school paper encyclopedias are better.)
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    *Unless your lactose intolerant, of course. If my girl puts actual milk in her coffee my home atmosphere starts to resemble something like early 1940's German showers.
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    Adding milk to your coffee is already insulting to vegans. Why not everyone else too?
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    I saw the first episode of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. As someone who never read the book(s?) all I really have to say is... what the ****?
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    I loved Hunt for the Wilderpeople and I really wonder what the guy who made both that and the hilarious mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows is going to do with the next Thor movie, which is apparently an intergalactic buddy movie with the Hulk.
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    Highly recommend "Drive" by Daniel Pink as a nice starting point. He sums up and points to a lot of research regarding intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and how they affect algorithmic and heuristic tasks differently. I like to think that the reason Marxism off-shoots haven't worked is because they started from points where everyone's poor. Now people being under the poverty line is seen as a problem, not the standard so it's possible that western civilisations could make it work. The real test will be once a country or larger area decides to adopt the "basic income" idea. If that doesn't work, going steps further won't either. For all my cynicism and snark about current society, I wholehearedly believe we can solve it and we shouldn't be held back because "it sounds like this, and that didn't work before".
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    It advocates for bloody revolution to steal the property of others to enforce poverty.What do you think is the link between equity and poverty? People respond to incentives. This goes against all recent research on employee productivity, though. This seems to have been true in the industrial age where everyone did algorithmic tasks and everyone worked to survive, but a significant chunk of that has been replaced by technology with more to come. Incentives for heuristic tasks, especially for people who live comfortably, have been shown to decrease employee productivity and motivation enormously. Rewards in these situations work well, but only if people don't know they're coming. Nobody's yet figured why, but for western middle class or higher the wisdom of "people need incentives" doesn't hold true.
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    Pretty much. It's very much a "pot calling kettle black" situation. It's an irony I've found in stuff I've seen, even here, about the left losing because of their holier than thou demeanor. "I hate the left because they keep calling me names, those stupid SJW cucks". Makes me feel like they completely missed the lifetime of religious 'Murica decrying everything from rock music to race relations as deviant and satanist filth which bred that attitude in the first place. The right didn't win, the wheel is already turning away from them as steadily as it turned to them. Trump's red replaces Obama's blue replaced Bush's red replaced Clinton's blue. The wheel turns on and the American people still aren't moving as it comes to crush them. In terms of the internet, you're an idiot whether you steal your opinions wholesale from NeoGAF or 8-Chan.
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    Cultural-marxism is a broad term for anyone who disagrees with the alt-right, just like alt-right is a broad term for anyone who disagrees with cultural-marxists. Because everyone needs to put people they don't agree with into a box so they can generalize them away. The funny thing is that they're the same thing - people who are far too sensitive about people on the internet calling them names and both things don't actually exist at all.
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    This was a fun trip in history until I came across posts by Hades.
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    The alt-right is just a term for people who hide obvious hatred because they're ashamed of it with terms like "narrative"*. *Actually, the alt-right is just a term for those who read a comment like that and then get angry at SJWs because they assume it's about them. Why do they think it's about them, though? Why do they hear a word like "racist" and think "they must be talking about me?" Actually, the real racists are anyone who felt the urge to respond to my obvious trolling. If this offended you, guess what, you're a racist. :D WHAT IS THE REAL TRUTH. SOMEONE CALLED ME A RACIST ON THE INTERNET ONCE, MUST BE THE LIBRULS. EDIT: God, this election brought out my cynical side a bit too much.
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    RIP Leonard Cohen I'm thinking of getting this shirt.
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    Don't tell them that! Nothin to see here.
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    That sounds horrific. Sorry you had to go through it.
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    Another topic about the US Election that was just won by reality TV show star Donald Trump even though more people voted for lizard Clinton. Classic 'Murica. Snark aside, please keep personal attacks (on each other, be sure to rip into those politicians, blaming them for how much your life sucks is why they exist) to a minimum. EDIT: If this looks weird, I just moved over the last couple of posts instead of quoting them. Thought I'd try it out.
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    Half hour between someone else responding sounds like a good moment to say this slowed down enough to be replaced. New part coming up in a minute.
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