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Can I get a cliff's notes on what they promise and didn't fulfill?

Checking reviews, Flashpoint Paradox will be the winner when I get around to it. Supposedly it's even better than the source material!

Would you recommend the animated movie over the graphic novel? I've been tempted by both.

What are the best ones that aren't about Batman?

I read The Killing Joke, that oh-so popular Batman comic everyone who cares about Batman comics seems to love. Got mixed feelings about it, but overall don't feel it lived up. It has really good ideas, it starts with Batman visiting Joker to go over how eventually one will kill the other if they don't make up. And the book basically carries that theme through to the end, mixed with a tragic backstory for Joker that makes you think it's entirely possible that he could get better one day. But none of any of that is going to happen. For a much beloved Batman story, it seems nobody likes the ideas it presented. And the unwillingness to fulfill any of those promises kind of takes the impact from the story.

I found it so underwhelming. Compared to the previous DC animated movies that came out it was really disappointing. It's the first DC animated movie I've bought. 90% of the rest appear to just be adaptations of comic stories.

Justice League: Gods & Monsters I heard Bruce Timm was returning to DC animated movies and was producing an alternate universe where Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are willing to kill. How could I not watch it? Anyway, it was great. I've always wanted more fresh stuff from comic book stories and alternate universes are kind of the compromise they do for guys like me. The art style is very reminiscent of the old Justice League cartoons from early 2000s, too, for anyone suffering from that nostalgia. Superman is the son of Zod raised by Mexican immigrants, Batman is an actual vampire, and Wonder Woman is one of the New Gods. She uses a sword real good.

Poor poor thread, always slipping away. I'm reading House of Leaves. It's equal parts pretentious and fantastic. And it might be getting to me. Two nights ago as I lie in bed trying to sleep, it suddenly got very cold and I could hear growling. I quickly realized that it was all the ceiling fan and for some reason I'd become more sensitive to its noise, but for that one night, I felt like a kid cowering under his sheets from imagined monsters. It was wonderful. This book is just weird. Everything I know about writing and publishing tells me that this book should not be. It colors words, it plays with the margins and formatting, it's terribly dull half the time, on purpose. The writer in me views it as a comedy, while the reader sees it as a horror. It's a maze in book form and even its absurdities are delightful. It's basically three stories. Johnny Truant, who found the book in the trunk of a dead blind man, has decided to insert footnotes which alternate between him bragging about his sexual conquests and him being paranoid as a consequence of dealing with this book. Zampano's, the aforementioned dead blind man, pretentious scholarly analysis of a found footage horror movie. And then the found footage horror movie, described by Zampano almost moment by moment when he's not trying to overanalyze it in terms of myth, camerawork, and psychological analysis like a wannabe Joseph Campbell. It's long stretches of boredom marked by brief moments of tense horror for what should be all the wrong reasons. The pages have scenes painted with words, as characters go down corridors, the text takes up thin lines in the middle surrounded by rambling footnotes, one of which forms a column through the book itself. Two characters meet in the dark and when they talk about one he's at the bottom of the page, the other is at the top. It's silly, but I've bought into it wholeheartedly.

Finished Swapper, on to Bastion. I never did finish Bastion back when I played it on PC, so here's to hoping I have better luck this time.

Completed Vanishing of Ethan Carter. Can't recommend it. Started up The Swapper. Most definitely can!

I use mty ikdeyboard and my fists together. Thgis mis hard.

Depends on context. There are some aspects of white privilege that I'm imminently aware of my being a beneficiary of. Like, I've never been pulled over for simply being suspicious. I've had very fair interactions with the police overall. In Texas. And that's only what seems most obvious. I'm not inclined to think my experience and knowledge is comprehensive, there could easily be a multitude of everyday interactions that I get a much easier time of for being part of an assumed in-group due to my skintone. If someone were to point one of these interactions out, I'd be interested in learning more about the situation.

Vanishing of Ethan Carter I thought I was on the right trail, but now I'm positive I'm lost.

Saturday I asked for a raise and got it. I fully intend to be gruntled this week.

Am I allowed to talk about non-Japanese animation? Just try and stop me! I may or may not have just bought all three seasons of Batman: The Animated Series. Over 30 hours of Bruce Timm/Paul Dini goodness.

After all these years, I kind of hoped he would have grown up.

I'm simply saying that, when it makes good business sense, they have no problem releasing free content. As an aside, how is the DLC that CDPR is releasing any different than the multiplayer that EA is releasing? They are both free, they both require infrastructure to maintain. I believe you can still make purchases for the DA multiplayer though, which would seem to be a wiser business decision, but I am sure some will see as avarice. I don't have to play an in-game lottery with microtransaction options to access CDPR's content. Wouldn't that suck! Spend 3,000 gold for a chance to unlock Ciri's new outfit. But don't worry if you run out of coin trying to get it, you can buy new chances for $1.50. That's aside from how cynical their inclusion of multiplayer in DAI was overall.

I'll probably enjoy Deadpool, but I thought they went a little overboard. The leaked script was pretty dang good, so I can maintain restrained optimism.

That's pretty impressive. I wonder if this game will completely bridge the gap to the point of explaining why we end up with Minsc, Jaheira, Khalid, and Dynaheir.

I'll be in my bunk.

He is an important figure in internet history.

Did they specify the expansions would be before the end?

I was about to play devil's advocate and ask "can we be sure it's Shani?" But I double checked her Witcher 1 appearance the only notable difference is her hair parted on the other side. Which can only mean it's Shani's evil twin.

Finished Arkham Origins. It was actually pretty decent. But I've started Asylum back up and remember why it was so incredible. The atmosphere is great. From the walk with Joker at the beginning to seeing how things get incrementally worse as the game goes on. Like the guards you see on the grounds or by the ambulance at first, then when you come back, the ambulance is moved and the guards are hanging from the ceiling. And as you finish each part of the game, more and more thugs fill the grounds. Knight has a few good touches, though, I'll give it that. After a certain event the streets are littered with bodies and there's fewer thugs. The few remaining comment on it. And the whole atmosphere changes with little graphical effects.

People have asked you questions in your original thread, try to see if that can lead to find a solution. No need to duplicate.