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Yikes, . I also liked The Witch a little more as well. Some of those long takes of Dafoe's brilliant ranting and ravings were just nuts, though. I haven't seen too many of Dafoe's films, but the few I've seen (this, The Florida Project, and...something else I'm forgetting the title of), he's just been awesome.
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The Lighthouse (2019). I didn't realize it was the same director as The Witch until I saw this poster after I'd already seen it. Makes a lot more sense. Really good, although perhaps a bit too insane for my tastes. @LadyCrimson For some reason, I remember that the lead actress of that movie's name is "Imogen Poots", which still makes me laugh because I'm twelve.
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My next door neighbor is the chief of police for my podunk town. His garbage can falls over literally once or twice every week and spills garbage all over, and he has to clean it up constantly, but he does nothing to prevent the situation from happening again. This has been going on for several years. From this, I can only conclude that he is an absolute brute and I should watch myself or face the consequences.
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What Are You Playing Now: The New Beginning Thread
Bartimaeus replied to Amentep's topic in Computer and Console
One of my favorite Dark Souls experiences was NG+ at SL1 fighting Capra Demon, in a tiny arena where when you walk in, the camera is already getting stuck behind trees and branches and crap that were put way too low for no reason, where you basically can't turn the camera because the arena is too small and just drags against the walls, you're immediately attacked as you're walking in, and for some godforsaken reason they stuck a couple of random dogs in this miniature arena whose reactions and movesets are super random, and you die in one hit to anything. That was super fun. ...Wait, hold on a second: when I said "favorite" and "super fun", I actually meant "least favorite" and "super unfun". Whoops. I asked about the DLC because I absolutely despise the DS2 DLC, I found it to be the absolute worst, most pointlessly torturous and annoying stuff in the entire series, but some people claim it's the best. I think it must depend on how much you hate yourself, and it's just a bridge too far for me. -
What Are You Playing Now: The New Beginning Thread
Bartimaeus replied to Amentep's topic in Computer and Console
Hmm, can't say I agree with any of your choices...except for maybe Covetous Demon being the easiest (or among them - I'd put Last Giant, Flexile Sentry, Old Iron King, and The Rotten all around the same difficulty). The beauty of different playstyles and players having their own strengths and weaknesses! From what I recall, Vendrick, the Pursuer, and maybe Darklurker were among my favorites, and I'd probably put The Pursuer on top for best emblifying a simple, but well-designed and classic Dark Souls boss experience. Least favorite would go to Ancient Dragon, who's just so dumb. Did you finish the three DLCs? Don't recall you ever showing boss battles from them. -
What Are You Playing Now: The New Beginning Thread
Bartimaeus replied to Amentep's topic in Computer and Console
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They've committed to using the same colors with whatever new name they choose, I think. Of course, they could always change their minds, but it seems like the plan is to at least keep that to avoid upsetting people too much.
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The calls for changing the Redskins' name have going on for a long time. Why am I not surprised that the moment corporate sponsorships start pulling out over it, all that crap about "history" and "heritage" that the owner was screaming about for years suddenly doesn't matter, and then on top of that, the team never even bothered to come up with a contingency plan in the event they were forced to change the name? A decade-plus being able to plan for this, and they squandered it. I guess this is the NFL, the league that just barely scraped past coronavirus without incident and then had like 5 months to plan protocols and decided to wait until the very last second to start taking it seriously. Personally, I'm of the silent minority that doesn't care either way (the term "Redskins" has a complicated past where it has been both used as a rallying cry for Native Americans as well as a dirty word used by those who slaughtered them, and the support for/against it being used has had wacky numbers ranging from a strong net support to a mild net support), but at least it'll finally be done so people can stop talking about it in 5-10 years after the name has all but faded from memory.
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The Exterminating Angel (1962). Well...uh, that was strange and different. I liked Viridiana from this director a lot more, but that makes sense, since that was more of a straightforward film that had a strong lead with undertones of social commentary rather than a total troll that's 100% social commentary using an ensemble cast.
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I occasionally buy and rip audio CDs, so you're definitely not the only one. My next build won't have one with the case that I have for it (Fractal Design Meshify C), but I'll be keeping around my old system for HTPC purposes and will continue to rip CDs on there.
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The amount of times I heard it mentioned in dead serious tones to me by some of the more conservative people I know certainly suggests that crap was taken seriously by at least a small subsection of conservatives. Claims of martial law being used to cancel the elections and whatnot...
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What Are You Playing Now: The New Beginning Thread
Bartimaeus replied to Amentep's topic in Computer and Console
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Looks like the CFL is going bankrupt as well, .
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What Are You Playing Now: The New Beginning Thread
Bartimaeus replied to Amentep's topic in Computer and Console
Could've fooled me - he looked slow and completely ineffectual, and didn't land a single hit, . -
lmao, man, screw Intel
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Clarification: are we mass murdering Nazis, or mass-murdering Nazis? I'm cool with either way, I just want to make sure I wear my fascist/anti-fascist outfit appropriately.
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What Are You Playing Now: The New Beginning Thread
Bartimaeus replied to Amentep's topic in Computer and Console
@Mamoulian War This is such a brain-dead fight. -
That's because coconut milk is mana from the heavens.
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Before watching the trailer, I was thinking "you know, you could probably do some pretty cool stuff with an animated Star Trek show that would've been very difficult to do - or at least do well - with a live-action", but then I actually watched the trailer, and yeah, nah, I'm good.
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PSA to the clowns who make this forum software (who I know will never read this, but nevertheless): your lack of a plaintext/bbcode mode is bad and you should feel bad for removing it.
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Why do consoles suck so much these days?
Bartimaeus replied to Pidesco's topic in Computer and Console
I was gifted an Xbox One some years ago (would never buy one myself, given its horrid games library relative to Sony and especially Nintendo). It's a horrific user experience. Update every time I turn it on combined with absolutely lousy download speeds (I have a gigabit connection...and it takes 15-20 minutes to download a 1.5GB patch...what the hell, Microsoft? I know I don't live exactly close to major civilization, but that is so slow relative to every other content provider). These updates seem to be re-inventing the wheel for the UI every time too, which means stuff is constantly shuffled about for no real reason. Ads everywhere. Annoying prompts constantly. Login or you might as well not own this console. Terribly slow everything due to using an HDD with games sometimes exceeding 80GB. It is just the worst user experience and it makes it so I never, ever use it, and should've just sold it the moment I got it (...which I probably would've done, but couldn't realistically without seeming like a terrible person to the person that gifted it to me, bah). Awful console. -
Even though this photo has an obvious devil horns thing going on (I'm shocked nobody noticed it before releasing it), he looks so tired, haggard, and...human?, that I realized I somehow still feel a shred of empathy towards the man. I wonder by how many years being president will shorten his lifespan from all the stress and such. It can't have been worth it.
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Big yikes at the "Hitler was right" players across the NFL and NBA over the past couple of days...especially when combined with the absolutely deafening silence from other players (remember how quick everyone spoke out against Drew Brees?). 2020 definitely needed that on top of everything else.