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Probably today, it is so big company that it will mess things constantly, if not in their main products (although I would say that The Lone Ranger (2013) at least was mess up and one could also argue same about John Carter (2012)) then in their byproducts like for example leaving certain main characters out of their action figure sets or t-shirts etc.. Depends what you mean by mess up too. Because neither Lone Ranger or John Carter were bad movies. John Carter was actually quite a good movie. The mess ups were bad marketing and spending 200 million on a western. As liking or disliking films are are always subjective (for example film critics didn't seem to like Lone Ranger (37 average in metacritic from 45 reviews) or John Carter (51 average in metacritic from 41 reviews) very much) the only way to check if maker messed something up with film is to check if film made profit or loss, although that don't tell you reason why film was success or why it was failure, which would need much deeper analysis and access to information that isn't often open for public. I generally don't pay attention to Metacritic scores, film critics tend to overanalyze stuff. I tend to look more at the audience reviews. I just know that pretty much 90% of the people I've seen badmouthing Lone Ranger didn't like it because it was sexist and racist, which it wasn't, and that it was overly long, which it was. Seriously, Tonto isn't racist. He's a mental case, and the other natives in the movie all think he's a wacko. The movie pretty clearly states that he isn't representative of natives and is his own thing. And most of the people who badmouth John Carter didn't see it, they just assume its bad because it only made 200 million dollars on a 250 million dollar budget. I have yet to talk to someone who saw it and didn't like it.
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I mostly liked KI for Saberwolf. Then he got banned whenever we played hecause he was basically an "I Win" button. My friends wouldn't let me play as Nightmare in SC2 either, for some reason none of them could beat me. So I used Siegfried instead because he had the same move set. wasn't long before I wasn't allowed to use him either. Could never figure anyone else out as well as I did them.
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Probably today, it is so big company that it will mess things constantly, if not in their main products (although I would say that The Lone Ranger (2013) at least was mess up and one could also argue same about John Carter (2012)) then in their byproducts like for example leaving certain main characters out of their action figure sets or t-shirts etc.. Depends what you mean by mess up too. Because neither Lone Ranger or John Carter were bad movies. John Carter was actually quite a good movie. The mess ups were bad marketing and spending 200 million on a western.
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The Incredible Hulk. That was before Disney bought Marvel, it was Marvel Studios' product for Universal Pictures It was also good.
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I like Bushido 1, but never really played Bushido 2. Soul Caliber 4 was a joke compared to 2. Bushido 2 had an improved story mode, but otherwise was pretty much the same as 1 if I remember right. I wish Square/Enix would bring the series back, but I don't know how well it sold. That the robot one that was a PC exclusive? I remember it being pretty sweet.
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Nah, man. The stuff in my garden tastes a hundred times better because there is no chemical waste sprayed on them. The game that literally ruined Curt Schilling. Burn it. I hear you and I am familiar with the story but I just thought what is $6? That's the price of Mcdonalds mealTypical rich people. For $6, I'd eat breakfast, lunch, dinner and an evening meal. For shame Brucie, for shame. where do you buy food? Buy food? What is this thing you speak of? I have food in my garden. My garden has a bean plant that hasn't produced, a tomato plant that is just starting to ripen and is in some sort of war with the bean plant, some peas that are mostly succumbing to mildew, a pepper plant that the tomato plant has engulfed, and a cucumber plant that is taking over the entire back yard. All together it produces enough food to feed one person for 2 days tops as long as you don't require protein.
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I used to be a big fan. Killer Instinct, Soul Calibur 2, Mace: The Dark Age, and Bushido Blade 1 and 2 were my favorites. Haven't played a lot since the fun part was playing with friends and passing the controller around whenever you lost, and I don't hang with friends so much since the kids were born. Hence all my favorites being 10 years old. I snagged Soul Calibur 4 when I first got my PS3, but it wasn't nearly as good as 2.
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Now is it the setting you're excited about? Because I found Champions Online was pretty much City of Heroes, with an additional sense of accomplishment due to the instanced maps reflecting whether you defeated bosses and such.
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I have been betatesting Pillars of Eternity now for about 28 hours and find it fantastic. Its slightly different from other D&D games, but all in all, it have most of the traditional features in it and absolutely all of their qualities. What I like with games going there own ways is they dont have to make the game absolutely streamlined to cater for every single person who might pick up the game. Not everyone likes for example the Baldurs Gate kind of games anymore, but I do, and lats face it: thats one of the reasons I did back that game in the first place; it fits me and my playstyle perfect! So yes, I hope they continue their own way, although I would not look negatively on it if they went for a franchise too, as long they have most of the control over the production part! I like the way Obsidian makes their games, so I hope they continue along that road! What I wonder though is, would it be possible for Obsidian to go for a Kickstarter MMO. Most MMOs these days have turned patetic. I miss games like Star Wars: Galaxies. That game was on a threshold period of time. It started out as an excellent game which was ruined with its New Game Enhanchments - which became popular among game producers but not neccesarily among the players.. I think the initial investment for an MMO are probably too large for Kickstarter, unless you get Star Citizen money. You have to put in enough to produce a game that is going to bring in subscribers, plus you need to have money for servers and a dedicated post-release team.
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CN had some sort of Teen Titans Go! Marathon on today. Wow is that a terrible show. I had to watch a few episodes of Green Lantern TAS on netflix to get the taste out.
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Petrodollar: Grand Unified Theory of Geopolitics
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Video was equal parts crazy conspiracy theory, and probably right. Either way interestig watch.- 8 replies
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For something called "Journey to the West," the trailer dedicates astoundingly little camera time to the Monkey King. Being a Stephen Chow flick, I wasn't expecting it to be as scary as it was. Started watching with the kids around. Stopped at the people pig roast.
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The game that literally ruined Curt Schilling. Burn it. I hear you and I am familiar with the story but I just thought what is $6? That's the price of Mcdonalds meal Typical rich people. For $6, I'd eat breakfast, lunch, dinner and an evening meal. For shame Brucie, for shame. where do you buy food?
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My only problem, if you're going to have Mana, you can't have cooldowns too.
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Grabbed Banished for $6 from the Humble Store. Was doing well then suddenly everyone started dying of starvation.
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It was one of the things French Marvel fans voted into Cap's notebook in Winter Soldier.
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From what I understand is either they're setting it after his cancer was cured, or they are going to infer he smokes without showing it.
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haven't actually been reading it, but Original Sin sounds like its had some interesting developments for the Marvel universe.
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Supposedly they've already changed the direction of the show, writing out the original female lead and replacing her with someone from the comics with a completely different dynamic. From what I understand, most fans of the comic thought this was a good move.
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Its sad that they needed a disclaimer. There was nothing controversial, unless you count truth as controversial.
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If this turns out to be true... well.You can't take the moral high-ground and be a scam artist at the same time. Edit: That said I'd wait for more info on this before getting too riled up. This looks to me like more anti-feminist propaganda, are there other links that support this? Some journalist called her for a statement regarding it, she hung up on him, which isn't damning, she's been through a lot. But right after she removed references to iFred from the depression quest page.
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I only find it offensive that they misspelled Lara.
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Not bad. Says a lot that I agree with. I liked the bit about games diversifying. One of the issues I have with a lot of the social justice articles that get written (my primary game site is Kotaku, for disclosure) is the obsession with games needing to change because reasons. Games don't need to change. They need to grow. Assassins Creed doesn't need to change because millions of women play candy crush. There needs to be more games that do more to include women and people of colour and such, but the games I like are just fine as is and don't need to change to suit the desires of people who don't enjoy them. there's a similar debate in comics fandom, with movies and comics changing the race and such of established characters to increase diversity. Some fans are upset by this because they are characters they love, the "progressives" just label these people as racist and shut down debate, but the main argument on the side upset by it is that you shouldn't be changing the race of white characters, you should be creating new characters to fill the need for diversity. People dont have a problem with a black Flash, they have a problem with black Wally West.
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Feminists are fat, lazy, hate men, and are lesbians. Oh, but don't worry. When I say "feminists" I am referring to a certain types of feminists, not the majority who don't fit into my narrative. Can you understand why I take offense BruceVC? I wouldn't be offended if you said that is your opinion about a subset of feminists that have a certain perspective, I would be offended if you said this applies to all feminists Once again "gamers" doesn't apply to all gamers. This discussion boils down to semantics and I don't think we are going to agree on that despite links I have provided that highlight what gaming websites, like RPS, really mean when they say "gamers" But this is the underlying problem. When the journalists and you say gamers, you mean a very specific subset of gamers. When EVERYONE ELSE says gamers, they mean all gamers, because that is how the word was used in every circumstance ever until now. People got upset because people hijacked the term to serve their agenda. If they didn't know using it in that context would offend 99% of gamers, its because they are that out of touch with their readership. We understand that that's what they mean in this context. The issue is that they are dumb and corrupt and by using the term that way they pissed off the people who they make their money from. Maddox pretty much matches my opinion of representation in games
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I'm not up to date, if they separate, would Scotland remain a commonwealth realm? Keeping the queen as head of state and such?