Luca was good, but it stands out as an oddity. A gem in a sea of ashes....
Just to clarify, I wasn't talking about cutscenes, but rather, I was talking about scripted auto-scrolling moments where the action is set up to play out the same way each time.
I was talking with my cousin the other night why we liked games like Rocket Knight Adventures or Star Fox. We came to the shared conclusion that even though these games have moments that are set up to be very scripted and cinematic in nature, the player is still in complete control the whole time. It may be set up like a movie, but the player is the lead actor, and their improv and personal expression is what makes the scene.
These new games are movies where the player doesn't have any expression. Everything is curated and controlled to the point that everyone has the exact same experience. Nothing stands out because it's no longer personal. You didn't do anything to make the experience your own.
"It's been five months. Things don't exist anymore after five months. This is the internet." -Doobus Goobus
Which is why we're hated. Having standards and holding yourself and others to them is hateful to those who want to wallow in their own filth and be loved for it.
And it's not like we can perfectly achieve those standards anyway. The point is that we keep moving forward and grow as people, even if we keep falling short on the way.
Do they even realize what they're doing, putting their position in the mouth of a notoriously spoiled toddler? The Left really can't meme for anything, can they?
The odds required are so astronomical that the end result is literally impossible to acquire in any meaningful fashion. Even if it may "be there, somewhere" a grammatically correct passage is still essentially useless gibberish without context.
I don't want He/Him on my profile, even if I'm a (cyber)guy. Because it makes me look like a moron.
Hooray! I'm anti-China just by existing!
"Optionally" it says.
Before long, it'll default to whatever your sex is, because they're insidious like that. I've seen it before.
It's not a terribly well thought out metaphor either, because without a proofreader, anything the monkeys type will be ruined by excessive typos and illegible grammar.
Hail, hail, Robonia! A country I didn't make up!
Something that the "Oh, the Old Testament God was so cruel and evil for telling the Israelites to kill people!" crowd always misses is that there were many times that the Israelites ignored those commands and let the pagans live, usually as slaves and/or wives. And every single time that happened, it came back to bite them, either by leaving an undefeated enemy in the wings to conquer them right back, or by having their culture and faith in God corroded by the influences they welcomed in.
It's funny. These people will hem and haw about how everything is a shade of gray and nobody is really good or evil until someone allegedly does something that they don't like. Then suddenly they have moral standards again. Go figure.
I misunderstood and thought it was a lefty publication. Declaring they need to take back the net when they're already reining like tyrants.
"Reclaim the net"
Ever the eternal underdogs, eh?
I like Mentis' stuff. Very approachable explanations to these ideas.
Okay. I'll just keep playing Classics, Nintendo, and Indie.
It's just "progress" chasing idiots. It's the same as people who act like there can't be any good retro styled games because the future is 3D/HD/DVD/LED/PVP/RSVP/ETC. Novelty is the virtue most sought after by humanity.
I think it was due the stigma that cartoons, especially 2D cartoons, are "just for kids." It's been plaguing the medium for decades. Thus adults don't go to see the film, and families are put off by the content that's not squeaky clean. (As though the Looney Tunes haven't always been full of risqué humor that flies over the heads of younger viewers.)
Speedy Gonzales was beloved in Mexico. But he's a stereotype so he's gotta go.
I love the bit in Looney Tunes: Back in Action where he and Porky lament political correctness killing their schticks.
Mumkey Jones's videos pointing out what a specifically pathetic individual he was were great. I wonder if they're part of why he got taken down so hard....
I'm just thinking back to the Skullgirls controversy and how lovely it will be once publishers have the ability to "Special Edition" their games at will....