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Well I am not a mortal nemesis of nobody, so I would recommend this listing instead. Very high seller rating, higher than the dreamcast guy https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315314329904?itmmeta=01HW5GKDJ1YZGF7CBFW8C0RWY4&hash=item496a32d930:g:fGwAAOSw0hxmIntS&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4D8wCaijYinu3hgxld8fpNbsJE5RqkykdTGMDDQX%2FwOYEluT6Pk8QYRAKGUvT8UCJabCMBVIEMWZGZXYTqw1BQuA79%2Fz7GWzCg8DdlexmsOiVW2dJ76e5JojPRd2lkMQP91j%2FYMY5WhqAQYcAteTex5SjoLLGq59SSig%2ByrZ0C3UJKk7D6NjqOTz2s20t8mmPRmYvCgD8MPS2BQsrcydC5b6gldbmcMLhcSiB08XIpUHkuKiMwW7SnAQi1sC9VeyZEr7zWO87Q2lRDQDdc2lDVFpkPazSCdNA3cKI9cVvu8M|tkp%3ABk9SR7DZzbDhYw

I watched Naked (1993) which stars David Thewlis going on a sort of Odyssey* around London for a few days/nights. It's like what if Leopold Bloom was a dickhead. It's a film I really didn't like at all, despite its great acting performances. Thewlis plays this very loquacious but abusive as fuck asshole, especially to women, kind of a narcisstic emotional vampire with how he seduces people with his quick wit but then mistreats them to feed his own ego. I know there's additional layers here but it didn't really work for me cause it wasn't the film I really needed to watch right now. *he holds the book up at one point saying "you know what this is about, yeah", so it's kinda on purpose. Meant I could even predict the ending, sort of. Then I watched The Lobster (2015), which is directed by the guy who did Poor Things recently and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. It's set in this sort of dystopic future where being single is illegal, kind of like a Logan's Run situation. If you don't have a partner, they take you off to this hotel where you have 45 days to partner up or you get turned into an animal of your choosing. People pair up based on superficial similarities, like having a nice smile but also things like being short sighted, having a limp or suffering from nosebleeds. Everyone speaks with this kinda flatness of affect in their dialogue and has this sort of autistic kinda way of relating to each other and the world. I thought it was really funny in that deadpan way that this director's films are. It's sort of like what if David Lynch directed an episode of Father Ted, or something. Colin Farrell is great in this type of surreal-bordering-on-horror-comedy, hope he keeps doing these types of films. I prefer Sacred Deer though cause it veers more in the direction of absurd horror than comedy. This scene made me lol but it's NSFW

Looks about on-brand, seems neat and will catch on streaming On the integration of X-Men, I dunno if the idea here is they just chuck in a bunch of 'variants' into the existing universe or try and do it from the ground up. Tom from Cruises make it pretty clear this is some other Logan, I mean I guess that's inevitable

I don't really agree on it being too long tbh. edit, putting stuff about themes in a spoiler I mentioned this when Nag replied sarcastically but I actually do think that The Act of Killing is something worth watching at some point and comparing to this, it's about the same thing (I'm fairly sure that it was reading material for Zone of Interest tbh). Not immediately though, gotta space that shit out with a couple Adam Sandler films or something. Give the evil some time to breathe.

That's very undemocratic of you

Mad boring episode, I'm going to save up the last 4 and watch them together. Aint here for a drip feed about bird people in space I thought this was an interesting article. It has spoilers for episode 5, quotes from one of the creators (guy who left before the show got released, for reasons)

Synecdoche, New York (2008) Starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, it's about a tortured playwright trying to make his masterpiece. While watching I figured that it must be by the Being John Malkovich guy and it sure is except he only wrote that film whereas this one he directed and wrote. It has that sort of 'mindspace' thing going on where time is very subjective and seems to collapse inwards. There's great moments and it's conceptually very cool in how it constructs its narrative but it's very fatiguing. The subject matter was like being shoved into a mid life existentialist crisis and pressing the fast forward button but also the rewind button at the same time. Which is sorta the point I think. This was a double bill with something else I watched and it's a shame I didn't pick something a bit more life affirming to watch after it, lol. Good film but leaves you in a funk

I don't like this whole remake 'purism' type arguments. Feels really pushy. Lisa Trevor is literally an 'OC' that completely changes the canon of the game. What are we doing here? lol This stuff is way too dogmatic when it's framed this way. All approaches have their own pros and cons, faithful remakes or not. It doesn't have to be this hill to die on all the time I like the idea of doing an old style 32 bit game. It's something they could possibly do, Maf posted a video somewhere with a game that had that very stylised isometric look but was 3d

I mean, I've played it before. Being real about it?

No, it doesn't have to be 4k realistic anything. tbh I don't want to get into the to and fro about it, my point is more I find cosmetic remakes like that FFIV one very uninteresting and redundant. But something transformative, which makes a new game out of something old or gives it a very different spin, I'm more into that. Especially as I have zero trouble going back to play the original anyway, and it can offer a lot more flexibility. That's the main point I was trying to make You're not going to change my mind on that anyway so I'll just leave it at that.

Kind of, but I was mainly thinking of ways they could compartmentalise the scope a bit (ie, mission based structure). They already have a character action game framework in FFXVI, and it's something that they could iterate on maybe. Albeit XVI is visually in a whole other league

I think the mis-step with FFVII is they tried to imagine doing their own type of MCU thing with it. The way each game 'sets up' a later installment, like a sort of building block and it gets you engaged in the hype cycle for the next release. But the two games that are out don't really have beginnings, middle and endings. They are each the beginning and middle and are paced and structured in a very strange way that seems to give no thought into how it feels to move through them. There's no sense of momentum or energy to it, which for all their faults aren't a problem shared with MCU films. The new plot twists in the endings seem to be part of a way around that, leading to speculation and theory crafting. But I don't think it's hit in a way that's really captured the zeitgeist like Square might have hoped. At least not beyond the comments section of a Maximillian Dood video anyway That said I prefer even that to a remake which feels very 're-iterative'. I prefer an ambitious failure to a very familiar yet safe attempt because the latter is something I've already played anyway. Though I generally don't like how the Octopath stuff looks anyway, with the blurry DOF effect. Maybe what they should really look at is something more of a genre transplant. Like what if FFVI was a character action game or something. Some form of middle ground. Look at how Granblue's new RPG is designed, with multiple playable characters. It's possible, with some compromise

When I get a house I look forward to a giant ass TV being one of the first frivolous things I get after all the super expensive grown up boring things like appliances and flooring and shit, and using that thing just for films and games

This just got announced. There were a number of elements about the first that put me off, but this is a great looking trailer The idea with it afaik is it's a RPG which is very into verisimilitude. Things being all realistic, even to a mundane and frustrating degree, but doing so in order to make its role playing feel immersive I feel it's probably the kind of game I would like. The presentation here is pretty impressive, Witcher vibes

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