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  1. I really wanted to like Dishonored but I think I had too many powers at my disposal. Sometimes you can give a guy too much freedom. The metaplot you can see coming from miles away was troubling as well as the story that was not better than the some of its parts. Lots of memorable moments in a game world that IMO has made the best use of steampunk in any game ever (including BioShock) were thwacked by a rather shitty ending and repetitive missions that you could trvialize once you hit upon the secret recipe of powers and items that best complimented your playstyle. Corvo is definitely one of my favorite video game characters in recent memory. The mask is badass.
  2. Vampires and werewolves were making a brief comeback but yeah, more zombies.
  3. It used to be iso tanks filled with saline solution were thought to enhance REM sleep and now therapeutic recompression is all the rage.
  4. Yeah, I uploaded my guy to the SR Cloud. I had to do it twice since SR4 ignores SR3 and I had to re-crate my African American psycho from scratch. I had to get my new SR4 guy inked up at Rusty's before re-upping him to the Character Zone. I was tempted to build a white guy and give him Nolan North's voice, but OCD continuity prevailed.. I liked the nod to The Matrix where I rejected the simulation built on niceness. At first I drove around town in Adrian Pearce mode and then it dawned on me that SR really does not give a shit whether or not I kill cops or civilians. If I smoke a lawman, all I need to do is dump the heat.
  5. RIP "Lucky" Quinn: RIP Damien Brenks: Epilogue: I like T-Bone as a good guy and really really really love / hate Default as an adversary, but not enough to run through Bad Blood unless there is another sale on Ubi downloads at XBox Live Market. Random stuff:
  6. Almost forgot. I also completed the Palace exclusive content. RIP Daniel SoSuMe. I have done so many Gang Hideouts that getting to the unlock spots without being seen was pretty easy. I was happy that I did not have to kill any of the guards, but I did have to baton thump a couple to keep patrol lanes free of curious security dudes. Once you hack the system, you once again (you guessed it!) get involved in another car chase. I was smart enough to have left my Boxberg LE parked at the mansion entrance, so I did not have to use their shitty default chase car. I actually had to get into a small gunfight this time, but good shooting and grenades carried me to victory. After that it is a collection hunt across the map. All of the hard drives you have to find are located in areas that are easy to access if you think outside the box and look for areas where you can climb or hack hydraulic lifts. You get 3K XP for your effort, but one of the DLCs gives you double skill points. By the time you get around to doing this, you're probably already a super hacker and are doing this for the lulz.
  7. Snake is mute in the movies?. I thought Snake just took a vow of silence in a fit of self-flagellation after Storm Shadow killed the Hard Master before Snake could do anything about it? Snake can speak; he just chooses not to as a matter of conviction. Supposedly Snake would speak again once Storm Shadow was made to pay for his crime until the movie sequel put in that little bit of bullshit where Zartan disguised as Storm Shadow was actually responsible for the Hard Master's murder and Storm Shadow infiltrated COBRA in order to avenge the Hard Master by killing Zartan.
  8. Danish zombie epic, What We Become, will get a limited release on May 13th.... which is a Friday. It will also be available via PPV Video on Demand distributed via IFC MIdnight. Check the Horror genre folder in your On Demand service.
  9. I'm a big believer in Occam's Razor, but magic means never having to say you're sorry and the best story isn't necessarily the most obvious one. It is the one that brings in the most viewership. Jon is a popular character and fans are happy to see him back (so to speak) and I have faith that the writers will do interesting things with their poetic license. Long live Jon Snow.... again....
  10. Which makes all of this fan spec concerning the true lineage of Jon Snow pure fan spec and then when the only thing we have to go on are future seasons of the show, the fucking "canon" debates will erupt with people arguing about the events of fantasy novels versus the television series as if they were debating real life history. It is around that time where I usually begin to despise the people that enjoy the same things that I enjoy,
  11. So why don't we just wait until he finishes the book and find out what he intended and if what happens in the show happens in the next book, we will all have our confirmation.
  12. How does all of that random shit equate to Jon's death not making narrative sense? For starters, let's look at the prophecy of Azor Ahai itself: "According to prophecy, our champion will be reborn to wake dragons from stone and reforge the great sword Lightbringer that defeated the darkness those thousands of years ago. If the old tales are true, a terrible weapon forged with a loving wife's heart. Part of me thinks man was well rid of it, but great power requires great sacrifice. That much at least the Lord of Light is clear on." That doesn't sound like Jon. It sounds like Dany. As for Jon's parentage, Jon MIGHT be a Targaryen. Dany IS a Targaryen.. The warg theory doesn't mean anything because the the novel's premier warg is not Jon, it is Bram. Television crap not withstanding, the two men that Melisandre has seen in her fires have fucking died violent deaths, so that means that Melisadre is very good at seeing the faces of important men that are about to get shivved. Wanting dots to connect and dots actually connecting are two different things.
  13. It is hilarious that everyone seems to know the old man personally and are aware of his intentions. That being said, it would be very GRRM-ish for death to be a red herring, although it is very telling in the narrative that Jon is killed off while nothing remarkably tragic happens to Dany after Khal Dargo dies.
  14. Typo on my part. I meant to say, Walder Frey. I suppose the point I was trying to make in all of my rambling is that things don't have to turn out the way readers think they should and when it does, you're not telling your own story anymore. Nothing said that Arya had to follow through on her intent and interpretations of blue roses growing out of walls do not necessarily have to equal "Jon Snow" but people assign value to shit that may or may not have value and then we all have to travel down the same fucking rabbit hole because fans want shit to turn out the way they want it to. He probably should be. Second episode was good but we'll see what fan service gets us.
  15. In a perfect world, Arya would be the one to cut Ramsay's throat. Her primary motivation for becoming an assassin was to be skilled enough to avenge the deaths in her family. Funny thing is that by the time she's trained up to be an assassin and is ready to go, there will be no one left alive to seek revenge on for the insults to her family's honor.. Either that or when Arya finally has the tools she needs, she will be truly nameless and matters concerning her life as Arya Stark won't matter anymore. Perhaps that was the intent all along? I think it is hilarious with all of this ridiculous talk of GoT plot payoffs mattering so much (JON SNOW MUST LIVE! R + L = J DAMMIT~!) and all of this DESTINY MUST BE FULFILLED~! rubbish, this particular one slips off of everyone's radar and it may turn out that was never Arya's destiny at all? That's why you let storytellers tell the story.
  16. Khan is teasing an MMA career. I hope he is joking. He does own significant shares in SFL; an MMA outfit based out of India and the third largest in the world.
  17. Ramsay is not weak nor is he hasty. He's been biding his time and waiting for the proper opportunity to become head of the Bolton household and Lord of Winterfell. He went along with the marriage to Sansa because wedding a Stark heir would give him legitimacy, but leopards do not change their stripes and Ramsay could not keep his sadistic streak under wraps for long. He also did not count on Theon to find his spine and get Sansa out of Dodge. With that option ruined and a legit Bolton heir on the way, Ramsay had no choice but to move up his timetable. He has the support of the houses with the most military might and with Sansa on the run, he has an excuse to march on Castle Black and try to consolidate his power in the North.
  18. RIP JB "Defalt" Markowicz. Fuck you and your rocket powered station wagon. I am a little disappointed that the devs did not parody Deadmau5's Nyan Cat Purrari a bit more when they designed Defaut's custom Rosewood. The last song I needed for my SongSneak collection was the acid house track Default spun at dotConnection; Conduction by Johnny Fiasco. Another achievement unlocked! This use of incidental music was just as good as CREAM by WuTang playing during my shoot-out with the Viceroys or Jesus Built My Hotrod by Ministry blasting while T-Bone and I were thinning the ranks of the local doomsday preppers turned Blume private army during an all-out assault of T-Bone's junkyard / booby-trapped sculpture garden. An interactive advert featuring poor Joseph DeMarco (RIP) adorned the wall in the atrium of the club. I guess I should've waited until after this mission to kill DeMarco with my car.... It was kinda hard to follow through with the mission because I was busy digging the music and wandering around the crowd. Too bad that Aiden doesn't dance. I think Aisha Tyler makes yet another appearance in the game as one of the party people, but you can't tell for sure since you can't profile anyone in the club. You can only profile the mannequins decorating the club that Default is using to taunt you. Me being weird is happy that I wore the Cutthroat outfit so that I fit in with the EDM crowd. I am stupid like that.. Once you locate and hack Default's router to access the webcam on his laptop (the "connection" puzzles are really complex this time around), he causes a blackout in the club and makes a run for it. As you chase Default, you run accross several decoys wearing electronic rat masks like his. I finally got the shoot-out I want with realistic model animations. Instead of pulling a shotgun or assault rifle out of my pants, I broke out the M8-M (based on the Mateba auto-revolver) out of my coat and open fire. What a great six-shooter! The RoF is slow but the stopping power the gun has at medium range is insane. So long as you are careful to count your shots and remember to take cover after six, you're good. Having a dude not die when your mag is empty and being forced to reload out in the open is the worst feeling ever. Once I finished putting down all of Default's fixers, the obligatory car chase started. Fun.... Fucking Default led me all over Chicago during the chase and the muscle car I was using was nearly scrap by the time Default finally took the wrong turn down the wrong street and I got him to crash into a street blocker. One Focus assisted headshot later and he was down. I was so frustrated by the pursuit that I put an IED on Default's car and made sure it was completely destroyed. The cool thing about this mission is, I will let T-Bone keep the six gigs of lesbian porn he stole from Defaut's apartment. As for my motley crew. As for the plotline, here is what I have figured out so far. I will spoil as much as I can so that if you are living vicariously through my playthrough, you will get so much information that you won't have to play through the game yourself to know what's going on. Looks like Aiden gets to rescue his sister during the next mission I play.
  19. The line up for the Cinco del Mayhem Kung Fu Marathon Golden Swallow Come Drink With Me The Black Tavern Dirty Ho Opium & The Kung Fu Master Legendary Weapons of Kung Fu Marathon starts @ 10AM EST and repeats from the top of the order @ 6PM EST
  20. I am good with the current timeline as not to repeat the sins of X-Men: The Last Stand, Batman vs. Superman, or Spider Man 3. Overstuffed super hero movies not named Watchmen have never turned out that great.
  21. Snake isn't just a mute. His face is still a mess despite the multiple reconstructive surgeries done to correct the damage after the helicopter crash that disfigured him.
  22. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/04/blizzard-shuts-down-popular-fan-run-pirate-server-for-classic-wow/ http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.937602-Blizzard-Responds-to-Nostalrius-Server-Closure-Complaints There are petitions protesting the shutdown of the server.... did we mention it was a pirate server?
  23. You and Scott need to discuss the Blizzard / WoW / Nostarius debacle on the next Gamers Gotta Whine.
  24. Andre Berto avenged his loss to Victor Ortiz via 4th round TKO.
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