Craig H
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I do agree that there’s so much more heat for Cody vs Rock now. If Rock is going to show the movie career down a little bit for the next year then you may as well do Cody vs Rock at Summerslam and then Roman vs Rock at WM41. Provided the Rock stays healthy, which is a big if.
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MAMARHODES needs to whip the shit out of the Rock.
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Also, that may have been the best Chicago Raw in a long time. I didn't watch all of it because I was skipping around, but everything I saw was great and the amazing Chicago crowd was back and eating everything up. Ending segment was awesome.
And with each week goes by the tease Austin more and more and, man, this motherfucker is about to be pants free if he comes out at Wrestlemania to stun the Rock on night 2.
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8 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
Huh. TIL Mindy's is in Wicker Park.
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So...Is this thing worth buying if I bought last year's game? Is enough different?
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I couldn't give a shit less what Finn Wolfhard does in Ghostbusters because he only has one mode and that's playing Mike or characters like Mike. So I'm with what he had to do in the movie because he ultimately doesn't bring much to the table for me outside of Stranger Things.
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Also, bless my older daughter. I love her so much. She cracked me up during the movie unintentionally. When Patton is on screen she turns to me and is like, "there's a lot of people from Stranger Things in this." I go, "oh, that's not Bob, that was a different actor" and then after the movie I explained that during season 2 of Stranger Things that the joke was, "when did Sean Astin turn into Patton Oswalt?"
EDIT: Couple other thoughts...Carrie Coon was really channeling her character from the Leftovers at times, which is fine by me. I guess she kind of did that in the first movie. Kumail and Patton were both really funny and knocked it out of the park. The other British guy was pretty good too. Patton delivers the word "hookers" like no one else. God bless that man.
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It really did feel like one of the cooler plots from an episode of the Real Ghostbusters. I have zero clue what any of the reviewers were basing their poor reviews on. I don’t know what they expected to see. I saw some say that they wanted to see more ghost busting so it could be more like the original where they're like plumbers or firemen, but for ghosts. I've seen that opinion a lot. It makes me wonder when the last time they saw the original movie was because they bust 1, ONE ghost, and it's Slimer. The rest of the time it's fucking around with a once in a generation cast, a once in a generation script, and a once in a generation job by the director, especially with letting Bill Murray say whatever he wanted. They show the montage of them around town, but that's it.
I thought it was really funny and had a lot of heart. Again, this seems to come up a lot, but there's plenty of stuff I could see hitting close to home for parents or step parents or step children, not to mention what it's like to raise a young teen.
I liked that it establishes what's happening with the family in NYC and what they're doing and then it pretty much moves on from there to where, without spoiling anything, it opens up the Ghostbusters universe in a way that is really fucking cool. I geek out for dumb shit like schematics that some graphic designer cooked up, but that works here because you also get to see just how it works.
I think if I had any big criticism it's that the third act feels somewhat rushed. There also seemed to be a lot in the trailer that wasn't in the movie, which makes me wonder how much the strike affected things. It makes me think there was more to explore in that third act and it ends putting a really nice and neat bow on everything where...
SpoilerNothing is really destroyed. Prior to the events of the ending, you see cars and all kinds of shit being impaled, but once the big bad is defeated, everything is clean and nice and nothing is trashed.
So yeah, you could flesh out that third act more, but then you're probably adding another 20 to 30 minutes to this thing and a tight 2 hours was about perfect.
BTW, I loved, LOVED that callback to the shit that happens to William Atherton in real life...
SpoilerIf you're not familiar, Atherton says that ever since Ghostbusters, so decades now, people still yell out "HEY DICKLESS!" or "THIS GUY HAS NO DICK!" So at the end when the people start getting mad at him there's someone way in the back that yells out "HEY DICKLESS!" and I about died.
The reviews for this movie are about the most unfair I've seen for a movie that is, at worst, just OK, and at best, for someone that's a huge fan of the movies and lore and everything, I think it's better than 2 and I think it edges out Afterlife (I really loved the sentimentality of Afterlife). If you go off of the reviews, you'd think it was worse than Madam Web, a movie where THE VILLAIN HAS ALL OF HIS LINES ADR'd AND NONE OF IT MATCHES UP WITH THE MOVEMENTS OF HIS MOUTH and that doesn't even speak to how big of a piece of shit the rest of it was.
I don't know. It's pretty fucking good. At least I thought so. And I'm happy it's making a lot of money to make a third one of these. So like, go see it. If you weary of it, again, at worst I could see someone thinking it was merely OK or passable, but if you're down for fun Ghostbusters shit, then yeah, it's going to be your jam.
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On 3/22/2024 at 9:47 PM, Tabe said:
I absolutely love the first movie but I hate this news.
This is the perfect way to sum up my feelings. But hey, gotta make that Netflix content.
Yeesh…The more shit like this happens the more I think Beverly Hills Cop 4 is going to be a mega turd even though that trailer was really good.
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Ghostbusters Frozen Empire was really fucking solid. I’ll have more to say later, but I have zero clue what any reviewer was expecting. It was a ton of fun and, not that it matters, the theater was clapping for it once the credits rolled. I really didn’t expect that.
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I just now got lucky. I basically kept doing the fights until 2 party members died that way they’d die on the first hit. Then figured out using Focused Thrust is a good way to pressure and stagger them on the second fight. The third one was more or less just getting lucky to stagger them before killing them all.
I swear…It’s not the bosses or anything like that that’s most challenging, it’s these stupid jobs and mini games.
My next step was doing what you suggested. I’m now taking a break after failing the 4th fight. On the plus side, I just piled up a ton of Gil and mats for crafting. So I got that going for me, which is nice.
And I think I am way over leveled at this point. I’ll have to see if I can switch to hard mode midway through. That or I’ll have to intentionally gimp my builds. Right now with Cloud it’s nearly impossible to die. I stacked Enemy Skill with HP Absorption and took Cait’s Magnify skill to stack that with Fire and Ice and I’m just crushing everything super fast. On the other end of the spectrum, Yuffie sure comes down to earth pretty quickly damage wise. I’m still able to do decent damage with her, but it’s not like it was when I first got her. I still haven’t used Cait, which is basically how I remember using them in the original.
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My GOD. This Teach Me Great Warrior job for Yuffie is fucking impossible. The enemies die so fast and any one attack takes away half their health. There’s no way to both pressure and stagger these weak as fuck enemies. They just fall over and die.
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60 hours in and I only just got to the jungle in chapter 9. I’m taking the very long route.
I still haven’t fight a hard boss yet. I’m not sure which one Raziel was talking about. I was able to beat the Tonberry King in one shot thanks to an item I got awhile back.
So far I’ve hit nearly 100% in every area, but I don’t see myself playing more of the mini games in the Gold Saucer except for Queens Blood. I finished out all of the level 3 Chocobo Races and that’s incredibly tedious. I also have a couple of the fights Chadley had me do where I only completed 2 out of 3 objectives. I might go back for those of it means unlocking something good, otherwise I doubt I’ll care much.
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Nevermind. Finally beat them. Ugh.
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Jesus CHRIST. Someone please give me some tips on beating the landworms and duneworms in the simulator. Fucking A.
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10 hours ago, dogwelder said:
Why did they have to bring back the stupid gym mini-game in FF7 Rebirth? And I had been doing pretty well in all the other mini-games up to that point...
(And as much as I like having a Portal for convenience sake, it does not work well for these mini-games IMO)
Beating the last person, I forget their name is impossible. I did see one suggestion to switch from graphics mode to performance mode and that didn’t help either. Even doing the situps perfectly they’re at 40+ and I’m at 30. I basically gave up.
Boy, do I really not like the Gold Saucer. There is something about the design of it with stairwells everywhere and everything looking the same that I don’t dig. Even with the ability to fast travel around I still hate the look of it and everyone there is the most anime bullshit ever. It’s sort of like the similar area in Remake except worse. I don’t mind a tonal change, but this is so drastic because everyone starts acting like a dumb cunt. And I really don’t like most of the mini games. It’s just kind of a pain in the ass area. I was happy to take a brief detour from there to go to the next area.
My only other gripe is the constant forcing of a relationship between two characters.
SpoilerAerith comes off as the neediest and most incompetent character and Cloud is just a cold dick. All I keep thinking of is Scott Pilgrim and Knives Chao. Just tell her you’re not into her and you have your eyes set on Tifa.
Once again a game really tries to force romance when all I can think of is the Witcher 3 and how that did it best. #teamtriss
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I really wish I could find a really good guide for emulating No Mercy with these mods. There doesn't seem to be a comprehensive, step-by-step process for everything you need to download, where to download it from, and then what you need to do. I remember trying to emulate it a few years ago and it was just a mess. I couldn't get it working and didn't know what I was doing.
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Yeah, as mentioned above, I had them mixed up to some degree, but I absolutely HATE Blitzball. 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 7 Remake, and 7 Rebirth are the ones I like. X is kinda just...there for me. It's fine. I don't remember much of the first few, I really didn't like 8 even though it was gorgeous at the time, 13, 15, and 16 I don't care for.
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5 hours ago, Log said:
There’s some heavy shit that sneaks its way into episodes very subtly, too. The one where Chilli’s friend visits and it’s heavily implied that she’s drifted away because she can’t have kids and it’s hard for her to be around the Heelers and see them so happy.
There’s also a moment in the episode where the girls are putting on a show for their parents re-enacting how they met. Bingo is pretending to be pregnant with a balloon under her shirt. The balloon pops and Bandit quickly grabs Chilli’s hand and gives her a sad look. I took that as them having a miscarriage at some point. Tears me up every time.
There’s some lighter, fun subtle stuff too, like the hungover episode. On one of the newer ones where they’re at the pharmacy and the kids are using the video screens to find their friend, the bulldog dad is buying protein powder and takes a hit of breath spray before talking to one of the moms.
Oh my God. All of this. I still haven’t seen the couple episodes Disney+ didn’t add because of the content in the episode. I should try to seek those out. But yeah, some of those episodes are really heavy. There’s the one with the couple that’s growing apart too, I think it’s one of the Heeler’s brothers or sisters.
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I thought the same thing. My friend who was hardcore into PoE for years until Last Epoch came out swears though that what they showed of PoE 2 is pretty exciting and different.
Still looks like a game you need an advanced degree in skill trees to play.
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Last Epoch is what you’d get from the good parts of the best ARPGs and a story heavily inspired by Chrono Trigger.
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Regarding PoE 2, I know they’re aiming for a 2025 release, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it takes even longer.
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1 hour ago, tbarrie said:
Are you talking about Last Epoch? That's what came up when I googled "Lost Epoch".
Yes. My keyboard changed Last to Lost. Last Epoch is excellent.
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One other opinion to make…I don’t see the use in killing that character if they decide to go in that direction. I honestly have no idea if they do or not because I’ve managed to avoid all spoilers for the game. You don’t need this to be 1:1 with the original. I’m sure some hardcore fans will disagree and say that their death is what makes that game, but I never saw that as much in my couple playthrough of FF7.
I keep thinking of the LotR books and trilogy. You didn’t need or have to kill off any of the gang in that. And I don’t really count Sean Bean as being part of that gang. Even Gandolf basically died and was reborn. If you want to keep everyone alive, keep everyone alive. This isn’t a game where I think you need to kill someone off for it to have actual stakes. So if everyone lives, it’s not going to bother me and I sort of hope that happens even though I’m pretty sure that at some point in Rebirth, someone is going to die. It would be fucking hilarious if it was Sephiroth that dies just to really fuck with everyone. If they killed Sephiroth then I would have no idea where this game was going. Shit, figure out a way to pull in Kefka or something wacky like that. It’s their story. Do whatever you want. I doubt you’re going to alienate anyone. More than 1/3 of FF games are not great and yet we all keep coming back. They did an entire trilogy for X, which I think is maybe one of the worst FF games, but I’m pretty sure I’m close to being alone in thinking that.
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BTW, I rewatched the closing angle again and man, the Rock was seriously channeling southern slave owner with his dialogue. He was like something out of Django Unchained with how over the top he was.