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Post by DragonKingReborn on Dec 15, 2021 20:09:47 GMT
Anchovies on pizza are delicious. I eat pizza with pineapple on it.)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2021 20:39:26 GMT
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Dec 16, 2021 1:04:44 GMT
A few posts have been removed. Your post may have been removed if it quoted a post at issue.
This thread is not a political discussion thread. Nor is it a 'political statement' thread.
Thanks.
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Post by Beerfish on Dec 19, 2021 17:53:59 GMT
I like the MATRIX sequels. I have not seen all of them but I do have to say that the trailer for the latest one really looks good to me.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Dec 22, 2021 0:57:56 GMT
'Master of Orion 2' is a better 4X space game than 'Stellaris', despite using less than a few ten-thousands of the memory and a millionth of the CPU power. Stellaris has a big advantage though. It runs on modern PCs
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Post by ScumbagShepurd on Dec 23, 2021 4:06:25 GMT
never heard of Master of Orion but Stellaris went someplace weird with all them w40k references, other dimensions, space whales, space dragons, space mongols and whatnot. Not sure i like where this game is going.
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Post by rewindbutton on Dec 23, 2021 15:49:57 GMT
Stellaris went someplace weird Hear, hear! I liked Stellaris 1.0 quite a lot.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Dec 25, 2021 0:21:36 GMT
never heard of Master of Orion but Stellaris went someplace weird with all them w40k references, other dimensions, space whales, space dragons, space mongols and whatnot. Not sure i like where this game is going. Turns out MoO2 does run on modern computers. You just need an up to date version of DOS-box. GoG took care of that. Marvelous. 64-bit CPU, 64-bit OS, Win 10 and everything. Well, about those space monsters. I'm afraid Stellaris got the inspiration for those from 'Master of Orion 2'. Lol. There is also a wild band of aliens, the Antareans, or something, that - from out of the black - will visit you with merciless destruction at some time. Pray that you're strong enough when they do. MoO2 is different from modern strategy games in that there is no balancing or brake on power. And I like that. Also, all your "friends" and "allies" will stab you in the back, as soon as you're weak enough and they can spare the time. Good thing to know, as you're being friendly with them. And the pixel graphics are cute and charming.
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Post by Vortex13 on Jan 13, 2022 16:08:13 GMT
This might have been broached by myself in the past but I recently had this opinion come back to the forefront of my mind recently.
My wife is a fairly big Harry Potter fan, not the type to go to conventions or anything, but certainly will rewatch the whole series on a semi-regular basis. So in watching the films with her, especially the latter half of the series and after watching the 20th year reunion special on HBO, I have (re)noticed how the setting is very much an abysmal world for any of the muggles out there.
This is a universe where even good natured wizards can wipe your memories on a whim or set you on fire if they happen to be particularly stressed or transmogrify your very body if they are so inclined. Secret shadow governments rule the world through the use of literal magic and if they decide that the 'normies' need to be cajoled in a particular way they are only too happy to make that choice for everyone. The use of teleportation or anti-gravity spells could revolutionize human society for the better; could help push us to a post-scarcity civilization but instead it is hoarded only to the genetic lottery winners who happen to be born with magical talent.
This alone is very dystopian but the films go even further as to lean towards the notion that just one drop of magical blood is worth more than a whole ocean of muggles. Harry Potter is the 'Chosen One' to be sure, but even klutzes like Neville Longbottom are presented as being worth more than a huge swath of regular human lives. Voldemort might be the antagonist of the story but even the 'good guys' like Dumbledore or Hermione repeatedly take actions that irreparably damage muggles' lives because they deem themselves as being the best ones to determine the fates of their lessers. At least the DeathEaters are honest in their support of magical eugenics, instead of masking it behind a veneer of parental dotting over children too simple to make their own choices.
The HBO special makes mention of how the books and films of Harry Potter appealed to so many because it was a setting where everyone could be special and included, which in the form of escapism from real life makes a certain kind of sense. But in the works themselves that is certainly not the case. Imagine if you were in the world of Harry Potter but were a muggle; even worse a muggle that wasn't blissfully unaware of the race of demigods running around bending reality to their will. How would it feel knowing that you, as an accident of birth, were worth next to nothing in the eyes of the universe when compared to the magical ubersmenches flying around on broomsticks?
I might be overthinking things a bit but the first thing my mind always does when I consider a fictional setting is what would it be like for me, as I am in the real world, if I existed in this universe. And in the eyes of this universe, it would really suck.
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Post by Vortex13 on Jan 18, 2022 14:45:28 GMT
Here's another unpopular opinion:
Gratuitous nudity and/or sex scenes does not make a show or movie 'edgy' or 'mature' (in the more refined sense of the word). All it demonstrates to me is a lack of writing and directing skill. People who are lackluster at best when it comes to writing a scene or dialog and instead try to hide their lack of talent behind naked flesh.
Ask yourself, what purpose does it serve having naked people writhing around for this particular interaction? And then imagine the same scene without having nudity. Nearly 100% of all such scenes would either come across as boring/pointless (due to the aforementioned lack of talent) or, in several cases, actually would be better off with the exclusion of what amounts to softcore porn in the background.
In my opinion, if you have to throw in naked bodies to every other scene of your production then you aren't a worthwhile creative.
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Jan 18, 2022 22:53:25 GMT
Ask yourself, what purpose does it serve having naked people writhing around for this particular interaction? And then imagine the same scene without having nudity. Nearly 100% of all such scenes would either come across as boring/pointless (due to the aforementioned lack of talent) or, in several cases, actually would be better off with the exclusion of what amounts to softcore porn in the background. I agree that in a lot of times, in entertainment, sex is just used to cover up lack of depth and talent in the storytelling / setting, but its the same with excessive gore, gratuitous humor or even with overly scientific needlessly complex content. I don't agree that sex does offer nothing but serving as a cover-up though, good looking naked bodies are fun to look at (don't deny it) and cleverly and tastefully implemented it can be a good scene like a tastefully and well done humorous or violent scene. It can even help telling the story. Its also weird to have a story show everything from severe violence, to betrayals, heroism, torture, motherly love and all the other highs and depths of the human soul BUT no, not sex. That's just super weird. So I very much like sex in adult entertainment, it just needs to be done well, fit in the story and it must not be overused. But that pretty much goes for the entire content of the story as well. *shrug*
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Post by Vortex13 on Jan 19, 2022 13:50:02 GMT
Ask yourself, what purpose does it serve having naked people writhing around for this particular interaction? And then imagine the same scene without having nudity. Nearly 100% of all such scenes would either come across as boring/pointless (due to the aforementioned lack of talent) or, in several cases, actually would be better off with the exclusion of what amounts to softcore porn in the background. I agree that in a lot of times, in entertainment, sex is just used to cover up lack of depth and talent in the storytelling / setting, but its the same with excessive gore, gratuitous humor or even with overly scientific needlessly complex content. I don't agree that sex does offer nothing but serving as a cover-up though, good looking naked bodies are fun to look at (don't deny it) and cleverly and tastefully implemented it can be a good scene like a tastefully and well done humorous or violent scene. It can even help telling the story. Its also weird to have a story show everything from severe violence, to betrayals, heroism, torture, motherly love and all the other highs and depths of the human soul BUT no, not sex. That's just super weird. So I very much like sex in adult entertainment, it just needs to be done well, fit in the story and it must not be overused. But that pretty much goes for the entire content of the story as well. *shrug* I agree, gratuitous anything is bad in entertainment. Yes, modern culture, too much of a thing is bad.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2022 19:24:19 GMT
Dungeons and Dragons is a bad RPG system.
Any system reliant on a D20 instead of Percentile is worse.
Even D6 systems are better, at least you eventually get to hold a massive double-fistful of D6s and splooge numbers all over the table.
D20 is a sad lonely dice representing laughably huge 5% increments, which is a ridiculous amount for a GM to deal with.
Also, the title GM(Game Master) is far superior to DM(Dungeon Master).
The only thing DnD has going for it is marketing and age. Originality might be admired, but it can also be improved upon. (Usually quite easily.)
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Post by dragontartare on Feb 3, 2022 20:19:21 GMT
But the D20 is such a pleasing shape
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Post by Vortex13 on Feb 14, 2022 14:10:54 GMT
During the Super Bowl I noticed a subtle trend in several of the commercials.
One was a car ad, can't remember the model, that was obviously making fun of Tesla/Elon Musk specifically mentioning how they were't going to try and 'conquer Mars' but would rather people buy their [forgettable] brand of electric car. The other was an ad featuring Mathew McConaughey in a parody of his space suit from Interstellar going on about how people should 'forget about space, to focus on Earth'.
Honestly, I detest that kind of thinking.
Don't look to the stars just keep your head down and mire in the dirt with the rest of us. Even the calls to forgo exploration and development of space until we "Fix things" here on our little dustball are just excuses to give up too. In all the years that there has been calls for 'saving the planet' or 'feeding the hungry' or 'rooting out racism' have we ever made any progress on those fronts according to the ones calling for them? Have the activists ever been satisfied with what's been done or is it just another never ending problem that we will perpetually trying to solve?
I would much rather push for the stars, at least humanity could have a common goal worth pushing towards that can reasonably be accomplished. Putting a colony on Mars is a much more straightforward and doable task than trying to have a post-scarcity utopia in our lifetimes.
Besides it's always been the innovation of new inventions and ideas that arise from conflict or exploration that help advance our species; and the former is far more likely to happen if we go along with this notion that space isn't worth exploring and just stay here.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Feb 14, 2022 18:56:17 GMT
During the Super Bowl I noticed a subtle trend in several of the commercials. One was a car ad, can't remember the model, that was obviously making fun of Tesla/Elon Musk specifically mentioning how they were't going to try and 'conquer Mars' but would rather people buy their [forgettable] brand of electric car. The other was an ad featuring Mathew McConaughey in a parody of his space suit from Interstellar going on about how people should 'forget about space, to focus on Earth'. Honestly, I detest that kind of thinking. Don't look to the stars just keep your head down and mire in the dirt with the rest of us. Even the calls to forgo exploration and development of space until we "Fix things" here on our little dustball are just excuses to give up too. In all the years that there has been calls for 'saving the planet' or 'feeding the hungry' or 'rooting out racism' have we ever made any progress on those fronts according to the ones calling for them? Have the activists ever been satisfied with what's been done or is it just another never ending problem that we will perpetually trying to solve? I would much rather push for the stars, at least humanity could have a common goal worth pushing towards that can reasonably be accomplished. Putting a colony on Mars is a much more straightforward and doable task than trying to have a post-scarcity utopia in our lifetimes. Besides it's always been the innovation of new inventions and ideas that arise from conflict or exploration that help advance our species; and the former is far more likely to happen if we go along with this notion that space isn't worth exploring and just stay here. This is a very old conflict. It's been going on ever since Ghuruk the silent picked up a flintstone and started to experimentally knacking it. He became the target of a torrent of criticism for not helping digging for edible roots and grubworms with his bare fingernails, to "solve the world food problem". As luck would have it, he was more interested in his stones and persisted.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2022 20:46:53 GMT
The other was an ad featuring Mathew McConaughey in a parody of his space suit from Interstellar going on about how people should 'forget about space, to focus on Earth'. Kind of funny given that's the exact opposite stance he had in that movie. Really the entire film is about the opposite. The teacher, the principle, the grandfather, and the son all act antagonistically with that idea in mind.
It's almost comical to hear about in a Superbowl ad. Just too perfect.
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Post by Carcharoth on Feb 15, 2022 6:44:33 GMT
In all the years that there has been calls for 'saving the planet' or 'feeding the hungry' or 'rooting out racism' have we ever made any progress on those fronts according to the ones calling for them? Have the activists ever been satisfied with what's been done or is it just another never ending problem that we will perpetually trying to solve? I would much rather push for the stars, at least humanity could have a common goal worth pushing towards that can reasonably be accomplished. Putting a colony on Mars is a much more straightforward and doable task than trying to have a post-scarcity utopia in our lifetimes. I don't typically listen to the opinions of people with financial motivations to keep a problem around. Especially if they have consistently failed to solve it. Uniting behind a common goal that everyone could take pride in, like colonizing mars, would go a long way towards solving those problems. Not to mention the potential scientific advancements made in the endeavor that could solve the other ones. But that would involve doing stuff that's consistently proven to work throughout human history, which is apparently also an unpopular opinion.
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Feb 21, 2022 11:35:59 GMT
Unpopular opinion: yellow is a nice color for clothes. There are a few types of people who really cannot wear it but mostly, it looks good. Especially slightly dull yellow shades, like mustard and flaxen:
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Post by Beerfish on Feb 24, 2022 2:40:47 GMT
Diamonds are boring and look like glass, opals are far far nicer gem settings.
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Post by Patricia on Feb 26, 2022 14:49:13 GMT
Diamonds are boring and look like glass, opals are far far nicer gem settings. Well you're obviously not a girl ... because Diamonds are a GIRL's Best friend.
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Post by Sundance31us on Feb 27, 2022 23:51:08 GMT
I had pet rocks when I was very young, but I never really understood why people would want to wear rocks as decorations.
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