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I can't say I'm too surprised; Season 3 was a little uneven, Season 4 was just plain terrible, and Season 5 was a lot better but still not really up to scratch. I don't feel like the show had much left in it. That said, as people have pointed out, unambiguously, consistently terrible shows...

Farming in Dark Souls is, by and large, a huge waste of time. You get plenty of souls by just going through the game normally and all you really need to do to progress is 1) learn to play better, and 2) upgrade your equipment, which tends not to be expensive. So the fact that it's easy to farm...

I was just commenting on a trend I dislike in popular culture! It would be pretty weird if I was going on a forum dedicated exclusively to superhero films and derailing threads by talking about how much I dislike them. But this is just a post about the extreme popularity of superhero movies...

Can I have the style manual for how I'm allowed to phrase criticism next time?

Are you literally unable to comprehend the idea that anyone might want to express a negative opinion about anything?

No-one makes me watch anything! Doesn't preclude me from having an opinion on it. It's omnipresent. Everyone is talking about it. I'm just one of the ones not saying anything positive.

The latter. I forgot that negative opinions are not allowed on the internet. Everything is good! All art is equally valid! etc.

That's really, really depressing to me. Fucking superhero movies man, when will they go away?

Yes, the genre is largely cheesy trash for children. However! There are other good fantasy authors out there. Gene Wolfe, for one - try his Book of the New Sun, it's fantastic, even better than GoT, imo. Also try Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics series. And here in the world of video games, Dark...

There are definitely some good bosses in DS2 though! Demon of Song is pretty fucking creepy-looking without just being a gross-out. The Lost Sinner's pretty great too. And it's worth remembering that even in the first game, boss designs were recycled to an extent. The first boss in DS1 popped up...

Yeah I feel much the same, my opinion is kind of slowly souring over time. It's still a great game, but it just doesn't feel perfect like the first game does to me. That said I disagree with one thing you said here, about the fact that this is set hundreds of years later undermining the plot; I...

Those are some great albums to start with, for sure! A good recommendation if you liked the kind of industrial-ish style of Yeezus is: Also, a rapper I've been getting super into recently is: And one I've loved for ages. He's inconsistent but when he's good (mainly on his first two...

Disappointing. I mean I guess it'll still load a lot faster (those fucking loading screens are unbearable) and have a better frame rate, but those lighting effects in the early trailers did look SO GODDAMN COOL, and it would have been nice to see them. Still, there's hope yet with mods I guess.

The consensus is generally that the combat in the first Mass Effect isn't great. You just play it for the story really. That said, I wouldn't say I've ever found it actively annoying. It's just kind of there, and very easy to blast through and get straight to the story stuff if you want to. No...

I'll play the ones that sound good to me/get good reviews? I don't get why I have to be entirely loyal to a series or entirely abandon it. I can just play the good ones, right?