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    Late Night Post about The Green Knight film (spoilers obviously)

    I'm not gonna deny that I may have lost a lot of the subtlety but I most certainly did not go in expecting an action movie. I wasn't sure what to expect but I didn't think I'd see Gawain swinging the axe and killing monsters left and right. I won't deny that he sucks, that much is pretty...
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    Late Night Post about The Green Knight film (spoilers obviously)

    It's kind of hard to tell if he undergoes meaningful change in the film because it ends right after he has his epiphany by removing the sash. It's like if in Spiderverse the film ended just as Miles learned to web swing
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    Late Night Post about The Green Knight film (spoilers obviously)

    So I'm sitting here at nearly 1 am being anxious about life and my place in it, the usual stuff, and I wanted to talk to no one in particular about the Green Knight and some thoughts I had about it a few weeks ago, despite my having seen it months prior. Specifically, after some thought, I've...
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    Zero Punctuation: E3 2018 Round-Up

    I preorder games because I have Amazon Prime and preordering games gives Prime members a 20% discount. There's not really a better preorder bonus than "pay less for the game you're getting anyways."
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    Video Game Hell

    Because I'm a fucking weeabo, I've seen a few videos talking about what it's like living in Japan, and living there as an adult is allegedly horrible. They work mentally and spiritually exhausting jobs with ungodly hours and strict deadlines while being pressured to socialize and maintain good...
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    Video Game Hell

    Any competitive shooter where I am being dominated by some dickhead who thinks it's funny to shit talk me while they're killing me almost immediately out of the spawn while being yelled at by unhelpful teammates who refuse to offer assistance or advice and just telling me to play better without...
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    I Have A Burning Question In Need of Answering

    Man With a Mission. They don't speak English primarily, but they speak it well enough for me to count it. They are known for their songs in various anime, but it's not like they still aren't legitimate songs and fairly solid otherwise.
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    Which fictional character would you like to meet the most?

    I have a few options, pick one: Akira Kurusu (Persona 5), if only so I can blow his brains out and leave him with the bill. 2B (Nier: Automata), if only so I could talk to a futuristic android bent on protecting a species that she's never met and introduce her to that same species and see...
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    Best cartoons of the 2010s.

    Amazing World of Gumball Young Justice Venture Bros, not sure if it counts, though Star vs. The Forces of Evil I enjoyed Ben 10 Alien Force and Ultimate Alien Generator Rex was especially interesting in its later seasons ThunderCats was really good, but not many people watched it
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    I want to talk about Ghost in the Shell (1995)

    When I watched the movie a few months back, about 3 or 4 now, I realized something very interesting: This movie did not age very well. I won't say it's a bad movie, but every theme that it explores has been explored since and to a much deeper extent. It still set the bar for what a sci-fi movie...
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    Poll: Why do you post on these forums?

    Well, I have a few answers to that question. Why this forum? It feels the most focused on each individual answer than other forums I've visited, given the larger spaces and text for each entry. Because of the size of the profile pics, the names, and badges, it feel like each post is more from...
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    E3 2017 thread

    I don't even know what I'd be interested in or be looking forward to. As of right now, nothing that any of the companies going interests me. I might find something that intrigues me later on, but as of right now, I think I'm good on games that I'm playing. For once in my god damn life. Maybe if...
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    The inspiration of your username

    Spectrobes. The guy was named Rallen. I put two and two together one day and there we have it.
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    Is Call of Juarez Gunslinger Best Western Game ever made?

    It's a very very very good ARCADE shooter set in a Western setting. But as a Western game itself, it is far too linear. It doesn't do anything else to make you feel like you're in the Wild Wild West. No lassos, no poker, no riding horses through the landscapes, none of the non-violent things...
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    What makes a character more evil: actions or intent?

    That seems like the kind of thing that can only be determined in hindsight, when the ramifications of the actions are fully understood and the people who are looking back are judging it. Granted, their sense of justice would be severely different than the sense of the person who committed the...