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@lebronjames75 @lain fair points, although with musicians like this they do have in-ear monitors so they definitely can hear themselves and the rest of the band very clearly. I'm a singer as well so I'm not really talking out of my ass here for what it's worth lol.

@teto yeah I never thought the open world would be any good whatsoever and it really isn't. Some people are having a good time with it but that is not me. I wanted the game for the racing, and the racing is fun. The p switch missions can be fun and challenging, but all you get for doing them is stickers which are equally as pointless. You get stickers for hitting question panels and getting peach medallions too. So 3 different things you can do in the open world that all give you the same shit. It's the korok problem from botw/TotK all over again but far less useful. It's like they had this great idea for the race tracks to all connect to each other and exist in a world, but then they half-assed the world element. It would have been way better if they just copied need for speed's open world design wholesale. Make me drive to the races, give me money for collecting medallions that I can spend on karts or kart upgrades (or even stuff like costumes and paint jobs or extra characters) and I would have been much happier with it.

@Inginsub @Junes didn't they already try that once and the guy got a huge settlement out of it

@Gran3Walder all I can think of looking at this is the bike road in 3rd Gen Pokémon

@lebronjames75 @lain man those vocal cords are not what they used to be huh

@vriska I THINK THAT SOMEOME IS TRYING TO KILL ME

Unlocked mirror mode on Mario Kart World. Haven't really touched the open world much because it's boring as shit imo so it took a little while to get it. Unfortunately you don't seem to get anything for 100% completing anything in the game, but I still really want to get perfect marks on at least all of the Grands Prix including mirror mode.

@shadowhawx you really have the proportions nailed down now!

@rodecchi I just got a notification that I can deposit and transfer USD with binance, I was wondering if it would work for all of y'all

@Mr_NutterButter thanks! there is a WHOLE lot of back story for all of this stuff happening too and there is a lot riding on some characters living or dying, it's going to be intense.

man, it was intense last session with people just climbing down a rope. one of the guys was freaking out so much he didn't want to roll lol. he's the one who can breathe in any condition though so he'll probably be fine. two of the challenges he can get through without a single roll, one of them he'll need to be swimming so he can still breathe under there but he might die due to the cold of the water if he takes too long.

tonight's d&d session is going to be juicy. the party first has to battle against 3 deadly warlocks with a floating card that has random effects as a lair action. then, they have to pass 5 difficult trials on a mountain pass that everyone has said they'll likely die on. i would not be surprised in the slightest if there was at least one death, maybe not of the PCs but perhaps the NPCs that are with them.

i did make sure that all of these trials were completely passable if they take the right steps and work together. one of the characters can breathe under any conditions so he's straight up immune to two of the trials. i think if they use each character's strengths well they can all make it. i even have safeguards in place for when they fail a roll. they basically have to fail three rolls in a row to actually die, and even then there might be ways they can save themselves.

i won't be surprised if someone dies, but i won't be surprised if everyone lives either. my players have a habit of taking my expectations and flushing them down a toilet so sometimes you gotta' get a little bit crazy with it haha.

@arc AND IT'S HAPPENED ONCE AGAIN
I'VE TURNED TO A FRIEND
SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS
SEES THROUGH THE MASTER PLAN

@alyx i'm so fucking jaded that i think this is going to be like a 3/10 movie

The Last of Us is one of my favorite video games of all time, but a little while after it came out it was killed and Neil has been parading its corpse around ever since.

The main problem with Part 2 is that it's just way too preachy. It's not really about the "woke" stuff at all, although that certainly doesn't help it. You could take out all of that and you'd still have a horrible, preachy mess. The problem gets worse though, because in order to preach to you, it makes so many jumps in logic and litters plot holes everywhere. Then the game has the audacity to try and make you feel bad for not being receptive to its preaching.

Honestly, I'm of the opinion that the original's ending was never meant to be ambiguous. Maybe it turned out that way because of the disconnect between Straley and Druckmann, but they did poll testers and found that 100% of the testers who had children believed that Joel did the right thing. Neil would be the one outlier there, and he's on the record saying that. The childless testers were about 50/50 on the issue, but I know a lot of my friends who originally thought Joel did the wrong thing, as they have grown up, have changed their minds (none of them have had children). The ending presents itself as being ambiguous because of its brutality, but the more you think about it and the more you dissect it under every moral framework, it's obvious that Joel was in the right. I think a large amount of the audience ended up agreeing with him and that's why he's such a beloved character, but Neil didn't think that was right at all so he went and killed him and then gave Ellie the worst ending imaginable to cement Joel's poor character, while the characters he created without Straley get a much better ending. It really ends up feeling like a complete and total disdain for his audience and even Straley, and this is the way he took it out on everyone. Now, who knows if that's actually the case or not, I'm just saying that's how it FEELS like and that's why people absolutely hated the game and why a lot of people hate Neil himself.

There are plenty of others to not like Neil and/or Naughty Dog too that weren't mentioned in this video too, of course. Handpicking an actor/actress/whatever for the trans character in TLOU2 that had like white hatred posts on Twitter was certainly an interesting choice. Putting out official art of Chloe and Nadine being gay lovers was quite strange. Then there was whatever the hell happened to Uncharted 4 when he took the reins, including changing Nathan Drake's son into a daughter because some tester thought it would be a better idea and the whole "we don't use the word 'fun' at Naughty Dog" line.

I was never one who wanted there to be a second Last of Us game, period. I loved the way the first one ended and I always said that if there was a second game, it should revolve a completely different group of people set in the same world. Even then, I can see glimmers of things that could have made for a great story in the second game. It was just so awfully put together and had zero respect for the audience across several points of view. I didn't play it but I did watch a full playthrough of it (shoutouts to Freako) and boy... what a mess. What an absolute mess.

Now we've got Intergalactic coming out(?), which is good because at least The Last of Us will maybe get to take a break from being in front of the firing squad. It's going to suffer from a lot of the same problems but without the history of an amazing game behind it, which I think will actually make it fail even harder (and especially in today's sociopolitical climate). That whole interview with Neil you had at the end is pretty telling. A Jewish guy producing a game about a "heretic prophet" from 2000 years ago seems a little bit too on the nose for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW-OtHbgj9w

@mischievoustomato yeah there are people that do that, to me I'm just like playing a character I don't really self insert. It's like writing a character in a story, I'm thinking of them as a separate entity entirely

@LukeAlmighty when I do get around to playing it I probably won't mod anything