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#1191241
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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Playing the Mega Man X series. Man does it take a nosedive. The first three are awesome. Then the fourth one is awesome except the voice acting is awful, which isn’t a game breaker but it’s the first signs of cracks in the series. Then I played a modified x5 that removes interruptions from the navigator. (Why tf would a mega man game even need a navigator). It was less awesome but still very fun. Then X6 sucks a horse ball. It’s just so obviously rushed and half finished. It’s buggy, the level design is hideous and tedious like it tries as hard as possible to keep you from having fun. The bosses suck and are either push overs in most cases or impossibly infuriating. It’s just awful and it isn’t fun. No way was it play tested. It’s hard for all the wrong reasons, bad camera, shitty controls etc. A shame because it could have been good if they had finished it properly. Zeros control schemes and attack combos are fun but I hardly use them because the game is so ridiculous I find myself just using xs ultimate armor and nova striking my way through everything just to get it over with. The soundtrack is fantastic as always.

X7 is just as bad. It’s less infuriating but just as annoying. I find myself dyinh because of the camera more than anything. Playing as zero is fun though. But the story is so stupid. When did X go from being a bad ass warrior who said little but blasted alot into a whiny little tweet who only wants to bitch about how much he fights and how violent things are. Doesn’t he know he’s in a mega man game? And the voices are terrible. Just awful. I would just stop at x5. It’s ending works as an ending and it was meant to be the ending, but then there’s the monkey wrench of x8 being good again. Decent voices that actually fit the characters for the first time and actually portray them how I always imagined. Xs character is back, he still has reservations about fighting but he’s far less annoying about it. The game is actually good. Curse my inability to mentally cope with just skipping from 5 to 8.

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#1191225
Topic
The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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DuracellEnergizer said:

Matt.F said:

DuracellEnergizer, you obviously didn’t look at those websites too thoroughly or maybe you were just being ‘selective’ with what you chose to copy/paste. Under the concise definitions on the sites you linked there are examples of usage of the word apologist - shall we take a look?

“Her question reflected a conventional Republican gripe, namely that the State Department is a cooing dovecote, full of apologists for Abroad.”

“The most serious native challenge to liberalism, made by the slaveholding oligarchy of the Old South, was crushed on the battlefield, and, despite the efforts of an ever-dwindling number of apologists, morally anathematized.”

“Its condemnation of America in general and the war in Iraq in particular meant that it became an apologist for totalitarian regimes.”

“The lives of American and British troops should not have been risked to rescue these apologists for terror.”

“English youth have been so educated time out of mind, and we have hundreds of thousands of apologists and admirers of injustice, misery, and brutality, as perpetrated among children.”

And on the Oxford English Dictionary page, the most respected of all dictionary sites, there are 15 given examples of how you would use the word apologist. Every single one has a negative connotation. Every one. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/apologist

Lets take a look!

‘The Soviet Union’s ideology had many adherents and apologists throughout the West.’
‘Obviously there have been, and will be, apologists who want to defend or explain away the embarrassing elements.’
‘Those are my passions and, not infrequently, their proponents and apologists will be my targets.’
‘Religious apologists have tended to argue from authority to justify their beliefs, often quoting from texts such as the Bible.’
‘I’m suggesting simply that they make their presence felt in ways that draw the distinction between themselves and the apologists.’
‘Her alibi, offered by her apologists, is that she was starved of affection - a euphemism for sex.’
‘Nor do the apologists for this failure carry conviction.’
‘Studies in English were produced either by apologists, sensationalists or conspiracy theorists.’
‘The apologists have argued that drugs were not involved in his death.’
‘But it was the nature of the attacks from the political party, its apologists and some journalists that interested me most.’
‘But isn’t an apologist for racism who uses racist arguments a racist?’
‘Only those such as government spokesmen and official apologists for the war would deny this.’
‘My job here is not to be an apologist, but technology can’t always save us from significant changes in human nature.’
‘The only kinds of writers excluded were supporters and apologists of totalitarianism.’
‘There is, of course, no need to imagine people who would make such claims: they were Nazis and their apologists.’
‘I do not intend to get into an argument with an apologist for mass murder such as yourself.’
‘To make a proper argument or ‘apology’ for Christianity, the apologist must speak in the same language as his hearer.’

Case closed gentlemen.

Brought to you by Matt.F.

Who totally doesn’t stink of smug self-satisfaction.

What do you guys think i smell like

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#1191151
Topic
The misquote random thought out of context thread.
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DominicCobb said:

adywan said:

You only have to look around places like facebook to see how the RT audience scores have been manipulated. Campaigns were started before the film even come out to give it negative reviews. Not just star wars pages either. 99% of the time, RT was the place they aimed for. After the film came out it got even worse. The amount of posts i had to delete on my page where people had posted links to these type of campaigns was astounding. They even added getting people to upvote the prequels on RT to make TLJ score look even worse. Just check out the ROTS reviews and see just how many new ones have suddenly appeared since TLJ.

There’s a real dark side to the Star Wars fandom and it came out in force after TLJ. The amount of the so called reviews and the negative comments/ attacks on social media that point their hatred for it towards the fact that there is more diversity, more women taking the lead roles, Disney is pandering to the SJW’s etc is disgusting.

Woah ady, slow down with your rash

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#1191148
Topic
4K restoration on Star Wars
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moviefreakedmind said:

Possessed said:

If you’re so repulsed by humanity that going to a theater to see a timeless work of art in the highest quality possible and best most cinematic experience because there might be other humans there then yeah sure.

Or if you just want to sit in the comfort of your own home and save money.

Yeah but that kinda destroys the whole purpose