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[Zinith]

"Yoshi's Universal Gravitation" is one of the most unintentionally hilarious titles ever written and it's sad we don't get titles like that anymore. 'Member Yoshi's Flipping Island?

 

[KillerCage]

Times are here: https://ninjalathegame.com/en/special/obt/

So 3:00 PM on the East coast, correct?

Thank you for the link, Wario Bros..

 

[NonSpecificGuy]

Here's a question: Will E3 survive after this year? Because even before this Corona stuff, it wasn't doing so hot in terms of financial issues. And Sony pulled out and went digital, Nintendo doesn't need one big conference (and is also digital"), Microsoft straight up holds their own conferences for the big stuff, and if every other company goes digital as a result from now on, than E3 mighy not be the way we remembered it, let alone a big deal.

Probably will die out. I was actually predicting it wouldn’t last past this year and we’ll that looks even more likely. Reason being is that the Nintendo Direct formula has exceeded all expectations and is the best way to do things right now. Have one special day where Microsoft is trending all over Twitter instead of trying to battle it out with 5 other companies on a crowded, cramped, show floor is all in all much more ideal. So, yeah, I mean even Sony has stopped doing PSX so conferences are going the way of the dinosaurs.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

You know, MK11 really missed out on something potentially cool. If it had been put a little sooner they could have added a Rampage character to promote the film. I’ve always kind of hoped that they would delve into the Midway back catalogue for one or two guest characters.

 

[Knight Dude]

Probably will die out. I was actually predicting it wouldn’t last past this year and we’ll that looks even more likely. Reason being is that the Nintendo Direct formula has exceeded all expectations and is the best way to do things right now. Have one special day where Microsoft is trending all over Twitter instead of trying to battle it out with 5 other companies on a crowded, cramped, show floor is all in all much more ideal. So, yeah, I mean even Sony has stopped doing PSX so conferences are going the way of the dinosaurs.

Really, the main thing missing are different companies getting the chance to meet up with each other and potentially making deals for later. But it has to be a lot less costly to just do Directs anyway.

 

[Wademan94]

So a Pokémon prompt similar to what I’ve discussed before...If you were able to travel the world with just about any Pokémon of your choice (say 12-15 max), not having to worry about battling unless you wanted to, what Pokémon would you pick and what places would you see and things you would do with them?

 

[Shroob]

You know, MK11 really missed out on something potentially cool. If it had been put a little sooner they could have added a Rampage character to promote the film. I’ve always kind of hoped that they would delve into the Midway back catalogue for one or two guest characters.

I'd like to forget Rampage, the Movie was a thing tbh...

 

[Aurane]

I'd like to forget Rampage, the Movie was a thing tbh...

I'd like to forget that this happened.

 

[Hadokeyblade]

So a Pokémon prompt similar to what I’ve discussed before...If you were able to travel the world with just about any Pokémon of your choice (say 12-15 max), not having to worry about battling unless you wanted to, what Pokémon would you pick and what places would you see and things you would do with them?

I would pick the typical Pokemon that I could use for traveling purposes, like Lapras for water travel and something that can fly for air travel.

And There s Gardevoir who in the lore is a Pokemon that exists solely to protect it's trainer and I would be set to travel around the different regions.

 

[TheMightyP]

So a Pokémon prompt similar to what I’ve discussed before...If you were able to travel the world with just about any Pokémon of your choice (say 12-15 max), not having to worry about battling unless you wanted to, what Pokémon would you pick and what places would you see and things you would do with them?

Chandelure and Mimikyu just because I love them, Samurott for surfing and diving, and Charizard for flying (not too fond of Flying types tbh). That's about all I truly need but if we're digging, than Excadril. And if I shall complete it for a team of 6, Chansey for healing purposes.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

I'd like to forget Rampage, the Movie was a thing tbh...

I thought it was good. Like, it was just stupid action/monster movie movie bliss. Which was perfect for an adaptation of a game that took inspiration from classic giant monster films. Not every film needs to be Citizen Cain to be considered good.

 

[Shroob]

I thought it was good. Like, it was just stupid action/monster movie movie bliss. Which was perfect for an adaptation of a game that took inspiration from classic giant monster films. Not every film needs to be Citizen Cain to be considered good.

I'm not asking for Citizen Kane, trust me, I like the ****ing Phantom Menace


But the movie just felt done before and unoriginal. The entire time watching it, I was just asking "Why am I not watching Godzilla/King Kong"?

It just felt like a really bad knock off, kinda like the old Jurassic Park vs Carnasaur debates of old.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

I'm not asking for Citizen Kane, trust me, I like the ****ing Phantom Menace


But the movie just felt done before and unoriginal. The entire time watching it, I was just asking "Why am I not watching Godzilla/King Kong"?

It just felt like a really bad knock off, kinda like the old Jurassic Park vs Carnasaur debates of old.

I’ve never got the whole unoriginal angle for complaining. Like, what would you want them to do instead? Everything has been done before anyway depending on how much nitpicking you’re willing to do.

Plus, I still haven’t really seen any Godzilla or Kong movies. Just Kong: Skull Island really. So.... it’s all new to me.

 

[Shroob]

I’ve never got the whole unoriginal angle for complaining. Like, what would you want them to do instead? Everything has been done before anyway depending on how much nitpicking you’re willing to do.

Plus, I still haven’t really seen any Godzilla or Kong movies. Just Kong: Skull Island really. So.... it’s all new to me.

You're right everything's been done before, but how you dress it up is how you make it stand out.

 

[Hadokeyblade]

As far as videogame movies go, Rampage was good. I personally enjoyed it.

 

[Z25]

Kinda of crazy how joker was one of the last movies in a theater and now we are living in it

 

[TheMightyP]

Kinda of crazy how joker was one of the last movies in a theater and now we are living in it

It's kinda weird too, because people took away the wrong message from that movie and idolized Joker, instead of getting the main theme that the system sucks and doesn't care for the non rich and powerful.

 

[Zinith]

It has now reached Reno to the point where City Hall is burning. I had to end work early and take a detour away from downtown

 

[ColietheGoalie]

Rampage was a really fun movie in my books. Charismatic actors and big monster fun is all a kaiju flick really needs to be at least entertaining.

 

[Mamboo07]

If I had to pick a kaiju rep for Smash, I would go with Togera himself.
(From War of the Monsters)

(His 8th alt costume would be his robot skin.)

 

[Shroob]

It has now reached Reno to the point where City Hall is burning. I had to end work early and take a detour away from downtown

Seattle's not much better.

 

[Z25]

It's kinda weird too, because people took away the wrong message from that movie and idolized Joker, instead of getting the main theme that the system sucks and doesn't care for the non rich and powerful.

True which is interesting because that is also partially part of the problem here since there’s all those videos of violations of human rights during all this that are going unchecked. Proving the theme that the system sucked.

It’s a very weird coincidence

 

[Shroob]

As a complete pacifist, I can't condone violence in any way

But at the same time, it was only a matter of time really. Everything has its breaking point, and in these last few years, things were just getting worse and worse.

 

[TheMightyP]

Not a violent person, so I'm not 100% condoning riots, but I understand the frustation. And violence is the one thing that gets the attention of the Gov.

Tbh, surprised it didn't happen earlier.

 

[NonSpecificGuy]

So I watched 2 HORRIBLE movies thes past two days and I’m gonna break em down.

1. Hellboy (2019)

This movie is bad like BAD. BUT it’s also one of those key movies that are so bad that they are, uh, well I wouldn’t say good but it has that kind of The Room effect. Except for this movie it’s like I could see myself popping it on at a party and stopping what I’m doing every once in a while to try and register incomprehensible **** show that’s going on because all in all, even though the CGI isn’t that great, some of the imagery is grotesque and eye catching. So, yeah, it’s a dumb fun movie. Clock out, put it on, and enjoy some stupid action. But if you want to watch an actual good Hellboy movie that has some good acting, excellent makeup, and a WAY better story, either of the others are the way to go. Don’t let this be the first Hellboy you watch.

2. Dark Phoenix

This movie... it just hurts me really. There’s really nothing good going on in any of it. A lot of the characterizations are experimental yes but they don’t make any sense. Making Xavier out to be this over controlling bad guy while flopping Magneto from sympathetic friend to killing machine back to an understanding guy just doesn’t work. And Jean’s story is not compelling at all. The death in this movie is also sloppily done and is definitely just so a certain high profile actor could get out of the part with emotional stakes that were not really set up in this movie nor in prior ones. They also completely waste the best and most beloved character from the last 2 movies, Quicksilver, by putting him out of commission after the first fight scene while also throwing any kind of emotional pay off between him and Magneto straight out the window. The timeline doesn’t make sense in context of previous movies, how the Phoenix force is handled doesn’t make sense in context of previous movies, Nightcrawler was wasted, beast was mostly wasted, Cyclops didn’t have much to do, the Skrull like aliens are even more expendable than actual Skrulls. It’s almost like no one did anything despite the 2 hour run time. It’s just bad. The only redeeming qualities are Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack, despite it not being anywhere near as good as John Ottman’s, a single, maybe 2-minute long, fight scene with Magneto which is by far the coolest and most bad ass fight scene Magneto has ever had, and another scene when Magneto is gunning down one of the aliens with what seems like hundreds of guns. But like I said about the fight scene it’s also WAY too short.

Michael Fassbender ****ING KILLS IT as Magneto and it’s SUCH a shame for this to likely be his last movie. He eats up every SINGLE frame of these movies that he’s in and makes it look easy and that’s just because of how DAMN good of an actor he is but it seems like he loves this character and I’m just sad that this was how it had to end.

 

[PeridotGX]

Wrapped up playing Undertale, still as good as I remember. A few things I want to note are that:

• It's way shorter than I remember. I knew it wasn't a long game, but it only took about 5 days for me to beat it, and I play games at a glacial pace.
• It's also way easier. I remember, on my first playthrough, dying to Mettaton, Asgore, and Photoshop Flowey a ton, but it was only once each this time. Probably because I've played it before, but still.
• After Deltarune, no dashing sucked. Wasn't even an issue when I played it for the first time.

still a 9/10, obviously.

 

[Hadokeyblade]

Not a violent person, so I'm not 100% condoning riots, but I understand the frustation. And violence is the one thing that gets the attention of the Gov.

Tbh, surprised it didn't happen earlier.

Pretty much, the root of pretty much any riot is a community that has had enough of the local governments refusal to actually do their jobs properly and has so much frustration builds up that they're just taking it out on anyone and anything.

 

[ZephyrZ]

By the way, those "child soldiers" from earlier were confirmed to be adult members of the National Guard. Now that's an embarrassing mix up.

Always remember that most social media is not a reliable news source, and always remain skeptical if you hear something shocking or strange.

 

[Hadokeyblade]

Okay so I started playing the first Yokai watch again and wow, I forgot how short the first game actually is.

By the way, those "child soldiers" from earlier were confirmed to be adult members of the National Guard. Now that's an embarrassing mix up.

Always remember that most social media is not a reliable news source, and always remain skeptical if you hear something shocking or strange.

How do you even get the 2 confused unless your deliberately trying to misinform the people?

 

[Z25]

Been playing Blaze Black 2 and

Man gen 5 had some amazing features.

The doubles grass, pokestar studios, extralink, and more. It’s why I loved gen 5 so much. There was so much passion and effort put into it and it shows.

 

[NonSpecificGuy]

Protests? 100% I support you.

Violence? Ok but let’s keep it focused on the property of the government who’s attention your trying to get.

Looting? There’s no excuse. You’re using a tragedy and protests against that tragedy for your own personal gain and are hurting your community and an already crippled economy. Stop it.

 

[Shroob]

Protests? 100% I support you.

Violence? Ok but let’s keep it focused on the property of the government who’s attention your trying to get.

Looting? There’s no excuse. You’re using a tragedy and protests against that tragedy for your own personal gain and are hurting your community and an already crippled economy. Stop it.

People up in Seattle have been smashing clothing stores open and stealing the mannequins.... like, what in gods name are you going to do with a bunch of naked mannequins?

 

[Aurane]

"so no one wants to smash?"

"no way your like 6 foot 13"

I love these Lemme Smash memes.

 

[Z25]

Protests? 100% I support you.

Violence? Ok but let’s keep it focused on the property of the government who’s attention your trying to get.

Looting? There’s no excuse. You’re using a tragedy and protests against that tragedy for your own personal gain and are hurting your community and an already crippled economy. Stop it.

Honestly I agree. I would even lean more towards the violence being a bit more tolerable, when governments are hiding badge numbers and having cops viciously assault peaceful protestors, and stealing water and medical supplies from them.

Like that behavior is disgusting and should absolutely be punished. And if the government isn’t going to, then it’s no shock the people will. You would think people would remember history repeats itself and avoid this but the last few years have definitely given enough build up for this to explode.

 

[KingofPhantoms]

Peaceful and productive protests are fine. Problem is, that's not even remotely what's happening anymore.

What exactly are people thinking they're accomplishing by starting street fires, smashing open random stores and looting and stealing from the owners? That **** needs to stop. Those actions aren't helping anything, it's only making things a hundred times worse for everyone involved.

 

[Rizen]

People up in Seattle have been smashing clothing stores open and stealing the mannequins.... like, what in gods name are you going to do with a bunch of naked mannequins?

Don't ask.

 

[Shroob]

Don't ask.

I mean I wasn't going to go there but if you are then may as well go all the way ya know

 

[Aurane]

what in gods name are you going to do with a bunch of naked mannequins?

Quarantine has been a very lonely experience for many people.

 

[KingofPhantoms]

People up in Seattle have been smashing clothing stores open and stealing the mannequins.... like, what in gods name are you going to do with a bunch of naked mannequins?

They're going to secretly storm Markiplier's house and scare the **** out of him with them to lighten up the mood with a good scare, obviously.

Dude's automatonophobia is famous.

 

[Z25]

And now Anonymous have come out of the shadows to aid the movement. Well a lot of corruption might be getting stopped right now if they have files.

I’m surprised they didn’t get involved sooner tbh