Quote from: Verbatim on December 04, 2016, 10:22:36 AM

YouTube

did you make this?

because i haven't laughed this hard at a youtube video in a good minute

yeah i made it, it was fun

I don't really think any of them are highly debatable. At the time they were released they were all good games. It's true that not all of them have aged gracefully though.

Plenty of people can't stand 3D Mario platformers--Sunshine in particular is probably one of the least-liked Mario games in the core franchise. And Halo 1 flat-out sucked. Its multiplayer and its multiplayer alone carried it to its success.

They were popular, sure, and lots of people liked them--but you already know that this does not make a game good.

As a side note I don't think a game being released at launch is a valid excuse. Off the top of my head I can think of three games that released at launch (maybe 4, but I didn't pay attention to the 360 launch so I don't know if gears was actually a launch title or not) that were still good games.

Halo:CE, SSBM, and Super Mario Sunshine.

I think you meant "well-received," because two of those are highly debatable.

Abortion is murder

And that's why it's okay.

You nerds have probably already seen this, but if you play both trailers at the same time, you'll notice that when the baby disappears in the first trailer, it appears at the exact same time in the second trailer.

I'd give it a 6/10 for its direction, cinematography, and special effects--I especially enjoy watching household objects getting magicked around, because it makes me wish I had something like that. The CGI characters never looked real, but they were highly expressive and a lot of attention-to-detail was thrown their way. I always appreciate that stuff. Still, I found myself bored during all the action scenes because I just didn't really care that much.

What I hated the most were the characters--the fat horndog was absolutely insufferable, and the most ham-fisted attempt at creating an audience surrogate I've seen in a long time. His love interest--the Legilimens whose name I don't even remember--was also quite irritating to watch, mainly because she can't really act. While I appreciate that she was able to use her womanly charms to get her way without being overtly sexualized, her cutesy demeanor was enough to make me cringe overused verb all throughout her scenes.

The dialogue was also very weird. Since the film takes place in 20th century America, everyone but Newt naturally has an American accent--but the dialogue itself didn't seem very American. While everyone has the accent, they still talk like they're English, and I found this incredibly distracting. Apparently JKR doesn't understand how we talk? Eddie's muttered delivery as Newt certainly didn't help things.

Overall, while this most certainly is the weakest entry in the Harry Potter film canon by far, I think I did end up enjoying it a little bit more than you--if not just for the pretty pictures. I'm a sucker for good, rich, and detailed shots with a lot to swallow, and this film had plenty enough of them for me to warrant a 6/10--and for what it's worth, I thought Eddie Redmayne did a pretty good job with his role. I had never considered that he was autistic until you pointed it out, but even if he is, I wouldn't necessarily consider that a fault. He's clearly meant to be an eccentric fellow, and I thought Redmayne sold that characteristic as well as he needed to.

I'm welcome to having a sequel or two--but the notion that there's going to be five more kinda makes me sick to my stomach.

Quote from: Uranium on December 04, 2016, 10:34:48 AM

Shot through the heart and you're to blame

PS4 HAS NO GAMES

Would be funny if it didn't seem like every console has that problem this gen.

would be true if

it were true

I'm not even going to bother arguing your facile presuppositions at this point. We get it. You're an anti natalist. Now fuck off.

And being a "baby murderer" (translation: sparing someone a guaranteed shit life) has little to do with anti-natalism. I won't say it has nothing to do with it, but just because the subjects have some overlap doesn't mean that that's the angle I'm coming from with this argument. I'm sorry my beliefs are beginning to compel you, but maybe stop projecting your feelings towards it on me, because no one's talking about it but you.

There is a slew of contraceptives out there for people to use that renders the prospect of pregnancy impossible when combined

Yeah, and one of them is abortion. Whereas condoms and other forms of contraceptive are not absolutely guaranteed to work, the success rate for abortion is pretty fucking spectacular.

"Feel free to use all these contraceptives out there--except that one, because I find it morally icky."

It's no more or less morally icky than using a condom, birth control, or even being fucking abstinent. Like Winy said, the only consistent point of view for a pro-life person to have (or someone like you, who is pro-choice but has all these childish misgivings about it) is to have as much children as possible, because for every second you are NOT impregnating a woman, you're just taking more and more from an unborn children's shot at life. Now isn't that just horrible.

Quote from: Winy on December 03, 2016, 03:49:39 PM

People usually just say "You're a baby murderer," or throw out some other scary buzzwords to try to make me look like an inhumane psychopath.

Just to play devil's advocate here, pro choicers aren't exactly any better. Anyone with a modicum of pro life opinions gets shot down as a "woman hater" or "suppressing a woman's ability to choose" in the public sphere.

Because they are.

The difference is that being a "baby murderer" isn't a bad thing.

I also don't believe that we should immediately abdicate the woman's responsibility in her sexual behaviour.

Which is not what abortion does. What you're basically saying is that women deserve to be punished with children, which may be the most fucked up thing ever when you really think about it.

Wow, game, thanks for not letting me heal before fighting Red! What the fuck.

literally the one character i didn't want to see win, all year

worse than trump winning tbh

We have US vs. US @ Grand Finals. Unprecedented--especially from Ricki Ortiz of all players.

i accidentally tapu lele

is there a way to battle it again

Quote from: Verbatim on December 03, 2016, 09:55:38 PM

Quote from: ⚡ Thunder on December 03, 2016, 09:49:33 PM

Has anyone been using Juri this tournament?

Nah. I don't even know one top player who uses her, tbh. General consensus is that she's ass.

noooo 

Oh, she'll probably get buffed--all the DLC characters are a little underpowered.

Word on the street is that Mika's Irish whip is getting nerfed so that the wall-bounce ONLY happens in the corner, which pretty much guts her offense.