redhorsejacket

Not too terribly long ago, Shout! announced that they acquired the distribution rights to Woo's HK output, and I'm very excited at the prospect of a cleaned up Blu-Ray release with a new localization.

Hey, if you want me to take a dump in a box and slap a guarantee on it, I'll do it, I've got spare time, but, for your customer's sake, for your daughter's sake, if you want to make a quality game, you'll buy from me.

Are you actually proposing incorporating elements of the BR genre (choosing drop locations, looting, encroaching zone time limit, limited respawning, etc) or do you just want bigger arenas and more players in your regular Twisted Metal death match? Cause I don't actually think Twisted Metal is as suited for the BR genre as you say, but I could be convinced otherwise if you have a take.

Brimstone and Treacle has my attention. An early 80s British Gothic movie about a conman worming his way into a family's good grades and the con man is Sting? Sounds interesting if not thing else.

This feels like a response to a question I don't know enough to ask. What's the context?

Titus Andronicus?

You're doing yourself a disservice if Blood 2 is the only Monolith game youve played. No One Lives Forever, AVP2, and FEAR are all really well done pre-CoD4 shooters.

Agreed. Not everyone who says the sequel trilogy is bad is an angry little pissbaby, but so many are, and I can't help but think implicit (or, depending on the take, explicit) misogyny plays a role in encouraging that style of "discourse". Like, OPs post is a whisper away from blaming DEI for handing their beloved franchise off to a clueless woman who didn't give the fans the fawning worship that they are owed.

Also, if it worked, her hands off approach to corporate oversight of auteur creatives would be something we'd all be singing her praises for. Of course, it didn't, but I'm not going to sit here and say, hmm yes, I want Disney corporate offices to have MORE control over their creatives, that will fix the lukewarm slop that the franchise is delivering!

She's 71 and has been producing films since ET. I'm pretty sure she's not pulling a Palpatine here.

He wasn't necessarily wrong, he was just an asshole. The context for the meme was a speech he gave in vehement opposition to a proposed bill amendment which would have codified net neutrality principles into law. The concept he was blundering through explaining was basically just an eli5 version of limited bandwidth. I send this message (or, in his parlance, this internet) from my phone to Lemmy. It travels through a series of tubes to get there. If the tubes are clogged with traffic, my message might have to get in line. And that's not fair to people who have the money to not be treated like a poor.

Fun fact, Senator Stevens was the longest serving senator to lose a bid for reelection, largely due the fact that he was embroiled in a big corruption scandal at the time. The conviction ended up being vacated due to prosecutorial misconduct though, and I didn't care to dive any deeper, but I'm inclined to believe he was a grifter. Rest in piss.

This isn't a direct answer to your question per se, but if this a topic that interests you, I can't recommend The Right Stuff enough. I've not seen the film from the 80s, though by all accounts it's pretty good, but the book is an excellent overview of the early days of space exploration, when the exact sort of questions that you ask here were being bandied about by the fledgling, pre-Apollo program NASA.

The focus of the book is on the first wave of astronauts who, as someone else mentioned, were pulled primarily from combat aviation backgrounds. I recall several passages which detailed their reactions to the sorts of psychological testing that they were undergoing, usually complete with humorous anecdotes.

If it makes you feel any better, you can rest assured that Capitol Hill doesn't know how the Internet works either.