The Topic Of Fail

[6744bac015c60voodoo47]

yeah, Demolition Man seemed like a dumb, ridiculous action flick in the past. but now, you look at the world, and suddenly, the movie is not so dumb and ridiculous anymore.

anyway, it's not like anyone can do anything about it, so lets just grab popcorn, and enjoy the reviews ripping all the garbage apart. can't wait for Drinker's take on Indiana Jones 5.

[6744bac016129sarge945]

It really does seem like they've forbidden this because they want people to buy the GTA Trilogy collection. The same collection that screams "Don't  waste your money on this train-wreck".

Makes sense. Rockstar is yet to release a single worthwhile game so they are skin the Bethesda rerelease thing of just churning out the same garbage again and again and hoping people will buy it.

[6744bac016655fox]

Look to the movie "Demolition Man" I tell ya. It got a lot right.

I sometimes think that about the movie "Idiocracy", too.

[6744bac016b52Olfred]

[...] enjoy the reviews ripping all the garbage apart.

The said part is that the majority of "acclaimed" reviewers all jumped aboard the ship and the real critical reviewers are handled like some outcast and only get the respect by people like us.

I still remember the time when rotten tomates was introduced to me some 15 years ago (or around that time) and it was seen as the one place where you get the "real" reviews at. Now they also joined the circus.

[6744bac016de7IME]

Reminds me of past times,
in the PlayStation 1 era there were demo discs which you could play and build your own review before you buy a game.

If you really liked a game then you could buy it without relying on some "reviewers".

Nowaday the "reviewers" get some pre release game which doesn't represent the final quality
(containing only hand picked scenes which look good) and real demo versions are not found anywhere.

So you have to hunt down your reviews somewhere whom you can trust.

Sad indeed

[6744bac016f72voodoo47]

the only fail here is with the person foolish enough to shell out 60 bucks for a game without doing proper research first, which is as easy as waiting for a couple of days after the release until youtube reviews kick in. this actually is better - before the internet times, they could release a decent demo, bribe the pc game magazine reviewers and make a quick buck on a bad game before the word got out. pulling this kind of stunt is impossible now, and I can't say I mind.

either way, a fool and his money are soon parted.

[6744bac017120icemann]

I used to love those demo discs. Especially on the PS2 end. Led to many a game purchase.

[6744bac017215voodoo47]

the Drinker is ripping the live action Cowboy Bebop apart. oh yeah.

[6744bac0172dficemann]

Hmm?

[6744bac01762avoodoo47]

a small bit of schadenfreude on my side. can't help it sometimes.

enjoy the reviews ripping all the garbage apart.

[6744bac0178fcOlfred]

the Drinker is ripping the live action Cowboy Bebop apart. oh yeah.

Isn't (almost) anyone doing it?

[6744bac0179e8icemann]

Angry Joe ripped into it as well. He completely hated it.

[6744bac017bcaNameless Voice]

One of the Irish banks here recently had fraudulent "Google Play" charges made to its debit cards, even ones that hadn't been used in months, and supposedly also to some newly issued ones as soon as they were received.

I can only work from a tiny sample size of 3 people that I know who use that bank (plus a few mentions I saw on social media), but 100% of them were affected, which suggests it might have been all bank customers - and that, in turn, heavily implies that they had a massive data breach of all their card details (possibly related to the whole Log4J failure), and have somehow got away without mentioning it.

I only saw once small news article about "increased fraud", and no other mention of it, so it looks like a failure of the media to report on this huge failure as well.

[6744bac017ca8fox]

If true, that would be wild! Which bank are we talking about?

[6744bac017dd1Nameless Voice]

Ulster Bank.  They're the Irish branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland, who are actually closing up and leaving Ireland in the next year.
The news article I saw on it was here.

[6744bac017edcfox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPNZv8J94uA

[6744bac017fd2voodoo47]

so.. which part of this is a franchise killer?

[6744bac0180f9fox]

He isn't expressely gay.

[6744bac018203fox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-_tMrgD6Qo

[6744bac0182faicemann]

Just as with 3D, NFT's are a fad that will die in time. Bankrupting a lot of people in the process.

[6744bac0183d5voodoo47]

VR. you probably mean VR. 3D is fine, and it's been fine since Quake.

[6744bac018630fox]

Assuming you're being ironic and talking about Facebooks' Metaverse - yeah, I guess some kind of evolution of the internet is inevitable and might roughly go in that general direction (merging currently more or less seperate systems like AR/VR/IoT with your mundane everyday online activities).Technically some virtual wonderlands aching to cyberpunk stories a la Snow Crash and Otherworld to lull the users into even more mindless consume, slowly start to become imaginable in the real world if it's being pushed hard enough by the industry. And without current supply problems, declining economies, trade wars etc. interfering, that is.

Is it desirable for normal users? Absolutely not if you ask me.
Is this actually the time yet? Not if you ask me. Although people are very ready for virtual escapism at the moment and everything seems in flux at the moment.
Is the unscrupulous con-artist formerly known as Facebook going to be the entity that starts it? Far from set yet but it would be darkly poetic, for sure. Might just as well be the last fad, they try to start before finally going down the drain as a company. But even then, I believe it's inevitable that something in a roughly similar vein will take shape at some point.

However, the main topic of that video was not about the future of Metaverse but about the NFT-BS that the media industry is trying to force onto consumers right now and that is entirely evitable!

Edit: Maybe you just meant 3D movies which really were a shortlived fad? In that case, I hope NFTs in games go away even faster.

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arstechnica.com: "Players invest $54M in Molyneux’s NFT game Legacy in hopes of earning even more"

[6744bac0188d8icemann]

VR. you probably mean VR. 3D is fine, and it's been fine since Quake.

Sorry wasn't specific. I meant 3D in movies. It's a fad that keeps coming back and then dying off. Avatar brought it back for a while this time round.

[6744bac018c27JDoran]

As an aside, the PC Gamer (a British commercial PC games magazine) special Ultimate Retro Gamer Collection has an article about System Shock 2 among it's articles about other classic PC games. The other games mentioned are the usual PC classics that come up in every discussion of this type (such as Doom, Half-Life, and Quake 2), plus other, usually less discussed games such Lemmings, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, The Sims, and Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2.

It was good to see SS2 discussed, but disappointing that the original System Shock doesn't have an article. They give both Half-Life 1 and 2 their own articles, but not SS1.

What is unfortunate, though, is that, in a section at the back of the magazine called "Make your old games new again", the two mods they recommend for System Shock 2 are the Rebirth mod, and System Shock 2 Texture Upgrade. Granted, making SS2 look more modern will appeal to lots of people, but SCP should have been mentioned too, because of all of the actual improvements it makes to the whole experience.

Still, at least the link they give for the Rebirth mod links to this site (https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=8.0), though a direct link to this site's SS2 Newbie Modding Guide page would have been better.

Their recommendations for other games' mods aren't always great, either. Their only recommendation for Deus Ex, for example, is the Revision mod, which in reality is heavily divisive amongst Deux Ex fans. They should have recommended GMDX, Shifter, and one or two new campaign mods. For Half-Life, they mention the co-op mod Sven Co-op, which might be great, but would be of no interest to people playing the game on their own. They should have mentioned mods like Half-Life: Echoes, Azure Sheep, USS Darkstar (an ancient mod, but really good), the They Hunger trilogy, etc.


Edit: Sorry, I had misspelled 'GMDX' as 'GDMX'.