JcDent

Whoever wins,
a lot of pixeltruppen lose

But looking at the supposed gameplay videos these days, it was probably bog-standard MMORPG "stand in place and unload 20 different quick bar abilities at a similarly static enemy" combat that would, decades later, make play freshly-F2P The Old Republic all of one time.

Granted, back then I wouldn't have been as a jaded to the concept, but I also didn't have money. Similar reason as to why I never played Warhammer Online despite that being the next best thing to a Warhammer Fantasy cRPG.

I can't quite say whether I remember the marketing push to put naked video game babes in adult magazines, especially since I wasn't an adult and PlayBoy wasn't on sale around these parts. May remember it being reported on as this novelty thing tho.

God, imagine an adult magazine interview with a video game character written back in those dark days. Ugh.

It's a devastating mix of:

• FOMO: missing out on GREAT DEALS!!!
• responsibilisation: it's irresponsible to send money on new games when I have so many un/underplayed games and other projects WHILE there are gofundmes active!!1!
• shit categorization: thanks, all the possible slices I can apply to STRATEGY games, i wish to be have Company of Heroes 3 among Turn-Based Games and Rainbow Six Siege in Real-Time

I can only easily solve #3 be relying on recommendations, word-of-mouth and friends finding stuff to play with me [thus making me buy the game].

°loud fart noise° pee-ew, who cut one? 😀

The first movie to break my short reviews only rule. It's still just 200 words, but I'll probably delete it tomorrow. I just needed to say A Thing. You know how it is.

daavpuke

Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire2023

★½

Watched Dec 22, 2023

You know, Zack Snyder has a contempt for cinema that's almost commendable, were it not expressed in an equally hyper-consumerist manner. Every scene is shot, written, scored and colored like a trailer, with two-tone complementary shades for every occasion. There is no action too insignificant that it doesn't warrant slow motion. Hell, at one point, a scene in slow motion starts going into slower motion! Both story and dialogue are so barren that it genuinely feels AI-generated. The setting of the world, however, looks incredibly cool.

A true example of naive art, it's clear that Snyder has no creative bone in their body and just wants to recreate the media they experienced when they were younger. A cantina full of weird little guys? Great idea! A cyberpunk place that’s also Asian? I mean, what other one could there be! Those marines? The space kind! The farm town is literally called “Field,” for crying out loud. This man should be making banger music videos. Instead, we gave the world’s oldest 12-year old almost $100 million for yet another space Nazi story with robo-racism sprinkled in.

If all you care about is aesthetics, then this flashy movie serves up an easy 5 stars, with the most stereotypically Bad Guy a bunch of bad guys have ever looked. You want substance? Haha, good luck with that one.

Lavish visual style? Yes
Takes all the bombast seriously? Yes
Plot stupid? Wait, no, we already have Jupiter Ascen-