Random Rants LXXII - What is wrong with us?

[Zkribbler]

Men were also the first to dance the cancan.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

My baby momma is an evil ***** and it's really sad the way she's influence my relationship with my kid.

This really sucks dude and I hope you are able to maintain a healthy involvement in your kids life. Just be there for the kid no matter what the baby momma does.

 

[Synobun]

It's... not great, but "disgustingly bad" is being a little hyperbolic, what about it do you hate that much?

Hyperbolic for you, perhaps.

The trailer is gooblygook nonsense, mostly. The biggest defense I see for it is that it's a multiplayer trailer and not a singleplayer trailer, although to me that does not change much about it. It's incoherent. It also doesn't mesh with what the developers said the game would be.

Other complaints point to the lack of realism but that's irrelevant for me. I just want consistency and some clear demonstration of what to expect, and the trailer tells you to expect a mess. It's like the art direction for the trailer was dictated by a five year old child. Just nonsense from beginning to end but they're real enthusiastic about it.

 

[cardgame]

they're just fulfilling their long journey to become Call of Duty Except We're EA Games

 

[Ajidica]

FWIW I couldn't immediately identify what war was featured in the trailer.

Rant: It is going to be freaking hot and humid this weekend. 94 degrees and high humidity.

 

[Synobun]

FWIW I couldn't immediately identify what war was featured in the trailer.

World War 2, or so they say.

 

[Broken_Erika]

World War 2, or so they say.

It's WW2 X-Treme!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ajidica]

World War 2, or so they say.

There are so many good wars out there, why limit yourself to just The Second World War?

You got the Rif War, the Russian intervention in Afghanistan, the South African Border Wars, the Konfrontasi, the Malaya Emergency, the Mau-Mau, the OAS-Gaullist Civil War, the Rhodesian Bush Wars, and that is just a handful!

 

[Broken_Erika]

There are so many good wars out there, why limit yourself to just The Second World War?

You got the Rif War, the Russian intervention in Afghanistan, the South African Border Wars, the Konfrontasi, the Malaya Emergency, the Mau-Mau, the OAS-Gaullist Civil War, the Rhodesian Bush Wars, and that is just a handful!

But the shareholders will not tolerate any deviation from tested and true formulas; Therefore WW1, WW2 or Modern Day. Any attempt to make something different will result in the shareholders demanding it be canned and replaced with a WW2 or Modern Day one. Kinda like Hollywood; Originality=Bad, Remake/Reboot=Good

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Afghanistan...that has possibilities. Lead your ragtag band of resistance fighters. Make contacts with wealthy Arabs to secure funding, and manage arms deals with CIA operatives. Defeat superior Soviet forces and then melt away into the darkness. Jockey for position with other warlords. Maintain control of critical poppy resources in preparation for the randomly timed Soviet withdrawal. Can you survive for the duration and found al-Queda?

 

[Takhisis]

Count yourself lucky, their American schedule is way worse than their schedule elsewhere from what I've heard. Like, CN Latin America would never have an airing schedule like this, right?

That's a neat schedule. It's more of a 4:11-4:23, then 4:23-4-35, and so on, which means the programming preview thing that comes with the cable subscription go haywire because it can handle, at best, quarter-hour periods.

Kinda like Hollywood; Originality=Bad, Remake/Reboot=Good

Heheh, I remember that the Wachowskis sold the original Matrix film to Joel Silver by showing him clips from Ghost in the Shell (the anime) and telling him it was ‘like that but with real actors’.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Count yourself lucky, their American schedule is way worse than their schedule elsewhere from what I've heard. Like, CN Latin America would never have an airing schedule like this, right?

Looks like a Christmas marathon to me.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Stupid computer, can't even run ut2k4 without crashing.

 

[choxorn]

Looks like a Christmas marathon to me.

In all fairness, yes it is, but it's still fairly typical of them to devote more than 50% of their airtime to Teen Titans Go, sometimes, like in this week, well over 50%. The show only has around 200 15-minute episodes, which means they're not infrequently giving it more timeslots in a week than it actually has episodes.

CN also has a tendency to not air most of its other shows more than a few times a week, so it's pretty much just that they really, really, really love this one show.

 

[The_J]

There are so many good wars out there, why limit yourself to just The Second World War?

You got the Rif War, the Russian intervention in Afghanistan, the South African Border Wars, the Konfrontasi, the Malaya Emergency, the Mau-Mau, the OAS-Gaullist Civil War, the Rhodesian Bush Wars, and that is just a handful!

Because enough people need to know it, and to connect something with it.
And hey, I only know 2 of these, and I think of myself as a well educated person (maybe wrongly).
So not a big target group for these.

 

[Synobun]

I would love more narrative-based first person shooters, especially in regards to other wars.

Creative freedom is unfortunately not the name of the game, though. I hope that'll change over the coming years.

 

[Lohrenswald]

There are so many good wars

Ajidica the national romantic jingoist

 

[Broken_Erika]

I would love more narrative-based first person shooters, especially in regards to other wars.

Creative freedom is unfortunately not the name of the game, though. I hope that'll change over the coming years.

Creative Freedom is for Commies!

 

[Lexicus]

You got the Rif War, the Russian intervention in Afghanistan, the South African Border Wars, the Konfrontasi, the Malaya Emergency, the Mau-Mau, the OAS-Gaullist Civil War, the Rhodesian Bush Wars, and that is just a handful!

I would love more narrative-based first person shooters, especially in regards to other wars.

We should pitch a FPS where the player character is an African Communist guerrilla fighting against white colonial rule in southern Africa.

 

[Synobun]

We should pitch a FPS where the player character is an African Communist guerrilla fighting against white colonial rule in southern Africa.

I would genuinely be interested in this.

Somewhat politically incorrect, I would also be interested in games which depict traditionally bad guys as good guys.

Really, I'm just interested in something a bit more than "pew pew pew" narratives involving Russians, Muslims, or Nazis.