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Post by Canuovea on Jun 12, 2019 18:51:30 GMT
I think it was mostly just an attempt to deny a bunch of monkeys its advanced technology.
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Post by Harkovast on Jun 12, 2019 21:06:43 GMT
I just don't think it would care if we got its technology. Its just a shoulder cannon and a cloak. What would that let us do? We have nuclear weapons.
Predators have space ships and inter stellar travel.
Getting hold of its guns would be like us worrying about leaving behind a hunting rifle or something. Its not the most amazing thing they had.
Though one of the good things of the film is that the predators motives are kept pleasingly vague.
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Post by Harkovast on Jun 12, 2019 21:09:21 GMT
In later stuff they make out that predators wnat to hdie their tech from us. But later stuff also says predators want to steal our autism so they can weaponise it.
No I'm not kidding. That is specifically what the latest predator film claims.
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 12, 2019 21:54:41 GMT
Well, it would suck if deer started shooting hunters with Lee Enfields and using Gillie Suits.
The fight isn't supposed to be fair.
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Post by Horsie on Jun 13, 2019 6:49:14 GMT
Now that's going to keep me up, imagining some poor rifle abandoned in the woods.
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Post by Harkovast on Jun 13, 2019 16:31:57 GMT
Remember kids, don't leave guns alone in the woods. The gun will get lonely. Always blow up the area with a nuke to make sure no lonely guns are left behind.
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Post by Horsie on Jun 14, 2019 6:13:11 GMT
Send me the lonely guns instead, I'll even waive my adoption fee, though I really shouldn't because I'll need to buy a fourth safe if I get any more.
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Post by Canuovea on Jan 24, 2020 22:52:46 GMT
So we've been watching The Witcher on Netflix.
And holy shit.
No, wait, nevermind. I'm actually just underwhelmed by it. Its timeline is kinda fucked, since it isn't in chronological order, either in terms of the episodes themselves nor in terms of the actual events in the episodes. I don't think I actually like much either. Specifically the characters. They're... they're not good. Okay, so Yennifer. I don't see why I should like or care about her. Geralt? He mumbles a lot and is gruff and yeah, he's an okay guy, maybe the only okay guy, but he has so much manpain! SO MUCH! It gets a little hard to give a damn. Cirilla was interesting for a bit but, uh, not sure what is going on now with her (four episodes in) and it jumps around so much I've kinda lost interest. Jaskier, the annoying bard, may just be the best damn part, while still being horribly annoying.
The fighting choreography is unimpressive for the most part. Yes, I know, Geralt is supposed to twirl about like an idiot, but bah. Also, people continue to just not bother wearing helmets. At least they get shot occasionally. Though in this case, the guy got shot in the eye anyway so... bah whatever.
But beyond the strange choppiness, stupidity of organization, and meh characters, is the chemistry problem. See, Geralt, first episode, almost immediately falls in love with this chick. Supposedly. And then later kills her (such manpain!). But it is so rushed and silly seeming that there is no connection there (hence undermining the effect of his manpain). It happens again, really, when he meets Yennifer. I don't see a lot of chemistry. Which is perhaps not a surprise when the main character is reduced to mumbling and grunting much of the time.
Also, they won't shut the fuck up about Destiny. It seems to be of some kind of religious significance, but they don't. Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
And people are also total idiots, to the point that things seem contrived. Very. Super. Contrived. Like these out of town baddies are threatening and killing people, so Geralt kills them, and then with a word a Sorceror gets the town to turn on him for "taking the law into their own hands." Because the town is stupid. So we can feed Geralt's MANPAIN. Generally, it all feels like this. They're fucking idiots. Hard to give a damn.
Overall it just makes me groan. But my girlfriend actively seems to be hating it. Seriously, she enjoyed a bad Korean Drama more than this (Cinderella and the Four Knights) and we both find Inuyasha, which we just started to watch a bit ago, surprisingly good. Much better in comparison. We've got to finish it though.
Oh, and Yennifer gives up her reproductive organs for power and beauty. Later she goes rogue because hey, now she actually wants kids after all and regrets being unable to have them. Boo hoo. I've never heard that fucking plot before. Never.
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Post by StyxD on Jan 25, 2020 0:21:45 GMT
Hello. You've summoned me with the magical mantra of "Witcher Bad". Now you have to listen to me manspain it to you. But beyond the strange choppiness, stupidity of organization, and meh characters, is the chemistry problem. See, Geralt, first episode, almost immediately falls in love with this chick. Supposedly. And then later kills her (such manpain!). But it is so rushed and silly seeming that there is no connection there (hence undermining the effect of his manpain). It happens again, really, when he meets Yennifer. I don't see a lot of chemistry. Which is perhaps not a surprise when the main character is reduced to mumbling and grunting much of the time. But that's pretty much by design. I mean, CD Projekt was lambasted for treating women like objects when they implemented the mechanic in the first Witcher game where you got cards for having sex with random female NPCs, but that's pretty much half of what Geralt does in the books; bangs every woman he comes across for no reason whatsoever, but he can't have a relationship with any of them, because TOO MUCH MANPAIN. I mean, can you tell this was written by a socially stunted nerdy young man, amirite? Also, they won't shut the fuck up about Destiny. It seems to be of some kind of religious significance, but they don't. Shut. The. Fuck. Up. That actually seems to be an invention of Netflix, so that no one would say that they only copy other people's awful without contributing any. I don't think anyone, including the creators, really knows what the hell this is about. And people are also total idiots, to the point that things seem contrived. Very. Super. Contrived. Like these out of town baddies are threatening and killing people, so Geralt kills them, and then with a word a Sorceror gets the town to turn on him for "taking the law into their own hands." Because the town is stupid. So we can feed Geralt's MANPAIN. Generally, it all feels like this. They're fucking idiots. Hard to give a damn. Okay, here I really have to speak out, because the first episode adapts the only Witcher story that I ever sorta liked. The series completely guts it, so I hated it from the get go. They completely removed the reason Geralt fought the baddies and the reason the town turned on him, because they required a little bit of wider worldbuilding, and just replaced them with useless excuses. The story's theme amounts to nothing, then. They did somehow find time for the characters to fuck and talk shit about destiny, I mean… obviously. Oh, and Yennifer gives up her reproductive organs for power and beauty. Later she goes rogue because hey, now she actually wants kids after all and regrets being unable to have them. Boo hoo. I've never heard that fucking plot before. Never. I mean, can you tell this was written by an insecure young man, amirite? Though I feel like I should praise Sapkowski for not making all the sorceresses straw feminists. It seems like a low bar, but considering the age and culture… Cirilla was interesting for a bit but, uh, not sure what is going on now with her (four episodes in) Sure as fuck I hope they omit that part where she turns lesbian for a bit because of being raped! Jaskier, the annoying bard, may just be the best damn part, while still being horribly annoying. Wait, how do you guys even pronounce "Jaskier"? *Googles a scene from the series* Oh gosh
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Post by Canuovea on Jan 25, 2020 9:53:17 GMT
I figured that the books were probably better, but... sounds like they're only sorta sometimes better.
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Post by StyxD on Jan 25, 2020 13:28:03 GMT
It seems like I'm one of the few people who really hated the books. But still, while they were and still are insanely popular in Poland (though it seems to be slowly waning too; as always, feminists come and ruin everything), they made absolutely no impact abroad, up until now I suppose.
My guess is that the thing that people actually enjoy in these books were the style and the wit of the writing. I mean, I didn't like it, and getting through the books was for me a slog that I never was able to finish. They were probably also completely lost in translation, which is why no one heard about the Witcher until the games (which were praised for things completely unrelated to the books' world and plot).
So the books aren't really better. They're sometimes more funny (to some people).
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Post by Canuovea on Jan 25, 2020 20:24:49 GMT
There certainly are some cool things in the world. But it seems like abroad it really was the games that made the most impact.
And yet here we go, audiences have loved this TV show. Critics have hated it.
I see why the critics have hated it. But why do audiences like it so much?
We finished this season.
What it amounted to was seven (and a half) episodes of prologue. Yennifer's character arc made no sense. Why does she suddenly care about helping the people she kept bitching about? Suddenly, she decides to coordinate the battle. Why? Why is she fighting like she actually cares about all this? Because if she loses the Communists Muslims Religious Fanatics Nilfgaardians will make all the beer taste like shit? Is that it? And suddenly she feels thankful to the lady who trained her via abuse, when previously she did nothing but shit talk her? Yennifer is a fucker mess in this show.
Also, Nilfgaard. Why are they bad, again? They're religious fanatics, true, but everyone else looks pretty shite in comparison too. I suppose by showing us Cirilla's perspective earlier on they intended to make us hate Nilfgaard, but it only kinda works. Like, "oh, I guess they're supposed to be evil..." and they're ruthless, sure, but it also sounds like the Lioness grandma lady (who doesn't seem to age) basically did the same shit to the elves (is that the point?). Sintra can go fuck itself. It... was Sintra, right?
Though the costume design was pretty good. One thing that the fans didn't like was that the Nilfgaardians had helmets that looked like penises, allegedly. So they were dickheads both metaphorically and as represented by their armour. But honestly? They looked like functional helmets. I'll defend the show on that front I suppose.
The Nilfgaardians were dumb as rocks in plenty of other ways. Not like "I'm a violent murderer" type of ways, that's fine, they're supposed to be the baddies. Mostly. But more like: "Tactics? Don't we just run at them?" Thankfully for Nilfgaard, the Sintrians had the exact same "tactic." But also their "lets waste mages by getting them killed." Schtick was pretty bad. They're all around idiots.
I did like a few episodes though. The one with the Strigos was interesting. Why? The monster. Bit of a twist. The one with the dragon was interesting too, though the dragons kinda look like shit. I did, however, call that particular twist super early on, and I was mostly right. So hurray. But it was decent.
Also this whole Yennifer and Geralt "we're connected by Destiny due to Djinn wish thing" is fucked. Why? Because Yennifer is a goddamn idiot. Geralt is like: "To save you, I'll give you my last wish, just tell me what you want!" And she's all just like: "I want EVERYTHING!" When really she could have just said: "I want to be able to have children!" If she had said that, then Geralt wouldn't have had to make up his own stupid fucking wish about them being together? Goddamn. So Yennifer was an idiot and Geralt was either an idiot or an asshole because the wish he made was fucking stupid.
The dude who played that Druid bloke did a great job. He had to be a nice old man guy, but he also had to then be evil shapeshifter who killed nice old man guy (thankfully the shapeshifter is a horrible actor, so the guy acting him could be a really good one).
By the end of it, I really just didn't like anyone. Geralt was alright still, but occasionally a shit. Cirilla was... frustrating at times, but okay. Yennifer? Oh god. Look, I actually liked Triss better than Yennifer and I know that she rapes Geralt later. The Sintrans? Asshats, so I don't care they got fucked by the dickhats. Granny Lioness? Super nasty, don't like her. No fucking sympathy from me.
A frustrating show, and then that is ignoring most of the implications of it all too.
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Post by Canuovea on Jan 25, 2020 22:43:11 GMT
Oh, and I forgot to comment on Cirilla getting raped and so turning lesbian for a bit.
Holy
Shit.
I don't even.
So actually, I'm not going to comment aside from pointing out that I'm fucking flabberghasted.
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Post by StyxD on Jan 26, 2020 18:23:07 GMT
I was a bit spooked by your staunch reaction and quickly ran to the wiki to make sure I wasn't slandering.
So what actually happened was that the rape was only attempted, and during the course of the books the only person Ciri was in relationship with was the woman she hooks up immediately after that rape attempt.
So maybe she was always lesbian but only has romantic feelings if rape is involved.
I'm still calling bullshit male nerd writing.
Also, it was "Cintra".
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Post by Horsie on Jan 26, 2020 21:06:03 GMT
This all just sounds terrible, I'm not even sure where to start
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