Posts made by Jaded

@Pyrephox
Disco Elysium is such a joy to play.

@Alamias said in Geeky Collections:

@Jaded I used to have one of the original Batman (Keaton) movie display stands, but that was back when I was in high school and had no idea about 'collections' like that. Sadly it is long gone.

Yeah, the Batman movie posters were pretty popular and hard to get because most movie theater managers looked at an adolescent cross-eyed when asked for their posters. Strangely though the one from Batman Forever was the hardest to get the cinema to let go of because they were supposed to get shipped back.

@Auspice said in Geeky Collections:

@Alamias said in Geeky Collections:

@Jaded I used to have one of the original Batman (Keaton) movie display stands, but that was back when I was in high school and had no idea about 'collections' like that. Sadly it is long gone.

I'm in a similar boat.
My father gave me an original theater use poster for Empire Strikes Back when I was about 15 but I didn't know well enough how to care for it and it got damaged when I moved out.

Sad for both the poster and it being the only time my father ever picked out a suitable gift for me. (My mother only became okay at it once I was an adult.)

Star Wars posters are the heart of my collection, I think I have about 40 different kinds of Star Wars posters; all the movie posters certainly but also posters that were only available through cereal giveaways, restaurants, and other unique sources.

Star Wars is my primary geek collection. I have knickknacks, action figures, LEGO sets, posters, books, comics, lightsaber hilt replicas, t-shirts, bedsheets, adventure toys, board games - I mean for a long time if it had Star Wars anything on it, I bought it.

I just wish my tiny apartment let me put it all on display instead of being in 45 boxes in a closet.

I do not own the space to put them up so I don't have a picture, but one of the collections I have is comprised of ~290 movie posters from between 1979 to 2012; and one large "poster" I saved from Blockbuster that is in 8 parts because it was a large window display poster.

I'm a huge Star Wars nerd and I found The Mandalorian, at times, felt like a generic sci-fi show that was then reskinned with Star Wars aesthetics and themes.

I have not seen much said about it here, but for you sci-fi buffs who liked movies like Moon and 2001, Ad Astra is a pretty decent movie that also has a great character-focused story.

The only complaints I've heard about The Witcher is that the actress playing Yennifer was a poor casting choice and did not convey the aura of charisma that Yennifer was portrayed as having in the books.

Which is just like...their opinion, man.

80s Bengals coach Sam Wyche

@Ganymede
I also appreciated that they went back to some of the opening "Hanging out with your..." format.

Double post, different reason - Letterkenny Season 8 is up on Hulu

Henry Cavill reads The Witcher

Not a long video but...on topic.

I got my Witcher watch-through done and I think that my only small gripe that has stuck with me was the modern colloquialisms that kept pulling me out of immersion.

Such as use of the phrase "off the grid." It was not the only one...there was quite a few of them but it just felt off every time it was done.

@Groth
I was also impressed with Cavill's performance. I was on the fence about him but he did very very well with the role. I will even dare to say that I think this is the best role he's done.

I think it didn't help that narratively speaking and to me RoS seemed to pretty much ignore TLJ and that JJ tried to cram a retcon/soft reboot of his own version of Episode 8 in with Episode 9.

RoS was a narrative mess. The visuals were great but by this point we can expect that from a Star Wars movie. Otherwise this isn't a "must see theater going experience" but more like a "if I happen to turn it on, on tv at home, while vaccuming I might leave it there" experience.

I was deeply disappointed.

@Ghost said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

Marina Sirtis' (Star Trek) husband just passed away at 61.

Bad time for Trek.

My condolences to her but...for a moment my brain went "JONATHAN FRAKES DIED!?" because I'm a nerd.

I think Free Guy is going to be an interesting movie.

@Dreampipe
Lock and load your battle fetus and off to war you go...

My goto lately has been 3 shots of vodka, 3 shots of everclear; add a half-ounce of bitters and 3/4oz of honey syrup, then sprinkle cinnamon on the top.

Good warm or cold.

The total costs of my streaming services now equal a cable bill. We cut cable because that was a high cost with a lot of wasted filler. And now we're doing the same thing with streaming services for one or two shows off each service.

I thought that competition in the market might push some of the prices down but they're ticking upwards in some cases. This is more than mildly frustrating.

So my preliminary impressions on Jedi - Fallen Order:

It plays like the most recent entries into the Tomb Raider franchise complete with the jankiness that comes from those games in terms of character movement and controls. They feel like they are too loose and not as precise as they should be in for movement and actions like jumping and leaping. Another good comparison would be Uncharted but I think that game had smoother movement/action controls and animation than this does.

They sprinkle a bit of Dark Souls in with the boss fights, which makes them really not all that inspired and as the game progresses they add difficulty by making the enemies bullet-spongy, so they take more hits to knockdown. More memorable boss fights were had, in my opinion, with past entries like Jedi: Outcast and the Force Unleashed.

Lightsaber combat is pretty polished though and is one of the areas that seems smooth in terms of animation and how the character moves. It is one of the best highlights of the game. Integrating other force powers into your actions seems clunky at first - or I should say, not intuitive, but once you get used to it, it ceases to be all that noticeable.

The sound design is well done and aside from the occasional uncanny valley look other human characters get during cut scenes - the game hits the notes graphically of Star Wars very well.

Overall, it is fun to play and you can get lost in the atmosphere once you get used to the character movement and controls. Might be worth full price if you can't wait to have the game, otherwise, I'd say give it time to drop about $20.

ETA: I think it should also be noted that the main character, Cal, is Mocapped and voiced by Cameron Monaghan, who played Jerome in Gotham. If you are familiar with the show there will be times where his distinctive voice style comes through pretty heavily and you might have Gotham flashbacks.