(Does Kirby count?) Anywho I think Bishops psychic? Superpower of absorbing and releasing energy attacks is fun because he combos it with future tech and laser GUNS. So he's never out of options and tougher than you think especially against Special Attack.

What are yout favorite energy attack absorbers?

Been playing Belmont's Curse all day, and hot damn; I'm having fun. Just got past the gate that leads to the Catacombs and I'm loving it. The atmosphere and music are great, the movement feels fun and fluid, the combat feels great (God, I love the brass knuckles you get in this game), and Rose is already growing on me as a protag. How about you guys? Loving it? Absolutely hate it? Any Castlevania 3 fans on their knees crying to God "Why do they keep on forgetting about Grant being part of Trevor's party in 3?!!"? Let me know; I'm curious on how the sub is feeling.

PC game emulation on Android is getting really good

Because I know Touhou has Fan FANS but holy, this like fan song MAJOLOGY by Akatsuki Records, about this magician girl with sleeping troubles, Patchouliu. Sounds like the final boss version of a song in a anime or a animesque videogame where a magical girl type character is embracing her true self and unleashing mad true spells.

Like it's so good, I never expected it. What are yours, songs or music that hit you like a sucker punch of goodness.

Specifically the one where he addresses her parents and says that video games paid for the house he fucks their daughter in? I need it to show my girlfriend's parents so they know what I'm about.

Why would you say those words, Woolie?

With a go ahead from the Mod team, I wanted to ask today about feuds between fandoms that really seem to just be one side fighting with another. The inspiration for this was, amusingly, all those Youtube videos talking about how Hollywood is 'cooked' or how Disney 'hates' Glitch animation.

When the simple reality of it is...not only do I think the fandoms for Disney properties not care, but I also think neither Disney nor Hollywood really care that much. Hell, Obsession was picked up for distribution and marketing by Universal, and the Backrooms had A24 behind it, so if anything it's an example of Youtube being 'co-opted' by Hollywood. It really feels like one fandom waging war against a side that doesn't even acknowledge or care that much. (Of course some of them are most likely just engagement bait creators.)

For a more exact example, Battleborn! For those who have forgotten, Battleborn was Gearbox's attempt at an FPS Moba, it was actually really fun but had the misfortune of launching right when Overwatch launched. The Battleborn Twitter, for some reason-thought it was a good idea to try and directly compete with Overwatch with a "Come at me, bro." style tweet.

This is especially weird given Randy "Grease Man" Pitchford himself explicitly said in an interview they were nervous about the competition, and trying to deliberately avoid it because, in his own, accurate words-BATTLEBORN IS NOT IN THE SAME GENRE AS OVERWATCH. Yes, both were Hero FPS games, but one was an objective shooter and the other was a MOBA. And yet he decided to back off on that and just try to invite a feud.

Blizzard...completely ignored this conflict and just walked off with their gold medal, got OW killed, and then revived it later. But Battleborn is gone for good. Only remembered for that failed attempt at competition.

Note that for the purposes of this thread, I am asking about one sided feuds between fandoms and franchises, not explicitly characters. That's a great topic, but I'm more interested in the IRL aspect of it.

Source: DiscussingFilm on Bluesky.

Got some real Tiny Tim energy, this kid.

As director Matt Reeves continues to attend to an ongoing family matter, Steven Soderbergh is coming on to help finish principal photography for the final weeks of DC Studios’ The Batman Part II. The news comes after production was paused on the film so that Reeves could focus on the personal matter.

Soderbergh has been a long time admirer of Reeves work, and with Reeves unable to be on set, the Oscar-winning director offered to help with finishing principal photography on the film. Although Reeves is unable to be on set, the two will work together and remain in communication until filming has ended, with Reeves taking over post-production duties when he is ready to return.

Soderbergh also released a statement: “I thought Matt Reeves’ work on The Batman was stunning; it was intentional, specific, and rigorously coherent. The goal here is to work with Matt and his team to generate footage that will integrate seamlessly with what’s already been shot so Matt can properly finish his film.”

The Demo is currently only available on Steam

I was reading a recent interview of the Avatar creators going on the defense for Korra by pointing out Aang's faults of running away leading to the Air Nomads extinction and that no one holds that against Aang. I feel like these either forgotten or didn't watch their own show they created.

While running away was irresponsible, if Aang had stayed, he would've been dead along with the rest of the Air Nomads and the Avatar Cycle because he was the prime target of the massacre. They had no knowledge of the comet enhancing firebending. His people's extinction and 100 years of Fire Nation conquest may have been tragic, but it quieted down his manhunt and was more prepared to fight the Fire Nation. If he hadn't made that mistake, it would've been total victory for the Fire Nation.

A week ago, actor Richard Summers-Calvert read the phrase ‘Glup Shitto’ for the first time. “I went, ‘What's this?’,” he recalls of seeing it hit his mentions. “’Is it rude?’”

Yes, and no. Coined by Tumbler user ‘gomjabbar’ in 2020, the term began as a somewhat derisory Star Wars meme, poking fun at the saga’s myriad oddball bit-players. That guy in the background of the Cantina, who someone will inevitably claim as their favourite Star Wars character? Oh, that’s Glup Shitto. In the intervening years, the notion of a ‘Glup Shitto’ has been re-embraced. It’s a badge of honour. If you love Star Wars, it’s likely for the Glup Shittos. And a new one has just entered the chat: welcome, Biddy Blas.

It happened as soon as Star Wars: Galactic Racer launched; a new super-speedy racing game which casts players as Shade, a rising star battling on the track for dominance against all kinds of galactic foes. There’s Sebulba from The Phantom Menace, your in-game nemesis Kestar Bool, and… wait, who’s that? A little crocodile man, with a snout full of jagged teeth. Waist-height, in human terms. A little helmet and goggles on. And it gets weirder when he speaks: a screaming high-pitched yelp, belting out Huttese phrases with gleeful venom. The only way Jabba would ever speak like this is if someone stood on the tip of his tail. He is Biddy Blas, the one and only. And he’s voiced by Summers-Calvert, who had no idea the sort of instant internet fame the character would achieve.

There’s one big question, though. “I'm having people argue online if I am a Glup Shitto, or not a Glup Shitto,” he says. “I absolutely am a Star Wars fan. I love Star Wars. However, this experience has made me realise maybe how little I knew about Star Wars. I'm just below the knowledge of ‘Glup Shitto’.” Start your engines.

Even before he knew what Biddy Blas looked like – before he knew about Glup Shittos, before he even knew that he was auditioning for a new Star Wars game – the limited character information Summers-Calvert received led him down a specific path. “I decided that this character has little man syndrome,” he says. “Maybe lacking confidence, slightly anxious, and it comes out in rage.” This is what he channelled in his first read (in Basic, of course).

It wasn’t exactly what developers Fuse Games first envisioned. “I was imagining in my head more of a deeper fantasy dwarf voice,” says Ren Alex-Rose, Narrative Designer. “And then when we heard Richard's audition, we were like, ‘No, that's it. That's absolutely it. That is the perfect direction for this character.’”

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I just got out of the movie and I feel legitimately bad for the hardcore fans. This movie has ok fights but they are constantly hampered by subpar cinematography, and a weirdly homophobic script. Like they seem to REALLY think that “men about to kiss each other/saying sexual things” is the peak of comedy and they don’t stop doing it. It also is more “MCU quippy” than most MCU movies.

This movie also
•character assassinates Ryu AND Ken
•turns Bison into a weird sex pest
•has the Dragonball Evolution kamehameha for the Hadouken
•has needle drops worse than Supergirl
•doesn’t have the raging demon

There are some fun references, it was nice to see Max, and the actors do their best, but insanely they could learn a thing or two from Mortal Kombat, because BOTH of those movies were better written, paced, and shot.

Developer and publisher Pocketpair has got a dating sim, a farming sim, and an MMO on the slate, and while you might think elements of these would make more sense as expansions of the main game, the team isn't keen on simply replicating Fortnite's metaverse-type model.

"I can certainly understand why some people might expect us to take Palworld in that direction," John 'Bucky' Buckley, the head of publishing and communications at Pocketpair, says "But for us, we just want to make fun games in our own way. I know it sounds a bit cliché, but while we obviously want our games to be successful, maximizing revenue as quickly as possible isn’t what drives our creative decisions."

I can’t believe how bad they managed they complete edition.
-They removed the original game from steam and replaced with this.
-all new cutscenes are ai generated
-map routing is broken and cpu ai to
-gets released for 60$ full prince instead of promised 30$

This is largely from me realise how many tactical rpgs have permadeath, which is a bit of a shame because I think units that do something on death are a neat thing to have in a tactical toolbox and you can't really have those in a game with permadeath.

With the loss of my family netflix, I reminisced by watching a short of The Witcher on yt, saw the episode where Jaskier and Geralt were captured by the elves. While intially hopeful of rescue/escape, Jaskier finally breaks down and shit-talks back at the elf captor when she breaks his lute.

Now, most people with a sense of *whisper* media literacy *unwhisper* would reconize this as the latter, but I caught myself at just how easily I interpreted this as the former, what with the combination of the short format and edits.

Just had to remind myself that "man, all those moments in other media where some character loses their shit and blows up on a character, how many of them were just the character reaching their boiling point?"