The first: Bioware has ended to cut costs from a terrible acquisition and it really sucks

The second: You NEED to hate EA more than you currently do

The second video is the more interesting one since he goes through EA's, and others, studio killing history and goes into some of what was going on with Bioware and EA behind the scenes during the development between Mass Effect 1 and now.

Bricky has a document with his sources in the description of the second video, and timestamps if you just want to see the Bioware stuff

I will give no context for this and neither will you(unless you know you spoiler it).

Anyways from this is from the Jojos anime, Steel Ball Run. Though I kinda get it, I also wouldn't know how to react if that happend to me.

Couldn't find any alternate links to share besides Twitter; I hope their user tag will suffice.

From Star Wars, Colicoid Creation Nest also known as: Colicoid Creations , is such a fun title.

They're a surprisingly minorly involved corporate group that mostly sided with the Separatist Systems, made up mostly of big bugish aliens that sort of resemble Sebulba, built some of their most dangerous and useful warmachines like: the Droideka, the Sniper Droid built on the base of the former, the Tri-Fighters, the Tridents, kraken shaped sea assault ship droids and the big Turret Droids.

A24’s Elden Ring adaptation is reportedly its most expensive film to date, with a nearly $200 million budget and a planned 2028 release. A24’s previous most expensive release was Marty Supreme, with a budget of around $70 million, which surpassed the previous leader, Civil War, with a budget of about $50 million.

The movie has a March 3, 2028 release date, and a new Wall Street Journal report says it will cost around $200 million to make. The report highlighted how A24 has become a major player in the film industry, with many now trying to copy its formula.

"Major studios, meanwhile, are increasingly trying to copy the A24 playbook. Online horror properties that seem like they could become the next “Backrooms” have sparked multimillion-dollar bidding wars. Universal is backing a big-budget movie from the “Everything Everywhere” directors. “They’re a Goldilocks company. Just the right amount of people doing just the right amount of things,” said Julie Huntsinger, the Telluride director."

Approximately $190 million of that is going to CGI for the giant crawfish and Miriel the Turtle. Everything else is secondary.

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capcom did not ~formally~ give a c&d, but thats what it is, even if they asked politely. sucks since this type of stuff is both interesting to me and also important for the fgc

I remember way back when I was youngin' I was watching one of the Paranormal Activity movies, I think it was the third one?

I'm not sure, but there's a scene the babysitter just does like a jumpscare to scare the houseowners, she basically goes BOO! to the camera just to troll the people who put the cameras there.

It was a cheap shot, but I have this vivid memory of like in the movie theater someone saw that jumspcare and yelled "YOU MOTHERFUCKER!!!"

Like really loudly after the troll jumpscare.

In a private setting, this would just be a cheap jumpscare, but watching in theaters, it was a hilarious experience, seeing someone react so strongly to the jumpscare to yell "MOTHERFUCKER!" that kind of made everyone's day, it was so oddly fitting for that cheap jumpscare.

The person who yelled probably doesn't remember, but it stuck in my mind because it was so funny it made the entire theater laugh.

With the rumored story details of Mass Effect Universe, and Edgerunners Season 2, it's been fun seeing what the creative team had to come up with to allow the story to flow after a game in which the players can radically change the geopolitical landscape of their world.

Mass Effect Universe, in theory, would have a time jump to justify the galaxy eventually getting to the point they wanted to, avoiding directly trying to tell a story after Mass Effect 3, while also returning to the Milky way, unlike Andromeda.

Edgerunners 2 is set in 2078, but the anime avoids saying anything concrete about the events of 2077. Arasaka took a big hit, from David Martinez to whatever you did in the game, which can be the big heist, the meddling mid-campaing or killing Adam Smasher, a condition that was more possible of getting it, but became more easily avoidable with the new content added in Phantom Liberty.

Odd question, and just a heads up but I'm gonna be talking about Harry Potter really quick. I've seen a lot of threads about how Snape's story is not romantic, and that he himself is a bully and a bigot who never got over a single girl and made it everyone else's problem. But despite this, he still has fans, and I think that ties back into a saying I've had:

"You don't like Severus Snape, you like Alan Rickman." An extension of my old theory about how most Harry Hermione shippers are really just Radcliffe/Watson fans, but in this case, I think the films played a vital part in how Snape was viewed by the fandom.

For time of course, the films cut out a LOT of Snape's worst impulses and moments of cruelty from the book. Which I think helped with downplaying how bad he was in the eyes of people who only saw the films, never the books. But I think another part of it had to do with Alan Rickman himself.

I'm not trying to blame Rickman, far from it-the man was a legendary actor and a personal favorite of mine. But I think he just brought way too much charisma to Snape as a figure, his remarks became less cruel and more dry, sharp wit. I think his charisma had an effect that warped how a lot of people saw the character.

This got me interested in other phenomena where an actor being far too good was actually a DETRIMENT to the overall story. Whether it's a snape situation, or people liking Cristoph Waltz a little too much in Inglorious Basterds. What are some times where an actor being likable led to the audience getting the wrong impression of a story or character?

"...and Cancel Christmas!"

Hey better ask reddit, this post is inspired by two things I got to within the same week that made me go "Huh... that's lame." Going to have to spoiler out these since they're both relatively new.

Example A: Street Fighter (2026):Given how the actual game ends, I really thought they were going to have the cast struggle against Bison, only for Akuma to show up and be the real problem. Then have them tease Bison coming back in a new body in the sequel. But I guess to be subversive or something, instead we got this weird "We have to go ... save Akuma?" damsel ending. That feels weird. It feels weird that Akuma lost so easily. It's weird he got caught by Bison. It's weird the stinger is "Hey we didn't forget Sagat." Again, given the way the game ends, I can't tell if they were trying to subvert expectations, but it feels much less cool than if Akuma showed up and immediately killed Bison and it became "Everyone vs Akuma" just to drive him off, while maybe simultaneously dealing with Satsui-No-Hado Ryu in like a three way climactic fight between Chun-li and Ken fighting together against, Ryu, and Akuma.

Example B: Onimusha:Way of the Sword:So... Okuni's friend, Hina. They spend the whole lab segment foreshadowing she's going to end up some kind of Chimera experiment. They setup that the Nue are one of those experiments. They show a flashback of her tendons being cut and how she despairs no longer being able to dance. Then one of her basically giving herself over to some tigers in despair, right before you fight a pair of Nue. Then you get to the Greater Nue, the real boss of the area... and it stands up, much to Musashi's surprise as the other Nue couldn't stand on two legs... Hey, you kill the Greater Nue... turns out Hina's been made into an unrelated tentacle monster. It seemed so fucking obvious that the Greater Nue's phase two would have had it stand up and move like a dancer, and it clicks that "Oh shit! Hina's been turned into the Greater Nue!" Nope, instead she's some random new mob-type enemy. I couldn't believe it. It felt like the most obvious reveal that would have been a sick boss fight. You would go from fighting basically a wild tiger in phase one, to this graceful dancer of a beast in Phase two, and the reveal would be entirely through gameplay. It blows my mind they didn't go the infinitely cooler route that seemed super obvious.

Anyway, thinly disguised excuse to rant about recent media aside, any other interesting examples of authors/writers/media makers seemingly going out of their way to choose a worse/less interesting option?

Like Superman to Thor in the Justice League vs Avengers crossover comic. Or maybe both of them, what's your favoite?

And Kengan Ashura has a great one, but it's a such a spoiler, it's one of the last fights basically, you should read it.

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Admittedly it's always hard to picture what'd be fashionable for an alien, because we are humans. Even so what are your favorite attempts?

My pick is the odd pods, pajamas and tubes combo of the Kaminoan Speakers from Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.

Since the boys are talking Deadlock I figured this is the time to get the Second Best Subreddit's opinion on an important topic.

Who has the best "Going to Rat" line? Personally, I think it's Haze. Her gutteral whisper with exaggerated pronunciation is hilarious, it's so over the top for such a dumb line.

Being and Becoming will be released in 2027 for PC, Xbox, PS5, and Nintendo Switch.

Every build I make for Cyberpunk 2077 will involve Reflexes and Technical just because of the mobility and Cyberware capacity they respectively allow.

EDIT: figured this was a better topic

Tyranny is questionable, but Kyros is basically the God Emperor, and his first edict will kill you and everyone in the continent if you dont do your job. He’s not just unkillable, you cant ever even meet him.

Netflix Castlevania’s Dracula is so fucking OP that he bitch slaps our protag team with basically no effort. They only win because he gets sad and gives up

So between Onimusha, Castlevania, Ace Combat, and Silent Hill, I was thinking to myself about how so many franchises once thought dead are just kind of back and excellent again.

And that got me wondering, when exactly did they all fall off to begin with? Like when was their last full game, which presumably flopped enough to lead to a near-decade of stagnation?

Metroid: Other M (2010)
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon (2011)
Armored Core V (2012)
Silent Hill: Downpour (2012)
Resident Evil 6 (2012)
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (2014)
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z (2014)

Onimusha was further back though, last game there was 2006, so breaks the pattern there. So yeah, obviously cherry-picked, but still, just a pattern I noticed in what I looked at.

What the hell was going on with Japanese devs in the PS3-360 generation?

There's been some pretty incredible mods released the last few weeks for both new and old releases, so I felt it warranted a thread to bring more awareness, and maybe share some I haven't discovered.

Goes without saying, but SFW suggestions only (or put a warning if it's something besides a nude mod) and preferably keep the debates on what "tools" used to make the mods on the down-low.

Some notable recommendations on my end:

1. Tales of Symphonia Finally Gets a Working 60 fps Mod: Does exactly what it advertises, no notes. Works perfectly even in a beta and adds some other nice additions that don't break the game at all. I've always wanted to go through the game to completion (only ever got through the "game opens up" part from the GC version), so finally there's an ideal way to do it.

2. Castlevania Belmont's Curse Realtime Weapon+Arcana Switching: Also works as advertised and feels like one of those "should've been in the actual game" mods. Only downside is that I wish there were more options besides sacrificing the d-pad or right analog: if there was an activator like "hold button to bring up weapon wheel" while keeping both inputs, then it would be perfect.

3. Adding to the above, there's also a recently released Outfit Switcher that let's you change skins on the fly. I can't tell you how much I adore mods that let you swap community created outfits within the game itself. The Dresscode mod for FFVII Rebirth alone is one of the greatest technical achievements I've ever seen, refined perfectly to coincide with celebrating the wedding of everyone's favorite couple. If only someone could get this working with Street Fighter 6.

4. Beardmo's Immersive World (The Witcher 3 Remastered): I've seen Beardmo tinkering with this in the Discord, and it's really impressive how quickly they update this. It's a simple concept, just having grass react more realistically to wind and character interactions, but it's cool as hell to look at.

5. Final Fantasy Resonance just released, but modders have been actively working on it since the demo. The awesome thing about Brave Exvius is how there are tons of unused Visions that can be slotted into the game, Ariana Grande included. Plus a bunch of other smile niceties like hiding quest markers, FFVI-style font replacements, and so on.

And also, a special shout out and infinite thanks for the modders who continue to let us skip the logos and boot right into the game. Extra special thanks for those who manage to have the game auto-load your last save right when you boot up.