The Pitters' Place

Eva Yojimbo

I guess I only got glimpses of worov's "dark side" on the 2001 forum. He could be insulting there, but that board attracted a lot of trolls and haters too.

Eva Yojimbo

Worov was probably my best friend on IMDb until I met Raxi. I mostly knew him from the 2001:ASO board and we had a lot of great discussions about that and Kubrick. It was much later when I came to RFAS and I think by that time worov had already either stopped posting there or wasn't posting there ne...

Eva Yojimbo

^ Yeah, I was surprised when I found out the term originated from a dude that had that username, and that was back in late-90s/early-00s, not long after FFVII was released so he almost certainly named himself after the Cloud move. Good point about monetization, though I know income from YouTube is a...

Eva Yojimbo

Derived Absurdity wrote:The Youtube version of the Gish Gallop.

I like the term we used to use on EGF called omnislashing.

Eva Yojimbo

Those EGF conversations probably could have been trimmed, but at the same time its not like it takes a third party reader 7 literal hours or whatever (I didn't count, these Mauler videos could be a little shorter or longer) to get through reading those kinds of posts. In general I suspect a lot of ...

Eva Yojimbo

"Geez, how would anyone have time for that?" I say, completely forgetting that I used to do sentence-by-sentence rebuttals back in the day on places like EGF. Still, producing that much content as a YT video that's just in response to another video seems a tad excessive! Also, just to make...

Eva Yojimbo

Ah, that makes more sense.

Eva Yojimbo

Sucks if it's a bait-and-switch. I really had no idea since it's just a video I just came across while watching other DS content and threw it on my "watch later" list to watch after I played the game. So it's just in response to another video that's actually a defense? Guess I need to put ...

Eva Yojimbo

Not being very familiar with the PS Vita I have no idea what you're talking about!

Eva Yojimbo

This is kinda OT, but I hate--nay, LOATHE--the PS Store redesign with a fiery passion normally reserved for child molesters and people who talk in the theater. Lol I still remember that line from Firefly. Tbh I didn't realize PS Store changed quite so much. I think its certainly on-topic though, si...

Eva Yojimbo

^ Always fun to read Tieman's cynical rants! I mean, I'm not the biggest Marvel fan in the world, and I particularly didn't care much for Age of Ultron, but I think he falls into the trap of anthropomorphizing "Marvel Studios" without realizing that the studio is the collection of people w...

Eva Yojimbo

Dogtooth - This movie sucks. I don't know what Yorgos Lanthimos was attempting to do here and I don't care. I guess presenting the nuclear family as an evil brainwashing cult and parenting as totalitarianism or something? Thanks, I already knew that. Every Lanthimos movie I've seen has basically be...

Eva Yojimbo

This is all genuinely interesting to me. Even though I haven't played/experienced any visual novels myself, I've always been fascinated by on-the-fringe mediums and art-forms that feel like they either haven't quite reached their potential or are on the verge of getting there with maybe a handful o...

Eva Yojimbo

That stat boggled my mind too. Guy has spent nearly 50% of his career going to Super Bowls. Undoubtedly the GOAT, though the real MVP of that game was the Tampa D. Reminded me of their glory days with Warren Sapp and co.

Eva Yojimbo

This is kinda OT, but I hate--nay, LOATHE--the PS Store redesign with a fiery passion normally reserved for child molesters and people who talk in the theater. For one, they eliminated Wish Lists, and they happened to do this while we were having our 11-day ice storm power outage, so I lost all 80-s...

Eva Yojimbo

Nope, no Dark Souls. That's one reason why Jak II was supposed to be so hard, the relative lack of save points. That's a rather uncreative way to make a video game hard, but whatever. You should try Dark Souls. I love it to death and have been itching to play the sequels ever since playing the firs...

Eva Yojimbo

Never saw Bridge to Terabithia, but you make me want to see it. Yeah, well, unfortunately, I spoiled it for you. I think your enjoyment of it will be really diminished because of that, since the shock of that twist is the only thing anyone remembers from that movie for a good reason. Next: Actually...

Eva Yojimbo

I wouldn't expect them to be very gamey since I know the general premise. As for literature I usually try not to cross-compare mediums anyway, and if anything I'd think a visual novel would be closer to graphic novels/comic books. Hmm, I was going to say they're not quite like a comic since average...

Eva Yojimbo

2. Skyfall (Rewatch, 2012, Dir. Sam Mendes) - Still quite good. Javier Bardem really steals the show here. We've talked about the Mendez Bond films before and I think you know I'm a big fan. The Sopranos (Season 3, 2001) - I wish it hadn't been so long since I'd seen the series as I'd love to talk ...

Eva Yojimbo

2. The Goonies (1985; Richard Donner) This is a great adventure film. It's like Indiana Jones films, but with kids as main characters. This film really made me happy. 4. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009; Juan José Campanella) This is that famous Argentinian film that won an Oscar for Best Foreign Fil...

Eva Yojimbo

R2. Shrek - Still good. The jokes aren't weren't as funny this time around, but still a unique and creative movie. Great music, clever dialogue, and pretty to look at even if some of the animation is a bit choppy by today's standards. Loved this when I saw it in theaters as a teen. Only seen it onc...

Eva Yojimbo

I'm enjoying this new formatting. It's nice that someone here (besides Rax occasionally) is doing more lengthy reviews. I used to save such things for my favorite films I rewatched as well, though mine usually ended up being 2k+ words! I had an idea years ago of going through my Favorite Films list ...

Eva Yojimbo

Lots to catch up with! 84. Sabotage - Pretty good. Slow in some parts, but the time bomb sequence was fantastic. I don't feel like I really got to understand the main character enough; like at the beginning it seems like he is only reluctantly working with this group for money, and doesn't want anyo...

Eva Yojimbo

Just finished The Twilight Zone. Great series. I watched them all as a kid and still vividly remember certain episodes. Shame I watched them back when I wasn't aware of seasons or even ep. titles/numbers because I find it hard to talk about all these years later because I don't usually remember whi...

Eva Yojimbo

Raxivace wrote:
Gendo wrote:Needs more Earthworm Jim.
Man, Earthworm Jim is more forgotten than even like Bubsy at this point. Like he doesn't even have ironic meme love behind him.

I loved Earthworm Jim. Great games. I even remember the extremely short-lived cartoon.

Eva Yojimbo

Yeah I remember thinking DK1 is really hard and punishing. I guess I like that in video games, though. Cuphead was insane but that made it much more fun. I appreciate the difficulty curve; the game is really hard by the third world. Either of you played Dark Souls? I didn't have too much difficult ...

Eva Yojimbo

Higurashi's premise reminds me vaguely of Boogiepop Phantom and Paranoia Agent. Besides the myriad of Mario games, Donkey Kong Country is probably the game my cousin and I spent the most time playing together. We played the first one enough to find almost all of the hidden areas/secrets. We played 2...

Eva Yojimbo

Glad to hear you seem to be recovering at least a bit. You could take this opportunity without a sense of taste to go on a health binge. Just start downing green smoothies. Probably help fight off the virus too. Just lost sense of taste. My wife is just starting to get hers back after 5 days. Well t...

Eva Yojimbo

I've just been busy and haven't been online much until the last few days. I always make sure to check in when I get enough free time to sit down, read, and respond to people.

Eva Yojimbo

I'm most worried about what (if any) long-term effects are going to come from this. Hopefully for most it won't be anything major, but I can imagine that 5-10 years from now that a common question from health providers will be whether you ever had CV because it can increase your risk for other vario...

Eva Yojimbo

That really sucks man. How are you doing so far? Only one I know that's had was my cousin and she was basically incapacitated for about a week but has made a full recovery.

Eva Yojimbo

Kuribo told me the other day that some of the stuff I've been watching lately his mom has also been into. Lol what's with you guys comparing me to maternal figures in your lives? What do you expect when you're watching shows whose primary target audience are mothers? Just start watching Matlock to ...

Eva Yojimbo

Catching up... 116. A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Wicked Wives (1993, Dir. Christian I. Nyby II) 117. A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle (1994, Dir. Helanie Head) 118. A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor (1994, Dir. Max Tash) 119. A Perry Mason Mys...

Eva Yojimbo

I don't think CG animation is really a direct improvement over traditional cel/multiplane animation, it's just a different style all together. It's not a direct comparison to how the bits and other various technologies available to game programmers have increased over time to aid in the rendering o...

Eva Yojimbo

I don't think CG animation is really a direct improvement over traditional cel/multiplane animation, it's just a different style all together. It's not a direct comparison to how the bits and other various technologies available to game programmers have increased over time to aid in the rendering of...

Eva Yojimbo

I always forget about Peeping Tom, but yes, that too. The TV Mildred Pierce was quite good. Though supposedly it stuck closer to the book, it still definitely had influence from the film given both were still fundamentally melodramas, though the TV version dialed that aspect back a bit. I haven't he...

Eva Yojimbo

Not sure if I'd go as far as to say it's like remaking NGE without Anno. It's not like animation technology has evolved leaps and bounds in the last 20+ years like video games have. That video you posted about emulation actually got me thinking about this issue in general and why I don't feel like m...

Eva Yojimbo

Not a lot of time today, but I came a cross a video from WhatCulture on YT saying that Metal Gear Solid is going to be getting a remake on PS5 with the other games getting an "HD" remaster. They went on to talk about whether or not this will level the playing field with Microsoft buying Be...

Eva Yojimbo

When you're finished I want you to copy/paste all of the text you've written on various Fate/X media onto a Word doc and report back on what the word count is. I think you've probably written enough on that series to fill a companion book! Super Mario World (1990) - Yeah this is still an excellent 2...

Eva Yojimbo

I've never heard of Black Narcissus though. I command you to go watch every Powell-Pressburger film now. Seriously, most all of them are quite excellent. Black Narcissus is a good place to start, but pretty much everything they did from The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp in '43 to The Tales of Hof...

Eva Yojimbo

I may have exaggerated my rage slightly. I'm just kind of baffled though that anyone was asking for an expansion of Black Narcissus of all movies. It's certainly an odd candidate for sure, though according to Wiki it's apparently based on the novel. It may end up being like the TV "remake"...

Eva Yojimbo

I think that's one of the pitfalls (a few abilities being so useful/OP there's no need for the others), but I think a big reason for that is that many of these games don't seem to know how to design enemies that can meaningfully challenge a player to use new abilities as opposed to just spamming wha...

Eva Yojimbo

One definite good thing that's come of this controversy is that I've never seen aesthetic theories become such a topic of mainstream debate. Like, I saw one video where they were literally discussing the importance of authorial intent in interpreting art and I swear one comment referenced The Intent...

Eva Yojimbo

No argument that the first image is far more striking, and not just because of the color palette--the fact that the bell is visible combined with the river winding down the valley actually gives a far greater impression of vertiginous space as it leads the eye through the frame--but I'm not sure if ...

Eva Yojimbo

It's not so much that you can't make money with the business, it just requires quite a bit of time/effort and in the end it isn't work it because you can make more in less time by farming Mr. Shakedown. It's also not really worth it because most of the abilities it allows you to unlock tend to be on...

Eva Yojimbo

https://raru.co.za/cover/2016/06/22/4811556-l.jpg?v=1531127256 Yakuza 0 - 7/10 This is, by a good distance, the weirdest game I've played since I've been back into gaming... maybe a candidate for the weirdest game I've played ever. Girlfriend Reviews nailed it with their "100% Certified Banana...

Eva Yojimbo

He mentioned that SMB date thing in the first video that I watched. I think the reason that we have multiple consoles in gaming is simply because the market has sustained the viability of them. Home video definitely had its own version of "console wars" with VHS/Beta Max, again with DVDs/L...

Eva Yojimbo

^ Absolutely agree, though it's worth pointing out there have been trials over similar cases before. The one I know about was when an art gallery decided to show photos of naked children (and a lot of sexually explicit photographs of adults) by Robert Mapplethorpe. They made a (pretty bad) film abou...

Eva Yojimbo

I just saw that scrolling through YouTube yesterday from a news station. It especially sucks because he was such a likable guy with a great story.

Eva Yojimbo

That's a pretty damning video. Even the video I saw he did on MXR and Cuties seemed rather pointless to me. The former was just him randomly ranting about YT, and even though his complaints seemed legit (based on what I've heard from Henry and Jeannie about how YT handles strikes and appeals), I hav...

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