The Pitters' Place

Eva Yojimbo

I think I'd at least like to play it after Cuphead since before I started Yakuza I was thinking of playing some MegaMans after that since I was in the mood for a side-scrolling shooter. Then they released Cuphead for PS4 and that was perfect timing. This reminds me, I saw a video yesterday from one...

Eva Yojimbo

The Quartering Reading your post again, this is the actual part that should be controversial and generate pages of response. Dude why are you watching The Quartering? The guy behind that channel is a disingenuous idiot who whines about how feminists and "The SJW's" (Though really what he'...

Eva Yojimbo

The problem people have with this movie is the cinematography. It shows extended close-ups of body parts of children in sexualized poses and whatnot. (I haven't seen the movie, but I've seen some clips.) The complaint is that the camera itself sexualizes children, not just that it depicts children ...

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Gendo wrote:Everyone needs to stop their other games and start Celeste.

I might check into Celeste after Cuphead and then probably RE3. I almost never start new games until I finish the last one, which might be a mistake on my part as playing multiple games might help alleviate burnout.

Eva Yojimbo

Spring cleaning is a mess because I literally move everything out of every room, steam clean the carpets, mop/wax the floors, clean the walls, dust/vacuum everything, polish the wood, and then move everything back. Every room takes a solid day to do. You don't know how filthy a place is until you m...

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I've heard about the controversy, but haven't seen it yet myself (Is it a series? I thought it was a movie). I do have similar suspicions about the outrage over it though. It is a movie. I've gotten into a couple debates about this on Facebook. There seem to be two separate issues at play: ... Hadn...

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I feel like I'm late to the party hearing about this. Only did thanks to The Quartering doing a video about how apparently Netflix has lost $9 billion because of people unsubscribing over this show. So I looked it up on Wikipedia and what's funny is that the critical reviews are really good. Normall...

Eva Yojimbo

Didn't quite get Yakuza 0 finished last week but I'm very, very close to the end. I'm on the last chapter and just couldn't stay up late enough to finish it the other night. I'm probably going to have a lot to say about this one because it's probably the mixiest mix bag I've played yet. Spring clean...

Eva Yojimbo

Dropping in just to say I haven't made a lot of progress. Turns out it's not a good idea to put spring cleaning off until late August because I've been pretty exhausted the last week-and-a-half, so I've mostly been chilling with music and YouTube instead of gaming. Hoping to get back to it at least ...

Eva Yojimbo

It's cute that you think I'm anywhere near cool enough to ever be a real gangster. Like, poker's a game for math nerds and I never even did cannabis until it was legal. Anyway, short on time today, but dropped in to post this because the timing of it being released now was just delicious: [youtube]h...

Eva Yojimbo

I've basically had to take the weekend off gaming to catch up on housework and some other stuff that's needed doing for a long time. I will say that I still haven't progressed the story much because shortly after you open the Real Estate business with Kiryu, you then open a Cabaret Club business wit...

Eva Yojimbo

Is combining the heist genre with the dream genre even all that original though? Like that's just another stock noir plotline from a dude that had largely done neo-noir up until that point, and well its not like "Dream plotline + Noir plotline" hadn't been done several times before in fil...

Eva Yojimbo

Interesting, I've heard people talk about the similarities between Inception and Paprika before, but didn't know the name Satoshi Kon... and looking him up, I see he's the same guy that did Perfect Blue, which I'm a big fan of. So that's cool. And yeah, just because an idea gets inspiration from ex...

Eva Yojimbo

I would have recommended Synecdoche, New York, but I just assumed you'd either seen it or would be watching it soon anyway since you were watching other Kaufman. And while you're at it, Adaptation is pretty great as well, though not as much so as the others probably. TBH I think Adaptation is only ...

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I was more bothered by BJM's juxtaposition than anything else, the fact that its tone was so happy and wacky and casual and the things it depicted were so horrific and nasty and disturbing. I felt like the movie itself was horrific and nasty and disturbing. It was like listening to some guy jauntil...

Eva Yojimbo

Being John Malkovich (1999) - This was the most horrible, nihilistic, depressing, empty, bleak, soul-crushing movie I have ever seen. Wait until you see the film Kaufmann directed (and wrote) called Synecdoche, New York. It's just as "clever" as BJM, but I found it much better and more pr...

Eva Yojimbo

It's on my list of games to check out. I know it's quite highly rated as far as indie games go. After I finish Yakuza 0 I might delve into a few indie games.

Eva Yojimbo

So Yakuza 0 is basically eating up all my free time hence my recent absence. It's basically an RPG without leveling or story choices, but the amount of side-stories and minigames it offers is ridiculous. It's incredibly easy to spend an entire day (I've been playing about 4-6 hours a day) and not ad...

Eva Yojimbo

Is there a film you'd recommend starting Angelopoulous with? I've eyed his filmography a few times over the years (I think I've seen Jimbo recommend Ulysses' Gaze before) but I have yet to take the plunge into it. Short on time again, but I'll make this quick: The Traveling Players is his masterpie...

Eva Yojimbo

Short on time today, but I did start Yakuza 0. I agree with Girlfriend Reviews that this game is 100% Certified BANANAS. Yesterday I did the side-quest where you protect a moonwalking Michael Jackson from zombies so Steven Spielberg can shoot his Thriller music video. I must say, the contrast of ton...

Eva Yojimbo

Yeah, but you're not claiming to be a music fan so I wouldn't hold that against you. I do think it's odd that of all the arts, music seems most intricately tied to people's personalities and age. I'd be interested in knowing the science behind that and why it differs so much from film/TV/video game...

Eva Yojimbo

Good story. The only one I have that's similar also happened 13 years ago. We had a severe ice storm that knocked out power for 60 hours and over 400k people in the state/city were affected. I don't think we played games because everyone was too worried about trying to stay warm (this happened in Ja...

Eva Yojimbo

As bad as my dad is, he'll at least try to learn stuff. Like, I did eventually teach him how to use an iPad to access all his music and send it to his AVR to play drums to. I also set up my old PC in his room so he could watch Lost. My mom, however, refuses to learn anything new. Like, she's had a ...

Eva Yojimbo

OK, I'll take the advice and do Yakuza 0 first instead.

Eva Yojimbo

Try to catch up tomorrow, but for now: https://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/l/204594-uncharted-drake-s-fortune-playstation-3-front-cover.png Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - 5/10 This is probably going to be a short and simple review for a short and simple game. This is basically Indiana Jones if Ind...

Eva Yojimbo

There's an even worse problem with music fans. At the very least I can say that I've been apart of several film-related message boards where there were people interested in foreign films, old films, etc., and there were at least a few that was quite knowledgeable about those things... but it's been...

Eva Yojimbo

I actually watch everything on YouTube at 1.5x-2x speed except for music...Really no reason to play on regular speed for most of the runtime. Mods, ban this filth. Funny thing about watching stuff at that speed is that I go back to real life and it feels like everyone is talking/moving in slow-moti...

Eva Yojimbo

Try to catch up tomorrow, but I'll mention I started playing Uncharted. It's a fun little game so far, though quite simple/straight-forward. It's strange not being able to stealth, and without that the game basically switches between shooting sections and puzzle/platforming sections. I will say I th...

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Had to bump this thread for the recent Critical Role development where finally learned what happened to Keyleth's mom after like 5 years of only knowing she disappeared: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X78tqMzKpQ Talk about playing the long-game! Some genius level stuff right there from Matt, and M...

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Yeah, Tarantino is an interesting example because while he only draws from film history he at least knows it really god damned well and is arguably the best at that hyper-pastiche style. Still, I agree its inherently limited and few are even going to come close to matching the level of film knowled...

Eva Yojimbo

TBF, I also watched them on 1.5x-2x speed , so I spent significantly less than 800 hours watching it. https://i.giphy.com/media/WI3awMejoY396/giphy.gif [biggrin] I actually watch everything on YouTube at 1.5x-2x speed except for music. I mean, those TTRPGs episodes are 3-4 hours each, and a lot of ...

Eva Yojimbo

Who am I kidding? I suck at parrying. Might as well offer my back to you now. :( I never bothered learning to parry because tbh it just seemed like it would make that game too easy. It's not like you really need to do it anyways to just destroy dudes. I tried doing it early on when I was soul grind...

Eva Yojimbo

73. Young and Innocent - It was fine I guess. Had some weird comedic elements that I didn't expect from Hitchcock. The thriller/mystery aspect didn't seem all that thrilling or mysterious. North by Northwest certainly did that much better. It's a fun little film but it's middling Hitch, with the ex...

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Will try to catch up tomorrow but I'll drop this review for now: https://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/l/508855-batman-arkham-asylum-playstation-3-manual.jpg Batman: Arkham Asylum - 6/10 (or; How a Game That Totally Ripped it Off Ten Years Later is Shockingly Much Better). This was a tough game to...

Eva Yojimbo

You're talking to a guy that started this year by watching nearly 800 hours of a table-top RPG streaming show. ;) Hmmm, there's about 600 hours of Survivor right now with about 30 extra hours added in non-Coronavirus years. That does add up eventually but I dunno how much them tabletoppers produce ...

Eva Yojimbo

I'm way out of my league in film discussions around here. Nah. Just watch movies and tell us what you think. No need to get all pretentious in reading/analyzing them like Rax. [blah] I'll remember this, Jimbo. I'll remember this. One day you'll wake up with a knife filling a hole in your back. Know...

Eva Yojimbo

That's a good point too about Contempt foreshadowing 80s Godard's obsessions. It's almost kinda weird that such a radical progressive seems to also have this profound nostalgia for the past. Reminds me of the theory that people are either Edenists or Utopians; the Edenists think that paradise is so...

Eva Yojimbo

The biggest highlight so far is just how much the game was influenced by Batman: The Animated Series, right down to having most of the original VA's including Mark Hamill's scene-stealing Joker. The one thing I'll say about this is that it blew my mind about a decade or so ago when I first learned ...

Eva Yojimbo

Here is what I've seen from Hou so far. I will try to rank them from my favourite to least favourite. 1) A City of Sadness 2) Café Lumière 3) Three Times 4) The Puppetmaster 5) A Time to Live and a Time to Die 6) Flowers of Shanghai 7) Dust in the Wind 8) The Assassin 9) Millennium Mambo 10) Goodby...

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BruceSmith78 wrote: I'm way out of my league in film discussions around here.

Nah. Just watch movies and tell us what you think. No need to get all pretentious in reading/analyzing them like Rax.

Eva Yojimbo

I get the satirizing of Reaganite values in general, but I guess I just don't think a teenager wanting a car is indicative of those values. Kids want cars because they want freedom from their parents, not because they want lower taxes and an unrestricted free market so that they can become a John G...

Eva Yojimbo

It's been a long time since I've seen either, but I thought Edge of Tomorrow had basically the exact same premise as Groundhog Day. Edge of Tomorrow just gives it a sci-fi explanation, while Groundhog Day gives no explanation. But they each go back in time a bunch, so I think they're time travel. A...

Eva Yojimbo

Really surprised that both of you dislike Primer; I'd have thought it was right in your wheelhouse. It looks as cheaply as it was made. I also don't think it has anything going for it other than the convoluted plot. It's probably a film I would've liked as a kid as I liked approaching some films li...

Eva Yojimbo

91. She's Gotta Have It (1986, Dir. Spike Lee) - 100. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946, Dir. Tay Garnett) - 115. The Big Boss (1971, Dir. Wei Lo & Chia-Hsiang Wu) - I remember liking She's Gotta Have It, but it does pale a bit if you watch it right after DTRT like I did. I still think it's ...

Eva Yojimbo

Interesting stuff. Makes me wish I'd watched it more growing up. I remember when the first season was a big deal, and I think I caught an episode or two but that was back before I had a DVR so if I wanted to watch a show weekly I had to program the VCR, which was a PITA. I think its a very engaging...

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I'm also posting tieman's review of L'Avventura. It works well as an overview of Antonioni's filmography. It is more in tune with the usual analyses of Antonioni's work. (Words like 'alienation' and 'ennui' come to mind.) Also a good review, though it's a bit "Theory"-ful for my tastes--l...

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4 of my favorite time travel movies haven't been mentioned yet. Primer, Predestination, Triangle, and Butterfly Effect. Haven't seen the middle two, but I thought Primer was awful and Butterfly Effect was extremely meh. Two good time travel films that haven't been mentioned are Edge of Tomorrow and...

Eva Yojimbo

I was semi-joking about not remembering the plot. TBH, I watched all three films so much as a kid I remember them all pretty well, though I do remember 2's plot the least. The stuff I remember most from 2 is just all the futuristic stuff. That backstory behind the film is interesting. Guess I never...

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Lord_Lyndon wrote:Here is chaos_rampant's review of L'Avventura. It is one of his favourite films.

That's a great review. Thanks for posting it.

Eva Yojimbo

Survivor is an interesting case because it maybe the first hybrid reality/game show hybrid, and one of its selling points was the drama so it makes sense that it would've borrowed from prestige dramas as well. Its interesting because the drama is baked straight into the game mechanics, but it took ...

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