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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for June: Monster Hunter Rise, Football Manager 2024, Crusader Kings III, After Us and more
  • I've never played one except a PSP game way back that I dont think I understood at the time. I can't even remember why I had it tbh. But I've been eyeing the series for the past few years. They look fun, but I'm not typically a Capcom fan and I'm pretty sure it's not for me. Glad to be able to finally give one a proper try.

  • Jeannine Hall Gailey, "Lessons Learned From Final Girls".
  • You can't be too broke to break As a woman always something left to take So you shouldn't try to stay too late or talk to strangers Look too long, go too far out of range cause Angels can't watch everybody all the time Stay close, hems low, safe inside That formula works if you can live it But it works by putting half the world off limits

    • Dessa, Fire Drills
  • "Under the Silver Lake" explanation
  • It's been a few years since I watched it and none of this made sense to me. Just read the Wikipedia summary for a refresher and it's one of the most incomprehensible summaries I've ever read. All I can say is that I remember taking the movie at its word more or less. Interesting idea though.

  • Enotria: The Last Song Demo Impressions

    Has anyone played the Enotria demo? I played about 15 minutes, getting just outside the tutorial area. I've been playing Elden Ring a lot lately and...Enotria just feels bad to play. Credit to the developers for the interesting setting and concept (masks and loudouts), but it's frustrating that it's such a direct copy of the FromSoftware formula. The combat mechanics, UI, enemy behavior, sound design, and level design are so egregiously imitative that its comparative shortcomings in all those areas are hyper-noticeable.

    I haven't played many non-FromSoftware soulslikes like Lies of P or Steelrising (or even, candidly, most of the actual Souls games - just BloodBorne, Demon's Souls Remake, and Elden Ring), but I'd hope they were more taking inspiration and doing something meaningfully different that you can't get from a brand-name Souls game, rather than settling for what feels like a Kidz Bop version of the real deal.

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    Trump Team Holds Breath as Stormy Daniels Returns to Stand
  • Decided to check in on things. She got a chuckle out of me from some of the quotes attributed.

    Necheles asked her about the number of porn films she's written and directed, and said, “You have a lot of experience making phony stories about sex.”

    “Wow. That’s not how I would put it," Daniels replied. "The sex in the films is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room” with Trump. She added, "If that story was untrue, I would’ve written it to be a lot better.”

    Asked if she'd promised people she'd be instrumental in putting Trump in jail, Daniels said, "No." Necheles then asked her about a social media post where someone had called her a human toilet, and Daniels responded, "Exactly! Making me the best person to flush the orange turd down." Necheles asked if that meant she'd be instrumental in getting rid of him. Daniels said it was "hyperbole." "I'm also not a toilet," she said.

    @[email protected] called it saying it would get cringey and gross. The "phony stories about sex" line from Necheles is awful stuff.

  • Remembering Prey, Arkane Austin’s masterpiece
  • The Nightmare Typhon that has a timer? That sucks. I don't remember having too much trouble in my first playthrough - I have memories of just hiding in a bathroom that it was too big to enter until the timer ran out for one of the encounters. But I can imagine that if you're in a particularly bad area when it comes for you it could cause problems.

  • Remembering Prey, Arkane Austin’s masterpiece
  • I don't know if Prey is my favorite game of all time, but it's on the short list. I can, however, say that it is the game that most fills me with awe. Talos 1 is an extraordinary playspace filled with incredible detail, choice, style, and diversity. The narrative, possibly the weakest element of the game, still packs in a lot of cool ideas and genuine surprises.

    Prey also contains by far my favorite opening "level" of all time. Without spoiling, the immediate tonal shift, the creepy mystery, the complete recontextualization of your first 10 or 15 minutes, it's an absolute spectacle.

    In a perfect world, all these devs get absorbed by WolfEye Studios or something and they get a bunch of funding to make another massive masterpiece.

  • Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits
  • There is some absolutely hilarious material in here, were it instead fictional.

    First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks.

    "I keep trying to give them lunch breaks but they insist on doing what's in the best interest my pocket lining!"

    And my favorite, also from Roger Wilder:

    “The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”

    Could you imagine the delivery of this line, with just the right amount of pause after "give me a break" and the right expression to the camera if this were said on something like Parks and Rec?

  • Michigan Republican candidate caught living in Florida
  • A Republican hoping to represent Michigan in the U.S. Senate suffered a setback to his campaign this week after facing allegations that he lives in Florida.

    Would that all candidates for public office suffered such setbacks if they were accused of living in Florida.

  • "Stellar Blade embargo is April 24, in media's hands today/tomorrow."
  • Fine, I'll play the demo.

    I don't think I'm the target audience for this, I get PS3-era Platinum Games vibes from the little I know, which never interested me. The onslaught of coverage feels manufactured to me, but I'm open to the possibility that's just because I don't understand the hype. Time to give it a shot I guess.

    Edit: nah, not for me. Cool monster designs though.

  • Shredder's underrated introduction from 1990's live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

    I watched Mutant Mayhem over the weekend (which was great). I haven't watched the 1990 movie in years, but I was suddenly reminded how powerful this scene is for what is ostensibly a silly action movie for kids: the elongated shadow, the percussive score with ominous electric guitar accents, the camera tracking down from its starting position to sweep in behind him, the light gleaming from the blades on his helmet as he slowly turns to scan the room, and the ritualistic unrolling of the cape from his shoulders. All in a single, imposing 75-second take.

    Great stuff.

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