TheCzarsHussar

Just now, The Good Doctor said:

I gotcha. Never seen that joke. 

Pretty funny since he’s one of the most explicitly and unambiguously dead video game protagonists ever.  

If Disney made Reach, he would have been perfectly fine after getting half melted by plasma fire and stabbed several times with swords as hot as the surface of the sun.

In other news, I once again cannot get over just how good the original Terminator movie is. T2 definitely is the better film, but god the first is insanely good. It's almost a shame that the franchise had a genre flip immediately after this one.

18 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

No way people actually think that.  

It's a joke people use to say Six is alive still, that he's hiding in a cave

I'll never understand the cope of "Noble Six is hiding in a cave", like bruh, leave some cope for us "Jorge is still floating in space alive" fans ;-;

4 hours ago, The Good Doctor said:

But imagine if it was the exact same show, but titled "Batman".  

The Butler

1 hour ago, The Good Doctor said:

It’s like: "Batman" but the poster is just Alfred dramatically sitting in their cave.  Even if the art looks good, it’ll be a little bizarre to anyone who knows anything about it.

That's the funniest fucking imagine 

The greatest thing I've learned in French is what they call burnt toast.

La pain perdu - The Lost Bread

2 hours ago, BigBossBalrog said:

Latest episode of Halo...was good. Shocked again. 

 

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They adapted Winter Contingency from Halo Reach, though its with Silver Team instead of Noble. There's a huge level of dread throughout, and there building towards the Fall really well. 

If only the show was good this whole time, no John Halo Master Cheeks.

4 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

But isn’t that still true even when he’s a super soldier? I struggle to see any difference between Horus swatting down Sgt. Johnson or Spartan Jorge. Both are heroic little ants who he can instakill with barely a thought.

You've a point there. I just find it an unnecessary lore change

10 minutes ago, BigBossBalrog said:

Nah he's dead 100 hundred percent. Horus was able to kill him permeantly

I didn't know that, still prefer the old lore but I do accept it more now.

35 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

I feel like to Horus, the difference between a normal human and Master Chief would be equivalent to the difference between an ant and a pill bug to us. Being stronger can’t really detract from the heroism of confronting him if he’s still infinitely more powerful than either version.

That's the reason it was so profound, that this guardsman was nothing to Horus, no threat whatsoever. Pre-Heresy Horus would never have taken this insignificant normal human's life, that's why Emps snapped so hard at it.

That said, I do agree on that last point.

8 hours ago, BigBossBalrog said:

Sadly, Games Workshop took a sledge hammer to the Emps TTS and destroyed it 

Never forgive, they're in the BOOK for that transgression!

8 hours ago, The Good Doctor said:

Your stupid Ollius Pious lore won’t matter when the Emperor gets his text-to-speech and overhauls the entire galaxy. 

Praise Emprah 

7 hours ago, BigBossBalrog said:

He's semi immortal but not super human if that makes sense  He gets his badass moment in the last book anyways...by being turned into red paste by Horus 

The og lore was more impactful. That a no-name pissant regular human tried to protect his godlike emperor against Horus, being no threat at all and Horus just obliterating him being the final snapping point for Emp to thanos snap Horus.

Instead GW made this no name's sacrifice pointless because he'll just return in a new form and this completely normal human was changed into a super being.

It'd be like if 343 went back and changed Sargent Forge into an ancient human supersoldier stuck in cryo for a hundred thousand years.

2 hours ago, BigBossBalrog said:

Or read all FIFTY books of the Horus Heresy 

Actually don't because s single piece of lore was changed that all us nerds hate. Back in my day Ollius Pious was just some random, normal dude, not a superhuman immortal.

1 hour ago, Celan said:

I'm not sure I'll be able to finish Asimov's Foundation series. I've really tried. I do love his short story anthology, Robot Dreams. They are really thought-provoking stories.

If you can find it, try The End of Eternity.

18 minutes ago, BigBossBalrog said:

Why don't you read some classic sword and sorcery trash  Some of the OG stuff is really fun.

The original Conan books by Robert E. Howard are really damn good, if you can get passed there pulpy quality. It has some amazing world building in the Hyborian Age (which is own fantasy setting between the Ice Age and the Bronze Age that combines all kinds of genres).

Imagine if there were audiobooks of Mako narrating them ;-;

5 minutes ago, BigBossBalrog said:

The hyper intelligent Japanese mind

2 hours ago, The Good Doctor said:

@Celan @TheCzarsHussar

I liked everything in this. The worm riding sequence is amazing. Villeneuve is for sure one of the best directors in the world right now when it comes to epic cinematography.

 

I'm only not watching that because I want to go into the movie as fresh as possible (I stumbled across the "SILENCE" comparison by accident). For all my shit talking and extreme displeasure in some of the casting, I'm still really hyped for the movie!

I also know it's entirely an element of the 80's, but I'm real curious if part 2 will have an ending credits similar to the original movie. There's something about it that I adore.

1 hour ago, The Good Doctor said:

Yep. That film was basically like:
 

Movie:  "Hey guys, you know how nobody likes the movies after Terminator 2?"

Audience:  "Yes..."

Movie:  "Wouldn’t it be great if we just scrapped all of that, rewound time back to the 1990s, and did something different instead?"

Audience: "Hell yeah!"

Movie:  "Done! Welcome to 1998!" *immediately blasts child John Conner with a shotgun*

Audience:  

Movie:  "What?"

I vehemently choose to believe that either Skynet was prevented from ever coming to fruition at the end of T2 or it just loops back to the time travel from T1

11 hours ago, The Good Doctor said:

Case-in-point, there was a lot of hype for Terminator Dark Fate because it promised to retcon all of the crappy sequels after T2 (it went on to replace them with something even worse, but that’s beside the point ).

Was that the one that literally killed John Conner within the first few minutes of the movie only to replace him with a girl?

22 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

He also carried the book for me in the first half. I guess Leto is just awesome no matter the iteration.  

Duke Leto was such a substantial threat to his cousin Shaddam IV because his Drip exceeded the Imperial family's.

10 hours ago, The Good Doctor said:

Speaking of, I’m going to miss Duke Leto. He was easily the standout of the first movie for me. Oscar Isaac killed that role.

Ironically I feel the same about both versions

Old and new had very good adaptations of Duke Leto.

3 hours ago, Celan said:

i'll take squeaking over that fake reverb they used in the Lynch movie.

It's strange how oddly low quality the new one's moment is though, they even added the literal bass boost sound

2 hours ago, The Good Doctor said:

The previous film had a really cool delay and layered effect whenever they used the Voice. Kinda weird if it’s not there anymore in part 2.

 

Woooow talk about a downgrade, that was a cool effect. Much better than the bass boost wimpy s i l e n c e

Old one: The Voice.

New One: The Squeak

Out of context dune spoiler.

Just now, BigBossBalrog said:

Beyond the preference debate, LOTR already has a leg up because it has a definite end  

Thank god Tolkien realized how dumb his LOTR sequel book was and scrapped it.

Just now, BigBossBalrog said:

I mean in terms of influence, I'd say George is comparable (lightly) to Tolkien; ASOIF's dark fantasy style has dominated fantasy for the last decade, and I don't think it's stopping.

Oh definitely, man wrote one of the greatest fantasy settings around. I may gravitate more to Tolkien (especially with how the series went ;-; but GRRM is up there)