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The Last of Us Franchise - Because it's apparently a franchise now. This thread has been double-DMCA’d by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
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That's a different type of cordyceps, not the parasitic kind. There's a lot of hair-splitting about genus and stuff.
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I have honestly never encountered a story-driven video game that butchers its own narrative like TLOU2. If I was remotely a fan of the series and then saw what happens in the 2nd game, I would immediately demand my money back.
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The grass really was greener back in the day...
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I refuse to denounce the lizard people hypothesis until we get samples of Neil Druckmann's skin we can send to the lab.
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"welll...all those people gleefully spoiling the game were indeed acting like sociopaths"
The tweet immediately after that: "Believing a corporation or believing 4chan. what a hellish choice"
The spoilers you just said existed were from 4chan you dumbass
The tweet immediately after that: "Believing a corporation or believing 4chan. what a hellish choice"
The spoilers you just said existed were from 4chan you dumbass
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Jeremy is usually pretty cringe, but seeing an irate millionaire flipping out over a few thousand dollars being stolen from him is pure kino. If he doesn't sue Sony and Naughty Dog after all the smack talk I am gonna be very disappointed.
YouTube doesnt really have a dog in this. Their system is set up with the best intentions. Which means it's easily exploited by people with the worst intentions. In all actuality YouTube itself has a potential lawsuit here against Sony, as Sony is acting under color of the law with their sworn statements and invocation of the DMCA to compel YouTube to act on their behalf. The chaos scenario is YouTube piling onto the bandwagon.
Wont ever happen though, they are too desperate for big media shekels, but Jeremy is wise to pick his battles.
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That is true.
I hate JK Rowling and I understand she's woke as hell now, but back in 2004 she wasn't. I think that's when Order of the Phoenix came out.
She did say she cried horribly when writing about Sirius's death and it wasn't due to any grand sense of ego as much as it seemed to do with her own attachment to the character. My only favorite line of hers is when she told her husband (or manager???) of this.
JK: Okay, I just killed the character.
Husband: If it upsets you, why don't you just let him live?
JK: Because in children's books you need to be a horrible monster.
Sounds odd, but you get what she means. Fact is, if an artist wants to destroy something there NEEDS to be a point. Killing your story, the narrative, or the characters just for the sake of your own politics isn't good enough. The audience not only needs to believe that this was the only way in which the story can move on, but that it's also consistent with the previous story.
Posts on this thread earlier said it was a given Joel would die - it's just the manner of his death that pisses everyone off. Hell, he probably could've died more painful and brutal than getting a club to his head, but it was who killed him and how it forced where the story would be going that set everyone off.
I thought he died at the fucking end! Apparently he died in the damn beginning and now we gotta spend the rest of the game with basically the same revenge plot as the first? Why???
ALSO I DON'T EVEN PLAY VIDEO GAMES, HOW DOES THIS WHOLE THING PISS ME OFF AND FASCINATE ME AT THE SAME TIME
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It's something I do give props for Rowling; she used to and could kill characters despite her attachment to them. It's something a good writer has to do, and it's okay to feel for your creation.
Just don't become an arrogant narcissist who can't stand feedback, since second opinions are a godsend.
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Funny how the first TLOU had little to no sexual content (correct me if I'm wrong), but TLOU2 which has not one but two female protagonists is all about their sex life...
What does it say about Druckmann again?
What does it say about Druckmann again?
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It says what we already knew about him, and the type of people like him. It's like Those weird porn VN games you find on steam, but with a budget, and far more deranged. As they seem to have fool themselfs into thinking it's something else.
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It says he's a basic bitch cishet man who will put his lesbo fetishes into his content to get his own rocks off, while pretending it's somehow woke pro-LGBT shit because he threw in a troon (who just happens to be a sociopathic sadistic murderer because that is very woke).
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Late, and moralfaggy, but all I'm gonna say is that the sheer brutality and cruelty in Abby's beatdown is the kind you only see in a writer who gets off on it.
I've seen this kind of overly-violent, over-the-top, merciless, humiliating, sadistic, cruel, drawn-out, and from both an in-story perspective and a writing perspective, completely stupid, unjustified, unnecessary, unneeded, and unwarranted assault on a helpless person who did nothing to the perpetrator, nor to deserve what had happened to them (at the time of the incident) only once before in another series where the author himself admitted that he liked hurting people. And I gotta say, I completely agree with other users when they say that Druckmann here is the same kind of shithead.
You only write this kind of disgusting, sadistic, and frankly, utterly ridiculous bullshit if it's your fetish. Especially if you try to portray the violent, hulking, "woke", psychopath as being completely justified, and the one who's supposed to be the good guy.
I've seen this kind of overly-violent, over-the-top, merciless, humiliating, sadistic, cruel, drawn-out, and from both an in-story perspective and a writing perspective, completely stupid, unjustified, unnecessary, unneeded, and unwarranted assault on a helpless person who did nothing to the perpetrator, nor to deserve what had happened to them (at the time of the incident) only once before in another series where the author himself admitted that he liked hurting people. And I gotta say, I completely agree with other users when they say that Druckmann here is the same kind of shithead.
You only write this kind of disgusting, sadistic, and frankly, utterly ridiculous bullshit if it's your fetish. Especially if you try to portray the violent, hulking, "woke", psychopath as being completely justified, and the one who's supposed to be the good guy.
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He bought into a religion that made sexual preference, race and gender the most important facets of a person's very being. There is so much packed into this. But the short answer is the first game sought to explore a spiritual realm of concepts that are underlying our common human experience, and the second game explores concepts related solely to our base animal lives.
He foresook heaven in favor of the earth in philosophical terms. And all religions agree that a man who does that finds Hell. Which is probably where druckmann thinks he is right now.
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and as an aside, Sony has created a "woke" game that is actually very good. Horizon Zero Dawn. The game hits all the lefty beats. Environmentalism good, industrialization bad strong women who need no man, etc etc etc. But there is a Very Very big key difference. The female protagonist of Zero Dawn is not some vindictive bitch. She is actually very likeable and despite all the stones and arrows thrown her way finds it in herself to forgive rather then be vindictive. She also has to fight and struggle for everything and the men in her life far from being bumbling morons are competent and absolutely essential to her success.
But where zero dawn is inspiring, Last of Us 2 comes across as dark and menacing. There is something evil underneath what druckmann has created here and the absolutely viscerall reaction people are having is I think a manifestation of that. People can tell the writer got a boner over Joel getting his face smashed by a golf club.
Which is why I am not shocked at all the supporting staff is rumored to be mutinous. Normal people do not want to make murder and torture porn wearing the skin of a moral lesson.
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The type of guy who made Ellie's love interest look like him except gender bended and without a soyboy beard.
I mean look at both of them together and the resemblance is uncanny.
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Nah, the grass is way more lush and greener now because they don't shave and dying it colors is trendy.
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Oof. Who could've called this back in 2013?
The last of us didn't need a sequel anyway.
The last of us didn't need a sequel anyway.
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If someone was able to call this that far back, they are Nostradamus of the modren era, or blessed by lady luck. We should ask them for more predictions.
Such as which game series will be cucked next.