- Joined
- Sep 22, 2019
Be glad you were never exposed to Worms fanatics. Faggots with capital Fs, if you were unlucky enough to share a chat room or forum with them. (I have not had the displeasure of meeting one IRL, thankfully).
Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off
- Thread starter CowReserach Inc.
- Start date
starborn427614
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2020
I think my favourite game in the series was 3D, so I would be ignored anyway if I tried to strike up a convo with them lol
Uranus Pink
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2019
- Joined
- Sep 22, 2019
Ah fuck, should have made myself clearer. Fanfic, in this case.
Never met a Worms video game fanatic yet. Most people seem to regard it as a casual franchise. Also 2D Worms is the best. I did enjoy what I played of 3D, but it never scratched the same itch.
- Joined
- Jul 8, 2019
Taiki Waititi has at least one movie as well, so in theory six.
The original trilogy seems more of a fluke occurrence than anything else at this point. I grew up in the 90s as a kid with the unaltered vhs versions and saw the prequels in theaters. Even as a child and teen I could tell there was a drop in quality and the RLM train kicked off soon after. I thought some of the EU stuff like the darkhorse comics were interesting but didn't get much more involved than that.
Disney is going to keep trying to get returns on their investment until they succeed or run out of money. I don't think anyone was really happy with the sequel trilogy, even at the company. Buying Star Wars was a horrible business decision, especially without a plan on what they wanted to do with it.
Hot take, I know.
Edit: Also YouTuber The Salt Factory dropped a 3 hour KOTOR II video review. Wasn't bad to listen to in the background.
Disney is going to keep trying to get returns on their investment until they succeed or run out of money. I don't think anyone was really happy with the sequel trilogy, even at the company. Buying Star Wars was a horrible business decision, especially without a plan on what they wanted to do with it.
Hot take, I know.
Edit: Also YouTuber The Salt Factory dropped a 3 hour KOTOR II video review. Wasn't bad to listen to in the background.
Last edited:
Off topic, but fuck it. I've been working my way through Birdy. Fantastic stuff.
- Joined
- Jun 6, 2020
Looks like cancel culture got another actor on their hitlist
- Joined
- Dec 16, 2019
The original trilogy seems more of a fluke occurrence than anything else at this point.
I am really starting to agree with this position. The very reason the OT films were successful or just happened to hit the mark is a very interesting story of chance and the influence of alot of players who knew what they were doing.
As I always say, one name GARY KURTZ, this man is why ANH and ESB turned out the way they did and his absence in ROTJ (still a great film) can easily be seen.
That one special moment in time when the OT was made cannot and will not ever be duplicated.
Me at first...
Then me remembering 99% of these fucks are wackos who built this current situation.
Fuck 'em. They don't deserve dignity.
- Joined
- Jun 6, 2020
Who do you think will be the next target? I notice their going after superhero and star wars actors.
Who knows anymore. They tried to take down Chris Pratt and failed. Like Rosario I'm sure they'll double back to him next he's vulnerable. That's what this is about. They just go around, looking for people to cancel. Not that any of that matters.
KennedyFilm and Disney didn't cancel Carano because of media pressure. They canceled her because they didn't like her and media pressure gave them the excuse they needed to do so. Money and personal beef.
I'm sure Renner, having starred in dozens of films was getting entitled and expensive. He's supposedly a bit of an ass. Add to that, Hawkeyegirl is now a thing. It's all very skeevy and disingenuous.
Just remember, Carano was an outlier. 90% or more of these assholes are at least complicit with the culture.
- Joined
- Jun 6, 2020
Well who knows where Renner's career will go now that he is almost done with Hawkeye.
Since that was the role he was banking on for most recent years.
They hit the right note at the right place and time and turned what would have been a mediocre film into a massive success. ESB is even crazier in some ways but it seems more like a freak occurrence than anything that can be logically explained and replicated. It's why the entire franchise struggles to have legs without aping off of nostalgia for those three films.
Writing is an underrated talent that Hollywood is sorely lacking and keeps turning to shit writers to make blockbusters. No wonder they are failing.
- Joined
- Jun 25, 2020
Renner was an accomplished actor before the cape shit, he'll be fine.
- Joined
- Jul 8, 2019
The quality of Hollywood writing has noticeably gone down the shitter since the writer's strike ~10 years ago. The suits basically gutted the WGA's power, in exchange for some streaming residuals. As a result, the execs are just hiring whoever to do their shitty writing, as they're cheaper, on the assumption that the masses will just consoom product.
It's like making a house with the foundation being loose dirt. If the story sucks then everything else will collapse with it. A simple story told well will always hold up compared to a complex one told poorly. Star Wars isn't high art, it aped off of many other influences and was heavily edited. George takes a lot of credit but the people who edited and later directed the originals made them shine and took good to great.
Games like KOTOR II stand the test of time due to writing alone and how they explore concepts. That game lives and dies on its writing and character. Even if the gameplay was mediocre at best people still talk about it to the present for what it was trying to say.
PseudoScrooge
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Oct 30, 2019
My favorite part is, "I have watched lots of movies, and I even sat through a silent movie once, so therefore I am your god and my word is irrefutable." Bwa haa haa ha!!!
- Joined
- Dec 17, 2019
I missed this in the monsoon of things going on this week, but a noteworthy legend of Star Wars Multimedia has saddled up and rode off into the sunset, marking the end of an era:
Randy Stradley, overseer and editor of Dark Horse Comics for 35 years, has announced his retirement on the company blog with a warm farewell. For anyone who isn't aware of his contributions, Stradley both oversaw and wrote numerous comics for Dark Horse--first rising to prominence as the writer for the original Alien Vs. Predator back in 1989, and spawning the crossover franchise that would dominate both brands throughout the 90's. He was instrumental in bringing talent over to the company, and overseeing several major runs during this period.
But most importantly, he was the steward of the Star Wars Comics from 1991 all the way to 2014. Every one of the initial flagship EU comics--from Dark Empire, to Crimson Empire, to the X-Wing comics to Tales of the Jedi--were pushed forward thanks to his contributions, and his insistence on maintaining a level of quality of stories not previously found in the Marvel comics of the 70's and 80's, as well as being one of the outspoken proponents for shared continuity between the comics and novels during the EU's inception. He would go on to supervise countless series into the 2000's, pushing forward PT story arcs and Clone Wars Multimediat tie-ins, many of which would catapult several recognizable SW Comic Talent to stardom. He would make his own personal contributions with series like Empire and Dark Times, and helped push for the future storyline many consider to be the crown jewel of SW comics, Legacy.
Even though I wasn't into the EU growing up, I was very aware of the comics as a kid, seeing the TPB's in stores and fawning over the artwork in compendiums like Star Wars Comics: Panel to Panel. While the novels and the games would fluctuate in quality, I'm certain many of us would agree that the Dark Horse Comics was where the EU maintained an almost consistent level of overall quality. The high standard for art and writing was maintained for years, ending on a profoundly high note with titles such as Darth Maul Son of Dathomir and Legacy II.
Comic books were a pristine cornerstone of the EU thanks in large part to people like Stradley, who helped ensure that the stories within their pages would reach the level of quality in--or even surpass--the films themselves. And even though Star Wars comics have mostly fallen by the wayside under the current Marvel Regime, we have a vast library of fantastic Dark Horse works we can always return to, to remember a better time when, even within the pages of a comic book, the Star Wars Universe was still vast, epic, and worth experiencing.
Bravo, Mr. Stradley. And thank you for all your work.
Randy Stradley, overseer and editor of Dark Horse Comics for 35 years, has announced his retirement on the company blog with a warm farewell. For anyone who isn't aware of his contributions, Stradley both oversaw and wrote numerous comics for Dark Horse--first rising to prominence as the writer for the original Alien Vs. Predator back in 1989, and spawning the crossover franchise that would dominate both brands throughout the 90's. He was instrumental in bringing talent over to the company, and overseeing several major runs during this period.
But most importantly, he was the steward of the Star Wars Comics from 1991 all the way to 2014. Every one of the initial flagship EU comics--from Dark Empire, to Crimson Empire, to the X-Wing comics to Tales of the Jedi--were pushed forward thanks to his contributions, and his insistence on maintaining a level of quality of stories not previously found in the Marvel comics of the 70's and 80's, as well as being one of the outspoken proponents for shared continuity between the comics and novels during the EU's inception. He would go on to supervise countless series into the 2000's, pushing forward PT story arcs and Clone Wars Multimediat tie-ins, many of which would catapult several recognizable SW Comic Talent to stardom. He would make his own personal contributions with series like Empire and Dark Times, and helped push for the future storyline many consider to be the crown jewel of SW comics, Legacy.
Even though I wasn't into the EU growing up, I was very aware of the comics as a kid, seeing the TPB's in stores and fawning over the artwork in compendiums like Star Wars Comics: Panel to Panel. While the novels and the games would fluctuate in quality, I'm certain many of us would agree that the Dark Horse Comics was where the EU maintained an almost consistent level of overall quality. The high standard for art and writing was maintained for years, ending on a profoundly high note with titles such as Darth Maul Son of Dathomir and Legacy II.
Comic books were a pristine cornerstone of the EU thanks in large part to people like Stradley, who helped ensure that the stories within their pages would reach the level of quality in--or even surpass--the films themselves. And even though Star Wars comics have mostly fallen by the wayside under the current Marvel Regime, we have a vast library of fantastic Dark Horse works we can always return to, to remember a better time when, even within the pages of a comic book, the Star Wars Universe was still vast, epic, and worth experiencing.
Bravo, Mr. Stradley. And thank you for all your work.
Last edited:
verissimus
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Nov 3, 2018
Probably Chris Pratt (yes again), Gal Gadot (also again), or Henry Cavil
Not necessarily. There does seem to be an effort on their part to mainly target the big fish especially if they seem vulnerable, isolated, or not Left-wing enough. These people tend not to bother the small fish not unless they openly cozy with the "right" or speak out against the Left/Leftwing talking points which Ms. Carrano was doing.