The Last of Us Franchise - Because it's apparently a franchise now. This thread has been double-DMCA’d by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

I was wondering if anyone would bring that series up for that reason. Not being too familiar with it, my impression is just what you said. It's bleak but from I understand there's sort of a dark humor/charm to it and it's done in an epic scale to which to me seems like a sign to the audience to not take things too seriously. That I think is fine. Anything else is likely pretentious boring garbage.

40k was originally very sharp satire. As time went on the new writers began to take it at face value, and played everything completely straight.

 

[Table Country]

40k was originally very sharp satire. As time went on the new writers began to take it at face value, and played everything completely straight.

Writing it totally straight isn't necessarily a bad thing, so long as it's done well. Failing that, there's always the Ciaphas Cain series, which takes the piss out of the 40k setting without going full Whedon; it still feels like it takes place in the setting.

But anyway this thread is about lesbian zombie fanfiction featuring Scuffed Alan Moore and his OC Trappy Gilmore.

 

[Ruin]

Apparently, Druckmann has claimed that the game's ending is "not out there".

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-last-of-us-part-2-leaks-director-says-the-ending-is-not-out-there/

I wonder if Sony told him to hastily edit Abby out, I would have.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

I wonder if Sony told him to hastily edit Abby out, I would have.

Neil Druckman would fucking start world war 3 just to keep his vision of a roided out tranny beating a lesbian couple to death. No fucking jap would be able to stop him.

 

[Adamska]

I wonder if Sony told him to hastily edit Abby out, I would have.

He fought a multi year whine-war just so he could make his own Uncharted and also did the same with TLOU2. He would rather be broken and blacklisted than be forced to actually do things others want.

 

[Recoil]

Not sure if late

 

[A_throwaway_name62919]

I wonder who is stupid enough to believe that bullshit but then I remember every other story where "hackers" are imagined as having near magical powers like some shit in a crime show where by pressing three buttons a nerd cop, usually a nerd hot chick, is zooming in on license plates and shit from space in 10 seconds flat.

Yep. Always try and remember that computers and smart phones are basically magic boxes to a huge percentage of people. Thus hackers are magicians who can magically get inside them. This idea is reinforced not only by TV and movie shit, but by the big corporate security breaches people hear about without understanding how they happened. So when Naughty Dog claims something about an exploit in one of their older games let hackers get into their Amazon server or whatever and get all the stuff that was leaked, most people take them at their word. As opposed to raising their eyebrows in disbelief that ND's setup could be that insecure.

 

[Exbein]

Yep. Always try and remember that computers and smart phones are basically magic boxes to a huge percentage of people. Thus hackers are magicians who can magically get inside them. This idea is reinforced not only by TV and movie shit, but by the big corporate security breaches people hear about without understanding how they happened. So when Naughty Dog claims something about an exploit in one of their older games let hackers get into their Amazon server or whatever and get all the stuff that was leaked, most people take them at their word. As opposed to raising their eyebrows in disbelief that ND's setup could be that insecure.

Don't forget that to beat the hackers you need two people in 1 keyboard

 

[Smleman303]

Interesting lie Cuckman, but relying on there not being footage leaked of it when the fight is shown btw means nothing.

This is the scream of defeat from a man whose career will be destroyed.

What form do you think it will take? I'm thinking what happened to irrational games but. Ben Levine only did a fraction of Neil's shit

 

[Marissa Moira]

What form do you think it will take? I'm thinking what happened to irrational games but. Ben Levine only did a fraction of Neil's shit

Sony is apparently already asking it's other studios to make the rumored new Jak games and an Uncharted game may be in the mix too.

My guess is Naughty Dog goes the way of Psygnosis.

 

[UnclePhil]

Don't forget that to beat the hackers you need two people in 1 keyboard

Fun trivia: the actress playing the quirky Goth grrl in this scene is like 46 years old.

EDIT - Fun PL: When I was a kid I thought the movie Weird Science was a realistic depiction of computer hacking. Sony treats us like the same stupid child I was. Given how often there's a leak (The Interview) or the PSN gets DDoS'd to shit on Christmas, they might not have the greatest crackerjack team of IT specialists. Still, "It was a hacker!" was obviously a PR move to cover up criminal working conditions.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Fun trivia: the actress playing the quirky Goth grrl in this scene is like 46 years old.

EDIT - Fun PL: When I was a kid I thought the movie Weird Science was a realistic depiction of computer hacking. Sony treats us like the same stupid child I was. Given how often there's a leak (The Interview) or the PSN gets DDoS'd to shit on Christmas, they might not have the greatest crackjack team of IT specialists. Still, "It was a hacker!" was obviously a PR move to cover up criminal working conditions.

I'm surprised they're not claiming it was Russian bots.

Or are they saving that until after release when the shit user reviews come in.

 

[Brahmin Baron]

I wonder if Sony told him to hastily edit Abby out, I would have.

I doubt they have the time they need to make any major changes to the plot, but I could see them cutting a few things due to leak reactions. Like instead of showing the full scene where abby beats the shit out everybody, it could cut away and just show the aftermath of abby's attack.

It wouldn't fix the story at all, but at least then they could argue "We wouldn't show such gratuitous violence on-screen,especially when women are involved! Those leaked scenes were from a way earlier version that we quickly discarded."

 

[AnotherPleb]

I doubt they have the time they need to make any major changes to the plot, but I could see them cutting a few things due to leak reactions. Like instead of showing the full scene where abby beats the shit out everybody, it could cut away and just show the aftermath of abby's attack.

It wouldn't fix the story at all, but at least then they could argue "We wouldn't show such gratuitous violence on-screen,especially when women are involved! Those leaked scenes were from a way earlier version that we quickly discarded."

That change only happens if Cuckmann loses his grip on the story.

 

[Adamska]

I doubt they have the time they need to make any major changes to the plot, but I could see them cutting a few things due to leak reactions. Like instead of showing the full scene where abby beats the shit out everybody, it could cut away and just show the aftermath of abby's attack.

It wouldn't fix the story at all, but at least then they could argue "We wouldn't show such gratuitous violence on-screen,especially when women are involved! Those leaked scenes were from a way earlier version that we quickly discarded."

They'd have to forcibly rip Cuckman and his cronies out, since that idiot seems to be the type of guy who can't be forced into changing his stuff due to his fart huffing narcissism. This is a dude who whined until he booted a woman out of the industry so he could control her work, and he destroyed a company just to ensure no one told him no.

They'd have to go full oyabun to have a chance of forcing him, sliced off fingers and all.

 

[A_throwaway_name62919]

I'm surprised they're not claiming it was Russian bots.

Or are they saving that until after release when the shit user reviews come in.

Probably. Certainly I expect that when bad user reviews and ratings start coming in, they'll claim bots or review bombing.

 

[Randall Fragg]

I was wondering if anyone would bring that series up for that reason. Not being too familiar with it, my impression is just what you said. It's bleak but from I understand there's sort of a dark humor/charm to it and it's done in an epic scale to which to me seems like a sign to the audience to not take things too seriously. That I think is fine. Anything else is likely pretentious boring garbage.

40k's Grim Darkness has a charm to it due to the sheer scale and absurdity. Spaceships are vast flying cathedrals run on coal and crewed by inbred slaves who have toiled in the bowls for hundreds of generations. And they go through hell as warp travel. You can't use that shit in a setting and take it 100% seriously.

 

[kcbbq]

As Ellie lies prone in the metaphorical blades of grass, symbolizing the harmony that once existed between person and nature before nature became person's final judge and executioner, to see the enhanced detail on the grass is to know that even Ellie is fated to become as the grass.

We then see Ellie hide beneath a car, a grim monolith to technology that once was. It hearkens back to Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree, where much like the tree that becomes a stump for sitting upon in the narrative's poignant ending, the truck gives to Ellie the last that it has, a fleeting resting place providing shelter...to The Last of Us.

Here, Abby's prominent and refined muscular physiology challenges us on what it means to be strong or weak in a world where strength is everything, and respect must be earned somewhere in the often philosophical gap between self-preservation and malicious barbarism—a theme emphasized through the visceral extravagance of lighting a live dog on fire next to its screaming owner. This is a 'dog eat dog' world, where in order to persevere we must become the dogs that nourish through the suffering of literal dogs.

If the closing theme song is Shel Silverstein's masterpiece, "Father of a Boy Named Sue" they can have my money.

 

[Balr0g]

They'd have to forcibly rip Cuckman and his cronies out, since that idiot seems to be the type of guy who can't be forced into changing his stuff due to his fart huffing narcissism. This is a dude who whined until he booted a woman out of the industry so he could control her work, and he destroyed a company just to ensure no one told him no.

They'd have to go full oyabun to have a chance of forcing him, sliced off fingers and all.

If Sony had an Inch of the old japanese traditions in them Druckmann would have to commit seppuku. And if they were merciful the would hand him a sharp dagger to cut himself open. Well it will drop ina few days and I guess now that sony has given consent to have their stores looted there are probably more PS4 owners who might buy / steal the game.

 

[GayestFurryTrash]

If Sony had an Inch of the old japanese traditions in them Druckmann would have to commit seppuku. And if they were merciful the would hand him a sharp dagger to cut himself open. Well it will drop ina few days and I guess now that sony has given consent to have their stores looted there are probably more PS4 owners who might buy / steal the game.

This was their cunning plan all along, and now you've exposed it.