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Damn, are you using Steam for these? I’d rather avoid installing Steam if I can, but if there’s no way to get ge-proton-10-22 on Lutris, I guess I’d suck it up for RBR at least. If I recall, I tried Disco through the Steam proton layer and it fidn’t work for me even through there (I’m running MXLinux).

I’ve tried with Wine and Proton using multiple configurations and nothing worked for me sadly.

I’ve tried through Wine and Lutris, but neither RBR or Sega Rally 2 worked for me. It sucks, because RBR is my jam, it’s the one game that has tempted me to dual boot Windows (that and Disco Elysium which I have yet to play.

I’m saddens that when I downloaded this the other day it wouldn’t run on Lutris for me. I don’t dual boot with Windows so I am out of luck. However, it id lead me to just downloading the cdi for Dreamcast and playing it through Retroarch the last few weeks. It’s been a blast, I’ve been playing the hell out of it and it still holds up.

Yeah, I’m working with the fraud person, but it definitetly wont be possibly taken cre of until much after rent is due, even being late will only be a few days from now since this happened at the absolute last minute from rent beinf due, the worst time it could’ve possibly happened.

Wonder Woman is by far the best, closely followed by Martian Manhunter. Superman is a great read and I only put it third because Wonder Woman and Martian Manhunter are so damn good.

Dude, they state in one of the previous issues that he’s 6’7" and 320+ pounds, it’s insane. I like Absolute Batman, but in an ironic kind of sense. It’s like a take on old '90s EXTREME comics, but it is so ridiculous it’s good. Not my favorite of the line, but I enjoy it’s outlandisheness.

Currently playing Shiren the Wanderer 4 - The Eye of God and the Devil’s Navel on my phone through the PSP emulator. A fantastic step up for the series from playing and beating the DS version this past summer. I play for the 15 min I’m on the bus in the morning, it’s the perfect game to get my juices flowing early morning. Improved graphics, better items and upgrades and additional ways to improve your runs with the ability to tag weapons and shields so you don’t lose them (and their upgrades) completely between runs.

In parallel with Shiren 4 I’m also playing the newest Shiren release Serpentcoil Island on my laptop. The contrast betwern the two is pretty stark. I’ve been playing Shiren off and on for twenty year and this game is by far the most difficult iteration of Shiren I’ve played. For the first two hours I couldn’t get past the damned fifth floor, just yesterday I finally made it to floor ten and got pummeled again. I appreciate the difficulty, but damn the game is kicking my ass. I also noticed there seems to be less upgrades and ways to create advantages between runs like Shiren 4, but maybe that changes as you progress through the game. The graphics are also in 3D for the first time since Shiren 3 on the Wii, initially I wasn’t a fan (Shiren just feels right as a pixel-art game) but after a few playthroughs I’m actually grown to like them. They can be a little rough and lacking detail at times, but they are charming.

I found House of Necrosis on Rock Paper Shotgun, which is basically if the Mysery Dungeon games and Resident Evil had a baby. I’ve done a few quick plays to level 4 and promptly got my ass beat by the boss everytime. This game is even harder than Serpentcoil Island which is saying a lot. Love the PS1 style graphics and menus though, and it’s a fun game thematically for this time of year.

I did try and start a playthrough of Resident Evil, but am stuck fighting and dying repeatedly on that first damn zombie dog, so I’ve kind of stalled out on it. The atmosphere still holds up and goddamn the live action cut scenes are so laughably cringe, I forgot they had done them live action in the first game, the actors look like cosplayer of the characters they’re trying to play in game and they act worse than porn actors lol.

Lastly I’m playing the shit out of New Star GP. I needed a good indy-style racing game and it efinitely delivers. I was initially turned off by the simplistic and stylized cartoon-y graphics, but they’ve grown on me over the course of playing thes past few weeks. I had to switch from normal to hard though because I was just wrecking the competition on normal, unfortunately you have to create an entirely new save to do so, so I’m having to replay the GPs I’ve already done on normal to get back to where I was. I dig that your rivals become more aggressive towards you on the track as your relationship to them changes, I’ve had a few assholes run me off the track as I’m trying to pass them. You also manage your racing team members which add perks to help you, which I found annoying at first, but came to like it as time went on (it’s especially necessary to manage your team and upgrade your car in hard mode). Great game, lot of fun and excellent in quick sessions.

Ditto, that and Wonder Woman are my favorites of the line.

Absolute Wonder Woman is the best of the line, followed closely by Absolute Martian Manhunter. Hayden Sherman is killing it with the pencils on WW (also, check out Batman: Dark Patterns, another book he’s does art for and is a phenomenal, 90s-esque Batman before the ‘Batgod’ bullshit). Absolute Martian Manhunter is seriously amazing if you haven’t tried reading it, the story is a lot different from other cape books (more psychologiclal horror/thriller) annd Rodriguez’s art is right up there with Shermn in terms of shear quality and creativeness. I love Absolute Superman (supes is my fav character and the take on Absolute is a great one) and Absolute Batman is just so ridiculous it’s good (in a 90s kind of EXTREME way) but not my favorite. Haven’t checked out Green Lantern and only read an issue of the Flash which didn’t really hook me, I might visit them sometime in the future but I don’t have much interest in eiher.

Hmm, that is interesting. I’ve heard of the term, but admittedly am still feeling my way through the various ideological schisms in Marxism so am only familiar with the term vaguely. I’ll be sure to be discerning when it comes to the concept and those who espose it.

Haha, yeah, it was surpising at how good of a book it was. I plan on rereading it sometime again, which I almost never reread books so that says something at least.

I read On Writing just recently and thought it was a very helpful and cogent book on the writing process, it gave me a lot of valuable insights for my own writing. I had to square how insightful the book was with the fact that it’s King writing it, who’s writing I’ve never cared for much. It has been awhile (decades) since I read any of his stuff, but I suspect that much written in On Writing is advice he probably doesn’t strictly follow writing his own books. Still a good book nonetheless. King is an odd duck, that’s for sure.

Oh yeah, I love Brett, Alison and Rev Left. Also Red Menace is a good one as well as Guerilla Radio.

Never heard of it, I’ll have to check it out. What is SWCC and, also, why do you view GER as revisionist?

Yeah, I think that’s what it was for me, the fact that they didn’t really show the character’s relationships on any meaningful level. There should have at least been some short montage showing Reed/Sue getting married, maybe one of Johnny and Ben’s bigger fights (they are friends in the comics but have a rocky relationship at times). They were casted great but we didn’t get to see any real character moments from them that showed how they all get along, the closest we got was Reed and Sue arguing because of Reed’s impersonal at times, practical parsing of a situation and the facts without thought for emotion, and even that was fairly more tepid than what you’d see in the comics.

For me, the bottom line is, I feel like the Marvel movies have this generic tone that I just can’t get past. It’s like how Marvel and DC have had “house styles” at times where the comic artists draw the comic in a fairly similar way making the comics feel homogeneous.

I think the FF work better when they lean into it’s more silly and ridiculous aspects. Personally the 60s run by Jack and Stan and then the 90s run with Weringo and Waid were my two favorite runs because they didn’t take themselves too seriously.

I didn’t mind that they used Shalla Bal instead of Norrin Raad, but it was a little silly that they just had Johnny flirting with her the whole movie because she’s “a hot silver alien chick on a surfboard durr hurr hurr”. I actually liked Shalla Bal as Surfer personally.

And that’s really literally it, any feeling of “wow this was meant to represent Israel/Palestine” is you heavily reading into it things that are not there. There’s no real comparison to the settlement or the apartheid or anything. It’s just “U.S. ally wants to annex random country” and that U.S. ally is, again, eastern European coded, there really is nothing whatsoever in the movie to make you go “wow, Boravia is just like Israel!”

I think you’re splitting hairs here. Obviously the vast majority of people understood it to be a reference to the Israel/Palestine conflict hence why you and I are even talking about it. To be mad at a comic book movie for not giving some in-depth analysis of the Boravia/Jaranpur conflict and making a 1:1 representation of it with Israel/Palestine is missing the point. The movie did it’s job in representing the conflict enough that people got the message loud and clear at what it was trying to say analogous to the real world. If you thought that it was superficial, fine, but that doesn’t detract from the fact that it did it’s job and people the world over are talking about what it really represents.

Superman isn’t an idiot but he never once goes “hey, wait, that guy can hurt me, huh, i wonder why”

That’s because when Ultraman originally shows up he’s “The Hammer of Boravia”, Superman didn’t fight Ultraman until it was towards the end of the movie, and after fighting Ultraman in the sequence (probably a 10-15min fight in movie-world time) he figured it out pretty quick and had Krypto wreck Lex’s drones.

Oh i forgot about how the movie never challenges Lex Luthor “recovering” his parents’ “damaged” message, itt literally just ends with Mr Terrific going “boy i sure do trust those computer forensic nerds” like my man what the fuck is a computer nerd from earth going to know about Kryptonian video formats? They wouldn’t even know enough to say shit one way or the other about the video being unaltered without like decades of independent study minimum

You’re trying to apply real-world logic to a world that uses obvious comic book logic. Read a comic, that shit happens all the time, plus the Earth in a DC universe has waaaay more insanely, mind-boggingly, crazy beyond genius level intellects that these guys are making fucking alternate dimensions and portals to other worlds. In a world like that is it really so hard to believe? Plus, I don’t think that that’s the point, the point is that Superman’s mission wasn’t because the Kryptonians wanted him to be a good man, it’s because he was raised by a loving Earth couple and chose to be a good man all on his own volition. I think that was a powerful statement. Trust me, as a Superman fan, I initially wasn’t a fan of the message and the fact that it was taken so quickly at face value, but the more I thought about it the more I liked the dynamic that Superman is Superman not because of some pre-ordained destiny but because he decided on his own to be a beacon for hope.

I’m glad you liked it but it was neither a good or fun movie for me. I like my anime protagonists to do more than get their shit rocked for a whole movie

No worries, to each their own. We’re all going to like different things for different reasons. Ironically the number one thing about Superman that people usually bitch about is that he is “too over-powered”, and when he finally is given an opponent(s) that can actually hurt him people complain about that too. I thought it was refreshing to not just see Superman man-handling everything for a change, to show that despite how strong he is that he is still vulnerable.

Oversold? It was literally a stronger, US backed country, trying to slaughter the citizens of Jaranpur so that Boravia could annex it and Lex could make billions in real estate. It’s an analog to the damn Trump seeking a real etate deal through Israel annexing Palestine and slaughtering it’s citizens dynamic to a t. Hell, even the president of Boravia was a not so subtle pastiche of Netanyahu.

And yeah, he was getting his ass kicked because Lex cloned him and then stacked the deck in his favor by literally analyzing Superman’s moves for years ao he could counteract his every xtion against the clone. I’m not going to say you have to like the movie but those are pretty weak points.