In other words, a basilisk gets into a muggle newsroom and kills/petrifies everyone, what happens next? How was it (presumably) engineered by a dark lord and why? What kind of explanation will the Office of Misinformation come up with to try and save the Statute of Secrecy? What will happen to the petrified muggles?
"The temptation in this moment is to make a video about myself and I don't wanna do that because I'm reminded that I come from India.
I come... from which India? I come... from two Indias.
Those are the Indias I bring on stage with me right now.
I come... from an India where children in masks hold hands with each other... and yet, I come from an India... where leaders hug each other without masks.
I come from an India where the AQI is 9000, but we still sleep on the roof and look up at the stars.
I come from an India where we worship women during the day and gangrape them at night.
I come from an India where we claim to be divided over Bollywood over twitter and yet united by Bollywood in the darkness of the theatres.
I come from an India where we scoff at sexuality and yet f*** till we reach a billion people.
I come from an India where journalism is supposedly dead because men in fancy studios, in fancy suits, give each other handjobs and yet women on the road with laptops are still telling the truth.
I come from an India where we bleed blue every time we play green. But every time we lose to green we turn orange all of a sudden.
I come from an India where we laugh so loudly in the comfort of our homes that you can hear us through the walls and yet,
I come from an India where we break down the walls of a comedy club because you can hear laughter inside.
I come... from an India where old leaders will not stop talking about their dead fathers and young leaders will not stop following their living mothers.
I come from an India that has the largest working population under 30 on the planet but still listens to 75-year-old leaders with 150-year-old ideas.
I come from an India where every time we get the information we are always available to care for the PM, but we can't seem to get information on PM CARES
I come from an India where we licked out the British but yet we call the government the ruling party.
I come from an India where women wear saris and sneakers and yet have to take advice from old men who have never worn a saree and will never get to take one-off in their entire lives.
I come from an India where our music is bahut hard but our sentiments are bahut soft
I come from an India where people sleep outside on the road outside the club but man 20 times a year the road is the club.
I come from an India where we take pride in being vegetarian and yet run over the farmers who grow our vegetables.
I come from an India where w
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Greetings Gigantic community members!
As a way of saying thanks to our friends here at /r/Gigantic, we've assemble the entire studio to answer almost all of your questions about the game we are making. Here's are some topics we're going to avoid today:
1]Launch date discussions
2]Topics we've covered in our Gigantic Alpha FAQ
3]Topics we've already covered in our alpha updates
Before you post, we'd like to refer to you to our Rules of Engagement post. Let's keep it fun and friendly, and we will do our best to get you answers from anyone on the team! Again, many thanks to the moderators here at /r/Gigantic. We truly appreciate your support!
Enjoy, won't you?
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
The Beginning | Wiki Page | Tenth Part
“Hello, Chivos? … Hey, some crazy shit went down and I want to go over it with you. Can I come down there, urgently? … Great, when’s the next inward tele-pulse? … Yeah I can kill some time until you’re open. Probably visit a friend or something. I’ll give you a call when I know more. … Oh yeah, good reminder, I’ll be sure to wear it. Thanks, love ya, hun.”
I hung up the stones with a snicker, then rolled over in bed to scritch Varia. “Hey girl, you wanna join me for a little day trip back home?”
She bounced her little ferret body up and down excitedly, which was honestly so cute. The scheduled tele-pulse was in a bit over an hour, so I had some time to kill… kinda. After a nice shave, I went into the front hall where Pokle had kindly stacked a few deliveries while I was gone. I picked out the one most likely to be what I wanted and opened it up. There was a white, opera-ish full-face mask, two gloves, and a choker necklace. I put the whole ensemble on and felt the enchantment kick in as I went to feed Grif.
He was happy in his nest of blankets and shredded paper (emulating nest #1). I fed him some frozen-thawed mice from the icebox and topped his water off before giving him some pets. He didn’t even notice the mask or gloves, which meant it was working. I made sure to talk lots in the process, letting him and the kit learn my voice. Then I vacated the room and removed the set. I then placed it in the air and it created a hologram of myself, complete with voice and mannerisms. A caretaker’s visage, they call it.
I used to have a set for Varia, but—silly me—I sold it because I didn’t think I would be adopting anything else. So much for that; score one for loot hoarding. With that done, it was time to make another call.
……
“Hey, Jerr, it’s Dennis, how ya doin’? … Oh? That’s great! Why didn’t you call me for that offer? … Ah, yeah, I can see that. Listen, I’m gonna be in the area for business but the scheduling doesn’t line up and I don’t want to loiter outside. Mind if I drop by and socialize? … Yeah, next tele-pulse, you open? … Fantastic, what’s the address? Oh hold on, let me get a quill.”
……
I strolled through the market square, looking for some particular things. It was a sunny day
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(Hey before we get started I'd like to thank everyone who was so kind in their responses to my first post on NBC's 1991 line-up. This one I thought was going to be a simple story of a mockbuster but hoo-boy did I find a rabbit hole. Enjoy!)
With their use of rotoscope animation, painted backgrounds, and let's face it herky-jerky character movement, Filmation made cartoons that were instantly recognizable to Gen X-ers and older Millennials. The studio first made a name for itself in the 1960s with hit programs like “The New Adventures of Superman'' and “The Archie Show.” Over the course of the 70s the studio would continue to keep going with such shows as “Star Trek: The Animated Series,” “Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids,” and “The New Adventures of Flash Gordon.” They would also experiment in live action programming such as 1974's “Shazam!” adaptation. During this time they would also produce theatrical movies 1974's “Treasure Island'' and 1974's “Oliver Twist.”
However Filmation's greatest success came in the early 1980s with “He-Man & The Masters of the Universe.” The show would run for 130 episodes which was twice the run of a typical syndicated cartoon from that time. Furthermore He-Man was a cultural phenomenon well beyond the toys and cartoons. The show would inspire comic books, a live stage tour a live stage tour, a girl-centric spin-off “She-Ra,” a theatrical animated movie “Secret of the Sword,” and even a 1987 live-action film starring Dolph Lundgren and Frank Langella. (A film whose rather troubled production could feed another thread...)
Yet seemingly at the peak of their power Filmation would begin a sudden and inescapable decline. One that perhaps wouldn't have happened without a suspiciously familiar puppet's pseudo-sequel. But before we talk about that we have to discuss Filmation and Mattel's failed follow-up to He-Man. “She-Ra: The Princess of Power '' was never quite the franchise player her brother was in ratings or toy sales but still managed to run a respectable 93 episodes (again remember most syndicated shows ran for 65 episodes.) Filmation's Ghost Busters was such a failure I may have to make an entire thread about it alone. However it was a one-two punch for Filmation's downfall. Strangely enough both flops are tied to Chr
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In 2017 — long before Apple declared that cloud gaming could only exist on the iPhone if it jumped through gigantic hoops — Sony was preparing to launch its PlayStation Now cloud gaming service on mobile phones, a confidential document reveals.
It could have been the single biggest expansion of Sony’s PS Now game service in years. Originally, the service streamed PS2 and PS3 games to smart TVs, Blu-ray players, and the PS3 and PS Vita, but cut off all those original platforms in late 2017 (coincidence?) to focus on the PlayStation 4 and Windows PC instead. While it recently added 1080p streaming and a PS5 client, it’s never been offered on Android, iOS, or Mac.
But according to a confidential document unearthed by The Verge from the Epic v. Apple trial, Apple had insider knowledge of Sony’s upcoming launch. Apple had heard about a “[not-yet-announced] mobile extension of an existing streaming service for PlayStation users, streaming access to over 450+ PS3 games to start, with PS4 games to follow.”
A handful of PS4 games launched on PlayStation Now in July 2017, but the presentation notes that the service is “only PS3 games right now,” suggesting Apple got tipped off about more than just the move to mobile.
PlayStation Now is listed as a “mobile” subscription, in a document labeled “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL — ATTORNEY’S EYES ONLY”.
Why did Apple bring this up? It’s smack dab in the middle of an explanation of Apple’s plans to launch its own game subscription service, Apple Arcade, which wouldn’t be announced until two years later. At the time, Apple was preparing to target 30 top game studios and ask for as many as “a few hundred titles” to add.
Apple describes its “game subscription service,” which would launch as Apple Arcade
In 2019, I wrote that Sony squandered the opportunity to be a leader in cloud gaming, despite being the first major company to recognize its potential, buying both of the early startups (Gaikai and OnLive) that proved out the idea. But despite Apple’s resistance to cloud gaming on the App Store — read my new story about what happened with Microsoft — there’s an intriguing possibility that Sony isn’t giving up yet. Sony reportedly now has a Project Spartacus that would bundle its cloud gaming service with a PlayStation Plus subscription, and it would bring original PS1 games and “eventually” PS5 games to the service too.
However, Jason Schrei
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Do your worst!
Whatever the IP is, it's "very close to our hearts," Weta says.
Source: Gamespot
The Lord of the Rings effects and props studio Weta has revealed that its gaming division is working on a new game based on a "major worldwide IP."
A job ad for a producer role at Weta Workshop Interactive further teases that this IP is "very close to our hearts," which is intriguing to think about. Weta is best known for its work on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings series, so that franchise would seemingly fit the bill. However, nothing is confirmed at this stage, and Weta has worked on numerous other gigantic franchises over the years such as The Hobbit, Avatar, King Kong, and Wonder Woman.
The new game at Weta Interactive is being made for PC and console, the job ad says. The description also suggests that the project is only just getting off the ground. "Get in on the ground of this exciting next phase here in the Interactive team at Weta Workshop!" it says.
On Facebook, Weta said of the new game that it is based on an "incredibly rich and inspiring license that will fill fans and players around the world with delight."
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They can literally just look at BF2042 for inspiration. Just take everything DICE fucked up or removed, and just put it in a game. A modern day war shooter based around classes and teamplay. No identities, just faceless soldiers from different factions who communicate with voice-over. Soldiers who have a large amount of endless weapons to their disposal, and an extremely large fleet of vehicles to take off in, set in a gritty dark world subject to extreme destruction in all environments.
I pray to god this gives other dev's the motivation and pathway to build a class based war shooter. Since everyone else fucked it up there's a gigantic number of gamers who are looking for a mature war shooter. This is the time for a dev company to create a multiplayer game using all the concepts/assets/logic/substance/gameplay that DICE/EA removed that everyone loved. They can literally come to this sub reddit, write down everything we loved from the BF franchise, and base an entire game around that concept. This is a great opportunity for a studio or dev team to make it big, creating a great game while also getting rich. That's what I would be doing right now if I was the head of a studio. This subreddit is like free brainstorming for a game the whole world wants!
Game Information
Game Title: Far Cry 6
Genre: Action-adventure, first-person shooter, open world
Platforms: PlayStation 4/5, Xbox Series S/X, Xbox One, PC, Stadia, Amazon Luna
Media: UbiFWD 2020 World Premiere Trailer | Cinematic Title Sequence Trailer
Meet Antón Castillo: Giancarlo Esposito
Worldwide Gameplay Reveal | Introducing Dani Rojas | Gameplay Deep Dive - 'Rules of the Guerilla'
UbiFWD 2021 Meet the Villain: Antón Cinematic | Xbox E3 2021 - Resolver Gameplay Trailer
Game Overview Trailer | Post-Launch Overview Trailer
Sounds of a Revolution - The Music of Far Cry 6
Six New Features New to Far Cry
The Story and Characters of Far Cry 6
Developer: Ubisoft Toronto ^(Info)
Publisher: Ubisoft
Price: Standard - $59.99 USD includes micro-transactions
Gold - $99.99 USD contents
Ultimate - $119.99 USD contents
Also available on Ubisoft+
Release Date: October 7, 2021
More Info: /r/farcry| Wikipedia Page
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 79 | 74% Recommended [Cross-Platform] Score Distribution
MetaCritic - 75 [PS5]
MetaCritic - 80 [XSX]
MetaCritic - 77 [PC]
MetaCritic - [PS4]
MetaCritic - [XB1]
MetaCritic - [Stadia]
Trepidatiously
... keep reading on reddit ➡I love the Destiny franchise but absolutely loathe the quality of life issues, business practices, gameplay loop, and general priorities of Bungie. The core games are absolutely fantastic and easily make my all-time favorite list. I invested well over 1000 hours on Destiny 1 and I’ve easily matched that in Destiny 2.
When you enjoy something it is only natural to develop some strong and valid criticisms of it over time. This post focuses almost entirely on three things: Quality of Life (QoL) features, Gameplay Loop, and the Monetization of the game. I believe these three aspects are in the most dire need of being addressed in the immediate future; ideally before Witch Queen. While some things might touch on day-to-day gameplay balance elements, they are only tangentially related.
My primary motivation for making this post is what I believe to be extremely anti-consumer practices of Bungie, as well as the strong desire to attract, grow, and retain the playerbase for years to come.
Due to the sheer length of this post I have broken the three categories up in a way that can be quickly jumped to. Each main issue can be found in separate sections as well. They are as follows (CTRL+F to jump to certain topic):
GAMEPLAY LOOP
- Caps, on Caps, on Caps
- Barrier to Entry: Time and Lack of Control (RNG)
- Collection Shortcomings
- Affinities: Too High of Costs and Stringent Requirements
- Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)
QUALITY OF LIFE
- Inadequate Vault Space
- Collection Shortcomings
- No in Game Search Feature, “Favorites”, Loadouts, or Robust Filters; Total Reliance on 3rd Party Tools
- Voice Chat: Opt-in vs. Opt-out
MONETIZATION AND BUSINESS MODEL
- Paywalling Gameplay Features in an Anti-Consumer Standalone DLC
- Barrier to Entry: Cost
- Removing Paid Content
- Create a Problem to Sell the Solution
- “Free-to-Play” in Name Only
Gameplay Loop
#Caps, on Caps, on Caps The number of currency and item caps in the game is truly out of control. Wildly enough, none of these currencies even indicate that there is a cap until you reach it, potentially resulting in hours and hours inadvertently wasted without any realization. There are caps on just about every really meaningful currency and inventory item in the game. Below is a brief list of a few noteworthy ones:
- Ascendant Shards (10)
- Enhancement Prisms (50)
- Upgrade Module (25),
- Exotic Cipher (1)
- Parallax Trajectory (3000)
- Spectral Pages (75)
- Glimmer (250k)
- Synth
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Warning: unedited; questionable language.
Previously: The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. Let us all be comforted that in the year in which He took two of television's brightest shining stars, Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly, He also gave us Rock Of Love. A belated birthday shout-out goes to the heavenly father.
We begin in the morning, with the girls sleeping off their previous night of debauchery -- some harder than others, Tiffany -- and Bret in the gym. I...don't think he really knows how to use that equipment. He has sixteen "of the most gorgeous women in the world" left. Has the syphilis made Bret go blind, do you think? In any case, he needs to get to know them more intimately. That's right -- it's the handjob episode!
Tiffany is clearly still the talk of the house. Lacey notes that Tiffany got plowed and really didn't make a good first impression. We get a little flashback sequence, including one previously unseen moment of Tiffany slurring, "So how 'bout the Bearssssssss?" She is truly the John Goodman of buxom alcoholic redheads. She is considered a drunken mess among girls who really like to drink, so you do the math. The fact that Tiffany is still in the house makes Lacey raise an eyebrow, but she thinks she'll be gone soon enough. Tiffany says that she got a little extreme on the first night, and that today is just going to be more low-key.
Meanwhile, Erin is telling some of the other girls about her ex-fiancé. Turns out she was supposed to be getting married this May. The others are shocked. And then who should be standing on the stairs eavesdropping like Mr. Furley but Heather. Also like Mr. Furley, Heather apparently has one bad ear, because she missed the "ex" part. She can't believe Erin has a fiancé, and is determined to get Erin's phony ass (and circus boobs) out of there. Erin adds that her fiancé told her he didn't love her anymore, and that was the end. When even circus boobs can't keep a man, it's a bad scene.
As it turns out, to hang with a rock star you have to drink all day long, so the girls hit the bar early. I find no fault with that. If I could start every day with a couple well-appointed mimosas, I'd be a much more pleasant person. Heather says that she got the party started, and some of the girls form a little band on the stage. It sounds like glass breaking and cats wailing. Bret, thinking his old bandmates have come for a little action, leaves the weight machine and rushes into the main part of the hou
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Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
Index: A. Introduction (with best examples of the drama's quirky visuals and excellent cinematography); B. Was “Inspector Koo” shot by the cinematographer of “Hotel Del Luna” and edited by the award-winning editor of blockbuster films such as “The Thieves,” “Tazza: The High Rollers,” and “Assassination“?; C. Difference between cinematography, editing, and visual effects; D. Creative camera movements and excellent editing; E. Transition techniques; F. Shot inspired by "Parasite" to illustrate "beat" in screenplay writing and in making a film or drama; G. Wes Anderson’s influence on the cinematography of "Inspector Koo" (bird’s eye view shots and centered framing); H. Miscellaneous observations (camera roll; arc shots; rack focus: a K-drama isn’t a K-drama if it doesn’t have rack focus shots; split screens; short siding to reinforce tension in a scene)
A. Introduction (with best examples of the drama's quirky visuals and excellent cinematography)
Okay, full disclosure ... I love Lee Young-ae more than any other Korean actress, and "A Jewel in the Palace" is the K-drama I love the most. I've watched most episodes of "A Jewel in the Palace" and "Saimdang" (Lee Young-ae's 2017 drama) five or six times already. Whenever I feel depressed about life, I rewatch Ep. 6 of "A Jewel in the Palace" (the episode when Jang Geum was >!exiled to the herb garden!<).
Why do I love Lee Young-ae so much? She's, of course, beautiful and talented. She's also intelligent — she graduated with a degree in German Language and Literature; she got her master's degree in Theater and Film; and before she got married in 2009, she was pursuing her PhD. She's also a well-known philanthropist:
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[In 2017, she donated around 92 thousand US dollars to the Yonsei University Health System for the treatment of child cancer patients and for the underprivileged.](https://www.hellokpop.com/news/lee-young-ae-100-million-won-yonsei-university
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Short film screening at Gigantic Studios.
Come watch 5 films with a small audience. We have some students showing their work here Thursday. :)
Great opportunity to meet people in the film and television industry here in New York:
https://www.entholigy.com/group/detail/gigantic-studios-film-screening-chelsea
Short film screening at Gigantic Studios.
Come watch 5 films with a small audience. We have some students showing their work here Thursday. :)
Great opportunity to meet people in the film and television industry here in New York:
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
