[-] statler_waldorf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

There were parts of RDR2 that I adored and parts I loathed. Riding around exploring, hunting, and discovering the environment was a joy. I put a ton of hours into the game just doing that.

The quests were a nightmare to me. Ride to location A to get the quest. Ride to location B to start the quest. Ride to location C as part of the quest and if you dare to wander off the exact route or try an innovative solution and you FAIL

[-] statler_waldorf@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not the face itself, but the design looks like the work of Joel Veitch. He ran a website called rathergood.com back in the early 2000s where he did animations like this. He did fake music videosand even got a commercial deal with Quiznos.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Veitch

[-] statler_waldorf@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Google Play Music was my favorite of them all. Good UI, good music selection, decent quality, good integration with my Google ecosystem. Then Google did a Google and turned it into YouTube Music.

Spotify was a decent replacement - the best part was how it has an app on EVERYTHING. I listen to mostly albums so the mediocre playlists and crap shuffling rarely factor in. The worst was funding Joe Rogan, price increases, and paying artists shit.

Tidal pays artists more, and they have higher quality audio, though the UI is kind of meh. At least I'm not indirectly funding Joe Rogan anymore.

[-] statler_waldorf@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Maybe I'm just cynical but literally nothing surprised me in the book.

Nut jobs with guns? Check.

Nut jobs feeding bears? Check.

Nut jobs accused of sex crimes against children? Check.

Nut jobs infighting about muh freedoms? Check.

Nut jobs surprised when ~~leopards~~ bears eat their faces? Check.

[-] statler_waldorf@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

There's a pretty interesting book about New Hampshire libertarians called "A Libertarian Walks into a Bear". It's about a libertarian utopia that was overrun by bears.

[-] statler_waldorf@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

The soundtrack is amazing. The Rza produced it and it introduced me to The Flaming Lips, Sunny Day Real Estate, Method Man, Mazzy Star, and Nick Cave.

[-] statler_waldorf@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Jolene - Dolly Parton

[-] statler_waldorf@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Nana na nana nana nanana

[-] statler_waldorf@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Where Wallace at, yo?

[-] statler_waldorf@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Fucking passive voice as per usual - "the woman was struck", not "the pig shot her in the back."

[-] statler_waldorf@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I heard from a "friend" that it runs very well on a Switch emulator on a Steam Deck. Some pre-rendered cutscenes are janky. It has a pretty cool system where you can take a screenshot that will pin to the map to indicate places you need to find back to once you unlock a new ability, and sometimes those don't render right either. But otherwise, gameplay is flawless. Or so I've heard.

[-] statler_waldorf@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Comics will usually be published as individual issues. In the case of Invincible, it was 144 issues.

Then issues will be rolled up into trade paperbacks (sometimes called TPBs or trades). They usually follow a short story arc. Under the "collected editions" section of the Invincible wiki you can see it list which issues are in each of the 25 TPBs. Depending on which printing, it's possible to get TPBs that group issues differently.

Then you'll get Omnibuses or Omnis that bundle TPBs into a few giant books.

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