Git Gud at: Anxiety, Part Two

[rynling]

I need to get better at expressing “negative” opinions, so please have a few more controversial takes:

(d) Tears of the Kingdom isn’t a good game, but it isn’t such a bad game either. It’s a decent handheld title that’s useful for occupying a fifteen-minute bus ride. I kind of wish Tears of the Kingdom didn’t exist, but there are worse Zelda games.

(e) The Marvel superhero movies are American fascist propaganda. I know this is a caricature of a liberal brainrot opinion, but it’s true. Ironically, those movies are way too long and extremely boring.

(f) I still resent the Barbie movie for representing Los Angeles as being full of white people and then making fun of the one character who’s trying to learn Spanish.

(g) The 1984 Ghostbusters movie isn’t that good. It’s actually kind of painful to watch. The 2016 remake is infinitely better, and I’m not just saying that because “it has girls.”

(h) FromSoft games would be objectively better if they were less difficult. They can still be difficult and punishing, of course. But FromSoft should really consider adjusting the number sliders just a little.

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[kalloway]

(e) I have only seen about half of the Marvel superhero movies and yeah, it's true. Also yes, most of them are way too long. It took me multiple tries to make it through the first Avengers movie.

(g) I remember the 1984 Ghostbusters movie as being fun, but I'm not sure I've seen it in at least two decades and I bet it doesn't hold up well at all.

(h) I think the only FS stuff I've played is older and kind of a janky mess, which certainly increased the difficulty, and have never been entirely sold on their apparently polished difficulty. Secretly, I've always believed it to be jank apologism or something because everything else is good.

[rynling]

The PS1 and PS2 FromSoft games were extremely janky!! You're right and you should say it.

And yeah... It's wild to think that Ghostbusters came out 40 years ago. It was a different world back then.

[kalloway]

Like I have tried to play a lot of old Armored Core games despite, like, having tried to play a lot of old Armored Core games. And... what were they, Evergrace and Forever Kingdom? FK had some interesting gameplay ideas but also buckets of jank at every turn. Like, I know it's been long enough that most people who discovered the company via Souls and whatnot have no idea those games exist, but it's always been a weird mental block anyway.

I feel like when I was a kid, Ghostbusters was always in rotation to put on for groups because it was rated PG and therefore "fairly safe"... (and of course, there were two different Ghostbusters cartoons aimed at kids, so it was pretty much considered a kids movie despite, uh, a lot. but then again it also mostly went over our heads)