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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Nov 26, 2024 2:01:12 GMT -5
The President of Capcom (one of the few actually great modern game publishers) agrees with me.
Literally and unironically he's right. The whole reason the industry is crashing is because the price points are not spread out enough. AA games (that are actually good) could cost $60, single A games could cost about $30, indies could cost anywhere from $5 - $20.
A top production quality AAA game should cost anywhere from $120 to $150. People would be willing to pay this much for GTA6, because they expect the game to be well worth their time and money. If more AAA games could deliver on this promise, we wouldn't have game studios crashing.
What would you rather pay? $70 for some game that turns out to be woke bullshit and not even a very fun (or well designed) game, or a $150 game that is a truly first class, memorable experience for years on end and actually provides legitimate replay value and/or solid multiplayer? Think about it.
Also, Ada owes me sex.
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Nov 24, 2024 12:26:57 GMT -5
we are so fucking back it's unreal.
Official Thread Theme: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9TdQCdtUeo
It's finally SEGA season again, baby!
Between the third Sonic movie, Crazy Taxi coming back, SMTV Vengeance, Sonic Frontiers and X Shadow Generations, Metaphor Re Fantazio, P3make, Banana Rumble and the new Yakuza games, AND Virtua Fighter 6 in development, we are entering a new golden age for SEGA. In a weird way the death of the Dreamcast was a good thing, it slowly lead to SEGA becoming one of the best third party publishers of all-time.
How ironic, PlayStation and Xbox are floundering while SEGA blooms.
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Nov 21, 2024 4:37:17 GMT -5
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Nov 18, 2024 6:07:33 GMT -5
UFC 309 was fun.
As expected, Jonny Bones rocked Stipe's world. That rib kick would have killed a lesser man, at 42 it's not the same Stipe who beat DC and Ngannou, but he still held up almost 3 rounds against the greatest fighter of our time. Definitely a great night to kill yourself if you were Ciryl Gane. Imagine being 10 years younger than Stipe and losing in less than 2 minutes to Fat Bones lmfao.
All that said though, DC did not have to refer to Jones vs Stipe as the contest to decide "The baddest man on the planet". Iron Mike took enough disrespect for one weekend. Speaking of Iron Mike, Michael Chandler put up a good fight against Charles Oliviera but Ollie is just like a fucking scorpion. He got out grappled but gave the audience something to cheer for.
As a final bonus here's Alex Jones and OG Iron Mike hitting shrooms and talking about life together.
www.infowars.com/posts/exclusive-watch-the-censored-mike-tyson-alex-jones-podcast-in-full
Looking forward to Sandman Joe putting "The Problem Child" to sleep.
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Nov 10, 2024 11:16:43 GMT -5
Art of the Surge is damn well and kino.
x.com/i/events/1849191498719330304
Absolutely fascinating stuff. Love seeing Trump relaxed and yet organized and 100% serious with his entire team. Everybody seems focused and yet casual with the boss. Was surprised to see Tulsi was working with Trump from when the DNC was going on. Natalie Harp is composing Trump's posts for him in real time, you can see Trump double checking over everything. And Susan Wiles silently overseeing everything like a stone cold killer.
Also here's a great interview with Vivek about the election result.
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Nov 6, 2024 7:04:00 GMT -5
Honestly though, you should have just stuck with Sleepy Joe.
I really never thought I'd find myself saying this, but here we are. I am immensely glad that the Democrats stole the election in 2020. Because things could not possibly be worse for them than right now. You get what you fucking deserve.
They've had four years of failure, weakness and constant losses. For the first time in decades, the sitting president had to step out of the race and they installed their own candidate. They lied about Covid, they lied about Jan 6th, they lied about Biden's mental state, there's very little about these people that's real at all. Now they've lost the Senate, they've lost the House, and Trump will be President until 2029. Without resorting to assassination, they have nothing against the man now.
It's so funny thinking back to that SNL sketch in 2016 where they showed Trump in the White House in 2018. At the time so few people actually believed Trump would be the President in the year 2018. And now it's so much funnier, because now he's going to be the President until 2029. And Elon, Ron Paul, Tulsi Gabbard, Vivek and RFK are all going to be involved in the new Trump Administration.This is unironically a better outcome than I could have ever hoped for.
And the cherry on top, Bitcoin just shattered all time high and is now in price discovery mode. Big Papa Don's is back in town.
Best. Day. Ever.
Well shit. I guess Big Mike Pompeo was right. There WILL be a smooth transition to a second Trump Administration. |
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Nov 2, 2024 2:07:21 GMT -5
my bald head in the bottom left
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Oct 29, 2024 4:22:49 GMT -5
New Thread Theme:
Went out to see Terrifier 3 last night in theaters. Saw at least 6 groups of people stand up and leave the theater and not return, one group of like 6 people at once. In total at least 20 people must have walked out. Haven't seen that shit in years, since Passion of the Christ and the first few Saw movies. This was easily the most walk-outs ever. Like Mel Gibson's Passion, I believe this is fundamentally a very Christian film series. Interestingly enough, this film has staff from Passion of the Christ working on it, from the gore artists to prop designers. The same person who designed the crown of thorns used in Passion of the Christ also designed the crown used in Terrifier 3.
Honestly the 2nd film might be the magnum opus of the slasher genre. They could have ended it there and Art the Clown would have already been legend status.
This 3rd movie felt more like a middle of the road story, leading up to possibly some kind of grand finale in Terrifier 4 or 5. And definitely a parody of the Christmas horror genre. Art sets the vibe right by hacking up a 6 year old in the first six minutes. The slasher genre is all about raw, hideous and hateful evil fighting against pure, beautiful avenging good; the modern visualization of God vs the Devil. This is the pure distilled root of what these films are underneath the ocean of blood. Terrifier 2 essentially set up a sort of reverence for this duel of good vs evil. There is something interesting about this film being centered around a costume designing daughter of a comic book artist: in effect the very people who created the visual motifs and designs of the horror genre are in the Terrifier series elevated to its heroes and prophets. I have very high hopes for the conclusion of this series.
One last addendum to bring this thread full circle: here's David Howard Thornton, many years before ever portraying Art the Clown, in his own fan made film performing the "One Bad Day" monologue from The Killing Joke
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Oct 26, 2024 11:15:32 GMT -5
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Oct 24, 2024 6:15:27 GMT -5
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 K I N O A L E R T 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨
Yeah so I finally watched those Terrifier movies.... that nigga Art is alright. Also this is the most fucked up music video in years.
For me slasher flicks have always been a form of comedy. Usually I'll just burst out laughing at people being violently killed in these movies, stuff like Final Destination is fun because they really go all out with designing the kills and the methodology behind how it happens. Kind of like a Rube Goldberg machine. The reason Terrifier works so well is because it combines classic silent film era slapstick with the most immaculately well designed, brutal kill sequences this side of Passion of the Christ. This is what happens when you let a practical effects man pour his heart into designing the most fucked up torture, killing and maiming sequences, direct 95% of your budget towards practical effects, and then put the same guy into the writer and director's chair. Combine that with an actor who actually studied early 1900s clowns and silent film comedy, who clearly is having the time of his life being a serial killing demonic clown. And the final ingredient is an audience that has been completely starved for a new slasher icon now that Freddy, Jason, Myers, Leatherface and the rest of them are all washed up and tired. Damien Leone has struck gold here.
In the immortal words of Prince:
Young and old, gather around
Everybody hail the new king in town!
As a sidebar here I have to remark that it's pretty funny that a movie made on a $2 million dollar budget about a clown brutally killing as many people as humanly possible, in comedic and painful a fashion as possible made 20x it's budget back (so far). Whereas the sequel film about a clown where he never kills anyone at all outside of fantasy, and gets raped in prison, ended up losing Warner Bros. anywhere in the ballpark of $125M to $200M. In itself, something of a Halloween miracle. 2024 will be remembered as the year of the slop flop, where slop films and games nobody wanted flop, and flop hard. And films and games that give people exactly what they want, make fucktons of money. |
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Oct 19, 2024 23:52:24 GMT -5
This is weird, because we're in the era where Denuvo has essentially won and game piracy has mostly been defeated outside of a few remaining crackers who take several months to crack one game. But seriously am I the only one noticing how fucking cheap games are now?
When I first built Kinoberus in 2020, I had something like 40 games on Steam. Now I'm slowly inching up to 300 because holy fuck some of these games are like $2. Just yesterday I bought 4 games for no real reason (Citizen Sleeper, Windjammers 2, Steins;Gate and GetsuFumaDen), in total after tax all 4 were like $14. And the most expensive one was Steins;Gate at about 7 buckaroo banzais.
Just ignore the 2023 RE4 remake and look at this shit. You can buy every other game here for less than $50. That's 5 modern Resident Evil games for less than $50, roughly $10 each. And these games are incredible with full modding and ray tracing support. I'm running through RE3make right now with RE Framework to play the game in first person in maxed out settings with ray tracing and a DLSS plug-in. Cannot fucking believe this game is only $10, looks incredible as did the RE2make and RE7. Excited to play 4 when it's on sale in a week.
Honestly if you use gg.deals with any regularity you will eventually find yourself concluding that these games drop enormously in value after 2 years. Everything 2 years or older drops down to like $15 from most publishers with an extra dollar or two shaved off year over year. AAA PC games that are like 10 years old are literally $5 or less and indie games that are a couple years old will drop down to as low as a dollar or two sometimes. I'm genuinely curious how the fuck the game devs or publishers are even making money with these dirt cheap prices.
God willing R* will normalize the $100+ video game when GTA6 drops. I'm enjoying all the savings but man I feel sorry for game devs. They must be broke as shit. And if the company is mismanaged like Ubishit then everyone loses. Weird because in the 90s games were way more expensive.
This flyer is from early 1997:
Now consider inflation. $75 in 1997 is equal to about $147 today, and $60 is worth about $118. All in USD, by the way.
Honestly I think certain video games should be priced around $150 USD. In particular fighting games should all come out with an Ultimate Edition including at least one full year's worth of DLC for $150 USD, the amount of value one can get out of a well made fighting game is immeasurable. I've told people for years I'm willing to pay about $200 for games like Street Fighter and Tekken and people think I'm crazy, but I'll be playing these games for years upon years on end and log hundreds of hours. To only buy an ultimate edition for about $100 USD feels like a steal to me.
Long story short, it's no wonder video game companies are suffering. Extraordinarily low prices for games have created a very difficult profitability curve for them over time, and it's perhaps also true the market is over saturated with some shitty games no one really wants. However, the well made games people DO want should be priced higher. I'm convinced R* is actually going to financially save the video game industry by normalizing the $150 AAA video game. If it's a product people actually want, they will pay that price. And honestly, a truly good game is worth that much.
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Oct 10, 2024 0:35:40 GMT -5
I'd just like to preface this post by saying this is probably the most racist and most accurate thing I will ever post here.
I actually think this image is the most perfect representation of modern conservatives I've ever seen. I'm willing to bet that a disproportionately higher number of conservatives (compared to liberals and left leaning voters) are either in interracial marriages or have black children. Isn't it weird how practically every right wing grifter is seemingly one of
A) A white guy married to a submissive asian woman who likely can barely speak English.
B) A single white mom with at least one black child (likely more).
C) A buff black guy who mainly fucks white women (like B).
I've observed that most left leaning people are almost always in racially homogenous relationships with few exceptions. Conservative whites barely fuck each other anymore, they're both tired of each other for similar reasons. And this is fundamentally due to conservative ideology prevalent in both conservative men and women. Conservative men, valuing submissiveness, docility and general agreeableness in women, almost always end up marrying an asian (who's mostly just happy to tell her parents and friends she married some white guy). Conservative women on the other hand value strength, domineering and a general lack of tameness in their men. Also really big dicks. Which is why they tend to end up impregnated by black men (who usually have at least most or all of these traits).
However I do feel there are a few subgroups not properly represented here such as
D) The hapa offspring of (A) who are likely to have been indoctrinated in conservative ideology by their parents.
E) Autistic people who understand that all prosperity general permeates from economic growth.
F) Some brown guy who's literally just richer and smarter than everyone else in the room.
G) Literally every single hispanic person in Texas and Florida.
Obviously I'm both E and F, so you could say I feel somewhat left out here. However I remain confident that the contingency of autistic conservative brown men will only grow much larger in number as time moves on and the browning of America continues.
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Sept 28, 2024 5:56:18 GMT -5
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Sept 25, 2024 4:26:16 GMT -5
It's like The Truman Show if Truman was a 19 year old clout demon.
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Sept 25, 2024 3:51:48 GMT -5
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