Tornado

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   Tornado added a post in a topic Pixels (2015): Adam Sandler, you did it again!    3 hours ago

   It's a pretty good idea that is probably too thin to stretch out any longer than the 8 or so minutes Futurama already spent on it.
   

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   Tornado added a post in a topic Aliens: Court Marines - "I say we take Sega's money and Nuke the entire IP from orbit..."    3 hours ago

   Pitchford is doing a better job pointing out that this whole thing is a bit of a joke than the people who keep insisting it to be a legitimate scandal. The issue with what Gearbox did was that they allegedly misappropriated funds that Sega gave them to develop a game towards a game that they (correctly) guessed would be a huge hit. Questions about that are important. Questions about whether they did the bare minimum to meet Sega's contract are important. Questions about whether they actually met Sega's contract with Gearbox are important. Questions about what this no name outsourced developer contributed to the game are important.
    
    
   Taking a studio head to task because some game they made looked better at E3 than it did when it actually released is so fucking far away from the hardcore investigative journalism that the Eurogamer interview desperately wants to pass itself off as that he might as well be kissing Pitchford's ass asking about what the next Borderlands DLC will have in it.
   

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   Tornado added a post in a topic General American Politics Thread    4 hours ago

   People in Western and Northern New York making $9 an hour aren't living in the same "squalor" as people making $9 working in New York City. Deciding that only fast food workers are worthy of not living in "squalor" but not any other worker making under $15 an hour only makes it more bizarre.
   

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   Tornado added a post in a topic Space Jam 2: Come And Slam again and welcome to back to the Jam!    Thursday at 11:39 PM

   Also, remember how every 6 months for over 2 years this exact same rumor pops up with some other bit of vaguely related "supporting" evidence?
   

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   Tornado added a post in a topic General American Politics Thread    Thursday at 11:33 PM

   This is truly fascinating. Has they ever been a "candidate" before who simply did not give a fuck?
   

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   Tornado added a post in a topic Do people still think Sonic Adventure's a good game?    Monday at 6:41 PM

   It should also be said, though,  that it isn't Hogfather's job to disprove a theory that you raised yourself. 
   

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   Tornado added a post in a topic Do people still think Sonic Adventure's a good game?    Sunday at 11:01 PM

   Conceptually it was the closest the franchise ever got to a 3D classic Sonic game. But oh man were they outreaching their grasp when actually making it.
    
    
    
    
   But as an aside, who gives a shit what some Internet "celebrity" thinks anyway? Adventure is a horribly dated, not entirely thought through game because it is one. If you can put up with its idiosyncracies (some of which notably bad even at its original release) and its poor production values, you can still get enjoyment out of it. It isn't any more or less "bad" because some guy with a microphone tried to rip off the Top Gear schtick.
   

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   Tornado added a post in a topic The Fantastic Four (2015)    18 July

   And I didn't claim you did. I said you were conflating dark and gritty storytelling with serious storytelling, which you did imply earlier before outright stating it right here:
   Just because a film doesn't decide to be completely miserable and humorless about its subject matter doesn't mean that that it isn't treating its subject matter seriously, and it certainly doesn't mean that it is treating it as camp. The first two Raimi Spiderman films (despite what the crazy fanboys like to act like was the case) were able to examine the Spiderman character but still maintain a playful, friendly quality in their storytelling. The X-Men films have also generally tried to er on the side of a straightforward action movie that happens to be a comic book adaptation as opposed to a deconstruction of the political plots they feature. Camp and dark story ideas aren't even diametrically opposed concepts, since the first two Batman movies had both of them in spades.
   In contrast, Dark Knight Rises was so contemptuous and deliberately self-important in how it presented Batman as a concept that it basically became a melodrama anyway. A Batman Lifetime movie, if you will. A Fantastic Four movie (of all things) that seems to taking the same superficial grittiness so widely mocked 20 years ago certainly seems to be leaning pretty far away from something that will "tackle a serious subject matter".
   

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   Tornado added a post in a topic The Fantastic Four (2015)    18 July

   What "trend"?
    
    
   You've said this exact line:
   Twice now in the past week. What is it supposed to mean? Marvel hasn't been releasing Batman Forever every year for the past 7 years. Dark and gritty storytelling is not the same thing as serious storytelling; and enough hacks have done enough shitty jobs making lazy pastiches of Dark Knight Returns and Killing Joke (including Frank Miller himself for the past 20 years) that the two concepts shouldn't be confused.
   

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    Tornado added a post in a topic The Fantastic Four (2015)    17 July

    Somewhat unfair criticism. They probably want this to make money, and to do so you're going to want to cast as wide a net as possible; and frankly the layman probably actually doesn't know how many other villains the Fantastic Four have. Not every creative team of a superhero film is going to have the artistic vision (or creative freedom) to do a Batman Begins; and even Christopher Nolan went to the Joker well by his second film.
     
     
    That isn't to say that this isn't a studio driven hack movie cynically thrown out to try and muscle in on the genre, but even if this was an auteur led prestige picture with people who happened to be dressed in tights it would still probably have Doctor Doom in it.
    

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    Tornado added a post in a topic Pixels (2015): Adam Sandler, you did it again!    16 July

    This movie has a lot more of Adam Sandler's Friends than the initial trailers and news originally implied.
    

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    Tornado added a post in a topic Randy Pitchford (Gearbox CEO) says things... "Where did Randy touch you?"    15 July

    Not seeing how what he was quoted in the conference saying is particularly heinous. He actually raises a really good point about how there are people who actively thrive on spreading negativity about things they might not have even been affected by 
    

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    Tornado added a post in a topic Adobe Flash Player Issues    15 July

    Just update to the newest version of Flash, go into settings and turn it back on in Firefox. This is just corporate dick swinging more than it is a direct security threat to you specifically.
    

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    Tornado added a post in a topic SEGA CEO admits they betrayed fans' trust    14 July

    There's nothing illegal about nepotism except occasionally in public office.
    

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    Tornado added a post in a topic Welcome To Your New-Look SSMB!    12 July

    The unfortunately because the new forum software codebase doesn't support it, and didn't support importation either.
    

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