Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[RicaRuin]

Dragon Age Discussion?

For me, my favourite is Dragon Age 2, followed by Origins. Yes, it had shamelessly reused maps, generic designs and was very linear, but it had the cast that I liked the most. The chemistry and banter between the party was really good.

[Rannie]

A Snarky Hawke is a happy Hawke

[RicaRuin]

Purple Hawke best Hawke.

[Theodric]

I enjoyed the first two Dragon Age games. The third had some redeeming qualities to me in the form of Orlais though I wish it'd been given more focus overall...

[SturmChurro]

Saw some hype about the recent The Boys episode, so I went and watched the latest season (what's out so far at least). I always love going over to YouTube comment section for stuff like this, and seeing these grown adults talking about the power levels and everything else of the characters. Who would beat who, and over analyzing the fights. I mean, it's not like we don't do stuff like that here, but it's always funny to see how passionate people get in the comment sections. Reminds me of conversations kids would have in school.

[Kolsykol]

Saw some hype about the recent The Boys episode, so I went and watched the latest season (what's out so far at least). I always love going over to YouTube comment section for stuff like this, and seeing these grown adults talking about the power levels and everything else of the characters. Who would beat who, and over analyzing the fights. I mean, it's not like we don't do stuff like that here, but it's always funny to see how passionate people get in the comment sections. Reminds me of conversations kids would have in school.

I liked the first two seasons but haven't started the new one.
I do feel like it's a bit over-relient on the gore tho.

It does feel a tad hypocritical when they criticize corporate pandering and commercialization of everything so much, when the gore in the show is very much commercialized and exaggerated for entertainment value.
I am not really offended or bothered by it but some of the stuff I've heard about in the new season makes me think that I am not too excited about seeing that.

The dude who plays Homelander tho is awesome, apparently he's a real asshole irl too I guess that helps with his acting lol.
He's like adult Joffrey from GoT.

[VirusOnline]

I enjoyed the first two Dragon Age games. The third had some redeeming qualities to me in the form of Orlais though I wish it'd been given more focus overall...

i would have liked an extra storyline or two involving orlais
for me the warboard kept me mostly satisfied in that regards
but overall i think they kept the focus small in order to keep orlais as it was - somewhere we ultimately do not belong
high society does not involve itself in war on the frontlines
to input too much orlais might have shifted the game from war on the frontlines to too much politicking

[Vahlnir]

I liked the first two seasons but haven't started the new one.
I do feel like it's a bit over-relient on the gore tho.

It does feel a tad hypocritical when they criticize corporate pandering and commercialization of everything so much, when the gore in the show is very much commercialized and exaggerated for entertainment value.
I am not really offended or bothered by it but some of the stuff I've heard about in the new season makes me think that I am not too excited about seeing that.

The dude who plays Homelander tho is awesome, apparently he's a real asshole irl too I guess that helps with his acting lol.
He's like adult Joffrey from GoT.

There's a lot of gore in the show, for sure. It is meant to be dark, gritty and at times downright disturbing by default though (Seth Rogan is responsible for some of that). By that logic though I guess it might not be for everyone, and that's okay too. It is a satire of our modern world, with superheroes as corrupt celebrities. It is slightly hypocritical coming from Amazon though, but eh. lol But yeah, Antony Starr is truly on another level. He steals every scene he is in. He makes Homelander the character you hate to love but love to hate. His acting is absolutely incredible. The entire cast is very solid, but he stands tall above the rest.

[Kolsykol]

There's a lot of gore in the show, for sure. It is meant to be dark, gritty and at times downright disturbing by default though (Seth Rogan is responsible for some of that). By that logic though I guess it might not be for everyone, and that's okay too. It is a satire of our modern world, with superheroes as corrupt celebrities. It is slightly hypocritical coming from Amazon though, but eh. lol But yeah, Antony Starr is truly on another level. He steals every scene he is in. He makes Homelander the character you hate to love but love to hate. His acting is absolutely incredible. The entire cast is very solid, but he stands tall above the rest.

Yeah, what I mean was just that it's a commercialized form of grit.
Real life gore doesn't look like that, and I often see people justify it by saying that it's '' just being realistic ''.
I don't think it's a huge deal it's just something that kinda occured to me, they criticize a lot of stuff but then engage in it themselves in the show not just that either.
There's one scene from the new season of episode 1 in particular that comes to mind that I did watch just now since I thought if I was going to talk about it I should at least have watched it.

And yeah.
It's a bit rich to moralize about and criticize others for commercialization of everything but then engage in and pander to people with commercialized gross-out gore, I don't think it's any different really.
But yeah like you said it's hypocritical to begin with coming from Amazon.

Edit: The '' girls get it done '' stuff was hilarious tho, at the same time they've engaged in some of that themselves too.
But it's definitely a funny show for sure.
The Deep's storyline is funny too.

[Neoyoshi]

Trying to nap.