Banter/Off-topic Thread & Community Stoning Platform

[GOD'S STRONGEST BUILDERBEAR]

the new Monster Hunter was barely running on 3k series cards

I blame japanese developers, they consistently make shitty pc ports. Also monhun sucks and everyone who plays it is a baby

 

[NeneHATE]

I wish I could make do with a 3000 series equivalent but modern devs are so shit at optimizing that they're not going to work for me much longer, the new Monster Hunter was barely running on 3k series cards

Also on the PC topic, I went to go buy my 870e Taichi mobo and they're ALL sold out now, everybody bought them before Black Friday apparently so there's a shortage. I'm just going to pick up a couple sticks of DDR5 and leave it there for now, I guess things have changed since I did my last build. Used to be that you had until Cyber Monday to really gauge where things were going to land for price.

Based Asrock user.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

He has the chance to do the funniest thing. X has live-streaming, and the Path of Exile 2 early access opens on December 6th. Someone get that drooling mongoloid Ian Miles Ching-Chong to DM him.

He already streams Diablo 4 on twitter. Someone just has to introduce him to the autistic whirlwind of PoE.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

"lazy, hyper racism"

"gamers love racism this game will definitely sell" says man packing his desk 5 months before launch.

 

[NeneHATE]

Offtopic from the farms but chris might be having an autism baby with his finnish gf.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

Offtopic from the farms but chris might be having an autism baby with his finnish gf.

And like that, this forum is pro-abortion now

 

[NeneHATE]

And like that, this forum is pro-abortion now

It still amazes me that chris' actual first partner happens to be an actual woman (presumably one with insane mental illness) who isn't hideous instead of a troon or a transvestite or some other eldritch horror like him.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

It still amazes me that chris' actual first partner happens to be an actual woman (presumably one with insane mental illness) who isn't hideous instead of a troon or a transvestite or some other eldritch horror like him.

I'm not sure how any woman looks at chris chan and doesn't turn lesbian.

 

[Banana Hammock]

I'm not sure how any woman looks at chris chan and doesn't turn lesbian.

She did. It's just that she's an ally.

 

[GOD'S STRONGEST BUILDERBEAR]

And like that, this forum is pro-abortion now

I thought we already were? With the veneration of black queens and all

 

[thhrang]

And like that, this forum is pro-abortion now

Clara was right.

 

[Helkar]

Seriously, I just finished it and said this to my brothers (no specific spoilers, but complaints about the overall everything):

Spoiler

That kinda sucked. S1 was all about the characters and their motivations and their emotions and yadda yadda. Vander trying to protect his kids, Powder trying to help (and failing constantly), Silco trying to elevate Zaun to be equals with Piltover but not being willing to give up Jinx as his daughter in order to do it, Jayce's and Viktors ambition, etc.
And this was just kinda like everyone doing random stuff and random junk happening woosh woosh with hardly any rhyme or reason to it.
Much more of a 'make it up as you go along' feeling, like an 8 year old telling a story; "and then this happened and then this happened and then this and then and then they did that and then they..." but it doesn't really make much sense.

We don't have a movies/tv-shows thread i don't think, and i don't wanna pollute general, so.

Spoiler: arcane comments, spoilers(ish)

First thing i said to a friend of mine after finishing last episode was that they've firmly moved their definition of plot from "characters commit actions based on their personal histories and motivations" to "things just happen, shut up about it". In S1 even most minor characters had at least satisfactory answers to my favorite Babylon 5 questions of "Who are you?" and "What do you want?", here a lot of the main characters struggle with those. All of it just seemed incredibly rushed and the decision to heavily shift into a musical-lite style doesn't help at all.
Most of Ep9 is straight up a marvel-tier "big action setpiece #567788". Complete with teleportations, time stopping when characters aren't on stream and general incoherence. Oh, and a time-travel plot twist fucking the entire story up, because we clearly needed that.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

We don't have a movies/tv-shows thread i don't think, and i don't wanna pollute general, so.

Spoiler: arcane comments, spoilers(ish)

First thing i said to a friend of mine after finishing last episode was that they've firmly moved their definition of plot from "characters commit actions based on their personal histories and motivations" to "things just happen, shut up about it". In S1 even most minor characters had at least satisfactory answers to my favorite Babylon 5 questions of "Who are you?" and "What do you want?", here a lot of the main characters struggle with those. All of it just seemed incredibly rushed and the decision to heavily shift into a musical-lite style doesn't help at all.
Most of Ep9 is straight up a marvel-tier "big action setpiece #567788". Complete with teleportations, time stopping when characters aren't on stream and general incoherence. Oh, and a time-travel plot twist fucking the entire story up, because we clearly needed that.

Spoiler: Arcane

First thing. Ekko is a timetraveler of course tiem travel was going to be involved even since S1 referenced the Z Drive and reinforced by this scene


that said the characterization It's still there it's just not as consistent as it should be but you are overall right. Jayce wants to stop Viktor so he goes to stop Viktor by all means he has at his disposal Jinx can't decide if she wants to burn bridges or rebuild them so her motivations if a little erratic are understandable Vi is in a similar spot though in her case she wants to be done with it but can't turn her back on "family"

That being said there is absolutely some shotty characterization going around Viktor especially feels ham-fisted into the character we know form league of legends his final form even being a more organic version of the Machine Herald (props on making Organics look machinelike too by the way)

I Can fill in the gaps because i have years of league of legends lore to fall back on and i can see what they were implying this Flesh Hex Core / Anomaly is somewhat explained by the game though in vague uncertain terms

The big thing that bothered me is Heimerdinger just being ok with fucking with time all of a sudden I get the idea (as i said several times) Making up for his mistakes with Jayce and Viktor but thats pretty sudden when you take into account how terrified of magic he is (9000 damage nukes tend to put the fear of veigar into anyone)

All that being said I enjoyed it well enough Chalk some of it up to ending seasons never being "good" to watch and hope to hell that whatever comes next is set in either Shurima or Vastraya

I'm open to questions by the way.

theres a bunch of shit S2 skims on explaining

Spoiler: Arcanes

The Black Rose Mel's "magic" why people can suddenly teleport ect

 

[Stunned But Dumb]

We don't have a movies/tv-shows thread i don't think, and i don't wanna pollute general, so.

The Round Eye Gaijin Entertainment Thread

Shill your weird round eye media here, particularly things you think were overlooked in the past century. The more round eye, the better, embrace your inner Mayo Monkey. I'll start off with something, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is pretty solid Look, he looks like a ghost pig.

thevirtualasylum.com

This, I guess. I now realize I missed my chance to talk about darth maul

 

[Bronze]

hope to hell that whatever comes next is set in either Shurima or Vastraya

According to multiple news sites, co creator of Arcane said next ones are Noxus, Ionia and Demacia. One of the shows has been in development for around a year. Noxus is the next one I think, as there's a book about Ambessa on the way

 

[Helkar]

Spoiler: Arcane discussion, move along, citizen

First thing. Ekko is a timetraveler of course tiem travel was going to be involved even since S1 referenced the Z Drive and reinforced by this scene

I don't mean Ekko, although there are some questions to ep7, it was probably the best of the entire season.
I mean future!Viktor being the person responsible for saving kid-Jayce and his mom in the past, inspiring Jayce to invent Hextech, sending the entire story into a classic "chicken or egg" tumble, not to mention him pontificating about muh 16 million timelines.

Jayce wants to stop Viktor so he goes to stop Viktor by all means he has at his disposal

Jayce actually suffers the least inconsistency out of the main cast IMO, but he also doesn't gain much. His decision to save Viktor using Hexcore is entirely in-character, so is his horror over discovering Hextech's potential for danger, and then his resolve to stop Viktor from realising it. What does suffer is his dialogue in Act3, the speeches he gives are really rather cliche - not to mention everyone just automatically accepting him back onto the Council after months of disappearance.

The Black Rose Mel's "magic"

The entire storyline of Mel in S2 is garbage. In S1 she's an exceptional supporting character for Jayce's arc, starting off as a devil on his shoulder and slowly changing into an angel as she develops feelings for him and external circumstances make her question her morals.
In S2 she's just...there. She doesn't impact anyone's story, she barely interacts even with Jayce and Ambessa, let alone other characters, spends a third of her screentime in captivity, breaks herself out and spends another third being Golden Magic Jesus. Like, her saving Caitlyn in Ep9 is utterly meaningless, the two have barely interacted across two seasons, they don't have any connection to one-another.
The only logical reason for her story i can think of is that she's gonna be a central character in the upcoming Noxus show(the absolutely-not-subtle Swain raven snatching the hex crystal from Jayce's hammer strongly points to how this story is going to go). Her usefulness to Arcane is neglibigle.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

According to multiple news sites, co creator of Arcane said next ones are Noxus, Ionia and Demacia. One of the shows has been in development for around a year. Noxus is the next one I think, as there's a book about Ambessa on the way

Bleh of course they go for the boring option.

The appeal of Noxus is EVERYWHERE BUT NOXUS seeing their generals in the field the clash of cultures how everything they touch comes back changed.

Going directly to Noxus not only ruins the suspense for seeing what Noxus is actually like but makes their GIANT WAR feel smaller.

Shurima: Cassiopeia hunts ancient artifacts that leads to a major upheaval in the fractured Nomadic Tribes

Spoiler: Upheaval

https://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/img/champion/splash/Azir_0.jpg

Vastraya/Ionia a Guerrilla War over the new source of magic yet to be exploited Ancient Teachings clash with Forged Steel and wake up something that should have stayed asleep

Spoiler: Slumber

https://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/img/champion/splash/Syndra_0.jpg

>.> come on Rito hire me.

 

[GOD'S STRONGEST BUILDERBEAR]

I think Poppy is nice :]

 

[Sky Shouter]

And like that, this forum is pro-abortion now

God is dead and Jesus Christ Chan Sonichu Prime killed him, and in the desecrated remains of God's throne he will create the first and last beast of the apocalypse, Crystal Weston Chandler, to lead the world to ruin. There shall be no absolution, our souls will all be forever condemned to CWCVille.

Humor is our only remaining coping mechanism for the horrors that await us all


Worst of all, if this child turns out to be a boy I guarantee you Chris will troon him out almost immediately, the game was over for this kid before they were even born

 

[God's Strongest Mozumite]

And like that, this forum is pro-abortion now

I thought we already were? With the veneration of black queens and all

The ongoing genocide against the black race by Planned (non)Parenthood and the Demokkkratic Party shall NOT be tolerated by the GDF. Let it be known the great and holy nation of Blackistan is PRO (black) LIFE, in all of its beautiful forms.

Offtopic from the farms but chris might be having an autism baby with his finnish gf.

I don't think there's necessarily a baby on the way given how Chris was talking, but he at least seems to want to have one, which is still horrifying