Leaderboard

Most important post in this thread (to me): My signed print Euro copy came today. Got an immediately recognizable "XO Phoebe" signature Can die now. ❤️

Trying to keep this spoiler free, but I was glad what happened in the end happened. At that point I thought Ellie was ridiculous for continuing after everything that went down and seeing how Abby completely mirrored Joel (who was a complete garbage person before meeting Ellie and finding his kinder side for seemingly no reason... same as Abby with Lev). I fucking hated having to play as Abby for the first hour or two but she grew on me once I noticed how Joel-like she was. I just feel like Naughty Dog went too far with her muscles for a lot of people to stop and empathize with her as much as a child or a good looking woman. The internet got mad she was trans before release too which is kind of hilarious because she's just BUILT. My main beef is that aiming the bow is hard for no reason now. Lobbing an arrow across the map through someone's neck in the first game was so satisfying but nearly impossible in part 2.

It’s the September release. So you would join sometime in late August. During sign up you’ll see a “join with this record” buy button. It’s as easy as that. I think they have 1mo memberships again. I saw it as an option the other day.

was gonna say this too. tom is crazy for sure, but all the things hes been talking about for years are actually coming to fruition, he also seems way happier of the past year

Dredg - Live at the Fillmore Original master recording Limited Edition Double vinyl full color gatefold packaging Includes original Autographed 13x19 lithograph Live at the Fillmore poster. (Poster tube included) https://dredg.merchnow.com/products/v2/314915/live-at-the-fillmore--signed-litho

mine is the same. was hoping for an I LOVE YOU but it will do

I wonder why they haven't pressed the scores for their last few DCEU movies. Aquaman, for example, was very unique (imo) and the CD version sold very well I believe.

https://www.merchlimited.com/products/dance-gavin-dance-afterburner-wall-flag-bundle Wall flag and green vinyl for $59

Of course! The classic prank - obviously recognizable strictly from the lyric "she don't use jelly". How could anyone misinterpret that??

$60 + $45 shipping to Germany...fuck that! I hope some EU distri will sell them...

I’m not sure, there are definitely videos that have been declassified and released, whether that was down to the to the stars academy or not I don’t know. David Fravor probably had the most believable encounter and then there’s Bob Lazar and element 115...👽

Yeah it did haha. He’s the whole reason those videos got released to the public

You can have your own opinions on the music, I think the song (as well as the kings mouth album) have been some of their best work since Yoshimi . As far as his personal life goes, you sound like a TMZ level dipshit.

IGNORE IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED THE GAME. Got platinum for TLoU2. I have mixed feelings on it. A handful of complaints. I'd say 8 - 8.5/10 after replaying it (my opinions are still shifting / evolving), and giving a couple days to digest the ending. There's been a lot of hate for the game, a lot of it undeserved, a fair amount deserved. Well, let me take that back, I say the hate isn't deserving, but there are definitely parts that I didn't like and were disappointed by. Some things I *almost* hate, but more so just question parts that seem out of place. The main problem for me was pacing, and just not giving two shits about Abby. I think they could have done that better, even if they kept the ending that I wasn't a fan of. And I'm fine with not getting the ending *I* wanted, I just wanted it to make more sense, and feel more accurate. Problems, but none of which were that major: *spoilers* - Joel wouldn't give his real name to a bunch of strangers, invite them back to his camp right off the bat, and leave himself open in a room full of them. Maybe he has gotten old, and let his guard down, he's tired, etc. but come on. I mean, sure, they needed that to happen to set up the whole plot of the game, but I still am slightly annoyed by it, but not as much as other parts. [I just watched] Neil says that Joel has changed over the last 4 years, he feels safe. He said that Joel didn't see Abby as a threat, because he just saved her, along with Abby being Ellie's age.. And he was more so sizing up the rest of them, and was more focused on killing "hunters" and that Abby's group was more so just a group of people. He wanted to bring them back to Jackson and see what's what. But all it took was one moment of that to fail. (I get that, and it's not a huge negative to me. It just felt off.) - Abby doesn't have a personality. (Neil and others explain it in the podcast, and I get where they're coming from but it just didn't work for me). I didn't connect with her whatsoever. And you play through as her for 10 hours? Let's even take the fact that she kills Joel, she's just so boring. I don't care about her. And the whole point is to go find Owen, who I also don' give two fucks about. Every character on that side is bland, and I'm not invested in any of them, because why should I be. So Joel killed her dad, and? I know what that meant. I know what Joel did. Joel ultimately is the bad guy in Part I, but we still love Joel. Even if we are forced to play as Abby, did it need to be that long, I mean my god. You play for like 12 hours as Ellie and it's building and building, and then 'ok now play it all through the side of Abby'. I get what they were doing, two sides of story, but sorry, I don't care. It didn't bother me as much playing through again and letting it digest, but I just didn't care. Switch Abby out with anyone new and I would feel the same. I don't care about someone else's view, because I have been invested in Joel and Ellie for 7 years. That's what ND made us feel. She also has no remorse, at no time does she reflect on anything, she tortured Joel and doesn't give a fuck. Her helping strangers was just a front. She is a just a fucking robot, and is evil. Joel might have fucked the world, but he did it as a "Dad". Abby just wants to kill. There's no connection, because she has no connection, except to killing and quarters. Ellie = human. Abby = robot. - I know that revenge is ultimately pointless, and that's an underlying theme, but to go through all of that, everything, and you let Abby go? You give up so much and then just let her go? She killed Joel. She killed your friends. She was about to kill your pregnant girlfriend and only stopped cause her new friend was there judging her. She tried to kill Tommy. She is the one who set out for revenge in the first place. Yet you let her live. All of that and you let her live. You give up your new life, your partner, her kid, your home, and you risk the thing you've feared the most in life: being alone. Not only that, but now she can't play guitar which is the one thing that she had left that connected her to Joel. I get it where "revenge is pointless", but man, if you would have killed Abby at the end and had a feeling of "ok she's dead, but I gave up everything for it" would have been equally if not more heartbreaking, cause you get the satisfaction of killing her, but you lost everything for it, and your worst fear came true. Worth it? That would have made me rethink it all, reconsider my feelings on the ending, etc. - Also what the fuck was up with Tommy? (Across the series) Don't go. Go. Don't go. Go even though now I can't. We're pretty much following behind him the whole game, when I would have preferred to team up with him, or at least team up at some point, and not feel like I'm just killing his leftovers and the people coming after him. That just didn't track with me, but wasn't a huge issue. I know he lost a lot, but what if he didn't come back to tell Ellie about finding Abby... - Didn't really appreciate Dina leaving after all of that. We went to kill Abby that whole time, which she was cool with, while pregnant, and she leaves you now cause you go after her? I mean come on, after all of that, after all they'd been through, she leaves? You don't exactly have tons of options in the infected world after all, Dina. But fine, you have settled down, have a kid, time, perspective, etc. but still. Ugh. I get it though, revenge, not worth it, yada yada, taking Ellie reaching her lowest to finally get it. (Apparently at one point the draft was that Ellie puts one of JJ's toys in her pocket and that walks off as if to maybe go back to Jackson? But Neil said that answered too much, and doesn't know himself what is going to happen. It's open to interpretation.) But again, they're both young, 19, not sure how long the life expectancy is these days, but still, rough. - Pacing. Pacing. Pacing. Also, there were 10 hours of cut scenes. Some of which could have been trimmed down. Other annoyances: - They said we wouldn't be playing as another character - why lie. - Trophy Hunting: 2/10 for difficulty - glad they got rid of difficulty and multiplayer trophies, but could have had more "achievements". - Multiplayer shipping separately. Really, I won't complain about not getting the ending I wanted, but I feel like a few changes to character choices could have made the story work a lot better. I'm trying to not let the ending weigh too much overall on the score, but it's hard when it's a story driven game. Gameplay: 9/10 - only thing I'd change is not button mash to get out of things. God damn that is some intense and satisfying gameplay. Graphics: 10/10 - easily the best looking game on the console. Sound: 10/10 - holy shit, the detail. I really enjoyed playing with headphones. Accessibility: 10/10 - so many options, just wow. Voice: 9/10 Story: 5/10 - ugh. Really, the story (more so the ending) is what made this game a lower score for me. If the pacing and ending were different I could have been 9/10 or maybe even 10/10. I loved it, because of my love for the series, but I doubt I'll end up ever going back to it, which makes me sad. After watching that podcast I kinda want to replay it, I just need to have a little break first. Maybe I'll replay the first one for the 10th time (or whatever number I'm up to). Currently waiting for my buddy to finish it, who actually got me into the game when it came out (he was my roommate). I bought him a copy cause I was so excited for us to play together and chat about it, and he is just on Ellie Seattle Day 3, so I'm over here like "hurry up so we can talk"! I have a lot of pent up feelings and I'm really curious what he is going to think of the game as a whole when he finishes it. I suggest giving this a watch. It really helped me understand and help lessen some of the problems I had with the game. Games to fill my time til Ghost: - Control DLC - finally grabbed it cause it's on sale. Loved the base game. Have to wait for Part 2. - Fry Cry 3 - another sale, we'll see if I get to it. - Persona 5 - don't know if I'll end up touching this. I'm still on the fence. - Uncharted 4 - playing TLoU2 made me download this again. I thought it was ok the first time. Wanna see if my opinion changes the 2nd go after a few years. Waiting for: -Nioh 2 DLC - really loved Nioh 2. Better than the original. - Ghost of Tsushima - pretty much just killing time til this comes out. Thought TLoU2 would be taking up more of my time than a week... - Skater XL - hopefully it's better than Sessions. - Tony Hawk 1+2 - can't fucking wait. - Cyberpunk - hopefully worth the wait. - PS5 (I'll probably end of editing this here and there, because there was no draft. I'm still a bit annoyed by it, and I can't vent to my girlfriend cause she doesn't get it. Haha.)

Your bank account is being drained.