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rrover · 3 years

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Hi 👋😊 just curious do you have any favorite robots in different media?? (Video games, cartoons, etc)

MHMM YES i will make a list of them in No Particular Order but i might forget a few bc i often forget what my favorite characters/pieces of medias are if i havent interacted w them in a while. gonna put it under a read more bc there are a lot lol

1) the diver from abzu! they are very cute and they swim around in the ocean. i love them

2) pathfinder from apex legends!!! he is so friendly and sweet i wish to hug he

3)revenant from apex legends. gender. that is all. he fits with my url bc he has claws ehehe

4)bt from titanfall 2 i love him i love him i love him i love him i-

5)bmo from adventure time my beloved (also apparently he's agender? pog)

6)eric and deborah bot 5000 from the mitchells vs the machines. lovely amazing robot children i adore them

7)k-2SO from rogue one i havent watched this movie in a bit but i remember focusing solely on him when i watched it so HFHFSFFGS

8)clawstriders from horizon forbidden west. robot raptor so gender so true. i also like a BUNCH of other machines from horizon forbidden west and horizon zero dawn but this list is getting kinda long shshfshfshg. this one also fits my url

9)ash from titanfall 2/apex legends. in love w her

anyway! whenever i consume a piece of media with a robot character i will almost always latch onto the robot character. i see a robot and i lose it

#robotposting tag

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midnightechoes · 6 years

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Picks of 2017

2017 may have been a dumpster fire for the world, and I didn’t get as much accomplished as I would have liked, but it was a very good year for entertainment media! Especially geeky entertainment media!

MUSIC

FAV ALBUM OF THE YEAR: St. Vincent - Masseduction

I love St. Vincent, and her new album this year was maybe her best one yet!

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Special Mention: Kesha - Rainbow

Oh wow! This album hit just before #MeToo and the Harvey Weinstein scandal would finally start flipping how we, as a nation, talk and react to sexual abuse and misconduct. And who better to herald that kind of change than someone lived through that and used that raw pain and energy to create one of the most beautiful albums of the year.

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Other great albums: Lorde - Melodrama; Miracle of Sound - Level 8, Tove Lo - Blue Lips (Lady Wood phase 2); Starcadian - Midnight Signals; Scandroid - Monochrome

FAV SONGS OF THE YEAR:

Kiesza - Dearly Beloved

Kiesza didn’t get a new album out this year, but the song Dearly Beloved was released on January 6th and I’m still kind of obsessed with it.

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Scandroid - a Thousand Years

This was the other song to come out this year that I’m still obsessing over. Big Scandroid fan and this is him at his very best.

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VIDEO GAMES

After a few years of getting better about playing new games and keeping up with trends I fell behind in 2017. I played some indie games early on, and then spent most of the year on and off working on Horizon: Zero Dawn. and since September I’ve mostly been playing the Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth +, again. I LOVE Horizon: Zero Dawn, and if you hold my feet to the fire then yes, I’d say it was the best game of the year. But I want to talk about another game, Night in the Woods.

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Night in the Woods is my FAVORITE game of 2017. I’m not sure I’ve ever played a game that I connected with more.It’s a game about feeling lost and confused and not sure how to handle your emotions and having no idea how to grow up and be an adult and worrying that your whole life’s gonna be a waste and not matter. The art style is beautiful and melancholy and every inch of this game is dripping with style and atmosphere. It may not be a game for everyone, but there’s a segment in the game where you go to a mall with your friend that used to be THE hangout spot and now it’s half empty and sad and you spend the whole time trying to recreate the magic that the place had when you were a teenager and it’s just not there and this game FUCKED ME UP. Oh and you play as an anthropomorphic cat.

MOVIES

This year was a great year to go to the movies as a geek. the MCU had a great line-up this year. In fact, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 is my favorite movie of the year I think. Thor Ragnarok and Spider-Man Homecoming were also both great.

Wonder Woman was fantastic. And the final 20 minutes of the movie didn’t ditch all the wonder and magic before it to have a boring “big superhero cgi-fest set piece” of a finish it probably would have been my fav this year. But still, great movie, the one thing the DCEU can truly hang it’s hat on so far and yes, proof that female led superhero movies can do just fine.

Sadly, I didn’t see a lot of non comic book movies this year. There’s always Star Wars: the Last Jedi, which was fantastic, but no exactly a real change of pace from what else I saw.

So yes, obviously Stranger Things 2 was probably my favorite, but there’s been a lot of good TV this year.

- Midnight, Texas was a surprisingly underrated show on NBC over the summer. It’s currently available on Hulu.

- I would never have believed you if I told you that Lucifer would be one of my favorite shows when it first premiered, but I’ve been super impressed with how it’s grown midway into it’s third season. It’s also on Hulu right now.

- My periodic plea for everyone to watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the BEST comedy on TV right now.

- You know, I didn’t expect the Orville to turn out as good as it has, but it’s really fun, and totally scratches that classic Star Trek itch. It’s not even really a parody. It basically IS a Star Trek, just with a more “regular joe” type of crew. Quite entertaining.

- Did anyone watch Amazon’s the Tick? Because it’s almost shockingly good, at least compared to what we all probably thought it would be.

- CW’s Arrowverse line of shows continues to provide lots of entertainment. I dare say though, Legends of Tomorrow has emerged as the best of them, even overtaking the Flash. Great cast, fun episodes. As someone who HATED the pilot episode, and was pretty cold on season 1 overall, I’m SHOCKED at this development.

- Watch Riverdale. I don’t even know if it’s good. But it’s bonkers and addicting, and fact that it’s based off of Archie Comics, one of the most straight-laced comics in history, just adds to the surrealness.

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thewalkhome-blog · 7 years

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Bonus Points - An Essay That Questions The Favoritism Towards Certain Developers In The Gaming Industry, Even When They Don’t Deliver - By Daniel Boyd

Zelda: Breath Of The Wild came out last month and it has taken the gaming world by storm. As a non Zelda fan, I am left wondering why this is the case. Why is this Zelda game so revolutionary? I don’t own the game, but I have played the first few hours of it and I have read a good number of reviews on the game. There are a few critics claiming that this game, ‘writes a new chapter in the videogames industry,’ and that it is an, ‘evolution of everything that has come before.’

While I appreciate that this is a well made game and it is doing new things within the Zelda franchise, these statements stick in my throat a little. This isn’t because I don’t agree that this is an impressive game, because it is. Other than the odd frame rate drop, there aren’t many flaws with this game and I did enjoy the few hours that I spent with it, (I had a lend of a friends Switch for the night so I could try the game for myself.)

My problem comes from the fact that this is a well made game that isn’t doing anything that hasn’t been done before a million times and frankly been done better. Full disclosure, I have never been a Zelda fan, but I wanted this game to convert me and I’m sorry to say that it didn’t. The purpose of this piece isn’t to attack the Zelda franchise, so you fanboys can put your pitchforks down. What I want to discuss is how when Nintendo do anything that is slightly better than a disaster, it is heralded as the brave new step in video games by a large number of the video game press.

I get it, nostalgia is a powerful lens and most writers in their 30’s grew up playing on Nintendo systems and franchises like Mario and Zelda, but as someone who is around ten years younger and grew up with Playstation, I don’t feel that Nintendo has advanced a great deal since the turn of the millennium and frankly, I don’t see Nintendo as having broken any new ground in the last twenty years.

If games like Breath of the Wild came out on another console, they wouldn’t be lauded as the best thing since sliced bread. In fact they have, it’s called Horizon: Zero Dawn! When Horizon came out it received a positive critical reception and high sales, but no one was writing articles claiming it was the next step in the evolution of video games. Splatoon has been put on a pedestal and has been described as ‘fresh,’ and, ‘unique,’ even though it is nothing more than a dumbed down version of Team Fortress 2 for a younger audience. Super Mario Maker was released in 2015 and it was essentially a $60 level editor. Level editors have been included in other games since forever and no fuss has been made, but when Nintendo sell an entire game based on the concept, it’s hailed as another, ‘triumph by Nintendo.’

When you compare Breath of The Wild to other recent open world games like The Witcher or Skyrim, there is nothing that makes unique from a design and functionality standpoint. If Breath of The Wild came out in 2008, then sure you could get away with labeling it revolutionary, but in this day and age it isn’t any more special than Horizon or Skyrim.

Let’s look at some of the features that have been called unique in the game. The tower climbing to uncover zones of the map mechanic has been done in the Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry series’. Using plants for crafting and cooking has been done in Far Cry and Skyrim. Far Cry 2 and Dead Island had degradable weapons. The inventory system is very reminiscent of multiple Ubisoft titles; essentially Breath of The Wild has taken some elements from other games and made something from that within the Zelda universe.

This may sound patronizing, but it honestly isn’t intended that way. I get it, Nintendo fans have had it hard over these last five years, they have had nothing to be proud of since the launch of the Wii and they have had to stand by their console of choice and defend themselves with very little ammo to defend themselves with, but as a result nowadays when anything better than a car crash is released by them it is inflated by a large number of critics in the industry and so Nintendo fans are given a justification for putting their mediocre games on a pedestal. This is why to the rest of the industry it appears that Nintendo fans can’t accept things for the way that they really are and everything is blown so far out of proportion.

Some examples of Nintendo games being blown out of proportion and reviewers being clouded by nostalgia are available to go and check out right now on Metacritic. Zelda: Skyward Sword is currently sitting at a 93, Zelda: Twilight Princess is sitting at a 95 and Metroid: Other M has a 79. All three of these games are recognized as subpar and once the novelty wore off, even the most hardcore of Nintendo fans would agree that these are forgettable, black marks on the respective franchises track records. Not that Zelda isn’t a game for Zelda fans to be proud of, because it is. I can see why this would be people’s game of the year so far and I can see why it could be considered as the best Zelda game, but to someone that isn’t a Zelda fan that praise is meaningless.

In summary, the inflation of mediocrity in the industry has to stop, if we want gaming to improve. If we want to break new ground across the gaming media, these sycophants and apologists living in a false perception of reality have to go. These novelty games that are applauded for simply carrying the title of a beloved franchise, have to stop being praised so highly and given a free pass of any sort of criticism just because of a nostalgic lens.

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