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@TheCardboardDu1 @xShephardx I'm open to being convinced. What mythology is the cube from?

@ChrisTheAlt @xShephardx “Out of place and immersion breaking” when the setting of the game is literally a world where gods from every different mythology are present. A random talking cube seems COMPLETELY in place for something like that lol

Genuinely couldn’t find the source for this piece of shit, does anyone know where this cube is from which mythology?

The talking gelatinous cube will 100% become a fan favorite, and people will stan for it like crazy!! #GodOfWarLaufey

@ilovekeyframes @SonySantaMonica Disney is down the road and to the left. Head there if you want to make cutesy animals. This has no place in GoW.

YAY!!! Can finally say I've been working on God Of War Laufey @SonySantaMonica and specifically; I animated this lil guy here meeting Faye for the very first time!!! I've put all my heart and soul into this lil guy, I hope ya'll enjoyed it as much as I did.

@A2ZJIRWINKO It's frustrating as I was looking forward to this game. It's a cool concept to play as Faye and learn more about her. But the Jello cube companion (wtf?), the cringe modern dialogue, and the exhausting culture war are all bad. Might pass on this one barring stellar reviews.

Look, I know a lot of the conversation around God Of War Laufey is going to be yet another culture war battle that just annoys the shit out of me. But for 20 minutes uninterrupted, it was the most underwhelming 20 minutes of the entire series lifespan.

@LegionzGaming What's depressing is the dialogue is terrible. Why did they write it to sound like Forespoken? It doesn't fit with the rest of the GoW games. I'll play it regardless because I like the world, but I'll set it to a language other than English to avoid the cringe.

I hate woke shit in video games, but The new God of War is not Woke at all lol. These people are just seeking attention I feel like, it genuinely looks really good and I wanted more lore about her and the Giants. Seeing so many people call it woke just make me feel like these people have lost the plot. They see a woman or a black person and they just immediately yell WOKE even when the term doesn't apply to it at all lol. Dragon Age Vielguard was WOKE AF, this new God of War is not that at all lol.

@Nerdrotics @drkstar76 It's also morning Japan time. Enjoy being up until 3 am and sleeping until 11 am the next few weeks. It's a lot harder to adjust your body's time clock going from Japan to the US than it is going there.

@drkstar76 Let's keep this between us. Streaming isn't hard.

Back home! Streaming in a couple of hours.

@nuhre_ The dialogue was not great. They sounded like modern people from LA not ancient gods. I have no idea why they'd decide to write the script like that.

I already know people are gonna have a million opinions about the new God of War: Laufey. “It’s called GOD of War, not GODDESS of War!” and all the usual barking at air for engagement. But I’m genuinely shocked by how different this game feels from the older ones, and I mean that in the best way possible. Faye feels agile where Kratos always felt heavy and brutal. I love the mix of magic and melee combat. It genuinely feels like what playing an Arcane Warrior in Dragon Age looked like in my head as a kid. I also love how much more colorful the world is. Kratos’ games were muted and cold to reflect his grief and sorrow, while this one feels vibrant, mystical, and alive. And the merging of new pantheons into the mix? Oh, I’m SAT. The designs for the rakshasa and Sekhmet were sick as hell, and I genuinely can’t wait to see more. Buddhist and Egyptian mythology go unbelievably hard.

@andrew_c0m The people saying this have jobs so don't think $70 for a game that will entertain them for a couple of weeks is too much to pay.

Why are people defending high prices? Lmao I don't understand this. I know this guy is just joking but I've seen so many people defend $70 games that have less the 20 hours, all you're gonna do is make it so games with more playtime, will be even more expensive...

@nekoboshi_minto Until Dawn と Until Dawn 2やってみって。見るのは絶対に面白い

GOW母上が主役はびっくり～絶対やる👀🌿

@yah2xs It's not that you can't play the game. It's that you can't finish it. I've started RDR2 multiple times. I'll get a ways in then be unable to play for a month because of work. When I go back to it, I've forgotten a bunch of stuff. Give me a game I can finish in two weekends.

Why do niggas act like a job mean you can’t play the game

@TheCriticalDri2 Hollywood retooled all of its IPs and business practices in search of Modern Audiences, and what do Gen Z and Gen A turn out for? A couple of movies from fresh new directors who focused on solid story telling over The Message.

Wow, it's a good time for indie horror movies! youtu.be/aUuWobg_R0Q?si…

@breeder_j Better than $70 for a 100 hour game I can't ever finish because I have a job and don't have that sort of time.

$70 for a game you can beat in 18 hours is criminal

@Vito_Space @WajahatAli Unfortunately, they can't do much at this point. Carrie Fisher is gone, and Mark Hamill and especially Harrison Ford are getting too old to do much. Maybe they could have Mara Jade show up with Luke's kid and say she was hiding somewhere?

@ChrisTheAlt @WajahatAli If the old canon is retconned, so can this canon.

The reason why DISNEY screwed up Star Wars and Marvel isn't due to this nonsense anti "woke" bullshit promoted by bad faith right-wing grifters. If that were the case, ANDOR and Black Panther would've flopped. DISNEY, like most soulless, greedy corporations, decided to take its audience for granted, pump out inferior projects to inflate Disney+, invest in quantity over quality, and arrogantly assumed people would simply line up for diminishing returns. Like nearly every establishment in America, it has lost the public's faith. The majority, especially the youth, have moved on. Good. I hope this shakes it all up and we get back to some renegade, bold filmmaking and ideas as we had in the 70s.

@isaiah_bb It feels like you're playing in a Bond movie in the best possible way. Not perfect, but a fun experience worth the time.

Is the new James Bond game worth playing?

@npcgamer42 @Mangalawyer This is a great point. It's why I personally never played Elden Ring, Witcher 3, or RDR2. Can't trust games that get high scores from gaming journos.

@Mangalawyer TheGamer wrote articles. Well, that's all you need to know. If those "game journalists" praise a game and give it nines and tens, there's a very high chance the game is not worth playing.

The IO 007 First Light website contains a comprehensive plan for celebrating queer events, supporting women empowerment, developing DEI partnerships and hiring. Do you truly believe TheGamer wrote seven articles praising the game just for the chuds? You are funding a scam

@RealityOfMan @Mangalawyer Don't get the collector's edition and then groan about the price. The base edition is just fine.

@ChrisTheAlt @Mangalawyer What’s the price for the collectors buddy?

007 First Light has 9 out of 10 characters built like a flat board. An Indian M who is exceptional at everything. Bond gets rescued by a girlboss at the end of the game (look at her face in the cinematic and then at how she reacts after rescuing the supposedly greatest spy in the world) There is one genuinely attractive character who appears in a swimsuit for about 5 seconds, not even underwear, and people claim this is the pinnacle of mature rated gaming while simping for Amazon of all companies. You deserve to consume $150 cinematic slop forever.

It's literally a question taken from an IQ test that was designed by experts to measure pattern recognition in people. Yes, if this was a math test you'd be right to break out the white board to start drawing up an equation. You might even be justified in putting I don't know as an answer. But it's not a math test. It's a pattern recognition question taken from an IQ test. So I go back to my original point that it's a mark against you for not taking the context of the question into account when answering.

@ChrisTheAlt @Devon_Eriksen_ Yes, I know. This is why this question is not an IQ test. What are you even on about right now? Me: "This question does not measure IQ." You: "No! That's not how IQ tests work. IQ tests are multiple questions over a time limit and not just one question like this one!"

This is why IQ tests don't work too well on really smart people. Because sorta smart people tend to give the expected answer. And really smart people tend to point out that the question is wrong, and start arguing with the test, or trying to correct it, thereby making the test impossible to grade and annoying everyone. The expected answer to this is 72. Because 2*2*2 = 8 and 5*5*2 = 50, so 6*6*2 = 72. But the (really) correct answer is "I don't know." Because what you have is two points on a 3 dimensional graph (x,y) -> z. z = 2*x*y is one surface that can be drawn through these two points. And I suspect it's the simplest formula for a surface that can be so drawn, although I haven't bothered to check. But an infinite number of contiguous surfaces can be drawn in three dimensions that encompass these points (2,2,8) and (5,5,50). Each of these surfaces can be described by its own formula. Some of them will also touch (6,6,72). But others of them will touch (6,6, {something else entirely}) instead. This might sound really, really pedantic. But it's not. Everyone knows that the expected answer is the simple one, but that's only on a test... a fake artificial made up problem. When we start trying to do this in the real world, which, after all is what this "IQ" thing is actually for, then using the same kind of "IQ test thinking" can get you in trouble. "My 3-month-old son is now TWICE as big as when he was born. He's on track to weigh 7.5 trillion pounds by age 10." -@pronounced_kyle Fitting the simplest-formula curve, as opposed to the correct curve, makes our predictions of real-world stuff dead wrong. So this kind of test question promotes a dangerous habit of thought. But, Devon, I hear some of you ask, doesn't the principle of Occam's Razor demand that we fit the simplest curve? No. No, it does not. It does not require that we select the simplest possible answer, given what we have currently seen. It requires that we prefer hypotheses that make fewer assumption to those that make more. These are two different things entirely. If I see one black sheep, the simplest hypothesis is that all sheep are black. The hypothesis requiring the fewest assumptions is that at least one sheep is black on at least one side. You will note which of these is correct. All of this is, of course, irrelevant to questions on IQ test. But questions on an IQ test only matter as much as they are relevant to the actual universe... Where ideas like this are very relevant indeed.