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I have nothing to say except it's weird you chose to watch fantastic 4

Well, as I stated in my first comment, I only wound up seeing it out of boredom because the only other thing on TV at that time was reality shows, which are the one thing on earth that manages to be even more boring than Fan4stic. 

Yep. It was shot as a real movie but was never supposed to be released.

I've watched it and thought it wasn't too bad. It was made quickly and cheaply, but I'd say the result is probably better than the modern versions (I've not seen them all).

In that case, maybe I'll give it a watch. It can't be worse than the 2005 or 2015 versions at any rate. For while the 2005 version may have had marginally more action,
it also was littered with either sexist or just embarrassing frat-bro jokes which was mercifully gone from the 2015 version, but both versions depicted the heroes as useless berks
more concerned with bickering among each other than, you know, actually using their powers for something good.

a "zany" comedy where Seth Rogen accidentally saves the Jewish ghetto while falling on his butt and having a supermodel be inexplicably attracted to him

Ahhh, I see you have the misfortune of having witnessed the soul-sucking dread that is "A Million Ways To Die In The West"...

To be fair though, "Holmes And Watson" makes even that look like the most sophisticated comedy ever made.

Yeah, the entirety of "A Million Ways To Die In The West" could probably be summed up by saying it's a movie where every time Seth McFarlane tells a joke, he has to spend several minutes pointing out that it was a joke and jokes are supposed to be funny. They couldn't just have a scene where they visit a market and a bunch of people get killed by the attractions as a fun background gag, McFarlane has to have a super long obnoxious monologue about "people in the 1800's get killed, like all the time! It's totally crazy man!". And that's not even the worst thing he's done, I could probably rant forever on how Seth MacFarlane embodies everything wrong with American comedy. 

And I didn't even bother with Holmes and Watson, I've seen others review it and every single joke I've seen from that movie either had exactly the same problem as "A Million Ways To Die In The West", or it was just gross, it or was both at the same time.

Do you mean this version?

I remember seeing video clips of it and the only thing I remembered was that the special effects on the Thing looked like shit. And not in the metaphorical sense. 

I wound up seeing Fan4stic in it's entirety on tv because nothing else was on, and what struck me with how the movie became so bad (like 90% is just people doing technobabble in a dark room and there is a super cliche fight against a villain using a blue sky beam to destroy the world in the last 15 minutes, it makes Batman versus Superman look like freaking Star Wars in comparison) is when I realized that they were trying to make Fantastic Four into some sort of high-concept sci-fi thriller akin to Arrival. The big problem is that a high-concept sci-fi thriller like that movie actually needs a great deal of buildup and exposition in order to explain a new and different concept and a big part of what makes the story worth watching is not knowing how it will end. To compare to Arrival again, the movie centers on a scientist desperately trying to learn to communicate with a group of aliens who's language are completely different from any human language, and there is a big plot twist that makes the viewer see all the previous scenes and interactions in an entirely different light.

Meanwhile, Fan4stic is about four people with superpowers who use said superpowers to defeat an evil supervillain literally named "Dr Doom" and shout catchphrases. They are not exactly complicated characters and there is no point in trying to hide the team-members powers just to try and present them as this big surprising plot twist when literally everyone already saw all the marketing of the other Fantastic Four movie a decade earlier, unless they were either too young to see Fan4stic, or were some form of cave-dwelling hermits who only emerge from their hole in the ground once a decade.

Seriously, what's the deal with these reboots? No one would dream about making a remake of Schindler's list reimagined as a "zany" comedy where Seth Rogen accidentally saves the Jewish ghetto while falling on his butt and having a supermodel be inexplicably attracted to him, so why are so many movie executives trying to turn whimsical cartoon characters into sad grey tragic dramas that are simultaneously also supposed to be "scientific" takes on superheroes?

[Blondbraid:]

Blondbraid: I love your colour choices, they give the image a great autumnal feeling! Such a nice background.

Thank you so much! I figured the colors would fit the season. 

Finally got mine ready, I hope you like crossbeam houses!

I've started on a background, could it be possible to extend the deadline one day?

Well put, everyone.
I suppose what really grinds my gears regarding AAA games is that most of them have budgets larger than the GDP of minor nations to the point profit is the only thing that matter and we ger focus-tested-to-hell bland sandboxes with a ton of micro-transactions as a result.

And looking for alternatives, small indie games can be both fun and charming, but being made by just one or a handful of amateurs still do limit the scope of what can be done with games and not all genres work well with this formula. What I'm really missing is AA games made by minor studios that have some resources and professional experience, but can still take enough risk not to be a lesser clone of the Ubisof desert, but such games are harder to find than a Jeff Goldblum movie where he doesn't go "Uhhm" in every scene he's in.

I'll always be a PC gamer at heart. But because of DRM alone, I'll always play so called "AAA" games on a console. And if you need me to prove it, just look up Assassin's Creed Origins. (Not that I'd play such a terrible game anyway.)

Assassin's Creed Origins is the only Assassin's Creed game that I've started but never finished, and I didn't even bother with Odyssey due to the obnoxious trend of all AAA games turning into the same RPG/Sandbox blaha where you have to spend ages travelling giant maps with nothing worthwhile in them and all the fun abilities are arbitrarily locked behind a skill tree forcing you to do a bunch of pointless busywork and repetitive sidequests instead of just being able to do all the cool stuff you came for from the start.

Seriously, why cant modern AAA devs just make a well-paced game that prioritizes fun and unique gameplay instead of this ubiquitous mess of aimless open-world grinding?
It's gotten so bad some games are even offering boost packages as dlc just so players can skip the grind, which defeats the entire purpose of games for entertainment.

Something about a meat hat is just funny to me. Especially when a fruit hat is considered normal. 

..."normal" where? I've never seen anybody that wasn't Carmen Miranda wearing a fruit hat in my life.

(Not counting carnival costumes, of course.)

While I haven't seen many in reality, I've seen lots of comedies and cartoons featuring old women wearing them.

Good one! Anyways, I've drawn two new comics myself:

I got the idea for the follow-up thanks to an "I'll eat my own hat" joke on the first:

It grinds my gears, these armchair activists that are ready to get extra passionate about whatever the media put in their heads this week. This vaping frenzy is the perfect example.

The media deluges them with the 7, 8, 9 deaths that have now been associated with vaping. Not even with vaping itself, but with tainted cartridges. "But did you hear? 10 people who use vapes have now died! When will someone stop this madness?!"

Never mind cigarettes probably kill more people than that in a day. No thought is given to where those nicotine addicts will go for their fix once vapes are banned. These people are just ever ready to repeat exactly what they have been told, and nothing more. ("ANTIFREEZUH")

"SHOCK vaping DEATHS you won't BELIEVE" I'd rather smell unicorn fart smelling vapes than cigarette smoke any day of the week. What grinds my gears is these clickbait headlines that seem to be written by a bot. I get recommended articles come up on my phone, there's one website that has "SHOCK" in capitals every single article. Then if you do actually click it it's nowhere near as "SHOCKING", in fact it's an article about "NOTHING".

Exactly. It reminds me of just how many clickbaity headlines that gets pumped out about "millenials be crazy" and anything gets painted as a worldwide youth frenzy even when the only people recorded doing it were a handful of people as a joke or bet, or in case of all alarmist stories of teens eating tide pods, not even that. Like, I've yet to see one single verified news story of a real teenager eating one, yet there were tons of clickbait articles on it for a while.

I went to see the Downton Abbey movie a few days ago, and this comic felt topical:

No reality-show about gamemakers? 

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now we're getting somewhere

I'd watch it. 

It's a great idea, but I'm afraid reality-TV people would just find a way to muck it up with a ton of the aforementioned filler and recaps, lazy stereotypes of game developers as
weirdos living in their parent's basements with empty mountain dew bottles as their sole company, and probably gratuitous apple product placement galore.

Urgh, I hate reality TV, and the worst part of all is that for probably 90% of the run time they aren't even showing the cooking/dancing/car remodeling or whatever the audience is actually there to see, it's just the worst kind of filler with the hosts nattering endlessly about random nonsense or spending several minutes in a row asking the participants again and again weather they feel pumped doing whatever they came to do on tv, which is just plain stupid considering they probably wouldn't beg to be doing it on TV if they weren't. 

That pic illustrates exactly why I've come to actively shun games that market themselves as having an open world, crafting/collecting or skill trees.

Free on Epic: Everything and Metro 2033 Redux.

I thought that offer had already ended and been replaced by a free offer on a pixel game called Minute.

The screenshots look great and I love the filmed artstyle, though is it possible to share a gif or video of what the animations look like in-game?

New month new pick!

Maybe something Halloween themed? 

Great work, as usual!