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  1. Ogoid

    ~1 Month After The Escapist Exploded, Thoughts on Second Wind?

    That's the channel where all former Escapist content creators went? They had Mr. Fucking Sterling Son (or whatever the hell it is he's calling himself these days) on; that's really all I care to know about it, to be quite honest.
  2. Ogoid

    General movie thread

    The Unknown Man of Shandigor (1967) I will admit, even I was skeptic going into this one. A black-and-white Swiss spy film from the 60's? Could that possibly be good? Turns out it could, and then some. Imagine (if you can) a bizarre, unholy union between an Austin Powers movie and some boring...
  3. Ogoid

    What EXACTLY is Stopping People From Playing Burned Discs on an Xbox/PS2/Etc.?

    People did it all the time back in the day - at least, here in thirdworldia. I know I played a lot of burned disks on my Xbox. As I recall (it's been longer than I care to think about), you had to mod it so it would work; I remember having to take it to some skeevy electronics repair shop to...
  4. Ogoid

    Random Engrish Signs From the Internet

    Oh yeah, these are always fun...
  5. Ogoid

    Games that you love but everyone hates

    I certainly don't hate it, but I do have to say it was a bit of a letdown, as a kid, to discover it wasn't a port of the arcade version. But on topic... Doom 3 was actually a pretty good game, and the whole "it's too dark to see" thing was blown way out of proportion.
  6. Ogoid

    Is Sanctuary really now the only one of it's kind left?

    Well, me, I've been unable to take a word he's said seriously ever since way back with Gamergate and his little friend, Zoe Quinn. You know, the moment one of his personal friends in the incestuous journalist/indie dev clique turned out to be engaging in some seriously shady behavior, and...
  7. Ogoid

    What to Read Next? - This Immortal or Lord of the Rings

    I'm more partial to Invitation to a Beheading, as far as Nabokov goes.
  8. Ogoid

    What to Read Next? - This Immortal or Lord of the Rings

    Me, I'd say go with Zelazny. Even though I've yet to read anything of his (he's one of those names in my list I never seem to get around to) and in my experience Tolkien always holds up, I tend to favor new stuff over re-reads.
  9. Ogoid

    Cinema Cowboy Bebop (1998) - Not Just One of the Best Animes, One of The Best TV Shows Ever Made

    It really was. I've recently re-watched it as well, and I honestly felt like slapping my 19-year old self, who would've told you something along the lines of "yeah, it's alright I guess, but there's better anime out there" in the face. It's one of the best pieces of narrative art I have ever...
  10. Ogoid

    General movie thread

    A surprising number of them are actually on Youtube. Here are Flic (it's split in two parts, but the whole film's there), Akran, Split, and Lo que Vendrá (albeit without subtitles). Friendship's Death I think I watched on some Russian streaming site, like ok.ru/video or vk.com.
  11. Ogoid

    General movie thread

    Guess I might as well add my contribution of the weird, pretentious and boring films no one has ever heard of I've been watching lately: フリック / Flic (2005) A police detective who has been sleepwalking his way through life, away from the job since the death of his wife, is called back by his...
  12. Ogoid

    General movie thread

    I've seen it come up a few times in the "weird movies" lists I find myself trawling through on Mubi, Letterboxd and IMDB these days, but I always figured "that sounds too weird even for my current tastes"... seems I wasn't wrong in that assessment.
  13. Ogoid

    General movie thread

    Well, as long as this thread is on the first page again... Anyone else watch The Northman (2022)? From what I'd heard I expected something quite a bit weirder, but I really enjoyed it nonetheless. I thought it was a visually gorgeous and consistently entertaining film. I've also been hearing...
  14. Ogoid

    Car chases suck

    I suppose if there's one thing the greatest piece of storytelling in human history proves, is that they can be done right... as long as there are actual stakes involved, and not just pointless, gratuitous pyrotechnics.
  15. Ogoid

    Cinema The Matrix Resurrections - Great Foundation, Can't Close

    I'll be honest, my expectations for this one were so abysmally low, I went in fully prepared to hate it... ...Which is why I found myself rather surprised when I actually didn't. I agree that the beginning was the strongest part. From the trailers, I thought they might be going full David...
  16. Ogoid

    What was the first physical comic you read?

    My mother used to read me comics before I could even properly speak, so there's no way I could remember. I would imagine, though, it must've been Disney stuff (Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and whatnot) or some of the home-grown stuff that was popular back in the day.
  17. Ogoid

    Astalon - Tears of the Earth - A Gauche Review Production

    I've had my eyes on this one for quite a while now, and yeah, most of what I've been hearing has been mixed - not a bad game, but has some flaws that definitely need working on. I'll still probably get it, though.
  18. Ogoid

    Anyone here who upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 on their same PC?

    I did... sorta; I had Windows 8 on my notebook, then the people I sent it to for repairs when my hard drive died on me installed 10. Can't say I noticed any gaming-related problems.
  19. Ogoid

    Do you think the 2020 Presidential election was rigged?

    For however little my foreign-ass opinion counts... yes, it was. Shamelessly, brazenly so.
  20. Ogoid

    Greetings to everyone from The Escapist!

    I mean, to be quite honest... that sounds pretty much like the Escapist I remember from a few years back. Other than the moderation not even bothering to try and at least look impartial, that is.
  21. Ogoid

    Greetings to everyone from The Escapist!

    From what I've always seen, it comes down to "someone posted wrongthink (real or imagined), and wasn't immediately piled on and banned".
  22. Ogoid

    So... How's the Escapist doing these days?

    Honestly, I haven't felt even tempted to look back since the... well, whatever the hell it was they last made. They made it abundantly clear, what with the whole "Gamergate was literally Hitler, and we will not be tolerating any discussion about it" policy they instituted, as well as hiring back...
  23. Ogoid

    Unpopular Gaming Opinions

    You know... I not only agree, I'd go further; it's not good, full stop. It's always baffled me, watching my fellow Fallout 1/2 grognards trip over one another to praise it, when the absolute best I could say for it is that it's better than (so-called) Fallout 3. "Oh, but people from the...
  24. Ogoid

    RUMOR: George Lucas to Come Back to Star Wars (NOW CONFIRMED)

    My position with regards to this can be summed up as "meh". I think I've said as much before, but I pretty much concluded Star Wars was a three-film lightning in a bottle phenomenon back in a movie theater in 2002, halfway through Attack of the Clones.
  25. Ogoid

    A Word on Current Events

    Yeah, same here in Brazil. No riots yet, but idiots be damned if they're not trying their very best to push things that far. Still, I try not to fret too much about it. Not much I could personally do, in any case, and if a bunch of absolute imbeciles want to go and get themselves either hurt or...
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