The sequels, Warrior Within and The Two Thrones, also push through the storyline based on the fact the your character changed the past, did so multiple times, and kept screwing it further until hitting the big reset button.
Warrior Within has a scene where you watch a parallel version of you (you don’t know it at the time) get killed, go back in time, and then relive that scene as the parallel version but you make your past version get killed instead.
My first assumption giving them the benefit of the doubt would be that it’s a rhetorical question to point out that there is a proper response and the car should have been taught to do that instead. Even if a lot of actual drivers don’t know the answer.
Are you going to try and claim that Friends is better than Breaking Bad or the first 8 seasons of Game of Thrones?
Yes
The Nero fiddling was entirely slander, and saying he probably could and should have done something is complaining after the fact. He was a day away from Rome when he heard a fire had started, he hauled ass back there, and he personally ran around with the fire brigades to pull people from the wrecks, oppening food supplies, gardens for shelters. And then after all that he plowed the debris away and set new building regulations to make sure a big fire couldn’t do that much damage again - so he did actually do a lot about it. And then he took the empty space to build his golden palace and that’s what got people pissed and rumors spreading. Before all that, he wasn’t doing anything weirder than anyone else, beside sitting by while his mom murdered everybody else to sit him on a throne that he didn’t care for (and then he murdered her to be free of the abuse). The people liked him, it’s the nobles/rich who didn’t. Historians tried to blame him, but it’s clear there was no easy prevention method beside razing and rebuilding; Rome was long known as a fire hazard with shit wooden buildings and zero ventilation safety, fires weren’t rare. The blame game didn’t come from what he could have done before and didn’t do or from any sort of prescience that he should have had that no one else had before, it’s purely religious propaganda after the fact, when he tried to place the blame to some weirdo sect. Hell, he might even have been right, but we’ll never know.
I’m still sad they killed the 2008 Prince of Persia after the DLC, top of my list from them. (Lost Crown isn’t far)
Also TBF, Origins isn’t the best example to blame them for making a stale loop, since that’s precisely the game where they updated the AC formula to make it a lot more RPG.
But I cannot for the life of me understand how the series blew up into a juggernaut of a dozen releases over two decades.
Heavily historical setting fairly accurate about settings that a lot of people are interested about. Nothing easier. You can literally throw a dart at a map and a timeline and make something interesting with a shit story. People will buy a million of them, doesn’t matter if they’re all the same game. It’s a goddamn mystery that no one is doing anything like that with their own engine, absolute lack of imagination.
The hint was that the Aeneid is Roman and the Odyssey is Greek. Greece is centuries before the Romans.
Every base is base 10 dumdum
0, 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21…
e: starting at 0 to not shame programmers.
Instructions unclear, ate burgers for 10 years and gained 30kg.
Not for the canary cry emoji
I think the writers pretty much admitted they had no plan for Trinity, seeing how their goal completely changed from immortality to apocalypse between Rise and Shadow. They were just the reason for Lara to track them across the world and stumble on ancient stuff.
I’m looking up the opening scene for Rise of the Tomb Raider and I can’t find the therapy session itself. Maybe it was only in the trailer and they cut it from the game, I remember people thought it was weird when they released that trailer because it was unexpected at the time that this was the direction they were taking? But the game does have you find tapes of Lara’s recorded sessions talking with the therapist, like how she’s having control issues and it turns out she has become a different person in a bad way.
The third game of the reboot trilogy starts with her tracking this evil organization that’s been screwing with her family, finding the item they’re trying to steal to trigger an appocalypse, stealing it first, and almost triggering that same apocalypse because she doesn’t know what she’s doing, thinking she’s doing good. Second game also started with her tracking the same organization to figure out what they’re doing, and from that, she stumbles into some archaeology. It’s a long character arc, she was looking for unrelated answers, but she learns that she can be good at figuring out ancient stuff, and she finds out the hard way that she can also fuck up badly when she doesn’t know what she’s doing. It’s supposed to end at the point where she’s mature enough to do better. We just see all the “fucking up” parts.
The second game of the reboot trilogy starts with Lara in therapy session about how she became a thrill addict from her survivor’s guilt from the first game and how she’s liking it.
That was very clearly on purpose, she starts panicking about the first guys she kills to survive (and there’s a very obvious rape vibe when she gets ganged up on), and near the end she’s screaming I’m gonna kill you all. That is the narrative arc. Welcome to trauma stories?
Have you not seen those movies that end up saying “if we kill the big bad, we’re no better than them” after mowing down countless faceless mobs
Remember Covid, don’t report on things = they stop existing.
… To indiscriminately beat up anyone who’s not rich?
Connecticut is Jewish?
Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin were also written in the same period (14th to 16th c.) and are also heavy-handed that way. Romance pushes Liu Bei as the perfect Confucianist ruler restoring the Han glory (the same one that ended ultra corrupt and lived in luxury while everyone was dying of starvation from taxes and disasters), while throwing as much shit as possible on Cao Cao the reformer and usurper of the Han, and Water Margin starts with the first half showing a whole bunch of characters suffering from imperial oppression building up a large rebel group, only to turn around and have them say “actually all we ever wanted was to be part of the imperial army, let us beat up that other rebel group led by an evil wicked wizard and die to prove it” in the second half (which is actually the more historical part of it…)
Those are 3 of the 4 greatest classics of Chinese literature.
It’s still hanging
https://youtu.be/9H1nwqjzVVc