OT The Nerdy stuff Thread

[MrDollarBills]

Ah shoot, totally fell through the cracks. It kinda depends on the company. ABK has a terrible rep with the industry. Underpaying dudes, bad managers...not sure how Microsoft will change it. I still applied a while back haha, but looking back, I'm glad I didn't go.

EA is kinda corporate, but they care a lot about diversity and inclusion (not that it's perfect, but it does try), and the studios often try to keep the main company from interfering with their work. A lot of times, people blame the overall company for mistakes the studios make though. Oh, and a crapton goes into Madden and FIFA lol, even though people call it the same game year after year, which also diverts resources from other games. People care a lot there...like, yea, it's corporate because they're public, but the people genuinely care. I enjoyed my time. I can't share the more interesting stuff though...maybe down the road, when it's less sensitive. Oh and EA is super open...I was able to meet with some pretty senior leaders during my time there, just cause I sent them a message and said I was interested in talking. Too bad I wasn't able to look more into Bioware

I think in terms of making games...it can feel really frustrating at a big company. You're basically a cog in the machine, working with all the other cogs. It's the startups where you get to use more creative muscle, but it's a lot more risky obviously. A lot of the big firms just prefer to let those small startups take risks and then build their own version of a game when the concept is validated. But yea, if you're in gaming, you're often taking a paycut compared to the other tech firms, where you get to work on selling ads and junk like that.

What's your thoughts on what happened yesterday with Activision? Seems like Microsoft just cleaned house.

I'll tell you one thing, I'm probably not buying Call of Duty 2024. Sounds like they dumped their entire QA team when the current game is full of bugs and exploits. I just don't have any fun playing anymore, I'd rather play single player titles like BG3, Spider-Man 2, Persona 3R, etc.

Hmm maybe not that surprised. I think the sad thing was that they basically shut down a new IP from Blizzard that had been in the works for 6 years.

Yea, live service titles are such a huge moneymaker (and also really different from 1P games in terms of development). As you can tell from my habits, I love my 1P titles, too, but yea...

Yeah I feel bad about the folks that lost jobs.

Live service is a cash grab, and I get it, everyone wants to try to upend or carve a piece out of the monster that Epic created with Fortnite, but the quality of those games seem to be getting worse and worse since 2017, especially the legacy titles that have shifted towards trying to grab that Fortnite cash. I was a diehard for MP games but i guess I'm just am old man now and they're not for me anymore.

[DOT]

OP 1106:

Spoiler:

You know, I can't help but keep comparing other manga to One Piece, like JJK right, it feels like Gege just drops characters when he's done with them, and they're no longer relevant to the plot. Which kind of takes you out of the story a bit, meanwhile Oda is really good at making the world seem like it's in motion, so when a character shows up who hasn't been relevant in hundreds of chapters, it feels right, even without the cover stories telling you what they've been up to

I mean, you do need the cover stories sometimes, like anime-only's are gonna be real confused in a few episodes when Pudding shows up again cause they didn't get the story there, but still.

[j4remi]

OP 1106:

Spoiler:

You know, I can't help but keep comparing other manga to One Piece, like JJK right, it feels like Gege just drops characters when he's done with them, and they're no longer relevant to the plot. Which kind of takes you out of the story a bit, meanwhile Oda is really good at making the world seem like it's in motion, so when a character shows up who hasn't been relevant in hundreds of chapters, it feels right, even without the cover stories telling you what they've been up to

I mean, you do need the cover stories sometimes, like anime-only's are gonna be real confused in a few episodes when Pudding shows up again cause they didn't get the story there, but still.

It's really mindblowing how Oda constructed this world that feels so massive and lived in. I can only think of a handful of authors that did similar or came close.

On the JJK comparison, since I'm anime-only beyond Shibuya, I can't speak too much to it directly. But I think Oda separates himself from the rest of the pack, by giving side characters deeper feeling significance within the plot. A lot of anime have cool characters and designs. But beyond some fighting, they rarely feel like they continue to matter beyond what we've seen of them on screen (ie: Historia).

One Piece characters leave, and you still feel like they'll be doing plot-significant things...you get Gin theories for a decade

[DOT]

One Piece characters leave, and you still feel like they'll be doing plot-significant things...you get Gin theories for a decade

I do think a lot of this is that through the cover stories, Oda is able to give quick snapshots on the status of the world, and the fact he always takes time between arcs to step back and show world events

But this time, taking months off of the main story to flesh out what Kid, Law, and Koby have been up to that's completely tangential to Egghead, as well as tying in Sabo at the Reverie to the events of Egghead through Kuma, it really does feel like the Strawhats are just one part of a wider world.

[DOT]

Also, this is why I don't take leaks seriously, cause a few weeks ago, people were talking about how some people had seen the next 2 chapters of JJK and they were supposedly super disturbing but like, nothing that disturbing happened

Like, yeah, it wasn't completely PG, but the way people were talking, I thought someone was getting degloved or something.

[MrDollarBills]

Also, this is why I don't take leaks seriously, cause a few weeks ago, people were talking about how some people had seen the next 2 chapters of JJK and they were supposedly super disturbing but like, nothing that disturbing happened

Like, yeah, it wasn't completely PG, but the way people were talking, I thought someone was getting degloved or something.

I really want to take a break for a month from this series, but I'm too invested.

Spoiler:

Yuta tanking Sukuna's slashes and catching him in his Domain Expansion is pretty bad ass, but the fact that Sukuna has already scoped out what the two protagonists are doing is so boring.

I would have preferred getting a Sukuna backstory arc to at least show how he grew into this master tactician. Every week feels like an ass pull

[MrDollarBills]

Final Fantasy 7 Remake is insanely good

[KnicksGadfly]

Alright, so stuck in Persona 5…love this game…such good value. They’ve just found a formula that works, and even though there’s repetition in terms of themes and monsters and even the way the characters walk, it feels new and fresh and embodies RPG.

Also watching Dr. Stone. First few episodes were a drag but it’s starting to heat up.

[DOT]

Also, this is why I don't take leaks seriously, cause a few weeks ago, people were talking about how some people had seen the next 2 chapters of JJK and they were supposedly super disturbing but like, nothing that disturbing happened

Like, yeah, it wasn't completely PG, but the way people were talking, I thought someone was getting degloved or something.

I really want to take a break for a month from this series, but I'm too invested.

Spoiler:

Yuta tanking Sukuna's slashes and catching him in his Domain Expansion is pretty bad ass, but the fact that Sukuna has already scoped out what the two protagonists are doing is so boring.

I would have preferred getting a Sukuna backstory arc to at least show how he grew into this master tactician. Every week feels like an ass pull

You can really tell Gege is done with the series and just wants to wrap it up

Which like, on one hand good, most Shonen go on too long and lose the plot, but at the same time I don't think he's writing it in a satisfying way, it's like the worst of both worlds, the manga is shorter so there's less of it but also it has the same lackluster ending that longer manga get

Demon Slayer is the only one that felt like it knew exactly how long it needed to be, and even then you could argue there could've been 100-200 chapters stretching out the fights with the Lower and Upper Moons

It's funny, it gets the most comparisons to Naruto for obvious reasons, but this final arc is most similar to Bleach's final arc, which notoriously felt rushed with some ass-pull bull at the end cause Kubo was just done with the series, and kind of wasted an incredibly hyped villain.

[MrDollarBills]

Also, this is why I don't take leaks seriously, cause a few weeks ago, people were talking about how some people had seen the next 2 chapters of JJK and they were supposedly super disturbing but like, nothing that disturbing happened

Like, yeah, it wasn't completely PG, but the way people were talking, I thought someone was getting degloved or something.

I really want to take a break for a month from this series, but I'm too invested.

Spoiler:

Yuta tanking Sukuna's slashes and catching him in his Domain Expansion is pretty bad ass, but the fact that Sukuna has already scoped out what the two protagonists are doing is so boring.

I would have preferred getting a Sukuna backstory arc to at least show how he grew into this master tactician. Every week feels like an ass pull

You can really tell Gege is done with the series and just wants to wrap it up

Which like, on one hand good, most Shonen go on too long and lose the plot, but at the same time I don't think he's writing it in a satisfying way, it's like the worst of both worlds, the manga is shorter so there's less of it but also it has the same lackluster ending that longer manga get

Demon Slayer is the only one that felt like it knew exactly how long it needed to be, and even then you could argue there could've been 100-200 chapters stretching out the fights with the Lower and Upper Moons

It's funny, it gets the most comparisons to Naruto for obvious reasons, but this final arc is most similar to Bleach's final arc, which notoriously felt rushed with some ass-pull bull at the end cause Kubo was just done with the series, and kind of wasted an incredibly hyped villain.

Gege wants off the weekly manga ride, but didn't foresee how much it would take to adequately wrap this up. He laid down a ton of world building that is being hurt by the breakneck pacing. The whole thing with "Geto" is so rushed that it's jarring. Don't let me get into Gojo.

And i agree, i feel like the author of Demon Slayer had her plot points she wanted to hit and executed them without making the end feel like a speed run. A simple, straightforward tale. I wish she would come back to tell another story, but she's got f*ck you money now so i doubt she ever draws manga weekly again.

From what I recall, Kubo wasn't in good health by the end of Bleach. That's my guy right there.

[MrDollarBills]

Alright, so stuck in Persona 5…love this game…such good value. They’ve just found a formula that works, and even though there’s repetition in terms of themes and monsters and even the way the characters walk, it feels new and fresh and embodies RPG.

Also watching Dr. Stone. First few episodes were a drag but it’s starting to heat up.

Dr. Stone is awesome, but imo it's much better digested by reading it.

[MrDollarBills]

Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 250:

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Yuta, Yuji and Rika vs Sukuna. Now this is a good fight!!

Yuta is an absolute monster. When he hit Sukuna with Inumaki's technique, and then stole Sukuna's technique...whooo boy. And Yuji coming in strong with those soul punches this is gonna be awesome animated.

This was the first chapter in months where I can't wait to see what happens next week. Now this is the Jujutsu Kaisen that I fell in love with

[j4remi]

Alright, so stuck in Persona 5…love this game…such good value. They’ve just found a formula that works, and even though there’s repetition in terms of themes and monsters and even the way the characters walk, it feels new and fresh and embodies RPG.

Also watching Dr. Stone. First few episodes were a drag but it’s starting to heat up.

It's really crazy how perfectly the gameplay and stories complement each other. The best dungeons in Persona (at least from 3 on) will reintroduce you to characters, and then, if you spend time with them during the slice-of-life portions of gameplay, you'll get a genuine feel for who they are.

Then top it off with the massive collection of personas, the merging mechanics, and the way relationships can improve your results. You have a bunch of compelling reasons to advance in the dungeons AND the friendships.

The funny thing is when the first ones dropped, it kinda seemed like a dime-a-dozen Pokemon clone. PSOne has a small army of games with massive monster collections (Kartia, Jade Cocoon, and Monster Rancher to name a few), but they all had serious flaws. Persona had way more depth, but the first two were inaccessible because they were so damned hard. But it had such much going on that it's the only one that survived into the next gens and improved into a masterpiece imo.

[MrDollarBills]

Chainsaw Man Chapter 155

Spoiler:

Amazing chapter. It turns out that younger Nayuta's instinct was to literally be "Makima", but she bucked her inherent nature to become who she is now, Denj's bratty little sister who loved her life with him and the pets. I seriously hope she managed to escape that mob (or slaughtered them all, either way is fine with me)

And now we're about to get Denji's backstory. This is going to be brutal to read

[MrDollarBills]

Watch on YouTube

Look Back, a 145 page one shot manga by the author of Chainsaw Man is receiving a movie adaptation.

If you've never read Look Back, it's a pretty good story about two girls who want to become manga artists, with all of the twists and turns you would expect from Tatsuki Fujimoto. Hopefully this gets a USA release.

[j4remi]

Watch on YouTube

Look Back, a 145 page one shot manga by the author of Chainsaw Man is receiving a movie adaptation.

If you've never read Look Back, it's a pretty good story about two girls who want to become manga artists, with all of the twists and turns you would expect from Tatsuki Fujimoto. Hopefully this gets a USA release.

Long as they get the skipping through the rain right, this'll hit beautifully.

[j4remi]

Chainsaw Man Chapter 155

Spoiler:

Amazing chapter. It turns out that younger Nayuta's instinct was to literally be "Makima", but she bucked her inherent nature to become who she is now, Denj's bratty little sister who loved her life with him and the pets. I seriously hope she managed to escape that mob (or slaughtered them all, either way is fine with me)

And now we're about to get Denji's backstory. This is going to be brutal to read

If I had one complaint about CSM, it's that the timing of flashbacks is always a little off to me. Idk if that's just me, but even back to Part one, the flashbacks always felt more disruptive than they had to be.

That said, the flashbacks are usually good enough to give it a pass, which is true for this one and I'm pretty sure the same will be true when Denji finally opens that damned door.

[MrDollarBills]

Watch on YouTube

Look Back, a 145 page one shot manga by the author of Chainsaw Man is receiving a movie adaptation.

If you've never read Look Back, it's a pretty good story about two girls who want to become manga artists, with all of the twists and turns you would expect from Tatsuki Fujimoto. Hopefully this gets a USA release.

Long as they get the skipping through the rain right, this'll hit beautifully.

That part is literally what I'm waiting to see

Don't be shocked if "Goodbye, Eri" gets adapted as well. All of Fujimoto's one shots are so good

[MrDollarBills]

Chainsaw Man Chapter 155

Spoiler:

Amazing chapter. It turns out that younger Nayuta's instinct was to literally be "Makima", but she bucked her inherent nature to become who she is now, Denj's bratty little sister who loved her life with him and the pets. I seriously hope she managed to escape that mob (or slaughtered them all, either way is fine with me)

And now we're about to get Denji's backstory. This is going to be brutal to read

If I had one complaint about CSM, it's that the timing of flashbacks is always a little off to me. Idk if that's just me, but even back to Part one, the flashbacks always felt more disruptive than they had to be.

That said, the flashbacks are usually good enough to give it a pass, which is true for this one and I'm pretty sure the same will be true when Denji finally opens that damned door.

yeah it was a bit jarring, but the transition between

Spoiler:

Denji's apartment being on fire to the day he brought Nayuta home was slick. That is going to look so good when MAPPA animates it.

[j4remi]

That part is literally what I'm waiting to see

Don't be shocked if "Goodbye, Eri" gets adapted as well. All of Fujimoto's one shots are so good

Personally, I woulda gone with Goodbye Eri as the first one-shot to adapt. I'd tune in to react channels just for the film-screening moments and to see what meanings people take from it.

yeah it was a bit jarring, but the transition between

Spoiler:

Denji's apartment being on fire to the day he brought Nayuta home was slick. That is going to look so good when MAPPA animates it.

Yeah, Fujimoto's visual storytelling is probably my favorite in the game (there's a bit of competition from manga like Witch Hat Atellier but it's few and far between that anyone's even close).

On a sidenote, Idk if this is only American fans, but I'm seeing a LOT of people hate on this arc in the manga discussion spots and comments under chapters. I never expected to see so many "we want Asa" posts.