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For those who need a news citation about Brendan’s struggles and so that dumping on him for being plump stops:

https://people.com/movies/brendan-fraser-philip-berk-sexual-assualt-allegations/

Also, from a goalcast summary:

“It wasn’t just the assault that knocked his career off its course. As a rising action star, his body was put through the wringer in the name of stunts, physique requirements, and just regular male beauty standards. Brendan stated, “By the time I did the third Mummy picture in China,” which was 2008, “I was put together with tape and ice.”

The overwhelming demands of being a Hollywood hero triggered a number of health issues for Brendan. He had to get two laminectomies, a knee replacement, several procedures for his back, surgery for his spinal pads, and even had to get his vocal cord replaced at one point.

If that wasn’t enough, he and his wife of fourteen years, Afton Smith, divorced in 2007. His mother passed away from cancer in late 2016. He came upon many financial difficulties while on his forced sabbatical from Hollywood.

It’s no surprise that the actor began spiraling in all directions. Yet, he maintains that it all leads back to that fateful night in Los Angeles, where his entire world was left undone by the disgusting actions of an executive.

Brendan’s struggles have more profound implications than his own suffering. As a young man preparing to dominate the screens, he thought he had complete control over his expanding career, that nothing could touch him or throw him off his purpose. But sexual assault and harassment have a way of derailing momentum and leaving its survivors in a pool of shame, guilt, and continually recurring agony.

A male actor speaking out about how his career was shattered by sexual assault is nothing short of remarkable. He is a big, broad man who is probably capable of fending off any aggressors on his own. Yet, the assault debilitated him to his core, and he felt just as victimized as other female survivors of sexual and domestic assault. The courage he has displayed in speaking about his afflict will ratify him as one of Hollywood’s bravest, most unconventional men.“

@AcridSkull yeah, well depression will do that to you, and the kind he has comes from having some jerk destroy his career for speaking up about his attempt at sexual assault on Brendan, then a messy divorce and a lack of support. Go easy on him, dude.

@Zeldafan79 omg Encino Man! First movie of his I saw growing up when it came out in theaters and I’ve followed his comedies like Dudley Do Right and dramas like Crash and now Doom Patrol. I love the guy and feel so sad about what he had to go through before, and am glad he’s apparently on the up and up.

@SmaggTheSmug I enjoyed the LiS series. I am a little less fond of the fanbase though.

Still wondering why LiS2 isn’t coming to Switch or why it’s disdained by the fanbase, as it was more meaningful to me because of having a young minority guy dealing with the same things I did, which has a lot more representation than any of the other games in the series so far have.

@BloodNinja And I enjoy escapism more. 🤣

@Arkay yes. One love, Bro. Peace to you and everyone here.

@Arkay thanks dude. Signed, an Asian dude

@CharlieGirl

Please don’t strawman me. I didn’t say it shouldn’t be. I’m saying that I tend to play the games the straight path, but that isn’t canon apparently.

What I’d really like if it’s their intent to make queer paths canon is to eliminate the straight option altogether and fully commit to it instead of shrugging it off.

I tend to choose the straight path with these characters in my playthroughs, though it seems like fan canon and the developers treat the queer romance option as the default canon.

I thought it was going to be The Sun as usual like with how they blamed the Hillsborough Disaster on Liverpool fans, but looks like it wasn't them this time.

Man, if I was about to head back to bed, I'm wide awake now after reading this and how it's out today.

I believe they already have console plans. This is just a way to drum up demand, because people want more what they think they can't have.

@Yosher same. Also, I notice it’s mostly a North American and UK attitude to hate on clowns

I feel that Steam is an entirely different demographic. If the Steam deck is a player’s primary console, I’d be surprised because of the preference to have the ultimate gaming PC desktop. Steam players to me either like desktop gaming and then treat consoles as secondary, or vice-versa. So I don’t see this as direct competition so much as i see natural evolution of the consumer enjoying gaming on the go, and it seems Steam Deck may be a second choice portable.

Actually with all these amorphous protagonists in Claymates and Jelly Boy, they should have thrown in Smart Ball to complete the mix.

So many complaints.😕

I actually really enjoyed Claymates growing up, and Bombuzai/ Kablooey I saw advertised in GamePro and EGM before.

The other game, I actually am interested in.

These are all games I would have renter back in my childhood so if the main opinion is disappointment, I guess I’m just the kind of guy who Nintendo was made for then.

I don’t know about this... I feel like it’s Nokia with N-Gage for some reason. I like Steam, but I am not sure I want their handheld.

Silhouette Mirage, anyone?

This is just lame monkey business if it ain’t the real thing.

Yeah, I did that. 😝

@locky-mavo Segain’t knows it so that’s why it outsourced Sonic Mania to a fan modder!

I can’t believe nobody said it yet about the total difference between Nintendo and Sega towards mods, so I’ll say it:

Sega does what Nintendon’t.

This needs Hieronymous Bosch and The Garden of Earthly Pleasures.

No Life is Strange 2 with Sean and Daniel? Oh well, still love the series.

Love it. Bigger scope, hopefully much longer game.

Hoping Wario and Waluigi will be playable alongside Rosalina. DK as well. How about Rabbid Dr Mario?

@Caryslan I hope it is a typo, because it would mean that Richter is centuries old if not. So far, I haven’t seen any correction for that announcement.

@Caryslan https://mobile.twitter.com/NetflixGeeked/status/1403385425109061633

“ An all new series starring Richter Belmont (the son of Sypha and Trevor) and Maria Renard, set in France during the French Revolution, is currently in the works.”

Richter is the son of Trevor according to the image tweeted? That’s a pretty long jump forward to the French Revolution from the 15th century, ignoring Simon and Juste.

@Zeldafan79 I agree! Though my guess is that a standard review for a remaster and port might be limited in structure. If anything, I’d think there should be a special framework for reviewing ports or remasters without holding them to current gameplay standards to indicate the focus is on the port and how well it transitioned. Instead, like you point out, it’s weird when old classic Mario games are rated highly, but these.. not so much.

EDIT: If I had to review ports, I wouldn’t even use the 1-10 scale or review the game. This was indeed spelled out in the article as many pointed out, but it is the FRAMEWORK and presentation of the standard review that I find limiting for specifically reviewing quality of a port.

@Krambo42 Aww. I nominate you for the Tesla award, my personal award given to people who just missed the chance to be recognized because someone else did. So hooray you! You noticed it even if you didn’t report it first! You’re awesome!

@Eel @PBandSmelly Those would all be funny!

I loved the movie as a kid and didn’t mind the drastic differences. It was fun and even used to have the Nintendo Power issue featuring it. Whether it was Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat, I still loved these movies because they had fun.

The Uwe Boll adaptations for some reason didn’t look like they were fun; I don’t know what it was about these earlier adaptations that felt more fun, whether as films or television series. Maybe the hammy, narmy nature?

Know what would be funny? A Crash trailer for Smash similar to the one where a guy in a bandicoot costume goes to Nintendo parking lot challenging Mario, and then the Mario characters in the original N64 commercial and then some come out to challenge him in return.

@BloodNinja Yes, and just like in games, whether they are narrative games or puzzle and action games, some of the assumptions about replaying games shows just how far gaming has evolved.

The original arcade game people have in mind was something you plugged quarters in to enjoy a lot. The current game we imagine tends to be the narrative or experimental, but this overlooks the roguelike, puzzle, fighting, and so many other genres. If anything, I buy games because they are other worlds that are fun to play in again and again, whether it is EarthBound and Final Fantasy VI or Tetris Attack, Lumines, Enter the Gungeon, or Dead Cells.

@kate, people who think it’s weird to re-read, re-watch, or whatever probably should ask why people have favorite songs they listen to again and again.

There’s an author, Gene Wolfe, whose specialization is on re-reading because of unreliable narrators. The Book of the New Sun, for example, starts out as a high fantasy before you learn the problem is that we have an unreliable narrator as it’s also a political autobiography. In the second read, we find that he’s a liar because of things we know from re-reading. Then in the third read, we discover not only that is he a liar, but time travel and forces beyond his own comprehension are causing him to miss out on how they’re manipulating events in his life but we as readers can see. Another book by Wolfe is also notorious for this, Peace, a favorite of Neil Gaiman, which the first read is a nice Midwestern memoir, second time around is a mystery, third time is when you realize that it’s a ghost story.

Here is an article and excerpt about reading things twice.

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/books-so-good-ive-read-them-2x-or-more/

[E]ven if you’re a regular reader and live to a ripe old age, it can be hard to justify reading the same book, not just once, but twice (and even multiple times!).

[T]here are several good reasons to do so.

The first is that each time you read the same book, you come away with new insights. You get different things out of a book when you read it at 36 than you did at 16 (and you’ll find different things at age 76, too).

Second, even when you’ve learned and affirmed the principles of a personal development or philosophical-type book, you have to revisit them regularly to keep them at the forefront of your mind. Humans are slothful, forgetful creatures; even when a book’s insights initially made your spirit soar and unlocked a new dimension in your thinking, without regular reminders, you’ll be taking them for granted in a very short time!

@Thomasbw84

Typo “fallen fall” and you probably meant “fallen foul”.

@Ghost_of_Hasashi Square? Honestly, I think that would be a downgrade for Suikoden. Personally, I’d rather see maybe Nippon Ichi do Suikoden.

I actually had a VB with Warioland and Mario Tennis. Nothing else. Completed both, could rent from Blockbuster, but was more interested in SNES games.

If they rerelease VB games, as long as it’s not all red and black, I’ll play. Fried my eyes playing it.

@a1904 Hey, Wario is far classier than this guy. 😁 Wario never called anyone rescuing kids in Thailand “pedo” but he sure does follow a similar approach to business as we see in him getting others to do all the work while he tries to take all the credit and money like the original Wario Ware.

@g_ruz at this point, if he ever does get into Smash, his moveset and final smash will be memes. I don’t mean the moves will become memes—I mean the memes themselves are his moveset.

@Gigagash Source? Please share for all of us!

@samuraicop How some managed to play with only nine fingers though...

@samuraicop https://boingboing.net/2010/08/10/yakuza-3-review.html

😃

“You can make games ABOUT the Yakuza; you just can’t make games while working WITH the Yakuza!”

@Rhaoulos who’s that? 😂

I played this game back in the day. Just couldn’t get into it long enough to finish any of the stories because there’s a good kind of no hand-holding that rewards you, and then there’s this where it frustrates the hell out of you while making you think you’re smart for figuring out what to do when nothing is even hinted at clearly.

That said, I will still pick this up for the QoL improvements based on how they originally envisioned the game, because it did feel very incomplete back then.

@Alpha008 If they did, I bet it would sell like hotcakes and should include a player’s guide with clay models too modeled after a travel log too. I still have my player’s guide and the scratch and sniff adverts in magazines tucked in the back next to the one the guide has.

Predictions: someone in Silicon Valley, a Chinese entrepreneur like Jack Ma, or some private individual with no name will buy this. And they will flip a profit in a few years. Don’t know if an actual gamer would get it; maybe Tommy Tallarico would given his home arcade.

For a man who left such a legacy and made such an impact, it both feels like a totally different world without him and it also feels very strange how it was barely 6 years since his death.

@PickledKong64 my earlier quote was to say yeah, even if someone does abhorrent things, it’s hard to totally divide them into purely evil or purely good, but with facts surrounding a case, especially with Jimmy Savile, it shows insincerity there compared to Manson who is a rocker and openly talking about sex, drugs, and controversy. Ellis is a jerk because he wasn’t a smiler, but a guy who believes that he himself is the victim and really believes that these fans throwing themselves at him are a reward for the hardships he had when he was struggling. In other words: cognitive dissonance on his end rather than being a two-faced smiler like Savile or Cosby.

Castlevania probably might benefit from different writers each generation of Belmont.