Month: March 2016

Until Dawn was pretty great

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Mythical girlfriend and I just finished our first playthrough of Until Dawn, and aside from the obvious thoughts about analyzing the story, and the directions and paths we took, my first thought was how I want to play through again, immediately.

I haven’t felt this way about a video game since like, Mass Effect 2, and how eager I was to go through the game a second time, but as a complete renegade decision-making asshole.

That being said, I thought Until Dawn was pretty awesome.  To no surprise, the obvious comp to what it felt like playing was Heavy Rain, also another fantastic game that broke the mold of what typical video games were up until that point.  But due to the butterfly effect concept that the game adopts, it basically means that the game has the potential for replay value that hasn’t been seen since like, Chrono Trigger.

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Black people double standards

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In spite of everything I may or may not write out, I’m a fan of Chris Rock.  I have enjoyed most every one of Rock’s standups, and I think he’s a step above most other comics out there; dare I say almost on a Seinfeld-like plane in which he makes observations and turns it into material that most people can relate to, but just don’t think about, until presented in a routine.

I don’t view him as “a black comic,” but as “a comic,” and one that is funny, witty, intelligent and genuinely good at his craft.  Furthermore, as he’s aged, he’s flexed his creative wings and done some solid writing, as well as being pretty much the token A-list black guy for Adam Sandler (Tim Meadows being the B) films throughout the last few years.

But his choice of material at the Oscars, where he basically made several tasteless jokes towards Asian stereotypes, was pretty pathetic.  They reeked of strawman deflection, where Rock attempted to distract attendees and viewers away from the elephant in the room, which is the purported black boycott of the Oscars, and make wise cracks about Asians as a means to draw attention away from the elephant.

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Thoughts on 90 Day Fiance, season 3

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At long last, mythical girlfriend and I finally caught up and marathoned through the rest of season 3 of the TLC classic, 90 Day Fiance.

To no surprise, as predicted, in spite of some of the seemingly overwhelming relationships blocks that formulated between some of the couples, all of them still managed to successfully make it to the altar and say their vows in holy matrimony, in spite of the fact that most of them will probably not make it even a year with one another.  But for what it’s worth, it was still an entertaining season of futility, even if I feel like after three seasons in the books, the formula is running the greater risk of becoming stale and running its course.

Everyone succeeded, regardless of what dealbreakers were broken, because nobody wants to look like a failure on cable television, and the derpiest Mormon couple wed with no real hitch and is naturally the first to announce pregnancy on the post-season tell all episode, again.  I think if this show wants to have any success next season, they need to finally have a couple that doesn’t succeed, just to give sadistic fans like myself some sort of proof that not all endings have to be roses and happiness, because that isn’t necessarily reality.

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