periphery72271

periphery72271 t1_je9vkui wrote

Reply to How can you tell that a movie is pretentious? by Chemical-Contest-150

I'll give you an example.

Let's say a character in a movie is cooking an egg.

Normally it's part of a breakfast scene. Maybe the character is spacing out and having an emotional moment, maybe they're just cooking an egg. Either way, there's not much to the action in the scene.

But your pretentious director might use dramatic camera angles go for close ups of the eggs or something else, place dramatic music into the scene or otherwise amp up the presentation in a way that tells you the viewer there's something to pay attention to.

They might think you're catching on to the theme of 'death, rebirth in the destruction of a cradle of birth' or something, but really all you see is...a person cooking eggs to weird camera angles and dramatic music.

Basically it's when a director is doing too much, trying to make simple or obvious things seem important.

The crazy thing is, when done well it's not pretentious, it's thought provoking. The spinning top at the end of Inception isn't just a spinning top, and the camera closing in and the dramatic music is justified.

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periphery72271 t1_j6p5fxe wrote

Reply to Just Because I Don't Finish Games, Doesn't Mean I Didn't Like Them. by Zathura2

Not to me. Most modern games eventually arrive at a point where there's grind required to proceed. I don't like grind. It's not fun to me.

I also lose interest when the gameplay loop has nothing to offer other than upgrades on the same old pattern. After a while doing the same thing to beat the same enemies/bosses who basically only come in a few flavors just with longer health bars and different colors or designs is of no interest to me.

I also have a busy life and I don't always have time to grind to be able to continue the game or fight the 3000th variation of the same mobs I was fighting when I started, so I find other things to do with my time that's actually productive for me, or more fun.

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periphery72271 t1_iy9ffb8 wrote

Reply to Once you hear it, it's a 98% chance of death by Tiffanibb

If it's early game and I hear the beeping too fast or too loud and I don't have him in my sights, I just set the controller down and close my eyes, then accept my fate.

I know I'm getting to a good place when I can just say F it, tank the explosion and keep going knowing I'll just have to lug around a smoking power armor frame and be more careful, and my biggest worry is getting it repaired soon.

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