Yeah it was just lacklustre to me. I would have thought it was my bag though but it just fell flat.

I just see it as different

No but that's different in my opinion

Yeah but that's wrong isn't it? Like calling all vacuum cleaners a hoover when hoover is the brand.

Yes, which is probably why they called their company it.

Yeah I know. They meant tarmacadam which is different to tarmac

Tarmac is a company. The term is a macadamising material/surface.

You can't say that most games aren't trash as you haven't played them...

Most of anything is trash mate. In just giving my experience that a lot of games I've played are mediocre stories. They're fun to play but they aren't great stories.

You can't self diagnose someone else. A self diagnosis is a self diagnosis.

You're missing the point. I'll happily say that I was incorrect about Spielburg and that this was just a case of fake news. However, Alan Turing is widely regarded as being on the spectrum and so is Jobs. There are lots of reasons why they weren't diagnosed as such but the fact that you're trying to cancel that part of them out is odd to me.

I literally just googled it and there are lots of pages saying he probably is or at least has traits of people on the spectrum...

What do you think about Steve Jobs? I notice you didn't mention him.

Someone just said there were more games released.

Film has a long history of good story telling where as games probably didn't mature until very recently.i stand by my comment that most games are trash and its only a handful of games in recent years that tell a good story.

Ok man but I mean you're counting like all games I presume and not counting all movies and things. If you count every game available on phones and things then you should count every movie and short film or series or whatever.

No, you misread what I said. I said my FIL who has read a lot about Bletchley Park and worked with GCHQ seems to think that the movie didn't do a good job of showing how neuro diverse the code breakers were.

I said he seems to think that they were all pretty autistic. I then explained that Turing wouldn't have been diagnosed as the diagnosis was only coined in the 1940s and that it was a new field.

I would expect that if he was born today he would have been diagnosed early in life. Now, I don't know of this is the case or not but my FIL whoni saw the movie with and who is well educated on the subject matter seems to think so.

I play like 4 games a year. Even games which are well received are pretty poorly done compared to films. There is a reason games like god of war or the last of us stand out and it's because the vast majority of games are trash.

I know you can say the same about movies but there are many more movies released than games.

>neither does Steve Jobs.

A quick Google tells you that he probably did.

I'm not going to Google Spielburg but I worked for a national leader in educating children on the spectrum and they used both people as examples.

Yeah but autism and asperger's syndrome wasn't diagnosed until the mid 40s. The chances of Turing getting diagnosed or described as either is pretty slim.

I'm not well versed in the history of the guy but going off my FIL who is I assumed he was on the spectrum.

Yeah but I mean to say that there are a lot of good movies where as the number of good games is limited. I'm not talking about the levels and the word the game uses I'm talking about the characters amd the story.

But isn't that like Steve Jobs though? Or Spielberg or whatever? I mean he can be outgoing and still be autistic. He had all the obsessive traits as far as I can see.

I think he was autistic wasn't he? I watched it with my father in law who is a big history buff and at one point was working alongside GCHQ and his gripe was that they down played how autistic the rest of the team were.

According to him they were all autistic as fuck and one of them chained his cup to the wall like Sheldon Cooper sort of thing.

Edit: not sure why I'm getting down votes as Turing is widely accepted as being autistic in the UK and a quick Google tells you the other two mentioned probably have/had autism too.

I don't think so. I mean I play a couple of games a year and they're well done but I think its rare you get a well written or directed game. Most are pretty run of the mill.

I'd have to disagree and I doubt you're intention if that's your take.

Come again? I'm not saying it is better but just like all movies you can't compare a 50 year old film to a 2 year old film. The pointcis that the wickerman inspired others.

I don't rate the lighthouse but I think the other examples are great. The thing is though you certainly couldn't have had midsommer without the wicker man. I enjoyed the wickerman and think it's a classic in low key tension.

I enjoyed it. I didn't know it was unpopular.

Had sex with my now wife in the back of the cinema while watching the house bunny. If you haven't seen it it's really not great but I like that memory.

I also have happy memories of the first transformers movie where all my friends and out teenage girlfriends went to see it in a massive group. It was so fun. Just like wholesome teenage fun at the movies.

Saw the second matrix movie with some lads from school the night it was released.We snuck out as teenagers, snuck into the movie and then got stranded as we missed the last bus. We then had to call a lads mum to come and get us and she was pissed. We were made up though.

A couple of days after my son was born my wife told me to leave her at home and watch Rogue 1 as she knows I love starwars but knew we wouldn't get chances to go to the cinema with a new baby at home. I went with a mate and it was epic. I loved every scene.

Watched the Witch in the middle of the night while feeding my new born son over a bleak winter. Just holding him as he slept and ate and his mum was in the bedroom exhausted. It was spooky but the story of the missing baby at the start of the film felt much more powerful with a baby in my arms.