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    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

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    I've just started Dragon Age Origins since I'll never be able to run the last one. Good game but doesn't seem to age well. Also it's weird to play this after Star Wars The Old Republic since you cann tell how BioWare pretty much used the same design blueprint for both games.

     

    Tried Borderlands 2 for the second time and abandoned it again... The beginning is so promising, awesome atmosphere and all. But as soon as you get to Sanctuary everything feels overwhelming. There's just too much in this game. I can hardly feel attachment to any character or to the game itself, which is sad because it really has epic and funny moments, sometimes both at the same time. They feel drowned though.

    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

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    Speaking of open world games. I would kill for a new Shenmu or something like it. A good open world game with a very good fighting game engine built into it. So ahead of its time. You couldn't shoot cops heads off or collect cars etc. so it didn't take off. Shaaaaame

    Did you play Sleeping Dogs?

     

    Sleeping Doges feels a bit muddled, not really immersive, too shallow. Which is understandable considering its hectic development.

    Films Recently Watched

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    The Rover : great post-collapse film. Australia looks especially amazing in that particular setting. Great actors too, Guy Pearce is top notch as usual and Robert Pattinson keeps on surprising me. This dude only has made great choices after Twilight... Also very strong OST with some tracks from Colin Stetson, William Basinski, Tortoise plus great drone pieces. Recommended.

     

    Any other good recent movies in the post-apocalyptic theme ? I've watched Children of men and it was awesome. Didn't like The Road and I heard Young Ones (with the FBI agent from Boardwalk Empire) was pretty meh.

     

    not to be super-pedantic but The Rover and CoM are both mid-collapse films, not really post-apocalyptic films. especially The Rover. the idea Michod had behind this movie was to invert the current global economic structure and make the rising Asian economies the new powers of the time while Western economies slump and collapse. the violence and anarchy depicted in the film happens now, in impoverished states. it's not some distant future. this is actually a big part of understanding this film, because (as you know) there isn't a lot of exposition.

     

    I loved The Rover because its point is made in such a subtle, unspoken language, i.e. the body language of the drifter and the desolate beauty of the outback. and the music was brill.

     

    anyway, for other similar movies with a desert feel, there's always Mad Max 1 & 2. for a less well-known flick, there's this:

     

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    an underrated classic.

     

    You're right, that's actually why I said "post-collapse" instead of "post-apo" at first but still ended up saying the latter. I do love this about this movie too, the way everything is felt rather than clichedly introduced with an opening text, a voice-over narration or a news report. Even Mad Max did that without any need of doing so. Kinda breaks the magic.

    Films Recently Watched

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    The Rover : great post-collapse film. Australia looks especially amazing in that particular setting. Great actors too, Guy Pearce is top notch as usual and Robert Pattinson keeps on surprising me. This dude only has made great choices after Twilight... Also very strong OST with some tracks from Colin Stetson, William Basinski, Tortoise plus great drone pieces. Recommended.

     

    Any other good recent movies in the post-apocalyptic theme ? I've watched Children of men and it was awesome. Didn't like The Road and I heard Young Ones (with the FBI agent from Boardwalk Empire) was pretty meh.

     

    Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke) is good, but features the killing of a horse. Don't feel bad if you steal it, m8.

     

    Oh yeah seen that one. Strong movie that one, almost made me sick in my tummy.

    Films Recently Watched

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    The Rover : great post-collapse film. Australia looks especially amazing in that particular setting. Great actors too, Guy Pearce is top notch as usual and Robert Pattinson keeps on surprising me. This dude only has made great choices after Twilight... Also very strong OST with some tracks from Colin Stetson, William Basinski, Tortoise plus great drone pieces. Recommended.

     

    Any other good recent movies in the post-apocalyptic theme ? I've watched Children of men and it was awesome. Didn't like The Road and I heard Young Ones (with the FBI agent from Boardwalk Empire) was pretty meh.

    What are you consuming right now?

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    my body is a temple.

    u r absolutely adorable :) ..onion brǝath tho :o

    Haha, that's what the tea helps with. ;)

     

    Seriously though, the new green tea range by twinings has finally got me to kick my chain drinking coffee all day at work habit. Pretty impressive.

     

    This, discovered a few months ago how tea was ridiculously superior to coffee in every way. I actually feel much better.

    What TV series are you watching at moment?

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    Okay I've just checked "sitcom" in wikipedia lol, and I do love Scrubs to death. Malcom in the middle was cool too. and if we're counting the Simpsons as one then yes, plus Family Guy.

     

    @azatoth : did you watch Battlestar Galactica ? I'd say it's at least a good start for what you're asking for. Maybe a bit too "earthian" though.

    What TV series are you watching at moment?

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    Also watching Gotham right now. It's nicer than I thought it would be thanks to the lore and the actually pretty good actors overall, but the realisation really is quite terrible. The way it's filmed and set is gross, feels like it should have been broadcasted years ago as a failed mainstream series. Which is too bad because it's not what it is...

     

    @meshgearfox : I dunno really since I have avoided pretty much anything called a sitcom because of that.

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