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Just a PSA because this almost snuck past me, it's certainly an "odd" move, but GBX released a free expansion to Borderlands 2 that sets up the events of Borderlands 3, and they made it FREE until 7/7/19.  If you owned Borderlands 2 on any platform, it's free.

Playing it right now, and it's pretty fun.  In addition to the new story, it adds new weapons and a new tier of weapons, and raises the level cap to 80.

The main thing that keeps me from jumping in on any of the arguments about "how bad it will be" if it's "CD leftovers" is that we actually won't know and it will be a whole different debate when it's released.  "Oh 'Money Train' is really 'Jackie Chan' so it sucks!"   Even with "The General" and "Atlas Shrugged"  unless those phrases feature prominently in the song, it could easily be renamed.  For example, let's pretend "Estranged" was flip flopped with one of them, so we heard "The General" on the Illusions albums, but "Estranged" was one of the "big guns" we were waiting on right now.... If it was released with the name "How it was gonna be" we would have no fucking clue it wasn't a "new" song.

I think by FAR the BIGGER concern is the political climate and how the songs will be "self-censored" not to derail the money train that is the reunited band.  GnR won't touch anything even remotely controversial or dangerous in the lyrics for this album.  I feel like a song about powerful women not making the same wage as a man won't appeal to me in the same way as a song about drugs and whores.

14 hours ago, appetite4illusions said:

The best haunted house movie never seen?

The Changeling (1980)

It’s frequently listed as one of the most chilling films ever made. Admirers include Stephen King and Martin Scorsese.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ew.com/movies/2018/08/02/the-changeling-blu-ray-peter-medak/amp/

I'll definitely check it out, thanks for the tip.  Have you ever seen this one?

9 hours ago, lame ass security said:

Definitely, The Entity is excellent, I think it might've been loosely based on actual events. And Salem's Lot, wow, some truly frightening scenes in that one.  The kid floating outside the window and the vampire suddenly appearing in the kitchen, scared the hell out of me as a kid.

One of the reviews for "The Haunted" that I saw when I was looking for it was "The PG version of The Entity."   It's funny that movie came up in this thread.

This started as a thread to find this movie, I found it.  

This is the only made for TV movie I think I've ever liked.

16 hours ago, Iron MikeyJ said:

Nothing wrong with going with the top of the line parts, if you can afford them. For me, I set a budget of $750, so I'm trying to stay within that. I just found AMD to be more cost efficient, yet still really good.

That build you have is really, really nice for that price point.  I don't know a ton about AMD but googled the parts and that will be a nice build, congrats.  

That's a nice build and a nice price, well done.  Enjoy the hell out of that thing.

10 minutes ago, Iron MikeyJ said:

You like going with all expensive stuff huh? Like Asus and Intel? Not hating, more power to you. I'm going with Ryzen and MSI myself.

Yeah, I'm in my mid 40's and I am just not where I was time and knowledge wise as I was in my 20's.  I used to do painstaking research to get the most cost efficient parts across the board, but these days I actually budget for PC upgrades and when I pull the trigger, I usually go with a really high rated, really current component.  Not to say there is anything wrong with getting the best value, as that used to be my M.O., just that my situation is different now.  I found this approach seems to be a wash budget wise, because everything lasts longer.  If I didn't have a cooler malfunction, my old PC was doing absolutely fine 4 years in whereas I would have had to have upgraded the entire rig (or most of it) by now.  

These days my research mostly consists of looking at benchmarks, looking for any common complaints about a component and pulling the trigger.  I thought it would be more of an expensive change than it was, because my last 2 PC's lasted well beyond what I was used to, with only the GPU's swapped out.  In other words, in the past I'd buy a cpu for like $150 every 3 years, compared to a $500 CPU that lasted me 6 years.  It's basically a wash.

The irony is that I enjoyed those days a lot more, but tried going back and can't stand it.  I had a blast buying basically all of my shit to be overclocked, then doing said overclocking until something broke down, and starting the process with said component all over again.  I don't think of that as fun at ALL anymore, but loved it back in the day.

*The Intel choice was nonnegotiable for me though.  The last time I had any AMD component worth a damn was the FX-64 in early 2000.  The performance is back on par with Intel now, but I see so many people having issues with AMD GPU's on games that I didn't even look at them.

1 hour ago, Iron MikeyJ said:

What are the specs for your new rig?

My rig:
Born 4/2/19
Smackalibur III Esq.
GTX 1080ti
Intel Core i9-9900K @3.6MHz
32GB Adata DDR4 3000 2OZ 4x8GB 3000MHz
MoBo Asus ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO

13 hours ago, Towelie said:

If guitar players are so easily replaceable, why did Guns go from playing bowling alleys and half filled arenas to stadiums upon Slash’s return?

 

This is a real glass houses argument though.  Why was Slash doing the exact same thing without Axl?  I've said it once, and I'll say it 1,000 times more.  Axl and Slash are peanut butter and chocolate, they are great alone, but when combined, they make something very special.  People can have an opinion over which is more important to them on a personal level, it's simply taste and can't be argued with.  To me, personally, it's not GnR without Axl.  However, I can recognize that that isn't the case for everyone, and we have actual metrics showing, beyond the shadow of all doubt that when combined, more people want to see  them then either of them separate.

It's pretty good man.  Lol,  the lead singer needs to move a little bit it looks like some weekend at Bernie's type shit, he is like a statue with his lips moving, and nothing else!

If you ask 100 GnR fans this question, you will get 100 different answers.  There really is not definitive "right" or "wrong" answer.  For the record, I'd love to see Izzy in the mix, but on a personal level, Slash and Axl are 90% of what makes it a GnR song.

^^^ Having said that, the one thing that is driving me insane is the commonly held, and repeated belief that any songs that Axl wrote and has been tinkering with from the CD days would be a waste of time and/or garbage and not a real GnR song.  I think that flies directly in the face of GnR history and precedent. Songs like Don't Cry and November Rain are songs that were written long before their release, or "leftovers." That did not make them bad songs by any means.  It has also been common in the past catalogue for songs to be written by Axl, tinkered with by Axl and then passed to Slash to add the finishing touches.  It's a process that works.  dismissing a song off the bat because it went through the same process as many of their other classic tunes is short sighted, and ignoring the bands history.

Anyone get Rage 2?  How is it?

I can't seem to get a good read on it,  The initial reaction was good, but it's in freefall on Steam for no discernable reason.   I do know there is an issue on PC where the visuals look super blurry, but it can be fixed, and some of the negative reviews are people are slamming it over the blurry visuals, unaware they can be fixed with changing a few of the default video settings.   Outside of visuals, I haven't seen any kind of a trend in why it's "bad." 

Anyone played it?

Did anyone end up getting this?  If on PC let me know and maybe we can play a round or 2.

PS. It hit the million copy mark last week, and that was in spite of it being largely a flop on the PC because of the Epic thing.  Word is spreading that it is a fun ass game. 

On 5/7/2019 at 5:37 PM, GNRfan001 said:

I’m playing far cry new dawn, I’m on the last story mission and can’t win, to lazy to go back and earn a higher weapons level to make it easier on me. So I haven’t played in At least 2 weeks. 

Anyone play “days gone” ? I’ve heard good and bad things. Is it worth spending 60 bucks? 

Sorry if it was talked about already didn’t read the full thread 😬

I read it wasn't that great, it did worse than World War Z, and WWZ was review bombed for being on Epic, and still pulled a better overall score with said review bombs factored in.

The main drawback about Days Gone that I read was it was very repetitive, but some people really liked it.  The only thing it has in common with WWz is that they both feature Zombies.

On 4/28/2019 at 9:17 PM, Azifwekare said:

I've been listening to the Ghosts of Mars soundtrack with Bucket and Robin again... Fight Train would've been such a fucking kick-ass Guns song. 

 

From 0:33 to 0:47, that riff... I've heard it before but I can't place it.  I mean it's an exact riff.  Anyone?

EDIT It was Killing Box By Anthrax check 1:17

HOLY SHIT, exact same beginning too.  Check out the 22 second mark on Fight Train vs. the 5 second mark of killing box.  Was this a tribute or theft?

Have you ever been tired of people asking about something that you didn't have a set time on?

One example:  Was dating this girl for a few years, our family kept asking us when we were going to get married.  2 times a year we had a family gathering on each side, so 4 extended family gatherings a year + special events like baptism, confirmation, weddings etc.  We were always getting asked and it annoyed the fuck out of us.  Then we decided to start telling people we decided to not get married, ever.  It was false, but it got people to stop asking us every fucking time we saw them.

At this point, people can extrapolate anything they want from any given gunner comment.  For me, as old hat, in on the ground floor in 87, I'm not going to be excited or depressed about anything that comes out.  GnR has proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that nothing is certain, and nothing is impossible.

On 5/3/2019 at 3:50 PM, janrichmond said:

Josh is Richman not Richmond, I very much doubt that's Goldstein's account 

I would be more suspicious if he claimed Dylan was the one that said he liked it, vs Dylan's wife.  Nobody can understand a fucking word Bob Dylan says, anyone claiming they did would have proven the story a fraud, right there.

The whole concept of "anything but releasing new music" is predicated on the band being adverse to releasing new music, yet Duff and Slash just did, and people keep alleging that Axl tried, but the record company "wouldn't even listen."  Can we settle on a talking point?  FFS, there may or may not be an album, but if there isn't that will be the result of things going south, creative differences, money shares, etc.  Slash, Axl and Duff aren't sitting in a room and saying "You know what I don't want to do, like ever? Release music.  Yeah, fuck that."

It just doesn't add up.  Axl has ended his search for Slash substitute, and Slash has found his perfect Axl substitute.  They didn't travel the world to find each other for conversation and handjobs. They want to work together.

FYI to anyone who was vested in the "epic exclusive" aspect of Metro Exodus.  It is now available on Humble Bundle.

7 hours ago, Billly B said:

Well Fortus stated that he did most of his work on the follow up the Chinese Democracy. The label refused it like they did Chinese Democracy in hopes for a reunion which happened.

There is no new information that tells us definitively that this was CD II vs, a remix album, is that correct?    Saying Axl finished and tried to turn in CDII but the record company "refused" to even hear it is information that came out of an ass, as opposed to a credible source, no?  A label saying "We don't want an album of remixes" vs. "sod off, we are not interested in hearing this brand new album of brand new material." are two very different things.

6 hours ago, t-p-d-a said:

1991 - 1987 = 4

2008 - 1991 = 17

2019 - 2008 = 11

 

Is it not insane to anyone else that CD was 11 years ago?  As an old timer, waiting for CD since TSI dropped, it blows my mind to think that there are fans on this board today that may not have been old enough to know who GnR even WAS in 2008.

  I guess there was an older game named World War Z, kept pulling up reviews for it.  I'll add more to this after I've played more.  This is currently a DS approved title.

Curious what other people thing of it, I'm loving it.  FINNNNALY a L4D style game with a fresh coat of paint.  

High points: 

Great visuals

- Massive amounts of zombies on screen, not even sure how it's possible*

- weapon leveling system, good variance of weapons.

- Character classes and class leveling.

- choke points with auto turrets, and defensed you can set up

- Nobody is a "pro" yet, so it's a far less toxic community in multiplayer vs. L4D.

Low points:

If you wanted something "very different" from the L4D formula, you'll be disappointed. 

- Vulkan setting causes frequent 1 second lock ups when FIRST starting a level, but runs better than the DX11 settings... however, the DX11 setting don't have those lockups in the beginning of the level... #quandry.

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The massive wavs of zombies seen in these trailers are actually in the game, I thought this was straight bullshots, but all this shit is actually on screen at once. 

I'm curious about what people who have played it think, because it's got a user rating of 75(moving rapidly as reviews pour in) but it's mostly good reviews, with a bunch of 0 out of 10 ratings mentioning the Epic store.  So having a 70+ average, with a flush of review bombs dragging it down seems pretty good.

*I think I might have figured out how it's possible, some of the zombie hoards are really "one" enemy animated to look like a swarm of zombies.  In reality, it's not a glob of 50 independent AI's but actually 1 AI.  This absolutely WORKS because they are moving as a crowd, this was only something I keyed in on when blowing up a "hoard" with a missile or grenade.

49 minutes ago, Billly B said:

So there was supposed to be Chinese Democracy 2 (Which Fortus did a lot of work on) but the label refused to hear it after the fail of Chinese Democracy commercially. So yeah they could re-record those songs and have Axl sing on one  or two of Slash and Duffs and there is a record.

What?  Where is that info from?  Does that seem rational to you?  The record company "refused to hear" CD2?  I hope for your sake that you just made that up as opposed to someone else made that up and you are repeating it because it sounds plausible to you.

17 hours ago, DTJ80 said:

Stylistically it will have stuff similar to CD by the virtue of there almost certainly being CD-era songs on it.

I could be wrong, but I don't think it will be as close to CD as some people are expecting.  Even if it's all CD era songs, even those songs changed drastically from their 99 industrial roots + I think Axl has turned a corner in "letting go" of some of the control, I think he'll let Slash and Duff do their thing.

This is all my opinion, but I think things are different.  I think older GnR fans understand it more, not because "older means wiser" but when you get older, you just give considerably less fucks. Those of us who are older understand that by virtue of our own dwindling fucks output.

On 2/13/2019 at 10:18 PM, 31illusions said:

Never played the original. So I'm pretty pumped! As required by law, I must purchase every Zelda game ever made!

 

I'm not sure how I feel about the art style on this.  My initial reaction is "meh" but it might change over time as it is wont to do when introduced to a new art style.