I think my answer to all 4 is Australia. 😂

Ya can’t even google a town square to put as the background in your D&D session anymore without the result being AI and you don’t even realise until your players point out the bullshit architecture 😂

You used the term Chrono Trigger twice.

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Tbh I don’t know enough about the legal side to even try to discuss it.

The whole thing is a mess. And it’s only just starting, he may be proven innocent. He might be guilty. We just don’t know and it’s hard to know what to think.

This is all said with the caveat that it’s inconsequential how I feel about a football team in the grand scheme of this situation.

I am struggling to know what answers anyone can give that leads to anything besides immediate dismissal.

If they knew, there’s no excuse.

The only case would be if they had been given evidence to the contrary that’s now proved to be false maybe?

On it being a lesser experience. I think it’s impossible to deliver the same experience between the mediums.

Nothings going to make the audience feel that level of conflict holding the controller in California, in the same way a game couldn’t make hate Walter White whilst still cheering for him.

Interesting, I felt the show used that scene as the moment to show shen Dina first finds herself
Truly falling for Ellie. Then those feelings were confirmed it later in the theatre.

It’s definitely not retelling things the same way the game did, I appreciate your thoughts.

I am sad it’s not hitting right for you though!

It sounds like the changes to adapt it to TV aren’t working for you, and tbh I feel it is near impossible to recreate the emotional swing the game performs on you, because a big part is that you’re put in control. It’s a special experience.

I think games allow for much slower pacing in terms of character development and give you hours and hours of little moments as you’re exploring and playing that is definitely missing. I don’t feel like we know Ellie or Dinah anywhere near as much as we did in the game I agree.

I don’t think Future Days is being ignored, it’s just a device you want to have a big hit. I think we’ll see it in a flashback and it’ll have the emotional impact there.

Re: the pacing, I actually think they’ve gone as slow as you can in a tv show to keep the audience interested-

Of course I am someone who prefers film & TV for narratives, and TLOU2 is the only game I’ve ever played that I think is on the same level as the best of those mediums.