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https://twitter.com/OverwatchNaeri/status/1769849869236351472 Kotaku interviewed several ex-Activision Blizzard employees after the PvE Staff for Overwatch 2 was laid off after Microsoft bought them. They said how there were few Story Missions that were playable, and the others were nowhere near done. Also that the plan was to release a few Story Missions every 18 months. As if they could ever stick to that... 3-4 years and all we got were three skill tree-less story missions with that one temporary event where you build a robot and escort it from point A to point B. Amazing that Blizzard keeps dishing out the Ls... they can't even tell a story after putting their beloved, award-winning game on life support for several years, promising that the money we spent on it was going to making the PvE mode, then they killed it and released "Overwatch 2", with updated PvP to go from 6v6 to 5v5... failed to deliver Hero Missions with branching skill trees.... and now... they can't even tell a story. It's scary I even have to ask this but... how the flying fuck did they get more done while suffering from HR and Manager abuse and breast milk theft than after they got exposed and were either fired or left the company? And after the hope that the Microsoft purchase would mean that they'd get more support and resources to finally work on the PvE properly since Bobby the Dick is gone.... Microsoft said they don't see the PvE as being profitable either. I've tried to be optimistic. I love Overwatch, not as a game, but I love the world, the characters, the story. There's potential to do so much with it... and they squander it. They set up this amazing history with the Omnic Crisis, a world at the brink of defeat til a group of special mercs come along and save it... and then have to save it again after being disbanded when a worldwide crisis threatens it again... and they just refuse to. And yet.. 343i was able to give Halo Infinite PvP AND a full campaign. Granted you can argue on the quality of Halo Infinite's story, BUT at least there's a STORY. There's a beginning, middle, and an end. And I'll admit... the scenes with Cortana got me. At this point? Fuck it, I think they should just cancel it. The head of Overwatch 2 said their primary focus is on PvP, we got 3 measly story missions that aren't worth the $15 they cost on their own, and the whole PvE staff was just laid off recently. The writing is on the fucking wall, they need to just announce that they fucked up and are canceling it so we can all move on with our lives, and maybe they can give us some free gold after lying to our faces for several years as compensation. And what gets me is that they still make new playable Heroes with backstories and lore that makes you interested in them... and proceed to do nothing with them. Honestly, what is the point of giving these characters lore or history if there won't be a story to tell with them? Just say PvE is cancelled and maybe hire some outside company to make a movie or tv show. That Mauga cinematic was beautiful and it was perfect in every way, and it's what we need more of. I'm not even saying make Overwatch like Arcane, that is way too high of a bar to set, even if it would be fantastic. If they're SO dead set against working on a Campaign or PvE that tells the story... then give the fans a show or something outside of the game to continue the story. The thing I've noticed in my travels, is there are people who are only invested in the PvP and couldn't give two shits about this whole situation, and there are people who are only interested in the story and don't care about the game at all. I fall in the middle, because this all started over a Video Game, ideally I would love to play the game and get the story that way. But if the game won't do it... I'll accept a show or a movie instead, because the cinematics they've made are FANTASTIC. If you made it this far... thanks for reading. This was just a vent post to get my... stream of consciousness out after seeing posts on Twitter about the state of PvE. Thing is, the last thing Blizzard told us was to wait til sometime in 2024 to get an update about PvE, or perhaps to get the next 3 story missions... but they're being vague and cryptic as fuck, while just going on and on about PvP, and the newly revived Esport, which confuses me because I thought it was over but no, it just came back as something else. Greaaaat. 2024 is just a terrible year... and we're only in March. Just keep piling it on... everything will be terrible til we get to January 1st, 2025. And even then who knows, it could get worse.

After sitting on it for a few days, I think I can finally give my opinion of the Five Nights at Freddy's movie. For a movie that's an adaptation of the first game, and from what I understand some elements of the book series as well as Security Breach, I think it was alright. I didn't think the movie was terrible, but I also didn't think it was amazing either. As a horror movie, there are some scares and certainly some gore, but this is probably the most family friendly horror movie you could ever see, because compared to fan-made works, be they games or 3D animations, or those VHS Analog Horror style animations that are made in I think Blender, this is pretty tame as most of the violence is either implied or off screen. The main four animatronics aren't as gross or decrepit looking as one would expect, considering the pizzaria is in total disrepair, but in a way, I wasn't too bothered by it. I feel like this movie was less about the scares, and more about the story, if that makes sense, as it really feels aimed more at those who are aware of the franchises' lore. FNAF 1 does have a story if you look close at the easter eggs while playing the game, it's where we found out that children were murdered, stuffed in the animatronics, and that Fazbear Entertainment has some shady dealings going on (such as how quick they are to clean up a crime scene). And in a similar way, this movie has a lot of easter eggs and callbacks to the games, or at least the first game, with a hint of Security Breach. Foxy's humming, the 8-bit intro showing the kids being murdered one by one, and of course at one point the famous death scream is played. Much like Illumination's Super Mario movie, it feels very safe with a simple story and doing its best not to be overly convoluted as the lore became over time, but giving the fans what they want for their first go at the silver screen. Simple doesn't mean bad, personally I like it. I like that the movie focuses less on "killer animatronics want to kill the main character at night yet comes back for five nights, what is he, stupid?" and more on the murdered kids and the main character's connection to them. As a longtime fan of Five Nights at Freddy's, rarely do I hear anyone talk about the child victims of Purple Guy, or as we now know him, William Afton. People only ever talk about the animatronics as the characters that the robots are portraying, like Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, but never about the child soul that's possessing them. It felt less like the animatronics were merely puppets or vessels that the souls controlled as they were bound to the mortal realm and more like they were just robot furry characters. There's a point where the main character's young sister reveals her imaginary friends were actually the missing kids after all this time, and they all play together. Some may say the tone is thrown off given that we're watching giant robots build a fort with the human characters to some lighthearted rock music, but honestly I found it cute. The fact is they were kids that were taken far too early from this world, and as such they still have the mindset of kids, wanting to play and make friends. There's a sadness that the FNAF franchise, at least 1-4, has that is rarely touched on because the main goal is to scare, and I like the movie actually did for once. Any issues I have with the movie are pretty minor, like William Afton not being in the movie enough, and overall just wanting more. I think it's better when a movie leaves you wanting more instead of just putting in so much it becomes bloated, and I'm glad it didn't do that. I hear we may get sequels since the movie did so well financially, and if we get one, I'm curious to see what the plan is, considering it wasn't a complete retelling of the first game, and we already have Afton in his Springtrap suit.

"I feel like something bad is going to happen to me. I feel like something bad has happened. It hasn't reached me yet, but it's on its way." - Alice Palmer

Lake Mungo is a mockumentary about the untimely drowning of Alice Palmer, a 16 year old girl who kept to herself and kept secrets from her family, and how her family struggles to deal with it, as we all process grief in our own ways, (A father who buries himself in his work, a mother who has frequent nightmares and chooses to walk around during the night and... enter people's houses, and a brother who develops a hobby in photography, and wearing his dead sister's jacket, as well as going to the dam she drowned in) but strange things begin to happen in their house, specifically around Alice's room. This is one of the best mockumentaries I've ever seen. Despite the paranormal element, this is not like a typical found footage film. Where those are filled with jump scares and people being attacked and things moving on their own complete with overly loud sound effects, this prefers to set an atmosphere of mystery, not only around what's happening after Alice died, but what happened the year before, and how Alice may have known that she was going to die. It feels very real, as there's less paranormal spectacle, and more realistic and grounded interviews, as secrets are revealed. And honestly, it was more sad than scary. I can't remember the last time I almost legit cried at the end of what is called a "scary movie". But that ending on Alice's phone camera... that ghostly figure coming toward her from the darkness.. that fills me with more dread than anything that's been made in modern horror films in a long time. SPOILER BELOW: At the end, the family moves out of the house, thinking that they have discovered all of Alice's secrets and that she had moved on, finally at peace. They can't feel her presence anymore, they don't believe her spirit is still there. But during the end credits, we are shown a montage of pictures, pictures that her brother had faked, claiming he captured images of her ghost by manipulating cutouts of her into the frame, to try and help his mother with her grief, but the camera slowly pans over and we see that while there was the "fake Alice", no one noticed the real Alice's spirit in the background, ignored by the family, never noticed or seen, including a picture of the three of them outside the house, with her in the window of the house. She isn't at peace, she's still around, but for some reason they can't feel her presence, and her family are moving on without her. Some speculate the brother killed her for some unknown reason, as he had unexplained bruises on his body, and he was the last one to see her alive, and that somehow... she just drowned, even though her father said the water was "very still"... and while that is a theory that circulates discussions of the film, I also like the other theory, that her death wasn't a murder... that when she saw her doppleganger of her own corpse a year before her death... it was an omen, and that there was no escaping it. She saw her own death, and it was coming for her, no matter what... and even in death, she feels just as alone as she did during those final months she wrote in her journal. We don't really understand death. What happens when we die. Do we go anywhere? Do we simply cease to exist.... is there any truth in lingering spirits who hang around because of unfinished business, or are they stuck, never knowing peace, but we just can't feel them anymore? That's some existential, depressing horror, and I love it as much as it makes me cry.

What's the worst sin a movie can commit? Me personally, one of them is when a film isn't focused on what style/genre it's supposed to be, because it's distracting and takes you out of the story. I watched a "Found Footage" movie called "The Pyramid". Plot summary: a father-daughter team find a three sided Pyramid buried deep beneath the sand in the desert outside the city of Cairo during a massive protest, possibly leading to a civil war. They're followed by a documentary crew who will document them with cameras as they make this new discovery. They're preparing to enter the pyramid through a tunnel, but because of the protests, the government orders them to leave the next day, and of course they're angry about being forced to leave and decide to investigate it early, only wanting to take a quick look inside. And then chaos ensues. For one thing, a found footage movie should never open with a big studio company logo, like 20th Century Fox. Yes, found footage movies are fake, we all know this, but if you want to keep that sense of realism, you don't start it by saying "HEY 20th CENTURY FOX STUDIOS MADE THIS MOVIE!" not to mention that instead of being a Found Footage film... there are several points in the film where they drop the shaky cam style to film shots in the traditional style... as well as having a score. Nothing worse than watching a video with added sound effects/music that is painfully obvious it didn't play when the video was recorded. And the acting... dear god the acting was atrocious. I know they don't typically hire big name actors for found footage movies to keep that sense of realism, cuz we'd never believe Tom Cruise is filming a ghost in his house, but even those actors have previous experience on television so they are passable at being scared, crying, panicked, having fun chemistry like a group of co-workers/friends would... but not here. Not to mention the CGI... dear god. So yes, the idea is great, a shaky cam movie that takes place in an Ancient Egyptian Pyramid... clearly they thought out the idea of the world before hiring people who could act because that was more interesting than anything else. But then the "monsters" of the film are... get this... Cats. Yeah... like weirdly aggressive, slightly bigger... cats I guess. And then later we find out that Anubis himself is a monster in the movie, and doing his actual Anubis thing, putting people's hearts on the scale to judge if they are pure or not. Great ideas and concepts but the CGI feels more like a ripoff of The Mummy or The Scorpion King... and the claustrophobia of being trapped in a tight space was done better in The Descent. Just a massive collection of bad executions that make this one of the weakest found footage movies IMO. And what's weird is that it has a lot of "Mid" reviews, a lot of "5/10", that it's considered up there with the better Found Footage movies which, I completely disagree with. So many movies done so much better than this... I was laughing and rolling my eyes at how bad this movie is. If you're curious, give it a watch, otherwise... maybe watch the Brendan Fraiser movies.

So, Shiver is female. Huh. I just had to use my eyes to figure that one out but hey, in this world, if you see someone with breasts and looks like a woman, they may use the "He" or "They" pronouns and they get mad at you for not being able to tell despite never having met them before. Honestly, they should've said Shiver was an attack helicopter. Yeah, it's a dead meme but it's still relevant.

Gotta love the mindset of these people. "Well so what if Shiver is NB? They can be whatever they want, they shouldn't be forced to be one or the other if they don't identify" until it's confirmed that nah, they're just projecting and Shiver is 100% a girl, and they say "Well, okay Nintendo says Shiver is female, but we can still say she isn't in our headcanons".

So if she WAS Non Binary, then people have to shut up and accept it, but because she ISN'T, you're not going to shut up and accept it? Like you really trying to have your cake and eat it too despite the massive "L" you just took? I just don't get these people in these communities who say they're all for acceptance and tolerance, until it turns out that a person isn't gay, trans, lesbian, non binary or whatever, they're a normal straight man or straight woman, and then suddenly they shout "YOU CAN'T BE THAT"? Just shut up and play your painting game for toddlers.

(Not insulting people who enjoy Splatoon as it is, my point is is that it's a family game for all ages, and is not the place to be discussing gender politics.)