I hear Guts referenced in relation to the Greatsword every once in a while, but I've been pretty active in the DS1 community on Reddit and Youtube for almost a decade now, and I definitely wouldn't call it "the community name" for it, at least for DS1 specifically.

Yeah, they're only the ones who did the hours of extensive testing based on years of experience in their field to come to their conclusions, which they also selflessly packaged into an informative table instead of making people watch the whole video for that info - why should they get the eyeballs for their work when I could just play the role of a bloodsucking AI and regurgitate it for some lazy dipshit on Lemmy instead?

In the time it took for you to read this comment calling you out for being a dumbass you could have watched the video and gotten all the info you wanted.

Yes that's the one I meant, but it's just called "Greatsword", not "Guts' Greatsword".

I'd definitely call it "low-end" instead of mid. My low-mid-range $300 6700 from four years ago runs circles around the Steam Machine.

Greatsword for me!

I've been using Summit for the past six months or so and have enjoyed it.

There's always room for more disdain for police!

The book is excellent - about as good as his previous work in my opinion. It's definitely a case of the adaptation falling short, so look forward to and enjoy the read!

Username checks out.

I can't get past the fact that the bowtie changes colors.

That's funny, I'm the exact opposite. I grew up never getting why people liked the Simpsons, but Futurama is one of the funniest, most entertaining, and most moving shows I've seen.

Thanks, I'll research it a bit and see how to configure it to do what I want!

The Big Lebowski. It's not funny or entertaining in the slightest, and is almost physically painful to watch. I am legitimately confused as to how people can actually enjoy this movie.

Inb4 the "well, that's just, like, your opinion, man" comments.

Edit: also, The Office only became watchable after Michael left. Possibly the worst character in all of fiction.

Would this work for forums? There are some pretty long forum threads I'd like to preserve (complete with images), but I've never found a good way to do so.

I was also really disappointed by the adaptation, especially compared to the Martian. I'll see if I can find the comment where I talked about why and I'll come back and copy paste it.

Edit: here it is:

NOTE: I've tried to keep this as spoiler-free as possible, but even so you may not want to read this until after you've seen the movie.

The movie was definitely good, but fell pretty short compared to the book, and especially when compared to The Martian's adaptation.

For one, the movie felt way too much like a comedy, almost like a Taika Waititi Marvel adaptation of the much more serious (but still very funny) book, which felt tonally weird and didn't really land for me. Even the weight of the reveal of ::: spoiler spoiler Grace's refusal to go :::

was completely undercut by a tonally inappropriate, almost zany ::: spoiler spoiler chase sequence :::

that robbed the scene of most of the pathos it should have had. Reminds me of this excellent video about how modern blockbusters seem allergic to sincerity to their detriment.

We also didn't like how much more useless the movie made Grace feel. The book went out of its way early to show that he was a resourceful, intelligent, excellent problem solver, and while there was certainly a bit of this in the movie, it still felt like Grace was pretty much useless, undeserving dead weight, and like he either completely lucked his way through or had to rely only on

while in the book their partnership felt much more collaborative. All of this combined to make the reveal I mentioned earlier feel much darker/more depressing, because you get the impression that no, he really didn't deserve to be there, and then what he says at the end of the movie completely falls flat, because it felt like almost none of it was the result of his choices or character. Feels like it completely undercuts one of the main themes of the book, which is that he did deserve to be there, and that he was the right person for the job, even if he didn't think he was.

We also thought the movie omitted some of the book's best lines. "You can hear light?" is an all-time great line that still gives me shivers, and it definitely should have been in the movie.

Things we liked: 1. The movie was visually stunning - everything it was going for in the looks department it completely nailed. 2. One of the most important characters in the movie was very well done, in both design and characterization. Maybe a bit too manic, but that's a relatively small quibble in the larger context of just how well they did with him.

So yeah, very much an enjoyable two hours, but not as good as it should have been due to a few flawed adaptation decisions.

That's giving him too much credit. The bigger players in the industry were already trending that direction - he was just in the right place at the right time to profit off the inevitable transition.

Especially when the cops ARE the burglars in the first place.

Thanks so much for this comment! I'll definitely try All the Pretty Horses before I make up my mind!