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@3249 Well, he might be too woolly to specifically work for Chippendale's, but he could totally be an exotic dancer if he wanted to. Denying a man his calling due to a rampant case of chest fuzz would be showing a complete lack of nirvmana.

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I'm sure there's a market for it.

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Aw, man, I hate it when people judge what I groove to in privacy.

*Moves it to EW&F's "September"*

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I can't take "September " seriously ever since this happened.

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New comic.

http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/escape-rooms-hit-that-perfect-balance-between-zelda-and-saw

I confess I had to google what the comic was referencing, and I'm still not completely sure of the concept. Seems too scary for me.

@3256 Oh, man, that is a classic clip. That's going to probably be as funny as long as the English language exists.

After that, we'll have to translate it, because I don't see why that wouldn't work in other languages.

@3257 Oh, escape rooms! I fucking love escape rooms! My big problem is that so few of my local acquaintances like them, so I only get to do them when I get together with like-minded friends who live out of state.

I will note that they're usually not as hardcore as the one shown in the comic - the worst I've had was that I went into one where I was cuffed behind my back, and part of the escape was finding the key. (Others were in the room and cuffed to each other - I was the odd one out.)

They're not nearly as scary as they sound... but that said, the permitting for those places is a bit of a nightmare in no small part because they have to be super rigorous to make sure the things aren't actually dangerous.

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I love escape rooms. When I went to South Korea they had these escape room cafes and it was a ton of fun trying the various rooms. They rate them by scariness and difficulty. The scariest one was a snowed-in cabin murder mystery, and actually was low-key creepy. Two most memorable moments: One required us to shine a light down a dark hole in the wall. I was looking in as I shined the light and a dude with a killer clown mask briefly passes by the opening, freaking me out. Then there was another one where my cousin solved this breaker puzzle on the wall, only for a box above her to open up and dump a bunch of rubber bugs on her. She hates bugs. That was hilarious.

Oh, man, I've heard that I'd like visiting South Korea before, but I didn't know about that. Geez, I hope things fall into place for me to visit.

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I'm doing my first escape room this sunday. heh. timing.

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You know, while I can totally understand the many, many reasons why you wouldn't want to be in an escape room with him, I bet Kratos would be amazing at them.

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I've been to escape rooms twice. Both with wildly different concepts (escape the pharaoh's tomb! Find where Sherlock Holmes is being held prisoner) and both really neat. It's a lot of fun to figure out the puzzles, and each time came right down to the wire.

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Kratos has a bad habit of breaking the puzzle room. Like, he'll solve half of the puzzles, but he stabs the other half. He's very pragmatic about his puzzle-solving.

edited 12th Oct '17 9:33:02 AM by TobiasDrake

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Last GOW I played, the other occupants were part of his solution. As in "hmmm, I need something to hold the gate open, but the wheel that opens it keeps closing. I know, I'll take this innocent half-naked lady and throw her mangled body into the wheel to get it stuck!"

MGDMT's Kratos is a fun guy, but the canon one is an asshole.

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Yeah, that's Kratos. It's one of the things I try to bring up when people forget that he's not actually supposed to be a likable character. Every. Single. Game. Every single game in the series has a scene of some kind where, in order to advance through the game, you have to murder an innocent person in cold blood while they beg and scream and cry for mercy.

Every single game.

Kratos is a brutal, awful horror of a man. That's not a bug. That's a feature. You aren't supposed to like Kratos.

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That may be, but it turned me off of the rest of the series. That, and the combat being shallow and repetitive for a spectacle fighter.

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I think that's because the comic's versions of the characters already went through some form of Character Development. Remember, the Commander's agency is supposed to help them cope with "normal" life.

Kratos is trying to deal with his anger issues, Duke Nukem is a dysfunctional mess behind his macho exterior and Ganondorf is just awesome.

edited 12th Oct '17 11:30:03 AM by DrunkenNordmann

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Which is totally reasonable. Kratos is a total Villain Protagonist, and given the immersive nature of gaming and just how objectionable his activities often wind up becoming, turning it off in disgust is totally a natural reaction.

What gets me is people who idolize him and see him as a role model. You're not supposed to like Kratos.

EDIT: The second game encourages the player to literally kick puppies. That is an actual game mechanic and it's highly effective to ensure a maximum amount of puppy-kicking is engaged in. You're not supposed to like Kratos.

edited 12th Oct '17 12:06:02 PM by TobiasDrake

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Or at least, you weren't supposed to like Kratos before he grew a beard.

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)

Remains to be seen, but yes. At the end of GOW3, Kratos had a crowning moment of Character Development where he realized that everything terrible in his life happened because of him, abandoned another opportunity to embark on his never-ending bloody vengeance crusades, and took his own life to restore hope to the world he had destroyed in his quest to satisfy his bloodthirst.

From what we're seeing of the new game, it looks like the development stuck.

edited 12th Oct '17 10:41:05 PM by TobiasDrake

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I'll believe it when I see it. Considering how irredeemably fucked the world was at the end of GOW 3 due to Kratos kicking down every cosmic pillar he could find, it's gonna take at least some mild retconning. Or a full-on Age of Sigmar.

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I should probably throw in that MGDMT Kratos is the only Kratos I enjoy in any way. Not only do I find him repellent in the games, but I don't even like the way the games in question play. If I'm going to play as a Villain Protagonist, I want to have said protagonist at least be further on the Anti Hero scale than Kratos.

That said, considering that MGDMT runs with Kratos being a ridiculous rage monster and really liking puzzles, I like the idea of Kratos giving an escape room a try in the comic.

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Looks like 4's solution is just move to a new world, Norse Mythology

So exactly like Age of Sigmar.

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