u/Liquid_Pestar

Fight by Unwritten Law for me as someone who religiously played Midnight Club 3 as a kid. Relistening now, it's still a high-energy cheeky punk banger and the lyrics hit harder after going through the motions of life from a kid to your 20s and revisiting the song about "still putting up a good fight!"

There’s one tiny mission I missed on my first couple playthroughs that made me love Origins more. The detective missions are mostly fine and work to immerse yourself in Batman’s more calculative side, but I found the separate side missions rather dull without any main villains being involved and it was only a couple years ago I bothered to finish them all.

Most detective missions involve you investigating a singular murder, but the final mission has you investigate a double-homicide eerily similar to the Waynes’ murder. When Batman finds the killer…..it’s just an unimportant singular crook……and, for the only time throughout the entire Arkham games, Batman almost kills him.

Alfred calls to calm him down and Batman returns to normal. But this was the final side mission of the entire game, which usually takes place long after you finish the main plot.

So, with the Origins world being much emptier than City (a complaint I see sometimes about the game), there’s nothing more for you to do after this except drift the city. Batman’s last, small unimportant case is the single most alarming moment that directly reminds him of his parents’ murder and he has to face the emptiness after.

While I’m definitely not sure this mood was intentional from the developers, I thought it perfectly summarised the underlying tragedy of Batman: no matter how much good he does or crime he stops, he will never overcome that one traumatised night.

1. Dragon Ball Super: - In the anime, Goku sees Trunks revive his partner by feeding a senzu bean to her with a kiss and is surprised. In the OG, Vegeta asks "You've never done that?", thinking Goku implies he's never kissed someone, whereas Goku thinks Vegeta is talking about feeding someone with their mouth. It's a funny misunderstanding.

In the dub, Vegeta EXPLICITLY asks "Kakarot, you've never KISSED someone before?", to which Goku replies "No of course not! Why would I?" It is therefore canon in the Dragonball dub that Goku rawdogged Chichi at least several times without giving any sugar. Absolute animal.

2. Sailor Moon: - In the anime, Neptune and Uranus are partners but are changed to being COUSINS in the dub likely due to an explicit lesbian couple not sitting right in the western dub department at the time. Dear lord.

3. Pokemon: - To make Western viewers less alienated, the onigiri in Pokemon is changed to jelly donuts in the dub. They literally could have just said riceballs or dumplings but to change it to something that looks absolutely nothing like it is hilarious.

For me, I'd probably go Sandwiches by Tyler. I thought it went hella hard at 18 as a boastful anthem with a hard beat. Now, dear god Tyler's screaming rap delivery and edgy lyrics trying to be menacing are so unbearable to listen to and the cheap-sounding drums and piss-thin production have made it age like milk. What's yours?

1. Les Dennis (Extras): - Renowned Family Fortunes host and UK comedian Les plays an unbearably depressing washed-up version of himself in Extras. While he was already considered a bit 'past it' at the time, he plays it tenfold and has a cheating younger girlfriend, can only land a role in a terrible mostly-empty Aladdin show and ends up sinking into a pitiful depression at the episode's end.
2. Bill Murray (Zombieland): - Plays a chill surviving version of himself and gets recognised as a legend before getting shot and killed out of nowhere after he tried to put on a zombie joke a little too well. His distaste of the Garfield movie is also brought to a hilarious display.
3. Kate Winslet (Extras): - Plays a nun in hiding for a WWII movie and ends up raving about how a Holocaust or a disabled-person role is how you get instant big in Hollywood and suddenly gives the most absurd phone-sex advice lines to our main cast with a hilariously straight-face: "I'm thudding myself stupid and I'm bloody loving it."
4. Daniel Radcliffe (Extras): - Is an immature teenager behind the scenes of another fantasy film and bigs himself up as a macho-alpha to the ladies and comes off as daft and pathetic, trying to show off his big-boy smoking habits and how much success he obviously gets with the girls.
5. Patrick Stewart (Extras) - Another straight-face gold scene, Patrick shows off his new screenplay idea to Gervais about a man with the ability to make women's clothes fall off. That's the full plot and he explains it deadly seriously to Gervais' astonishment. The bloopers to this scene are absolutely something else.

I really wasn't a fan of SSS4U on release and gradually warmed to Nokia and Die Trying before getting into the vibe of the whole album. This track stood out to me as a particularly strong vibe with its wavy hypnotic production and Drake's infectious flows ("vent to me baby") before breaking into the also real strong PND section. Never seen anyone talk about it so how does it hold on your book?

I can understand not loving CLB but how countless people have specifically picked out W2S as not only the worst track on the album but arguably Drake's worst track of all time and one of the decade's worst songs is ridiculous imo. I say this as someone who has always detested the I'm Too Sexy sampled song, which is spun in a funny and charming way, even I grew to like it.

The beat is fantastic and full of life, Future's hook is fire and Thug's verse is decent if not amazing. I've heard people complain Drake sounds lifeless but his laid-back flow works well with the swagger of the song concept imo and the "okay that's fine" refrain is an earworm. It's a super tongue-in-cheek funny banger and, at worst, I would call it a generic club hit. To call it a contender for worst of the decade and worse than songs like Gently is insane.