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Could Eridians survive the Death Angels?
▲ 40 r/AQuietPlace

Could Eridians survive the Death Angels?

Since Project Hail Mary is still trending (at least in all of my FY pages), I thought this would be an interesting question.

So, like humans, Eridians depend a lot on sounds to communicate, but it seems like they depend a lot more on sounds. A big problem is that they seem to depend a lot on echolocation to know their surroundings, and they need to make sounds for that. Though I don't remember if it said the sounds they made are very faint.

u/Werewolf_Knight — 2 days ago
▲ 1 r/digitalcircusfandom

🟦🟨🟥Ok, Romanian fans! We need a change in our strategy!

We all know by now that Glitch has said that they had trouble with some distributors. Since I don't think our laws would be a problem in getting the movie here, I think the movie might not have been announced for different reasons (like Glitch said).

Anyway, I think we should contact distributors instead and ask them to make an exception this time. I know right now it seems less likely to get the movie here since we have less than a month till the premiere, but I think we should try till then. I'll leave text here with what I think we should write in the request (translate it to Romanian) and a list of the contact emails of distributors to which we can send the emails:

The request:

Bună ziua!

Știu că probabil ați primit o mulțime de cereri pentru a aduce filmul "The Amazing Digital Circus - The Last Act" în România și știu că probabil ați și început să discutați cu producătorii filmului. Dar scriu această cerere pentru că, recent, Glitch Productions, compania producătoare, a spus că au decis să nu lucreze cu unii distribuitori din motive de securitate. De exemplu, au spus că un distribuitor le-a cerut acestora să le trimită prin e-mail fișierul video brut, pentru ca apoi ei să îl poată expedia prin poștă către agențiile de clasificare/rating. Au refuzat fiindcă așa se întâmplă ca unele imagini sau chiar video-uri din film să apară online înainte de lansare. Au mai spus și că au mai fost refuzați, fiindcă lansarea pe streaming este prea aproape de lansarea în cinematografe.

Aceasta nu este o acuzație că v-ați numărat printre aceste companii (nici nu cred că este neapărat ceva rău), dar dacă s-a întâmplat ca voi să îi refuzați sau să fiți refuzați, atât eu, cât și o mulțime de alți fani din România, am vrea să faceți o excepție măcar de această dată pentru a ajuta filmul să ajungă la noi.

Cu stimă, Fanii The Amazing Digital Circus

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u/Werewolf_Knight — 10 days ago
▲ 3 r/Amazingdigitalcircus

🟦🟨🟥Ok, Romanian fans! We need a change in our strategy!

We all know by now that Glitch has said that they had trouble with some distributors. Since I don't think our laws would be a problem in getting the movie here, I think the movie might not have been announced for different reasons (like Glitch said).

Anyway, I think we should contact distributors instead and ask them to make an exception this time. I know right now it seems less likely to get the movie here since we have less than a month till the premiere, but I think we should try till then. I'll leave text here with what I think we should write in the request and a list of the contact emails of distributors to which we can send the emails:

The request:

Bună ziua!

Știu că probabil ați primit o mulțime de cereri pentru a aduce filmul "The Amazing Digital Circus - The Last Act" în România și știu că probabil ați și început să discutați cu producătorii filmului. Dar scriu această cerere pentru că, recent, Glitch Productions, compania producătoare, a spus că au decis să nu lucreze cu unii distribuitori din motive de securitate. De exemplu, au spus că un distribuitor le-a cerut acestora să le trimită prin e-mail fișierul video brut, pentru ca apoi ei să îl poată expedia prin poștă către agențiile de clasificare/rating. Au refuzat fiindcă așa se întâmplă ca unele imagini sau chiar video-uri din film să apară online înainte de lansare.

Au mai spus și că au mai fost refuzați, fiindcă lansarea pe streaming este prea aproape de lansarea în cinematografe. Aceasta nu este o acuzație că v-ați numărat printre aceste companii (nici nu cred că este neapărat ceva rău), dar dacă s-a întâmplat ca voi să îi refuzați sau să fiți refuzați, atât eu, cât și o mulțime de alți fani din România, am vrea să faceți o excepție măcar de această dată pentru a ajuta filmul să ajungă la noi.

Cu stimă, Fanii The Amazing Digital Circus

The email lists:

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u/Werewolf_Knight — 10 days ago
▲ 38 r/watershipdown

Was the book less violent or as violent as the 1978 movie?

I remember talking online with someone, and at one point, they said that the book, while still violent, wasn't as graphic as the movie. This is a simplification, but they told me the movie might have exaggerated things.

I watched the original movie adaptation, but I only started the book a few years ago, and I might return to it one day. But... as far as I read (I think I reached the chapter when someone says "Who's leader anyway?"), it didn't really strike me as VERY violent like the movie. Fiver's vision of the bloody hill is just mentioned, not fully shown like in the film, and, till that point, the book mentions the rabbits stumble across some smashed eggs (suggesting a bird might have lost its eggs), but outside those, nothing seems gory. But again, I haven't finished it.

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u/Werewolf_Knight — 14 days ago
▲ 100 r/PoppyPlaytime

I'm sorry if this has already been addressed.

For those who don't remember this moment form Chpater 4: There is a segment in the game where the MC gets stuck in a room with a Nightmare Critter that is also closed in a cylinder. Dr. Harley Sawyer gives the MC a test: either they kill this toy by plugging a plug into the cylinder, or they will remain in the room until they die. The Doctor, who has a history of doing unethical experiments, basically wants to prove to the MC that having morals doesn't get you far. This is a very interesting thing that can challenge both the MC and the player's morals.

Why I think this didn't work:

  1. This Nightmare Critter is not a unique character that either the player or the MC has formed a bond with. This is just a random being that we never meet in any of the chapters. Also, you can't make the argument that this toy is innocent and doesn't deserve to die because, throughout the chapter, a dozen Nightmare Critters just like them try to kill the MC. So, why should the player or the MC not think that this toy wouldn't have done the same if they weren't in this situation? I guess you can make the argument that this toy was at one point a kid who got turned into a toy (and the devs said that these toys don't age), but still...
  2. MC is a mute protagonist. We know barely anything about them, and nothing we know suggests how they will feel about this. And as mentioned earlier, neither did the player have any interaction with the toy to make a bond with it. So this test fails to make it logical in the context of the story, and it also doesn't create that much of a unique engagement.
  3. Even if the things I've mentioned weren't a problem, the game has a bar above that room to which you can use the Grab Pack to anchor yourself to it and leave the room without having to kill the Nightmare Critter. I get this is a detail you can miss if you don't look up (which a lot of gamers don't do), but what is the point of solving a moral dilemma if there's an easy way to get yourself out of it?

I think this would have worked a lot better if we had a lovable companion throughout the chapter, or at least one that we could sympathize with. Then we have the doctor forcing us to kill them. This would have created a much bigger impact, at least for the player. I also would have removed the other exit way.

u/Werewolf_Knight — 23 days ago