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They polled 500 people who work in television (actors, writers, showrunners, etc). With any list like this, there are certain genres that are going to be under-represented, and the top of the list is going to be dominated by popular mainstream shows. Just keep that in mind, because we all know that the Netflix Devil May Cry show deserves to be #1.
Imagine going to a concert only to hear the lead singer go into a rant about Fallout 4 mods. Apparently, Burnley's mod is "AI-assisted", so maybe the heckler had a point.
>"There was a modder in the community that was really mean to me and bullying me, saying, 'Oh, your mod is shit. You don't know what you're fucking doing,'" said Burnley. "So I'm doing this every fucking night, and blowing his fucking downloads out of the water."
>That was a mere two minutes into the four-and-a-half minute rant. Someone behind the scenes at the venue even joined in, putting the mod's details up on screens.
>"Even if you fuckin' don't play that game, go and download it. It's on Nexus Mods," said Burnley. "Tomorrow I better see all my motherfuckin' downloads going up."
>An attendee shouts: "Play some music!" Burnley keeps going, telling the audience that he's about to deploy a new update, and to wait for that version before downloading it.
>"When you post a mod, you're supposed to be able to grow and learn and make it better," Burnley said. "And right off the bat, this fucking asshole was shitting on my mod."
Halloween: The Game is an asymmetrical multiplayer survival horror game releasing in a couple of days. The premise of the game, which is based on the Halloween movies, is that one player plays as the killer Michael Myers to stalk and kill four other players, who play civilians whose goal is to stay alive, fulfill objectives, and escape. If this all sounds familiar, it's because the developer IllFonic also made nearly every other asymmetrical multiplayer game based on a horror movie. Most of these have, unsurprisingly, flopped or shut down in the wake of Dead by Daylight, which is essentially the Fortnite of asymmetrical multiplayer horror games. Halloween: The Game is currently available to play for those who pre-ordered the Deluxe Edition.
One mechanic unique to Halloween: The Game is well.... sex. During gameplay, two players can enter a closet together and play a button-mashing sex mini-game. Nothing explicit is actually shown, as the act occurs entirely behind the closet doors, and players get a buff if they succeed in the mini-game. Obviously, this is an homage to how people who have sex in slasher horror movies tend to meet their ends rather quickly.
Well, there's a bit of an issue. Most of the characters that the civilian players can choose from are high school or college-aged young adults. Some are original, but some are characters taken directly from the Halloween movies. And one playable character is Dr. Loomis, a 60-year-old man, whose likeness is based on the actor Donald Pleasance. And one might imagine that the Pleasance estate is not happy with the man's likeness is being used to have sex with characters that are canonically as young as 17.
After the sex went viral on several streams, Illfonic has quietly patched out the sex mini-game. And the game's subreddit has... mixed feelings about that.
Thread: "Please add back sex mini game"
>>> Wait, minors couldnt have sex but its okay to get brutally murdered by a psycho? Does no one gets this is crazy?
>> a 50 year old man fucking a 17 year old girl is not very halloween IMO. 17 year olds and 18 year olds yeah teens had sex in that movie that makes sense, but when it's loomis and cops it's gross.
> Brother the fact YOU AS THE PLAYER aka Grown ahh Adult are watching and interacting with teens in a “sex” mini game , doesn’t that make you a PDF?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheHalloweenGame/comments/1w8n1i4/please_add_back_sex_mini_game/p843c5t/
Thread: "They removed the sex minigame"
>> My god what a bounce of woke people.... if you cant handle the sex mine game and the name joint, then you are too young to play this game
> I think the issue with the minigame is because people found out you can do it with Loomis and young high schoolers… I get they are 18 but it still looks awfully wrong. They will likely remove him from being able to do it and then re-add it
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheHalloweenGame/comments/1w8nmec/they_removed_the_sex_minigame/p850qnb/
>>>>> Mid 50s Loomis, Psychiatrist, 'messing around' with high school girls... in a closet... Sounds pretty noncey
>>>> I mean murdering teens I would argue is worse than Loomis getting it on with whom he shouldn't but that's just me ig.
>>> One is part of the film the game is based on... The other is not
>> I mean the film also depicts minor characters having sex so idk man. Sure they are played by adult actors but the characters themselves are supposed to be underage. Again though are we really gonna pretend murder is better because of this though.
> Are you saying minors having sex with other minors is the same as mid 50s Loomis having sex with high school students?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheHalloweenGame/comments/1w8nmec/they_removed_the_sex_minigame/p85cu7l/
Thread: "They replied to my Reddit post about sex mini game"
>>> Yall are so quick to cry pedophile over this one overlooked instance. the victim complex is insane
>> In no way should you be defending this.
> Honestly in no way does anything you say mean anything to me because I can tell that you’re a chronically online crybaby looking for reasons to play the victim and throw around the word pedophile for fun.
Thread: "Sex minigame being removed sets a bad precedent for the game, not for the reason you think."
>> Classic gooner upset that the devs removed a gross mini game
> Classic bootlicker defending Gun and Illfonic’s inability to communicate with their playerbase for the third straight game. Gonna deepthroat them some more?
Thread: "Why did they remove the sex???"
>>>> idk but good, shit was weird
>>> lol getting downvoted for not wanting sex in a video game
>> Will someone think about the children ?
> I mean, Laurie’s 17.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheHalloweenGame/comments/1w8h6ms/why_did_they_remove_the_sex/p82pwwb/
Thread: "Anyone else mad they removed sex?"
>>bro you must been a goon addict jesus christ. go outside and touch grass.
> That's like the equivalent of me saying "Wow you like the original Halloween? There's nudity in that movie you must be a goon addict Jesus" like nobody gives a fuck about that aspect of it? It's just they're fixing all this menial stuff that know ones asking them to do when there are much bigger issues at hand
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheHalloweenGame/comments/1w8l50o/anyone_else_mad_they_removed_sex/p83j9a8/
>>> Cartoon fetishes are so weird
>> 🤦🏼Wow okay, no ones masturbating to silly sex minigame in Halloween the game. I'm pointing out (very validly) that there are thousands of things that can be tweaked in this game in its current state and them removing the harmless closet minigame is mildly infuriating
> keep yapping brah
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheHalloweenGame/comments/1w8l50o/anyone_else_mad_they_removed_sex/p83jx48/
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Lanterns is a superhero/sci-fi detective show on HBO that is based on the long-running Green Lantern comic book series, which has had many writers over several decades. The show is developed by Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers, Watchmen) and Chris Mundy (Ozark), and airs on Sunday prime time, the same timeslot used by other famous HBO shows such as The Sopranos, The Wire, and Game of Thrones. Given everything I've told you, it probably wouldn't surprise you that this show is rated for mature audiences.
In the second episode, one of the protagonists Hal Jordan (played by Kyle Chandler) breaks into a morgue to smuggle out several dead bodies. In one scene, the exposed penis of one of the naked bodies can be seen for a second. And somehow, this has caused a bit of drama.
OP mocks a blue check Twitter account for getting offended over a penis: "Grown 60 year old man can’t take a blink and you’ll miss it moment from an HBO series."
Drama highlights:
>>>> What audience are they trying to target here?
>>> Adults. It’s an adult show. It’s not meant for audiences under 18.
>> Green Lantern, the famously rated M for mature character
> (commenter responds with a panel from one of the most popular Green Lantern comics, where a character is blowing out his own brains)
>>> The realism of dragging a corpse to a car from a morgue is not shock value. Watch more television, read more comics. Black Hand literally commits suicide in a fully illustrated panel. You are not familiar with the source material.
>> Black Hand committing suicide is in character for him. What's the point of showing dead dong?
> Adult content is fine if you’ve personally decided it’s in-character? Will kids separate the difference between Black Hand viscerally blowing his brains out face-forward in a comic panel in a freeze-fame, and less than a second of a nude corpse and decide the corpse is worse?
>>>> The show comes on HBO at 9PM on Sundays. It’s the traditional spot held by Six Feet Under, Band of Brothers, Sopranos, Game of Thrones, The Last of Us, etc., and any of those shows had waaaaaaaay more adult content that this one, though the intended audience is still decidedly adults. Everything about this show is tailored for a mature audience. And HBO is a paid subscription service, you paid for the filth, so enjoy it for Gods sake, or cancel the subscription. This is just clearly clickbait engagement farming by culture war grifters searching desperately for content to post about.
>>> some people just don't want to see nudity in their shit. It's not deep.
>> That would be fair if (again) it wasn't an adult show on HBO. Also you're right, it's not that deep, it's a 1 second scene. Literally no kid would be traumatised if you normalise it.
> Let’s maybe not say normalize exposing children to genitals.
>>> I think there is a discussion to had as to whether the show should be TV-MA or not. I can understand thinking that Green Lantern of all things should be appropriate for all ages. This is not a criticism of the show by any means, but I get wondering why they made one of the core elements of DC Comics off limits to kids.
>> Green Lantern covers topics like genocide, fascism, free will, fear, cosmic horror, death, lust, and countless other controversial topics. Black Lanterns are decaying, rotted corpses of former heroes and allies who exist solely to be psychologically manipulative and rip hearts out of chests. Green Lantern in the 80s dealt with the heroin epidemic.
> So did Avatar and that show was made for kids.
>>> So we can have naked dead bodies but can’t have green in the title because it sounds dumb?
>> How are those two things correlated
> You don't understand: It's obviously because James Gunn is woke. Duh.
Okay, it's also a couple of new starting classes as well. The DLC is the extra content that's included in the Tarnished Edition for Switch 2.
