The Outer Worlds Pre-Release Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

The whole book is about how automatisation & globalized economy turns people into tools and puts the machine in charge. Left without even the time needed for meditation & introspection, the modern slave is cut from God.
Modern christmas customs (or easter, or halloween... yet other calendar celebrations of our cosmos recuperated by the church) is a sheer reflection of this acute analysis.
I'm not saying there's no place for a traditional approach of this special communion that Christmas is (next time I'll add "most" in front of "people" if you want), just like it was still very much possible to celebrate the sun in the Vth century, in Rome, bastion of traditional polytheism.
Still, there's an observable mutation nowadays. It transpires through these celebrations which are, yet again, recuperated by the rising system of beliefs. Or rather absence of beliefs. Whether you accept it or not weighs as much as the intransigeant resistance of the city of Rome towards the amazing popularity of christianism.
Maybe this quote specifically felt unrelated, and it probably is, but I just really like it.

 

New Year is the only relevant holiday that marks end of the year, not the juedos merely 25th December.

 

New Year is an excuse to get drunk and remind your family why they excommunicated you for five years.

 

Christmas is about Santa and watching Christmas films like Frozen or Pocahontas with your family

 

Pocahontas is a Christmas film?? wut

 

Yeah no, it's not a Christmas film and tv stations don't even roll it out around the holidays either so I don't see how you could come to this conclusion. One film that regularly gets dusted off for Christmas time rotation is Charlie and the Chocolate factory which, while awesome, is not a Christmas film either.

 

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the best movie ever.

 

the best christmas movie is die hard

 

Best Christmas movie is Home Alone, 1 & 2. McCauley Kulkin is an acting legend and those movies are his finest work.

 

Nah fuck both y'all, A Christmas Story is the real jam.

Black Christmas is good too. The 1974 one, not that gay 2006 remake.

 

That's fake news. The Pagemaster is his finest acting without question.

 

Macaulay Culkin's best movie was The Good Son.

 

He also did good with this "school shooter" gaze in epic decline famous as The Good Son.

You agile fucker.

 

I won't lie, if you beat me to it I would've said "Richie Rich" just to flex my Macaulay Culkin movie knowledge.

Or Uncle Buck, but that's more of a John Candy movie. Still a great fucking film though.

 

I've never seen those movies therefore they don't exist. Kulkin masterfully set the pace with the 2 Home Alone movies. They are classicks, hands down.

 

Richie Rich was cool. I don't remember much of it but I think they had a Mt. Rushmore in their backyard where they kept their money or something.

 

I liked Home Alone 1 more than Home Alone 2, but Home Alone 2 does feature some great scenes with Tim Curry playing hotel manager.

I once made a really elaborate fan theory that Kevin from Home Alone grew up to become Jigsaw in the Saw franchise.

 

Tim Curry was great in that role, and I think I like the first one better but it's close.

That sounds like one hell of a fan theory. But I can see the connections, for sure.

 

Am I alone in not wanting to know anything about this game before playing it? I have complete faith in Tim Cain and am going to go in blind and feel pretty safe in knowing this game will be brilliant. I hate the way people in the UK overuse/misuse the word brilliant but I am specifically using it because it actually makes sense and is used correctly here.

 

Having faith in Obsidian in 2018 LOL

 

b-but Tim Cain !

 

Watch him play Fallout 1 with Boyarski in that recent video and if you had any hope you will lose it.

 

I agree there is no point in having faith in Obs in 2018... but in 2019 we'll try not to break faith with Obs

 

I don't know if this was posted yet, but halon entertainment is the studio employed for mo-cap.

https://www.halon.com/

 

Wow, what a fresh and original setting this game has. I somehow missed this trailer for three weeks and I no longer regret it.