Crunchnoisy

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  1. Posted

    On 4/10/2018 at 5:01 PM, sclpls said:

    Yes, it has been wonderful to return to Imbroglio, a game that isn't as immediately satisfying as Cinco Paus, but that I think is the deeper and better game overall. This expansion is absolutely crazy (in a good way), and it has been a real pleasure trying to tease out how to use the new weapons.

     

    I think the Philosopher's Stone is a deadly lure.  I think Brough put it in to tempt us into our doom.  On the other hand, I've boosted the high score on 2 characters with it.

     

    The two new characters are two new clever ways to play.  One is the day-night, which is high-strung and awesome.  The other one... the monk... verrry interesting but not my favorite to play.  It's a huge change to not be able to kite enemies, and it's not always a change I enjoy playing with.

     

    And I'm really struggling to effectively use the new charge mechanic.

     

    But I agree, I went to Cinco Paus, and I still go back because it has a magical feel that I love, but Cinco Paus can only really be played one way.

     

    I haven't purchased 868-HACK yet...

     

  2. Posted

    On 3/21/2018 at 5:17 PM, sclpls said:

    Into the Breach and Cinco Paus (where I am in a one sided competition with Chris Remo that unfortunately I've been on the losing end of for the last two weeks I think) are the games that have completely dominated my time lately. Really enjoying games that just have a really tight grid space so that even with all the random configuration elements end up having this puzzle-like quality to them. It is great when you have actions/effects that can cause chain effects because in that kind of densely designed space the opportunity for those crazy sequences to fire off is really high.

     

    Also worthy of note: yesterday (4/9/18) Michael Brough released another Imbroglio expansion:

     

    http://mightyvision.blogspot.com/2018/04/phlogiston-preview.html

     

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  9. Posted

    On 9/6/2017 at 3:41 PM, nelmis said:

     

    I'd like you to know that I read this without reference to what your screen name actually is, and thus interpreted it as a rebus, which I then tried to solve for approximately 75 seconds.

     

    I was not successful.

     

    Oh heavens.  Now that you said that, even I am trying to solve this as a rebus, and I know that's my own name.

     

    crunch

    noisy

     

    So... an over-loud crunch?  I guess? With a Pissing Remo wizard next to it... sparkle urine magical crunch noi--

    Madness!  Please accept my apologies.  

     

    Also... heh.

  10. Posted

    39 minutes ago, UnpopularTrousers said:

    I'm surprised that everyone sees Dougie's return as being a purely happy ending to that storyline.

     

    It's shot like a cheesy over-the-top triumph, but Dougie still seems like an artificial and mostly empty vessel. When Janey-E and Sonny Jim run up to hug his he says just says "Home...". He's not mirroring the last word of a sentence and he looks happy, but he also still sounds vacant and lost and likely incapable of composing complete sentences.  His life has no substance to it. Without Mike guiding him along anymore, I feel like Janey-E will have to babysit and do everything for him once again.

     

    They have all the boxes checked to have a happy suburban American family, but deep down their lives look sad and meaningless. 

     

    But what gives life meaning?  I think it is a happy ending.  There lives aren't that sad.  Nice house, nice cars, high-up connections in the community.  They have a child who probably goes to an OK public school who will grow up and make Janey-E proud.  Plus, their neighbors are well armed.

     

     

  12. Posted

    Freddy!  Not James! 

    I love it.

     

    My favorite thing at the moment is Freddy.

     

    James could have been The Hero in a conventional narrative. All the pieces are in place across the corpus of the show.  It would have been an excellent arc.  Everything Freddy did could have been written for James (they were literally standing next to each other for all of Freddy's scenes). 

     

    But Frost and Lynch were having none, none of that.  All of the heroes, all possible tidy arcs, are subverted.  And in these final two eps, we were instead given much needed additional emotional resonance.

     

    Very happy.

     

    Also, maybe Freddy is James' Tulpa.  Or what James dreams of being.

     

  14. Posted

    So, now that Richard Horne is dead, we can look back at his legacy.

    • Assault in the Roadhouse bar
    • Destroys a child with a car
    • Attempted murder of neighbar

    Not all of this was necessary to depict the character. I almost checked out after the lazy cruelty of the hit-and-run. But similar to the unfortunate, underwritten use of "he raped me" for Diane, I think you have to take the good-bad with the bad-bad in Twin Peaks. If Frost and Lynch are going to go to these dark places and come back with rich fictional constructs, they are also going to delve into those dark places and come back with shallow plot devices, sometimes.

     

    The point is, they go there.  It doesn't always work out.  Sometimes you end up with "get some potatoes" and sometimes you get "i am the fbi."


    AND YET.

     

    The thing that makes Diane's scene double disappointing was the potential layers were right there in the text.  She herself mentioned that he kissed her and it had happened "one time before."  Hey, really?  Now, that's interesting. They'd had a romantic moment as Good Coop!  There's a bittersweet-to-dark tale to unwrap there!  Instead of unwrapping it, they just blasted right to lazy horror.


    AND YET.

     

    Armchair rewrites on pieces of text in an 18 hour screenplay... geez. I am just gonna give Flynch a break and move on.  Good-bad, bad-bad -- we got 18 hours of Twin Peaks.

  15. Posted

    Has anyone else tried "talking Dougie" in real life?  Try it when you are with a large group, or at a loud party.  I'm an introvert, and so it was a helpful device...

    ... and holy fuck it works frighteningly well.  Just be careful trying it on a spouse.

     

    Anyway, a moment of silence for Dougie.

     

    When he arrived, he seemed like an unworkable gimmick. Reality had to warp so hard to accomodate him. But it grew into a rich story, and watching the drama dance around it was the fun.

     

    How the story is told matters so much.  And, of course, that's easy to remember when when things are backwards-talking or monochrome or special effects.  But a doofy mute in a suit?  How can this make for good TV?

     

    Oh, it did.


     

  17. Posted

    8 minutes ago, Lynch is a Misogynist said:

     

    Good to see the Lynch apology train is moving full speed ahead.

     

    The revelation that not one but two women were raped in this episode was disgusting in how casually it was treated. Lynch has treated women incredibly poorly his entire career and to hand wave away this latest transgression by saying "Maybe she's lying, brilliant!" is pathetic.

     

    It's not pathetic.  It's a difference of opinion. 

     

    Twin Peaks' existence was literally born out of the abuse, rape, and murder of one woman. Lynch has always tread deep into this subject matter. 

    That's not an apology, that's just the way it is.  It's icky.  

     

    There's quite a bit of Lynch that's icky, I think he is misogynistic sometimes.   And yes, I mean sometimes. But there's no reason to tolerate it.  You should not watch it. It is odd that people would keep watching his oeuvre expecting him to change.

     

     

     

  18. Posted

    Spectacular.  I AM THE FBI.

     

    Even the "rape" revelation was good, because it was not quite...
     

    "He Raped Me!"  I sagged in disappointment.  Really, that's as layered as this is going to get?

    But wait!  TULPA.  Red Room.  "Someone manufactured you!"

     

    That's the layers I was hoping for!  Did Mr. C rape her, or was the Tulpa just saying that because that was the easy conclusion that both the FBI characters and the audience were expecting... enough to get our guard down so she can shoot us all.  But no, she was manufactured by Mr. C, which means... we can't trust anything she ever said, including "He Raped Me."  

     

    Well, well played.

  20. Posted

    1 hour ago, Guts said:

     

    Worlds within worlds within worlds. David Lynch is the quizat haderach.

     

    Well, that is a better explanation than my "15-3" explanation.  which was:

    • He was supposed to go through the 15 outlet (3pm in military time) and become good coop (a federal government employee... government/military handwavey-close-enough thing here)
    • Naido tricked him into space and threw the switch.
    • It changed into a "3" outlet (3pm in civilian time) so he got sucked out as civvie Dougie.

    I'm having a lot of fun watching.  But every time I try to connect the dots, I end up creating a Rodkin-style riff.  I have a feeling that we'll all be happy with the ending, but the answers will not be clear or complete.  I can't believe it's almost over.

  21. Posted

    2 hours ago, pyide said:

     

    Not quite. Richard says that he'd seen a picture of him, in a photo that his mother had. He knows he's FBI and his name is Cooper, but anyone related to Audrey or the investigation at large could have told him that if he asked who was in that picture as a kid, having never seen him before in person.

     

    There's no dialogue saying she told him these things, the vagueness seemed deliberate.


    And aside from her scenes with Charlie, the number one indication that something ain't right in Audrey land is from back when Richard went on his murdering rampage. The sheriff went to Ben Horne to drop that info, the grandfather and not the kid's own mother. Even though apparently she is in Twin Peaks and desperately wanting to go to the Roadhouse. Maybe we didn't see that scene and they were just trying to play coy with who his parents were all along, I can't say. I am still on the coma side of things at the moment, but who knows?

     

    Good catch.  I was going off memory, and the vagueness is totally intended.  I'm back on the coma train!

     

    Even though 25 years in a coma is a hideous, rare, but not impossible thing.  But hey, the Hornes could afford it.

     

    Or is she in a different lodge??? The BROWN lodge.

  23. Posted

    1 hour ago, Nordelnob said:

    He’s the darker side of Coop sure, but ultimately it may turn out that he has been acting in the interest of the good guys all along.

     

     

    This is very interesting.  But, on the other hand, KyleMc and Lynch have done such a very good job of making him pervade each scene with evil... like even with the arm wrestling scene, and 20 "bad guys" around him... you never once questioned that he was the most evil person in the room.  Overwhelmingly, powerfully evil.

     

    I'd also take the note that the warden was not a murderer, and his killing was very much a "fuck you too" killing.  Mr. Strawberry or not, that hit was the plot of a scorched-earth evil man.  And obviously the people he employs (Tim Roth and wife) are completely reprehensible.

     

    nevertheless, an enticing thought experiment.  And not impossible.

     

    It was refreshing to see Mr.C get in a little over his head this week.  For the first time, he had to raise his voice.  For the first time, he was desperate for what he wanted ("WHO'S JUDY?") and he didn't get it. 

     

    MJD

  25. Posted

    24 minutes ago, Mentalgongfu said:

     

    After just reviewing the black box scene from Part I and the experiment scene from Part 8, I would tend to agree it is likely the same thing in all 3 scenes.

     

    ... and I'm thinking that Mother will end up being Sarah Palmer?

     

    • Those naked teens watched the glass box in New York, like watching a TV.  Then they were killed by the Mother Video Effect.
    • Meanwhile, across the country, Sarah Palmer was watching violence on TV intensely.  
    • Not pictured: she took off her face, jumped through the TV, and killed those teens.