• Re: TIL: Max Payne Remakes

    From Rin Stowleigh@21:1/5 to spallshurgenson@gmail.com on Sat Mar 23 07:38:49 2024
    On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:30:37 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:


    Today I learned...

    ... that Remedy Entertainment is working on remaking "Max Payne" and
    "Max Payne 2".

    [...]

    Information about these remakes is extremely limited, so far. Still,
    I'll withhold my usual negativity about the remakes' very existence
    until I learn more. Who knows; they might actually be good.


    Plot details have been leaked. In this installment, things have
    changed quite a bit from prior MP games. Max(ine) is now a minority
    female who has been faced with the challenge of a new job as Chief
    Diversity and Inclusion Officer at a tech company. Most of the
    "combat" is non-violent in nature (thus the title, MP4 Flakes of
    Snow), and takes place as Max sits at her computer dealing with
    various emails from various toxic white men who try keep trying to
    man-splain why the company is failing rapidly using confusing
    technical jargon that she doesn't understand. So the game is kind of
    an e-mail answering simulator where you select from dialog choices
    that affect how the story line plays out.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Rin Stowleigh on Sun Mar 24 17:00:03 2024
    Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> wrote at 11:38 this Saturday (GMT):
    On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:30:37 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
    <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:


    Today I learned...

    ... that Remedy Entertainment is working on remaking "Max Payne" and
    "Max Payne 2".

    [...]

    Information about these remakes is extremely limited, so far. Still,
    I'll withhold my usual negativity about the remakes' very existence
    until I learn more. Who knows; they might actually be good.


    Plot details have been leaked. In this installment, things have
    changed quite a bit from prior MP games. Max(ine) is now a minority
    female who has been faced with the challenge of a new job as Chief
    Diversity and Inclusion Officer at a tech company. Most of the
    "combat" is non-violent in nature (thus the title, MP4 Flakes of
    Snow), and takes place as Max sits at her computer dealing with
    various emails from various toxic white men who try keep trying to
    man-splain why the company is failing rapidly using confusing
    technical jargon that she doesn't understand. So the game is kind of
    an e-mail answering simulator where you select from dialog choices
    that affect how the story line plays out.


    Is that real?
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 24 10:08:24 2024
    On 3/24/2024 10:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
    Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> wrote at 11:38 this Saturday (GMT):
    On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:30:37 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
    <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:


    Today I learned...

    ... that Remedy Entertainment is working on remaking "Max Payne" and
    "Max Payne 2".

    [...]

    Information about these remakes is extremely limited, so far. Still,
    I'll withhold my usual negativity about the remakes' very existence
    until I learn more. Who knows; they might actually be good.


    Plot details have been leaked. In this installment, things have
    changed quite a bit from prior MP games. Max(ine) is now a minority
    female who has been faced with the challenge of a new job as Chief
    Diversity and Inclusion Officer at a tech company. Most of the
    "combat" is non-violent in nature (thus the title, MP4 Flakes of
    Snow), and takes place as Max sits at her computer dealing with
    various emails from various toxic white men who try keep trying to
    man-splain why the company is failing rapidly using confusing
    technical jargon that she doesn't understand. So the game is kind of
    an e-mail answering simulator where you select from dialog choices
    that affect how the story line plays out.


    Is that real?

    No.
    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From Rin Stowleigh@21:1/5 to candycanearter07@candycanearter07.n on Sun Mar 24 14:39:20 2024
    On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:00:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

    Is that real?

    The fact that even one person wondered this, if even for a moment,
    illustrates my point perfectly.

    I always find comedy's sweet spot to be sitting snug and close to
    reality, but maybe this one was a little too close for public
    consumption; like reality had his wandering hand up the skirt of the
    joke.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Rin Stowleigh on Sun Mar 24 19:50:03 2024
    Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> wrote at 18:39 this Sunday (GMT):
    On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:00:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
    <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

    Is that real?

    The fact that even one person wondered this, if even for a moment, illustrates my point perfectly.

    I always find comedy's sweet spot to be sitting snug and close to
    reality, but maybe this one was a little too close for public
    consumption; like reality had his wandering hand up the skirt of the
    joke.


    I've been had!

    Side note, I always kinda love when parody stuff actually happens.
    My favorite example of that is the Onion's "HP Cloud" video..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ntPxdWAWq8&ab_channel=TheOnion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aUV_PRuTC4&ab_channel=HP
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    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Rin Stowleigh on Sun Mar 24 13:26:26 2024
    On 3/24/2024 11:39 AM, Rin Stowleigh wrote:
    On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:00:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

    Is that real?

    The fact that even one person wondered this, if even for a moment, illustrates my point perfectly.

    I always find comedy's sweet spot to be sitting snug and close to
    reality, but maybe this one was a little too close for public
    consumption; like reality had his wandering hand up the skirt of the
    joke.

    Jokes definitely prefer to be the one putting their hand up reality's
    skirt....

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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