@snake3rules: The problem is that RT was proven to be on the dole with paid reviews, so you can't say for certain that the reviews for ANYTHING are genuine.
@girgante: The MTX are not as bad as people are making them out to be. It's not P2W or locking character alteration behind a pay wall. You can get the items in game for pretty cheap and mods are already out to make them even more available. Honestly most of this stuff was in the first game as well, such as the single save and rift point items to change appearances and what not, so I'm really not sure about the backlash.
There are fixes to the Framerate issue with DLSS 3.6.0 enablers on nexus already as well.
If you liked the first game you should really like this one as well.
@uninspiredcup: You don't have to buy the item with real money. It's purchasable in game for 500 rift points, which if you played the first game, you know that you'll have points coming out of your ears before you finish the game.
@hongry: >"I mean anything can be a profound nugget of wisdom..."
Absolutely not true. Communication is not necessarily a give and take between two people (eg announcements over a PA system is one way communication), but even when it is that doesn't mean that anything profound or wise was said.
The problem with the phrase being a self cancelling loop is that it proves it is not driving at any sort of deeper truth. It means that the saying is literally meaningless. Any profundity gleaned from the audience is essentially stoner philosophy, it sounds fun and interesting so long as you don't actually think about it for 2 seconds.
>"as you don't need to understand something for it to move you"
Precisely my point. So many people do NOT understand what was being said, but because it SOUNDS intelligent and profound, people like it. However, as I've shown it is pure sophistry with no actual substance to it. This kind of thing is actually damaging to society in a number of ways.
Case in point: What is the prescription of the phrase "You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain" here?
It's effectively saying you should desire to die young, because getting old could turn you bitter and hateful, so why risk it? That's not a good message, at all. In fact it's terrible on a number of levels.
This is why Sophistry is bad, because it doesn't drive at greater truths that improve our understanding of ourselves and our places in society. It does the opposite and only causes confusion, pain, and suffering when followed.
@hongry: Yes it is about a fictional world with super heroes, but that world is meant to reflect upon the real world. We're supposed to identify with Batman and his struggles. To recognize the inherent injustices in a system that fails to live up to the ideals that society expects it to. To feel the righteous fury of reaching a snapping point and taking matters into your own hands to right the wrongs of the world. To feel the empowerment and responsibility that comes with wearing that mantle. And finally to understand that such a thing could not work in the real world because reality is messy, and there are no super heroes or super villains, but that doesn't mean we can't still fight for a better world in various ways.
The reason the line is popular is BECAUSE people are treating it as a profound nugget of wisdom and insight. That's the whole point of these kinds of quotes being shared.
"Too many chefs in the kitchen." is an apt comparison because the quote is meant to illustrate that too many leaders with strong opinions inevitably leads to conflict.
"Two heads are better than one" similarly acknowledges that an individual, even a highly intelligent and talented one, can become short sighted when trying to solve a problem, and that it is often the case that having a second pair of eyes on the problem can lead to solutions that had previously been elusive.
These sayings are useful and important because they point to basic truths about the world. The saying "you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" lacks any actual kernel of wisdom because, as I showed in the previous post, it is actually cyclical in nature.
It points to a Finite Automata (State mechanics in computer science) with precisely two states (hero/villain) that are both end states with transitions that lead to each other, crudely written as (A ↔ B). Because you can freely transition back and forth between the two states, by falling or being redeemed, you can't draw any conclusions at all from the statement, thus it is not pointing to some greater truth.
@rocky4ondvd: Except that doesn't follow at all. If the person dies, then they can STILL pick apart their character after the fact. I mean just look at the war on the founding fathers going on right now. People are demanding that statues be removed and buildings be renamed because the founders lived in a different time without modern sensibilities. They didn't "live to see themselves become the villain" because they're all dead.
@mogan: Except that takes an incredibly childish view of what a hero/villain is, which is kind of why the quote is nonsense. The best heroes are the ones who are humble and do not see themselves as being heroic, or even worthy of praise. Thus when they die, they don't die a "hero" or a "villain", just an average guy who did things.
Further, very few people actively view themselves as a villain, even if they do terrible things. They justify their actions in various ways, and it takes a LOT of introspection to come to the conclusion that you are in fact the bad guy, and even then, they may simply have a disagreement on the characterization of their actions. For example, Thanos does not view himself as a villain. He sees himself as someone who is doing a very hard and difficult thing, but one that is necessary for the greater good and the survival of the entire Universe.
Ultimately it boils down to the understanding that a hero is defined by individual observers, not the crowd and generally not by the person themselves. If a cold blooded murderer jumps in the river to save a drowning child, he is at once both a hero to the child, and a villain to the family of his victim.
This example also illustrates that the inversion of the quote can be true as well: "You either die a villain or live long enough to see yourself redeemed as a hero." We see these kinds of redemption arcs all over. When you put these two concepts together, you end up seeing how meaningless they are: "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain who dies a villain or lives long enough to have a redemption and become a hero again.
@mogan: Getting a writing credit for a film doesn't really mean anything. He could have suggested a scene or something, and even if it was cut or never even filmed, but made it into a draft somewhere, then he could be credibly credited as a writer, presuming everything is on the up and up.
However, like a great many published scientific papers, not all of the authors necessarily contributed to the work. Sometimes the department head just slaps their name on the paper because they feel like it and office politics along with near unilateral control of research funding ensures that no one corrects the record.
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