Really wish I could actually do the PVP Brawl chore and finish it instead of getting faced against disc priests that can tank five people attacking them
Alas, it seems that I will have to redo this chore a bunch of times while doing other chores to work up to my chore goal for the week where I might get a reward that is better than that of the usual chores so I can do my chores more efficiently which helps me do more chores in a shorter amount of time so that I have more time to do chores that might help me eventually unlock chores that are a bit more fun to do
I am watching the original Pacific Rim from telly and I am just filled with loathing about just how superb the CGI, practical effects and the feel/weight of the Jaegerâs and the Kaijuâs feel compared to the sequel. While the plot isnât as solid as oneâd hope, the movie has held up really well in the test of time and is still by far the best big monster movie so far I have seen (trumping modern Godzilla movies very easily).
The movements actually take good few seconds to register on screen and from the pilot to the machines, which gives them the true scale and awe youâd expect from such massive godmachines. It feels believable. Even the faster Jaegerâs and Kaijuâs (e.g. Striker Eureka), despite fluid movements, carry the inertia in their moves that causes the blows to feel like they are punching with the ramming speed of a jumbo jet at full speed.
And then you look at the new one, and the movements are nothing short of a Michael Bay transformers movie. Everything is blurred and super quick, and indeed every blow seems to throw apart pieces and blurred scrap like they were attached together with ducktape or less.
Couple of guildmembers have been getting PMs from another guild asking if they want to join theirs instead. None of them have PMâed me though?! Come on, am I not good enough to be poached? Feeling quite offended
The fights in the sequel are just nonsensical as well. In the original movie it at least made a bit of sense for a yaeger to use a cargo ship as a club; in the sequel they do dumb stuff like pulling down buildings on top of kaijus, a yaeger equipped with double sword opting to kick the enemy in stead or do a baseball slide to enter the group shot.
Also the yaeger pilots in the original are serious career soldiers of age. The pilots in the sequel? Obnoxious teens.
Anyone whoâs ever seen a single mech show can tell you that traumatised teenagers make the best pilots.
Like weâve had this on lockdown since 1979. Doesnât matter if our souls are held down by earthâs gravity or not. When you need a giant robot to do giant robot things you find yourself a teenager, you throw them in that cockpit and you traumatise them until they win the war for you.
Couple guildies had that happen last week or so, jokes on those folks though as they went on to server transfer for a more hardcore PVE guild and I respect that.
Either way if your members let themselves be poached, then they probably didnât really fit in in the guild, and are better off in a guild they think can offer them something better.
In general I never chain anyone down and if they want to go for more days/more hardcore I encourage it.
They did turn the poach attempt down, which resulted in some /spit on one of our members in-game.
Also the poaching guild had some major red flags, i.e large amount of players leaving in short time during progress.
Pacific Rim 1 was legit. Maybe not Oscar material but it set out with a job and it did it well. It was legit hype and itâs not beating around the bush. I recommend watching it because, if nothing else, itâs legit fun.
Edit: The original Pacific rim has also one of the best movie music composers in it, Ramin Djawadi who is easily up there with Hans Zimmer and John Williams.
