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[dream1ng]

Just saw something that said the PS6 will be coming in 2027.

Can Sony just stop, please?

PS5 came out in 2020, PS6 in 2027 makes sense.

What's the problem? There's even a chance the next one won't look as stupid.

 

[Shroob]

PS5 came out in 2020, PS6 in 2027 makes sense.

What's the problem? There's even a chance the next one won't look as stupid.

Still not sure how we went from the streamlined designs of PS consoles of olde to looking like Slye Moore from the Star Wars prequels.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Me in my room rn

Good night

 

[PLATINUM7]

PS6 in 2027 just has me wondering what the last two years of the PS5 are going to look like given the fallout of Sony's failed live service push likely means the first party output isn't actually going to get better.

 

[dream1ng]

PS6 in 2027 just has me wondering what the last two years of the PS5 are going to look like given the fallout of Sony's failed live service push likely means the first party output isn't actually going to get better.

First party-wise?

Bleak

 

[Hex D. Jess]

I think people discussing the nazi muskrat would be somewhat pleased by how reddit, formerly his strongest soldiers, has a ****ton of communities agreeing to ban twitter links after the nazi salute

I actually use reddit a lot more these days, that was what reminded me

 

[Knight Dude]

Another drawing more or less finished. Happy with that. I'll try to sketch out one more right quick.

 

[ZephyrZ]

I'm thinking of my childhood best friend right now. He was making some iffy jokes when I stopped talking to him. I know he used 4chan. I really hope he wasn't radicalized.

But I have no way of contacting him so I'm not sure if I'll ever have closure on that.

 

[PLATINUM7]

Been watching Star Wars I-VI with the commentary and these things stood out to me.

Spoiler

• Han's comment about less than 12 parsecs is because the Millennium Falcon is not faster than other ships in terms of speed but in terms of the course it takes. The idea is that jumping to hyperspeed requires the ship to plot a course around objects and that better navigation systems can plot better routes. The Millennium Falcon has a really good navigation system and so gets to places faster by taking a shorter route around things.
• A lot of people state that the Wampa attack was specifically included to explain why Luke looks different as Mark Hamill had to undergo facial reconstruction after a car accident. In reality, Lucas was content to just use the time between episodes IV and V to explain the difference and the Wampa scene was included to have some tension early in the film. That said, Lucas recognised the scene did coincidentally have the bonus of relating to Luke's appearance.
• The director of Empire Strikes Back really loved classic gags. He would often point out little bits of humour as some of the oldest gags which everyone does, like whacking a piece of advanced technology to get it to work.
• Lucas consulted with psychologists on how Episode V's ending might affect children. He was worried about Luke losing his arm and the reveal of Vader being his father. The psychologists said the arm wasn't a problem and that if the truth about Vader was a problem, the children would just deny it.
• Obi-Wan was killed off in Episode IV because otherwise he'd just be standing around during the Battle of Yavin. This led to needing to create Yoda in Episode V as a replacement.
• There was originally one Death Star near the end of the story. Lucas' story was so big he split it up and moved the Death Star earlier to add some more excitement there. Rather than come up with something new, he more or less just went with the original climax with the now second Death Star.
• I'd already heard of Lucas using Star Wars to show how democracies are given up, not taken away but an extra statement in the commentary for Episode III seemed especially poignant. Lucas noted that most people find politics confusing because they don't engage with it and what they seek out is a single person to take power and control or make sense of everything for them.
• Ben Burtt is the GOAT.
• The commentary discussed making Jar Jar a lot for Episode I.
• There was an attempt to make Dooku seem ambiguous as to whether he might have actually been evil or had the Galaxy's interests at heart.
• A digital Peter Cushing was considered to have Tarkin appear at the end of Episode III. In the end they found someone similar enough and gave him some prosthetics. It's a weird thing to know given Rogue One.

 

[Knight Dude]

PS5 came out in 2020, PS6 in 2027 makes sense.

What's the problem? There's even a chance the next one won't look as stupid.

There's not that many games that push the systems as it is. I get that most console gens recently run around 7 years, but PS5 barely feels like it had time to get in its groove. One of the reasons being that games cost so much to make now, and take like half a decade to make. Given how Wolverine for example is still likely a ways away. And Sony had 12 live service games lined up because Jim Ryan is one of the biggest idiots in the industry and could have done anything else.

Still not sure how we went from the streamlined designs of PS consoles of olde to looking like Slye Moore from the Star Wars prequels.

Sony see themselves like Apple I guess. Though now with awkward tech design and less specific dongles or whatever.

I'm thinking of my childhood best friend right now. He was making some iffy jokes when I stopped talking to him. I know he used 4chan. I really hope he wasn't radicalized.

But I have no way of contacting him so I'm not sure if I'll ever have closure on that.

Well, you can always wish for the best at least.