The Last of Us coming to HBO

[MissingInAction 25036]

8 hours ago, futureman said:

how do you kill them in the game?  in the show the guy was filling that thing full of bullets. 

Explosives. If you don't have any then your best strategy is to use stealth to avoid them like a little bitch.

[aggie08 21496]

So, I realize that a zombie show based on a video game isn't exactly something that you want to nitpick reality with, but:

Just where exactly are we pretending that the infected hoard emerged from in a residential neighborhood underneath a house? 

[futureman 22452]

29 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

So, I realize that a zombie show based on a video game isn't exactly something that you want to nitpick reality with, but:

Just where exactly are we pretending that the infected hoard emerged from in a residential neighborhood underneath a house? 

they were under the house.

[WBT 20561]

The basement?  They don't seem concerned with personal space so you could probably cram a lot of them in there.

Edited February 14, 2023 by WBT

[Juicy 726]

On 2/11/2023 at 12:32 PM, A-Tex Devil said:

The take the sniper out then become the sniper scene reminded me of GTA.  Imagine that is probably straight out of the game, no?

I died to this dude so many times.

[A-Tex Devil 2446]

There were tunnels built out and overdeveloped or something like that. They had a one liner about it.  
 

The thing I heard on a podcast that I chuckled at was if Joel knew KC Fedra was brutal even by Fedra standards, why did he route through KC?
 

Who cares though.  Great episode. 

[Pig Bellmont 8712]

6 hours ago, aggie08 said:

So, I realize that a zombie show based on a video game isn't exactly something that you want to nitpick reality with, but:

Just where exactly are we pretending that the infected hoard emerged from in a residential neighborhood underneath a house? 

All the infected were trapped in tunnels under the city

[mdmost 43001]

When Perry takes Kathleen into the boiler room of one of the buildings, the ground is moving up and down as if the infected are trying to burrow their way up to the surface. She tells him to seal off the building.So I guess the infected moved towards the sound of the gun fire and found an easier way to the surface. 

[aggie08 21496]

58 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

All the infected were trapped in tunnels under the city

Right. In massive tunnels under the city. So a sinkhole developing under the building makes sense.

They crawling through 4" sewer lines to get to the suburbs?

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8 hours ago, aggie08 said:

So, I realize that a zombie show based on a video game isn't exactly something that you want to nitpick reality with, but:

Just where exactly are we pretending that the infected hoard emerged from in a residential neighborhood underneath a house? 

You don't know about the St. Louis caves?

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Old caves were often filled with rubble from the demolished buildings above them. Therefore, there may be many homes and houses currently built above entrances to the old system of caves which have since been filled in with rubble. The Lemp caves or Cherokee caves still exist. The original cave was around 24,000 feet walkable. After the construction of Interstate 55 there were about 22,000 feet of the cave remaining, but not open to the public.

 

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[futureman 22452]

2 hours ago, mdmost said:

When Perry takes Kathleen into the boiler room of one of the buildings, the ground is moving up and down as if the infected are trying to burrow their way up to the surface. She tells him to seal off the building.So I guess the infected moved towards the sound of the gun fire and found an easier way to the surface. 

I forgot about that brief scene.  good call.

[Poe It Up 126]

So I caught up on the last two episodes. Pretty solid, but definitely has a different feel than the game. The game’s better in my opinion. 
 

I was expecting Perry to put a bullet in the back of Kathleen’s head, there’s no way she’s a rebellion leader. 

[Augustus 3061]

Lighting the exterior night shots

 

[utxmike05 1828]

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On 2/13/2023 at 1:08 PM, futureman said:

how do you kill them in the game?  in the show the guy was filling that thing full of bullets. 

it's pretty much an all or nothing moment whenever one of those shows up. you scrounge around and stab people and runners in the neck so you can save every scrap you find and then throw everything you've got at a bloater.

afterwards, time to scrounge around for all the craft shit again.

[utxmike05 1828]

On 2/11/2023 at 11:32 AM, A-Tex Devil said:

The take the sniper out then become the sniper scene reminded me of GTA.  Imagine that is probably straight out of the game, no?

I thought more about it....and I think Joel could have done a better job of overwatch for Henry/Sam.  I get he is more familiar with and responsible for the girl, but she won't get infected.  So protect the boys hiding under the car.  Great shooting, but deaf kid probably needed more help.  She did do a good job acting now that she had another kid around..but not anymore!.

[Frank The Tank 1497]

28 minutes ago, utxmike05 said:

I thought more about it....and I think Joel could have done a better job of overwatch for Henry/Sam.  I get he is more familiar with and responsible for the girl, but she won't get infected.  So protect the boys hiding under the car.  Great shooting, but deaf kid probably needed more help.  She did do a good job acting now that she had another kid around..but not anymore!.

She’s immune from getting infected, not from getting ripped to shreds or torn in half like what was happening to people in that melee. 

[Augustus 3061]

I seriously wonder if ants can think/reason in a way that's similar to our conscious reasoning, or if it's all programming and they're not sentient at all, which of course begs the question how sentient is energy/matter that's programming them, and all life, I suppose.

I watched a video (and at this point I can't recall if it's on this thread or another board) and it showed an ant getting infected by the cordyceps fungus.  Another ant drops what he's doing--seems like they're on some job or other 24/7--picks up the infected ant in his pinchers, carries his ass waayyyy the hell away from the mound, and then dumps him there so that he can't infect the collective.   "Sorry, Doug, but can't have you spreadin' that shit around.  Nice knowing ya."

Which reminded me of another video I saw where an ant colony herds these huge caterpillars around--they take them out of the colony and up to the surface to munch on whatever they need, and then herd them back--because they need something the caterpillar secretes.  Near the end of the caterpillar's cycle, they don't kill them, they march 'em off to a tree somewhere so they can build a cocoon and become a moth/butterfly/whatever. I suppose so that they can create more future caterpillars.

Easy to go down a rabbit hole learning about ants.

Sorry for derail.

Edited February 15, 2023 by Augustus

[utxmike05 1828]

24 minutes ago, Frank The Tank said:

She’s immune from getting infected, not from getting ripped to shreds or torn in half like what was happening to people in that melee. 

Cmon. She could have taken out that lil girl clicker lol.  Just shoot it and stay in the van.

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3 minutes ago, utxmike05 said:

Cmon. She could have taken out that lil girl clicker lol.  Just shoot it and stay in the van.

She may have been out of rounds by then.

[Mittens 8263]

She ran out of bullets when she was running from/shooting at the bulldozer truck.

[utxmike05 1828]

45 minutes ago, Mittens said:

She ran out of bullets when she was running from/shooting at the bulldozer truck.

Switch blade time...melee.  Sorry I'm just still mad they killed off both Henry/Sam.

[Augustus 3061]

Somebody made a good point about this being based on a game that focuses on two characters, so it's likely any friends they make along the way aren't long for the world.

[futureman 22452]

49 minutes ago, Mittens said:

She ran out of bullets when she was running from/shooting at the bulldozer truck.

yeah but those bullets were well spent.  smart girl. 

[sidis 9825]

Spoiler

never played the game but up to date on the show.  so i was just watching the whole last ten minutes of that thinking to myself...they are going to shoot this lovable deaf kid in the head aren't they?

god damnit.

 

[MissingInAction 25036]

21 minutes ago, sidis said:

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never played the game but up to date on the show.  so i was just watching the whole last ten minutes of that thinking to myself...they are going to shoot this lovable deaf kid in the head aren't they?

god damnit.

 

One of the things that made the game so great was the emotional investment it pulled out of you.

The show is following that formula very well.

[burntorangebongos 10710]

I was worried for Henry and the kid under the car getting torn to shreds. But then when they ended up at the hotel, I wondered why they weren't inspected for bites? Like how would they have not been bitten? Still, it was hard to watch what Henry did to his brother and himself.   

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1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

One of the things that made the game so great was the emotional investment it pulled out of you.

The show is following that formula very well.

yeah, it's one of the defining characteristics of the game and part of what made it iconic.

we can joke about clickers or hunters or whatever, but you want to joke about henry and sam, and we might have to have a sit down.

that's what made the game so fucking great. it was the space in between the zombie rush/hunter killing that really hooked you. gameplay is pretty average. scarcity was a fun challenge, as was collecting the comics, etc. 

but i wasn't in it for the next bloater/gun upgrade or my typical ocd gamer collecting self that end out making the games not as much fun.

i was in this one to fucking win it and see all the story, because that was the value. 

i don't know how they've managed to do such a good job on the show so far, but i don't want to jinx anything.

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2652]

Why do I keep watching a show that makes me cry 😭😭😭

[Foosters 17850]

23 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

it's pretty much an all or nothing moment whenever one of those shows up. you scrounge around and stab people and runners in the neck so you can save every scrap you find and then throw everything you've got at a bloater.

afterwards, time to scrounge around for all the craft shit again.

I started a play through of TLOU2 a few weeks back. Changed the settings to infinite ammo and infinite crafting. Totally different game. Just strolling into infested rooms without a worry in the world. 

[CooterBrown 18006]

Easy to go down a rabbit hole learning about ants.
Sorry for derail.

Dirt Bike?

[Firemans4Horn 18046]

18 minutes ago, Foosters said:

I started a play through of TLOU2 a few weeks back. Changed the settings to infinite ammo and infinite crafting. Totally different game. Just strolling into infested rooms without a worry in the world. 

[mchookem 16327]

On 1/17/2023 at 12:54 PM, Buzzrock said:

It’s awesome to see Anna Torv back since they won’t give us any more fucking episodes of Mindhunter.
 

just started this tonight, reading thread from page one...

Anna was reminding me so much of Carrie Coons! but i couldn't place her...yes! Mindhunter... that show was awesome, def disappointed they just abruptly ended it.

enjoyed first couple of eps. 'Interstate 183' to Austin was lol. i'll catch up on this thread in the next week!

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2 hours ago, mchookem said:

'Interstate 183' to Austin was lol.

As soon as I saw that I was wondering if it was that way in the game and they were copying that or somebody just screwed up.

[wild_turkey 3159]

Switch blade time...melee.  Sorry I'm just still mad they killed off both Henry/Sam.

I think that’s the beauty of the story, we care about the characters, even the ones that are only there briefly. Great writing to be able to trigger that emotional response.

Compare that to TWD where they created stupid characters and then threatened imminent death to Rick and Coral so many times that we all just wanted them to die and end our misery as viewers.

[MissingInAction 25036]

38 minutes ago, wild_turkey said:

Compare that to TWD where they created stupid characters and then threatened imminent death to Rick and Coral so many times that we all just wanted them to die and end our misery as viewers.

Holy shit I had forgot about the Rick and Coral memes.

 

[The Dog 44020]

[Tylerocks 2553]

Love the show so much I just bought the game on Ebay...

 

 

.....for PS3.....

 

I'm 48.

 

Started the game last night.  Pretty solid for a 10 year old game.

[hayden_horn 11362]

2 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

I think that’s the beauty of the story, we care about the characters, even the ones that are only there briefly. Great writing to be able to trigger that emotional response.

Compare that to TWD where they created stupid characters and then threatened imminent death to Rick and Coral so many times that we all just wanted them to die and end our misery as viewers.

yeah, there's a very real peril. twd fell down when the characters (really, the actors) became bigger than the story.

@naija said this:

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The monsters live in service of the human story and the show is better for it.

that's exactly the difference between the walking dead and the last of us.

the walking dead became a zombie show.

this is a character story with zombies.

big difference.

[MissingInAction 25036]

5 hours ago, Tylerocks said:

Love the show so much I just bought the game on Ebay...

 

 

.....for PS3.....

 

I'm 48.

 

Started the game last night.  Pretty solid for a 10 year old game.

I'm 49 and still put in at least 10 hours a week playing video games.

Bought myself a PS5 for xmas.

I've read it's good for maintaining cognitive abilities and hand/eye coordination.

Sure I'm gonna die alone but at least I'll be aware of it.

Edited February 16, 2023 by MissingInAction

[mchookem 16327]

finished ep 3...did not expect to be crying at a post-apocalyptic/zombie show 😒

[futureman 22452]

1 hour ago, mchookem said:

finished ep 3...did not expect to be crying at a post-apocalyptic/zombie show 😒

this has been covered.  it’s a show about people; the zombies are ancillary. 

[MissingInAction 25036]

I got high and started up Secret of Nimh.

All I could think about was why the mice didn't have buttholes.

Fuck you surly.

[threesheets 1672]

I don't get hung up on details I swear, but did I hear it right when Kathleen said she visited Michael in jail?  How'd she pull that off?

[threesheets 1672]

Just re-watched that part.  Guess maybe she was locked up with him. 

[Js1 85310]

4 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

I got high and started up Secret of Nimh.

All I could think about was why the mice didn't have buttholes.

Fuck you surly.

How sad, they can’t fist themselves 

[huge 3793]

FEDRA had the brother in jail. He could have been allowed visitors?

Don’t matter much. Kathleen on her way to clickertown now

[speed817 19256]

8 hours ago, huge said:

FEDRA had the brother in jail. He could have been allowed visitors?

Don’t matter much. Kathleen on her way to clickertown now

She's more of a bloater....

[mchookem 16327]

caught up on episodes and thread.

On 2/17/2023 at 12:14 PM, futureman said:

this has been covered.  it’s a show about people; the zombies are ancillary. 

ok. dick. 

so am i understanding what y'all are saying... every episode or two we're going to meet some compelling new characters with an engaging backstory that we will get emotionally invested in only for them to die by the end of the ep?

oh yay! lol

 

also glad y'all used the term 'bloater' so i had something to google bc i was all 'WTF IS THAT!' haha. first time it's felt like a video game. 

Edited February 19, 2023 by mchookem

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29 minutes ago, mchookem said:

so am i understanding what y'all are saying... every episode or two we're going to meet some compelling new characters with an engaging backstory that we will get emotionally invested in only for them to die by the end of the ep?

oh yay! lol

Think of new characters as red shirts on Star Trek.