If you’re a veteran player who has not played for a while, World of Tanks offers its own new set of challenges. Prior to the introduction of the new physics patch, you may have routinely scraped the edges of bridges, lakes, or ravines while maneuvering. It was never a problem, since invisible walls kept your tank on track, leaving your hands free to use the (terrible) chat interface, or whatever.
Today, if you stop paying attention by a lake you’ll end up drowning in it.
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Nick Diamon, aka Telefrog, joins us this week to discuss the scariest games we’ve ever played. Because, you know, it’s Halloween. Then we talk some Assassin’s Creed III, Halo 4, and Euro Truck Simulator 2. Yes, you read that right. There’s a fourth Halo game!
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In the twee hipster-than-thou comedy Saftey Not Guaranteed, twee hipster Aubrey Plaza comments on someone’s laptop.
“Why do you have flames on your laptop?”
“It’s a gaming laptop. It’s really fast.”
Then hipster Jake Johnson picks them up for some putative time travel shenanigans. It’s like Looper, but more hip. Guess where such a hip movie is set. If you guessed Oregon, you’re close enough. A dude makes Aubrey Plaza fall in love with him by playing a zither. That’s right, a zither. Not since The Third Man has a zither been used so effectively.
Safety Not Guaranteed is mostly just an appeal to people who think Aubrey Plaza is hot. Which, sure, she is. But for any sort of convincing emotion, you’re left with Jake Johnson trying not to cry while driving a go-cart, smoking a cigarette, and swigging whiskey from a bottle. Dig it. There. I just saved you ninety minutes. It’s enough to make a guy want to catch up on The New Girl.
At least Mark Duplass as a mentally unbalanced time traveller — or is he? — lends the movie some sincerity. To see Duplass in a better movie, I cannot recommend strongly enough the hilarious Hump Day, which exists completely outside the usual studio conventions and the typical twee indie vibe. And for the non-grating version of Safety Not Guaranteed, see Happy Accidents with Marisa Tomei and Vincent D’Onofrio.
Safety Not Guaranteed is out now on DVD and VOD (here’s an Amazon.com link to support Qt3).
