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Top 10 Games Of 2017

Almost the end of the year, YouTube is making people cringe with YouTube Rewind, so why not release my list of top 10 games of 2017? Thing is, I’m taking a Dunkey approach and one of the games on this list isn’t from this year, but I’ve been messing around with it. Also, I have not played anything on Nintendo Switch, or Cuphead, so don’t rage at me, I’m sure they’re good.

10: Injustice 2

Fighting games have always been fun for me, but hard to stick with. I lose interest and move onto something else. Injustice 2 found a way to keep players like me coming back, with its wide array of customization for each of its 24 (maybe more) characters, not including the DLC characters. It's also one of the most visually impressive fighters I've seen to date.

9: Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Several years later, I still find myself going back to this game, wanting to better myself. It's a love/hate relationship, but it's wrapped in this strong vibe, that I try to capture in my own life, with the colorful environments and the amazing soundtrack, using music from some of synthwaves biggest names, covering action movie-esqe shootouts, hazy drug fueled massacres, and can go from making you grin, to a dark, atmospheric song that makes you squirm in your seat, unsure of what's next. The ending? Yeah, it's a easy cop out, but the ride there is all good...except for the reporter levels.

8: Destiny 2

I don't care what anyone says, this was a step in the right direction. The free roam maps are so much larger than in the first, and the story has more presence (I don't even remember what we were doing in 1). But, what's most important, is how it plays. I'm glad to say it's very well done, if not meant to be enjoyed with friends. I'm currently waiting for my paycheck so I can get the expansion and play some more with my friends again.

7: No Man's Sky

Oh...you think I'm joking here? "You like No Man's Lie?" First off, wow, what an original comment. Bet you watch your Rick and Morty every night. Second, time to face facts: NO MANS SKY IS A MORE COMPLETE GAME NOW THAN STAR CITIZEN WILL BE IN A YEAR. You can build bases, get a vehicle, even roam with other explorers (if, you know, you can find them, so many planets), take jobs, there's factions, freighters, and there's an actual story now. It's still got a bit to go before it becomes that god tier game we heard about, but the team has shown they're committed to fixing their mistakes, so, can we STOP using the same cringey dead memes? Just go on spotify, throw on a playlist, and go out exploring.

6: Fire Pro Wrestling: World

When I found out this game was available on Steam, it was an instant buy. At first glance, this game seems lackluster. The roster is either japanese wrestlers you probably wouldn't know unless you were a hardcore fan, or some characters the dev made up. But, before you boot up the game? Check out the Workshop for the game, and you will find yourself in heaven. If someone created the character, you can download them into the game. You also could make one yourself...but come on, that system is way too complicated. Hell, even if the fighting system frustrates you, it's fun to set all the fighters to AI and watch Shrek vs Big Smoke vs Hulk Hogan vs Filthy Frank.

5: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End 

I finally got to play this game, finding it for 20 bucks at Gamestop. Uncharted is probably one of my fave Playstation franchises, and it's amazing how close all the games were released, but not one is a slip up. That said, 3 was the series weakest leg. The story was ok, but the villains were lackluster. This? This ramps up all the action to 250%, brings some of the most stunning visuals I've seen on the system TO DATE, and is a fitting end for the story of Nathan Drake, as well as a great cast of characters, old and new. I can't really describe it in text, you just gotta go play it. Also, you can dab in multiplayer.

4: Middle Earth: Shadow Of War

If you see me on facebook, you know this was coming. I'll be honest, story-line wise, this game is not great. If you're a Tolkien lore nerd, you'll prolly rage jizz 8 times in the first act. Hell, playing the story is a bit boring as well. They try, but the story missions STILL feel like shit you do to get the next ability unlocked. When it comes to playing the main missions, it feels like every basic free roaming games missions, where it's linear, the objectives range from go here to kill this. When you're just killing captains, though...that's where the stories start. You'll build armies, suffer betrayals, play orcs against one another, and build these intense rivalries! Some of these I will never forget, and I'll suffer through a bastardization as long as you make it fun.

3: Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus

This game...is just pure video games. You know how people describe video games in TV Shows, like they live a different life?  That's Wolfenstein 2. I'm not me. I'm BJ Blaskowitz, gunning down Nazi's with the dual wielding power of god in the form of the most devastating weapons known to man! The story, much like one, is better than what you would expect out of a gory violent shooter. I could go on, but honestly, I couldn't do it anymore justice. I'm going for a 100% with this game. Go pick it up, sit back, and embrace the primal side.

2: Yakuza Zero

I have always loved this series. I was in a nice place when I played the first on PS2 about 10 years ago. I think I didn't hear much about Zero prior to its release, but I saw Angry Joe review the game, and I remember how much I loved playing Yakuza 3. With my next paycheck, I picked up the final copy at my local Gamestop. You play as two characters, one being the series protagonist, and the other, a fan favorite secondary character. The first is framed for a murder, and the other is asked to carry out a hit, but complications arise. It sounds generic, but only because I don't want to spoil you, as this game is a trip. Think of it as if anime existed in real life. There's dramatic situations, with some serious themes, but at the same time, you and your enemies have goddamn fight auras, and can dish out these attacks that you say "Ok, that killed him." only to see him either get up or just be knocked out. I won't even get into the various side quests for each character. The downsides is it's not for everyone. Japanese only audio with english subs, the free roam is more akin to a town in a Final Fantasy game than GTA, although it fits.

1: Horizon: Zero Dawn

I didn't really start digging into this game until a month back. I bought it shortly after E3, Gamestop had a promotion knocking the price to half. I also bought a new computer monitor I needed to make my graphics card compatible. HZD languished a bit as I explored a bunch of new games. Then, last month, a few friends were getting into a talk about their game of the year. I said Shadow Of War, and a few others went against me, with this. I said that while it was decent, it felt like a generic overstuffed free roam game. I'm a fucking idiot. Upon replaying, I was treated to a beautiful open world that actually MAKES you want to explore it. I didn't get involved in too many side quests, sticking to those that branched off the main plot, and I was surprised with my progress. When a free roam game doesn't make me want to use a fast travel, it's a W, man. I'm nearly done, and look forward to picking up the DLC. There's other stuff too, but this list is gonna be too long to hold people's attention as it is.

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Carol’s makeup (warning for Cap Marvel spoilers)

,seeing all these people defending the Russo’s brothers decision to slap classically/socially-assigned feminine makeup on Carol Danvers and saying anyone who criticizes it is ‘’mysoginistic’’ is absolutely baffling to me like, Im going to put it in the way as an 18 years old who has NEVER worn makeup in her entire life.

Imagine this, being a tiny 10-12 years old wee girl, having had hormone issues and suffering from early acne, u already had been told to and seen your equally old girl classmates putting on makeup and straightening their hairs from that age and on, you kept seeing them do this over and over, you were told you should do the same, your 2 years younger female cousin was already trying it on, why weren’t you?

You are bombarded with the women of your life, some even being past their 70s, doing their makeup even if their pulses were shaky with the old age and their sight wasn’t the best, they still said ‘’no but i have to put on makeup’’.

And you grow up, you never put on makeup, you never did not once, not even when you promised your friends they’d be able to do that at your graduation, not even if you were going to a special event, not even in your quinceañeras or sweet sixteen for the gringas, not once. 

And while of this is going on, you’re learning on feminism, and the choice of women. You see women like Natasha Romanoff, like Catwoman, like pre-reboot Lara Croft, like 2003-2005 Elektra; femme fatales whose best weapons weren’t their fists, their weaponry, but their tiny smirks with their red-tainted lips and the slightly raised eyebrow. 

These makeup styles, these tight clothes, the perfect eyebrows, not even breaking a sweat even in the face of an impromptu ALIEN INVASION, this is the sort of thing you’re only looking at because in those big screens and the small screens at home, there is no other type of woman. You know well this is not the actresses’ faults, nor the characters, the characters dont control how they’re written, the actresses are just doing their jobs, but it impacts on you, that this is how heroines and superheroines always look.

But then you’re growing even older, and you start to see women like Rey from Star Wars, like Aloy from HZD, like post reboot Lara Croft, like Zarya/Moira/Brigitte from Overwatch, like Jessica Jones, like tiny lil Laura Kinney from the Logan movie; they are all just as strong, they are not seen through their beauty or how pretty they can look, they are WILD, and full of justified rage and pride, Laura Kinney being the tiny one she is way more insane than her genetic father, Rey always fights in the most rudimentary way she knows but like hell that stops her,  Lara and Aloy and the three OW girls look absolutely nothing like you’re used to but their feminity is still visible, even when they’re sporting big muscles or toned abs or no socially-accepted feminine physical traits WITHOUT diminishing their presence as women.

And when girls like Harley Quinn sport makeup? It’s the total opposite, it’s what we’re told not to do when wearing it: don’t wear too much makeup or you’ll look ugly. But they’re not ugly at all, girls like Harley are not made out to show that such a thing is told to be ugly nor have I even heard a peep from someone saying they’re ugly, incredibly sexualized yes but that is another side of the subject.

And then comes Captain Marvel, and you see this raw uncontained energy, you see how her hair bothers her in fights bc it’s long, you see it all become messy as fuck when she crashes into the Blockbuster, you see the way she screams at the Skrull without restricting a single muscle in her face, and you know what else you see? No eyeshadow, no tainted wine-red lipstick, no blush on her cheeks, nothing at all. She’s comfortable in herself, she’s comfortable without makeup, and that does not take away her beauty, and more important, she is constantly fighting, constantly getting shit beat up all around, running, punching, among all that, in front of an attack incoming, who would have time to put on makeup, it of course doesn’t make sense, and that’s fine! She doesn’t have to wear makeup, at no point she is obligated as a character to do so, or to even fix her hair often, thank god her helmet does that for her!

And then comes the Avengers: Endgame trailer, and you’re waiting on her to show up, the woman everyone is looking for, the salvation of Earth, a fight to save half of the universe, not just one galaxy, but ALL THE GALAXIES ABOVE AND BEYOND... and you see this

You can see her lips a good shade of wine-red, probably matte lipstick, a clear blush on her cheeks, pink blush, perfect eyebrows, and possibly some eyeshadow, not eyeliner, but eyeshadow. Of course you think ‘’why a woman who has spent over a decade fighting a space war, probably wrecking ships on the go, trying to do the right thing, would take the time to pick up makeup, something she probably doesn’t use at all, would know how to apply all of this, pick up the tightest clothing she could even if she took the most comfy looking jacket when she left, in front of what could be the world as WE know? This doesn’t even feel like the same characters, sure you know it’s.. her, but in contrast to this: 

It doesn’t even begin to feel like her, and you have a slight bit of hope because everywhere you look, the posters, the middle credits scene where she shows up, she is sporting practically the same look, only that her hair seems to have grown, which is fine, it’s expected when you spend like 23 years up there in space with no hair stylist.

But why does she suddenly not feel the same, like you’re not getting the same vibe from her? How would she even know to put on makeup? Did she learn it from the Skrulls? But none of the female Skrulls even have to wear makeup, they simply don’t, there is no reason for someone like Nat to pick her over and go ‘’okay but it’s the end of the world so we gotta slap some makeup on you’’ when they’re ALL trying to think an strategy up for defeating this raisin who currently has uhh ALL THE STONES WHO CONTAIN THE POWER OF THE EVERY ASPECT OF THE UNIVERSE AND LIFE??

Ah, right, because if she keeps looking like the latter, everyone will start calling her bitchy even more than she already is, so ‘’let’s put makeup on her so she doesn’t look too threatening, on this character who in what’s probably 23 years has not worn a single bit of makeup, has not been shown to come back to Earth and wear makeup, has more than once and throughout her life picked comfortability over the hassle of putting on makeup and tight clothes, yes what a sound decision’’.

When you wear too much makeup, when you wear nothing of makeup, even when it’s expected of you when you’re a woman to find the ‘’balance’’ so you don’t look either ‘‘bitchy’’ or ‘‘crazy’’, so you look ‘‘appealing’’, that is the power of choice, and if you choose to wear makeup, that is because you can and you want to, but remember it is expected of us, women, to put on the right amount of makeup all the time, and having a woman, a superheroine, who didnt sport a bit of makeup, suddenly sporting the classic femme fatale look, should at least tell you that ‘‘this cannot be a sound decison at all considering everything taken into account’’. It is not mysoginistic to criticize Carol’s sudden makeup, makeup is NOT reserved for women only so stop saying ‘‘it’s mysoginistic to criticize Carol for wearing makeup’’.

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