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Epic Games Store

Launching sometime in 2018, Epic Games decided to upgrade their Fortnite launcher (even though they have many games under their belt before Fortnite came out), into a client/launcher that can now sell third-party games, unlike the other digital stores that Epic Games owns that sells tools, like the Unreal Engine. It's were gamers can buy video games for the PC, despite the bare bones and rather primitive features. However, this new launcher bought something a bit new, third-party game exclusives; which had little to no presence in the PC gaming environment. Also, breaking the industry standard of the thirty percent cut, instead Epic Games Store will only take twelve percent of the revenue. The store was made for the developers and publishers first mindset, customers/gamers second or third. The reviews will only be opt in, gamers reporting bugs and technical problems are ticket-based, there's no plans to

category: microsoft windows, mac OS,

Epic Games Store YMMV

  • Accesended Meme: The lack of a shopping cart.
    • Which is irony, since the rest of Epic Games' other stores, like the Unreal Engine, have shopping carts that allows multiple purchases.
  • Broken Base: The new launcher became like this to the pc gaming community, when Epic Games began doing shady methods to obtain exclusives.
  • Critical Dissonance: Sites, like Polygon, Kotaku, and the mainstream gaming news sites rejoiced that Epic Games will be "competing" against Steam and sticking it to gamers. Whereas gamers hate these sites for their dishonesty.
    • Also, these gaming news sites hate actual gamers and rejoice in any form of censorship, including of games that they hate.
  • Big Brother is Watching: Some of the gamers are suspicious of Tencent, who is one of Epic Games' shareholder that owns 40% of the game company alone and are concern about their influence as well as potential spying.
    • Also, that Epic Games Store is spying on a customer's Steam friends without their consent.
  • Fandumb: They accused Steam of taking thirty percent cut from publishers and developers, despite this being the industry standards that tech companies use all the time, like Apple, Microsoft, and etc.
    • Even forgetting or outright ignoring that other launchers, like GOG, itch.io, and others existed and were chipping away at Steam long before Epic decided to make turn their launcher/client into a storefront. And were even chipping away at Steam.
    • Rejoicing of the lack of forums...Until they need to go do a "Help me, obi wan kenobi" in the Steam forums.
  • Hatedumb: Mainly from some console gamers, who are raised by similar practices, like third-party timed exclusives, and doesn't see why PC gamers' are worried about the creeping anti-consumer practices.
    • Subverted, that some console gamers hated pc gaming in general and are happy that a huge rival is getting shot, despite that these same anti-consumer practices will bite them in the butt in the future.
  • Idiot Programming: Epic has a laundry list of examples, like:
    • Having a security vulnerability that allows hackers to steal the accounts of others.
    • No shopping feature, especially for those who like to buy a ton of games, buying five games or more will cause the client to go bonkers.
  • No OSHA Compliance: Mainly the game devs that works on Fortnite are submitted to this, by the higher ups.
    • It gets worst during crunch times.
  • To some gamers, Epic Games just:
    • In May 18, 2010, Blame piracy on low sales in the past and hypocritically stated that they will never support PC gaming or gamers that play on PC.
    • Ruining their games, like Unreal Tournament and Fortnite, made worst by an interview that Epic Games doesn't know what to do with them or adding updates that the community didn't ask for, rending their games unplayable/unfun, or worst outright anti-consumer.
    • Crippling the Mac and Linux gaming scene, mainly because Tim Sweeney hates the niche group.
    • Killing off games with high potential, like Paragons (an Overwatch clone), because of greed and "You outlive your usefulness."
  • Snake Oil Salesman: Tim Sweeney comes across as this to those being critical of the new Epic Games Store.

Sources

How Fortnite's Success Led to Months of Intense Crunch: https://archive.fo/9Ypdz

ES EULA Excerpt Data Exploitation: https://imgur.com/a/K9goVgK

EGS could be Sending Your Data to China: https://mainmenu.games/2018/12/26/epic-games-store-could-be-sending-your-data-to-china/

PCs Are Good for Anything, Just Not Games: https://archive.fo/YgbCU

Fuck Epic for Dummies: https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckepic/comments/bs4kh6/rfuckepic_for_dummies_a_quick_breakdown/

It's not that Tim doesn't understand. He simply doesn't care: https://archive.fo/nqqDr

https://www.pcgamer.com/chinese-internet-company-tencent-owns-40-percent-of-epic-games/

https://archive.fo/PEiab

https://mainmenu.games/2018/12/26/epic-games-store-could-be-sending-your-data-to-china/

https://archive.fo/OrnSL

Tencent's $330 Million ES Investment (archive): https://archive.fo/irunO

Tencent's directors are super valuable (tim sweeney/archive): https://archive.fo/FoGRq

To People Who Believe that EG is Not Influenced by Tencent: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/b1fre2/to_the_people_who_believe_that_epic_games_is/

https://imgur.com/P6cIq1u

https://imgur.com/a/X7wrl1Q

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1ZoPPbXcAA9HeD.jpg:large

https://imgur.com/4TKccBK

https://imgur.com/a/LKWkyZL

https://imgur.com/gallery/WQ6zKGn

https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/474275-epic-games-store-forums-subnautica-steam

https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gears-war-xbox-pc-piracy,news-29283.html

https://www.gamespot.com/forums/system-wars-314159282/bulletstorm-sequel-shelved-epic-games-blames-pc-pi-29128747/

https://www.neowin.net/news/pc-piracy-drove-us-to-consoles-says-epic-games/

https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/18/epic-games-says-something-silly-about-piracy/

https://www.wired.com/2008/03/unreal-creator/

In-Game Currency

(Note: If trope name doesn't fit, use a name generator. Also, probably better as a useful note)

Money makes the world go round, the same also applies to video games mainly, in the various games and its genre fictional currency is needed to buy or redeem for the necessary things, like horse armor, skins, weapons, and even real world items, like merch from the actual online stores. Virtual money has been in games during its early days and can be required through various means, like finding them (i.e. destroying vases and bench chairs), being dropped, doing side quests for the npcs, opening chest, defeating foes, selling items, opening loot boxes, buying them through microtransactions, using real money to buy the merch from the company's official online stores, or using prepaid cards to buy them.

Bon Festival (Useful Notes)

The Bon Festival, also known as Obon, Festival of Lanterns, or the Festival for the Spirits of the Dead, is a Japanese holiday that's similar to Mexico's Day of the Dead. The holiday lasts a week commemorating and honoring the dead, especially the ancestors, due to the Buddhist beliefs that the spirits and ghosts of love will come to visit the world of the living, mainly to revist the household altars. These week long holidays were celebrated for 500 years.

Traditionally lanterns are hung outside of houses, the family shrines and altars are clean up for the spirits, dances are performed, and offerings (called ozen) are placed in the front of altars, temples, and grave sites occasionally.


References

https://web.archive.org/web/20091217075713/http://www.bonodori.net/E/index.html

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1520740?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

https://www.hisgo.com/us/destination-japan/blog/bon_festival_in_japan.html

https://www.japanese-city.com/calendar/events/index.php?com=searchresult&t=37,30

https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2286.html

https://www.tripsavvy.com/japan-obon-festival-1550121

Filipino Myths/Urban Legends Wiki

Self note: Use this for Filipino myth stuff: https://www.aswangproject.com/

Anaconda: Hunt for the Blood Orchid

picture for article. Tagline: The Hunters will become the hunted.

summary: Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid was a sequel to Anaconda (1997)|Anaconda and was directed by Dwight H. Little. It is the second installment of the Anaconda film series and it follows a small expedition team, that was funded by the Wexel Hall pharmaceutical firm, into the inner jungles of Borneo to find the mythical flower, called the Blood Orchid, which they believe to give humanity longer and healthier lives. Until, disaster struck, then they have to fight for their lives to survive a very unfriendly jungle, including anacondas that are stalking them.

Trivia

  • According to Dwight Little an interview, the movie making crew studied real anacondas, rattlesnakes, and all kinds of serpents to come up with the Borneo anaconda's eyes, teeth, scales, and palettes.
  • The Bloody Mary was designed specifically for the movie, it was made by old tires, plastic, and whatever can be salvaged. Like the snakes, the Bloody Mary is her own character.
  • California doubling: according to "Special Effects Toolbox Creating Anaconda" makings, New Zealand doubles for the Mendranag river and some of the other scenes.
    • Averted. The crew used the Kalimatan Mangrove Forest for filming, the forest is in Indonesia.
  • This was Hollywood's fist movie to have its premier in Fiji.
  • The score, by Nerida Tyson-Chew, was nominated for Best Soundtrack Album in Australia's 2005 Screen Music Awards.
  • Goofs:
    • In one scene, despite that the revolver is not rusted, it jams after firing two rounds.
    • The infamous "Stone Spider, is actually a golden silk orb weaving spider and is harmless to humans.
  • In the beginning scene, a Borneo tribesman was hunting a tiger, which were extinct on Borneo for 11,000 years.
  • Bill noticed and announces that the "Hard Drive's ruined." The destroyed device was an ASUS 52x CD-ROM drive.
  • spoiler|Before the Bloody Mary goes over the waterfall, you can see the film crew hidden in the mist.
  • Crocodiles are attracted by splashing water, unlike the movie croc, who hunts by smelling blood.


Note: Add the Stone Spider is not native to Southeast Asia (and that it's harmless to humans) to the Misplaced Animals/Fauna.

Quotes

CEO: "Well, what the hell you're waiting for get your asses down to Borneo."

Bill's stick together quote: "

Mitchell: What's wrong with this picture? Gail: "I don't know, let me see, you're in it?"

Tran: Your Indonesian sucks.

Cole: Hey, you try getting a GPS locator, a Sat-Nav EchoStar, and a UV spectrometer past the Indonesian customs.

Cole: I'm a bad man.

Jack: To Gail, who knows it's better to eat than to be eaten.

Gail (to Mitchell): We're the prettiest and most popular, like sleeping with the head cheerleader.

Cole: You're telling me that there's some snake orgy down in the jungle.

Notes

Nightmare fuel

Bill: Everything gets eaten out here. (Shows the river wading scene where the camera is above the gang)

spoiler: Livingston, Bill's friend, traveling alone and getting attacked, drag under water, and eaten alive.

spoiler: The expedition crew finding John's corpse after it was regurgitated several days later.

spoiler:Tran falling through a trapdoor, into a river, after attempts to unlock it, he can't escape and became food to a passing anaconda.

spoiler: Mitchell being paralyzed, can barely move, knowing that he's about to be eaten by the anaconda staring at him.

spoiler:The anaconda mating ball, Jack falling into it, and being eaten.

Funny

Despite that the movie is about man-eating giant snakes, it does have its funny moments.

Kong's intro. Bill: This is Kong, Kong lives here, you're his guests.

Bill flirting with Sam about being young, single, and they're in Borneo...And not committing.

Tran offering some of the cellular phone users that they can borrow the wood that he's using to sharpen his knife. Just to continue the calls to civilization.

In Real Life: Some of the audiences find the whole movie as laughable in a "So bad it's good" way. Well, considering that it had mixed reviews and nominated for the "worst remake or sequel" razzle award, this was to be expected.

Tropes

  • Platonic Life Partners: Tran Wu and Bill Johnson.
  • Society of Immortals: The pharmacists are hoping that the Blood Orchid's results will advance humanity to reach the point to become this.
  • Chain-Reaction Destruction: Spoiler|After when Gail tricked the female anaconda into biting the fuel container, Cole upon realizing that Bill's using an empty pistol, flare gun to shoot the huge snake, this started a fiery explosions, and a cave in which killed the constrictors and destroyed the Blood Orchids.
  • cgi
  • hungry jungle
  • Doomed Appointment: spoiler|John Livingston's journey to pick up his BFF and the expedition crew for the return to civilization became this.
  • amplifier artifact: The blood orchid's properties was theorized by the doctors of science that it will give humans near immortality, by slowing down aging.
    • spoiler|played straight with the borneo anacondas, the reasons why they outlive and outgrew normal anacondas was because they consume the flowers.
  • The Mutiny: spoiler|The expedition crew all rebel against Dr.Bryon when the trip became TOO perilous to risk.
  • Snakes Are Evil
  • fantastic flora: the mythical Blood Orchid of Borneo, which can grant near immortality.
  • ghost town: spoiler|The headhunter tribe is thoroughly abandoned that not even a pet dog is even presence.
  • trailers always spoil: Some of parts of the trailer reveal key points of the movie.
  • covers always lie: The DVD box stated that spoiler|the scientists will have to battle their way through savage head hunters. But there wasn't a single cannibal in the whole film.
    • Granted they weren't practicing headhunting for the last few centuries, also, the tribe left their village temporarily due to anaconda mating season.
  • Antagonist title
  • Scenery Porn
  • Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy: Burris stated something not word for word.

spoiler|quote: I had this friend, who had this friend who shot documentaries, and he and his whole crew went down to the Amazon, and they were all eaten by snakes.

  • Earned Your Happy Ending: Some of the characters, like Cole, Gail, and Sam, had to work to survive and to return to getting that hot bath and Garden's seating between Spike and Woody.
  • Everyone calls him barkeep: According to Bill the Indonesian locals nickname him "Jin Soon."

Bill quote: It's a pronouncation thing.

  • Bilingual: The scientists are also well verse in Indonesian.
  • Immortality Seekers
  • Kill the Cute/shoo out the clowns: While Kong was working his way on getting a low hanging mango. An anaconda began chasing after him while he attempted to make a quick getaway.

The monkey survive the ordeal, was able to reunite with his owner and his "guests".

  • It got worst: All the worst started right after the Bloody Mary's final trip.
  • Foreshadowing: Unbeknownst to the Bloody Mary gang, they're being stalked by one of the anacondas who just ate the crocodile that Johnson killed earlier.
  • Eaten Alive/Swallowed Whole: Like its predecessor, some of the characters getting eaten alive and swallowed by anacondas comes with the territory.
  • Race Against the Clock: The Perrinnia Immortalis only has a few months staying in full bloom.
  • Sequel Episode: To the first Anaconda flick.
  • When It Rains, It Pours: Which started the pharmacists problems the minute they first step foot in Borneo, Indonesia, since it's raining like no tomorrow, like no ship company doesn't wanna risk the bad rainy season, to the Bloody Mary gang encountering more Mendranang river problems than they can count.
  • : Whilst not shown, some of the expedition crew's back stories, like Gail, was that they came from the fancy Wexell-Tall.
  • Dying Alone: spoiler|John Livingston was alone when he was attacked by an anaconda and then dragged to his watery grave.
  • hazardous water
  • dwindling party
  • kill it with fire: spoiler|In order to kill an attacking anaconda, Bill set the wooden hut on fire.
  • river of insanity: the Mendranag river.

Self Notes: Fix Uncle Tomfoolery, since it's only Cole Burris that's supposed to be the funny guy. Also, Gorden Mitchell and Gail Stern avert this trope. Add to Shout Out, when stated to Cole, "I'm going to vote you off this island." Is a reference to "Survivor (2000).


cat: Animal title index , films of the 2000s, Sony Pictures , Scren Gems , Columbia Pictures

Characters

Bill Johnson and Kong (quote:

  • The Captain
  • The Stoic
  • Deadpan Snarker: Bill is sometimes this.

Jesus, maybe a blow torch.

  • dark and trouble past or woobie: Bill's "long story" was that he was part of the military, had seen and done things that are horrible for a bigger good. So he came out to Indonesia to start a new life.
  • Evil Detecting Dog|Evil Detecting Monkey: Kong, he screeches warns about upcoming dangers.
  • Big Eater: Kong. He wanted more mangoes despite already eaten his dinner.
  • Machete Mayhem: Bill uses his trusty machete to clear jungle pathways...And to use occasionally to dice huge threatening snakes.

Jack Byron quote: In research, you've got to go out on a limb.

  • The Captain
  • Big Liar: spoilers| He lied to his teammates about:
    • spoilers|He didn't tell his teammates about his behind the scenes dealing offering Bill extra dough to "risk it."
    • spoilers|keeping John Livingston's cellular phone hidden from the others. Since he doesn't want them "to make one call back to civilization."
    • spoilers|To top it all off, even lying to the Indonesian cops that he's the sole survivor of the expedition.
  • Would Hit a Girl: spoiler: Jack will go so far as to abandon Gail and Sam (and the others) in the wilds, even threatening to shoot them, and even shooting them.

Sam Rogers

  • Dumb Blonde: Greatly averted, since Sam's research made the expedition all the more possible.
  • Took a Level in Badass: spoiler|Sam took a knife/machete and hack a snake to death.

Ben Dougless

  • Knight in Shining Armor: Ben, despite being average, tries to be chivalrous and being brave to impress his female friends.
  • Fruedan Slip: While Sam was talking about running off with Sam since they're in Romantic Borneo, he accidentally adds "No commitment."

Cole Burris quote: I'm a bad man.

  • the complainer is always wrong: This trope was eaten alive by an anaconda, since Cole Burris even bought up good points which his peers mostly listen to and/or agree with.
  • Book Smart: He knows bits about the snake and what they're up against, since he watches a lot of documentaries. Even though he doesn't have the jungle savvyness as Bill Johnson's.
  • took a level in badass: spoiler|In the , Burris used a flare gun to save his teammates from an anaconda.

Gorden Mitchell

  • Character Developement: As the movie progresses, Mitchell does everything in his power to help his colleagues to reach safety.
: Earlier, Gorden makes this clear that he loves Dr. Stern's money.

Gail Stern

  • Bossy
  • Character Developement: First she's only in it for the dough, but as the movie progresses spoiler|She begins to care about the remaining survivors, the fact that there's a possibility that they'll all become snake chow, and etc...
  • The Lancer: to Jack Byron.
  • The skeptic: She has doubts about everything concerning the Perrinnia Immortalis: anything from obtaining it, using said samples for the testing...Including getting human test subjects, and the supplies meeting the demands.
  • : Like Gorden, she loves the money and she's not in it for the potential of finding the legal equivalent to the fountain of youth.
  • Tsundere: She acts like this towards Gorden.

John Livingston (quote: "That's mates rates.")

  • The Alcholic: John loves drinking and boating.

spoiler: His drinking made him half woozy, so he cannot fight the anaconda boarded his, and save his own life.

  • Noodle Incident: Bill told John over the cellular phone that if he doesn't show up at Naga Rock, he'll rat to Mrs. Livingston about her husband's "that little side trip to Bangkok."

Dunkirk (film)

quote|400,000 couldn't get home, so home came for them. - Tagline

Dunkirk was a 2017 World War 2 film directed and written by Christopher Nolan, starring Fionn Whitehead, Kenneth Branagh, and , the musical score done by Hans Zimmer. The film first premiered on Jul7 13, 2017 at Odeon Leicester Square, London, and was eventually released to North American and the United Kingdom in pure IMAX form in July 21, 2017. In the 23rd Critics' Choice Awards, Dunkirk received eight nominations.

The film follows the World War 2 evacuation of the combined Allied forces of the British and French armies from Dunkirk beach from three prespectives.

tropelist

  • Abandon Ship: Captain (the dutch guy) gave this command, everyone began to leave through the hatch spoiler|except Gibson, who didn't make it.
  • Ace Pilot|Ace Pilots: The Spitfire crew.
  • Anyone Can Die
  • Arc Words: Home
  • Big Damned Heroes: The crew of the Moonstone and spoiler|the other civilians who also sailed through the English channel to saved those that are stranded in the French beach.
  • Big Liar|Big Liars: Some of the guys spoiler|that were rescued the Moonshone also helped Peter lied by hiding George's corpse. They were informed that the pilot is "never the same."
  • Driven to Suicide: Many soldiers have done this later on in the film, one guy just runs into the sea.
    • When the torpedo struck the , many abandon ship into the sea, some committed suicide by doing this.
  • Drowning Pit: This happened to Tommy, Alex, Gibson when they and the Highlanders when they got stuck inside a Dutch trawler when the tide came in and the Nazi fire put too many holes in the small boat.
    • spoiler| Farrier was forced to land in the sea, but found out that he can't exit his cockpit. The sea began to fill in.
  • Episode on a Plane: The Blue Sky story arc.
  • Eucatastrophe: The whole movie is this, the Axis were an inch close to capturing the European Allied forces, only for the latter to slip away from their grasp.
  • Historical Domain Character|Historical Domain Characters: Most of the characters in the movie are based on actual historical people.
  • Hero With Bad Publicity|Heroes With Bad Publicity: Averted, spoiler| When the British and French army arrived in English shores, they thought they'll be boo-ed and run out of the country, because they retreated.
  • Land, Sea, Sky: The whole movie's theme.
  • Mistaken for Spies|Mistaken for a German Spy: Some of the Highlanders accused Gibson for being a German spy, since he hasn't said anything at all.
  • Man on Fire|Men on Fire: Some of soldiers were set on fire, because they were already covered with oil while trying to board the civilian boats.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Several, like being inside a ship when a German U-Boat's torpedo hits it, and .
  • Old School Dogfighting: Whenever the Spitfires vs. the German dive-bombers shows up.
  • Operation Blank: Operation Dynamo
  • Shown Their Work: Christopher Nolan and his crew even got advise from WW2 vets that were there during the Dunkirk evacuation, the port guys at Dunkirk, and etc.
  • Stuff Blowing Up
  • Shell Shocked: The first downed pilot that the Moonstone crew fished out. Dawson explained that "He may never be the same again."
  • Race Against the Clock: There's little time for the Allied forces that are trapped on Dunkirk beach, plus the French line can only keep the Nazis at bay for so long.
  • Rousing Speech: Churchill's badass speech:
  • You Shall Not Pass: What's left of the French army and their resistance movement are the only ones standing between the Nazi Germans and the weaponless Allied forces that are trapped at Dunkirk.
  • World War II
  • trope: The German dive bomber crashed into the ocean, which already had oil spilling out of the , this made that particular area lit up with fire.
  • trope: Farrier was the last Spitfire pilot and he managed to bring down the last German dive-bomber, so the survival of Dunkirk army and their rescuers can succeed.
  • trope:

Color coded for convience: Despite that the Luftwaffe did not paint fighter aircraft noses yellow until the late part of 1940. Nolan did this on purpose so that the audience can easily identify German aircraft.

cat: Films of the 2010s/Top Tens, world war 2 movies

Trivia

The movie is split into three colors: sky blue, dark blue, and white, referencing the triptych plot of air, sea, and land.

    • Even the movie's DVD/Blu Ray's special features are divided in this way.
  • One of the stunt co-ordinators thought that a certain boat won't survive the filming, didn't know that using the undestructable Moonshine was a good deal.
  • The oil and soot that's use was environmentally friendly veggies.
  • Since the Dunkirk accounts stated how young and complete noobs the soldiers were, Christopher Nolan cast young yet unknown actors.
  • Christopher Nolan and his wife, Emma Thomas, used a boat and sailed from England to Dunkirk. It took them nineteen hours because of the sea conditions.
  • The little original ships that were part of the Dunkirk evacuation re-enacted their roles.
  • Fifty boats were on sea and ten boats are used in the film.
  • Since the audience only know Harry Styles as a One Direction band member, Nolan compared his casting of him to Heath Leger's Joker from the Dark Knight. Due to the viewers under estimating Harry.
  • Hoyte Van Hoytema was chosen as the cinematographer, he worked with Chrisopher Nolan in Interstellar.
  • Nolan made a deal with Warner Bros. where he would get $20 million salary including 20% of the box office gross.
  • The filming was shot in the same locations where the historical events took place.
  • Dunkirk deals about civilians saving the military's butt, rather than the usual military saving civilains.
  • Dunkirk won eight Oscar nominations, tying with Christopher Nolan's earlier movies the Dark Knight and Inception in being the most nominated movie.
  • The only opening credit was the film's title.
  • The film's codename was "Bodega Bay."
  • The film crew was planning to cast Andrew Simpson as one of the main characters and were in talks.
  • The Dunkirk evacuation (aka Operation Dynamo) occurred between May 26 and June 1940.
  • Tom Glynn-Carney, who portrayed Peter, remarked that since filming Dunkirk was a very thrilling experience.

quote|"It will make every job I do after this boring."

  • This was Christopher Nolan's first war movie and also his first that was based on historical events.

Goofs:

  • In the ending scene, spoiler|the 1950s railway carriages' seat patterns are from the 1980s.
  • The "Sealife Tower", which was built approximately 2012, can be seen in some Weymouth scenes.
  • Some modern road signs and marking can be seen in Weymouth.

Reference: https://www.uselessdaily.com/movies/dunkirk-trivia-35-fun-facts-you-didnt-know-about-the-film/

Character Page

Here's the characters from the Dunkirk movie.

Sky Blue

Farrier

Portrayed by: Tom Hardy

Collins

Portrayed by: Jack Lowden

Tommy

Portrayed by: Fionn Whitehead

Last of his kind|Last of his friends: Tommy was the only one that survived out of his group of his army friends after the Nazi ambushed them.

Deep Sea

Peter

Portrayed by: Tom Glynn-Carney

  • Big Liar: When Peter found out spoiler|that his best friend died, he lied to the pstd pilot.

Pilot: Is the boy alright? Peter: Yes he is.

  • Trope: Peter ended up juggling with helping his Dad and nursing George.

George

Portrayed by: Barry Keoghan

  • Little Stowaway: Only seventeen and decided to join his friend and said friend's Dad to go to France.
  • Tap on the Head: He bumped his head while he, Peter, and pilot fought.
    • spoiler|George died because of his injuries.
  • Blind: When George woke up and talked with Peter, he exclaims, "I'm blind!"

Mr. Dawson

Portrayed by: Mark Rylance

Pilot Shelby "Shell" Shocked

Portrayed by: Cillian Murphy

Trope: Shelby tells the Moonstone crew that they'll die when they reach Dunkirk.

Trope: I'm never going back there.

Character Developement: When the Moonstone finally arrived at Dunkirk, he set aside his issues long enough to help the Moonstone crew to bring in soldiers on board.

The Nameless: The shell shocked pilot's real name was never reveal in the film.


White

Commander Bolton

Portrayed by: Kenneth Branagh

Colonel Winnant

Portrayed by: James D'Arcy

Gibson

Portrayed by: Aeurin Barnard

Identity Theft: Gibson stole some IDs and dogtags off of a dead guy, whom he help buried in a markless grave.

Dutch Guy

Portrayed By: Jochum ten Haaf

Loot Box

Loot Boxes (aka "Loot Crate", "Prize Crate", and many other names. Also to not be confused for a mail order subscription were mystery boxes) are consumable items that can be redeemed to received a randomized box that opens up virtual prizes, like skins, in-game currency, weapons, and armor. - Also, an annoying factor if the gamer already has that cosmetic(s). Some of these virtual prizes are "rare" to obtained and are color coded for convenience|color coded to separate them from the frequents prizes that regularly drops. The loot boxes' Asian counterparts are similar to the gashapon vending machines, besides having similar traits to their western cousins. But the difference that these loot boxes has: are the player spins to get randomize items, and mostly go by a vending machine appearance. One of these types of gachapon loot boxes are the "complete gacha" (aka konpu gacha) were players need to collect items akin to puzzle pieces to form one huge yet rare item. They can be bought using real money to buy microtransactions, grinding for virtual money, buying keys from the virtual store and using them to redeem, wait for them to be drop during or after gameplay, to reach the next level, special occasions or events, play and complete rounds without quitting during in a multiplayer, MMNO, and co-op games. Some of the loot boxes' contents can be tradeable after redeeming or converting them into in-game currency, which can be use to buy the items that they want. All of these versions of loot boxes can be found in the smallest mobile games and up to the huge video games that can be found in PC and consoles, especially ones that uses the free to play models.

One of the earliest and major influential form of loot boxes originated from some of EA's earlier FIFA games, like FIFA Soccer, and this was a bit long before the loot systems that are found in MMORG and the mobile games' popularity boom, which are also the loot boxes' prehistoric family; since they all paved the way to the modern form of loot boxes. Andrew Wilson, one of EA's CEOs, evolved FIFA's systems since he saw that they can merge microtransactions with the surprise boxes. Some of the reasons why game companies uses these controversial mechanics was so they can get ongoing revenue while not dealing with DLC or game subscriptions tediousness, but to keep gamers engaged and getting on-going revenue to possibly keep the game(s) in question updated and in good conditions.

These game mechanics are not without controversy, gamers hate loot boxes since they deem them to be predatory in nature and equates them to gambling, since it has a chance mechanic were people will be made to spend more money just to get the skins, weapons, or armor that they want if they do not get the skin that they want. Also the nature of rewarding those that spend more money on loot boxes to get more perks and minimizing actual gameplay and organic leveling up. As well as the fact that a game which has loot boxes are already heavily priced, like 30 or 60 US dollars, for the main game and offer so little content or worst, having to buy content or features that should have been in the game in the first place. The prize crates also came under fire by international countries, like Belgium, that ruled them as gambling, placing them alongside casinos, and Japan were the kompu gacha loot boxes are banned by the Consumer Affairs Agency (It's only complete gacha loot boxes, the rest still remains being used). Some of the reasons why non-gamers, like politicians, took noticed was because of fearing of an underground market involving skins, besides the usual dreading that young kids and teens' developing minds will become akin to the gambling addicts.

references

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/what-are-loot-boxes-microtransactions,news-26161.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTLFNlu2N_M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loot_box

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/loot-boxes-star-wars-battlefront-2-fifa-ultimate-team

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=9207df10-a8a2-4f67-81c3-6a148a6100e2

https://runescape.fandom.com/wiki/Treasure_Hunter

https://crappygames.miraheze.org/wiki/Loot_Boxes

Examples:

[b]MOBAs[/b]

League of Legends

Paladins - The Treasure Chests can be earned by doing certain quests. To open them the gamer needs Crystals, the in-game currency, which can be obtained by microtransactions, buying the Battle or Season Passes, buying them straight from the store, redeeming codes, doing special quests, daily logins, and Refer-A-Friend.

DOTA 2 - Treasures can be bought from the DOTA 2 store, using charms, or waiting for item drops.

[b]Shooters[/b]

Star Wars Battlefront (EA version) -

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - The Weapon Cases drops after a gamer completes a game round, they have to buy a key to open it in the-game store or buy from a guy selling it in the Steam Market.

Quake Champions

Team Fortress 2 - The loot box will drop at random, they require a key to open (which needs to be bought at the Mann.Co store, from a someone selling it in the Steam Market, or a fan trusted site, like Scrap.Tf).

Gears of War 4

Destiny 2

Battlefield 1 - Battlepacks can be obtained by completing specific objectives, using real world money to buy the in-game currency, or rewarded with progression.

Battlefield Hardline - It's Battlepack system is similar to Battlefield 1's, obtainable by using real world money to buy the in-game currency, reward progression, or completing certain objectives.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (2017) - Some of the important goods, like better Star Cards, crafting materials, and extra credits can all be obtain by loot boxes, the latter can be bought using microtransactions. Note: The early system was so abusive and predatory that Disney step in and force EA to disable the microtransactions part for the time being.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - Some of the loot boxes, called Mystery Boxes, that can spawn in various locations.

LawBreakers

[b]Fighting[/b]

Injustice 2 - To get Mother Boxes needs to link to the Injustice 2 mobile game, win every ending, completing all the tutorials, doing Story mode, doing the daily challenges, or leveling up both your player card and individual characters.

[b]MMORPGs[/b]

The Lord of the Rings Online

Star Trek Online

Ragnarok Online

Albion Online

ArcheAge

Aion

Tera

MapleStory 2

Neverwinter - Lockboxes can drop randomly from foes and monsters in the game or can be bought with in-game money from the Wonderous Bazaar. These loot boxes can be opened by key which can be bought with real money from the Zen Market.

[b]MMOs[/b]

RuneScape - The daily mini-game, Treasure Hunter, which offers five crates were the gamer has to choose one but they need a key to unlock, which can be obtain by drops or can be bought in groups with real money.

[b]Hybrids[/b]

Paragon (game) - Loot Crates are dropped randomly after completing matches and they need Keys to open. To get Keys it's to open chests, buy them from the in-game store with real money, and being rewarded from rank 13+.

Overwatch - Some of the ways to get a loot box is to buy them straight from the store via microtransactions, grind to the next level, waiting for drops, and special holidays/ events.

Fornite - Thre's three types:

    • The Loot Llama are dropped in an area.
    • Supply Drops are loot crates that randomly drops, they contain supplies and one legendary weapon.
    • In story mode|Save the World, Llama Pinatas contain gear and supplies, they can either be bought straight from the Event Store or earned via gameplay.

Tom Clancy's The Division 2

[b]Action RPGs[/b]:

Assassin's Creed:Origins - Reda has a special shop were he sells Heka Chests for 3,000 drachma, which are the in-game currency.

Middle Earth: Shadow of War - Gamers can get loot boxes in the Market, an in-game store, where they can buy them with Mirian, the in-game currency, or with real money, or with actual microtransaction. Special chests requires gold, an in-game currency that's rare or can be purchased with real money.

Mass Effect: Andromeda - The loot boxes are rewarded for completing strike team mssions and can be claimed in the Strike Team Console or in the Militia Office.

Mass Effect 3

[b]RPG[/b]:

Path of Exile

Guild Wars 2

[b]Sports[/b]

Need for Speed Payback

Many EA Sports games

[b]Strategy[/b]

War Planet Online: Global Conquest

Halo Wars 2

[b]Card Games[/b]

Magic: The Gathering (video game)

Pokemon Trading Card Game Online - One can use microtransactions to buy virtual card packs, which functions as loot boxes, use in-game coins to use to buy these same virtual card packets, and even scan a special code or QR code to get them.

The Elder Scrolls Legends - Crown Crates can be bought from the Crown Store using Crown Gems, the in-game currency, which can be obtain from extracting unwanted items or automatically from already owned items.

Gwent - Card Kegs can be dropped through playing the multiplayer, crafted using in-game currency|Ore or buying them.

Notes for Main Overwatch Mode

Some of the gameplay types are: Control Point, Payload, and

  • Anything about Sigma.

African Mythology

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Since Africa is a vast continent with different cultures and languages. It's no surprise that some of the ancient mythology, its gods, and supernatural creatures are found in various modern works, like video games, books, and tv shows.

Gods

Like with any mythologies, African mythology, has multiple gods that are in one huge heavenly family. Though many tribes and groups refer to the top god as Amma or Olorun, while in Eastern Africans prefer Mulungu.

  • Ala - Mother Goddess, ruler of the underworld, and fertility.
  • Amma - Head honcho god.
  • Cagn - The Creator God
  • Eshu - The Hermas expy/trickster and messenger.
  • Katonda - Also a creator god/father of the gods/king and supreme judge of the universe.
  • Kibuka - The war god.
  • Leza - Creator and sky god.
  • Mujaji - The rain goddess
  • Nyame - A creator god, who is associated with both the sun and moon.
  • Ogun - God of war and iron
  • Olorun - Sky god and supreme deity

Demi-Gods

The demi-gods are more diverse and they have many functions. There's thousands of them, but they varied from culture to culture.

  • Shango - storm god, who controls thunder and lightning.

Trope Poster Museum

We here in All The Tropes love to categorize things, like tropes, wikis, cartoons, tv shows, movies, and such, one day we were thinking: Suppose there's a museum of tropes, that has displays of those greats that represent tropes. Don't worry, they displays won't become alive, as far as we know...It's just for fun.

Please do not confuse with Religion Tropes.


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We in All The Tropes love to categorize things. Tropes, tv shows, books, and everything that we can get our hands on. So, one day we got to thinking: What would things be like if the world were run entirely on tropes and what they could be? Who would be the Gods and Goddesses? So, we pooled our resources and come up with as much ideas as possible. No condolences, human sacrifices, and payment is required yet...It's just for fun.

Trope Poster Template

Before Submitting a God/Goddess, Read The Rules: These rules are made so we don’t fall like Tv Tropes, their Trope Pantheon is more convoluted and messed up than Call of Duty. - How you ask? You need a spreadsheet to keep track of everything, we want to keep this mainly as a trope museum, having a character that embodies the trope.

1) Use proper grammar at all times. If your English is poor or not your first language, use the sandbox to get it proofread before posting or do not post.

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God X, God/dess of (Insert Trope Here) (Alternate names/Nicknames/Fan Nicknames)

  • An image, if possible. Please use official art or a screenshot for a picture.
  • Rank: This can range from god, demigod, lesser god, and whatever status the Greek Fates has.
  • Symbol: An image, icon, or item that's used to represent the deity.
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  • Portfolio: The Trope/tropes associated with the character
  • Domains: Things this character has influence over.
  • Allies: Gods that are the said god's Pantheon friends/allies
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  • Now add random trivia/facts about events/alignments/moments/fights, etc.

Cheagal Fonts

Whether a character is a precocious child, team pet, or an alien ends up writing on behalf of the adult, legal guardian or human adult. Doing this gives results that is heavily implied that the youngster is either a genius and wise beyond his years, has better handwriting, or the adult in question’s writing is similar to how a child writes, has average/ horrible handwriting, has the mindset of a child, alien, or a pet, or worst, the immaturity of a child. This can be played for humor or can be a very nice save on the child’s part, in a more serious story, especially in thrillers, horror stories, and action-adventures.

Compare and contrast ‘Signature Style,’ ‘Creator Thumbprint’, and Most Writers Are Adults.

Examples

  • The trope namer came from Tales of the Abyss, the cheagal in question, Mieu, tries to fill in for Luke with writing in his daily journal, the other characters inquire about Luke’s penmanship, implying that Fabrve’s writing is questionable or Mieu knows how to write human.

Anime/Manga

  • In a Naruto filler, it turns out that the titular character completed the latest Make Out Paradise novel, which made the shojun think that the rival leader send him a peace gift. This implied that Jirarya has the writing skills of a pre-teen or that Naruto knows how to write (Since the titular hero also is the editor of Make Out Paradise series).

Video Games

  • In Tales of the Abyss, when Mieu notices that Luke was skipping days of writing in his journal. The young cheagal took matters in his own paws, resulting in some hilarious reactions from Luke’s friends.
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