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Alpacalips Now posted:I just remembered Goosebumps books. That was actually one of the better ones, and I remember back when people were raving about The Sixth Sense, all I could think was "that was literally a Goosebumps book." I kept buying and reading them long, long after I stopped enjoying them. Ugh.
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Speaking of Gossebumps. This is the opposite of the thread but I like to think the Escape From Horrorland adventure game still holds up even though it has everything against it as an FMV tie-in. Although, it DOES have Jeff Goldblum as Dracula: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ifarNLR5Po&t=149s
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Jun 8, 2014 17:12
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Devil Wears Wings posted:I read 8-Bit Theater and Bob and George back in the day, and I'm really afraid to go back to them and see how lovely they really are. 8-Bit Theater is still really good and I've actually been re-reading it recently. Seriously, it stands up. Bob and George, I've not read in years, so I don't know how it's aged, but probably not well. Alpacalips Now posted:I just remembered Goosebumps books. As a kid I read the Fear Street series which was basically the even more over dramatic and "serious" alternative to Goosebumps. I can't tell which was worse written.
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Jun 8, 2014 17:16
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In the topic of Goosebumps books: http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop-phriday/modernize-goosebumps-stine/1/ I found a stash of old CD's which included some warez/  CD's and just regular games on them, the CD was labelled Fav Games. So many lovely racing games, so many lovely DOS knock-offs. I dunno if Skunny Kart is good or bad, or was it Wacky Wheels that was the good one?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0JzpjINeE0 Croccers has a new favorite as of 17:44 on Jun 8, 2014 |
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Jun 8, 2014 17:39
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The ghost girl might have been one of the more original Goosebumps stories, but I think the book's lack of tension or consistency frustrated me. I remember at the end, the narrator even said something like "Sometimes I could kick a ball and ride a bike, but sometimes I couldn't." At least with the other books, he had "Kid goes to new town, makes a friend, discovers a monster but no one believes them, then escapes or defeats it somehow" down to a slick science. He tried something new, it didn't work out. It was like sitting down to eat a McDonald's burger once a week, but then one week unexpectedly biting into a crappy, undercooked meatloaf sandwich. Kudos to R.L. Stine for trying to make something better than monster of the week, I guess. Also, I liked those virtually impossible platform action games for NES and SNES. For every good Mario, Megaman or Contra game, there were like 20 knockoffs. There were levels where you had to do bullshit jumps with birds that killed you. And levels filled with ladders, levels with vehicles you could not stop and barely steer, and water that killed you if you stayed under for more than a few seconds. Maybe they were good at the time, but now they just seem like bullshit.
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Jun 8, 2014 17:41
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Devil Wears Wings posted:Webcomics in general, really. It seemed like starting around 2000-ish there were a handful of comics like Framed! and Sluggy Freelance that were doing some interesting, if flawed, experimentation with the medium, and I remember thinking that it would only get better from there. Boy, was I wrong. Croccers posted:I dunno if Skunny Kart is good or bad, or was it Wacky Wheels that was the good one?
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Jun 8, 2014 17:58
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I was gonna say Dragon Age 2 but while writing it I realised it pales in comparison to just me in general. I know this is kind of the stock answer, but believe me when I say I was a particularly 'troubled teen'. Without going into all the gruesome details that hopefully won't make it to my headstone, all I'll say is I'm certain I remember unironically calling someone a peasant more than a couple of times. The fact that, from there, I managed to become the naive rear end in a top hat I am now still astounds me to this day; because I could be a 10th of the person I am today and it would still be an improbably drastic improvement.
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Jun 8, 2014 18:15
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SALT CURES HAM posted:I used to be a hardcore MRA miltiant-atheist libertarian in high school. So you're still a dumbass, cool. Why can't you just be a person?
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Jun 8, 2014 18:24
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Croccers posted:In the topic of Goosebumps books: http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop-phriday/modernize-goosebumps-stine/1/ Similarly, on the topic of the Redwall series, the first page I read on Something Awful. Still gives me a chuckle. To close this particular point, I merely ask you to consider the following line of dialogue from the main mole character, Buggo: "Hurr, oi'd ar remoindin' ya ta be kiollin' burr lowur racies hurr durr".
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Jun 8, 2014 18:57
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Cleretic posted:Bob and George is garbage, but 8-Bit Theater is still good, albeit really bad at pacing. 8-bit Theater was pretty amazing but it spawned about a bajillion awful sprite comics. The internet used to be full of them and I briefly read went around looking for them. It took about a month before I realized that almost all of them were utter trash, not the least bit funny, and generally written by people with no comic-making skills that thought they were making the next 8-bit Theater. Very few of them lasted for long, most of the ones I remember have vanished into the sands of internet oblivion. But at least I never read Bob and George for very long. Little consolation, though, many of the comics I read actually made Bob and George look good. In retrospect I wonder why I actually read so many of them. Webcomics are kind of a different beast in and of themselves. On one hand you have things like Girl Genius, which is actually quite incredible. Then you have other things like Looking for Group, which leaves me thinking "why do I still read this?"
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Jun 8, 2014 19:07
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Croccers posted:I dunno if Skunny Kart is good or bad, or was it Wacky Wheels that was the good one? Tiggum posted:I've never heard of Skunny Kart, but I used to enjoy Wacky Wheels. I've never played Skunny Kart, but you've seriously never heard of Skunny? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6AP3TyzpxI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL_Wzgh2JhI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1lJLxSnO3Q Ok ok, I admit that it's a pretty obscure series and that none of the games were really all that good, but Skunny: Special Edition at least had a pretty good built-in level editor that made it a little less lovely. E: Rewatching those videos, goddamn those were some lovely games, I can't believe I used to play them. KozmoNaut has a new favorite as of 08:20 on Jun 9, 2014 |
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Jun 8, 2014 22:05
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Smoking weed I was a daily weed smoker from my latter years of high school (2004-05) until about mid to late 2013. If I wasn't at work (and sometimes even when I was) I would be almost always a little bit stoned.After a while I began to realize it'd make me paranoid, to the point where I wasn't enjoying it. The generalized anxiety would spill over to me being frustrated with myself even when I wasn't high. I'd also realize I wouldn't talk too much in social situations when I was high, even though I wanted to. God forbid I tell people on the internet weed isn't the greatest god damned thing via the internet. Ya don't need to be high all the time everybody.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:8-bit Theater was pretty amazing but it spawned about a bajillion awful sprite comics. The internet used to be full of them and I briefly read went around looking for them. It took about a month before I realized that almost all of them were utter trash, not the least bit funny, and generally written by people with no comic-making skills that thought they were making the next 8-bit Theater. Very few of them lasted for long, most of the ones I remember have vanished into the sands of internet oblivion. You might want to know that several episodes feature art by KC Green. I am serious.
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Jun 9, 2014 16:02
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Avenged Sevenfold. Holy loving poo poo they are trash. I still think Waking the Fallen is sonic gold, though I'm convinced this is purely accidental, like a real life example of the monkeys on typewriters thing.
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As some said, some terrible music like nu metal, death metal, grind, etc. (Still some great heavy music but most of it is utter trash) Someone else said Warhammer, yeah, hundreds of dollars on little figurines and a dumb table game thats overly complex? nah.
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Oct 2, 2014 13:58
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This thread!  
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KozmoNaut posted:I've never played Skunny Kart, but you've seriously never heard of Skunny? I love/hate the bizarre unfinished sound effects and obvious Donkey Kong Country rip offs in that third video.
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