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How the gently caress? I swear to god I was just reading the political cartoons thread a page ago.
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Monocled Falcon posted:How the gently caress? I swear to god I was just reading the political cartoons thread a page ago. Convergence.
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May 1, 2015 04:09
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Blind Sally posted:Convergence. Severed arm holding a bouquet of flowers. Crying Brother Moon reaching hand out to Necromorph labeled TRUE HAPPINESS THROUGH CONVERGENCE. Isaac Clarke with stink lines, evil eyes and sharp teeth laughing HE HE HE and holding a smoking plasma cutter, his suit labeled RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE. A crying Ghost Nicole peeks her head in from the side of the panel. Corner doodle of Danik saying "Any way you cut it, Unitologists have it rough."
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May 1, 2015 05:58
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pkfan2004 posted:Teary-eyed Necromorph missing an arm labeled INNOCENT BELIEVERS. You forgot the Codex that has "DEBT" written across it in block letters.
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May 1, 2015 06:17
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May 1, 2015 08:00
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so this is what it's like to have your lp peak on the... uh, 38th update
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May 1, 2015 08:01
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Not enough stasis containers labeled "debt".
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May 1, 2015 08:14
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I bet CJacobs is feeling pretty silly for calling that peak early.
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May 1, 2015 08:29
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May 1, 2015 08:38
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Selling your debt off to other countries gives you the ability to make more debt.
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May 1, 2015 08:41
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so THIS is what it's like to have your lp peak on the 38th update!
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May 1, 2015 09:04
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You're a wonderful human being, Blind Sally.
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May 1, 2015 10:10
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May 1, 2015 15:44
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I gotta admit, I didn't expect this picture to be the final boss. But oh god do I love it.
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May 2, 2015 00:43
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So glad to be apart of this you have no idea!
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May 2, 2015 01:00
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Too many words on the lower left bubble, immersion ruined.
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I actually kind of like the idea behind the Brethren Moons reveal, it's hilariously poorly executed but the concept is really cool. What are the Necromorphs? Well they're the larval form of the Brethren Moons; the Moons created the Markers and fired them out throughout the galaxy. Wherever the Markers landed they would attract the local lifeforms and then accelerate their intellectual development until they were sufficiently advanced to form a Brethren Moon, then the Marker initiates the Necromorph plague and a short while later a new Brethren Moon is born. The Markers are how they breed. In the hands of some competent writers learning this could have been a really incredible moment of scale, alas. I guess that leaves the only final reveal being what exactly the term 'Dead Space' means, I forget whether that's in the DLC or not though.
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I thought that Dead Space was rather literal. That there are dead, or undead maybe, things in space. Or maybe there was something in the first game or downfall about how the markers effected the area around them. whatever. I doubt there is a deep answer either way.
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Jade Star posted:I thought that Dead Space was rather literal. That there are dead, or undead maybe, things in space. There is, all necromorph activity is said to cease within a certain distance of the Red Marker in the first game (we're never actually shown this, outside of the hivemind freaking out when you put the Red Marker back on its pedestal), it's like a title drop and everything. Of course, this makes no sense at all when put up against what later games tell you. Which is hilarious. It is also called Dead Space because you are fighting space zombies in space aboard half-dead space junk.
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May 4, 2015 20:51
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 Based on the thumbnail, I'm pretty sure this is the one everybody has been waiting for. Today, after 11 long videos of the sidelines, the javelin gun finally takes the spotlight. It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, that's for sure!
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May 5, 2015 22:53
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It's called Dead Space because that's all the Moons leave in their wake- a complete absence of any and all life.
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May 5, 2015 23:07
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I like that dangly dead guy who isn't attached to anything at all. Like a guardian angel of a Bench. Also goddamn that eye scene is disgusting.
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I asked when I was playing this game, and I'm still asking: why is that the failure mode?! "Not aligned properly? HAMMER THAT SUCKER RIGHT IN."
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May 6, 2015 00:06
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 Stole this from the PYF GIF thread.
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Lurking Haro posted:
Cheron is on the left. nine-gear crow is on the right. CJacobs is lying down. The device that appears to be causing CJacobs physical pain just to look at? That's me.
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May 6, 2015 00:26
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Did we ever find out who/what Cheron was? Were they just a random person who started watching a commentariless stream of Dead Space 2, or was there a SA connection after all?
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May 6, 2015 00:34
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Neruz posted:I actually kind of like the idea behind the Brethren Moons reveal, it's hilariously poorly executed but the concept is really cool. What are the Necromorphs? Well they're the larval form of the Brethren Moons; the Moons created the Markers and fired them out throughout the galaxy. Wherever the Markers landed they would attract the local lifeforms and then accelerate their intellectual development until they were sufficiently advanced to form a Brethren Moon, then the Marker initiates the Necromorph plague and a short while later a new Brethren Moon is born. The Markers are how they breed. Well, this is as good a time as any to mention a universe where that is handled competently: Neal Asher's Polity. Do not read the spoilers if you're already partway through the Polity novels. The Polity series, by Neal Asher, is posthuman sci-fi. Many of the main characters are gene-modded, borged up, or even artificial intelligences, and life is mostly easy within the Polity. This isn't to say there aren't major threats, and the biggest bad of the series so far is the last spiteful middle finger of a long dead race: the Jain. See, we weren't the first race to get smart... Oh no. There were three other races, but as far as the universe is aware, they are all dead. But the Jain left little presents behind, traps that rely on intelligent species to trigger them. Jain Nodes. Jain Nodes are insidious bastards, because they give you exactly what you want, technology wise, but anyone stupid enough to try and get at those secrets (IE - showing enough intelligence and technology to want another paradigm shift) is going to be co-opted, and the Jain Node goes viral. Packed into these little puppies is not only a shitload of tech secrets from a long dead and highly advanced race, there's also virii that can turn AI into breeders of more Jain Nodes, grey goo style self replication with some really nasty complexity (Turns intelligent beings into things still intelligent enough and mobile enough to spread the cancer further, but not intelligent enough to think beyond "I am going to infect as much as I can"), and, worst of all, once something or someone's been infected by a Jain Node... It can pull said Jain weaponry and defenses out of its god-drat rear end. In the Polity series, there have been only something like three or four Jain infection events that have affected humanity. In each case, the only solution was to a) Get as many people out before it could get to the teleportation system the AIs have, and b) Singularity bomb the infected area to a fare-thee-well. The novels in question that deal with Jain Tech are the Agent Cormac novels, from the second onward (the first doesn't really have Jain Tech as a threat per se), and The Technician, which is set 20 years after The Line of Polity (the second novel)
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GenericServices posted:I asked when I was playing this game, and I'm still asking: why is that the failure mode?! "Not aligned properly? HAMMER THAT SUCKER RIGHT IN." I asked myself the exact same thing when I failed the eye-needle scene on my first attempt (because it is actually pretty tricky). Why is the failure state a gory death scene? I think the answer is that at least someone at Visceral probably understands subtlety... but they don't care. I mean... consider the name of their studio.
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Blind Sally posted:Cheron is on the left. nine-gear crow is on the right. CJacobs is lying down. It's unfair how accurate this is.
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Jade Star posted:I thought that Dead Space was rather literal. That there are dead, or undead maybe, things in space. The term 'Dead Space' is used in-universe a couple of times, but the devs have stated that it specifically refers to one thing: Cryohazard posted:It's called Dead Space because that's all the Moons leave in their wake- a complete absence of any and all life. Which is that! Some time ago the first Brethren Moon happened, it made Markers (or possibly its creator made Markers, its unclear whether the Brethren Moons happened naturally or were engineered) and spat them all over the galaxy, then it wandered off to go get lunch. The Markers turned into more Moons which slowly spread out from the origin point growing in size and number and scourging every iota of life from the worlds they found leaving behind a large chunk of the galaxy which is completely devoid of life. It's this chunk of galaxy that is the 'Dead Space', literally a section of space that is dead and devoid of any and all life because the Brethren Moons ate it all. The expanding area of Dead Space was halted some time ages ago when the Tau Volentis aliens basically paralyzed\froze the Brethren Moon network\hive mind with their magic Codex which allowed Earth the time to develop complex life all on its own without Marker interference, said complex life promptly goes out and starts interfering with Markers and ruining everything, cue Dead Space 1. 
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I'm glad Neruz is finally able to talk about the Brothers Moon. 
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I really didn't expect Dead Space to suddenly have what are effectively undead lovecraftian elder gods floating around in space and for a whole ten minutes after I found out I was really pleased because that was a great twist, then I actually started paying attention to what was going on and everything was ruined forever.
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May 6, 2015 03:39
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After that CONTACT BEEEAAAAM yelling I'm just going to go ahead and imagine that is Isaac "Nortonneutralizer" Clarke's stand.
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May 6, 2015 06:16
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Neruz posted:I really didn't expect Dead Space to suddenly have what are effectively undead lovecraftian elder gods floating around in space and for a whole ten minutes after I found out I was really pleased because that was a great twist, then I actually started paying attention to what was going on and everything was ruined forever. To be fair, the series always had a lot Lovecraft overtones of with the evil insanity obelisks that people basically worship and monsters made of former people that seem guided by a mysterious purpose. With all that talk of "make us whole" and the Hive Mind from the first game, I was expecting something like this, though obviously not to this scale. I know the writing was made up on the fly for the entire series, but the Brother Moon concept seems like it could have been planned from day one.
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Neruz posted:The term 'Dead Space' is used in-universe a couple of times, but the devs have stated that it specifically refers to one thing: You know, the Reapers in Mass Effect were created almost the same way, an AI turned on its creators, the Leviathons and turned almost the entire species into a Reaper, Harbinger infact, and from there more Reapers were created by assimilating entire races to create a single Reaper, the smaller Reaper Destroyers were made out of lesser races, the gigantic ones, the dominant ones, the Brethren Moons and Reapers have similar methods in eradicating life but the Reapers have a purpose, save organic life by preserving it while the Moons just want to kill everything for the sake of it.
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