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Ashsaber posted:Wait wait wait, there was one in your gift exchange as well? And I thought that was a weird and unlikely gift, especially since I'm in Canada. It seems like a solid gag gift to me, it's a dumb thing (a chia), it's about a dumb successful thing (Duck Dynasty) and it was probably cheap and easy to grab.
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I never got any Duck Dynasty gifts, but I did see the Chia Pets at Walmart.
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Jan 21, 2015 08:08
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Looks like a great LP for a crap game. Go get 'em lads!
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Stallion Cabana posted:This is part of one of my weird Duck Commander stories. What's crazy to me is that he's my favorite guy on the show. I've read his autobiography. He seems like a pretty nice, mostly logical sort of guy, and then... then there's this. Which I'd totally believe.
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kongurous posted:What's crazy to me is that he's my favorite guy on the show. I've read his autobiography. He seems like a pretty nice, mostly logical sort of guy, and then... then there's this. Which I'd totally believe. That's exactly how a lot of old Americans are. Nice and logical until you start talking to them about things that are different. Liberals, blacks, gays, jews, muslims, etc. So long as you're white with wholesome conservative christian values, then they're some of friendliest folks around.
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General Ironicus posted:The Duck Dynasty wiki conforms that the Beau on the show is certainly not the game's Cousin Beaux: http://duck-dynasty.wikia.com/wiki/Beau I think I have the answer to this mystery.
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So I may be just a filthy unwashed European savage but, like... why do people watch that show? What's it about? What's loving happening in there?! I mean, apart from ducks. edit: And what in the unholy name of all that quacks is a Robertson? It's the name? Could've sworn it's some kind of fancy rednecky curse the way they use it. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Jan 21, 2015 |
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Jan 21, 2015 11:33
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anilEhilated posted:So I may be just a filthy unwashed European savage but, like... why do people watch that show? What's it about? What's loving happening in there?! Robertson is the family name, yeah. The seeming appeal of the show was discussed last page - basically, its a modern show of curiosities, part of a trend.
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I guess I'm just too culture-shocked to think straight. Here's hoping there's an elaborate duck plucking minigame.
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Davinci posted:That's exactly how a lot of old Americans are. Nice and logical until you start talking to them about things that are different. Liberals, blacks, gays, jews, muslims, etc. So long as you're white with wholesome conservative christian values, then they're some of friendliest folks around. The South is like this in general, really. Keep people off politics and religion, and they're pretty sane. anilEhilated posted:So I may be just a filthy unwashed European savage but, like... why do people watch that show? What's it about? What's loving happening in there?! It's about an otherwise normal family that happens to own a multimillion dollar business selling duck calls and hunting merchandise. They get into family scuffs, petty contests, go hunting and fishing, and other such shenanigans, but at the end of every episode, they have a homemade meal together and enjoy the company of one another. The appeal is a callback to old-fashioned families that stick together and how it allows the viewer a level of intimacy with people they'd otherwise never meet to become like a familial surrogate. For a lot of Americans who don't have big extended families or feel distant from theirs, it's nice to feel something like a human connection to the people on the television. It's a sappy answer rooted in sentimentality, but that's the essence of reality television. Watching people live so we can live vicariously. Also Robertson is the family. They're all Robertsons.
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Jan 21, 2015 11:58
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kongurous posted:It's a sappy answer rooted in sentimentality, but that's the essence of reality television. Watching people live so we can live vicariously. Or in other cases, to feel better about ourselves.
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oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...
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I keep getting whiplash whenever somebody pronounces John Luke's name, because it just seems like a english transliteration of Jean-Luc that sounds weird. Except it's not. It's a bible reference.
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pandaK posted:Not going to lie, Si's "Yeah" made me bawl out in laughter and it didn't stop for the rest of the episode. Now I want to actually watch the show. That's the awful thing about these shows. They're about real people, and while real people are mostly boring and poo poo, some real people are utterly fantastic. Or at least slightly broken in a way that's entertaining. Of course, you can't just make a show about people like Uncle Si, because that's too much. It's the Pirates of the Caribbean 4 lesson at play here. Cleretic fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Jan 21, 2015 |
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Davinci posted:That's exactly how a lot of old Americans are. Nice and logical until you start talking to them about things that are different. Liberals, blacks, gays, jews, muslims, etc. So long as you're white with wholesome conservative christian values, then they're some of friendliest folks around. And cling to your life if you are liberal black gay jew turned muslim.
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Duck Dynasty, the tv show/personalities/merchandise are a completely separate brand from Duck Commander, the actual duck hunting gear. This show is pretty much 95% savvy business and showmanship with a tiny side of real life. When the Duck Dynasty empire inevitably collapses, Duck Commander will still be sold to actual people who want to hunt ducks.the only good to come out of Duck Dynasty is the current Beard Renaissance.
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I always thought the show was about a duck farm, since, you know, dynasties have subjects. Not a very good dynasty if you massacre all your duck-citizens 
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Jan 21, 2015 13:49
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I don't think it's working. I watched the first episode and I don't feel any closer to christ.
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Oh, man... A while back I was doing some freelance work transcribing audio and video files. Some were court documents, but a lot of the videos were, surprisingly, Duck Dynasty. I assume it was going to be used for subtitling DVDs or closed captioning for broadcast or something, but I actually enjoyed what I watched. Si is completely batshit. In the Christmas episode, he told a story about Christmas in Vietnam where Santa would come and give all the good soldiers extra rations or ammo, or even a claymore mine. And, according to Si, "a claymore mine, in Vietnam, was a very good thing to have".
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Jan 21, 2015 15:42
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They do make fragging your superiors easier. 
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Vicissitude posted:Oh, man... A while back I was doing some freelance work transcribing audio and video files. Some were court documents, but a lot of the videos were, surprisingly, Duck Dynasty. I assume it was going to be used for subtitling DVDs or closed captioning for broadcast or something, but I actually enjoyed what I watched. Si is completely batshit. In the Christmas episode, he told a story about Christmas in Vietnam where Santa would come and give all the good soldiers extra rations or ammo, or even a claymore mine. And, according to Si, "a claymore mine, in Vietnam, was a very good thing to have". Si is pretty much the reason to watch the show. Like there's something to like in everyone, but Si just makes every scene he's in better. There's another episode where he and Phil have to do a show and tell sort of thing for one of the kids of... I don't remember. Si tells Vietnam war stories to a bunch of 4th graders, Phil shows them how to clean a duck, everyone in the class reacts with total disgust either way.
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Sorry for possible derail, but whatever happened to Uncharted 3 multiplayer?
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It's honestly kind of impressive how bizarre the intro to this game is. No music, stilted and emotionless redneck voice acting, and seemingly non-sequitur jokes and juvenile humor about nose picking and extended conversations about duck call perfection that seem to last four times as long as they should. It all came off as some kind of surreal performance art/parody.
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To decide how to judge this game I need to know if the 'False prophet' duck call subtitle was Chip's work or the developers.
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BottledBacon posted:To decide how to judge this game I need to know if the 'False prophet' duck call subtitle was Chip's work or the developers. All the subtitles are Chip's. The game doesn't have subtitles.
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I think Chip said he was doing all the subtitles himself because the game doesn't have any.
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Wild Knight posted:I think Chip said he was doing all the subtitles himself because the game doesn't have any. I can confirm this is true. A game made in the year of our lord 2014 was so rushed and so cheap it does not include a subtitles option. Think about this for a second.
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I think the only other time Chip had to make subtitles himself for an entire game was for Mega Man Legends. Wonderful 101 had a few where story bits were interspersed with gameplay.
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Wild Knight posted:I think Chip said he was doing all the subtitles himself because the game doesn't have any. And those of us with craptacular hearing thank him for it. I don't want to miss a single pearl of wisdom dropping from Robertson lips...
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chitoryu12 posted:I think the only other time Chip had to make subtitles himself for an entire game was for Mega Man Legends. Wonderful 101 had a few where story bits were interspersed with gameplay. Those bits in Wonderful 101 did have subtitles originally, but the word balloons cover up a good chunk of the screen. Holding one of the shoulder buttons makes the word balloons and subtitles disappear, so Chip did that and resubbed the footage himself to take up less space.
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TechnoSyndrome posted:Those bits in Wonderful 101 did have subtitles originally, but the word balloons cover up a good chunk of the screen. Holding one of the shoulder buttons makes the word balloons and subtitles disappear, so Chip did that and resubbed the footage himself to take up less space. Goddamn, Chip.
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TechnoSyndrome posted:Those bits in Wonderful 101 did have subtitles originally, but the word balloons cover up a good chunk of the screen. Holding one of the shoulder buttons makes the word balloons and subtitles disappear, so Chip did that and resubbed the footage himself to take up less space. This is my favorite thing to do when I play the W101 now. Each Shoulder button except for one controls either the transparency of the masks, the visibility of the Speech Bubble, or the entire thing. So I just hit the shoulder buttons repeatedly during every cutscene and the game flickers from each possibility.
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How cheaply do these things get made? They certainly didn;t waste any time on getting re-runs on the line deliveries...
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Samovar posted:How cheaply do these things get made? They certainly didn;t waste any time on getting re-runs on the line deliveries... Do you think a bunch of rich dudes masquerading as back country murderfolk have time to do multiple takes?
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Last night I had a dream where I was Roddy Piper in They Live. But when I put the sunglasses on, instead of "CONSUME" or "MARRY AND REPRODUCE" or what-have-you, everything was actually Duck Dynasty merchandise. All the food was secretly Duck Dynasty-branded, every magazine had nothing but pictures of the Robertsons, everything on TV was them, every video game was the Duck Dynasty game, and all the radio stations were playing either the game's free MIDI music or Phil explaining his views on minorities. And some of the wealthier people were revealed to be models from the very game, complete with stilted movements, and when it looked like they talked into their watches, they were really technologically-advanced duck calls. I'm not saying this thread caused this dream, but I will say that They Live is a great film that affects us all on several levels.
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Covok posted:Edit: I think it's a necessity thing. Once you leave a city, you need a car. No exceptions. There is next to no public transpiration in small towns. There might be a bus and a taxi service, but that's it. Don't expect a subway. Trains don't go everywhere because the countries big and long-haul buses only hit a few more areas, generally. Airports are a similar deal. If you only live a major metropolitan area or a small town that you never plan to leave, you might be ok. Otherwise, you do need a car. I read somewhere once that the entire population of the US could live comfortably in an area about the size of Texas, I think. Some amount of space that's relatively small compared to the size of the country. So there are huge stretches of buttfuck nowhere between pretty much everything of consequence. My folks and I live way out in a slightly rural area where we're a minimum of a half hour's drive away from almost everything, and that's pretty mild compared to where some people choose to live. Contrastingwise, most of the UK's urban planning was done when an entire town might have one horse between them to share for emergencies, and sometimes that emergency was "it's the dead of winter and we ate all the sheep".
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Can someone explain why the ducks cannot be mass produced and then killed for food as easily chickens? Isn't there a more efficient way to acquire duck meat, feathers, etc. than calling them in and then shooting them down with shotguns?
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drowZebra posted:Can someone explain why the ducks cannot be mass produced and then killed for food as easily chickens? Isn't there a more efficient way to acquire duck meat, feathers, etc. than calling them in and then shooting them down with shotguns? Maybe. But that wouldn't be any fun, now would it? 
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drowZebra posted:Can someone explain why the ducks cannot be mass produced and then killed for food as easily chickens? Isn't there a more efficient way to acquire duck meat, feathers, etc. than calling them in and then shooting them down with shotguns? The appeal is hunting the ducks, not having the ducks once they are dead.
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