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| Nintendon't |
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45 | 22.73% |
| Nintendoomed |
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22 | 11.11% |
| Nintendrone |
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13 | 6.57% |
| Nintendovahkiin |
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55 | 27.78% |
| Nintend'oh! |
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63 | 31.82% |
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I've drank probably a hundred gallons of vodka in my life. I don't really recommend it.
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Aug 10, 2017 20:59
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DLC Inc posted:I'm sorry but playing a thing for 3k hours and then saying "this sucks" will always seem crazy to me. "could be good but is ruined with every patch" how long did it take this wretch to wait to quit, if he even quit, because I'm willing to bet that guy is still loving playing this
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Aug 10, 2017 21:01
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Snak posted:I've drank probably a hundred gallons of vodka in my life. I don't really recommend it. Oh college 
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Aug 10, 2017 21:01
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Everyone knows it takes 10,000 hours to master a video game
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Aug 10, 2017 21:02
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A. Beaverhausen posted:Oh college Actually working at McDonald's, mostly.
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Aug 10, 2017 21:03
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precision posted:I mean, people don't review books or movies until they actually finish them. I think there are two kinds of "review" we're talking about here. "I got bored after 2 hours, not recommended" isn't a review of a game, it's a review of a 2 hour span of time. You're allowed to watch the first twenty minutes of a movie and decide that it's not worth your time to finish it, and then tell your friends about your experience. If you're a professional reviewer it's different but we're not professional reviewers.
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Aug 10, 2017 21:04
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Snak posted:I've drank probably a hundred gallons of vodka in my life. I don't really recommend it. unless I'm seeing a band in a tiny bar alcohol is just really boring to me now. my wife and i don't like, sit around and drink. it's just not a great buzz compared to weed or whatever
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Aug 10, 2017 21:05
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They let you watch the first 5 minutes before they make you pay for the movie on pay per view, and let me tell you, based on what I've seen The Emoji Movie is SICK
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Aug 10, 2017 21:05
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Jay Rust posted:You're allowed to watch the first twenty minutes of a movie and decide that it's not worth your time to finish it, and then tell your friends about your experience. If you're a professional reviewer it's different but we're not professional reviewers. isn't that exactly what i said? it's what i meant to say. that's what i meant by "two different definitions of review".
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Aug 10, 2017 21:06
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precision posted:I mean, people don't review books or movies until they actually finish them. I think there are two kinds of "review" we're talking about here. "I got bored after 2 hours, not recommended" isn't a review of a game, it's a review of a 2 hour span of time. I only read the first couple chapters of Wizard's First Rule years ago and here's my review of it: it was a very, very bad book, one of only two I can remember not finishing, and this was before I found out about all of Goodkind's other crap. The idea that you have to finish something to give it. a review only really applies to professional critics. E;fb
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Aug 10, 2017 21:06
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LawfulWaffle posted:tfw you wish you had more people to play games with and then someone wants to play a game with you but you really just want to play something single player. <Change Status To Offline> I'm a terrible friend 
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Aug 10, 2017 21:08
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Mordja posted:I only read the first couple chapters of Wizard's First Rule years ago and here's my review of it: it was a very, very bad book, one of only two I can remember not finishing, and this was before I found out about all of Goodkind's other crap. The idea that you have to finish something to give it. a review only really applies to professional critics.
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Aug 10, 2017 21:09
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precision posted:I mean, people don't review books or movies until they actually finish them. I think there are two kinds of "review" we're talking about here. "I got bored after 2 hours, not recommended" isn't a review of a game, it's a review of a 2 hour span of time. Well to the first point, books and movies generally take, at most, 2-3 hours to finish in their entirety. I think it actually is unreasonable to say that someone's criticism of a game is invalid or less valid if they didn't finish it because depending on the game you're looking at anywhere between 20-80 hours unless it's a game where you can simply ignore huge chunks of content to beeline straight to the end, and that's not necessarily going to give you a good picture of what the game's like either. As for the second point, a review of an X hour chunk of a game can be a useful review of a game but it depends entirely on the content of the review in question and unsurprisngly a lot of Steam reviews are vapid garbage the way most reviews of anything by random internet users are.
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Aug 10, 2017 21:09
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Both are equally valid, as long as the reviewer is honest about their experience. A review that says "I played this for 2 hours an didn't like it and here's why" is totally of value to someone who isn't interested in that experience. Is it an objective review of the complete package? No, of course not. But not every cares if a game gets good 14 hours in or whatever. Snak fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Aug 10, 2017 |
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Aug 10, 2017 21:10
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Kai Tave posted:Well to the first point, books and movies generally take, at most, 2-3 hours to finish in their entirety. I think it actually is unreasonable to say that someone's criticism of a game is invalid or less valid if they didn't finish it because depending on the game you're looking at anywhere between 20-80 hours unless it's a game where you can simply ignore huge chunks of content to beeline straight to the end, and that's not necessarily going to give you a good picture of what the game's like either. What books are you reading that you can finish them in 2 hours?
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Aug 10, 2017 21:10
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homeless snail posted:Yeah but if I'm about to grab it off the shelf at the bookstore and you're like "no dude I read the first chapter its bad" and there's another guy that pushes his glasses up his nose and is like "actually I gave the book an honest shot and read it cover to cover 4 times in a row, and its bad for this reason", his opinion is more valuable I wouldn't trust the second dude because he's bad at time management
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Aug 10, 2017 21:11
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vermin posted:<Change Status To Offline> it's not a perfect solution because offline status on steam is literally disconnected from steam and that fucks up some things from working sometimes i wish they'd add an invisible mode but with how simple that is versus how long steam's been around i doubt they ever will
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Aug 10, 2017 21:11
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frankly I wouldn't trust anyone who's read Wizard's First Rule, and certainly not anyone who read the sequels
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Aug 10, 2017 21:13
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Snak posted:Both are equally valid, as long as the reviewer is honest about their experience. A review that says "I played this for 2 hours an didn't like it and here's why" is totally of value to someone who isn't interested in that experience. Is it an objective review of the complete package? No, of course not. But not every cares if a game gets good 14 hours in or whatever. Yeah, the classic "The first 15 hours of the game are kind of a drag but then it gets better once you're out of that first part!" thing is a perfect example of why a review of an uncompleted game can be perfectly valid and useful to the prospective buyer (provided, as you said, it's honest and explains things).
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Aug 10, 2017 21:14
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homeless snail posted:Yeah but if I'm about to grab it off the shelf at the bookstore and you're like "no dude I read the first chapter its bad" and there's another guy that pushes his glasses up his nose and is like "actually I gave the book an honest shot and read it cover to cover 4 times in a row, and its bad for this reason", his opinion is more valuable Yeah, well you missed the part where I turned to the second guy and told him to "suck my drat balls, nerd."
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Aug 10, 2017 21:15
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precision posted:unless I'm seeing a band in a tiny bar alcohol is just really boring to me now. my wife and i don't like, sit around and drink. it's just not a great buzz compared to weed or whatever I'm just generally unhappy with reality, and alcohol is like a magnifier for other forms of escapism. And now I'm in a situation where I have to face the reality I probably spent too much time drinking and loving around my whole life to have any marketable life skills are be able to stop being a bum. But really, really shouldn't drink any more, so I flip back over to the sober addictions. I've lost track of how many jobs I've applied for (not actually, I have a whole folder with notes and copies of the version of my resume I applied to each one with etc), but I don't even care any more.
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Aug 10, 2017 21:15
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Kai Tave posted:Yeah, the classic "The first 15 hours of the game are kind of a drag but then it gets better once you're out of that first part!" thing is a perfect example of why a review of an uncompleted game can be perfectly valid and useful to the prospective buyer (provided, as you said, it's honest and explains things). The first time I saw this criticism it was pointed at FFXIII. It was then that I realized that we will never have Square Enix back in the right
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Aug 10, 2017 21:15
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Not a Children posted:The first time I saw this criticism it was pointed at FFXIII. It was then that I realized that we will never have Square Enix back in the right The one I really remember is people saying this about Kingdom Hearts 2 which has some ridiculously long "tutorial/prologue" section. Poops Mcgoots posted:What books are you reading that you can finish them in 2 hours? I mean fair cop, I've never really sat down and timed myself, but there was a point where I could go through a couple books a day. That's not a thing I've ever been able to do with video games.
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Aug 10, 2017 21:20
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my kindle will tell you like "estimated reading time: 2 and a half hours", I think based on your average reading speed, when you load a book up, and I feel bad if I go over time. freakin gameification of books...
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Aug 10, 2017 21:22
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I used a speed-reading program to read a book at 500 words per minute once. it worked surprisingly well. Took me about 3 hours to finish the book, Clockwork Orange style. Then I got an A on the paper about it and I still remember tons of specific details from it. I feel like I probably have 90% of the recall of it I would have if I read it normally.
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Aug 10, 2017 21:23
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I got the high score on VALIS though
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Aug 10, 2017 21:24
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One of my 3-4 readings of Neuromancer, I used that same speed-reading program, just for fun, because I thought it was the most cyber-punk way to read it.
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Aug 10, 2017 21:26
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precision posted:unless I'm seeing a band in a tiny bar alcohol is just really boring to me now. my wife and i don't like, sit around and drink. it's just not a great buzz compared to weed or whatever If weed + wife were a Steam game I'd give it a 10/10 even after 1,000s of hours.
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Aug 10, 2017 21:28
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Booze sux weed rules
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Aug 10, 2017 21:34
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Yeah I would like to move to a part of the country where I could smoke a little weed without the slight risk of ruining my entire life.
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Aug 10, 2017 21:44
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Snak posted:Yeah I would like to move to a part of the country where I could smoke a little weed without the slight risk of ruining my entire life. Don't worry, soon you won't have to worry about it because Trump is going to make it illegal again!  edit: ok he won't do that
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Aug 10, 2017 22:03
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Lol Trump will do zero good for anyone but himself and he's a sober fuckwad
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Aug 10, 2017 22:14
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I feel like playing defcon all of a sudden, tho
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Aug 10, 2017 22:19
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Wildtortilla posted:If weed + wife were a Steam game I'd give it a 10/10 even after 1,000s of hours. Carl Sagan is that you
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Aug 10, 2017 22:19
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homeless snail posted:I feel like playing defcon all of a sudden, tho The ambient soundtrack of DEFCON is amazing.
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Aug 10, 2017 22:22
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There's been some rumblings from big tobacco that they've seen how much money there is to be made off of weed and have started looking into it. They won't put any real effort into it unless it's nation wide, though, and that isn't going to happen under this AG.
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Aug 10, 2017 22:23
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I said it in a gbs thread about it so I'll say it here too for consistency's sake: Can't wait to spend the next 10 years hearing habitual weed smokers complaining about how expensive privatized weed is and how it's become exactly like every other legal drug in terms of pricing and economics. God I just can't wait for that. fuckin shoot me
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Aug 10, 2017 22:24
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People will just pirate weed, like hbo or whatever.
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Aug 10, 2017 22:28
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pretty sure my local government just raised the minimum age to buy cigarettes in the area. lol at them ever approving weed.
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Aug 10, 2017 22:29
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Snak posted:People will just pirate weed, like hbo or whatever. But they already do that right now. Are you telling me that in the future I will be able to 3D print a weed
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Aug 10, 2017 22:33
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