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MariusLecter posted:Raycevick - Battlefield's Lost Mechanic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnbVvs8hpXQ I knew he was going to bring up Modern Combat, because that mechanic is brilliant. It's like DRIV3R for war FPS gameplay. Super Bunny Hop reviews Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAVeyXwy3BE the lindsey ellis stuff about video about the first order. good poo poo.
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Jun 3, 2018 19:29
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAVeyXwy3BE Going to break out my nerd cred here, but when she got talking about war profiteering in Last Jedi I looked it up on wookieepedia and eighty thousand words later I discovered that Canto Bight was located in the Corporate Sector Authority. I'm surprised that made it into the new canon, but it also makes sense why nobody came to help the Resistance in TLJ if they're running around the edges of the CSA. Nobody in that area of space gives a poo poo about your band of rebels unless you can pay.
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MariusLecter posted:And of course. Oh another video of BOUGHT JENNY SHILLING FOR THE DISNEY DOLLAR AND GIVING SOLO 10 OUT OF 10, you can't fool me 
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business hammocks posted:This makes me wonder what happened to the Marble Hornets crew. I know they fought over money and split up, then some portion of them tried a new project and gave up, but that was years ago and they were all 22. I wonder if they’re doing interesting stuff somewhere now that they’re presumably more grown up. Or maybe they’re doing furniture warehouse commercials in Alabama. Wow I never knew this. I heard they made some kind of variety show later on that was popular but I didn’t watch. Marble Hornets season one came out when my friends and I were freshmen in high school and we lapped that poo poo up, I was the one who found the subject and it was my introduction to Something Awful. 
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Jun 3, 2018 20:07
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It sucks since their humor channel was pretty good.
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Wonder if the dude who created Slenderman is getting any money from the Slenderman film that's coming out.
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:bf2: modern combat was a cool game in its heyday but man, when i played it after they announced its servers were closing, holy poo poo did that thing not age well at all. I'm hoping the maps in BFV are better than the ones in BF1. If you love sniping then BF1 is the game for you since all those maps give you all the advantages without any pesky things like offering cover or camouflage for your enemies. For everyone else, it was terrible. Had a few good maps though, but for the DLC they were mostly bad.
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MariusLecter posted:Lindsay Ellis - The Ideology of the First Order: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAVeyXwy3BE this is good as hell
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MariusLecter posted:Lindsay Ellis - The Ideology of the First Order: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAVeyXwy3BE i like that her conclusion that in their weird corporate stumbling and markting, disney made kinda realistic fascists with the new order. they are mostly old angry men from the new order, dumb brain washed kids and dumb spite filled assholes with a dickhead opportunist at the top. i always love her stuff its interesting and good and she never goes for moral suasion stuff(its bad to like a thing because reasons and your bad for liking it) that i have seen some critics try to do which puts me off even when i agree with them. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Jun 3, 2018 |
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DoubleCakes posted:What was with the ketchup bottle in the background? What, you put it in the fridge like some kind of weirdo?
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Jimbot posted:I'm hoping the maps in BFV are better than the ones in BF1. If you love sniping then BF1 is the game for you since all those maps give you all the advantages without any pesky things like offering cover or camouflage for your enemies. For everyone else, it was terrible. the only thing i am "mad" about with BFV is they kept talking about how it will be uknown battles and campains of ww2. and all the poo poo is in Europe and africa which have been done to death.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:the only thing i am "mad" about with BFV is they kept talking about how it will be uknown battles and campains of ww2. and all the poo poo is in Europe and africa which have been done to death. yea unless the game is entirely eastern front I'm not buying that a WW2 game set in the european theater is the 'lesser known' stuff.
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Jun 3, 2018 21:08
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The Crete campaign or the Rangoon campaign would be neat and hellish
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Jun 3, 2018 21:17
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Speaking of BFV and Internet Personalities, man is Joe getting raked over the coals over his BFV vids. A quick glance over comments are people suggesting he watch certain other youtube channels and how he has "the wrong opinion"
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The Bee posted:I think in general, cringe humor (at least when it comes to internet randoms) is the kind of thing people engage in for just a few years before going "what am I even doing, these are dumb kids" and moving on.
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Arcsquad12 posted:The Crete campaign or the Rangoon campaign would be neat and hellish Yea I'll allow the greek area stuff too because the non-Turkey Mediterranean has also been ignored. But yea, give me a drat south east asia focused WW2 game, you wanna do dark and gritty war bullshit that stuff is ripe for fresh hellish experiences for gamers.
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A bunch of DSP's detractors are well up there when it comes to getting bad enough to actually be worse than the guy they were riffing on...the whole drama with the Sons of Kojima (who tried to police the whole community) imploding and their leader being a comically ludicrous control freak sure was something to behold. I mean, the man is such a safe and constantly hilarious kind of cringe and yet they still managed to gently caress it all up.
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MariusLecter posted:Lindsay Ellis - The Ideology of the First Order: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAVeyXwy3BE The question of how much Star Wars or other franchises that use a fascist aesthetic has influenced the nazis of today is really worth asking. Like the video points out, fascism has always prioritized aesthetics, partially because it is about feeling as much as doctrine, but today's nazi teens and slovenly 30-somethings come from a culture that fetishizes movies and other media productions to the point where they called themselves "gamers" before they were nazis. It's not too much at all to say that their idea of how to be a nazi comes from movies and tv shows. This is going to sound stupid, but there's a core group of 20-40 nazis in my city who have been active since the election, and they put more work into their look than they put into their events. The whole thing is as much about how they dress and what formations they walk in as much as anything else. They had a rally yesterday, and one of them dressed up like a medieval knight (except with cargo shorts):  He would periodically put his hands on his waist with his chest puffed out and point at specific protestors and then gesture for them to come fight him with big, over-exaggerated arm movements. He also stayed on that ledge for hours even though it was very narrow and he kept losing his balance, all to keep the (in theory) imposing perspective. I have no doubt that he based his nazi persona on Darth Vader specifically. His behavior was right out of what you'd expect of a Darth Vader walkaround character at Disneyland. He kept trying to intimidate people by making exaggerated head movements to signal that he was looking at specific people, like how Darth Vader has to jerk his whole torso around to show that he's looking at something because the actor is in a big rubber suit. It's like a pop-culture ouroboros, or one of those pig farms where they feed the pigs the ground-up organ meat of the dead pigs, and it's unsettling that this deadly serious 19-year-old who's ramping up to kill people is drawing on the pop-culture imagery of child-friendly escapist pastiche. First as tragedy, then as farce blah blah blah, but I kept thinking about it as I watched the video. Also, if you'd like to learn more about fascism beyond the Eco article, Roger Griffin has a few excellent books on the subject, and Robert Paxton's The Anatomy of Fascism situates 20th-century fascism within the historical contexts of liberalism and socialism that it defined itself against. I also just finished Against the Fascist Creep by Alex Reid Ross, which is about how white supremacists coopt the language and ideas of left movements in order to position themselves as reasonable alternatives to liberal capitalism. It's very good and very timely.
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while I agree the stormtroopers and all have influenced things most of the 'nazi knight' types tend to just be white nationalists who are of the whole 'the crusades were cool and good and what no we didn't lose LITERALLY every single crusade we put the savage moslem in their place' stripe.
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sexpig by night posted:while I agree the stormtroopers and all have influenced things most of the 'nazi knight' types tend to just be white nationalists who are of the whole 'the crusades were cool and good and what no we didn't lose LITERALLY every single crusade we put the savage moslem in their place' stripe. I know he's going for a European culture warrior thing, but his idea of what it means to be scary and cool and transmitted through body language and gestures reminded me a lot of Darth Vader in a parade. Also that it was a big impractical mask covering his whole head. His friends just wore balaclavas and sunglasses. But maybe it is me who was poisoned by Star Wars to the point where every pathetic play-acting fascist looks like Darth Vader to me when in fact they've always been pathetic play-actors.
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business hammocks posted:I know he's going for a European culture warrior thing, but his idea of what it means to be scary and cool and transmitted through body language and gestures reminded me a lot of Darth Vader in a parade. Also that it was a big impractical mask covering his whole head. His friends just wore balaclavas and sunglasses. eh let's call it 50/50, he probably did have at least one nazi friend who saw that and thought 'yea, darth vader poo poo' even if he didn't actively plan on vadering it up. But yea, these people have always been pathetic LARPers, like touched on in the video Eco talked about the whole cult of heroism and tradition being built around old legends and all. They're always just losers pretending to be fictional dudes. sexpig by night fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Jun 3, 2018 |
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Having so many "Deusvoltmagapepe" idiots in one place has made For Honor a lot of fun when the knights faction constantly got and get their asses blown out, most of those very blatant types are also not actually very good at the game and just want another outlet to play CRUSA-DOR man, so just imagine a big muscley viking clowning on knights and that's been their track record for the whole game. Or just think of these on repeat  
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business hammocks posted:The question of how much Star Wars or other franchises that use a fascist aesthetic has influenced the nazis of today is really worth asking. Like the video points out, fascism has always prioritized aesthetics, partially because it is about feeling as much as doctrine, but today's nazi teens and slovenly 30-somethings come from a culture that fetishizes movies and other media productions to the point where they called themselves "gamers" before they were nazis. It's not too much at all to say that their idea of how to be a nazi comes from movies and tv shows. possibly. i put alot the blame on irony poisoning and impotent rage with no good outlet. dumb kid goes on chan board way to much and thinks he is cool and edgy and eventually starts to believe all of that poo poo genuinely after awhile. its not always the case but i know a decent amount of examples from personal experience. also god is dead and media/companies/fandoms/etc have replaced him. also its really poo poo cosplay at that. good medivel/renissanse/whatever cosplay costs and arm and leg. i know because my gf and i like the stuff alot. he is wearing a lovely helmet with his dress shirt underneith. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Jun 3, 2018 |
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sexpig by night posted:eh let's call it 50/50, he probably did have at least one nazi friend who saw that and thought 'yea, darth vader poo poo' even if he didn't actively plan on vadering it up. But yea, these people have always been pathetic LARPers, like touched on in the video Eco talked about the whole cult of heroism and tradition being built around old legends and all. They're always just losers pretending to be fictional dudes. this.
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Yardbomb posted:Having so many "Deusvoltmagapepe" idiots in one place has made For Honor a lot of fun when the knights faction constantly got and get their asses blown out, most of those very blatant types are also not actually very good at the game and just want another outlet to play CRUSA-DOR man, so just imagine a big muscley viking clowning on knights and that's been their track record for the whole game. This just reminds me of how weird it is how neo-nazis love Norse mythology. A mythology where Thor crossdresses in order to sneak into a wedding to kill a giant, pretty much everything involving Loki in general, and the gods are portrayed as a bunch of paranoid wrecks that are trying to keep their inevitable end from happening as much as possible.
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Roth posted:This just reminds me of how weird it is how neo-nazis love Norse mythology. You're way overthinking it, they just like Vikings because they're trying to cargo cult masculinity and Vikings were big and strong.
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Roth posted:This just reminds me of how weird it is how neo-nazis love Norse mythology. There's Norse Mythology and then there's "Norse Mythology". e; WampaLord posted:You're way overthinking it, they just like Vikings because they're trying to cargo cult masculinity and Vikings were big and strong. Yea, this.
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WampaLord posted:You're way overthinking it, they just like Vikings because they're trying to cargo cult masculinity and Vikings were big and strong. Yeah, it's just funny how much neo-nazis love things that they clearly don't actually have that much of an understanding of. It's basically this image 
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MariusLecter posted:There's Norse Mythology and then there's "Norse Mythology". Snorri's fanfiction?
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Jimbot posted:I'm hoping the maps in BFV are better than the ones in BF1. If you love sniping then BF1 is the game for you since all those maps give you all the advantages without any pesky things like offering cover or camouflage for your enemies. For everyone else, it was terrible. i have not liked any battelfield since bad company 2, either in terms of their maps or mechanically, so at this point i don't really care one way or the other. even if they announced a bad company 3 i prolly would not be interested since dice is on record as saying they don't understand why people liked bc2 so much, meaning bc3 would surely suck.
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Roth posted:This just reminds me of how weird it is how neo-nazis love Norse mythology. Neo-nazis only really like it as far as skin deep for the most part, it's not all that surprising when they do the same things to greek, roman and a handful of other influences, look at all the groups of stringbean nerdos calling their boys clubs "[Thing] EVROPA" and whatever else. They'll hijack the odal or elhaz rune for a crappy tattoo, sometimes mjolnir iconography, but they mostly can't tell you poo poo all past "Uh, Thor was the god of thunder and a big badass and Loki was the trickster" and a lot really only want to use it to sucker people in and yeah, worship big strong boys of old, same exact idea behind the fierce sucking off that right wingers give to spartan bullshit. Yardbomb fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Jun 3, 2018 |
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WampaLord posted:You're way overthinking it, they just like Vikings because they're trying to cargo cult masculinity and Vikings were big and strong. See: The Golden One, trying his damndest to be some kind of Spartan Viking Nazi Dragonborn in real life so hard he actually looks like a comically min-maxed Bethesda character editor disaster. Now that’s dedication to your cargo cult. ...Is The Golden One still a thing? Or has he fallen into the same black hole that swallowed Davis Aurini and Jordan Owen...’s impenetrable cloud of BO 
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The Golden One is still around and more TRVE than ever. SURPRISE FLEX LOOKS LIKE MEAT'S BACK ON THE MENU BOYS He'd be an amazing YouTube personality...least he would be if he wasn't a total Nazi. (Aurini is still around too although nobody cares. Owen kinda left the whole sphere ages ago, unlisting all of his many hours of Sarkeesian-related content.)
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I'm in the same camp as Hbomb/Contra/others : Golden One has decent timing and can be funny, shame's he's such a terrible person.
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