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Mokinokaro posted:It's more that the company was his personal fiefdom and he treated it like such. Just a giant dick to everyone he saw as beneath him, like they were property. whats amusing is i have seen these games in stores even in gamestops. pretty recently too. honestly. id love to hear matt talk about Fracture. its one of the last non star wars lucas arts games and i read somewhere the development was nightmare. what sucks is the concept/backstory of the game was sorta cool. which reminds of the story of how the gobbler destroyed lucasarts because of his meddling. read blood sweat and pixels for that fun story. https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sweat-Pixels-Triumphant-Turbulent/dp/0062651234 Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Sep 14, 2018 |
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Mokinokaro posted:It's more that the company was his personal fiefdom and he treated it like such. Just a giant dick to everyone he saw as beneath him, like they were property. it was even wilder than that, Silicon Knights tried to sue Epic for supposedly not offering them adequate support for the engine, to which Epic countersued them for stealing Unreal engine assets to use for their own engine, which Epic won.
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DoubleCakes posted:Nick Nocturne is arguably in the doghouse (pun not intended) but I still think he's worth talking about. I don't think he's been blacklisted yet, and he might be earning back goodwill after that big apology he did. I've got him mentally slotted in the "okay but on probation in case he backslides" box. I think his apology demonstrated a will to at least try, which is so much better than the bulk of internet personalities who gently caress up, so it's a good start. Hemingway To Go! posted:Kind of wish DHMIS fit in a chat general thread somewhere. I'm not going to the DHMIS reddit and no one I know likes it, but I was pretty interested in the trailer and wanted to talk about it. Personally, I'd be AOK with DHMIS talk here. It'd break up the Star Wars monotony, if nothing else! Though my own interest in it is more on the lines of finding out about cool details I missed than the "HERE IS THE SECRET MESSAGE!" that I see everywhere. Sometimes, weird poo poo is just weird poo poo, and it isn't meant to have much coherent message beyond "That's pretty hosed up, huh?"
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Alaois posted:the negative reception of Too Human may have actually driven Dennis Dyack insane, which is an impressive feat tbh I loved Legacy of Kain and Soul Reaver so freaking much back in the daty, and they still hold a place in my heart for those sweet undead scenery-chewers (and the sorely-missed tony Jay). I do believe those games, along with Metal Gear solid and a couple of others, helped bring voice acting in games out of the morass it was wallowing in. It's sad that a series that was so ambitious and had more to try imploded because of studio crap. But not surprising.
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Alaois posted:it was even wilder than that, Silicon Knights tried to sue Epic for supposedly not offering them adequate support for the engine, to which Epic countersued them for stealing Unreal engine assets to use for their own engine, which Epic won. that was not the x-men game, it was too human. and silicon knights lost so hard that they could no longer legally sell the game and all copies on store shelves were ordered to be recalled and destroyed lmao.
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Sephyr posted:I loved Legacy of Kain and Soul Reaver so freaking much back in the daty, and they still hold a place in my heart for those sweet undead scenery-chewers (and the sorely-missed tony Jay). I do believe those games, along with Metal Gear solid and a couple of others, helped bring voice acting in games out of the morass it was wallowing in. Silicon Knights only made Blood Omen 1. Crystal Dynamics made Soul Reaver. Presumably, Crystal Dynamics were also the ones who made Blood Omen 1 playable*, which is why they won the rights to make future games in the series from Silicon Knights in a big embarrassing legal battle after Blood Omen 1's release.
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Bryan and Kyle look at Dracula 3000, possibly the worst vampire film ever. It looks like it had a budget of $300, and I love that the tagline is "In space there is no daylight."
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Sep 14, 2018 21:41
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Is Dracula 3000 better or worse than Dracula 2000, is the real question.
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Sep 14, 2018 21:58
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Define "better." They're both bad, but I think 3000 is way more entertaining. The front page (like, as in, somethingawful.com) review of Dracula 3000 from ages ago was really good iirc. Dracula 2000 is bad in the same way that most Wes Craven projects are bad. Dracula 3000 is bad in the sense that Dracula wears a big dumb Halloween costume on a spaceship and Coolio gets turned into a vampire who loves talking about how much he masturbates.
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Judging from the review, seems that Coolio took his role about as seriously as it deserved and was by all accounts the highlight of the thing.
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:that was not the x-men game, it was too human. and silicon knights lost so hard that they could no longer legally sell the game and all copies on store shelves were ordered to be recalled and destroyed lmao. it was both games because they made X-Men Destiny with the jacked assets engine
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rudecyrus posted:Bryan and Kyle look at Dracula 3000, possibly the worst vampire film ever. It looks like it had a budget of $300, and I love that the tagline is "In space there is no daylight." I got all excited and then discovered that you didn't mean Kyle Kallgren  Still, I'll give this one a watch later. I'm always interested in stupid vampire movies.
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The posters are the most baffling part, unless the work study program is some kind of scam where they need to make up work for the students to do, like designing, printing, and hanging up posters that are only useful for about three hours before replacing them with posters that would never be useful.
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Puppy Time posted:Personally, I'd be AOK with DHMIS talk here. It'd break up the Star Wars monotony, if nothing else! I think DHMIS manages to strike a good balance between a sharable video with a coherent joke in them and having stuff below the surface, most of which enhances the videos and makes things more meaningful and are able to be picked up if you're thinking about it. Like it's hard to read when you're casually watching that Yellow gets drugged in the Healthy episode or that the Computer episode shows computers reading your data and making ads, but they're like right there. I hope they can keep that balance, because a lot of the stuff in the trailer looked pretty fantastical with the talking keyblade, the robots, the animated segments, and the technology. Might be doing something very different this time around, especially considering that with how the series ended, but I hope the videos are still sharable.
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Finally got around to watching HBomb's speedrunning video, 'twas good. 
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Hemingway To Go! posted:I think DHMIS manages to strike a good balance between a sharable video with a coherent joke in them and having stuff below the surface, most of which enhances the videos and makes things more meaningful and are able to be picked up if you're thinking about it. Like it's hard to read when you're casually watching that Yellow gets drugged in the Healthy episode or that the Computer episode shows computers reading your data and making ads, but they're like right there. Yeah, I feel like the videos are less meant to be a coherent mystery box story than a whole that's thematically coherent, without any particular moral or statement. Just a bunch of variations on a theme. Probably the reason I feel so frustrated with the quest for the secret code that reveals the whole story is that it assumes that all art HAS to have a coherent narrative or grand statement, ignoring cases like this where it already does what it does beautifully, without any of that junk weighing it down. (Not that a hidden narrative or a statement are always junk, just it feels really unneeded in this case.) Part of me immediately assumed the new project is a video game, but that's most likely just my current surroundings biasing things. I haven't bothered to look anything up. 
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Puppy Time posted:Yeah, I feel like the videos are less meant to be a coherent mystery box story than a whole that's thematically coherent, without any particular moral or statement. Just a bunch of variations on a theme. Probably the reason I feel so frustrated with the quest for the secret code that reveals the whole story is that it assumes that all art HAS to have a coherent narrative or grand statement, ignoring cases like this where it already does what it does beautifully, without any of that junk weighing it down. (Not that a hidden narrative or a statement are always junk, just it feels really unneeded in this case.) Well, if this article isn't talking out of their rear end it's a TV series: https://deadline.com/2018/09/dont-h...rry-1202464633/ I enjoyed the original series, but I don't feel like it'll be able to keep up that momentum in a longer format. Wait and see I guess.
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stillvisions posted:Well, if this article isn't talking out of their rear end it's a TV series: https://deadline.com/2018/09/dont-h...rry-1202464633/ hm. Yeah, I can see it maybe working if it ends up being a collection of shorts a la Sesame Street, but at the same time, I can't imagine even that working quite as well as single-themed, sporadic shorts.
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Dracula 2000 had a cool spin on dracula's origin . Too bad it was wasted on a lovely early 2000's nu-horror for dumb teens . It also had a baby Gerard Butler .
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The thing I’ll always remember about Dracula 2000 never having seen it is that it was released the week before Christmas, or possibly on Christmas, in 2000. It was comforting for me to learn that even adults cut deadlines that close. Also I just looked it up on wiki and the premise is that Van Helsing needs to buy himself decades to centuries of extra time to figure out how to kill Dracula, but it turns out sunlight actually will kill him just fine like in all the stories? Maybe some of that deadline anxiety affected the final cut.
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business hammocks posted:but it turns out sunlight actually will kill him just fine like in all the stories? Except, ironically, in the actual novel they're all based on. (The movie Nosferatu introduced the sunlight thing.)
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KayTee posted:Do you remember Too Human? I did, vaguely. What I didn't know was how badly Silicon Knights behaved surrounding the project. Oh wow, seeing Lee in the comments of this vid made me feel really old cuz I have like no idea when the last time I thought about him was. It must have been like years.
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business hammocks posted:The thing I’ll always remember about Dracula 2000 never having seen it is that it was released the week before Christmas, or possibly on Christmas, in 2000. It was comforting for me to learn that even adults cut deadlines that close. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong but hanging was the secret ingredient needed to make him truly vulnerable, or at least actually killable that way. Mostly I remember that movie because my morning walk to work took me right past them filming it at BCE (now Brookfield) Place in Toronto, the spot with the super-old building with a modern structure built around it.
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As far as i remember - Asking a neon Jesus sign for forgiveness is what released Dracula to the sweet embrace of death . I didnt see it in almost 2 decades so maybe i hallucinated that part out of boredom . edit : i was almost right which is close enough to being right! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTkSNIvrueA now i gotta question why I cant remember the date, but sort of remember the ending of dracula 2000. admataY fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Sep 15, 2018 |
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I actually watched Dracula 2000 and 3000 last week because my life is a mess and both are equally funny for different reasons. I mean 3000 has Coolio and a Party City Dracula on a spaceship, but 2000 has Gerard Butler watching a Monster Magnet music video at a Tower Records and proclaiming it "brilliant." Sure 3000 has Tiny Lister being referred to as being both big and black every time he's on screen, but 2000 has Vitamin C playing the main character's roommate and the soundtrack is entirely numetal. What I'm saying is they are both good as hell.
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Nyx has a new channel that's just vlogging, put one up about how much she hates film school and how much it caused her to suppress her creativity. also a stealth Predator review (and Mandy review).
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https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/1041448289906974720?s=20
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I really hope this doesn’t generate pages of arguments insisting that she’s a secret lib who secretly pals around with Sargon, as has happened every other time the cat character has shown up. PS I haven’t listened to it yet, but it sounds like she’s also a guest on the latest/a forthcoming episode of Anita Sarkeesian’s podcast, which has a very satisfying sense of closure re: the Dark Mother stuff she moved away from a year or so ago.
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Contra: "I'm making a video about catgirls" Me: This looks dumb business hammocks posted:I really hope this doesn’t generate pages of arguments insisting that she’s a secret lib who secretly pals around with Sargon, as has happened every other time the cat character has shown up. Me: What? 
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Some people really take the catgirl character as a personal attack on their politics. It’s not really unusual for people in left spaces to take disagreement personally like that, but I don’t see it much in youtube videos outside of people accusing Natalie of punching left.
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1. I just started watching Contrapoints recently and for whatever reason I find her videos strangely entrancing. Maybe its the mood lighting, the cinematography or the cadence of her voice but whatever it is it keeps me watching. That her politics are (mostly) good is a plus as well. 2. I thought the catgirl thing was a reference to that fight between r/socialism and /leftypol/ where the former banned a socialist catgirl webcomic and the latter denounced/made fun of/went apeshit over it.
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Finally my clickbait thumbnails are paying off!
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 They say to this day he's still screaming about it and will still be angry about it on the day he dies.
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I don’t think anyone has disagreed that Sonic sucks since like 2005, even people who like it.
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business hammocks posted:I don’t think anyone has disagreed that Sonic sucks since like 2005, even people who like it. Legitimately good things the Sonic Franchise as produced since 2005:
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business hammocks posted:I don’t think anyone has disagreed that Sonic sucks since like 2005, even people who like it. You'd be surprised; they all scream about how people hating on Sonic have never read the comics or watched the serious cartoon. That's of course ignoring the fact that one is old enough to vote and the other was loving terrible to everyone except the fanboys.
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nine-gear crow posted:Legitimately good things the Sonic Franchise as produced since 2005: Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice is actually a really fun game with a lot of speedrun potential, but no one played it.
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One of the popular Youtube clickbait things to do these days is to take "Sonic sucks" even further to "Sonic sucks and also it was never good in the first place you all were just jealous of Nintendo please @ me"
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