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Dawgstar posted:That video posted earlier of the guy talking about how much fun he had BECAUSE Resident Evil 6 wears its pants on its head and runs around in a circle making noises like Curly from the Three Stooges (and played it entirely co-op). RE6 is amazing https://i.imgur.com/d9qOchC.mp4
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 05:17 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 15:00 |
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*sees the discussion over how convulted the plots of KH and MGS are* LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT SUPER ROBOT WARS!
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 05:29 |
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EYE: Divine Cybermancy had them all beat for complexity and obtuseness and it's only one game.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 05:36 |
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We could go back to talking about Warcraft! They're releasing entire coffee-table books to retcon the lore into a deeper mess of kudzu than it was ~and~ the story team seems to wanna violently retcon one of the main factions back to their original rawr rawr evil races depiction despite absolutely everything built up.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 05:41 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:*sees the discussion over how convulted the plots of KH and MGS are* I mean, yeah, but most SRW games are standalone titles so it's not quite the same.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 05:54 |
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Augus posted:The stupid gibberish is part of the fun Yeah, the plan is Friday afternoon/evening, which gives the die hards a chance to get well ahead before the stream. I haven't watched any recaps. What I know is purely the absolute bare surface elements from cultural osmosis. I'll admit that a good bit of the blind playthrough is, in fact, to poke fun at the people who insist that you need to play every game because the series is so convoluted. I've played into the faux confusion angle a bit as performance, but at the end of the day it's a mainstream JRPG pastiche: no matter how convoluted the lore gets it's going to be a really straightforward story about friendship and triumph over evil, and unless they seriously bungle the writing it's not actually going to be that hard to keep up.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 05:55 |
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Solitair posted:One Hit Wonderland - "Flagpole Sitta" by Harvey Danger. I remember this from the very earliest years I got into music. Even then I don't think I knew how seriously to take it. Apparently they were famously assholes when they were on Loveline, though in hindsight it's hard to know if they were being serious or just loving with them. On that note, at this point Todd should just include "listen to relevant Loveline episode" on the list of things he does when covering a one hit wonder from the late 90s/early 00s.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 05:57 |
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SteelMentor posted:We could go back to talking about Warcraft! They're releasing entire coffee-table books to retcon the lore into a deeper mess of kudzu than it was ~and~ the story team seems to wanna violently retcon one of the main factions back to their original rawr rawr evil races depiction despite absolutely everything built up.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 06:06 |
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It amazes me the number of people that have come out of the woodwork these past few weeks trying to tell Kingdom Hearts fans that, ACTUALLY, their favorite game series is dumb and makes no sense, as if every Kingdom Hearts fan isn't already aware of that. I have never met a KH fan who hasn't enjoyed the series' story in a so-bad-its-good way, punctuated with the moments of legitimate enjoyment despite itself.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 06:23 |
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Hiro Protagonist posted:It amazes me the number of people that have come out of the woodwork these past few weeks trying to tell Kingdom Hearts fans that, ACTUALLY, their favorite game series is dumb and makes no sense, as if every Kingdom Hearts fan isn't already aware of that. I have never met a KH fan who hasn't enjoyed the series' story in a so-bad-its-good way, punctuated with the moments of legitimate enjoyment despite itself. I assumed it was mostly KH fans going, "Oh yeah, I'd forgotten how insane this was for a while! HEY EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS lovely THING I LOVE!" Or maybe that's just the kind of people I hang around.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 06:27 |
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Alacron posted:I mean, yeah, but most SRW games are standalone titles so it's not quite the same. True. But I can still bring up stuff like Gilliam or Euzeth as parallels to Xehanort.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 06:56 |
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Flagpole Sitta is a top-tier 90's one-hit wonder song. I recommend breaking that poo poo out at karaoke, it always goes over well.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 06:58 |
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i googled the song and my reactions were 1) oh yeah i know this song it's a banger, and 2) lmao the official upload to youtube censors the part where he says "god drat"
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 07:38 |
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Flagpole Sitta was only a minor hit at best over here in the UK, but we still know it very well indeed as the theme song for the almighty Peep Show. It's a cool song and when the hell is Todd going to do the New Radicals
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 07:49 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:*sees the discussion over how convulted the plots of KH and MGS are* At least in Super Robot Wars they attempt to mash in the separate IPs together in a way that they make sense in the game's universe. In the old days that wasn't too hard, just say that Mazinger Z and Getter Robo occur in the same time period as Mobile Suit Gundam instead of the 1970s, and maybe time squish Gundam 0079, Z, ZZ, and CCA into a shorter time frame. The later games get kind of weird about it but that's mostly because more recent mecha shows dive into weird time/space/dimensional nonsense anyway, but even those don't have elaborate backstories that interfere with one another. Super Robot Wars Z went about this the best way by going "we have Orguss, just use Orguss's bullshit to mash all the disparate universes together"
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 08:49 |
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I was always partial to Sad Sweetheart Of The Rodeo from their 2nd album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTnLVX689fE Their later material was much more mature and interesting, if a bit mellower. Pike St/Park Slope, Wine Women and Song, Cream and Bastards Rise...good stuff. Sadly the bass player died during Death Year 2016. He had also been The Stranger's art director.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 08:55 |
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The SRW OG games are apparently kind of a mess at this point on account of trying to tie decades of mainline protagonist stories into a single coherent independent setting on top of their own writing issues.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 09:14 |
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The SRW OG games will forever continue to be garbage until they add the true hero of the people, Baran Doban into the canon.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 10:48 |
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YggiDee posted:I really like Jim Sterling, but I've been re-watching Leverage, and one of the major antagonists is named Jim Sterling and now I can never take that character seriously again. There's also a character with the same name that comes up a lot in the My Dad Wrote A Porno podcast and that makes it even worse.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 10:55 |
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Alacron posted:In non-Kingdom Hearts news, Noah Gervais released a statement to Patreon backers about his lack of output. I won't post the whole thing, but to summarize he's gone on anti-depressants and is planning to release all of his current projects by the 8th of February, listing 4 of them. I'm almost kind of wtfing at this because for the length and quality of videos he puts out, once every two months-ish doesn't even seem like a "lack of output" to me.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 12:34 |
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Why is this a video game thread?
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 13:11 |
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Clerical Terrors posted:Why is this a video game thread? It's like one of two things internet reviewers talk about.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 13:19 |
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Its either pop culture media or hot takes. Or both, sometimes.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 13:29 |
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Motto posted:The SRW OG games are apparently kind of a mess at this point on account of trying to tie decades of mainline protagonist stories into a single coherent independent setting on top of their own writing issues. There's also all the stuff about how all the games have happened, with Euzeth's plans being base don remembering the Alpha timeline. And that's not even going into the fact that Project X Zone and other stuff also happened.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 15:00 |
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FoldableHuman posted:Yeah, the plan is Friday afternoon/evening, which gives the die hards a chance to get well ahead before the stream. Six hours in and they do a surprisingly decent job explaining things so far.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 15:17 |
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My beef with Kingdom Hearts is that it doesn't go to the cooler Disney worlds and doesn't do much with most of the worlds it does go to. Like there's no Tale Spin world? There's a gigantic undeveloped Art Deco Dieselpunk City set in a fortified canyon/sea cape with air pirates and a big cast of very distinct bad guys and you DON'T use it? I guess they're doing more with Thebes this time around.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 15:44 |
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Fabricated posted:My beef with Kingdom Hearts is that it doesn't go to the cooler Disney worlds and doesn't do much with most of the worlds it does go to. You joke, but TaleSpin as a property actually has some serious legal issues surrounding it because of the use of King Louie iirc. Besides, the real tragedy is no Duck Tales world.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 15:52 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:You joke, but TaleSpin as a property actually has some serious legal issues surrounding it because of the use of King Louie iirc. And yeah, no Duckberg or the city from Darkwing Duck either. Those seem like obvious layups.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 16:35 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en4bcnxpNO0 Are smaller Lefttubers goint to start copying Contrapoints now or is there something I'm missing.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 18:10 |
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Clerical Terrors posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en4bcnxpNO0 I don't think Contra just stares off into the abyss with a weird filter over her while droning on about Imperialism and Gundam.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 18:23 |
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I think a key distinction for me is that while I don't actively dump on KH in the first place, I still harbor a grudge for how immediately off the rails it went going from 1 to 2. And while some of the plot twists and such mentioned itt sound digestible out of context, I feel like a number of them are actually a real pain in the rear end to piece together over the course of some long action RPGs. Plus a handful really feel like they just exist to make things more confusing rather than actually add anything to the plot. And that's before you take into account how large swaths of the story operate entirely through anime melodrama. Basically I like 1, parts of 2, and then care about literally nothing else.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 18:45 |
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Clerical Terrors posted:Are smaller Lefttubers goint to start copying Contrapoints now or is there something I'm missing. The video title is a straight copy from HBomb's stuff, but the video style is... sorta like Jenny's but infinitely worse (and that's before you get to the garbage filters, which just drag it down even more). I dunno about the delivery of any points in the video because I didn't really pay enough attention or watch enough to say for sure.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 18:47 |
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I skipped around to a bit where they said that President Abe was the son of the "Manchurian Butcher", which was immediately retconned in video with a voice-over to just being classmates instead of, I don't know, edited out entirely or properly researched ahead of time.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 19:01 |
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Clerical Terrors posted:Why is this a video game thread? The same reason it's a Star Wars thread: it is populated by goddamn nerds.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 19:07 |
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Puppy Time posted:The same reason it's a Star Wars thread: it is populated by goddamn nerds. It’s subjects are also nerds, so it would be weird if it was any other way.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 19:25 |
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i should start posting Cartoonist Kayfabe in this fuckin thread
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 19:38 |
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Dragonatrix posted:The video title is a straight copy from HBomb's stuff, but the video style is... sorta like Jenny's but infinitely worse (and that's before you get to the garbage filters, which just drag it down even more). I dunno about the delivery of any points in the video because I didn't really pay enough attention or watch enough to say for sure. As good a boy as he is, I don't think Hbomb really has a patent on the phrase "and here's why". Pretty sure that's been around the internet for a while now.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 21:11 |
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Solitair posted:One Hit Wonderland - "Flagpole Sitta" by Harvey Danger. I remember this from the very earliest years I got into music. Even then I don't think I knew how seriously to take it. I was extremely isolated and religiously homeschooled during the 90s. I feel like Todd's videos have given me a much better understanding of what was going on outside at the time, which helps give me a sense of closure about that time.
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# ? Jan 29, 2019 21:51 |
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For Kingdom Hearts, I've become a fan of Kingdom Smarts, a podcast where series fan Shannon Manor (professional character designer and illustrator) has 30 minutes to explain as much of the series as she can to Jake Mason (a very prolific podcaster and podcast editor), who knows nothing about the series but what Shannon tells him and what she allows him to see. It's mostly a beat-by-beat recap of the series, but Shannon is clearly passionate about the series and Jake gets into it, and there's a point where Jake has to admit that he was mad in real life at a cartoon duck. It's pretty good. Do podcasts count as internet personalities?
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# ? Jan 30, 2019 00:51 |
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well, this thread is in the podcast forum so no
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