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Neddy Seagoon posted:The best 3D Sonic game is Sonic Colours I feel like Sonic Colors gets forgotten as a good Sonic game because Generations was so widely reviewed as “finally a good Sonic game” that people assume anything before it was bad. Also, like several games before it, there is a gimmick in the form of wisps powers, but it’s a gimmick that actually complements gameplay and exploration rather than dividing the game into good sections and bad sections.
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Mumbling posted:I feel like Sonic Colors gets forgotten as a good Sonic game because Generations was so widely reviewed as “finally a good Sonic game” that people assume anything before it was bad. Sonic Generations doesn't do it any favours either, because the Planet Wisp level somehow wound up being atrociously terrible.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Sonic Generations doesn't do it any favours either, because the Planet Wisp level somehow wound up being atrociously terrible. Planet Wisp was one of my favorite levels from Colors but Generations seemingly cranked up the difficulty on all of the Modern stages. It felt like my old man hands couldn't keep up with half of the stuff on screen.
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Viewtiful Jew posted:Screw Attack is rebranding to be a Death Battle only channel now which is like, okay whatever. But they're also seemingly in the process of privatizing all their old videos which is like around...thir-thirteen years worth of stuff that's gonna be "gone" now. A bunch of it was trash but still that was stuff from 2006 that somehow still survived on YouTube over for over a decade. Poor 'Fanservice Fiesta', ditched yet again. Antifa Turkeesian posted:I do not like it when people make up lore about living people who might read it. Olly ran the joke by me weeks ago.
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FoldableHuman posted:Poor 'Fanservice Fiesta', ditched yet again. Wait, that guy was still going?
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Mumbling posted:I feel like Sonic Colors gets forgotten as a good Sonic game because Generations was so widely reviewed as “finally a good Sonic game” that people assume anything before it was bad. People seem to have selective amnesia when it comes to Sonic games. I remember when certain people thought that Sonic 4 would be the franchise's last chance to redeem itself.
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Alacron posted:Don't want this to go unappreciated, nice video about a show I knew nothing about. This series is really a nice piece of cultural history, documenting things that might be lost forever as the principal players begin to die. The Vegetable Soup episode especially moved me. It really captures how something important has been squeezed out of our culture and underscored to me how, even though America has always been viciously racist, we’re enduring a period of decline toward something bad.
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Feb 5, 2019 12:47
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuy7jKRNu5w Kim done a good video.  Your girlfriend is very wrong tho.  I've still got to watch your 100 greatest games vid - see if I remember any of them! :P
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I'm watching this, and already I have a question: exactly what did the Cannon Group do with the making of the film? I checked IMDB and Wikipedia, and the only times the Cannon name crops up is as distributor, and under "Production Company" in the wiki article. But that article also says that Thorn EMI financed the film and it was distributed in America by 20th Century Fox, so what was Cannon's involvement?
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Spark That Bled posted:I'm watching this, and already I have a question: exactly what did the Cannon Group do with the making of the film? I checked IMDB and Wikipedia, and the only times the Cannon name crops up is as distributor, and under "Production Company" in the wiki article. But that article also says that Thorn EMI financed the film and it was distributed in America by 20th Century Fox, so what was Cannon's involvement? Cannon bought Thorn EMI and their library in 1986, and their name is on the original posters. Even if they probably didn't have an awful lot to do with it it's generally classed as one of their films and it's fair to say that they'd have had the rights when Ocean came calling (the turnaround for getting these licenses and making games from them wasn't exactly slow).
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Spark That Bled posted:People seem to have selective amnesia when it comes to Sonic games. I remember when certain people thought that Sonic 4 would be the franchise's last chance to redeem itself. even as someone who went in to sonic 4 expecting it to be poo poo, i was really taken aback by just how godfuckinawful it was. that game does not get anywhere near the hate it deserves, it's just astonishingly bad. it's not quite on the level of boom or 06, but it's not all that far behind them either. the best part is how episode 2 actually improved on some things, while making others way worse somehow. those fuckin boss fights in episode 2 were excruciating. just, gently caress, how did that game happen. even better question, how on earth are there actually defenders for that game, i've seen a fair few people say it's actually good and it absolutely boggles my mind.
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 It's a nice start, especially after Anime Matsuri went to the wall to declare they'd still bring Vic back even after everything. It was like they co-signed a loan with him. Dawgstar fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Feb 5, 2019 |
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Anime Matsuri is a garbage organization that screws all of its guests, while being run by a sex pest and his apologist. Of course they'd go all in on Vic.
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Dawgstar posted:
Good for them to toss his rear end. Now, if they would stop making RWBY as well, things would be Golden.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Want to see someone get ridiculously excited over a small Pac-Man replica cabinet? More people should regularly include their pets in their reviews.
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Mumbling posted:I feel like Sonic Colors gets forgotten as a good Sonic game because Generations was so widely reviewed as “finally a good Sonic game” that people assume anything before it was bad.
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BigRed0427 posted:Wait, that guy was still going? Turns out yes, he posted a new video two hours ago, but hasn't posted anything on Screwattack for three years.
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jared kushner's brother pretty much owns patreon now LOL
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Groovelord Neato posted:jared kushner's brother pretty much owns patreon now LOL 
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Well, hopefully it follows the standard course of any property owned by a Kushner and leaves them outrageously in debt (because for a family of billionaires, the Kushners actually kinda stuck at doing money  )
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dan had a good thread earlier about it: https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1092847048565481472 when i saw it he hadn't pointed out kushner was the ceo of thrive capital but i knew the name sounded familiar. the guy running patreon is a loving idiot. why can none of these dudes be happy with a profitable company they own. everything's gotta be some tech titan. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Feb 5, 2019 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:the guy running patreon is a loving idiot. why can none of these dudes be happy with a profitable company they own. everything's gotta be some tech titan.
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It's even simpler, honestly. Anything that does not make All Of The Money Ever is deemed a failure, no matter how profitable it is. That's sorta been a thing for a while; it's just spreading.
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Groovelord Neato posted:the guy running patreon is a loving idiot. why can none of these dudes be happy with a profitable company they own. everything's gotta be some tech titan. greed is good Watching Geek Critique's video on Sonic 06 led me to his Sonic Heroes review and boy, that game was a piece of poo poo. New on GB or BB: 365 Days, a movie summed up as "Domestic Abuse & Incest". I really want to know what the director was thinking.
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Groovelord Neato posted:the guy running patreon is a loving idiot. why can none of these dudes be happy with a profitable company they own. everything's gotta be some tech titan. 
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Dragonatrix posted:It's even simpler, honestly. Anything that does not make All Of The Money Ever is deemed a failure, no matter how profitable it is. That's sorta been a thing for a while; it's just spreading. Isn't this just what happened with Buzzfeed and their layoffs? They actually made a pretty big profit, but because the profit wasn't as big as someone projected it to be they decided to 'restructure'.
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Capitalism is a disease and must be destroyed.
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Capitalism is just the symptom.
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Dan go on Chapo
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Give me Shaun or give me death.
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i wish i had thought up patreon.
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Seriously it's such a good idea and once you iron out all the links it seems really easily scaleable, it's p much printing money with how needed it turned out to be.
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alas the guy who founded it thought taking in over a hundred million dollars in vc money was a great idea.
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Zedd posted:Seriously it's such a good idea and once you iron out all the links it seems really easily scaleable, it's p much printing money with how needed it turned out to be. They can add extra services as well, there are a heap of artists on patreon, if you added functionality to handle commissions, it'd be even better for them.
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Goa Tse-tung posted:Dan go on Chapo
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The pain in the rear end for Patreon, and why turning into a creaking monstrosity was always probably inevitable, is that it sits at the intersection of a few things: - There is a path to making what they'd call "market dominating money", but - The marginal value of individual users is small (in part because they charge too little, since users, even ones who are making money, are weird about spending money), and - They've hired a tech and leadership team that thinks the best and smartest way to acquire more users is to burn money in trash bins. Usually through marketing. Marketing budgets are universally batshit. I touch computers (and I make most of my money from consulting for these piñatas) but I pretty firmly believe in sustainable business models and I've been thinking for a while now about how Patreon screwed this up, mostly because they keep screwing it up in slightly different ways. They keep trying to unsubtly optimize for time-spent-on-Patreon, not value-to-Patreon-creators. Nobody goes on Patreon to "explore people they can support", they go because they're directly linked to that Patreon via the thing that people want to support. This is the sort of business that one or two people could run, could take a moderately higher percentage off the top (call it 10%, inclusive of payment fees--incentivizing the service to optimize those payment fees, you don't have to pay retail rates for Stripe/PayPal and there are other options besides), and make a sustainable business instead of some kind of eat-the-world thing. And moving off of Patreon is itself probably dangerous for creators at this point because their patrons will remember that they're giving them money and stop, or just not follow to a new platform. I don't know how to solve that without offering some kind of promotional match or something...at which point you need money...at which point you, too, need VC. gently caress. I dunno. There are Patreon competitors, but they seem to be poorly designed and none of them seem to have the look of a service that's responsive to the needs of its users--they all just look like they kinda suck. I can see a way to do it incrementally, with services built into the platform over time to better support creators--like actually-private videos, it just isn't that expensive to do--that could be a win-win for everybody. The itch.io of Patreon, basically. I wonder if there's some appetite for something better like that. (Anybody here do a lot with Patreon and have that appetite?) tracecomplete fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Feb 6, 2019 |
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AFashionableHat posted:This is the sort of business that one or two people could run that was the nuttiest thing about that medium post dan linked - how many people already worked at patreon BEFORE the new massive infusion of vc money. that's why i said i wish i had thought of it, me and a couple of pals coulda been the whole company.
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Groovelord Neato posted:that was the nuttiest thing about that medium post dan linked - how many people already worked at patreon BEFORE the new massive infusion of vc money. that's why i said i wish i had thought of it, me and a couple of pals coulda been the whole company. You and a couple of pals could have been the whole company if you didn't make Patreon and instead made a smarter company. I've interviewed there before, and I've also got a LinkedIn Premium account so I've done a little snooping; they're very customer support heavy (implicit in something more sustainable is that you don't necessarily go-the-extra-mile in handholding or the like, you build better/smarter processes to avoid the need for it) and because they've reached out all their tentacles aiming for some kind of business model with a higher ROI they have a ton of knob-turners in their development/operations space who probably aren't actually important for running the thing people care about. Normal people (at least the sorts of normal people who use Patreon) aren't that bad at things so as to need the kind of super-solicitous support that modern startups think they do.
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