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Arcsquad12 posted:Chaucer is great fun because he pretty much shatters any and all modern preconceptions about medieval life by showing off a broad range of contemporary stereotypes, most of which don't fit the narrow mould of a layman's view of the past. It's just a bunch of dudes out on pilgrimage sharing stories like normal people. Sure they're a lot more religious than people today but they're so recognizably human and not the dung eating peasants of the 14th century people like to pass off nowadays. yeah. i love reading poo poo like that because it shows that we as humans havent really changes so much. i mean we laugh at the same weird hosed up poo poo.
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The dark truth about Dan Folding Ideas has finally come out: http://tevisthompson.com/its-not-coming-back/ quote:5. Amidst these very real problems, a slew of less real ones infected talk of Fortnite. Typical among them was Folding Ideas’ video about Fortnite’s ‘manufactured discontent’. It begins with bad jokes and Tencent Chinese scaremongering and ends by calling Fortnite “a weaponized product targeted at kids”. Of course the children. Always the children. You claimed to play Fortnite did you not Dan? But you didn't REALLY PLAY IT THE RIGHT WAY DID YOU?! you didn't buy the BATTLE PASS
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Feb 4, 2020 02:57
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YOU PLAYED TEAM RUMBLE INSTEAD OF FREE FOR ALL YOU HACK FRAUD
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Feb 4, 2020 03:02
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why is the name Tevis Thompson familiar
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Alaois posted:why is the name Tevis Thompson familiar because he’s been quoted a lot in this thread before
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Feb 4, 2020 03:03
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I can't believe this. Dan, you are a son of a bitch. You are the arsehole of the Maple Leaf isle. You are loving cancelled for this. Forever cancelled.Alaois posted:why is the name Tevis Thompson familiar Probably best known for his destruction of BioShock Infinite and other pseudo intellectual, big wordy and abrasive pieces that are absolutely insufferable
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Feb 4, 2020 03:08
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honestly i will defend his article on bioshock infinite even if everything else he’s made really makes me not want to
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Feb 4, 2020 03:10
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He needs a wedgie Also the shine wore off on Bioshock Infinite in record time and I don’t think you need a droning think piece to recognize its problems. And I say this as someone who liked the game when it came out.
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Feb 4, 2020 03:15
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imo one of the most serious problems with fortnite is their continued appropriation of dances to sell in their storefront, while one of the least real problems is its storefront.
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Feb 4, 2020 03:27
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Didn't see this posted earlier, but Sage looks at Miami Guns and talks about the anime industry of the early 2000s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNABwHgkLuQ
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Feb 4, 2020 03:35
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I don't wan't to be ORB OF FURY level of angry about Tevis again so let's talk about PushingUpRoses and The Masked Mutant episode of Goosebumps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhBunCnxnpM
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Feb 4, 2020 03:47
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Adam West being in that one always confused me as he kinda cements that the tone was wrecked in the second half. I also will always laugh at the gratuitous Toronto landmarks in Goosebumps (it was filmed in Toronto and Richmond, BC.)
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Feb 4, 2020 04:09
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Goosebumps: Actually kids do not want to be a comic book character.
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Feb 4, 2020 04:39
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Wrageowrapper posted:I think it is considered to be the first MODERN novel rather than just the first novel in general. I'm not entirely sure of the distinction. Something to do with hearing character thoughts? Its metaness? Its willingness to play with styles? Something intellectual no doubt. The difference is that there are a bunch of long-rear end stories written as poetry (Beowulf, Illiad, and other things you pretend to have read). And yeah, whatever, it's only the second or third novel or whatever categorization that makes you feel better about your anime. Still stands out better than most modern writing.
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Feb 4, 2020 04:42
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I'd kinda hope that something that's managed to stick around for a long time has some merit, perhaps even more than the manga equivalent of a New York Times Bestseller.
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marathon Stairmaster sesh posted:I don't wan't to be ORB OF FURY level of angry about Tevis again so let's talk about PushingUpRoses and The Masked Mutant episode of Goosebumps. I think it's another one of those shows that never made it to the channels I got when I was the right age for it. Unlike Are You Afraid of the Dark that did. Either way, nice overview of the episode, and I'm glad this isn't a two-parter, unlike the original material. 
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Feb 4, 2020 05:13
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Arcsquad12 posted:Didn't see this posted earlier, but Sage looks at Miami Guns and talks about the anime industry of the early 2000s. I legitimately appreciate that he used the right aspect ratio at the end there.
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marathon Stairmaster sesh posted:I don't wan't to be ORB OF FURY level of angry about Tevis again so let's talk about PushingUpRoses and The Masked Mutant episode of Goosebumps. PushingUpRoses talks about how the episode adaption of the book is pretty weak, and yep a lot of the Goosebumps books were dialed down or toyed with in ways that messed with any interesting bits in their TV episode adaptions. You can get a pretty good synopsis of the book itself on the Blogger Beware page (which also has great summaries of the whole original series and some of the follow up stuff) and you can see where they kept some plot beats from the book but cut or revised other poo poo (probably for budget or technical limitations.)
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Nuns with Guns posted:PushingUpRoses talks about how the episode adaption of the book is pretty weak, and yep a lot of the Goosebumps books were dialed down or toyed with in ways that messed with any interesting bits in their TV episode adaptions. You can get a pretty good synopsis of the book itself on the Blogger Beware page (which also has great summaries of the whole original series and some of the follow up stuff) and you can see where they kept some plot beats from the book but cut or revised other poo poo (probably for budget or technical limitations.) It's been neat to compare PUP's tv show reviews with poparena's book reviews. The shows don't feel like they have Stine's odd fascination with kids eternally pranking each other like the books do.
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Feb 4, 2020 14:05
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Viewtiful Jew posted:The dark truth about Dan Folding Ideas has finally come out: I love that the ultimate up there rear end critic who hates everything likes a loving kids skinners box, but loving red dead and every other game is bad. Tevis is such a loving pretentious clown. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Feb 4, 2020 |
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Feb 4, 2020 14:19
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Viewtiful Jew posted:The dark truth about Dan Folding Ideas has finally come out: I actually have the comic he wrote, Second Quest, in hard back somewhere. I gotta find it and report back cause he makes some...strange claims about zelda. BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Feb 4, 2020 |
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Feb 4, 2020 14:27
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BigRed0427 posted:I actually have the comic he wrote, Second Quest, in hard back somewhere. I gotta find it and report back cause he makes some...strange claims about zelda. Like what?
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Dapper_Swindler posted:Like what? I was skimming the original article he wrote about zelda on his site. The part that sticks out was how he says Zelda needs to be "Harder to survive" and how that now there are over 10 entries of the series that rely on common themes and tropes that the players can always call back to if they get stuck. "Torches need to be lit" "Find hearts and rupees here" "These enemies can be killed this way" To the point where the game is basically hand holding the player through the game. Grandpa Simpson if he was a gamer posted:Helicopter Parents In the comic, from what I remember, this lead to the creation of ceremonies that must never be questioned and the Zelda stand in needing to find a way to escape from what's left of Hyland civilization.
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i went back and started to reread the "Worst Games of 2018" article and lmao now i remember this personquote:We still care too much about gamefeel. See Destiny. See also Celeste. There’s something icky about the way game critics fetishize it. That luscious feedback, that perfect extension of your will, that zone you wish to stay in forever. Gross. e: this person is a parody of like, early Pitchfork or Tiny Mix Tapes writers right quote:Iconoclasts goes the other way, not exploring platforms in space but using them to tell a story of subjectivities at war. Ideology as platform, personality as platform. Essentially, character as platform. This makes for a knotted, thorny game full of difficult people. In other words, a hardcore platformer. If platforms are people. Alaois fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Feb 4, 2020 |
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Feb 4, 2020 15:06
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Alaois posted:i went back and started to reread the "Worst Games of 2018" article and lmao now i remember this person lol. game feel is good though and it makes me sad when i see pretentious shits like this clown and even decent critics like errant signal poo poo on it. edit: jesus. he really is just a more pretentious radicalbytes but instead of tackling it from a dumb politics perspective, its some weird uber snob contrarian poo poo.
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It must take a special kind of brainworm to say “a game subtly giving the player feedback on when they’re on the right track is bad, actually.” I mean it’s not some singular all-important thing that divides good games from bad but jeez.
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I remember how above everything else about the game, he was enamored by Dark Souls in that there would never be a sequel, or even if there was that it would surely be an entirely different experience and retread NONE of the same beats as the first title. You would never revisit a location in a future Dark Souls title that appeared in the first one he believed, and hoped. No game mechanics you've mastered will help you. Seeing him come to terms with the fact that From Software and Miyazaki-style mechanics was a brand was palpable.
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Feb 4, 2020 15:16
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Dark Souls 3 being basically a greatest hits of the series must've caused a total meltdown.
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Feb 4, 2020 15:18
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You cannot possibly convince me that Tevis is a real name. This man is not real. I reject
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Ok, im re-reading second quest now and...woof...I forgot how HARD it leans into depicting Hylan civilization as fascist. Edit: OH WOW! Hey everybody! who wants a story about Greenwood Tulsa through the lens of Zelda? Because that is what we are doing. I hate this man. WIth a passion. He is...just....I need to sit and take my time to parse this thing out. BigRed0427 fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Feb 4, 2020 |
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Feb 4, 2020 15:48
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I'm starting to suspect that Noah Caldwell-Gervais is full of poo poo. I mean he's extremely eloquent, nice and entertaining but I don't believe for a second that even a fraction the depth he finds in video games was purposely put there by its developers.
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Feb 4, 2020 18:17
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Death of the Author and all that.
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Katt posted:I'm starting to suspect that Noah Caldwell-Gervais is full of poo poo. i mean analysis doesn’t have to be intended to valid
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Feb 4, 2020 18:32
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I mean, you do need to be full of poo poo on some level to do any kind of analysis of any media.
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Feb 4, 2020 18:36
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but also stuff like his critique of far cry 3 is like entirely based on the text and stuff the developers said
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Feb 4, 2020 18:39
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ancient novel chat: The Golden rear end (or, the metamorphoses) of Apuleius (2nd c. CE) is the only fully extant Roman novel and is terrifically good and anyone who likes to think about witches having sex with people, or donkeys having sex with people (like prominent Internet Personality the YourMovieSucks guy) should read it. this post is not intended as a commentary on Don Quixote's importance in the development of the modern Western novel
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I did actually play a whole bunch of Battle Royale! The problem was that BR matches while you're learning the game are really, really, really bad, and end up being a lot of time for very little action. Because of that I wasn't recording constantly, figuring that I could just use the replay feature to get the 30 seconds of good footage out of the hours and hours of gameplay, but then several days in a row Fortnite patched overnight and broke all my replays. That really chapped because I lost a few actually really good, illustrative games where I made it to the top 5 and was then thoroughly destroyed by someone insta-building massive complexes. So, basically, by the time I was really buckling down to get footage I'd been burnt several times over by the replay system and lost over a hundred hours of matches, so I mostly stuck to Team Rumble which is pretty fun as a game mode, a lot more visually interesting, and much easier to use to manufacture the specific kinds of interactions I was looking for. Most of the game footage in the video comes from a small cluster of matches where I ran around with a checklist of things I wanted to get. But, yeah, the practical reality is that BR matches are a lot of time commitment for a very low chance at getting good footage. If you want a shot of sniping someone off a zip line it might take two or three Rumble matches to make it happen, but you can go ten, twenty Battle Royale matches before you even see someone use a zipline while you have a gun with a scope. Also I'm really not sure which of my arguments about the Battlepass would "evaporate" if I paid ten bucks. I made it pretty clear that the Battlepass throws stuff at you hand over fist, to the point that playing without the Battlepass feels bad. It seems the argument is "yes, but if you pay then it feels good instead"? Plus it's bizarre to say that the Battlepass "expands the Battle Royale in remarkable ways" when it doesn't fundamentally alter the nature of the content, it just adds more of it. You're still getting the same types of side objectives, there's just a lot more of them, so that you can feel like you were maybe a bit productive when you at least managed to check of "visit Shady Sands" before getting one-shot by someone who got lucky and found a shotgun. All that rant does it confirm that Epic's deliberately crafted reward/denial system does its job.
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I'm sorry, you must be mistaken: I have been assured that there is absolutely nothing stressful or deliberately off-putting about the ticking clock of ten weeks to complete hundreds of objectives in order to fully unlock the game skins you directly paid for.
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FoldableHuman posted:I'm sorry, you must be mistaken: I have been assured that there is absolutely nothing stressful or deliberately off-putting about the ticking clock of ten weeks to complete hundreds of objectives in order to fully unlock the game skins you directly paid for. as someone who played Fortnite for a few seasons: it started out lovely, but by the time I kind of lost interest in the game, it had gotten absolutely piss easy to get most of the challenges in a given season. they're split into two kinds: weird scavenger hunt challenges, and "performance" ones (ie "get a kill with x weapon," "get kills in 3 different locations," etc). the scavenger hunts, you just google the challenge text, start a BR round, go where google told you to go, get your stars, and jump off a cliff or something. easy as hell, takes about five minutes tops for one. the performance-based ones are in theory harder, but there's a catch. the catch is that you can do them in modes like Team Rumble, despite them being balanced around you trying to do them in the one-life modes, which makes them (again) absurdly easy. e: it was initially lovely because those modes either didn't exist or didn't pop challenges, depending on what point in the game's life we're talking about, and the challenges that require you to actually "git gud" were loving awful as a result of that. but now you can just play funhaver mode and get them done there, so it's not so bad
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