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 Has anyone watched High Score on Netflix yet? Is it worth a look if you are interested in old james stuff? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Score_(TV_series) Also related;  http://blog.archive.org/2020/08/28/the-legend-of-gayblade/ Arrchive.org is a treasure.
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"high score" is also the title of a video game history book published in 2001. i liked video games at the time but had no real idea of the treasures retro gaming offered, and it ended up being a very important and formative book for teenaged weedle. when i heard that netflix was doing a video game history series called "high score" i thought at first it might be related in some way to this book, but after scouring the promotional materials for any mention of the book or its author and finally asking him directly on twitter if they had like, acknowledged his book's existence at all (they did not) it seems that they either "happened" to settle on the exact same title or more likely just didn't give a poo poo because what is some washed up games journalist going to do about it
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Aug 31, 2020 20:20
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I watched the first episode of high score, it’s ok but so far not much most of us old folks wouldn’t have already heard growing up
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Aug 31, 2020 20:30
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qirex posted:I watched the first episode of high score, it’s ok but so far not much most of us old folks wouldn’t have already heard growing up plus i read that it gets weird as you go along and it explains things like dial-up internet which is the point where you realize you are old
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Aug 31, 2020 20:40
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high score is only good because they interview all the "important" people
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Aug 31, 2020 20:56
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you get a good look at lord british's astoundingly long rat tail
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Aug 31, 2020 20:57
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Has anyone watched High Score on Netflix yet? Is it worth a look if you are interested in old james stuff? from what I've heard it's completely US-centric and full of the usual lazy revisionist bullshit you've heard 100 times before - 1983 crash, nintendo single-handedly saving video games, and virtually nothing outside the 2600/NES/SNES/PC gets more than a passing mention. some of the interviews might be interesting, but as a history of video games it doesn't seem as if it covers any new ground.
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Aug 31, 2020 21:59
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i’m really enjoying deep rock galactic as a chill 4 person coop game. you play dwarven space miners and you mine stuff in procedurally generated mines in between waves of critters. very satisfying
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Sep 1, 2020 00:56
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its very fun with friends, also you can get drunk before work just like in real life
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Sep 1, 2020 02:15
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lol if you don’t nom some khat behind the jimmie johns on your way in to the office
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Sep 1, 2020 02:33
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Kuvo posted:its very fun with friends, also you can get drunk before work just like in real life If I had friends I wouldn't be playing video games.
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Sep 1, 2020 04:09
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Weedle posted:"high score" is also the title of a video game history book published in 2001. i liked video games at the time but had no real idea of the treasures retro gaming offered, and it ended up being a very important and formative book for teenaged weedle. when i heard that netflix was doing a video game history series called "high score" i thought at first it might be related in some way to this book, but after scouring the promotional materials for any mention of the book or its author and finally asking him directly on twitter if they had like, acknowledged his book's existence at all (they did not) it seems that they either "happened" to settle on the exact same title or more likely just didn't give a poo poo because what is some washed up games journalist going to do about it tbf high score seems like a pretty obvious title
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Sep 1, 2020 16:47
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who care
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Sep 1, 2020 16:56
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score high, so what
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Sep 1, 2020 17:01
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new nvidia cards are coming. 3090 is like xbox huge
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Sep 1, 2020 17:38
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President Beep posted:score high, so what
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Sep 1, 2020 18:01
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i haven’t touched real video games in like fifteen years and covid forced me into building a desktop. there’s a lot of cool poo poo going on. i don’t know why apex’s middle click smart tagging isn’t in every shooter now. i started off playing starcraft 2 and csgo on a 2011 imac last year and now that i’m exploring modern games i’m kind of generally impressed. i am not a huge fan of all this lootbox and freemium poo poo. or how everything is in early access/beta forever. that being said it’s really cool how easy it is to play with just people i know and not deal with the general public
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Sep 1, 2020 18:26
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the downside is that private servers are a thing of the past as well. so yeah you can queue up with your regular squad but the days of having a regular deathmatch server where you know pretty much everyone on both teams are gone
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Sep 1, 2020 18:51
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Shaggar posted:new nvidia cards are coming. 3090 is like xbox huge they should have named it the triple deluxe
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Sep 1, 2020 19:42
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Agile Vector posted:they should have named it the triple deluxe Do you know what they call a 3090 in France?
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Sep 1, 2020 20:00
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i've been watching High Score and it's more a collection of game-related anecdotes than a real history of the medium. if you're okay with that then it's fine. it does cover lesser known subjects like Jerry Lawson and the aforementioned GayBlade. next i'm watching the episode on the console wars, which has to be better than the book Console Wars at least.
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Sep 2, 2020 03:04
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President Beep posted:score high, so what buy low score high
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Sep 2, 2020 10:18
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Just remembered I hadn't finished disco Elysium yet and one scene in and I'm hooked again (the one where you tell the working class women her husband died.) just incredible writing. It runs like poo poo for what is basically a point and click text adventure thing though
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Sep 2, 2020 12:06
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I love disco elysium but one of the most memorable comedy bits is the framerate on the main menu
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Sep 2, 2020 14:33
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it is the time where i try to get into crusader kings again
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Sep 2, 2020 14:46
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Bored Online posted:it is the time where i try to get into crusader kings again still gotta finish my ck2 campaign of turning all of spain and southern france into a grand basque empire
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Sep 2, 2020 14:50
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i like making europe muslim. gonna wait for people to actually play ck3 before i jump in. i might actually preorder both vampire and cyberpunk which is wicked surprising to me because the last preorder i did was deus ex human revolution which was worth it.
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Sep 2, 2020 15:29
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Casual Encountess posted:i might actually preorder both vampire and cyberpunk which is wicked surprising to me because the last preorder i did was deus ex human revolution which was worth it.
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Sep 2, 2020 15:48
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what's some good grand scale rts games with more focus on macro than micro management? Old games are also welcome
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Sep 2, 2020 15:56
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RustyKnight posted:what's some good grand scale rts games with more focus on macro than micro management? Old games are also welcome the total war series?
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Sep 2, 2020 15:59
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Casual Encountess posted:
I got bad news, quoting pyf: Zereth posted:They just fired the head writer or the original game like four months before the release date, signs are not good. Regarde Aduck posted:And it's being treated as a big mystery why he was fired. He claims he has no idea. Paradox is saying nothing. No one else has said anything about it. mysterious frankie posted:Oh it’s so much worse than this. They fired the creative director and the og writer, and then they didn’t bring in a new creative director; they hired a consulting firm that was started by an old Ubisoft guy. They hired the project of an ex Ubisoft employee to tell them how to do... lord knows what. never preorder games
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Sep 2, 2020 16:00
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i see the vampire curse lives on
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Sep 2, 2020 16:16
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i’m generally thrilled with my setup but there’s a couple games that will be undeniably better on a controller. for maximum not giving a poo poo the move is a wired 360 controller right?
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Sep 2, 2020 16:19
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Yes, probably. The Xbox one controller is not that much more expensive though and it's better (it has a real d-pad)
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Sep 2, 2020 16:23
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i have a wired 360 and it suits my needs just fine. i'm a filthy casual though.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:45
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the one controller feels like a nice evolution, but as someone that doesnt often use controllers i wouldnt mind using either one comedy option a steam controller for $10 including shipping so you can use it as a stand for a better controller
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Sep 2, 2020 17:13
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I personally think the wireless xbox one is better for not giving a poo poo. you can buy it in a package with a little usb dongle and not worry you're going to hang yourself while flailing around in nerd rage
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Sep 2, 2020 17:56
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Uptime Sinclair posted:please never preorder video games. worse than buying on launch. just don’t its not 2001 anymore and digital storesfront don’t run out of copies
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Sep 2, 2020 17:57
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jesus WEP posted:This. um actually i'm pretty sure 1990 was only ten years ago op.
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jesus WEP posted:This. even back then it was just the small gamestop/eb stores who pulled that "oh, no preorder? too bad, it's sold out everywhere". every time that happened i just went across the street to the big store and they had a small mountain of whatever came out that day
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