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Gaius Marius posted:Reading a dozen Starwars EU novels or what have you is the equivalent of spending half your day watching Pawn Stars, we've only got a limited amount of time here. Why would you waste it on low quality works? Several times I have "watched" an entire day of history channel's pawn star marathon days when working from home, even though it usually loops the same episodes at around 2pm after the first 6 hours. That and American Pickers are great for leaving on all day because there is no plot so you don't miss anything important when work distracts you from it.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Why are all children's novels that get traction in the anglo world somehow related to high class abusive british boarding school, goddam The upper class control things.
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Gaius Marius posted:
Because when I kick off what books I read will matter exactly zero percent.
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People who watch Power Rangers are dumb and have bad taste. People who watch Super Sentai, on the other hand, are smart and handsome, and appreciate good television
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At the very least, Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA asset who got out of pocket.
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Video games were better when the graphics were really bad. We should have stopped developing graphics in games around Morrowind. People spend more time now on making it look good than making it actually a game. Skyrim looks a lot better than morrowind but it sucks as a game in comparison.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Video games were better when the graphics were really bad. We should have stopped developing graphics in games around Morrowind. People spend more time now on making it look good than making it actually a game. Skyrim looks a lot better than morrowind but it sucks as a game in comparison.
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The height of gaming was the PS2/Gamecube/XBox era, when consoles got powerful enough you could have more complex and expansive games, but not so much that you lost the experimental spirit of the olden times or got bogged down with gigantic empty worlds that get filled up with crafting mechanics, lootboxes and cutscene bullshit. Some of my favorite games ever are on the PS3, but it's just felt like sliding downhill since.
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Kanye West is the greatest living artist, when he dies he'll be remembered like the Beatles. No other person in modernity has had such a large contribution to musics course and history. Kanye is an artist in the same way Michelangelo or Rembrandt is. When we look back music will be dated Pre and Post Kanye, that's the level of influence he yields
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Kanye designs the worlds most hideous shoes at least
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My beautiful dark twisted fantasy is the greatest work of art ever created, it's detractors should be removed from this planet Y9ou can feel it;s like icarus at the very edge of the sky, and as the album ends he crashes into the sea. Pure art People don't undestand his genius loving heartless man has anyone harnessed the power of autotune like Kanye has? NO! Gaius Marius has a new favorite as of 06:57 on Apr 3, 2021 |
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Music is intensely personal and, because of that, it's often very hard to assess whether music is good or bad.
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Josef bugman posted:Music is intensely personal and, because of that, it's often very hard to assess whether music is good or bad.
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Cardiovorax posted:I draw the line at bad technical proficiency, but hell, music genres really do genuinely mean nothing. I've found songs from everything between Franz Anton Liszt and dubstep that I've ended up enjoying anyway. True, bad music as in the actual "playing" is easier (though sometimes still tricky and personal) to tell if it's bad. But "music" as a whole is so emotionally tied to the listener that I think it can be hard to tell if it's good. It's different with things like film or TV where they are stories being told and, whilst they can still have an emotional pull to a lot of folks, they are easier to pick apart and analyse.
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Just literally remake Morrowind with Skyrim graphics, what on earth is stopping them from this?
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Josef bugman posted:Music is intensely personal and, because of that, it's often very hard to assess whether music is good or bad. Music is, at the same time, communal and when used correctly it's very easy to assess whether it's good or bad; i.e. if people are dancing, it's good.
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If people are dancing, it's music. Maybe.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Just literally remake Morrowind with Skyrim graphics, what on earth is stopping them from this? They are.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Video games were better when the graphics were really bad. We should have stopped developing graphics in games around Morrowind. People spend more time now on making it look good than making it actually a game. Skyrim looks a lot better than morrowind but it sucks as a game in comparison. Morrowind is the Gulliver’s Travels or Robinson Crusoe of video games. What a great game. It is a classic. I’m playing through it now with the Morrowind++ mod list and a speed/stamina mod which kind of fix clunky aspects of the game but mostly preserve the spirit of the game.
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I wish I could play games like Morrowind and enjoy them but I don't understand how you don't die of boredom with them. It takes ages to get anywhere in there and you're just always running around slightly clueless for the first 15 hours of play or something. Just play Dirt 3 forever. You can't look dumb as a brick playing that 
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I think my aversion to them is mostly rooted in the fact that I don't know how to install them and I'd have to confront my own stupidity to do so, but I've never gotten into game mods like that. There's also the fact that it (skywind) has been constantly "in development" for like 10 years and the pessimist in me says it's still probably a couple years off at least. but it would be cool if they ever finish it.
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fizzymercury posted:I wish I could play games like Morrowind and enjoy them but I don't understand how you don't die of boredom with them. It takes ages to get anywhere in there and you're just always running around slightly clueless for the first 15 hours of play or something. It's a murder and theft simulator. You get bored because your first instinct on having no consequences isn't to stab someone and take their stuff. Congrats on not being a psycho.
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fizzymercury posted:I wish I could play games like Morrowind and enjoy them but I don't understand how you don't die of boredom with them. It takes ages to get anywhere in there and you're just always running around slightly clueless for the first 15 hours of play or something. It is a slow paced game (although installing a mod which makes you run faster and fatigue less helps a little) with a steep learning curve, although at the end of the game the difficulty is very easy, because after a while your character becomes extremely over-powered. It has a lot of text and very few quest markers. It is a little different from more modern video games. Guyver posted:It's a murder and theft simulator. You get bored because your first instinct on having no consequences isn't to stab someone and take their stuff. I didn't know that Tipper Gore posted on the SomethingAwful message boards. silence_kit has a new favorite as of 14:39 on Apr 3, 2021 |
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Murder and theft definitely wasn't my first instinct when I played Morrowind. I was introduced to the joys of being a kleptomaniac serial killer slowly.
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People should read more history books instead of reading fiction
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Cardiovorax posted:Murder and theft definitely wasn't my first instinct when I played Morrowind. I was introduced to the joys of being a kleptomaniac serial killer slowly. Pretty sure one of the first things I did out side of the tutorial bit was shank the lady in the light house because I wasn't sure how the stealth worked and knew no one could see me anyway. silence_kit posted:I didn't know that Tipper Gore posted on the SomethingAwful message boards.
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Also Skywind is still going to be Morrwind in Skyrim. They can add a lot but they can't get rid of Skyrim's poo poo magic or combat. I want something like the Rome: Total War remaster coming out soon. They cleaned up the UI and added quality of life features, updated the graphics, and left the gameplay almost unchanged except for glaring bugs and balance issues. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 15:27 on Apr 3, 2021 |
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fizzymercury posted:I wish I could play games like Morrowind and enjoy them but I don't understand how you don't die of boredom with them. It takes ages to get anywhere in there and you're just always running around slightly clueless for the first 15 hours of play or something. in the early 2000's this was considered fun and groundbreaking but now all games have to constantly dazzle you every 5 minutes with novelty and brightness and insanity and thats why you have found yourself desensitised
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Also Skywind is still going to be Morrwind in Skyrim. They can add a lot but they can't get rid of Skyrim's poo poo magic or combat. OpenMW is pretty far along at this point
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i like openmw but i prefer to leave out mods that embellish the graphics. i just want stability fixes
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Skyrim never felt like a lot of fun when I played it. I actually kind of like "the bioware RPG" and wish there were more of them. Just because something is deep and meaningful for you doesn't mean other people are wrong to find fault with it. Savoury pies are better than sweet pies.
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It's really weird that Americans aren't more into Savory pies, It seems like it would be in their wheelhouse. See also Dumplings
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Gaius Marius posted:It's really weird that Americans aren't more into Savory pies, It seems like it would be in their wheelhouse. See also Dumplings Every Midwestern state has its own mutant version of these things.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Every Midwestern state has its own mutant version of these things. Pasties? And we do have like chicken pot pie, which is pretty well known. We just don’t have a lot of garbage organ meat slurry pie like they do across the pond.
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I forgot Chicken pot pies and Shepard's pies exist, but you can't tell me a Minnesota person wouldn't look right at home eating a steak and kidney pie
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Gaius Marius posted:It's really weird that Americans aren't more into Savory pies, It seems like it would be in their wheelhouse. See also Dumplings
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Cardiovorax posted:PHOU: Dumplings suck. Pirogies are where it's at. What is the difference between dumplings and meatballs?
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Dumplings are a piece of dough wrapped around something and cooked in some way, a super broad category Meatballs are a waste of ground meat
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Josef bugman posted:What is the difference between dumplings and meatballs?
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Cardiovorax posted:Dumplings are wrapped in dough and meatballs aren't. Oooh now I am thinking about steamed pork buns.
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