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OP, can you please create a separate ranking for all of the podcasts in terms of the quantity and quality of puns? Thanks in advance.
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Kurtofan posted:Gatling guns existed during the Victorian era and they're hand operated both in the game and in real life. The only unwieldy part is the size. Your posting is steampunk. 
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Apr 1, 2015 15:36
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Song For The Deaf posted:I don't understand people's Gary/Kole slash fiction. It's unsettling. "Don't understand" or "Don't want to understand"?
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Apr 4, 2015 01:54
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Reminder that TB's first post on SA was a "check out my website" and casually mentioning that he has an IQ of 170 and is a member of Mensa or something. One of the first replies was something along the lines of "you can't be that smart if you thought that posting that was going to be met with anything outside of mocking". He also had some trite, awful D&D post that was probably about "Ethics of exterminating all the Jews" or something.
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Apr 6, 2015 15:31
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Gary's catte was so loud this week, I thought it was my roommate's cat singing last night, haha. Also I'm gonna make "anime pluperfect" a part of my vernacular. Phone fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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Apr 19, 2015 19:41
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Song For The Deaf posted:We're ready to announce the game we're covering on episode 100 of Watch Out for Fireballs! I'm not going to lie, I thought that you had done Super Metroid already when you were talking about the music ranking thing. I'm not going to claim to be clairvoyant, but I've had WOFF + Super Metroid in my head for the past week now.
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Apr 22, 2015 03:38
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I'm just gonna say AGDQ 2014 and write via contact for the rest of this dumb post.
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Apr 22, 2015 18:10
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Captain Invictus posted:What? Are you having a stroke? Ugh, the AGDQ 2014 Super Metroid 4-way race.
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Apr 22, 2015 18:29
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threeagainstfour posted:This podcast is pretty ok most of the time. The quality of the guest determines whether or not it's going to be good. If they have a good guest who will chime in with thoughts on things to keep the conversation going it tends to actually be a pretty decent listen. Sounds like the best part is actually not listening to the podcast at all so you don't have to check out mentally whenever Total Moron goes on a PC Uber Alles tirade.
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May 8, 2015 18:36
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Whoa, Earthbound in the music showdown finals. Sick. Hey Gary, this might be relevant to your (lack of) interest: http://kotaku.com/the-spectacular-story-of-metroid-one-of-gamings-riche-1284029577 (basically all of the Metroid lore is from Metroid Prime and Super Metroid is actually one of the last games to take place in the timeline. I don't know) Phone fucked around with this message at 03:37 on May 15, 2015 |
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May 15, 2015 03:35
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Captain Invictus posted:Nah I wasn't gonna talk guff or anything, was wondering if you'd like a more recent in-depth rundown of tf2 economy stuff or if you've been overwhelmed by emails dealing with it as of late, seems like a lot of folks have been writing in recently about it and I don't want to oversaturate you guys with that stuff Yes to both of these.
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May 17, 2015 02:22
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The (poor) behavior of bicyclists are the result of poor/nonexistent infrastructure. Most cyclists do follow the rules of the road, but people only see and focus on the ones blowing red lights and those who do 20mph on a shared greenway with pedestrians. Bikes on sidewalks is under the jurisdiction of regional/city laws. Some cities are explicit about no bicycles on the sidewalk, but others have nothing on the books. There's nothing in Raleigh, and the infrastructure here is lacking (but slowly getting better to the detriment of Internet comment sections everywhere), so I will strategically ride on the sidewalk when the alternative is a 2 lane road with a speed limit of 40mph. I've slowly been ruining myself. I went to Minneapolis and Japan, and I saw what could have been. All I wanna do is ride my bike. 
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May 26, 2015 14:07
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TetsuoTW posted:No-one remembers Crazy Taxi as being full of Offspring songs. Everyone just remembers Crazy Taxi as being full of YA YA YA YA YAAA That and the awful clunk boost noise.
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May 29, 2015 13:02
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bobservo posted:Forgot to promote this week's Retronauts about JAPAN, so go listen to it, ya turkeys. You're going to be in a treat for when you go this year, Bob.
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May 30, 2015 01:49
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bobservo posted:Is Japan throwing me a surprise party? I'm sure if you ask Ray and you hop down to Nagoya, something could probably be arranged with his good friend.  I went in March and it was a blast even though I didn't go to Tokyo at all.
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May 30, 2015 03:00
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This week's WOFF is excellent. Green tea Kit Kats are good.
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May 30, 2015 18:18
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Holy poo poo, Wattam looks amazing. https://youtu.be/8n0t7Kd67x0
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Jun 5, 2015 15:27
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Some of the boxes that those games come in are hilariously large, too. I saw a decent number of new PS2 games that had A3 sized boxes to store all of the extra goodies. ErIog and I went to a store that had an entire floor for doujinshi and we were both optimistic that it wasn't going to be all porn. It was all porn. E: also going to the arcades was weird because there were a bunch of gambling/chance games that had like boobie mermaids and stuff, and there'd be a middle aged woman feeding coins into it. Phone fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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Jun 5, 2015 20:52
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:To be fair, I don't care what other people wear and I have my own share of dorky poo poo but I also think most of the stuff that Thinkgeek sells is garbage. It's pop culture detritus. I remember being amazed by it back in like 2002 or 2003; however, I was in high school and had no money. Pop culture detritus is quire accurate. I think all of my non-collared shirts that are prints of some sort are like fairly obscure game stuff or a bunch of old shirts from the Venture Bros t-shirt club. Or shirts I got for "free" by doing a track weekend with a car club.
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Jun 8, 2015 03:27
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I played LA Noire when it first came out with my girlfriend at the time and it left a good, but broken impression on me. The biggest thing was the Doubt option because the other two options were "obvious lie" and "obvious truth". If you think that someone might be bullshitting you, you press Doubt and would expect Ken Cosgrove to be like, "are you sure that you parked your car over there?" and gently prod whomever you are interrogating... However, more times than not, Ken hops up and gets in the dude's face yelling "DON'T YOU FUCKIN LIE TO ME YOU FUCKIN COUCH MOLESTER!", so the options become "Let it slide", "Get in someone's poo poo", and "unpredictably fly off the handle and get in some dude's face". It seems more like a tech demo more than anything. Something akin to Bully to test out new mechanics. Also seeing John Flattery try to bullshit his way out of being caught with a literal child was pretty gross and hilarious.
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Jun 26, 2015 20:14
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That sounds completely wretched. I think it was mentioned on the Designer Notes with Daniel Benmergui talking about how adventure games were designed with the end state first, and then filling in the requirements afterwards and how it's really arcane.
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Jul 8, 2015 14:58
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I just got to the part of the episode where Gary said that the final interrogation should be a dude wearing sunglasses; so good.
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Jul 10, 2015 14:02
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Trolling aside, 8-4 usually has a good post mortem. If they have Scott Popular on next week to talk about EVO 2015 for 30 minutes, I'll be  for days.
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Jul 20, 2015 19:19
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There was a study done recently that showed that the lower skill a male player is, the more likely he's going to hurl insults at a female player. It's basically a Dunning-Kruger for video games; scrublords all over the place.
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Jul 22, 2015 20:02
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Seconding what Zombies Downfall is saying about TAL being mostly above board on stuff. The only thing that is possibly worse than the fake Apple factory conditions episode with Mike Daisy is whenever they defer to Planet Money's playpen of loving clowns. This definitely is off topic, but if you want to hear what the world's sloppiest blow job sounds like, go check out Planet Money casually handing out hand breezys and more to the financial sector. Phone fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Jul 23, 2015 |
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Jul 23, 2015 13:30
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Samopsa posted:This is also a good video essay series on that topic, specifically why the bulk of gamergators are angry and abusive, while not attacking them for being clearly wrong (and it's basically a podcast with some supporting images). Thanks for linking that video essay. I'm 2/3rds the way through it and it seems to be a good post-mortem. Also 100% digging that the top rated comment on the first ep is "WELL IT LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE A BIAS" which is par for the course.
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Jul 23, 2015 23:30
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Zombies' Downfall posted:I hadn't played it since it came out and replayed it about 2 years ago. It's fun, but shorter and shallower than I remembered, and I still can't do 100 consecutive jumps. The timing isn't frame perfect or anything, but the window does drift.
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Jul 24, 2015 15:23
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C-Euro posted:gently caress yeah more KC Green in my life, thank you for this. He did one in the art style of Kelly, and it's is spot on.
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Jul 28, 2015 00:20
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Gary: finish Her Story. You don't need to 100% the clips, but you should see the end state.
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Aug 4, 2015 05:52
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I think for Thumb's its next week or never. I've cooled off on the game a bunch even though I still like it. I think that going forward, if podcast hosts want to talk about a game that will necessitate spoilers but don't want to do it until everyone is there, they should just talk about it anyways. I'd much rather have 2 disjointed conversations over 2 weeks versus zero conversation for 4 weeks.
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Aug 4, 2015 22:54
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ja2ke posted:It was recorded last night! The tweeting @ you worked!
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Aug 5, 2015 16:23
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Please refer to it as japanimation or else I'm going to be triggered.
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Aug 12, 2015 18:55
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Aug 13, 2015 02:18
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nQB9VDuVu0
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Aug 13, 2015 21:58
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Yesssss, something amazing to listen to while battling incoming freshmen at the gym who got lost on their way to the dinner hall. Thanks for all of the hard work you guys at Retronauts do!
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Aug 17, 2015 18:17
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Just powered through the 999 WOFF and extrasode yesterday; now I'm really, really curious and want to play through 999 and VLR. I still think you guys would get a kick out of the Famicom Detective Club SFC port/fan translation.
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Aug 19, 2015 15:07
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Idk what the source is or anything, but a bunch of people have alternate accounts just for smurfing in both Dota and CS. Doing some math... Real account: 40 games Smurf account: 2 games Average: 21 games
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Aug 20, 2015 14:06
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Thanks Bob for making my commute this morning really pleasant! I wish I could go back to that commute after what's happened today. But honestly and sincerely, the music micro episodes are awesome.
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Aug 26, 2015 18:06
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I'm surprised that Sean didn't reveal the best multi kill streak soundbite of "oh this guy must be from Boston because he's WICKED SICK" with Danielle in the room.
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This is extremely YMMV and I WENT TO JAPAN, but here's my I WENT TO JAPAN anecdote. In Osaka there's an electronics district that's basically Akihabara of Kansai called Den-Den Town (lit: electric town). We went into a game/comic/nerd specific store that had multiple floors and was broken up into various genres. Ground floor was video games, had a Sony booth, buy new games and used games for various consoles. Second floor was music and music videos, a lot of second-hand laser discs of various weird stuff (I think one of the things I looked at was a Journey live on tour laser disc collection). That's the setting in a nutshell. One of the floors was labeled "doujinshi", which is a catch-all for self-published works. If you've been on the internet and know anything about Japan, there's a strong association of doujinshi = porn/hentai related media, whether it's manga, anime, or games. The way that this wraps back to video games is that there actually has been a resilient independent games scene for decades now with things like Cave Story being a breakout hit, but also games like Hatoful Boyfriend and the Touhou series. When I saw the floor map and that the 4th floor or whatever was doujinshi, my reaction was "yeah, it's going to be mostly porn" while my friend/host was a bit more optimistic that it was going to weigh in more on the side of indie stuff with some porn thrown in. It was basically all porn. It was broken into sections of manga by series(alphabetically sorted by the original series, i.e. - Dragonball fan drawn manga would be under the D bookcase) the back wall were DVDs/videos, and then the last third of the store were fan published video games. It should have been called 34th Floor because if you could think of something, it existed; no exceptions. Oh, that anime targeted at young elementary school aged girls where the main characters are all under 12 years old? Now with boobs. Outside of my I WENT TO JAPAN STORY, it gets touched on 8-4 Play from time to time about how corporations/the media interact with the populace. Corporations just straight up say "this is our latest campaign of having One Piece/Mario/whatever merch tie-in at whichever convenience store chain", they explicitly call them "campaigns" versus western advertising companies being slightly more transparent with their limited-time-offer/McRib deals. It's more implicit and direct that the consumers have a duty to go out to buy, consume, and obey; however, in niche fields it gets really wonky because it's supply-side fart huffing where companies know that they can't sell 200k copies of a niche product, so they charge $150 for something because the target audience will readily pay that price. Where this gets into a weird supply-side fart huffing loop is that Japanese companies on a whole are incredibly conservative and risk adverse. A company will make a niche product, they know that can't make it in volume, so they distill what the niche wants and just pander to that. For example: visual novels aren't inherently popular across the general population; however, this small group of people will definitely buy them if they have porn related elements in them... therefore, if you want to make a visual novel in Japan, it has to have some boobs in it. If you want to buck the trend and make something with more mass appeal, it's an unknown quantity and we can't bet the farm on that, so toss some boobs in and charge $150 bucks because past performance dictates future projections. Sorry for the somewhat ramble-y post that's anime as all hell. Phone fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Aug 30, 2015 |
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