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Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

I'm going to call Sony's new console Retard 4.

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Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

I applied for an Amazon store card today and they approved me so I think I'm gonna put together a gaming PC lol

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Thanks everyone. Let's play some Blops 3 sometime.

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Black Baby Goku posted:

You know what else is involved in that right?

;)

God help me I just ordered everything, Core i5 6600k with a GTX 970 and 16GB RAM

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

In Training posted:

It's time for a new paradigm shift: Digital. Loot. Crates.



Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002


:dukedog:

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

In Training posted:

This would be cool if there was a killstreak that time warped the map to different eras

Shut up and take my COD Points

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

TheLovablePlutonis posted:

Isnt that a FPS already I think I played it before

Darkest of Days

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Lumpy the Cook posted:

Console human being: :downsbravo: hruuuurrerrrrrrr I likea da Bloohborn! I like da Nintondo HUUURRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cool-headed PC Master Race Representative: I'm sorry about you condition. All I can do is recommend immediate Rig construction, followed by Steam account creation.

Pissy pussy console bitch: :downsbravo::downabravo::downsbravo::downsbravo:

Cool-headed PC Master Race Representative: While I'm at it, allow me to recommend some games which really take advantage of the PC platform. Goat Simulator. Terror Lab. Deadly Premonition HD. Undertale. There's Poop In My Soup. Payday 2 plus DLC.

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

In Training posted:

steam is selling movies now.

PC Gaming FTW

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Knuc U Kinte posted:

Steam is a piece of horse crap.

Cowabunga? Cowa loving piece of dog poo poo! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick! This game is as appealing as a loving ooze-infested dirty loving sewer rat poo poo! I've had more fun playing with dog turds! Shredder's my rear end and Splinter's my balls! This game is an inside-out rear end in a top hat regurgitating putrid anal fecal matter! I'd rather loving yank all the hairs out of my scrotum! I'd rather drink diarrhea vomited out of a buffalo's anus! It sucking fucks, it loving sucks, it loving blows, it's a piece of poo poo... and I don't like it.

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Apr 16, 2002

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Apr 16, 2002

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Apr 16, 2002

Lumpy the Cook posted:

What's In A Name: Gearbox Software [update]

If you looked at the Joystiq calendar, you would have seen a bright red circle drawn around today with something like 17 little smiley faces around it. Sure, that was in part because it's taco salad day in the cafeteria, but also because we couldn't wait to share this new What's in a Name with you. 

So, straight from boss Randy Pitchford, check out the totally epic story of how [Randy says] Gearbox Software got its name.

"This is interesting because I've never been asked about how we got the name 'Gearbox' before, but there is a bit of a story to it. Given everything that's happened over the past 10 years or so, the story seems a little hard to believe now that I'm telling it!

"The story begins when, and don't ask me what led to this, Gabe Newell and I were in New Orleans together and we decided to get on one of those river boats to cross the river. As chance would go, it turns out we accidentally got on a cruise boat instead of a crossing ferry. But, we made the best of it. The food was pretty good and there were gambling tables there with dealers and other players and so we got into a little poker game. It was like Maverick or something – playing poker on a river boat near New Orleans. But we were playing poker, which, as you know, is a form of gambling. Can you see where this is going?

"People that know me well know that I love playing poker. It's a great game about making decisions with incomplete information, but where the decisions affect the outcome. So it's a lot of fun and it's really helpful in learning how to separate the challenge of making best decisions from the reality of results since even the worst decisions can be rewarded and the best decisions can be punished when non-deterministic and/or unpredictable factors are involved. So I like to play poker whenever I have a good opportunity. But from the experience I had with him, I don't think Gabe had played a lot of poker before that night.

"Anyway – while we were playing we were discussing what we should name our respective video game development companies that we were starting up. After some crazy and dumb ideas made their rounds, we started realizing that something cool for a video game studio would have something to do with engines and machinery. We started going through the parts we could think of to come up with the BEST name along those lines and a few good ones were passed on before we agreed that the best and almost perfect name for a video game development studio along those lines was "Gearbox" – it's sticky and simple and gears are cool things that have both an art and a precision to them and it's generally a nice, short but really cool word.

"The more we thought about it, the more sure we were. But since we both sort of came up with it together through the talking and thinking we were doing together, it wasn't clear which of us could claim it to use. So we decided that the poker game would help us work out which of us would be able to claim the rights to the name – whomever knocked the other player out of the poker game or ended up with the biggest stack would win the Gearbox name for their studio.

"I quickly called my partners back home that I was doing the start up with and told them about the Gearbox name and the gambling I was involved in that was going to decide who got the name and, after they put me on hold for a few minutes, they came back and said that I had better win that name or I shouldn't even bother coming home. So the stakes were then really raised for me, so to speak – I had to win the poker game or it was all going to be over for our studio.

"The game lasted for a while with the usual ups and downs. Even though I was a far better player, before our wager started Gabe had come to the table with a HUGE stack and I bought in for almost nothing. I was able to build a nice sized stack, though, and kept taking chips from other players at the table until my stack was actually a bit bigger than his for most of the night. I just needed to stay up and wait for my opportunity.

"After about four or five hours of play, that opportunity came and the showdown finally happened. The funny thing is that the hand that decided it wasn't that significant of a hand as far as Hold 'em Poker goes. It wasn't one of those Royal-Flush-Over-Quad-Aces kinds of hands that you see in the movies. I still remember the hand, though I'm sure Gabe wouldn't remember. The hand was top pair over middle pair. I was playing AK suited and he was playing K9 off suit (a hand known as "Saw Mill"). Obviously I tried to build a bit a of a pot pre-flop and got a lot of callers before it was Gabe's turn to act and astonishingly he came over the top with a massive over-bet. His action isolated us down to just the two of us in the hand, which gave me a HUGE advantage in this situation (I mentioned that Gabe hadn't played a lot of poker, right?). Anyway, the board came K-8-2 mixed suits and we were both pot committed so, of course, the money went in.

"The next two cards were blanks, which is what the expected results were when I got the money in. I had him covered, so that knocked him out of the game! I did it! By knocking him out, I won a lot of chips, but more importantly I won the wager and with it I won the name 'Gearbox.' We got to keep the whole, big awesome Gearbox and Gabe had to settle for just being the Valve.

"No hard feelings, though. We still worked together later when Gearbox did Half-Life Opposing Force and Half-Life Blue Shift and and Half-Lifefor Dreamcast and Half-Life for PlayStation 2 (a lot of Half-Life stuff between Valve's first and second Half-Life game). I guess Valve didn't want to spend any of their own time on add-ons or bringing games to the PlayStation. But I think that stuff was fun to do and made our customers really happy and made some money to help us build our studio and made them some money to help them fund the continued development of Half-Life 2, so that was a win for everyone. But getting the Gearbox name – well, that was only a win for us. Gearbox Software is ours. Watch this: Gearbox Software®. See that little ® symbol? That means Gearbox Software® is registered with the US trademark office as belonging to us ;)

"And, if you can believe it, that's the story of how Gearbox Software® got its name!"

– Randy Pitchford, CEO and co-founder, Gearbox Software®

See, what'd we tell you? Epic, right? We'll be back next week with another entry in the series, but we're not sure we'll be able to top Gearbox anytime soon. Here's hoping.

Lumpy the Cook posted:

Update: Valve has informed us that Randy and Gabe didn't meet until after Valve had shipped Half-Life, making Randy's story seem ... well, unlikely. We're trying to find out what happened right now.

Update 2:Well, we just heard from PR and they confirmed that the story is a fabrication. Pitchford is apparently going to get in contact to explain what happened. We can't wait to find out his excuse for taking advantage of our Pollyanna-esque faith in the inherent goodness of people, and, by extension, telling tall tales to you, the people who are buying his games.

Lol

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

trying to jack off posted:

what are the 2 pc games?

I found a PDF of the issue and the games are Fade to Black (which was originally called Crossfire apparently), the really bad 3D sequel to Flashback, and Heart of Darkness which didn't come out until 3 years after the issue. Also there's an article called "Peter Molyneux: The Smartest Man in Gaming?" and an 8-page 3DO ad

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Apr 16, 2002

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Apr 16, 2002

Retarded_Clown_ posted:

So ive been a consoletard my whole life and finally got my mind freed thanks to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/wiki/guide#wiki_console_gamers_are_not_the_common_enemy._modern_consoles_are

Once you realize how stuoid consoles are and how they offer nothing of note (besides "muh exclusives") youre ready to ptake the plunge into the Master Race.

Thank you for this incredibly informative article.

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

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Apr 16, 2002

Great Joe posted:

Yeah, we're an entire nation of people who use video game money.

I'll be visiting your fake country at the end of July, what should I do

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002


Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

The Black Ops 2 campaign is good right?

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002


Lmfao

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

at the date posted:

I still remember that incredible secret bundle sale Steam had a little while ago where you could save 75% off The Witcher 3, Fallout 4, Arkham Knight, and Metal Gear Solid 5. All you had to do was not buy the shitass garbage games Fallout 4, Arkham Knight, and Metal Gear Solid 5. Saved so much money last year.



Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Bobnumerotres posted:

is it daily? cause it may go down even more. either way its the first really good sonic game since the genesis days dude

There are no daily/flash deals anymore, everything is on sale for the same respective discount the whole time

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

In Training posted:

Does tabletop simulator have Settlers

It looks like there are a ton of user-made Catan mods in Workshop for it

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

In Training posted:

I finally bought the new doom because t fell below 20 bucks and the demo was kinda fun even if it's not really as cool as original doom. Anyway the download is loving 80 GIGS!! What in the world is that, I had to wipe like 80% of my library so I could install this

It's a great game but the download size is insane

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

no they will not posted:

me (walking through a pristine argent tower): What's even the point

Lol

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

doughvakiin posted:

This just reaffirms my MO of never loving with nVidia fanboys. One minute your talking clock speeds and the next? Well..

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002


Yeah, he kept trying to send me a gift copy of Killing Floor

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

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Apr 16, 2002

mysterious loyall X posted:

hard to believe the greatest game of all time bioshock infinite is already 4 years oldd

I call it Ken "Win" Levine's Bioshock Winfinite, a Winrational Games title

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

goferchan posted:

forgot about this, lmfao

Lmao

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Lumpy the Cook posted:



I cried laughing the first time I saw this one

Lmfao

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002


Lmao

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

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