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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:I believe Jenny was also the unlucky soul who got to find out that the cashiers at some Disney or Star Wars-con (I think) got to see every VIP attendant's email address when they checked out. She found out when the cashier who unsuccessfully hit on her sent her an email later that night. It was the Star Wars Celebration this year. She's also dealt with stalkers and someone meticulously updating her Wikipedia page with creepily personal details about her life. (I saw her tweet thread covering all three go around a few weeks ago.)
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AnEdgelord posted:I can see that in Dark Souls but Bloodborne comes down hard on gods and the very concept of "enlightenment". They inciting event for the whole game is an insular religious clique pursing enlightenment regardless of what it costs them or anyone else, right up to engaging in frequent mass killings of their own population. The gods you encounter are either so detached from the normal flow of reality that they can't even notice humans or are actively malevolent. The player character can pursue enlightenment for themselves and join the ranks of the gods but doing so strips you of so much of your humanity that its effectively an elaborate form of suicide. The Healing Church isn't concerned with enlightenment in the same way the College of Byrgenwerth is. Master Willem was studying the Great Ones at Byrgenwerth to achieve enlightenment, but was unable to fully realize this goal before madness consumed him. His student, Laurence, extracted a sample of beast blood in the Pthumerian ruins beneath Yharnam, and broke off to build the Healing Church around the miracles that could be created with the beast blood, and believed it could be used to ascend humanity. It turned out to do the opposite (shocker, I know.) The Choir within the Healing Church remained closer to Byrgenwerth's original approach of experimenting and studying the Great Ones, but they became focused more around the worship and tutelage of Ebrietas. It did lead them closest to ascending, and many of their members were transformed into Kin because of it, but none of them were able to transcend into true Great Ones. The Great Ones in Bloodborne also aren't universally detached from humanity, either. All the Great Ones you interact with have a direct interest in humanity, even if their logic is alien or unclear, and the ending that leads you to becoming an infant great one implies your character retains an interest in ascending humanity, too. The Great Ones you encounter are also non-hostile until they're incited to strike back, or humans otherwise inflict some grave insult to them and draw their wrath. AnEdgelord posted:Edit: Demon's Souls also had a church who were opposed to the power of sorcery and drew upon divine miracles from God to protect themselves from the works of the Old One but then you find a talisman that can cast both with this description: The sorcery-users were just as full of pretensions that they'd found a "clean" way to use the soul arts in DeS. Sage Freke looks down on Yuria the Witch for her "dark" magic the same way the clerics looked down on all sorceries as impure, but secretly he's also obsessed with retaining the small bit of power he's managed to grasp and is more than happy to let the world be consumed if it means he gets to keep it. The point was they were all dirty hypocrites who were trying to find shortcuts to ascension and ended up causing unspeakable destruction in the end. Yuria is the only one of the soul arts-users to realize that and sincerely regret her practice of it. Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Aug 27, 2019 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:Right now I'm mostly dying in the Chalice Dungeons while inching my way closer to Queen Yharnham. I was playing through the endgame and DLC with a friend so I'm waiting until we can continue together. Because this game is surprisingly fun in Co-op. Haha, guessing you're experiencing the joy of the cursed chalice dungeon before you get to Yharnam? The unique bosses in the chalice dungeons are all really cool fights, but man does it get draining to run through samey rooms just to reach them. That cursed chalice right before the final fixed chalice is just a miserable slog after a while and it gets easier to just gun for the switch rather than exploring it once you're sure you have enough materials to lay the final chalice. The best thing that the chalice dungeons offer is the hacked chalices people have made in recent years that let you access all the non-DLC weapons ASAP and let you try out a huge variety of weapons for more of the game without having to wait for NG+. Getting to the King in DS2 is near the end and should mean you have access to the DLCs, which are the best part of DS2, if you ever feel like revisiting them. DS2 is by far the longest of the modern From games, so it's a pretty impressive achievement to get that far in it. Especially since the middle section has a pretty noticeable slump in quality over the other games, thanks to its long and messy development leading to a desperate rush to finish it at the end.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i bought sekero and i have realized its not for me. the game is fair and teaches you pretty well. but i am just not good at it or any from games. those a very much "zone" games, where playing them takes everything becoming second nature and also being tactical and adaptable. i wanted to give it a shot because i heard people who suck at souls games tend to better with this because it plays differently. The level of vertical movement you get from the grapple hand is entirely new, but the play style is very much an evolution of the aggressiveness and parry mechanics Bloodborne introduced. If you ever tried out Bloodborne and liked the playstyle of parry timing and constantly attacking, Sekiro is built around both. It's more forgiving to start with though, since a mistimed parry is still a block that will cancel damage unless you activate a certain mode in NG+. The biggest challenge is definitely that the game rewards you with avoiding direct fights against common enemies up until you hit bosses or minibosses that can't be one-shot with a backstab, but it also wants you to practice the counter mechanics so you're ready to fight the harder enemies.
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Yardbomb posted:I'll go for it, I'll call that SWERY will never be be a horrible abuser sex monster, the guy seemingly posts his everyday thoughts and feelings everywhere he has access to do so and comes off like he'll barely hurt a fly, the guy talks and walks like he actually cares for the goodwill and safety of people, men, women, minorities and all. He's like the genuine good boy I always think of for vidya gaems. He can always atone for his crimes by eating a sinner's sandwich
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Aug 29, 2019 03:59
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Grouchio posted:Mauler's lovely podcast did create this gem: You'd get the same effect as listening to Mauler if you put any given CinemaSins video on 0.25x speed and loop it 8 times and it'd still consume less of your precious life here on Earth
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The redpanels comic characters were more klurf-y looking, and all the poo poo that came out about shmorky factored into him rebooting under stone toss, along with realizing there was a bigger market in being subtle about your deeply held nazi beliefs but still keeping them just obvious enough for the
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Sometimes it's fun to run into a room and shout "SPORK!" at the top of your lungs
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Unlucky7 posted:Also, the Quartering makes me think he was one of those butts in that MTG convention photo set from a few years back The Quartering is an rear end too large to discretely photograph while looking pensive
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There was some drama involving the modding on that subreddit a couple of months back and I saw her sarcastically ask on Twitter "what is going on with 'my' subreddit" before dismissing the issue, and I don't see why she'd put on a show of not paying attention to the subreddit if she was controlling it behind the scenes. It does generally seem like a "YASS DARK QUEEN" echo chamber above all else anyway, so preemptively circling the wagons is pretty unsurprising.
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Oct 16, 2019 23:33
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Hoping that Nyx's stream is good. Yeah, the first tweet was right before people really noticed Buck Angel in the video and the pushback got rolling hard. It would've been smartest just to delete the tweet and issue an apology for yet another "lol cancel culture" joke that's really not that clever and was poorly timed on top of it all, but instead he decided to keep rolling with it and now he looks like an rear end in a top hat to a lot of his fans.
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Kim Justice posted:Yes we all do the rational and best thing at all times I think everyone gets that this is motivated by wanting to support a friend that inspires and motivates him, and the level of response makes it pretty much impossible to distinguish between sympathetic-but-hurt fans, trolls who want to feed on the drama, and people who were going to be mad and stay mad no matter what because of various reasons. It's a deeply uncomfortable position, and also 100% why public figures who can afford it have handlers, secretaries, and PR people as a buffer when they're in a personal state that should be nowhere near the public. And yes, instead we're in a reality now where an audience is closer than ever to their favorite content-producers on social media and the system feeds on "engagement" however positive or negative that is. There's not an easy answer as to what to do, but what was already done is a pretty clear "Yeah... don't do that" and how he approaches it going forward is definitely going to have a long-term impact on how a lot of people on social media react to him. Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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Waffles Inc. posted:According to baseball reference there were 2.4 million attendees to Citi Field to watch the New York Mets this season. Going back six months, PhilosophyTube’s videos generated 3.5 million views Just to be clear here, there is absolutely a world of difference between a pro baseball player making bad tweets and getting blowback for it, and a youtube video-maker doing so and this is a really dumb comparison to dig into. Like just as a baseline here I'm trying to google whatever the gently caress you're talking about and if it's there it's buried under hundreds of articles about Noah Syndergaard pitching inconsistencies, potential trades to different teams, how well he did at various games, and miscellaneous sports opinion articles about the Mets as a whole. The sheer volume of noise drowns a lot of negativity, and even when it comes to negative reactions, the standard "boo enemy sports team" negativity clearly overwhelms a few dumb tweets. I'm also going to assume twitter is not his primary method of engaging with fans, especially with baseball fans in general trending far older than "normal twitter user" age. And he definitely falls into the category of people paid well enough that he doesn't have to worry about managing his own PR, or financial solvency if too many of his internet followers turn against him. Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Yes, baseball definitely has a lot of rules. It is also long. And boring. Which is why there are so many goofy activities between innings, and they're constantly selling food, the real American pastime. Baseball is meant to be listened to on the radio while you do yard work or clean the bathroom or are stuck in traffic and need a distraction. Millennials are probably killing it because they've replaced it with "podcasts" instead.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i have read the last few pages and still dont understand what the gently caress is happening. like i know contra was lovely towards None binary folks and apologized but maybe/kida/idk didn't and now people are "demanding accountability" toward her friends or something. and what the gently caress is breadtube? I suggest returning to the ice cave you were sealed into at the start of the neolithic age, this world is far too cruel for you
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Max Wilco posted:Oh yeah, I heard about that. What happened to get FactsAreUseless demodded? Was it a thing like with Lornekates where he posted a two-thousand word list detailing his reason for probating someone? (which is what I assume Junpei is alluding to?) Enough people noticed that the former E/N mod, Bobbie Wickham, actually kind of sucked and liked projecting her personal issues onto E/N posters and generally be weirdly controlling about people she'd claimed as her projects, and FAU felt like he'd poorly handled the whole matter since the last time this came up when Bobbie made the entire FabGoon thread hate her enough to decamp to a different subforum. The QQCS thread about it is here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3897141. There's some more details in it about different ways Bobbie was not a great mod, if you want any more. Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Oct 20, 2019 |
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Yardbomb posted:Wow cool who coulda guessed Oh that was the same mod people were decrying as complete poo poo a few months ago, too. He mods something like 300 subreddits and is a hyper-controlling dickhead. Libluini posted:"Bread"tube is, I think, referring to YouTube-videos about food. Breadtube is a label that gets applied to a few left-leaning youtube channels that talk about social justice issues in specific or veiled ways. It's a reference to a socialist book called The Conquest of Bread/general ties between socialism and bread, and also a bit of a dig at how most of the channels that get labeled as "Breadtube" have white people as the public face. It's pretty arbitrarily applied and seems to follow leftist youtube content white people like watching, who also happen to be linked through online or irl friendships, over any consistent political stance. A lot of the people who've been ID'd as Breadtube are uncomfortable with the label, too.
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Eschenique posted:Philosophy Tube put out a statement about the Contra thing and it was a big nothing. People already talked about that, and the Lindsay Ellis one. Right now we're talking about what a crime it is that Dungeon Meshi doesn't have an anime adaption yet.
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AstroWhale posted:This thread is as bad as the gassed D&D "Bread"tube thread. You know, I didn't expect to say this, but when a thread ends with someone denying the genocide of the Uyghurs in China, that thread is somehow worse than this thread
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Part 2 also had all of the greatest uses of the Roundabout stinger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riGa38NtygE
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There's a neat youtube channel called Flatbush Cats, which is a nonprofit cat rescue in Brooklyn. They also have a presence on instagaram, but they've been using their youtube channel for short but pretty engaging videos on how to get involved in stray/feral cat rescues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFILwrJRRlk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcD8DrJKejQ They've also turned some individual stories of cats they've rescued and adopted out into mini-documentaries. I'm not going to link a bunch here in case anyone wants to avoid some distressing initial footage of sick/injured cats but this one is a good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6fXAI9C02Y They're pretty cool to watch because they stay calm and informative about ways to help control and manage stray animals, and avoid lapsing into the melodramatic "In the arms of the angellll" poo poo a lot of rescue videos/TV shows/and commercials wallow in.
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Farm Frenzy posted:o yea absolutely. its what this forum was founded on too. the difference is that all these different epic ranting gamer channels got pulled by the algorithm into making drama content until it was like a more pathetic WWE and their original gamer fans started mass-downvoting everything A lot of them also realized it's just more profitable to turn to general alt-right outrage and ride every wave that washes in from reddit/twitter/chan boards. The Quartering was a demonstration of the need for this and a success story for this tactic. He was a dedicated Magic: the Gathering reviewer, but after Wizards of the Coast couldn't ignore his constant vitriolic harassment of other MTG fans any longer they cut off his access to promotional material, banned him for life from officially sanctioned events, and banned his MTG Arena account, effectively cutting off his access to the product he'd built his commercial identity around on anything beyond a causal game level. So he had to leverage that into becoming a general reactionary talking head to stay relevant.
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Also, going back to:Max Wilco posted:Maybe Bethesda should just stop making Fallout games, because that seems to be where they falter the most (unless it's Obsidian who's making the Fallout game, then Bethesda just get really jealous(allegedly)). The real issue with the Fallout games is that they completely miss or don't care to revisit every point Fallout 1/2/NV had about capitalism, corporations, hoarding of natural and manufactured resources, powerful people, and what kind of society rebuilds out of complete annihilation. They picked up Fallout to loot the setting for its rusty retro-future aesthetic and oorah power armor moments alongside your buddies, the Brotherhood of Steel. They've done similar smoothing over of TES over the years (like the famous "a daedra did it" retcon of Cyrodiil as a setting into a generic western medieval field) but they've had less TES games to run over with a steamroller since Live Service became the big business model.
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John Murdoch posted:I don't think the themes are necessarily totally lost on Bethesda - for all its faults Fallout 4 makes it pretty dang clear that VaultTec are unambiguously evil, for example. But it's obvious that there are marketing execs with their fingers in the pie, so with no sense of irony they slap Vault Boy on everything. Though I have trouble entirely blaming them for the emphasis on power armor considering the original two games used it as their cover art. I don't have an issue with using power armor for branding but the big shifts in the portrayal of the Brotherhood between 1/2/NV and the way the Bethesda-penned games depict them is a pretty major shift between inbred, xenophobic, tech cultists vs a major military force who seize tech but also offer humanitarian aid, and take in orphans, and have a big, cool mecha and will help fight the baddies. It's all a pretty good micro demonstration of Bethesda's shift in tone with Fallout.
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John Murdoch posted:On the other hand, the Brotherhood absolutely hates snyths and wants to destroy them all, which definitely keeps them away from being unambiguous good guys in 4. I do think 4 did a better job of pulling Fallout up out of the dive 3 pushed it into. Maybe they decided to peek at some of Obsidian's notes finally... 
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Acute Grill posted:Wait what. This was literally the same thing they said about Skyrim wrt Oblivion. Haha is it? They definitely busted the Ship of Thesus stuff out for TES 6, and Starfield: http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/11/bethesda_will_keep_the_same_fundamental_game_engine_for_the_elder_scrolls_vi_starfield
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Clerical Terrors posted:this thread is an isekai. which posters are the psycho protags and which ones are the catgirl slaves?
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Gamebryo's probably just a sunk cost fallacy at this point to them, because it's a quick way to get staff experienced with it to turn out each project. Whether it's buggy or not means squat so long as enough people buy it to turn a profit. I think the extensive modding community for their games also plays a big role in them not caring to switch engines. People here already discussed how all the content creation tools for modding would need to be rebuilt and that's  and drama Bethesda wouldn't want to bother with, but they've also taken an attitude of "who cares, modders will fix it" to a lot of issues in their games. And well, I'm sure an extensive library of sometimes amazing, free fan content is a huge part of why Skyrim's daily PC players are still so substantial that Bethesda eyes them hungrily and wants to find ways to monetize the future games more.
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Neo_Crimson posted:Is there any reason why they can't make va Bethesda style open-world game in, say, Unreal 4? Like Eschenique said, The Outer Worlds is that exactly, and from what I've played/seen it runs very well. I've been playing on the PS4 and sometimes there's a little hangup before the textures load in, and one time I had to reload a save and a nearby monster was floating in the air for a second when it loaded up, but there's no framerate issues or quest-destroying bugs so far. Jim Sterling even made an entire video after his review of the game declaring Bethesda outmoded and permanently topped in their own niche, and says he dreads having to revisit future Bethesda games if they can't deliver something similar or better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlBmOj4tUiY
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The zoophilia and child porn art of her OCs is disgusting and that prior tweet thread someone linked with her apology definitely doesn't address it and can't possibly address it in any satisfactory way, because seriously what the gently caress. It's also pretty uncomfortable how she downplays her fanart of Blaire White with "I didn't know she made bad jokes on twitter!" when that's pretty far down the list of objectionable, awful things Blaire has done and continues to do.
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SunAndSpring posted:Outer Worlds is honestly worse than Fallout 4 and I really don't get how Jim is so happy for a game that is inferior in all ways to prior Obsidian titles. Gaming is an opiate to the masses who haven't quite surrendered to depression-fueled cspam marxism yet?
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Eschenique posted:At first Hazbin Hotel reminded me of "Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt" with the whole "Dexters laboratory" animation vibe but also for an obviously adult audience. But I hadn't watched that show in several years and in retrospect Hazbin is just so much more cleanly animated. That's called "thick line animation." It was big in the 60s and 70s, then phased out in the 80s, then came back again in the 90s and early 2000s with western kids shows. Doctor Spaceman posted:In Extras he was mostly a straight man for all the craziness around him which worked fine and also meant he wasn't really the focus of the show. Also the Extras bit where he dressed as a Nazi and made fun of a woman with cerebral palsy formed the basis for one of the best burns back when he tried to interview Garry Shandling and was bodied so hard he gave up on the TV specials the interview was for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LljWm8umGIE
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sexpig by night posted:Contra had her patreon Q&A and someone transcribed her addressing the Buck Angel thing, The tl;dr here is that blog post someone linked here before was completely correct about the uselessness and toxicity of a structureless radical movement built around youtube stars: https://anarchasteminist.wordpress.com/2019/10/21/the-fault-in-our-star-system-the-trouble-with-breadtube/
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Hel posted:Only after they started an international incident because they minimized the mass murder of queer people in Chechnya. Up until then they were totally ok with supporting known harassers and flirting with fascists despite people reaching out to them. Yeah, innocent people who were just trying to distribute nuWhite Wolf game books in Eastern Europe got pulled into Chechen police custody for "interrogations" after that section of the Camarilla book leaked out. Paradox didn't care up to that point at all about TRIGGERED jokes, sample die ranges using 1-4-8-8 as example results, or stuff like the coded pedophile pregen player character. Parakeet vs. Phone posted:As the best reply said, at least these guys aren't a threat, because they're too busy jacking off and posting memes in an 11-hour stream to leave the house. Patricia Taxxon said basically the same thing when she made a video about one of Mauler's friends, Rags, who I believe is the sunglasses dog avatar in that stream. They're incapable of creating a response video in any format that's digestible to anyone who isn't already an idiot that will mindlessly agree with whatever they say. They're dangerous to the depressed people with endless free time to listen to half-day-long streams of nonsense and they probably know that from how they casually spout "edgy" memes and other foot-in-the-door normalizing of alt right poo poo, but they're not winning over anyone they're responding to or their fans.
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