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Baka-nin posted:Before this thread gets started I think we should all take a moment of reflection and look at the last threads wall of shame. How the hell did I manage 614 posts? I didn't think I posted nearly as much as other people, and yet I made it to the 12th rank. 
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Leal posted:I hope Guru Larry's farewell to Channel Awesome is releasing a Top 5 Doug Walker Moments video. https://twitter.com/LarryBundyJr/st...312735806087169 https://twitter.com/LarryBundyJr/st...323133204627456
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lornekates posted:We couldn't even make it THREE pages? Really? REALLY? Sorry, I'll remove it. I was actually in the process of deleting it when the probation hit. In lieu of posting something else controversial, instead I'll just say that LGR put up a video on Museum Madness.
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Jimbot posted:Listen, the PS1 is when all the dudebro jocks started liking video games and they became bad! Before they were creative and fun but with the PS1 is when they became trash and pandered to idiots (more like sub-humans who should be prevented from breeding if you ask me) that tried to imitate the greatness of the older stuff. Here, in my new 8 part series of four hour videos I will explain to you all of this. This, but replace 'PS1' with 'XBOX'. (Unless Bob actually did say something in the video about PS1, in which case  )Maybe he's bitter at the fact that he knows the Dynasty Warriors movie is going to blow Rampage out of the water.
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Terrible Opinions posted:There's going to be a Dynasty Warriors movie? Why would you bother after Three Kingdoms the miniseries was so perfect? Do they just want the marginally sillier costumes? I think it's that, and seeing Guan Yu smash through hundreds of grunts like in the games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z5PbO2_rAY Looks awesome. Don't imagine we'll get it stateside, but still...  Terrible Opinions posted:And he once again uses Halo as his shorthand for terrible videogame. What a loving baby. This is something I really can't stand about Bob. It reminds me of myself when I was younger, where I was adamant about not playing shooters and action games because I blamed them for the death of the adventure game genre. Eventually, though, I realize that was dumb (as well as incorrect), and that I was missing out on a lot of games because of that. Back when Halo was at height of its popularity, I was on the bandwagon of people who thought Halo was overrated and was responsible for the death of classic FPS style (Quake, Duke3D, etc.). However, in the last couple of years, I've looked at the Halo games, and I have thought about playing them (not that Microsoft has made it real easy), because they do seem pretty solid.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8RVU2RtxY0 Did I go overboard with this? I don't want to get probated again. Neddy Seagoon posted:The Halo games (up until 4 when they change studios) are all quite good and well worth a play if you have the opportunity to do so. You still sort of had that with games like Quake, I know PS2 or Dreamcast got in with online thing with Phantasy Star Online or some other game, but I get what you're saying. Halo and its online was a lot more accessible. I think what annoys me is there's this lamentation about how it lead to a deluge of slow-paced, military-themed (Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Battlefield, etc.) that lack creativity and just try to cash in on the same success. From my perspective,though, it's not much different from the '90s, where the success of Mario and Sonic lead to abundance of mascot platformers trying to copy that (Aero the Acrobat, Bubsy, Awesome Possum, that duck with the electrical cord for a tail, James Pond). Hell, nowadays, you have the whole thing with the whole MOBA/FPS hybrids or those Battle Royale-esque shooters (Overwatch, Battleborn, Fortnight, PUBG) Neddy Seagoon posted:The Halo games (up until 4 when they change studios) are all quite good and well worth a play if you have the opportunity to do so. The games done by Bungie I've heard are all good, but the only one I have available to play is the first one on PC (via a mod of the PC port called SPV3). I don't have an XBONE, and from what I remember, the Master Chief Collection is still broken, meaning that I'd probably have to seek out a classic XBOX and the individual games. Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Apr 12, 2018 |
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Darth Walrus posted:MarzGurl has just confirmed that JewWario was the producer who was kicked off Channel Awesome for grooming an underage fan. After CA’s management covered it up for a year. Oh, hell.  Goddammit, I liked JW's vids. That how I found out about games like Yakuza.Is there no end to this nightmare? Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Apr 12, 2018 |
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The last few pages make me want to stop following the thread, because it's getting really depressing. At the same time, I feel like if I do, then I'd be out of the loop about this stuff. EDIT: https://twitter.com/NJ4K1/status/984648820624572416 Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Apr 13, 2018 |
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Playstation 4 posted:PO's arc felt like a wankfest for COs written by a CO, Finns arc felt like Disney just whimpering in a corner "Please don't actually expect us to let the black character do anything relevant!", Luke/Rey/WideloadKen arc was legit great though. I haven't seen Last Jedi yet, but didn't Finn get his back/spine grazed with a lightsaber and left in a coma at the end of Force Awakens?
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lornekates posted:So a certain admin, FactsAreUseless, has decided to demod me. This was out of nowhere, and without any consultation with me, or with any other admin. The only reason I got is that I was being "too professional", and enforcing rules. The only way I can read this is that someone didn't like their probe, and complained to their admin friend. Just my feeling. (FYI: it wasn't anyone in this thread. Y'all are cool and I love you).
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lornekates posted:1) I've always done that I was under the assumption that it was against the rules or at least poor etiquette on Something Awful to make multiple posts in a row without waiting for someone to respond first. If you realize there's something else you wanted to include in after you post, you just edit the post instead of making another one. business hammocks posted:If anyone tries to rescue Brad from his contract, it should preferably involve a ragtag group of hairy, badly dubbed Italian men, preferably using some kind of homemade armored killdozer with like some buzzsaws and a flamethrower. Also it’s really racist and out of focus 20% of the time. A video about Brad leaving CA, but it's just one of the anniversary movies with new footage shot to show there's now a subplot about Brad trying to escape with the aid of Pierre Kirby. Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Apr 13, 2018 |
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BobbyK posted:Are there any internet review people who are not boring rear end white people? There's Satchbag, who's part of NormalBoots (https://www.youtube.com/user/satchbags). I've not watched any of his stuff, though, outside of his video on Fez. There's MarsReview (https://www.youtube.com/user/InfenoBearGaming/featured), who does animation reviews. He was the guy who did the video on the weird 2nd season/reboot of George of the Jungle .
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Ema Nymton posted:I was going to go to bed a few hours ago and then checked this thread and I found out about Justin turning out to be a sleazeball. I think some people are angry because people knew but nobody took action. https://twitter.com/DavidGX/status/984906018348990465 https://twitter.com/_icze4r/status/984906760036200448 https://twitter.com/Will3316/status/984907721727193088 https://twitter.com/DatingSims/stat...908086413615105 https://twitter.com/DavidGX/status/984908247130832905 https://twitter.com/sojaro/status/984906644919373825 Part of it could miscommunication or misunderstanding (Dan pointed out he didn't officially know until recently but I think some are under the impression that he knew from the beginning), but I think some are also angry about the sentiment of 'We didn't want to tell anyone, because GG would have a field day with it'. Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 10:01 on Apr 15, 2018 |
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This is just terrible. Terrible. I feel awful that I looked up to Jewwario when I should not have.
This fucker on twitter is willfully ignoring the fact that GG people are well known to harass women. I know exactly what FoldableHuman means by "the risk factor that is the GamerGate crowd". He means that they loving harass and threaten people's lives (specifically women who accuse men of sexual misconduct). And now this shithead is acting like none of that poo poo ever happened?! 
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Wrageowrapper posted:I liked Charlie Brookers nonsense that he did for PCGamer back in the day like the underground pokemon battle articles. It seemed like games mags used to be more than just previews/reviews but I guess that was back when people actually bought them. I never played the game or read the review, but I remember one of PC Gamer's more controversial reviews was the high score they gave to Sierra's Outpost, which turned out to be a really bad game. However, the issue with that was that the version they review was different than what was released. Lightning Knight posted:Games journalism is poo poo, but anybody who's been paying attention to the wider world outside of video games the last few years (admittedly a big ask, I know) will realize that journalism in general is poo poo. So long as we're talking about capitalism and the right getting angry about things (not that I think that the right specifically are angry about this in particular), is it worth bringing up the whole Bully Hunters debacle?
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Lightning Knight posted:I've never heard of this but a Google search tells me it's been shut down, what's the deal? The gist of what I've gotten is that there was a show or event on Twitch where there was going to be a group of players for online games (the only one shown was Counter Strike) who would come in and...I guess take out players who were harassing people in game? There was a showcase where they did that in-game, but it was observed that the game-play was faked. It also turned out that the whole thing was sponsored by SteelSeries as way of selling headsets. This was one of the first things I saw about it, which was a little discomforting. https://twitter.com/PlatinumParagon...460076818845696 Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Apr 16, 2018 |
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Lightning Knight posted:lmao of course. It got exposed pretty quickly. I think it's been somewhat overshadowed by the CA Meltdown This guy made a video about it that goes into a bit more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYYa9wcxdaQ EDIT: SteelSeries also posted this on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/notes/stee...56227670083808/ quote:BullyHunters pitched us with a simple idea - let’s work together to fight online harassment. And because we believe that’s a noble cause, we supported it. Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Apr 16, 2018 |
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Wow, looking at the related vids, 20/20 covered that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0MyoyRd44s It reminds me; back when Channel Awesome was really gaining traction, I thought there'd be some day in the future where'd someone would do a documentary about it. I'm sure there's still probably going to be a documentary about it, but most definitely not the more upbeat one I originally envisioned.  nine-gear crow posted:Pretty much the only stumbling block to Doug landing on his feet after all this is whether he can spin a good answer to any inevitable questions that'll come up about Mike Michaud. But honestly, obsessing over anyone from CA's future career prospects is weird and creepy and tabloidy to the max. Part of me wonder if it was Michaud's decision to axe Demo Reel and make Doug return to being the Nostalgia Critic. I'm guessing most of the decisions fall on Doug's shoulders, but him abandoning the character I thought was an interesting move. I've always been under the impression that a lot of the popular internet critics were resentful of the popularity their personas gained (notably James Rolfe with the AVGN and Mike Stoklasa with Plinkett). nine-gear crow posted:Seriously, why the hell do you people let Bibbs lead you down these dumb garden paths? I just fuking can't I can't tell if he's stubborn, trolling, or if he's trying to attempt some weird style of gaslight people by being so relentless with his positions that you just give up trying to argue and just accept it. "If I keep telling people that nobody wants vanilla WOW servers, eventually they'll just accept it out of desperation for me to stop!" Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Apr 18, 2018 |
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Kim Justice posted:Has Contra done something for her to be brought up? Who's Zinnia Jones, and what did she say? I remember you bringing her up before. Also, is the catgirl thing about Contra referring to Chelsea Manning?
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Junpei Hyde posted:Just general liberal failings of not understanding class issues basically and she gets obnoxious about it sometimes. IDK if she's ever done anything worse Kim Justice posted:She used to be an active trans youtuber, now she tweets MovieBob style opinions about how working class people are scum. Quite dislikeable and trollish frankly.   Also, Bob: https://twitter.com/RespectElves/st...511253290999809   EDIT: Oh wow, she actually literally said it, and that the replies are Russian bots: https://twitter.com/ZJemptv/status/986013823948742668 Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Apr 18, 2018 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:Bennett helped co-write a book and he wanted to share the news. The link to book is here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/163353732...p_M461Ab8YM4M61 'Written by Chris Stuckmann. Contributions by Ernest Cline, Doug Walker, Robert Walker...'  I am sort of curious as to what Doug and Rob contributed.
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As far as the whole dubbing vs. subtitle thing goes, I think it comes down to case-by-case basis. A lot of people (Bennett included, I believe) hold Black Lagoon up as an example of how a English dub can be really good. Going somewhat in line with what Lamps said, though, I remember someone saying that anime twenty-thirty years ago was a lot more 'globalized', in that it had a more broad appeal in its content (sci-fi shows like Gundam or the like ). Nowadays, it feels like it's more insular, or rooted in Japanese culture to a point where you need knowledge of Japanese cultural norms to get a better context. In those cases, sticking to original dubbing and subtitles feels more appropriate.
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Roth posted:Rich: Jack, help, how do I beat this Bloodborne boss? "Ah Rich, or some say Richard...Do you read our subscriptions? As you once did for vacuous ShowBiz Pizzabear?" I think it's happened, where every single thing around me is Bloodborne. I just platinumed Bloodborne, Vinesauce Vinny's playing Bloodborne, and now this thread's talking about Bloodborne.
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CharlestheHammer posted:She is smug in a more paternalistic rather than aggressive way. If we're scaling things here, Lindsey only manages a like 2.3 on the smugness scale. By no means is she anywhere near Kyle (3.6), Dan (5.8), BotL(7.6) or HBomb (who I can't give a rating, because his smugness is such that not only can the scale handle that much, but it requires me to tare to scale afterwards).
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Miss Wallace posted:Dunno if this is a joke I'm not getting, but Phelan's never posted on this thread. Ema Nymton posted:Phake Phelan phound Calling it now: Failin Porte_Potty is LorneKat's alt account. Also, stop arguing about Man of Steel/Batman v Superman. poparena posted:Oh good, this thread is also garbage now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km3uZCVQyiY I'll update this at some point so that it says 'Personality' instead of 'Critic' Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Apr 21, 2018 |
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achillesforever6 posted:I'm going to be even more bummed when they cancel American Gods Didn't they already more-or-less cancel American Gods due to financial issues?
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corn in the bible posted:Botl is 100% a troll but a good one because he is effective He certainly is, especially since he's been banned from the thread for a least a day or so now, and yet he's still managed at least a page's worth of derailing about his posts.
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Yardbomb posted:Not really, the prospect of "gently caress death" pretty well appeals to anyone but crazies. With the world being as crazy at it is, and trending towards getting more awful, I would honestly prefer dying, as opposed to living forever to see how much worse things get. Hell, even if things improved, after two or three hundred years, you'd probably get tired and want to stop. I know that's a dark thing to say, but it's one of those kinds of things where I could see things going horribly wrong if people found a way to be immortal. Groovelord Neato posted:fortnite is not a hard game and that guy in 4th on that list is the best at the hard game it's a ripoff of. game difficulty is immaterial, league of legends players get more viewers than dota 2. it's whatever's more popular in general. Fortnite was popular enough to be brought up on the Today Show. I think it was in part that Ninja (who I had never heard of, and haven't really heard much about since) was playing the game with Drake. Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Apr 25, 2018 |
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Karloff posted:Although it really doesn't feel like it sometimes, on the whole things are getting better. Not that there's no injustice and horror that needs to be stopped, or that it's a straight upward curve, but the overall trend is going forward. Although of course that improvement needs to be pushed by people, it doesn't happen automatically. hopeandjoy posted:My stupid anxious brain keeps me up at night about my fear of death, but even I think immortality is a bad idea. Those are things that worry me more about it. Like, say we find a way to prevent death, but simultaneously, we're not able to find a cure for something like depression, or arthritis. Even if there was some possibility of it in the far future, would you want to wait for a cure while your condition got worse? Not to mention that even if you did find a way of immortality, I imagine it would only be for people. Outside of pets or sheltered animals, it might not be feasible to do for wildlife. You wouldn't be able to keep plant life alive forever. They'd still keep going through the same cycles, and I wonder what kind of effect that would have. EDIT: In relation to Ninja, I just saw this: https://twitter.com/G0ffThew/status/988871412768100352
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Karloff posted:I don't really buy this argument. All criticisms and analysis of art is subjective, that's a given, there's no getting away from that. However, there's a long history of academic work, theory, ideas etc that have been accumulated for a thousand years or more that provide a framework for people to discuss and understand art. To take the example: When it comes to the whole objectivity/subjectivity thing, what I've found, or the realization I've come to is that a critique/opinion/whatever is largely rooted in subjectivity. Even if you dislike something, but try to speak positively, your real feelings may still bleed through. I feel like objectivity, while not paramount, is important to tempering a critique. For example, I don't really care for Diablo. I find it a really dull game most of the time, and I think the loot system is a pain to deal with. Simultaneously, there are elements of Diablo that I really like, and I think some parts of it are better than it successors. It bothers me, because in theory, I should really like the game, because I've played games that are similar (not Diablo-clones, mind you; I mean in more broad terms like other RPGs like Elder Scrolls or something). On top of that, Diablo is a game that loved by a lot of people, and I'd be upset at tearing down something that people have a lot of love and nostalgia over. I think it's a problem of being definitive, or authoritative. There are people who say, "Well, I liked Fallout 3 way more than New Vegas" or "I thought Dark Souls 2 was terrible compared to the first game". I don't want to be an rear end in a top hat and say that they're stupid or wrong for thinking that. Hell, there are awful games that I think are good, like Final Fantasy 8 or Mafia 3, where I think they're really interesting. At the same time, I don't want to reject the existing criticism just because I've got a different perspective on it.
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Alaois posted:I'm glad we traded out botl with botl but whinier and with even less concrete beliefs Now that BotL is gone, there's a competition for who can take his place. A Gnarlacious Bro posted:This is a very rude thread, and very cliquey Sometimes I see people making fun of the attitudes you see on NeoGaf/ResetEra, and sometimes I wonder if this thread is what it's like to post on one of those sites. EDIT: MovieBob on Venom movie:  Also, this because it's...interesting... 
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MonsieurChoc posted:Unrelated, but anyone remembers Crash Team Racing? I do. Best kart racing game ever. Don't @ me. 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:There's no @ing in Somethingawful. Oh, that's right. My point still stands, though. CTR is the best kart racing game.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Errant Signal looks at Far Cry 5 and the unfortunate trend of big budget franchises trying to sound political but being hampered by a fear to actually say anything decisive, ending up looking cowardly as a result. You know, watching, it does make me wonder: how would it have been done it if Ubisoft decided to outright go and make Far Cry 5 about the right/alt-right/MAGA hat-wearers ? https://twitter.com/bobservo/status/982047338775527425 EDIT: I'm also mad that in talking about Far Cry 2, he didn't use this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enb0zWbYUik Max Wilco fucked around with this message at 05:07 on May 2, 2018 |
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Yardbomb posted:FC5 teased so many things and then didn't do anything but go skin deep on them which is a drat shame, they wanted to have bits and pieces from redhats, neo-nazis, branch davidians, sovcits, preppers, 'militias', jonestown, all this poo poo and then they neglected to add any meat to the bones. Game's still a lot of fun, but man they botched the story an unbelievable amount. In the case of something like the weapons jamming, I see that being a good example of the 'war-torn' theming. The audio log clip he gives goes into detail about how the weapons are so old and have been moved so many times that they've become worn and unreliable. It makes for a justification of why the weapons jam all the time, apart from an aim for realism. As for the points about fire effects, re-spawning checkpoints, or cover, that I agree with. If the point was moreso about how many of the bases or outposts were more ramshackle and hastily fit with the theme or setting, then I'd understand. However, his point is more about how cover is unreliable, since gunfire can puncture it easily. Far Cry 1 had that feature too, and I would think the reason it was taken out is because it's frustrating to get shot by enemies you can't see through walls. The fire thing I would have just chalked up to something they reduced to improve performance in FC5. As to the re-spawning checkpoints, I dunno what to say to that.  I should say that I haven't really played Far Cry 2 (I've only played it briefly on the PS3 when I rented for a weekend back in 2009; I got the PC version from GOG, but it's just been sitting in my backlog). I remember from the Zero Punctuation review or just general reviews/chatter is that the game gets really repetitive after a while, making you do the same tasks in a new area again and again. I know there's some mods out there that really improve the experience, but I've forgotten what they were called. Fans posted:Farcry 5's story was such a garbage fire that I'm not sure them actually trying would have been preferable. It's a story with three separate mind control plots in which your character is captured about seven different times. These are not story artisans, I'm not raring for them to completely gently caress up a criticism of Conservatism. The writing for the Far Cry games has never really been really great, but a lot of the discontent over FC5 is that it soft-balled on the political stuff it seemed to be leaning towards. I just don't know what they would have done if they had been completely straight with it. It has made for some...interesting articles. DoubleCakes posted:Far Cry 6 should just have aliens, laser rifles, and werewolves and if they want to make the plot "serious" they should just include a subplot about zoning. I mean that's what Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon did, and it was really well received. I think most everyone would want a follow-up to that Hell, it seems like Far Cry devs want it as well... https://twitter.com/LunarArchivist/...765041870131200
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