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Inspector Gesicht posted:I do think Joseph Anderson belongs in the OP under Video-Games. Outside of some dumb attempts at humour with his gag-videos on Cuphead and Chrome's T-Rex Runner he steers clear of skits and seldom shows his face. And if he believes Dark Souls II is on the same level as Dark Souls I then who are we to judge? his Cuphead video was about 9 and a half minutes too long and based on a joke that wasn't funny in the first place, because gamers are stupid. I still think he's good and right like, 75-80% of the time. 
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lornekates posted:Question. It functions as an AMA that never ends, letting people curate questions and respond intelligently (in theory) and letting users engage with the people they’re fans of without having to shout into the void of Twitch chat or be a Patron. It’s really unfortunate that these people who ran it suck.
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Arcsquad12 posted:I don't know why I'm posting this, but Moviebob decides his audience is morons and takes seven minutes to bitch about how good Rampage is and how everything new sucks. Is Rampage not actually good? I have no intention of going to see it so. Also I’m really fuckin’ tired of 30+ year old video game nerds acting like everything made before the PS1 was the best thing ever and making best games of all time lists that are mostly old Mario, Zelda, and Pokémon titles. Bob is pretty much squarely in that camp and it’s super obnoxious. Also the opening to that review and many of his others was needlessly long, he needs to cut down on the cold open poo poo.
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Yardbomb posted:I mean as tiring as it gets, Mario and Zelda did a lot of interesting things and influenced their genres a crazy amount and continue to do so, it'd be kind of dishonest to not have them in some top spots, even if it means most lists keep on ending up with SMB3, OoT/Majora's Mask and Half-Life 2 at the top. Imo the only way for a list like that to be meaningful is to make an explicit division between games from before and after either 2000 or the fifth generation of consoles, which is when 3D became prevalent and “modern” games began to identifiably emerge, and to limit itself to one entry per franchise (to clarify, I would characterize Mario Kart and the platformer Mario games as separate franchises because they have different core gameplay, as an example). You also have to restrain yourself on the difference between games being good and games being historically influential and make it really clear which ones you’re emphasizing and consistent about which one matters more. There are plenty of games like Half-Life that have come out since that are better games but Half-Life is more influential and that’s a distinctive thing. Edit: to make this on topic I’m mostly annoyed because IGN just did one of these and it’s terrible and they’re common among games YouTubers. It’s really annoying. Lightning Knight fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Apr 12, 2018 |
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DoctorGonzo1969 posted:Apologies for the double post but I went to check CA's site and Angry Joe isn't listed on there anymore. Wow, that seems significant. He was the only name on that list I recognized anyway and I know he has a big following, relatively speaking.
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Apr 12, 2018 06:40
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DoctorGonzo1969 posted:He's just shy of three million subs on his YouTube channel, that's far bigger than CA's dwindling numbers. Huh. I’ve met him in person. He seemed ok. I don’t really watch his content tho. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:i mean, it could just be that those games are in fact among the best ever? like, the whole reason they keep making lists is because they still play loving phenomenally, especially when contrasted with the n64/ps1 era (hell, i'd say they've even aged a lot better than a large portion of the gamecube/xbox/ps2 libraries). that doesn't mean that there aren't much newer games that are among the best ever, and if some idiot is holding them up as examples of why 'games were so much better in my day I know I'm late to this, but I did actually address this further. Basically, yeah, I think that you need to categorize older games that were influential and good at the time but have aged really badly differently, and that in general games from before and after the fifth console generation are distinctively different enough to be worth viewing as separate bodies of work (especially since we're far enough out from 2000 that there's almost as much history after that than before for video games). I also generally think that a lot of these types of exercises are overly colored by nostalgia and overemphasize older games with good gameplay and little meaningful narrative over newer games that have good gameplay and narrative. I also think that they have a terrible habit of including redundant entries. For example, in reference to the Halo discussion earlier, I don't think there's any reason to list Halo 1 and 2 individually, when you could just list "the Halo trilogy" and have something that was broadly representative of their impact, quality, and issues.
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' then they can go gently caress themselves, but crying that they should not keep making lists of best games ever made strictly because some people say that is kinda dumb. at most there should be a separate category for games like ocarina of time which, while being one of the absolute most important and influential games ever made, has not aged gracefully at all, especially when compared with a link to the past or the wind waker.
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business hammocks posted:It was never really fun. There were economic consequences for blameless people at every step of these events, and relationships strained or broken, and fresh waves of harassment, and fresh disclosures of real abuse. CA management is dumb and their responses have been unbelievable, but there has been a human cost to what has happened. Let's not ignore how it was already hard for everyone caught up in CA's bad choices. I was binging Dan Olson's videos last night and his videos on Vidme, React World, and YouTube Heroes seem relevant, in that Channel Awesome seems like another example of organizations positioning themselves as friends of content creators and everybody is happy and wonderful but in reality it's a business running for profit and exploiting people like every other organization is.
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I dunno if it's appropriate for this thread but reviews for God of War are coming out (SkillUp's) and it's drawing universal praise and 10/10s, which is not what I expected tbh. ^ I think that "best [thing]" lists are dumb when you use them as a vehicle to post your favorite [thing], but that they can have value as retrospective historical pieces. Unfortunately, most writers are hacks.
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Apr 12, 2018 19:01
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Are there any news outlets covering this that could offer a primer on who all these people are and the history of the organization? I honestly am lost and this seems to be going to much darker places than I was anticipating. 
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Mel Mudkiper posted:wasnt that movie bob lol yep. Admittedly, I don't think that writing a book about game design or even a specific game is necessarily wrong, but given his own description of it in videos and his general attitude towards the subject matter, lol.
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Leal posted:If it's Brad I'll LP a Hyper Dimension Neptunia game My god, what have you done? You're insane.
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Arcsquad12 posted:The youtube channel will persist. 30000 lost subscribers in a matter of weeks is significant, but not for a channel with a million + subs. How tho? If no one is making content for it, that is. And hopefully no creators in their right mind would join.
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Arcsquad12 posted:You realize it's not like Doug himself is going to stop making his terrible videos, right? Just because their lovely web 2.0 website has imploded is not going to stop their Youtube channel anytime soon. No I honestly don't, I've never heard of this place until it came up in this thread since last month.
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Apr 13, 2018 03:38
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IronicDongz posted:it's full of tertiary characters and plotlines that go nowhere and it doesn't know when the gently caress to end. by the time they got to the salt planet I was 100% in "why is there still more movie left" mode The whole chase plot makes no sense and the film is still mostly wallowing in the shadow of the original trilogy instead of making use of its more interesting original characters (even tho Mark Hamil is 100% A+ gold every moment he's on screen). I liked the purple-haired lady tho and thought Po was an rear end. It's unfortunate that a large swath of the internet has decided to hate the new Star Wars movies for being "SJW liberal trash" and I feel compelled to defend them or at least point out that their criticisms are wrong, because I don't like the new Star Wars films and think they're boring nostalgia bait. :/ Hbomb's videos making fun of the "Star Wars is SJW now!!!!" crowd were really funny tho. Lightning Knight fucked around with this message at 08:23 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 really like Rey, and I really, really like Finn. They keep hyping up "the scene where Finn gets to kick someone's rear end" and then takin' it away from him.  But yeah I think that the Last Jedi is really tedious and has bad pacing, the chase scene as a conceit was really bad, and they almost did something cool with the big fight scene in the throne room and then pissed it away at the last second by choosing the only one of three options that was boring and predictable. There's a lot of things I like about the movie conceptually, certain characters, and visually, but I just am not on board with their approach to narrative, plotting, and world building. Of course, the internet has decided that the worst thing about these movies is that POC are in them and there's a lady with purple hair who correctly owns a white man for being stupid, as opposed to any actual problems with the film.
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CelticPredator posted:I hear more opinions in line with yours then I do about SJW or whatever. I've personally met a lot of people who weren't strictly alt-right or GamerGaters or what have you but were really mad about the purple haired lady talking down to the sick fighter pilot hero and that type of stuff. It's there, but it depends on what kind of circles you observe. Playstation 4 posted:Or, you know, he wants confirmation that the fore plan isn't "We die". Surprise, the movie has him instantly go along with one when its presented, no hemming or hesitation whatsoever, almost like that was all that's ever needed. This isn't actually how military organizations work. He doesn't need to know poo poo. There's a reason that the movie, while it stupidly waffles on whether or not he or the admiral lady is right, comes down on her side by having Leia, the embodiment of moral rightness in the film, taze the poo poo out of Po for being an rear end in a top hat. But this all ignores that the entire conceit of the chase scene is a stupid mechanism that actively makes no sense in terms of time flow or internal consistency and easily could've been done with a different excuse plot.
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Bakeneko posted:It’s a resistance movement, though, not an army. You can’t expect a group of mostly untrained volunteers to all have that level of discipline. They’re fighting against the First Order because they don’t want to live in a totalitarian society where authority must never be questioned. Yes, but the movie is deliberately making a point. This is one of the few things I genuinely thought was brilliant about the film. They brought in an unconventionally attractive female authority figure, they granted sympathetic POV to the rear end in a top hat fighter jock, they made it seem like he was going to show her up, but in the end, she was completely correct and the movie comes down like a ton of bricks on him. In fact, he gets off fairly light all things considered. Also, generally speaking, the resistance should be based on the former army of the whatever, New Republic or whatever they're calling it in the new trilogy, so they should be more professional than the original Rebellion. They aren't, because the new movies are obsessed with visually referencing the original trilogy and cribbing notes from it wherever possible. The problem with the way they set up the conflict between Po (Poe? whatever) and Holdo is that the scenario surrounding it is stupid, so the audience gets confused because the movie is unintentionally sending mixed messages. Edit: to clarify, the movie makes it really seem like they might actually be hosed and they're not telling people the plan because there is no plan (and no you should not be honest about that because that's how you destroy the morale of an army), but then at the last minute pulls out a "solution" from a hat and thus the preceding drama surrounding the lack of a plan is nonsensical. Lightning Knight fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Apr 13, 2018 |
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Playstation 4 posted:Even without this, the absolute second everyone realizes "They're tracking us through hyperspace". SOP is done, you're in an existential crisis; I mean the core problem with the chase plot is "why didn't they just FTL a ship immediately into the bad guy ship if that was always the back up plan?" Or alternatively "why did they forgot that was a thing they could do until the most dramatic last possible moment?" The answer is because the movie wanted to have its cake of "the drama of 'is there a plan or not? I don't think there can be we might be hosed'" and then eat it by presenting a previously unmentioned solution nobody has clearly remembered existed until Holdo does it. The narrative is built on a house of cards and it stinks of bullshit because it is bullshit. Which is a shame because the FTL scene is really pretty.
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Vanderdeath posted:The Resistance is explicitly not an army and is basically a bunch of volunteers that grouped together to try and act as a counterbalance to the First Order. There's no way an incipient government like the New Republic was going to let Leia and co. go around the galaxy forming an extrajudicial armed force. Are you implying the Resistance was already a thing before the New Republic fell? That doesn't make sense. Did the New Republic not have a standing army? Did the Rebellion just never disband after forming a regular government? Of course not, these are silly questions. The answer is that they wanted to reuse the Rebellion aesthetic and visual style in a different context because nostalgia. Any kind of resistance as organized as presented in these movies is going to have a military hierarchy anyway, that's why the characters explicitly have ranks and Po's actions are explicitly framed as a mutiny, i.e. a rebellion against established military order. Neddy Seagoon posted:Yes, why wouldn't they destroy their only capital ship left so casually? Given the circumstances they're in this isn't an unreasonable decision, imo. They unironically could and should've done it much sooner. They had other ships to evacuate people to before the big dumb chase sequence and they could've safely jumped away.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The plot's actually not that hard to tweak into something fixable; As it stands, with Poe knowing what Hondo's plan is in advance, they just have to sit tight and they'll get out alive. Buuut there's no reason they can't still go with Poe's plan to try and get the Cruiser jumping to safety. Minimal risk, few people and resources potentially lost, and they might actually save the one capital-scale ship they have left. It's better than sitting on Salt-Hoth with barely any resources left, so give it a shot I mean there's still other things wrong with it, like how the timeline is very slippery. Finn spends like, what, a single night on the casino planet? Plus the next morning? Rey is on the planet with Luke for quite a bit longer than that, and yet the chase scene doesn't seem to last longer than a day or two. Are we suddenly trying to add time dilation to explain that? I think my main beef with TLJ is that I really enjoyed the parts with Rey on the ocean world, the stuff with Finn on the casino planet was interesting but felt like extended filler, the throne room/post FTL scenes on the big ship were cool, and the ending was fine. But the chase scene and opening bomber sequence just totally fell flat for me and really drags the first two-thirds of the movie down. I mean, they're still in that same scenario the way the current plot is, they just also have no smaller ships now. What difference does it make?
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DoctorWhat posted:Lornekates is a good dude, put him back. not an empty quote I disagree with making Dan a mod even though I respect him, because I think it's a conflict of interest to make any content creators the thread exists to discuss moderators of the thread.
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FactsAreUseless posted:It will not be Bravestofthelamps, you insane trolls. Can you set it up so that every time he posts in this thread he auto probes himself for an hour? He can be the anti-mod.
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lol FAU gave LK a 30 day, rest in pieces.
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FactsAreUseless posted:He'll be free in 30 days. The Something Awful Administration is holding political prisoners. THIS SHALL NOT STAND. Real talk: I have no strong opinions. He seemed ok but also that meltdown lol. I definitely don't think you should pick a content creator to mod the subforum, but otherwise I dunno. I'm not gonna submit names without asking the poster in question. I do think we need moderation sooner rather than later tho, because the Channel Awesome poo poo brings out the worst in people. ^ I unironically support this.
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FactsAreUseless posted:We PM people to ask if they want to be mod before we push the buttons, don't worry. Augus and Yardbomb are both good posters imo. That's my opinion and I'm stickin' to it.
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FoldableHuman posted:And please, no. Mods can't disappear for 8 months at a time, and I'm pretty sure I can't be trusted to not rage ban someone for having wrong opinions about Jupiter Ascending. ...what are right opinions about Jupiter Ascending?
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Joseph Anderson made a new short video about an indie game. It is surprisingly self-aware.
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Groovelord Neato posted:lmao him making fun of his mario mispronunciation. Obligatory Dark Souls Reference!
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VanSandman posted:Has Lindsay’s Hobbit Part 3 been released yet? If we're gonna get the full experience it's going to need to sit in development hell for awhile, then at the last minute Dan Olson will make it after writing the script the night before.
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Garrand posted:La'Ron Readus seems cool; I've only seen a few of his videos so far after finding him through one of Lindsay's videos but I like what I've seen. I started watching his most recent video and I enjoy his format and reading style, it's very straightforward. This is a pro click imo, based on what I'm seeing so far.
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Libluini posted:At least the machines can be fixed. Whenever I bring up "fixing" humans with surgery, people tend to be weird about this.  Pirate Jenny posted:Edit: Wednesday. The answer is Wednesday. This was a good post but also new video hype!
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WampaLord posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IriconYObSo I enjoyed this movie but this video is really good. 
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So uh, not to interrupt Channel Awesome fun times, but there's a guy named nerdSlayer I've been watching who has a fun series he does called "Death of a Game." Typically it's been about how this or that MMO game flamed out but there's been other stuff, such as the history of Visceral Games and Troika Games. I haven't watched all of his videos but the ones I have, have been enjoyable. The most recent one was on FireFall.
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khwarezm posted:I like that new intro he has. It's extremely silly and nerdy, just like him.
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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. Of course, the problem with journalism isn't [whatever right wing poo poo heads are on about this week, usually women or black people], it's capitalism.
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Max Wilco posted: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? I've never heard of this but a Google search tells me it's been shut down, what's the deal?
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Max Wilco posted: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. lmao of course. The whole concept is kind of stupid but it's a good example of how the always online 24/7 streaming nature of modern gaming is ripe for abuse by both corporations and people seeking to focus on specific people. It also begs the question, "being an rear end in a top hat in a video game" is bad, but targeted mass harassment is a whole other problem.
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Mr.Radar posted:Moviebob has a new video out about The Simpsons and how they responded to The Problem With Apu: His last few totally not The Big Picture episodes have been pretty good imo (I didn't watch the one about RPO because who the gently caress cares) and it's a shame his politics are asinine and he broadcasts them very loudly all over Twitter.
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