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 The Game: A long awaited prequel to the beloved Deus Ex and significantly less beloved Deus Ex Invisible War, Deus Ex: Human Revolution starts during the infancy of cybernetic augmentation, and deals with many sociological and ethical issues that arise. Adam Jenson is the head of security at Sarif Industries, a leading cybernetics corporation, and after a particularly bad day he wakes up with roughly 75% of his meat replaced with like, cogs and batteries or something I don't know how this poo poo works. The LP: I'm going to drink heavily and punch people. Sometimes I might accidentally do a objective Episodes: Let's Play Deus Ex: Human Revolution Episode 1 - Full Of Sass And Beans
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Nov 15, 2020 22:11
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Let me add a note to this LP. Everyone should see Robocop. The original film, not the remake. It is awesome. Thank you for your cooperation. And thx to Danaru for putting out what I'm sure is and will be another great LP.
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Nov 15, 2020 22:46
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Always great to see you Dan!achtungnight posted:Let me add a note to this LP. Everyone should see Robocop. The original film, not the remake. It is awesome. Thank you for your cooperation. I heard it's fascist cop propaganda.
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Nov 15, 2020 22:55
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Ground floor. This game is great and I can't wait to see you go through it.
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Nov 15, 2020 23:19
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cant cook creole bream posted:Always great to see you Dan! You heard wrong. See the movie, decide for yourself. Trust me, whoever told you that has a stupid agenda you should not support. If you follow their advice, you will miss out on great entertainment at the least.
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Nov 16, 2020 00:02
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cant cook creole bream posted:I heard it's fascist cop propaganda. It is 100% bold faced satire of the militarization of the police and the incestuous entanglement between corporations and cops--from the 1980s, no less. Whoever told you otherwise was clearly dense as a brick. Also it's a really loving funny movie. Watch it.
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Nov 16, 2020 00:37
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People also think that Verhoeven's take on Starship Troopers was pro-fash. It's not, and it's another fine piece of violent satire that's worth checking out! Looking forward to seeing this LP play out too! 
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Nov 16, 2020 04:10
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OK, so I'll be very interested to see at which point you switch from nonlethal to capping everyone in the head and throwing them into a dumpster for being so incredibly complicit in turbocrimes.
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Nov 16, 2020 07:18
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Ok, I'll be the nerd that annoys you by telling you stuff for this episode. "Deus Ex" is, to people that are big enough dweebs to hear latin phrases about drama, short for Deus Ex Machina. Grace is of course correct that Deus is "God", Ex is "from" and you can guess what Machina is. The original phrase refers to Greek dramas' habit of finishing off plot threads by having someone playing god lowered on a platform to be all What's up mortal bitches, I'm descending from on high to fix/ruin/end things! Suck divinity, turds! They probably just wanted the literal translation to evoke something greater than human being born of technology, although thinking back to the ending of the original Deus Ex you did have the option of becoming a techno god who shows up out of nowhere to fix/ruin the whole world I guess. Also, seconding this re: Robocop. nine-gear crow posted:It is 100% bold faced satire of the militarization of the police and the incestuous entanglement between corporations and cops--from the 1980s, no less. Whoever told you otherwise was clearly dense as a brick.
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Nov 16, 2020 09:32
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"Those boxes are worth more than your salary, which is why we are too cheap to give you anything to help you carry them" All the focus on cyber spy thriller, and it's that poor bastard used as a throwaway joke that feels too real  It also makes me appreciate the delivery robot legs in death stranding even more, at least 
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Nov 16, 2020 12:19
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nine-gear crow posted:It is 100% bold faced satire of the militarization of the police and the incestuous entanglement between corporations and cops--from the 1980s, no less. Whoever told you otherwise was clearly dense as a brick. Sounds like the type of person who thought Starship Troopers was some kind of a pro-fascist film.
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Nov 16, 2020 15:00
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A Robert Cop playthrough? I'd buy that for a dollar! The Deus Ex series is one of my favorites, and even Invisible War (clearly the worst of them) had some redeeming parts. While I'll admit they've all had flaws, I can't say I've not enjoyed at least parts of all of them.
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Nov 16, 2020 19:16
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Invisible War is not a terrible game, just mediocre; however, in a series filled with absolutely fantastic games, "mediocre" is nowhere nearly good enough.
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Nov 16, 2020 21:17
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This looks neat. I was wondering if you were going to show off what happens if you let the mission time out, which is the only thing I know about this game. also the hoverjet has "boobee" written on the side
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Nov 17, 2020 00:24
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Mikl posted:Invisible War is not a terrible game, just mediocre; however, in a series filled with absolutely fantastic games, "mediocre" is nowhere nearly good enough. If it hadn't been limited so severely by making it run on Xbox, I don't think it would have been as meh feeling. That said, I'd do some pretty terrible things for Deus Ex and Invisible War to get the Resident Evil REmake treatment. Get a modern engine under Deus Ex's fantastic story, and more than 3 rooms before a loading zone trap breaks up the flow of an area for IW. Round out some of the mechanics that were more relics of their time, lift heavily from the Augment system from HR/MD (Freeform unlocks are a vast improvement over separated unlock + upgrade), and that'd be just the best.
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Nov 17, 2020 03:44
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pointlessone posted:Invisible War (clearly the worst of them) Invisible War isn't even bad. It's not well-made, but it's a lot more accessible and fun than the original and even has some advantages over Human Revolution. And if you want to talk about bad loading times, I've never managed to finish Mankind Divided because of them. IW's load screens may be frequent, but MD had me sit and watch Jensen ride a train for literally ten minutes - I timed it.
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Nov 17, 2020 13:25
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My only major problem with Invisible War was the ammo system being a complete pain in the rear end. It was a good idea on paper but in practice it just meant I was constantly scrounging for garbage. I didnt have too much a problem with MD's loading screens since I have an SSD, but even with that it was just... not fun. I really cant even say specifically what sucked about it, everything that was fun in HR just felt like a chore in MD. Breach is good
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Nov 17, 2020 13:36
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Tiggum posted:The original is the best. By far. Fixed this for you
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Nov 17, 2020 13:48
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The original game's reach far exceeds its grasp. There are a lot of cool ideas there and not one of them works well. It's awkward and unintuitive and hard to play - not in terms of intentional difficulty but in terms of figuring out how to interact with the game's systems. You can see what it's going for, but it consistently falls short in the most frustrating ways.
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Nov 17, 2020 14:20
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Danaru posted:I didnt have too much a problem with MD's loading screens since I have an SSD, but even with that it was just... not fun. I really cant even say specifically what sucked about it, everything that was fun in HR just felt like a chore in MD. Even on an SSD they're weirdly long, though. But you're really hit the nail on the head with your assessment of the game otherwise. I've played through this one half a dozen times, including a perfect stealth no kill run and I couldn't even bring myself to playing through MD a second time to make the alternate choices.
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Nov 17, 2020 22:51
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I'm releasing this episode earlier than usual because it's more of an indication for newcomers of what to expect from a Dan and Grace LP   New Episode!Let's Play Deus Ex: Human Revolution Episode 2 - More Slowlier Hope you guys didn't want a mercy run
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Nov 17, 2020 23:39
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Danaru posted:expect from a Dan and Grace LP Are there shenanigans? I'm betting there will be shenanigans.
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Nov 17, 2020 23:51
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I loved The Bit because it reminds me of my brother declaring "I solved the puzzle" when crouch walking under a laser or something later in this game. Cartoonish ragdoll physics are also always funny  I hope he likes it in space
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Nov 18, 2020 07:26
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Bionic penis and red panda augmentation speculation, that's the essence of a Dan & Grace LP right there.
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Nov 18, 2020 16:39
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One thing I appreciated about Invisible War was that factions had the decency and respect to lie to you about their goals, rather than Tracer Tong pitching you with, "I'd like you to kill yourself in order to end technological civilization and plunge the world into a new dark age, if it's not too much trouble."
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Nov 21, 2020 09:06
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Tiggum posted:The original game's reach far exceeds its grasp. There are a lot of cool ideas there and not one of them works well. It's awkward and unintuitive and hard to play - not in terms of intentional difficulty but in terms of figuring out how to interact with the game's systems. You can see what it's going for, but it consistently falls short in the most frustrating ways. I know, I agree, and I don't care. I'm one of those people that reinstall (and actually finish) the original every now and then. Like now.
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Nov 21, 2020 11:57
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New Episode! Let's Play Deus Ex: Human Revolution Episode 3 - I Wanna Jump In The Garbage They uh, sure did make some choices while going for voice direction
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Nov 21, 2020 17:39
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Choices certainly were made for voice direction  Wrong details like that janitor's cart bug me a lot, so good job setting the record straight on that. The painting looks kinda like Rembrandt's "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp", though it might be a different one, hard to tell. Definitely a painting depicting a dissection for the purpose of teaching doctors anatomy though.
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Nov 21, 2020 20:56
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Oh, if it's General O'Neill buying the Typhoon, he's probably getting it to fight some aliens pretending to be gods.
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Nov 22, 2020 09:21
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An organisation literally called "The Humanity Front" has like a 98% chance of being a hate group. I played this game when it first came out and I was like "Oooooh this is some nuanced debate, it raises some interesting questions!" But I've since figured out I'm queer and yeah, no, gently caress those guys.
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Nov 22, 2020 18:44
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It always felt like the new HR/MD writers (especially in MD) were trying to make mech-aug folks kind of like a racial thing instead of a class thing, and the question of basically having to get them for your work/survival (either because only augs can do the physically demanding job or because of some OSHA.txt stuff happening way too often) and ending up depending more on corporations wasn't ever looked at.
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Nov 22, 2020 23:21
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Yeah, the only way most people could afford augmentation, let alone the anti-rejection drugs, would be through corporate "sponsorship".
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Nov 23, 2020 02:52
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If being queer means I can fire ball bearings out of my spine I signed up in the wrong line, is all I'm sayin'
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Nov 23, 2020 03:53
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Agreed, trying to make people undergoing voluntary augmentation for physical enhancement a stand-in for a marginalized racial/ethnic/religious/sexual minority didn't work at all. The class analysis was far more salient, but there was never any explanation of the economics of augmentation. Is Sarif subsidizing installation at LIMB clinics in order to sign people up for a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs? Humanity Front's message that "maybe having mutilation of our bodies (with a side of dependency on patented pharmaceuticals) be the next front in the arms race and worker competition is in fact bad" would actually be compelling if they ever bothered to articulate it that way. But they never do, IIRC, it's just some vague pablum about purity and the need for regulation.
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Nov 23, 2020 06:26
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Dunno if it's just me but I read the allegory in HR to be totally about class an the usual cyberpunk corporations gone wild stuff. MD, however, leaned into the race metaphor way harder. Also since Meghan was our ex-girlfriend a good while before the start of the game, I keep thinking that there's a really good joke to be made about Jensen getting fitted with a printer implant so he can forever carry one for her. But I can't quite find the right words.
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Nov 23, 2020 11:58
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New Episode! Let's Play Deus Ex: Human Revolution Episode 4 - Surprise! I'M A GOOD PERSON WHY EVERYBODY ALWAYS SHOOTING AT ME
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Nov 26, 2020 18:57
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The ultimate reason people are afraid of augments. I'd be pretty upset if some rogue cyborg stole my fridge. I mean, not shoot them mad, that is just unreasonable.
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Nov 27, 2020 01:14
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Holy crap, Dan.
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Nov 27, 2020 09:24
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Dan is a monster.
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Nov 27, 2020 11:27
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This is why I love this game. I wish it was all this and it didn't keep making you go on missions. They could have put more stuff in the hubs to randomly stumble into and more people to harass/knock out/murder. More side quests to accidentally complete before you even knew they existed!
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