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PA: The Series, Season 2, Episode 12 - Screenlife, Part II
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I'm not going to kid myself by saying I could beat anyone who played after a week or two of practice.
Well I guess I need to practice this.
Also, "...over or around the net assembly..." holy crap.
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EDIT: I stand informed, and no longer think it was a dick move.
_MG_2711-Edit.jpg by thekiko, on Flickr
I like the bald guy in the top picture, he strikes me as an evil super villain, calming walking along side his newest evil creation
this is pretty great too
"The people from Screenlife were wearing orange shirts when they were playing with an orange ball? What a dick move."
We cleared our kits and balls with PA in email before we started, as did they theirs. Would you believe we broke all but one of our white balls while prepping for the big day? Unfortunately we don't have away shirts yet, but that expense will probably come through any day now.
"They keep backing off way too far from the table"
You try returning a Khoo topspin smash to the back corner from up close. I don't recommend it, but perhaps you have borrowed Scott's bionic arm.
"Plus they had really bad manners in terms of not admitting their luck when hitting the side of the table or having balls roll over the net."
We all know when someone got lucky, and everyone gets lucky. A sheepish grin is all the apology required, but sheepish grins don't always make for great TV.
"I do have to wonder what the guy in the pork pie hat thinks he looks like. The chain really completes the look."
At 2-all I told Justin to turn his hat backwards so that he could then turn on the machine, but he refused to go over the top. If only he'd listened to me. Chad went full-on wifebeater; the results speak for themselves.
"Has kiko ever not completely humiliated his opponent?"
Kiko does this thing before serving where he slices his paddle over his throat, then immediately whips in the serve. It is terrifying. I believe he is a hitman.
Thanks, Robert and PA, it was a lot of fun. We'll see you guys soon.
In fact I would be surprised if he has not
you seem like a stand-up dude in the face of some of the ruder criticisms of the forums
As far as playing away from the table - that's how you play ping pong man. When people start hitting it that hard, it's a tradeoff between cutting off the angle of the ball and getting a few extra milliseconds of reaction time. The sweetspot of where you should be depends on who you're playing and how good of a defensive player you are. If I'm up against the ropes, I'll generally be between 4-6 feet off the table.
Our rematch against Bungie is this Friday. We're pretty pumped.
I feel like he would have no problem Tanya Harding'ing the fuck out of you for what you did to him last time
In the meantime, we have PopCap in March. I can say with some certainty that I am going to leave that match with shards of ball where my cheeks used to be. Those guys are nuts.
Does this mean another ping-pong episode for season two?
I don't think mere words will do justice to your re-match against Jonty.
Even if there isn't a pure ping pong episode, that rematch must be shown to the world.
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hitting it before it bounces on your side?
I don't think so. I could be wrong but when I played if you hit it before it touched your side of the table you lost the point, which led some of the more accurate players to try to snipe the ball straight at an unsuspecting player's paddle at blinding speed.
Could we get a separate PATV series for these, pleeeeeeease. Full coverage of a each inter-office battle. All ping-pong all the time.
Arenas and Ping Pong every day.
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Sweep the leg
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Can we talk about what's happening behind Robert???
And Alok, I'll just parrot everyone else that it was really cool of you to come by and give such a polite reply to a post like that.
And you guys were very entertaining to watch. It was really fun watching that game; I hope you guys had fun too.
Looking forward to it.
As a warning, we lost 3-4 to PopCap. I lost to their #1 in five, (11-9 in the 5th... still burns) and overall their team is on par with us. You've got a solid shot at them, because let's be honest - you could have beat us if those two ridiculous comebacks weren't on the table.
edit: also, SPORTS.
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Well, right now I'm #2, so I'm hoping they don't take a trick from Amaze and wheel out Hannibal Lecter or something. I like my liver where it is, filtering out the liquor. I think we can win, but it's going to be tight, and as with you guys I think it's going to be more about what happens in slots 4-7. If #6 and #5 hadn't collapsed like they did, we'd have been 3-0 up going into the last 4 matches, and I like our momentum then.
Anyway, thanks for the warm welcome, y'all. Our forums are also impolite to the opposing team, if by "forums" you mean "bar where we cry over the cask of failure" and by "impolite" you mean "vengeful".
And, by the way, the reason Robert was looking like that is because I was at that time beating Erika in game 2, 9-2. He stared into our souls and then I lost 11-9. So, y'know, I had not prepared adequately for business school psionics. Don't look him in the eyes, that's my advice, he's like a basilisk.
:winky:
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Oh god I'm so sorry.
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How many dreams have you crushed
I ask because I'm trying to break into the field and...
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The episode does not show what happened after the match.
With good reason.
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Basically Khoo is the wizened master of everybody ever.
is there like some game dev pingpong league that I'm completely unaware of
like
that's why 3DR never released DNF, they were two busy getting their asses handed to them in the pingest of pongs
Then you'll have to wait 7 years to play them again.
then they couldn't possibly refuse
Man, Popcap gets to field two teams? That's hardly fair.
I want it all on a playlist to listen while I do work/run/live my life.