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  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    wandering wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    wandering wrote: »
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Hee hee. A guy popped up in the Kickstarter thread asking for advice on getting a project kickstarted. Fair enough, but he wanted to start with a project that was doing the concept art. Which is silly.

    Now he's made a thread in the Writer's Block to help him design the setting.

    Is this some kind of plan to get the forum to pay for and make his game?

    Hello, I'm hungry, and I was wondering if you could help me out? No wait hear me out. I don't want any of your food, I just want to borrow your stove and a pot to make some stone soup.

    What's stone soup? Well You just boil some water and add a stone and bam! you've got a delicious soup. And of course I'd share it with you. So can I? Great!

    Ah the soup's coming along nicely, but you know...it'll taste good as is, but you know what would make it taste really good? Just a little bit of garnish. If I could just have a carrot or two...ah thank you so much. Although, of course, if you want it to taste even better, we could add some onion...

    Man, this is brilliant... that's the perfect analogy.
    It's an old folk tale (if you didn't know.)

    Used to read it to my kids, and even made it once. It was pretty fun. :)

    Successful Kickstarter get! Drop by Bare Mettle Entertainment if you'd like to see what we're making.
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    wandering wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    wandering wrote: »
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Hee hee. A guy popped up in the Kickstarter thread asking for advice on getting a project kickstarted. Fair enough, but he wanted to start with a project that was doing the concept art. Which is silly.

    Now he's made a thread in the Writer's Block to help him design the setting.

    Is this some kind of plan to get the forum to pay for and make his game?

    Hello, I'm hungry, and I was wondering if you could help me out? No wait hear me out. I don't want any of your food, I just want to borrow your stove and a pot to make some stone soup.

    What's stone soup? Well You just boil some water and add a stone and bam! you've got a delicious soup. And of course I'd share it with you. So can I? Great!

    Ah the soup's coming along nicely, but you know...it'll taste good as is, but you know what would make it taste really good? Just a little bit of garnish. If I could just have a carrot or two...ah thank you so much. Although, of course, if you want it to taste even better, we could add some onion...

    Man, this is brilliant... that's the perfect analogy.
    It's an old folk tale (if you didn't know.)

    Used to read it to my kids, and even made it once. It was pretty fun. :)

    It always reminds me of Jim Henson's Storyteller.

    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    Thanatos wrote: »
    syndalis wrote: »
    Oh, Amazon has Mass Effect 3 for 29.99

    Should I?
    PC, synd, not Brobox.

    But, like, Deebs has been hounding me to play for months now, and he is Brobox.
    i too am on brobox and am amazing

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.Registered User regular
    Do they mention how they are actually planning on mining? Industrial lasers? Chemicals? Explosives? Or find big rocks and simply drop them into a nice spot to be mined on Earth?

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    wandering wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    wandering wrote: »
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Hee hee. A guy popped up in the Kickstarter thread asking for advice on getting a project kickstarted. Fair enough, but he wanted to start with a project that was doing the concept art. Which is silly.

    Now he's made a thread in the Writer's Block to help him design the setting.

    Is this some kind of plan to get the forum to pay for and make his game?

    Hello, I'm hungry, and I was wondering if you could help me out? No wait hear me out. I don't want any of your food, I just want to borrow your stove and a pot to make some stone soup.

    What's stone soup? Well You just boil some water and add a stone and bam! you've got a delicious soup. And of course I'd share it with you. So can I? Great!

    Ah the soup's coming along nicely, but you know...it'll taste good as is, but you know what would make it taste really good? Just a little bit of garnish. If I could just have a carrot or two...ah thank you so much. Although, of course, if you want it to taste even better, we could add some onion...

    Man, this is brilliant... that's the perfect analogy.
    It's an old folk tale (if you didn't know.)

    Used to read it to my kids, and even made it once. It was pretty fun. :)

    This was a thing at my preschool. That and that woman with magical spaghetti powers.

    No wonder I'm overweight.

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    @Casual Eddy Uhhh, Eddy, I'm not sure how to break this to you... but... uh... You, too, are a nerd.

  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    guys did you hear about the ending to mass effect 3

    i hear a lot of people didn't like it

    I thought it was alright. It was just
    Spoiler:

    Edit: goddamnit, fucked BBCode

    Feral on
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    guys did you hear about the ending to mass effect 3

    i hear a lot of people didn't like it

    Inquisitor wrote: »
    I fucking hate you Canadians.
  • syndalissyndalis Corporate Shill Registered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Do they mention how they are actually planning on mining? Industrial lasers? Chemicals? Explosives? Or find big rocks and simply drop them into a nice spot to be mined on Earth?

    Mined out in space, by robots.

    Seems to be the current model with their "Arctic" fleet.

    http://www.spacevidcast.com/live/

    If you can watch, watch now. They are about to explain their roadmap.

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  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    guys did you hear about the ending to mass effect 3

    i hear a lot of people didn't like it

    I thought it was alright. It was just
    Spoiler:

    Edit: goddamnit, fucked BBCode

    that would have been less weird, but still no better.
    Spoiler:

    hahaha imagine if it just ended right there

    GAME OVER

    Did you just finish it, EM?

    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy Registered User regular
    Thanatos wrote: »
    @Casual Eddy Uhhh, Eddy, I'm not sure how to break this to you... but... uh... You, too, are a nerd.

    Yeah but I don't expect a treatise on a kids show

  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    Feral wrote: »
    guys did you hear about the ending to mass effect 3

    i hear a lot of people didn't like it

    I thought it was alright. It was just
    Spoiler:

    Edit: goddamnit, fucked BBCode

    that would have been less weird, but still no better.
    Spoiler:

    hahaha imagine if it just ended right there

    GAME OVER

    Evil Multifarious on
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    I fucking hate you Canadians.
  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    guys did you hear about the ending to mass effect 3

    i hear a lot of people didn't like it

    I thought it was alright. It was just
    Spoiler:

    Edit: goddamnit, fucked BBCode

    that would have been less weird, but still no better.
    Spoiler:

    hahaha imagine if it just ended right there

    GAME OVER

    Oh I thought that bit onward was great

  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    This was a thing at my preschool. That and that woman with magical spaghetti powers.

    No wonder I'm overweight.

    strega nona, I think

  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    guys did you hear about the ending to mass effect 3

    i hear a lot of people didn't like it

    I thought it was alright. It was just
    Spoiler:

    Edit: goddamnit, fucked BBCode

    that would have been less weird, but still no better.
    Spoiler:

    hahaha imagine if it just ended right there

    GAME OVER

    Did you just finish it, EM?

    nah i finished it a while back

    i was all amped up and played for like four hours to finish it at 3:30 am on a weekend

    and then I hit the ending and I was like "Oh. That's why everyone was pissed."

    I like to wonder about how I would have reacted to the ending without the enormous amount of hype around how bad it was. Probably would have been more displeased! I was braced for it.

    Inquisitor wrote: »
    I fucking hate you Canadians.
  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    guys did you hear about the ending to mass effect 3

    i hear a lot of people didn't like it

    I thought it was alright. It was just
    Spoiler:

    Edit: goddamnit, fucked BBCode

    that would have been less weird, but still no better.
    Spoiler:

    hahaha imagine if it just ended right there

    GAME OVER

    Oh I thought that bit onward was great

    I think if the last bit that everyone hates had been done well, it would have made me enjoy the parts immediately after the moment in question

    Inquisitor wrote: »
    I fucking hate you Canadians.
  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy Registered User regular
    Oh my god I loved Strega Nona

    We had a whole unit on it and everyone brought in their families favorite pasta and it was amazing

  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    guys did you hear about the ending to mass effect 3

    i hear a lot of people didn't like it

    I thought it was alright. It was just
    Spoiler:

    Edit: goddamnit, fucked BBCode

    that would have been less weird, but still no better.
    Spoiler:

    hahaha imagine if it just ended right there

    GAME OVER
    Spoiler:

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    wow the legend of korra thread is a very, very sad place

    I think there's a sign at the entrance of the thread that says "must be an obese, sweaty mouthbreather to enter"

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  • GooeyGooey Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    Oh, Amazon has Mass Effect 3 for 29.99

    Should I?

    i did

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    i'll do it too

    right now

    | Steam & XBL: Shazkar |
  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Registered User regular
    wow the legend of korra thread is a very, very sad place

    I think there's a sign at the entrance of the thread that says "must be an obese, sweaty mouthbreather to enter"

    aww, you say the nicest things 8->

    Spoiler:
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    Oh my god I loved Strega Nona

    We had a whole unit on it and everyone brought in their families favorite pasta and it was amazing

    strega+nona

  • wanderingwandering Registered User regular
    Oh man that fried egg came out perfectly, the yolk wasn't too runny or too cooked.

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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Raiding Relics Everyday Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    wow the legend of korra thread is a very, very sad place

    I think there's a sign at the entrance of the thread that says "must be an obese, sweaty mouthbreather to enter"

    As a fat, sweaty, mouthbreather, I take offense to that.

    I don't argue that much in that thread, and i, too, think most of the arguments are dumb.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    I honestly have trouble thinking of games that had good endings, especially recently. Production pressures and deadlines seem to make every game devolve in terms of writing, level design and creativity by the end. That, and endings are often the hardest part, creatively.

    To me, the endings of Deus Ex HR and Mass Effect 3 are almost identical production/development scenarios, for example; they ran out of time and had to rush it.

    Then there are games that just end in utter anticlimax like Dark Souls.

    And games that basically don't end, like the Assassin's Creed series.

    I can't remember the last time I saw an ending and was like AWESOME. Probably an indie game. Braid's ending was the only good part of its story. Bastion had a great ending sequence though it was largely incoherent as a narrative. Oh, Fez had a hilarious ending, though I haven't played anything beyond the start of NG+.

    Evil Multifarious on
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    I fucking hate you Canadians.
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    ME1 and ME2 both had good endings.

    Especially ME2.

    I really need to play Fez. It looks like fun.



    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • wanderingwandering Registered User regular
    Thanatos wrote: »
    @Casual Eddy Uhhh, Eddy, I'm not sure how to break this to you... but... uh... You, too, are a nerd.
    Everyone on this forum is a nerd.

    Except me. 8-)

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  • TehSlothTehSloth BIG DATA Registered User regular
    Why don't these space dudes just hire Neil deGrasse Tyson to talk for them. Everytime someone starts talking in this presentation I'm just like, who is this person talking to me about space and why are they not as cool as Neil deGrasse Tyson.

    Egret wrote:
    That's the same ratio of words/farts that come out of your mouth.
  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    Ugh, the fact that Ann Romney believes living off one's stock portfolio is "struggling" is a little disgusting.

    Steam ID: DoctorArch Xbox Live: DoctorArch
  • syndalissyndalis Corporate Shill Registered User regular
    TehSloth wrote: »
    Why don't these space dudes just hire Neil deGrasse Tyson to talk for them. Everytime someone starts talking in this presentation I'm just like, who is this person talking to me about space and why are they not as cool as Neil deGrasse Tyson.
    Hawking may have been a better speaker than a couple of these guys.

    That said, what they are SAYING is pretty great.

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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Do they mention how they are actually planning on mining? Industrial lasers? Chemicals? Explosives? Or find big rocks and simply drop them into a nice spot to be mined on Earth?

    Oh my god

    They're Bond villians

    Billionaires with private spacecraft that are going to harvest asteroids

    We're all going to die.

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    All my fuckin life I lived a normal fuckin life
  • IncenjucarIncenjucar Registered User regular
    Oh my god I loved Strega Nona

    We had a whole unit on it and everyone brought in their families favorite pasta and it was amazing

    strega+nona

    Secretly she is a vice president at Weight Watchers.

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  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    The Romneys are straight-up from another planet.

    They don't even live in this reality.

    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Registered User regular
    I honestly have trouble thinking of games that had good endings, especially recently. Production pressures and deadlines seem to make every game devolve in terms of writing, level design and creativity by the end. That, and endings are often the hardest part, creatively.

    To me, the endings of Deus Ex HR and Mass Effect 3 are almost identical production/development scenarios, for example; they ran out of time and had to rush it.
    However, HR's ending fit the game much better because the themes therein were explored from the first minute of cutscenes, and the characters were a less important part of the story. Sarif and Taggart were people, but mostly they were emblematic of their respective philosophies.

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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    Ugh, the fact that Ann Romney believes living off one's stock portfolio is "struggling" is a little disgusting.

    Ann Romney is disgusting. Full stop.

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    All my fuckin life I lived a normal fuckin life
  • GooeyGooey Registered User regular
    being in space in 24 months is extremely agressive

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    HR's ending fit the game but was still terrible, as was the final level in general.

    Inquisitor wrote: »
    I fucking hate you Canadians.
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    I put out my trash today

    we have a trash bin and a recycle bin

    I also put out a full box of recyclables next to the two bins

    I don't really care who takes it, trash or recycle, I just want it gone

    both pick ups left the box

    DUR DUR IF ITS NOT IN A BIN ITS NOT SOMETHING I CARE ABOUT DUR DUR

    Um yeah?

    I've never lived anywhere where sanitation will pick up random crap left outside the bin. if it isn't in the bin, they ignore it.

    Feral on
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • IncenjucarIncenjucar Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    The Romneys are straight-up from another planet.

    They don't even live in this reality.

    Future visitors from Newt's moonstate.

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