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[PA Comic] Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - Audacity
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i'd play that game
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THE OBVIOUS JOKE!
It is better this way.
Technically the zombie can attack the little girl once it's been alerted to the fact that she's there, thing is that only can happen with the player controlled character, not the AI controlled one.
I thought about that last night too. Tess, Ellie... they're all so noisy! I'm glad Naughty Dog made the game how they did, though. Just funny to see them running around scuffing shoes, bumping things and making noise with no consequence. I'm sitting there "WIll you guys keep it down...Jesus! Am I the only professional here?!" *scootch a half a centimeter to the right and knock a bucket over*
... goddammit. And suddenly I'm the belle of the ball at Clicker Prom...
But very rarely the immersion is broken and the NPCs will do something dumb. Or loud. And then you realize that you are invincible as long as your character remains in stealth and unseen.
I mean, sure, I'd love for AI that can actively help and adapt to match my strategies, but I understand the difficulties there and I will gladly settle for the AI not actively making shit worse.
You can see some footage here (hope the timestamp works for you, it's supposed to start at 2:00).
Maybe not go for the obvious one?
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Also, why are people criticizing them for the "obvious joke" here. Who cares if both Ctl Alt Del and PA both say the same thing. This is what was on their mind. Both the PA comic and the CAD news post came out on the same day, so this is simply a matter of being the subject that is on the mind of the satirists.
That would be like criticizing Jay Leno and David Letterman for both making a joke on the same night about something dumb that someone did. If it's on their mind, that's what they're going to talk about.
One thing I'd like to see is the zombies don't ignore other non-zombies. Throw a noisemaker over to some hostile NPCs and watch the Clicker doing what comes naturally.
People don't want to admit that great minds think alike, because they refuse to accept either one party or the other had a great mind.
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
It looks like an exotic, anthropomorphic flower in bloom
An exotic, anthropomorphic flower in bloom that also kills people because a fungus is eating its brain, but hey
you're only thinking this way because THE FUNGUS IS INSIDE YOU
you should probably see a doctor about that.
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Holy shit that guy's annoying, he's like a more-informative PewDiePie.
It's especially bad when you meet Bill. He's a big guy and his footsteps reflect that. A lot of that section is about being sneaky, but every time you move you hear Bill's thunderous running as he tries to keep up.
As for the "obvious joke" thing, I don't think the joke being obvious ruined it, I still laughed, but it was obvious. It seems to me that you can't possibly play the game without making the observation this joke is based on. I'm not sure the "great minds" thing said above can be used here, unless everyone has a great mind.
The first time Clickers are explained, it's hard to imagine anyone not having a moment of panic when one of the AI goes sprinting past one, before realizing the AI is immune to detection.
I think the flaw in the obvious joke criticism is in saying that because it's obvious it isn't funny. A lot of jokes are funny because they are obvious. This is a really well drawn, amusing comic about a shared experience. It plays on the fact that this is so obvious. It's a "funny cause it's true" comic.
Man, analyzing and trying to explain humor is so gross.
Suuuuper tight butthole clench at that first big dark room full of clickers...
When I got to that room, I had to stop lounging into the couch. I sat forward and focused... and Tess is stomping around running right near them. "Tess... what the FUCK?!"
"Wait..what? Ohhhhhh they wont attack the AI unless I alert them. Neat!"
If you hurl 140 characters of vitriol at him, he'll probably hurl some back, no matter what the topic or viewpoint is. At least when his granite slab is packed up out of reach, anyway.
that being said, dammit Gabe, step away from the Twitters once in a while.
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(I was being silly above)
I agree. Unfortunately it's a really touchy topic, I was mostly just commenting on how in the interest of protecting hurt feelings it's something that is bannable on the forums, yet discussion (as shown in Mike's case, AND in the case where I pissed someone off on the forums) can change a lot of perspectives. Mine changed.
It's something that most people don't think about every day. And it's something that some people think about every moment of their lives. Of course our gut reaction is to lash out when one side's being called intolerant when they don't understand what they're being intolerant of.
That's pretty much all I had to say about this while it was still relevant, and before Tube kills me.
Wait, wasn't she not involved in this game?
Did I fall into a time warp or some kind of Bizarro forum?
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