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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    I keep forgetting I have Adblocker

    I guess that means it does its job well

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    i beat cookie clicker. i have all the upgrades and have enough wealth that when new ones show up i can usually afford them soon enough by leaving it running in the background.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    yeah well I beat leekspin

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    yeah well I beat leekspin

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Hey @TubularLuggage

    Remember how you were waiting for sales on Journey and Tokyo Jungle?

    If you're waiting on that PS3 for Boxing Day, I suggest you get Plus now and hit up the web store tomorrow, Journey and Tokyo Jungle are $3.75 a piece this week

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  • TubularLuggageTubularLuggage Registered User regular
    Hey @TubularLuggage

    Remember how you were waiting for sales on Journey and Tokyo Jungle?

    If you're waiting on that PS3 for Boxing Day, I suggest you get Plus now and hit up the web store tomorrow, Journey and Tokyo Jungle are $3.75 a piece this week

    That's a pretty great deal. Thanks for the heads up.

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    I don't even know why people get worked up over a couple ad banners

    Now full screen ads fuck those

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    I tend to avoid watching TV because I find ads to be almost totally intolerable. (espescially car ads.)

    Also movie disks that have unskippable previews at the beginning. (especially when the disk is a few years old and the previews aren't even relevant.)

    Tallahasseeriel on
  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    I actually miss the ads from the PA front page. Gabe and Tycho did such a good job in vetting things before they would run ads for them that I often found out about neat games, or was reminded about games I forgot, from them.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Just make giant bomb into that steam casino they were talking about

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  • Helpless RockHelpless Rock Registered User regular
    Jars wrote: »
    this is how you do advertising

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U4-KZSoe6g

    Man, now I want to watch Truman Show again.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    It's on Netflix!

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Serious question. Why do number pads on keyboards and cash registers have 1 start at the bottom, but phones and credit card machines have the 1 start at the top?

    Maybe because telephone keypads evolved from the rotary dial, where one is at the start of the dial at the top, and when the buttons went to a grid pattern they arranged them so that the alphabet bit of the phone numbers was in alphabetical order.

    Don't know about cash registers. Probably because they started one way and then stayed that way so as not to confuse people moving from one machine to another.

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    So lost planet 3 released today

    The fact I havent heard anything about it cant be good

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  • 101101 Registered User regular
    I, uh, didn't even know there was a lost planet 3.

    Yeah that really doesn't bode well at all

  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    The only thing I heard about it is that Capcom expects it to sell gangbusters and keep them afloat for this year.

    Which is hilarious.

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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    I remember up until they announced Lost Planet 3, because the developer was hyping up that they were doing a game in a beloved science fiction universe, and there were job listings on their site for animators who were familiar with animating non-humans in third person action games (or something like that), and the leading theory was that they were the ones making Star Wars Battlefront 3.

    I had a friend who was absolutely convinced that was the case right up until they announced otherwise.

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgZtsSwh2s8

    (NSFW)

    Meanwhile, Killer Is Dead is just as gross as it sounded
    But the final insult, the aspect that takes Killer Is Dead from the annals of poorly executed late-generation action games to something truly awful, is the rampant sexism and objectification throughout.

    The most disturbing examples of this happen between story missions. As you progress, you unlock the "option" to play Gigolo scenarios, where you seduce women by literally leering at them for as long as possible while they're not looking. After working up enough nerve, you give them presents to win their "heart." If you get caught staring too much, you'll get slapped in the face and have to try again.

    I say "have to" because Killer Is Dead locks a number of sub-weapons for your mechanical arm behind the manipulated affections of the women in the gigolo missions, relegating it to what is apparently the most intrusive form of peacocking ever conceived by aspiring pickup artists. I suppose you could beat Killer Is Dead without these spoils of douchebaggery, but it would make an otherwise dull action game even more boring.

    The whole thing is crass, exploitative and gross — the women you're picking up desperately hound you multiple times per mission to let you know it's time to play the minigame again, and if you do it enough times, you're awarded achievements for making them "your prisoner body and soul." Killer Is Dead is deeply misogynistic — even stepping outside of the overwhelming ick-factor of the gigolo aspects, every female character in the game exists to be rescued, killed, gawked at or fucked for an in-game item.

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    I actually like the idea of Lost Planet. Its a neat concept

    I just wish they would give it to a team that could make an actual game

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    Oh it gets better

    the game is completely awful

    EDIT: I meant Lost Planet 3, but so is Killer Is Dead

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    lost planet 3? the third iteration of the MMO based on the critically acclaimed television show "lost"?? wow

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    It bums me out that Platinum and Nintendo are the only developers out of Japan I care about anymore.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    I had never heard of that awful thing before.

    I wish I still hadn't

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    lost planet 3? the third iteration of the MMO based on the critically acclaimed television show "lost"?? wow

    boo

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Also I've never played a Suda game I've liked.

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  • Vargas PrimeVargas Prime King of Nothing Just a ShowRegistered User regular
    hey for real, if I wasn't already pretty sold on GTAV

    Kenny Loggins as the voiceover DJ for the classic rock station might have done it

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WQNMWBSGUQ

  • The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    Okay, but what's Lazlo going to be doing

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    I don't buy that talk that they're just the people who picked the songs on the station

    That's expensive and unnecessary, plus Lazlow has always been in charge of deciding the radio content

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    The Betman wrote: »
    Okay, but what's Lazlo going to be doing

    Receiving calls from parodies of dumb Americans and defending himself from constant implications that he's gay, what else?

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  • The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    SimBen wrote: »
    The Betman wrote: »
    Okay, but what's Lazlo going to be doing

    Receiving calls from parodies of dumb Americans and defending himself from constant implications that he's gay, what else?

    Okay cool just making sure

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  • The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    Lazlow is legit one of my favorite parts of GTA.

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    If I didn't like GTA 4 because of

    A) The mechanics and
    B) The friendship stuff

    Should I still give this one a shot

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  • KilroyKilroy timaeusTestified Registered User regular
    listening to the bioforge interview, it's really weird to hear someone call vinny "vincent"

  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    If I didn't like GTA 4 because of

    A) The mechanics and
    B) The friendship stuff

    Should I still give this one a shot

    Seems like both of those are going to be pretty seriously differant, but probably still recognisable as GTA, so probably don't drop money on it day one or anything

  • McHogerMcHoger Registered User regular
    Kilroy wrote: »
    listening to the bioforge interview, it's really weird to hear someone call vinny "vincent"

    More or less weird than calling him Ynniv?

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    If I didn't like GTA 4 because of

    A) The mechanics and
    B) The friendship stuff

    Should I still give this one a shot

    Well considering nobody has played it I don't know why you're asking this now

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  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    S kill mirror matches might be the most fun I've had in a video game this year

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    If I didn't like GTA 4 because of

    A) The mechanics and
    B) The friendship stuff

    Should I still give this one a shot

    Well considering nobody has played it I don't know why you're asking this now

    I mean I haven't been following preview stuff at all

    I assumed there'd be gameplay videos and stuff and you'd be able to tell if it looked significantly different

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    by GTA4's "friendship stuff" do you mean "when you're playing multiplayer and friendly fire is off that means that hitting other players with cars doesn't deal any damage so you find a long straight street and grab the fastest car you can and just floor it and hit them going two hundred miles per hour and just see where they fly"?

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    They pretty much neutered the friendship stuff in the GTA4 DLC, and they improved mechanics significantly in RDR, so all signs point to yes this is gonna be better.

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