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  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    Isorn wrote: »
    CorriganX wrote: »
    Antoshka struck out of nowhere after his Hockey game (Field Hockey, not REAL hockey) and got me with the Guardian of the Galaxy bundle for Marvel Heroes. WOO! So hyped. Thanks so much. <3<3<3<3<3 ROCKET RACCOON AND STAR-LORD WOOOOOO.

    There is a field hockey game? (aka the only real hockey)

    I misread that I think. I would really like a field hockey game to be a real thing.

    I remember a while ago there was a shareware capture the flag game. Big fields and teams searching to find it. I think this was it. This needs to be updated rather than some shitty game mode in every damned FPS.

    If that's the one I'm thinking of - and it looks very much like it - I lost many hours to that game. It looks primitive but it really is incredibly good.

  • bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    Jazz wrote: »
    Isorn wrote: »
    CorriganX wrote: »
    Antoshka struck out of nowhere after his Hockey game (Field Hockey, not REAL hockey) and got me with the Guardian of the Galaxy bundle for Marvel Heroes. WOO! So hyped. Thanks so much. <3<3<3<3<3 ROCKET RACCOON AND STAR-LORD WOOOOOO.

    There is a field hockey game? (aka the only real hockey)

    I misread that I think. I would really like a field hockey game to be a real thing.

    I remember a while ago there was a shareware capture the flag game. Big fields and teams searching to find it. I think this was it. This needs to be updated rather than some shitty game mode in every damned FPS.

    If that's the one I'm thinking of - and it looks very much like it - I lost many hours to that game. It looks primitive but it really is incredibly good.

    That website looks like it's in the same timewarp as the Space Jam website.

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  • chasmchasm Ill-tempered Texan Registered User regular
    I've never seen Space Jam. I've been informed that this makes me a terrible person, despite thinking that Big Trouble In Little China is the greatest movie of all time.

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  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    Jazz wrote: »
    Isorn wrote: »
    CorriganX wrote: »
    Antoshka struck out of nowhere after his Hockey game (Field Hockey, not REAL hockey) and got me with the Guardian of the Galaxy bundle for Marvel Heroes. WOO! So hyped. Thanks so much. <3<3<3<3<3 ROCKET RACCOON AND STAR-LORD WOOOOOO.

    There is a field hockey game? (aka the only real hockey)

    I misread that I think. I would really like a field hockey game to be a real thing.

    I remember a while ago there was a shareware capture the flag game. Big fields and teams searching to find it. I think this was it. This needs to be updated rather than some shitty game mode in every damned FPS.

    If that's the one I'm thinking of - and it looks very much like it - I lost many hours to that game. It looks primitive but it really is incredibly good.

    That website looks like it's in the same timewarp as the Space Jam website.

    It mentions shareware yo. This is literally straight from the 90s.

    Jazz
  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    chasm wrote: »
    I've never seen Space Jam. I've been informed that this makes me a terrible person, despite thinking that Big Trouble In Little China is the greatest movie of all time.

    It's nostalgia more than anything to be honest. I hadn't seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit yet so seeing real people and the Looney Toons together was neat to my child mind. Michael Jordan? Eh sure whatever but cartoons!

  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    However, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is not just nostalgia. That's a superbly crafted film whichever way you slice it.

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  • Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
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    Just when I thought it was safe to emerge from the birthday bomb shelter...

    Thanks to @Orivon for Last Word, which looks like a fascinating bit of fun. I see it described in several places as very evocative of an Agatha Christie novel, so I'm quite intrigued! Thank you!

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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  • Ed GrubermanEd Gruberman Registered User regular
    By the way, i had a out of fun on Friday night playing Mass Effect 3 with @chasm and @Jazz. Thanks a lot, gentlemen. Sadly @CorriganX decided that getting a character from 58 to 60 in Marvel Heroes was more important.

    We still love ya

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  • Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
    Jazz wrote: »
    However, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is not just nostalgia. That's a superbly crafted film whichever way you slice it.

    It can't help it. It's just drawn that way.

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    ironzerg wrote: »
    Chipmunks are like nature's nipple clamps, I guess?
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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    chasm wrote: »
    I've never seen Space Jam. I've been informed that this makes me a terrible person, despite thinking that Big Trouble In Little China is the greatest movie of all time.

    Space Jam is actually a terrible movie. It's a bunch of disjointed scenes and ideas that are held together, ostensibly, by an plot so thin it couldn't even be stretched to fit an 89 minute running time. The animation has horrible digital shading, the vast majority of the jokes fall flat, and you can almost hear the committee meetings that required X and such to happen because Michael Jordan wanted it to happen.

    That said, it is worth watching at least once, because of a certain celebrity cameo that I daren't spoil for you.

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  • StollsStolls Brave Corporate Logo Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    Space Jam is worth watching because it sets up the plot for Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden.

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  • AtaxrxesAtaxrxes Hellnation Cursed EarthRegistered User regular
    Do you guys ever have the Steam thread up and scroll down a little while you are maybe looking over your shoulder or something and when you look back it's like "Oh my gosh, I just received a gift" but nope it is someone's gift screenshot taken in just such a way that it looks just like a window popped up on your desktop? Or maybe that is just me.

  • destroyah87destroyah87 They/Them She/HerRegistered User regular
    Ataxrxes wrote: »
    Do you guys ever have the Steam thread up and scroll down a little while you are maybe looking over your shoulder or something and when you look back it's like "Oh my gosh, I just received a gift" but nope it is someone's gift screenshot taken in just such a way that it looks just like a window popped up on your desktop? Or maybe that is just me.

    Nope, I can say that I've never had that happen. Mostly because I have my task bar visible and can always see when there's another Steam window opened.

    Though that's pretty funny.

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  • BigityBigity Lubbock, TXRegistered User regular
    chasm wrote: »
    I've never seen Space Jam. I've been informed that this makes me a terrible person, despite thinking that Big Trouble In Little China is the greatest movie of all time.

    Big Trouble in Little China IS the greatest movie of all time.

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  • YoshuaYoshua Registered User regular
    Bigity wrote: »
    chasm wrote: »
    I've never seen Space Jam. I've been informed that this makes me a terrible person, despite thinking that Big Trouble In Little China is the greatest movie of all time.

    Big Trouble in Little China IS the greatest movie of all time.

    I really want to agree with this, but it doesn't have giant mind controlled alien robot amazons.

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  • AtaxrxesAtaxrxes Hellnation Cursed EarthRegistered User regular
    I guess I should have known that something like this was likely to happen:
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    Thanks @destroyah87! This looks super fun!

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  • KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    Having some Witcher issues: it wants to crash a lot, and in the Fields section of the game, when the sun is going down, it tints the whole screen blue. No other windows are effected by that last one, and if I leave the area it will go away, but it's annoying nonetheless.

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  • CorsiniCorsini Registered User regular
    That sale on Alien: Isolation at the Humble Store is pretty exciting, except I remembered it's a game finely crafted to make me not enjoy playing it. But it's on sale!

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  • fedaykin666fedaykin666 Registered User regular
    For 7 years I have waited. To arms, Gallia!

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  • KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    Corsini wrote: »
    That sale on Alien: Isolation at the Humble Store is pretty exciting, except I remembered it's a game finely crafted to make me not enjoy playing it. But it's on sale!

    Kentucky Route Zero for the same price. Less overall gameplay (until the last two episodes come out) but a much more enjoyable experience for scaredy cats like me.

  • Sangheili91Sangheili91 Registered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    chasm wrote: »
    I've never seen Space Jam. I've been informed that this makes me a terrible person, despite thinking that Big Trouble In Little China is the greatest movie of all time.

    Space Jam is actually a terrible movie. It's a bunch of disjointed scenes and ideas that are held together, ostensibly, by an plot so thin it couldn't even be stretched to fit an 89 minute running time. The animation has horrible digital shading, the vast majority of the jokes fall flat, and you can almost hear the committee meetings that required X and such to happen because Michael Jordan wanted it to happen.

    That said, it is worth watching at least once, because of a certain celebrity cameo that I daren't spoil for you.

    Is the cameo
    Bill Murray
    ?

    It's been a long time since I've seen the movie. It was awesome when I was a kid!

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  • EvmaAlsarEvmaAlsar Birmingham, EnglandRegistered User regular
    For 7 years I have waited. To arms, Gallia!

    It was worth the wait.
    Even if I can't get past the point I'm at on my replay because I know it's gonna make me cry
    You stood always smiling, ever quiet, ever tender...
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  • CorpekataCorpekata Registered User regular
    24 hours till the witching hour.

  • jclastjclast Registered User regular
    Everybody else out there with Invisible, Inc.:
    I have just done the following sort of mission:
    prisoner extraction
    . Said mission was successful. So my question is this:
    Do I get to use 3 agents on my next mission? Because having 3 agents would be great, even if I only have 2 guns for them to use.

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    Any thoughts on Minimon?

    Saw it in Chocobolicous' sig and it caught my eye.

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  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    Corpekata wrote: »
    24 hours till the witching hour.

    *(t)witch*

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  • KarozKaroz Registered User regular
    Don't remind me. It's going to be a long night at work followed by a too short a period of sleep before I play.

  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    jclast wrote: »
    Everybody else out there with Invisible, Inc.:
    I have just done the following sort of mission:
    prisoner extraction
    . Said mission was successful. So my question is this:
    Do I get to use 3 agents on my next mission? Because having 3 agents would be great, even if I only have 2 guns for them to use.

    Yup.

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  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    Isorn wrote: »
    CorriganX wrote: »
    Antoshka struck out of nowhere after his Hockey game (Field Hockey, not REAL hockey) and got me with the Guardian of the Galaxy bundle for Marvel Heroes. WOO! So hyped. Thanks so much. <3<3<3<3<3 ROCKET RACCOON AND STAR-LORD WOOOOOO.

    There is a field hockey game? (aka the only real hockey)

    I misread that I think. I would really like a field hockey game to be a real thing.

    I remember a while ago there was a shareware capture the flag game. Big fields and teams searching to find it. I think this was it. This needs to be updated rather than some shitty game mode in every damned FPS.

    I loved this game. I've had designs for an updated real-time mobile version with some MOBA trappings scrawled on a whiteboard for weeks.

    It's kind of crazy how many CTF video games don't have any sort of stealth involved. It's such an integral part of the real-world game.

    Jazz
  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    So I went and was editing my Steam profile, nothing major, just re-organizing my four favorite game listings, when I notice that I had passed a Steam milestone and hadn't even realized it!

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  • destroyah87destroyah87 They/Them She/HerRegistered User regular
    @Shade is now using card funds from games I have allegedaly gifted to him to send me retaliatory gifts.
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    I'm pretty sure this warrents more gifting, to keep current totals even. But no doubt Shade will disagree.

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  • ShadeShade Registered User regular
    @destroyah87 is at it again...

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  • destroyah87destroyah87 They/Them She/HerRegistered User regular
    And Nobody threws some Grey Goo my way.
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    Thanks Nobody or whoever!

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  • HeatwaveHeatwave Come, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered User regular
    You have Nobody to thank but your self, Destroyah :P

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  • ShadeShade Registered User regular
    @viking ...Its still not my birthday...but thank you :)

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  • AistanAistan Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    edited May 2015
    Lords of the Fallen: not that great.

    It's fair to say i'm a Big Fan of the Souls games. Big enough to have bought DS1 and 2 twice, and 100%ed them twice, plus SL1 runs etc. Lords of the Fallen is really trying to fill that same kind of niche but there are quite a few design decisions that make it not work well. There's only a very small window when most enemies are vulnerable after an attack, or after a stun, so that makes heavy weapons unusable since by the time your weapon starts to swing they've either got their shield back up or are attacking you and staggering you out of the animation. Enemies also don't stagger reliably, so that means even if you do get an attack off within that window you're probably going to get hit by their counterattack before you can bring your shield up or dodge. This means you will get hit, which means if you're not wearing heavy armor you're going to have a rough time of it. I started the game as a full-on rogue, and in addition to those problems above the rogue spells are complete garbage. I banged my head against the brick wall of it for a couple of hours, then started over as a Warrior with Cleric spells. This combination let me steamroll the entire game, beating every single boss except for the first one (because I had no good equipment or ability to level) and the last one in just one attempt. (The last boss took two).

    I guess it was worth $20, but only barely. Wait for a pretty good sale, or just play Dark Souls instead.

    Aistan on
  • DrovekDrovek Registered User regular
    Better late than never!

    @akajaybay gifted me both Wolfenstein Old Blood and Book of Unwritten tales from a glorious death in Steam Battle!

    Thanks a bunch!

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  • KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    While I was saving the world again when nobody asked me (even though they did ask, and offered 8000 orens for my services, so there Dandelion), @Corsini snuck in and turned off all the lights. I rushed over to turn them back on, and was zapped by a copy of Gunpoint!

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  • MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    BTW guys the final round of Steam Battle is starting up tomorrow, now is the time to catch up on the thread. Things have been crazy.

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  • KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    I fought for neutrality, discovered the culprit behind the theft of witcher secrets, and even denied the King of the Wild Hunt his prize. That was actually a really good ending. Past some of the wonkier mechanics and stiff acting, I can see why the game is well regarded. In many ways it makes me think of Neverwinter Nights or Baldur's Gate, actually.

    Now, hopefully the import can snag my stuff into the second one . . .

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