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  • akajaybayakajaybay Registered User regular
    On this weeks bombcat, I can't tell if Brad is deliberately trolling Rorie or not. There's 3-4 times in there where he starts to talk about something someone else just said as if he hadn;t heard them. Most of them Rorie.
    Usually it'd be Rorie doing the whole repeating just discussed things shtick.

  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    Cline seems like the kinda dude that complains about how women don't like nice guys and think the greatest expression of hip-hop is nerdcore.

  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    Zxerol wrote: »
    Cline seems like the kinda dude that complains about how women don't like nice guys and think the greatest expression of hip-hop is nerdcore.

    God I hate to think these people exist but I'm sure they do and they must just be the most insufferable shits imaginable.

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  • FuriousJodoFuriousJodo Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Ready Player One is a neat premise that is poorly written and reads like someone who didn't grow up in the 80s but LOVES the 80s.

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  • CenoCeno pizza time Registered User regular
    I now know why Mario makes the noises that he makes in games, because they are the noises that a person like Abby involuntarily makes when trying to play a difficult platformer.

    NEE
    WOO
    WHAAA
    YAA
    WO-OOOH

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  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    Ceno wrote: »
    I now know why Mario makes the noises that he makes in games, because they are the noises that a person like Abby involuntarily makes when trying to play a difficult platformer.

    NEE
    WOO
    WHAAA
    YAA
    WO-OOOH

    my favorite is when things aren't going her way and she just angrily yells out 'mariooOOOO!'

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    Dan Brown's voice reminds me of Drew.

    Now I'm sad.
    They got the author of The Da Vinci Code on the Bombcast? I mean, sure, his star has faded a bit, but that's cool. At least he probably won't drop unannounced ending spoilers for a game that has been out for less than a month like Peter Brown.

    (I actually like when Peter is on, but that NieR Automata thing really sucked and I'm glad people warned me ahead of time.)

    Shush.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Zxerol wrote: »
    Cline seems like the kinda dude that complains about how women don't like nice guys and think the greatest expression of hip-hop is nerdcore.

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    Ignore the fact that like three of the four bands he lists there are actually from the 70s, he does his big I Love The 80s masturbation page and somehow doesn't even mention 80s rap

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  • admanbadmanb unionize your workplace Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Zxerol wrote: »
    Cline seems like the kinda dude that complains about how women don't like nice guys and think the greatest expression of hip-hop is nerdcore.

    sIWZ01r.jpg

    Ignore the fact that like three of the four bands he lists there are actually from the 70s, he does his big I Love The 80s masturbation page and somehow doesn't even mention 80s rap

    "I listen to everything except rap and country."

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    He's like a parody

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    I mean, Dan playing hardcore platformers is more like a cursing Mario, making random grunt noises and cursing in between them.

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  • GoodKingJayIIIGoodKingJayIII They wanna get my gold on the ceilingRegistered User regular
    Finished the Bombcast today. I knew Jason had had a rough time growing up, but I don't think I realized how rough until he hinted at and even outright stated some of the shit he had to deal with as a kid.

    Damn.

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  • VeagleVeagle Registered User regular
    Oh Dan, no.

    "You ever go a few years, and then realize you haven't eaten a fruit or vegetable?"

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Zxerol wrote: »
    Cline seems like the kinda dude that complains about how women don't like nice guys and think the greatest expression of hip-hop is nerdcore.

    This seems sort of like a mean assumption about a dude because he wrote a book about how much he likes the 80s and weird easter eggs. But hey I enjoyed the book, it's a fun quick read.

    Dan's love of Wal-Mart and total resistance when it was suggested that maybe he look into that a bit was kind of amazing, in a horrifying way.

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    Veagle wrote: »
    Oh Dan, no.

    "You ever go a few years, and then realize you haven't eaten a fruit or vegetable?"

    like, a specific fruit or vegetable, sure.

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    i mean we know for a fact that he eats vegetables because he eats taco bell

    i would totally believe that most people don't eat many fruits and vegetables on their own and mostly just eat them mixed with other things

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  • VeagleVeagle Registered User regular
    Knight_ wrote: »
    Veagle wrote: »
    Oh Dan, no.

    "You ever go a few years, and then realize you haven't eaten a fruit or vegetable?"

    like, a specific fruit or vegetable, sure.

    No, any fruit or vegetables.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    Every time Dan says a thing, there are people in this thread who are like "Yeah, right on!" so I can't imagine he is alone in the not eating vegetables or fruit thing.

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    I'm sure a large portion of the american populace doesn't eat fruits or vegetables

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  • admanbadmanb unionize your workplace Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Zxerol wrote: »
    Cline seems like the kinda dude that complains about how women don't like nice guys and think the greatest expression of hip-hop is nerdcore.

    This seems sort of like a mean assumption about a dude because he wrote a book about how much he likes the 80s and weird easter eggs. But hey I enjoyed the book, it's a fun quick read.

    They're not saying that because of RP1, they're saying it because of his extremely gross spoken word poetry.

    Maximum
  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2017
    admanb wrote: »
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Zxerol wrote: »
    Cline seems like the kinda dude that complains about how women don't like nice guys and think the greatest expression of hip-hop is nerdcore.

    This seems sort of like a mean assumption about a dude because he wrote a book about how much he likes the 80s and weird easter eggs. But hey I enjoyed the book, it's a fun quick read.

    They're not saying that because of RP1, they're saying it because of his extremely gross spoken word poetry.

    Yeah. Not to belabor the Ernest Cline/Ready Player One shit too much more, but don't misunderstand me -- an unrepentant species of uberdork -- as dunking on a dude for being a nerd who wrote pieces of nostalgia bait or anything. I'm the type of motherfucker that has several gigs of synthwave music on their phone right the fuck now, jesus christ.

    But when you proudly publish sexist shit badly objectifying women, the exact kind of shit that isn't uncommon among nerdy spaces, imma gonna extrapolate from that.

    Hey maybe he has grown since he wrote that stuff in his late 20s. Cool. Forget what I said about a dude raking in that Spielburg chedder.

    ... Unless he actually loves nerdcore.

    Then there is no hope from him.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    "I feel I'd get more use out of magic than knowledge."
    Dan in a nutshell. <3

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    i mean you can magic yourself some knowledge

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    Vinny having to walk away at the Yoshi section cracked me up. I had to pause the video for a solid 10 seconds, just laughing.

  • BRIAN BLESSEDBRIAN BLESSED Maybe you aren't SPEAKING LOUDLY ENOUGHHH Registered User regular
    I mean it's entirely possible that under the direction of someone like Spielberg the film adaptation could turn out to be more sincere and measured in tone

    Obviously, depending on the way the script writers read the source material

  • RandomHajileRandomHajile Not actually a Snatcher The New KremlinRegistered User regular
    I mean it's entirely possible that under the direction of someone like Spielberg the film adaptation could turn out to be more sincere and measured in tone

    Obviously, depending on the way the script writers read the source material
    Also, all of those nostalgic references can be quick visual castoffs or easter eggs, where in a book, you're having to describe them, especially if you assume the reader doesn't necessarily have the same frame of reference as you. I enjoyed the book as a popcorn, summer, sittin' on the porch sippin' lemonade kinda book. However, I'm not defending Cline and his misogyny or vapid nostalgia.

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  • captainkcaptaink TexasRegistered User regular
    The trailer looks bad in its own way.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiK2fhOY0nE

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    Has anybody rewritten RP1 to be less bad? Sort of like those people obsessed with re editing the star wars prequels into better movies

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  • SatanIsMyMotorSatanIsMyMotor Fuck Warren Ellis Registered User regular
    If you rewrote RP1 to only contain the good stuff you'd have a 3 page double-spaced 13 year old's school essay.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited August 2017
    Maybe if you boil it down, RP1 is one of those few works that is better in movie form than in book form

    Didn't say good, I said better

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    People edit the Star Wars prequels cuz they like the old ones. If you don't like RP1 you just...don't like it. You have no emotional connection to make you want to change it

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  • GoodKingJayIIIGoodKingJayIII They wanna get my gold on the ceilingRegistered User regular
    I watched that trailer and I have no idea what that movie is supposed to be about or why I should care.

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  • FuriousJodoFuriousJodo Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Every time Dan says a thing, there are people in this thread who are like "Yeah, right on!" so I can't imagine he is alone in the not eating vegetables or fruit thing.

    I've got a friend who basically just eats meat and cheese and sometimes bread as a vessel for said meat and cheese. We were in Las Vegas for EVO a few years back and we went to a Chinese resturant - he ordered Beef & Broccoli but told them to hold the Broccoli. He's also literally afraid of mustard - like you can't even put a bottle near him.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    I don't even think Dan is afraid of mustard, he just doesn't like it. Even his angry pickle rant immediately went from threatening to punch Vinny to maybe wanting to try pickles

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  • BRIAN BLESSEDBRIAN BLESSED Maybe you aren't SPEAKING LOUDLY ENOUGHHH Registered User regular
    edited August 2017
    People edit the Star Wars prequels cuz they like the old ones. If you don't like RP1 you just...don't like it. You have no emotional connection to make you want to change it

    It's a separate argument, but I enjoyed the prequels for what they are. I'm of the mind that there is a lot of fluff that could be excised but there are plenty of things that make them enjoyable for me, and the prequel settings inspired a whole world of creators just as easily as the original trilogy did, so they had to have done something right.

    Likewise, I'm not wholly against blatant nostalgia plays on principle. From people's opinions it seems like this novel leans towards the Fanfiction.net excess of the scale, but films like Wreck-It-Ralph proved nostalgia plays can be readily done with the right amount of self-control

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  • Mx. QuillMx. Quill I now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually... {They/Them}Registered User regular
    I'd love if Abby somehow ends up victorious in Steal My Sunshine in spite of her betting away all her Shines whenever she gets one.

    It would be the most Mario Party karmic moment if she draws the swap gumball at the end and takes Dan's.

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  • MaximumMaximum Registered User regular
    Alex getting a blue gumball is just the saddest thing.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    It's perfect.

  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    If Ben is as sick as he/the other guys are saying he is, I wonder why they pushed the DOTA feature to Thursday

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  • RehabRehab Registered User regular
    I watched that trailer and I have no idea what that movie is supposed to be about or why I should care.

    Not knowing anything about Ready Player One beside what I saw in that trailer it looks like fanservice for gamers by way of a scenario in which gamers must use their leet skillz to SAVE THE WORLD.

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