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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    Gonna suggest to Geebs that we start ordering posts in a thread by order of agrees and awesomes.

    I hate this idea so much

    I know you're making a funny

    But... I still hate it. I hate it to a Madeline Kahn degree that only she can express

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t-hyB8ibgk

  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    But then it will all just be Feral and Organichu and Atomika posts.

  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Team regular
    edited May 2021
    So, spoilers on a 10 year old game and all, but I have been laughing pretty much nonstop in portal 2
    Ever since glados got turned into a potato and I have been going through the derelict test chambers with Cave Johnson recordings.

    What a fabulously goofy / fun thing; I am annoyed I bounced off of it during the beginning of the game when it looked like just more portal 1 ten years ago.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited May 2021
    syndalis wrote: »
    So, spoilers on a 10 year old game and all, but I have been laughing pretty much nonstop in portal 2
    Ever since glados got turned into a potato and I have been going through the derelict test chambers with Cave Johnson recordings.

    What a fabulously goofy / fun thing; I am annoyed I bounced off of it during the beginning of the game when it looked like just more portal 1 ten years ago.

    edit: actually won't even hint at this.

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  • CasualCasual Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Flap Flap Flap Registered User regular
    Portal 2 is up there on my all time best written games.

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Those "movie ending explained" videos I see are usually like at least fifteen minutes long and about a movie I understood perfectly well which explained itself in less time. I assume they're for people who watch movies "in the background" or they're constantly on the phones and aren't really paying attention.

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  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    Portal 2 is outstanding in practically every respect and those bits you mentioned made me laugh a lot.

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    my ex used to read the plots to movies before we watched them so she could be on her phone during the film

    i honestly can't explain how i missed that red flag

  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Team regular
    It is also, like, way longer than I expected, considering portal 1 can be run in a couple hours if you knew all the puzzles. This one has a lot of meat on its bones and changes things up enough to not wear out its welcome.

    Breaking news I know, but Portal 2 seems like a good game. Really looking forward to more news about Portal 3, which must be coming any day now....

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  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    It is also, like, way longer than I expected, considering portal 1 can be run in a couple hours if you knew all the puzzles. This one has a lot of meat on its bones and changes things up enough to not wear out its welcome.

    Breaking news I know, but Portal 2 seems like a good game. Really looking forward to more news about Portal 3, which must be coming any day now....

    Just as soon as the team finishes working on Half Life 3

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Hmm yes there is a bear in Five Nights At Freddies

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPugqJrKgFs

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    My favorite bits of both Portal games was

    (vague environmental spoiler)
    Literally going inside the walls, scurrying around inside these weird megastructures.

    @syndalis You should also try Superliminal, it's on Steam. Don't look anything up about it.

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    Those "movie ending explained" videos I see are usually like at least fifteen minutes long and about a movie I understood perfectly well which explained itself in less time. I assume they're for people who watch movies "in the background" or they're constantly on the phones and aren't really paying attention.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URo66iLNEZw

  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Team regular
    Echo wrote: »
    My favorite bits of both Portal games was

    (vague environmental spoiler)
    Literally going inside the walls, scurrying around inside these weird megastructures.

    syndalis You should also try Superliminal, it's on Steam. Don't look anything up about it.

    environments
    yeah, they go back to that well in portal 2 to great effect, but the first time you are on the conveyor to get "cake" in portal 1 and you remember you still have the portal gun and break out of the test chamber is a top 10 videogame moment for me.

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    The only YouTube videos I've watched 'explaining' TV or films are just the Trivia pages from IMDB and bits from the Wikipedia pages of the lead actors, plus a clickbait title ("You won't BELIEVE the controversial episode of The Beverley Hillbillies that led to its cancellation!")

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    Honk wrote: »
    bloodyroarxx wrote: »
    Still shook by the departures at Giant Bomb, fucking crazy

    I feel a crushing omnipresent sense of nostalgia and sadness. I will miss them

    My hope is that their departures usher in a new generation of podcasts and new creators to grab some of the spotlight.

    But this day coming due felt somewhat inevitable ever since the acquisition.

    Jeff's statement to gamespot made it sound like he wants to reboot with a younger generation of people and that's awesome.
    Honk wrote: »
    I think part of it is the timing in life also, when Patrick and later Austin left GB I just followed where they went.

    But different phases of life and whatnot, I've scaled back the podcasts I follow to about a fourth over the recent years and I basically don't consume video content anymore apart from when my GF and I watch things together. 2018 me would say I barely play games either. If Vinny, Brad and Alex did public projects going forward I don't think I'd be able to follow. I don't want to speculate much but it seems fairly certain Vinny will not be seen in public after this friday either, he has seemed done with it for a long time.

    Can't be easy to navigate the "I'm 45 and was a video game journalist, now what" territory. I just hope they all succeed and get to do something rewarding.

    I tried to follow Waypoint but honestly I wanted to hear Patrick and Austin's take on stuff while found the others off putting, I always found "the others" to have less nuance with getting their views and opinions across.

  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Team regular
    @Echo

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    Done. I'll spin this up after I beat portal 2 and avoid any discussion on it. If it is being mentioned in the same breath as Portal, I'm in.

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  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    I think a video which analyses something interesting about a movie, as Folding Ideas often does, is distinct from a video which is just stretching "he was dead the whole time" or "he was mad" out for the regulation length. Authored video essays I have no problem with, though I baulk at really long reviews, especially of nerdy stuff, because there's honestly so little of genuine interest to say, as the film isn't often about anything.

    I think film reviews are honestly best served by the written word.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    But could King from One Punch Man beat Jotaro Kujo at Poker?

  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    film reviews are best when they come with a rating out of 5 stars that i can look at instead of reading the review

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    In this six part video essay I'll

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    I actually did watch a six part essay on House and it was interesting.

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    I wonder if video game reviewers agonise over those marks out of a hundred or those decimal marks out of 10. Is this a 7.7 or a 7.6?

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Napoleon died two hundred years ago today.

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    I wonder if video game reviewers agonise over those marks out of a hundred or those decimal marks out of 10. Is this a 7.7 or a 7.6?

    That's why Giant Bomb decided on using a five star rating - they didn't need three different numbers to represent 'mediocre'

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    Tav wrote: »
    film reviews are best when they come with a rating out of 5 stars that i can look at instead of reading the review

    This also applies to music and game reviews because I can then just not read anything less than a 3/5 because it's inevitably going to be some dumbass trying to be super edgy about dunking on whatever the thing is.

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    The best reviews cover the excellent or the execrable. That's when the reviewer allows passion into their words, spoken or written, so you remember it better.

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    A food delivery site I use wants me to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.

  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    I only accept precise game scores out of 10000 with detailed breakdowns of every pro and con leading to every point total

    I think reviews should be essentially an accounting exercise

  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    i just find video game content to be exhausting

    it feels like every morsel of information has to be posted and digested before the game is even out and it just leads me to not caring

    bring me back to the days of getting my news from a monthly copy of PC Gamer

    27 Things We Learned From The Nineteen Second Teaser Trailer Released Two Years Before The Game Is Due To Be Out.

    Every now and then The Algorithm™ really insists on showing me "Ending of Movie X explained!"

    and I'm all "yes, Bruce Willis was dead the whole time? Was this complicated?"

    Well in the Sixth Sense it was no big surprise, but for the entire Die Hard franchise, that's one I didn't see coming...

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Take that, France!

  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    Instead of review scores, every review must give the game a number indicating its ranking in the list of all video games

  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited May 2021
    Speaking of video games

    Long time games writer Nick Des Barres had his PSN account nuked by Sony for some unknown reason so he lost access to all his digital games

    spoiled for 7 tweets






    bloodyroarxx on
  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    RMS Oceanic wrote: »
    A food delivery site I use wants me to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.

    i also just got the email about ordering nachos

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    Rhesus Positive wrote: »
    The only YouTube videos I've watched 'explaining' TV or films are just the Trivia pages from IMDB and bits from the Wikipedia pages of the lead actors, plus a clickbait title ("You won't BELIEVE the controversial episode of The Beverley Hillbillies that led to its cancellation!")

    I like to read iMDB trivia after watching a movie, but there's a big chunk of it that's just outright awful.

    Yes, Actor A once worked with Actor B in Movie C. It's Hollywood!

    Also constant failure to not understand proper use of the word "ironically".

    "Ironically, Actor A played Actor B's dad in Movie C".

    How the heck is that ironic?

  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    Yesterday while driving home from work and staring at the license plate of the car in front of me I thought to myself how I had never seen in 25 years of driving in states with plates that ended in four numbers, a plate that ended in an even thousand.

    This morning I pulled up behind a car at a light on my way to work and its plate ended with 6000.

    It's like being psychokinetic but only for the most boring, mundane things possible

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    bloodyroarxx wrote: »
    Speaking of video games

    Long time games writer Nick Des Barres had his PSN account nuked by Sony for some unknown reason so he lost access to all his digital games

    spoiled for 7 tweets







    This seems like lawyer time.

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    matt has a problem wrote: »
    Yesterday while driving home from work and staring at the license plate of the car in front of me I thought to myself how I had never seen in 25 years of driving in states with plates that ended in four numbers, a plate that ended in an even thousand.

    This morning I pulled up behind a car at a light on my way to work and its plate ended with 6000.

    It's like being psychokinetic but only for the most boring, mundane things possible

    While driving in Bavaria I found another car with Northern Ireland plates, that was cool.

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