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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    Lasbrook wrote: »
    Oh hey, they’re finally hiring voidburger. They’ve been relying on her a lot and she seems cool so I’m glad she got a job out of it.

    That's the first thing since the changes that might get me to stay subscribed tbh

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  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    Is she gonna be on the bombcast?

    Id start listening again.

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  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    She's already been on the Bombcast

    Dunno if she's gonna be on every week

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Diarmuid wrote: »
    She's already been on the Bombcast

    Dunno if she's gonna be on every week

    What when? I don't remember this

  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    @WeedLordVegeta has a rival it seems, a shitty rival at that.



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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    I don't know the scope of G4 as to whether they'd collaborate, but it just occurred to me that now Abby works for the same company as Fiona Nova (semi-formally of Achievement Hunter) and that's some crossing the streams of internet people I like that I didn't see coming.

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited October 2021
    I dunno how I feel about G4 coming back

    like, it's cool to have a videogame channel but

    I don't think they're gonna have weird stuff like that one show that took place in several different actual real MMOs

    Depressperado on
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  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    How long before it's reruns of cops and arrested development?

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    Is Adam Sessler still involved?

  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    been a fan of voidburger since the text-only commentary silent hill LP days, very rad news

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  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    oh shit I forgot about old LPs, screenshots and shit

    I read so many people playing games, I feel like it lent the player a narrative freedom that video LPs lack

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    oh shit I forgot about old LPs, screenshots and shit

    I read so many people playing games, I feel like it lent the player a narrative freedom that video LPs lack

    I read most of DarkID's LPs back in the day. Probably don't hold up, but the flexibility of sprinkling in your own text between screenshots and silly photoshops was a hoot.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    The Dark ID's stuff is amazing, highly recommend, it's all on The LP Archive. The legendary Tresspasser LP by Research Indicates is also there!

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    fishman's xcom LP was the thing that got me to hang around here

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    Honestly I am surprised they’re even trying to restart g4.

    But hey take rich people’s investment capital until the bottom falls out, fuck em.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    I am happy that someone is giving Abby money, but I cannot follow her on this path

    I'll be happy to keep watching her on twitch if she keeps streaming, however

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  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    I might watch Austin Creed's show but yeah, G4 just sounds so bizarre and terrible

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  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    The thing about going back to read or watch old LPs is that you are just gonna have to brace yourself for the fact that 10 years ago a whole lot of folks said some shit regularly that would not fly today.

    I don't hold it against them (mostly, some were obviously beyond the pail even then) cause like, EVERYBODY was doing that shit. But it is what it is.

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  • AistanAistan Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    Imageshack implemented a premium subscription requirement at some point in the last 14 years, so all... 1848 pictures from my LP can no longer be linked to. Looking now it's just my horrible, horrible writing that's left.

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited October 2021
    I liked the one where Moriveth and De?ad played that kicking fantasy game.

    That wasn't an image text thing, though. It was a moving picture and talking one.

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  • SatanIsMyMotorSatanIsMyMotor Fuck Warren Ellis Registered User regular
    Is Adam Sessler still involved?

    Unfortunately.

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  • captainkcaptaink TexasRegistered User regular
    Nakar's Ultima LPs were great. Funny, and they showed how to break the games in multiple fun ways.

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  • DocshiftyDocshifty Registered User regular
    There was someone who had put together a great Fallout Tactics LP around here.

    Shit had legit arcs ans character development. Was awesome.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    I enjoyed doing my Sims 4 LPs but god it was so much work.

    I still kind of idly consider doing a video LP of something, but I don't really have anyone to do a LP with, and I'm not good enough at any particular game to just have my sick game skills be the primary attraction.

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    Docshifty wrote: »
    There was someone who had put together a great Fallout Tactics LP around here.

    Shit had legit arcs ans character development. Was awesome.

    are you thinking of the XCOM LP that Fishman did?

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    Is Adam Sessler still involved?

    Unfortunately.

    I'm afraid to ask, what did Sessler do?

  • never dienever die Registered User regular
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Is Adam Sessler still involved?

    Unfortunately.

    I'm afraid to ask, what did Sessler do?

    He went on some weird drunken transphobic rant if I remember correctly.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    against danika harrod, among others

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  • SatanIsMyMotorSatanIsMyMotor Fuck Warren Ellis Registered User regular
    Sessler seems to like to work himself into these weird fits of white-man impotent rage which, I admit, is only annoying. But yes, once he let slip a good bit a transphobia, never apologized, and deleted the tweets he made.

    I don't think he's an evil man, but I could do without him being a part of G4TV. Him just making an apology would've gone a long way.

  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    That's a big thing with personality-driven content: It's hard to associate the product without the personality, such that it almost is easier to just make something new with new personality... but then you lose the name recognition.

    Like personally I'd like to see a return of Tech TV and Leo Laporte, but that's just me -- and I haven't listened to his stuff in the last 10 years to know if he's milkshake duck'd himself.

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited October 2021
    Did a quick search and Leo has apparently pissed off enough people there are multiple domains (not just pages, full DOMAINS) of people accusing him of sexist behavior and harrassment; though corroberating this stuff is a little more difficult.

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  • SatanIsMyMotorSatanIsMyMotor Fuck Warren Ellis Registered User regular
    Leo Laporte showed a picture of his dick on a livestream once apparently. I've never had the gumption to check on that myself though.

  • DocshiftyDocshifty Registered User regular
    DJ Eebs wrote: »
    Docshifty wrote: »
    There was someone who had put together a great Fallout Tactics LP around here.

    Shit had legit arcs ans character development. Was awesome.

    are you thinking of the XCOM LP that Fishman did?

    Nah, a quick Google and I found it

    https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/43435/lets-play-fallout-tactics-great-bend-part-1b-and-2-poor-rage-nsf56k/p1

    I haven't gone through to reread it, but fair warning, an LP from '07 probably has some problematic parts (as evidenced by the use of the R word in the OP), but I don't recall anything egregious (though at the time, I probably wouldn't have thought it was that bad, so that doesn't mean much).

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  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    That whole incident with Sessler was…ugh.

    You had multiple games journo folks, even ones he used to work with (wasn’t Patrick at G4?) trying to walk him back and he just wouldn’t do it.

    I think immediately after this was when his bio quietly changed to show him as no longer working with his former consultancy firm too.

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    rhylith wrote: »
    That whole incident with Sessler was…ugh.

    You had multiple games journo folks, even ones he used to work with (wasn’t Patrick at G4?) trying to walk him back and he just wouldn’t do it.

    I think immediately after this was when his bio quietly changed to show him as no longer working with his former consultancy firm too.

    Yeah but what are you gunna do? Not let the old white dude remain in a place of prominence?!

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    Did a quick search and Leo has apparently pissed off enough people there are multiple domains (not just pages, full DOMAINS) of people accusing him of sexist behavior and harrassment; though corroberating this stuff is a little more difficult.
    Leo Laporte showed a picture of his dick on a livestream once apparently. I've never had the gumption to check on that myself though.


    Whelp. Milkshake Duck it is!

    I only briefly skimmed his wikipedia to make sure I spelled his name right. I knew he always seemed really enamored by that Gibson guy who did security and sold software that supposedly made your PC work better but in actuality thrashed your hard drive and the like.

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
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