Because Jack Black is a big name you can slap on the poster?
It's literally just this. Same reason they hired Vin Diesel just to say, "I am Groot" with 20 different intonations.
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I have reached Residual Processing in Black Mesa. All these industrial back rooms feel very Portal.
I'm still enjoying the game a lot, with 2 caveats. Anything involving soldiers or turrets is super annoying. And any time the game tries to be a platformer. Just, please stop. Gordon is possibly the most surprisingly capable character I have ever encountered in videogames but he moves like he's wearing rollerskates and every time you make me do platforming I want to have a little cry.
Yeah, that was one of those things that they were still fucking around with in 1998 and the Black Mesa team decided to bring over to their remake. Given the remake is roughly "HL1 in the HL2 engine," it's kind of baffling, considering they made sure to get rid of that shit by the time of Half-Life 2.
But Black Mesa existed for like nearly a decade as a fan mod, so some sections were a lot more direct translations than others, and Residue Processing is one of them.
It's also probably one of the two worst non-Xen levels in the original Half-Life.
Because Jack Black is a big name you can slap on the poster?
It's literally just this. Same reason they hired Vin Diesel just to say, "I am Groot" with 20 different intonations.
To be fair jack black is an excellent comedic voice actor, which does fit claptrap's vibe and is a lot greater utilization of the actor than voicing groot.
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Because Jack Black is a big name you can slap on the poster?
It's literally just this. Same reason they hired Vin Diesel just to say, "I am Groot" with 20 different intonations.
To be fair jack black is an excellent comedic voice actor, which does fit claptrap's vibe and is a lot greater utilization of the actor than voicing groot.
Because Jack Black is a big name you can slap on the poster?
It's literally just this. Same reason they hired Vin Diesel just to say, "I am Groot" with 20 different intonations.
To be fair jack black is an excellent comedic voice actor, which does fit claptrap's vibe and is a lot greater utilization of the actor than voicing groot.
well no, because Jack Black is funny.
I've found a decent amount of people don't find Jack Black's shtick funny.
Why would you ever cast Jack Black as Claptrap? The whole point of Claptrap is that everyone hates his stupid autotuned voice and your pick for that is Jack Black?
Apparently he met Randy Pitchford at a con and Pitchford said "When we make the Borderlands movie, you have to be Claptrap!" and Jack Black said "Yes! I'm in!" and somehow that counts as a legally binding contract.
Well, Pitchford tells the first part of the story, I'm extrapolating from there.
If I was in Jack Black’s shoes I’d also be thinking “you just want some voice work instead of having me stand in a desert or green screen studio doing take after take? Heck yeah.”
Jack Black has never struck me as being particularly picky about what roles he takes. I like him as an actor and he's had some great roles, but he's also been in some pretty bad movies.
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Look, not a single one of you can fault Jack Black's lifestyle of doing some remote voice work to pay for a few more years of playing video games and shitposting on the internet.
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Jack Black has never struck me as being particularly picky about what roles he takes. I like him as an actor and he's had some great roles, but he's also been in some pretty bad movies.
I think he just takes roles that he feels will be fun. And, honestly we should all be so lucky.
I picked up Balatro last night and boy is it fun.
Had a fun run this morning mostly built around the Vampire joker, which has a multiplier multiplier of 2x, and every time you play an enhanced card it removes the enhancement and increases the multiplier by 0.2. Combined that with a joker that gives 1 mult for ever tarot you've played, and a bunch of seal cards to generate tarots, I had a real good engine going. By the last ante I had a hand where I played a single foil 2 and got 32k chips for it. My final hand was a flush with something like a 500 multiplier.
I haven't gotten any surefire efficiency engines going like that yet, but I made it to Ante 8 at least once so far.
I am still trying to figure out the order of operations on modifiers, because I didn't think the Polychrome 1.5x Mult was that hot until I actually got one and I realized the 1.5x Mult is applied after calculating all the normal Mult on cards. A huge boost, but still not quite enough to get me past whichever boss it was that debuffs all face cards, which took apart too much of my engine.
MalReynoldsThe Hunter S Thompson of incredibly mild medicinesRegistered Userregular
Jack Black and Kevin Hart make sense if they were trying to replicate Jumanji; Karen Gillan is a shoe in for Lilith and The Rock makes more sense as Roland or Brick, with Hart making more sense as ClapTrap or Brick.
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They should have made all the actors wear that cosplay make-up that makes you look like a drawing. Like a lot of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure cosplays have used.
Not that it would have made the movie better, I just would have found it funny.
Yeah, that was one of those things that they were still fucking around with in 1998 and the Black Mesa team decided to bring over to their remake. Given the remake is roughly "HL1 in the HL2 engine," it's kind of baffling, considering they made sure to get rid of that shit by the time of Half-Life 2.
But Black Mesa existed for like nearly a decade as a fan mod, so some sections were a lot more direct translations than others, and Residue Processing is one of them.
It's also probably one of the two worst non-Xen levels in the original Half-Life.
I enjoyed it for a while, but it went on a bit long and the jumping around on conveyer belts was tedious.
I've been watching a Half Life let's play alongside playing this, as I realised I probably won't ever actually get around to playing it myself. It's cool to see them alongside each other. The Black Mesa folks did a great job with improving the environments.
It starts maybe kinda poker like if you squint and quickly accelerates into a math game where cards something kind of like standard playing cards and poker hands are involved.
Like, you're not competing against another hand. It's just a deckbuilder roguelike where the enemy HP is "chips" and they don't attack.
You get a lot of cards to work with and can discard up to 5 cards (as well as play a hand of fewer than 5) in order to build a big hand. Jokers are your relics, tarot, planet and specter cards are your consumables, and the deck is your...deck. The cards in it all start as bog standard playing cards but you can add or remove tons of cards, and put all sorts of weird modifiers on them.
I had a run built around playing straights where half my deck was spades and I had a joker that let me make straights with gaps of 1 rank.
is balatro in any way worth it if you find poker terminally boring
You have to know poker hands and it helps to have a general sense of the probability of your next card draws, but I would not say that playing Balatro is very much like playing poker at all
Like, you're not making bets, you're not trying to bluff, and you're not trying to figure out what other people might be holding
Just trying to stack additive and multiplicative bonuses to absurd heights
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You're also adding, removing and changing cards in your deck so like... Normal poker probabilities stop being meaningful almost immediately
I just finished a run last night where "flush five" was one of my most played hands. A poker hand that doesn't exist because it's five of a kind in the same suit.
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Your milage my vary but I feel like that one doesn't count. They basically stopped working on that game and then started up a new unrelated project and used the same name for it.
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It's literally just this. Same reason they hired Vin Diesel just to say, "I am Groot" with 20 different intonations.
I'm still enjoying the game a lot, with 2 caveats. Anything involving soldiers or turrets is super annoying. And any time the game tries to be a platformer. Just, please stop. Gordon is possibly the most surprisingly capable character I have ever encountered in videogames but he moves like he's wearing rollerskates and every time you make me do platforming I want to have a little cry.
Chris Tucker is still available, bring back Ruby Rhod
But Black Mesa existed for like nearly a decade as a fan mod, so some sections were a lot more direct translations than others, and Residue Processing is one of them.
It's also probably one of the two worst non-Xen levels in the original Half-Life.
To be fair jack black is an excellent comedic voice actor, which does fit claptrap's vibe and is a lot greater utilization of the actor than voicing groot.
well no, because Jack Black is funny.
I've found a decent amount of people don't find Jack Black's shtick funny.
Apparently he met Randy Pitchford at a con and Pitchford said "When we make the Borderlands movie, you have to be Claptrap!" and Jack Black said "Yes! I'm in!" and somehow that counts as a legally binding contract.
Well, Pitchford tells the first part of the story, I'm extrapolating from there.
I think he just takes roles that he feels will be fun. And, honestly we should all be so lucky.
I haven't gotten any surefire efficiency engines going like that yet, but I made it to Ante 8 at least once so far.
I am still trying to figure out the order of operations on modifiers, because I didn't think the Polychrome 1.5x Mult was that hot until I actually got one and I realized the 1.5x Mult is applied after calculating all the normal Mult on cards. A huge boost, but still not quite enough to get me past whichever boss it was that debuffs all face cards, which took apart too much of my engine.
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Not that it would have made the movie better, I just would have found it funny.
Happy to see Panda the Sheep makes an appearance.
I enjoyed it for a while, but it went on a bit long and the jumping around on conveyer belts was tedious.
I've been watching a Half Life let's play alongside playing this, as I realised I probably won't ever actually get around to playing it myself. It's cool to see them alongside each other. The Black Mesa folks did a great job with improving the environments.
I just got to that for the first time. I thought my million+ hands were amazing, but not so much at that point if I can only play 4 of them.
Possibly. Poker is the base, but the real important part is getting upgrades that go well together.
Like, you're not competing against another hand. It's just a deckbuilder roguelike where the enemy HP is "chips" and they don't attack.
You get a lot of cards to work with and can discard up to 5 cards (as well as play a hand of fewer than 5) in order to build a big hand. Jokers are your relics, tarot, planet and specter cards are your consumables, and the deck is your...deck. The cards in it all start as bog standard playing cards but you can add or remove tons of cards, and put all sorts of weird modifiers on them.
I had a run built around playing straights where half my deck was spades and I had a joker that let me make straights with gaps of 1 rank.
You have to know poker hands and it helps to have a general sense of the probability of your next card draws, but I would not say that playing Balatro is very much like playing poker at all
Like, you're not making bets, you're not trying to bluff, and you're not trying to figure out what other people might be holding
Just trying to stack additive and multiplicative bonuses to absurd heights
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I just finished a run last night where "flush five" was one of my most played hands. A poker hand that doesn't exist because it's five of a kind in the same suit.
I had like probably thirty Ace of Spades in my last deck
Nothing to let cards be multiple ranks at once, no.
There are three hands you can get that aren't normal poker hands: Flush House, Five-of-a-Kind, and Flush Five (of a kind).
I'm so old I remember all the jokes about Half Life 3 never coming out
That's fake old. Come back when you remember Half-Life 2: Episode 3 never coming out.
Sorry, I meant a hand that was e.g. 5 aces of spades that also counted as 10 J K Q A. Unfortunately that sounds impossible.
If they released a version that used cribbage hand rules no one would ever see me again.
I can't think of a game that's been in development longer, that hasn't been officially canceled
Your milage my vary but I feel like that one doesn't count. They basically stopped working on that game and then started up a new unrelated project and used the same name for it.