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WertklopWertklop __BANNED USERS regular
edited November 2008 in Debate and/or Discourse
Do Gabe & Tycho dislike Nine Inch Nails? I just read a "Div's Happy Hour" strip and it had some fool wearing an "NIN" shirt... I know their new stuff is terrible but what the hell!? If they poke fun at Aphex Twin I'm going to the next PAX event just to, umm.... I dunno but this whole experience has left me a little pissed seeing how all I've been doing for the past few days, as I'm preparing to get kicked out of my apartment for fondling the maintenance man's daughter, is reading all the PA comics and listening to NIN.... I never really "post" on "message boards" but this has been quite an experience for me, it's weird cause I own the two "books" they released and the 2nd one ends about three strips before the NIN comic. I wonder if the 3rd book includes that strip. It makes me feel a certain way! Make it stop please. Thanks.

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  • TheLawinatorTheLawinator Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    They don't read this board. Air quotes are dumb. I'm sorry you don't agree with what you think they might be saying about a band you like. If you actually want to find out their opinion, you should probably shoot them an email.

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  • WertklopWertklop __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    Wow that fast! How do I "shoot" an "email"?

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  • arod_77arod_77 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    Your av is fitting

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  • TheLawinatorTheLawinator Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    If you figured out how to create an account and post on this forum, you should know how to send an email. Unless you're messing with me.

    Edit: Anyway, their emails are on the front page, this isn't really the proper venue for your complaint/whatever.

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  • WertklopWertklop __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    I'm amazed at how fast I've recieved these replies. It's pretty cool. I like you guys. It sucks even more cause I'm moving into a friends place this Sunday and he has no internet... I guess I'll just have to figure this one out on my own.

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  • HylianbunnyHylianbunny Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Sometimes a shirt is just a shirt.

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  • WertklopWertklop __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    Not the proper venue? I thought it said something along the lines of "complain here". Man this polar bear guy is really using "kill them with kindness" to an extreme.

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  • monikermoniker Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Wertklop wrote: »
    Not the proper venue? I thought it said something along the lines of "complain here".

    It doesn't, and neither Gabe nor Tycho read the forum anyway; so your "complaint" won't be seen here.

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  • WertklopWertklop __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    This is getting weird, I seriously had a pet bunny that my girlfriend (the aforementioned maintenance man's daughter) got "custody of. How strange

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  • arod_77arod_77 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    Boy, are you feeling altered?

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  • WertklopWertklop __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    The bunny girl is the only one that helped me, what she said is true. I owned a Clockwork Orange shirt once even though I think that book/film is complete hogwash.

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  • Manning'sEquationManning'sEquation Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Wertklop wrote: »
    The bunny girl is the only one that helped me, what she said is true. I owned a Clockwork Orange shirt once even though I think that book/film is complete hogwash.

    I think you are hogwash.

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  • WertklopWertklop __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    Altered? I dunno, I quit smoking pot about a week or so ago and everything seems really, um, I dunno like.. Everything has been good timing lately, and bad timing, basically just timing...

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  • WertklopWertklop __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2008
    Where did the polar bear guy go?

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  • B:LB:L I've done worse. Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    Guys.

    Guys.

    It's Gabe Newell.

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  • ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited November 2008
    Gabe & Tycho don't read the forums. Read the rules thread before you make any threads/posts.




    Man, these comics are rarely not fitting.



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    Tycho wrote:
    Fans of the New Jedi Order series are now tearfully traversing the pages of the final volume - weighing in at nineteen linked novels by a handful of different authors, it's easily the most elaborate undertaking in what is called The Expanded Universe. It's not really my thing. Maybe Gabe can come by later and tell us about the graceful Chungo blade-dance. I'm riveted.

    It's a little late, but I've been playing Gladius and I wanted to detail that experience. I think they did a pretty good job.

    You're only supposed to make tactical strategy games if you're from Asia, I don't know if they just didn't get the memo or what. Similar to Mario and Luigi for the GBA (as well as earlier Mario RPGs), there is a timing element to each attack - these elements can also become fairly elaborate, as increasingly dangerous combos begin to require a series of inputs with near-origami levels of complexity. Gladius is satisfying in the way that other games of this type are, i.e., you arrange your forces harmoniously and reap great rewards. Who doesn't like harmony. In terms of complexity, well... It's not. I'm used to playing games like Dynasty Tactics where I'll take an hour to plan a single devastating move that will cleave enemy forces in twain. A game like Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance derives its complexity purely from character management. Gladius has a hefty selection of classes, to be sure, but you certainly aren't switching between them - you choose how they progress, but you can see the menu of that progression right up front. In a way, I find this sort of transparency refreshing. I sometimes feel like Japan is punishing me for something when I play their games. On the other hand, there's a level of mystery and ambiguity that simply doesn't exist in Gladius. I'm of the opinion that the gameplay itself - with your franchise-esque gladiator management, your local and global challenges, diverse regions, and arcade elements - holds up very well. If I change my mind, I'll tell you - but I'm sixteen hours in and I still feel pretty good.

    Shit, while we're being late, Republic: The Revolution is a brilliant game with a deeply flawed execution. If you have the patience to endure some of their interface decisions, and let me tell you that I did not, you will find yourself in front of an extremely elaborate board game - a sort of political Risk - that really has no analogue anywhere in the world of gaming.

    To make a long story short, don't go to Fry's unless you want to spend like five hundred dollars you don't actually have.

    My new friend Ian Johnston had an anecdote for me the moment I announced my sojourn to that mystic land, claiming that, yes, they have a lot of different shit there - in fact, they have everything but the thing you would most like. Man, I wish. I wish that's how it worked out. I was in the car with a gig of RAM and the fixings for a Serial ATA RAID, it was like some new holiday where you buy yourself presents. I wish I could say it was the strength of my will that kept me from buying an Athlon FX-51, but I think I actually blacked out.

    (CW)TB out.

    we still dance on whirling stages

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