everyone count how many times a different variation of the phrase "I didn't ask for this" is uttered in the icarus trailer. I just watched it and the game looks phenomenal, but the whiny-ness kind of got to me there. I didn't ask to have [badass] robot arms, I just got them for free somehow. Hardly seems like the short end of the stick from here.
If there is ever a game that will make you see both sides of that debate, it's the new Deus Ex game. Honestly, I know just as many people who would hate robot arms as would love them, and the game does a great job of introducing you to viewpoints like that.
I have never played any of the Deus Ex games but I kinda want to now
Get Human Revolution. Just do it. Trust me on this. I never played the original - I tried but it was a bitch getting it to run right on a modern system and the actual gameplay was too dated for my taste. But HR is the shit.
Or maybe it's the shiznit.
Dammit, which one means it's good?
What I'm trying to say is that the game is terrific so far and you will probably enjoy it a lot, regardless of your (lack of) familiarity with the series.
It's not laser-eye surgery or laser-eye surgery. It's laser eye-surgery. Eye-surgery done with a laser. Gabe's mistake is obviously the whole point of the strip, but Tycho should be putting the hyphen in the right place. :evil:
The way the first two panels are composed as one scene, so that Tycho still has his Deus Ex happy face when he corrects Gabe, makes it look like he is doing so in an unusually pleasant and good-natured fashion.
Right back to the usual bemused exasperation in panel three though.
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
GameSlop is bullshit anyway, they sell opened games as "new". I watched a clerk do this right in front of me one time, he took a used disc out of some baggie he had stashed behind the counter and put it inside an opened box. I asked him to please get a "new" copy since that one was obviously opened, therefore it can no longer be called "new" (legally, that would be known as "used"). He said no, it WAS new, and it was just their "policy" to open up games like that but still sell them as new. Policy my ASS, I'm pretty sure that's called "fraud", which last time I checked was illegal... Anyway I don't shop there any more, not when I can pick up a nice shiny BRAND NEW shrink-wrapped copy from Best Buy up the street...
Oh and it doesn't smell like fuckin FEET in the BB either..
This a thousand times.
I myself refuse to buy a game sold as new if it has been seen by another living being.
The store I go to is deep within the New Zealand cave system just south of Auckland. The manager is a small cave dweller who has not seen daylight in over two hundred years.
He doesn't even touch it either, I just pay him in rare stones and it's carried out to me on the backs of a million writhing worms.
It's not a perfect system though. Last time I was there I asked for madden '12 and they gave me madden '11 instead! Imagine their embarrassment.
It's not laser-eye surgery or laser-eye surgery. It's laser eye-surgery. Eye-surgery done with a laser. Gabe's mistake is obviously the whole point of the strip, but Tycho should be putting the hyphen in the right place. :evil:
it's actually just laser eye surgery. don't need that fucking deadbeat hyphen
GameSlop is bullshit anyway, they sell opened games as "new". I watched a clerk do this right in front of me one time, he took a used disc out of some baggie he had stashed behind the counter and put it inside an opened box. I asked him to please get a "new" copy since that one was obviously opened, therefore it can no longer be called "new" (legally, that would be known as "used"). He said no, it WAS new, and it was just their "policy" to open up games like that but still sell them as new. Policy my ASS, I'm pretty sure that's called "fraud", which last time I checked was illegal... Anyway I don't shop there any more, not when I can pick up a nice shiny BRAND NEW shrink-wrapped copy from Best Buy up the street...
Oh and it doesn't smell like fuckin FEET in the BB either..
This a thousand times.
I myself refuse to buy a game sold as new if it has been seen by another living being.
The store I go to is deep within the New Zealand cave system just south of Auckland. The manager is a small cave dweller who has not seen daylight in over two hundred years.
He doesn't even touch it either, I just pay him in rare stones and it's carried out to me on the backs of a million writhing worms.
It's not a perfect system though. Last time I was there I asked for madden '12 and they gave me madden '11 instead! Imagine their embarrassment.
It doesn't smell like feet though.
it smells like worms though, which is basically feet.
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I can tell you right now I know of at least 5 GM in my area who completely ignored this and at least one DM who sent out an email to their whole district saying to ignore it.
In other news I haven't been to the PA store in years, since I bought my Rice Fight shirt back in the day, holy shit there are many shirts I want to buy
Just wanted to point out that we do indeed owe Jordan Weisman a lot. If you've ever played Shadowrun, Mechwarrior, Crimson Skies, or any of the myriad of combat dial games put out by Wizkids, you owe this man a huge pat on the back. It's so sad that he made all of this great stuff and now all he is is a professor.
Just wanted to point out that we do indeed owe Jordan Weisman a lot. If you've ever played Shadowrun, Mechwarrior, Crimson Skies, or any of the myriad of combat dial games put out by Wizkids, you owe this man a huge pat on the back. It's so sad that he made all of this great stuff and now all he is is a professor.
Well then I don't owe him jack cause I haven't played any of them.
Just wanted to point out that we do indeed owe Jordan Weisman a lot. If you've ever played Shadowrun, Mechwarrior, Crimson Skies, or any of the myriad of combat dial games put out by Wizkids, you owe this man a huge pat on the back. It's so sad that he made all of this great stuff and now all he is is a professor.
Wait, he's a professor? Oh what and where? Boy would I love to take a class from him.
Just wanted to point out that we do indeed owe Jordan Weisman a lot. If you've ever played Shadowrun, Mechwarrior, Crimson Skies, or any of the myriad of combat dial games put out by Wizkids, you owe this man a huge pat on the back. It's so sad that he made all of this great stuff and now all he is is a professor.
Wait, he's a professor? Oh what and where? Boy would I love to take a class from him.
According to Wikipedia
Jordan is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Interactive Media Division at the USC School of Cinema-Television
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faitsa panda eating cakeseattleRegistered Userregular
professor of blowbos at the university of the alley behind olive garden
Just wanted to point out that we do indeed owe Jordan Weisman a lot. If you've ever played Shadowrun, Mechwarrior, Crimson Skies, or any of the myriad of combat dial games put out by Wizkids, you owe this man a huge pat on the back. It's so sad that he made all of this great stuff and now all he is is a professor.
Well then I don't owe him jack cause I haven't played any of them.
everyone count how many times a different variation of the phrase "I didn't ask for this" is uttered in the icarus trailer. I just watched it and the game looks phenomenal, but the whiny-ness kind of got to me there. I didn't ask to have [badass] robot arms, I just got them for free somehow. Hardly seems like the short end of the stick from here.
If there is ever a game that will make you see both sides of that debate, it's the new Deus Ex game. Honestly, I know just as many people who would hate robot arms as would love them, and the game does a great job of introducing you to viewpoints like that.
Yeah upon further thought it would be really inconsiderate to just give someone robot arms without asking. "Oh thanks, would've liked to had some input on this decision, but these are nice I guess". It's sort of a push/pull for being able to give yourself strangers ALL THE TIME and having cold hands ALL THE TIME. It reminds me of playing Mortal Kombat when I was younger and loving Jax's Ground Pound. Also sort of a Ghost in The Shell vibe going there.
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lasik surgery fuckin owns, and this comic is good
Anyway. Why have a laser-eye when you can have a sword-arm?
Well, laser-eyes have a significantly longer range, but I definitely see the appeal in a sword-arm.
man.
Nothing says "I love you, son" like slicing up your kid's worst enemy with your sweet sword-arm
Well... You... You can't look at your kids with laser-eyes!
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What about Chainsaw Hands?
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Get Human Revolution. Just do it. Trust me on this. I never played the original - I tried but it was a bitch getting it to run right on a modern system and the actual gameplay was too dated for my taste. But HR is the shit.
Or maybe it's the shiznit.
Dammit, which one means it's good?
What I'm trying to say is that the game is terrific so far and you will probably enjoy it a lot, regardless of your (lack of) familiarity with the series.
this is the shit is good
Never be afraid to paint outside the lines!
Right back to the usual bemused exasperation in panel three though.
I myself refuse to buy a game sold as new if it has been seen by another living being.
The store I go to is deep within the New Zealand cave system just south of Auckland. The manager is a small cave dweller who has not seen daylight in over two hundred years.
He doesn't even touch it either, I just pay him in rare stones and it's carried out to me on the backs of a million writhing worms.
It's not a perfect system though. Last time I was there I asked for madden '12 and they gave me madden '11 instead! Imagine their embarrassment.
It doesn't smell like feet though.
Satans..... hints.....
Too Galactic for you.
it's actually just laser eye surgery. don't need that fucking deadbeat hyphen
it smells like worms though, which is basically feet.
unless you're talking about this dude
and even then I'm not convinced that's a foot.
Can't argue with that.
I can tell you right now I know of at least 5 GM in my area who completely ignored this and at least one DM who sent out an email to their whole district saying to ignore it.
In other news I haven't been to the PA store in years, since I bought my Rice Fight shirt back in the day, holy shit there are many shirts I want to buy
really
really
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no, not really.
Well then I don't owe him jack cause I haven't played any of them.
Satans..... hints.....
do I have to pat any backs
Wait, he's a professor? Oh what and where? Boy would I love to take a class from him.
According to Wikipedia
Give them a try, sir. You will enjoy them.
Yeah upon further thought it would be really inconsiderate to just give someone robot arms without asking. "Oh thanks, would've liked to had some input on this decision, but these are nice I guess". It's sort of a push/pull for being able to give yourself strangers ALL THE TIME and having cold hands ALL THE TIME. It reminds me of playing Mortal Kombat when I was younger and loving Jax's Ground Pound. Also sort of a Ghost in The Shell vibe going there.