I listened to Totally Reprise episode 138, this time the show has gone....... to the dogs
"I guess Cid is kind of like dad hot." "Yeah he's daddy hot." alright I'm pretty sure these are two different things
"A Realm Reprised"
"Remember? We're doing that bad idea."
"How are the things?" "The things? They're pretty strange!"
"I won't bore everyone with sports talk" "Oh, thank God."
"Does the Totally Spies wiki know something we don't?" "I doubt that."
"If there's one thing I know about the writers of Totally Spies it's that they love feet, if there's two things I know about them it's that they love feet and Austin Powers."
thank you google funny characters box
"The thing about this episode that really bugs me is we don't know if that dog is weak to magnets or not."
"Is this what they do with the dogs that lose?" oh no
"That's also another thing that's happened Dustin, is that we like Jerry now."
"His skin has an eject button! Why would you do that?"
"Whispering to my girlfriend, that's Chompy."
"Chomper did nothing wrong."
"People don't like it just as much as they didn't like it when it came out!"
"I have only read very few comic books, but God have I read a lot of comic book wikipedia pages."
"It would be really fucked up if you like, Wishboned a Magic Treehouse book."
oh yeah I read some Pendragon
"I'm glad that we've now turned 'wishbone' into a verb."
Bartimaeus books kicked ass imo
PIERS ANTHONY FUCK OFF
yeah a spell for chameleon is really like that
"I would use Clifford to rob banks."
"I can't believe that Evangelion 4.44 is coming out before the last act of Kentucky Route Zero." nope!
"I have only read very few comic books, but God have I read a lot of comic book wikipedia pages."
I relate
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In the finale of A Spell for Chameleon, the bad guy fires a big ultra spell at the hero, whose luck powers kick in and cause all of the bacteria in the air to randomly cluster in front of him and absorb the blast
In the finale of A Spell for Chameleon, the bad guy fires a big ultra spell at the hero, whose luck powers kick in and cause all of the bacteria in the air to randomly cluster in front of him and absorb the blast
Yeah, it's awesome.
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This Podcast Will Kill You dropped a six-parter on Covid19 today. Just in case your life isn't saturated enough with virus stuff yet.
Okay having listened to Waypoint's take on Doom Eternal now, I have a question
(spoiling because no one should have to be subjected to "person whines that someone doesn't like a game they do" without opting into it)
One of the big things for them is that the game does this weird half thing where it gives you some of the story in the gameplay but gives you the rest in written codex entries, which they didn't like
But like...isn't that From Software's whole thing that everyone loses their shit about
I'm genuinely asking, I haven't played through those games because I don't like how they feel, but my understanding was that the story in Dark Souls is like half obscured and the only way to put it together is through item descriptions and shit
Okay having listened to Waypoint's take on Doom Eternal now, I have a question
(spoiling because no one should have to be subjected to "person whines that someone doesn't like a game they do" without opting into it)
One of the big things for them is that the game does this weird half thing where it gives you some of the story in the gameplay but gives you the rest in written codex entries, which they didn't like
But like...isn't that From Software's whole thing that everyone loses their shit about
I'm genuinely asking, I haven't played through those games because I don't like how they feel, but my understanding was that the story in Dark Souls is like half obscured and the only way to put it together is through item descriptions and shit
I think thier issue is that they don't think the Doom story is interesting enough to justify wanting to dig into the codex.
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JimothyNot in front of the foxhe's with the owlRegistered Userregular
I want a Jack episode but had to vote Del Toro just because he has more movies that I want to hear about
And the last recap made a pretty strong case for why his narrative would be unique— he does “one for me, one for them,” but flipped— he makes small prestigious films so he has an excuse to make the big blockbusters that he’s passionate about
Patreon vote is Elm Street vs Living Dead and I gotta sit this one out, I know nothing about either of those
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The thing about the story in Dark Souls is that Dark Souls is not a story game, it is a tone piece. When Austin Walker talks about the things he loves about the story of Dark Souls it's not putting together stories from item descriptions, it's about the feeling of walking into Majula for the first time and seeing people slowly populate it, about opening up the tomb of Vendrick and finding that he's just this empty husk who can't even think aimlessly walking in a circle.
Okay having listened to Waypoint's take on Doom Eternal now, I have a question
(spoiling because no one should have to be subjected to "person whines that someone doesn't like a game they do" without opting into it)
One of the big things for them is that the game does this weird half thing where it gives you some of the story in the gameplay but gives you the rest in written codex entries, which they didn't like
But like...isn't that From Software's whole thing that everyone loses their shit about
I'm genuinely asking, I haven't played through those games because I don't like how they feel, but my understanding was that the story in Dark Souls is like half obscured and the only way to put it together is through item descriptions and shit
I think thier issue is that they don't think the Doom story is interesting enough to justify wanting to dig into the codex.
Also From Soft's lore texts are very brief, only hinting at the greater world and leaving it to the player to fill in the blanks. Doom's sound more like a ton of big info dumps.
I liked the codex a lot in Doom 2016. Haven't hopped on the Eternal train yet so I have no idea about it though.
Those are all relatively true and also a lot of people think the Souls games are perfect, flawless gems crafted by a master and gently bestowed upon humanity so that we may be blessed by their brilliance, far outshining all others. So, like, that's also another reason why.
And DOOM's are just more straightforward codexs that you'd find in Horizon or Halo or Wolfenstein that are MOSTLY just added info and MOSTLY just left randomly in the world as floating pages of fire to pick up.
Jeff's now streaming himself playing Half-Life Alyx in VR. Unfortunately I'd say that it's currently unwatchable due to absolutely terrible audio balancing between Jeff and the game, which he seems clueless about and isn't showing any signs of checking in or having any support to let him know while he's strapped in.
The codex stuff is also a big step down from Doom 2016. In Doom 2016 they were all done as UAC corporate reports and blurbs. So you had the juxtoposition of corporate jargon and workplace culture, and occult hell stuff that got progressively more and more off the wall. In Eternal, they're mostly just dry info dumps. Very disappointing.
EDIT: Like, 2016 had a very big air of the plot just being nonsense to justify shooting endless hordes of demons and the game knows and embraces it. Doom Eternal feels like it's high on it's own supply and that it thinks it's heavy metal scifi epic is just the raddest shit in the world and you can either sit back and enjoy it in all of it's gory details, or just skip the cutscenes like one of those people.
The air of "The Doomguy does not give a shit about the plot" is almost entirely gone, replaced with "Doomguy has to chill out repeatedly so plot and exposition can happen." It puts the onus of not taking the plot too seriously away from the Slayer and puts it back into the hands of the player, which removes one fo the best things about 2016.
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Jeff's now streaming himself playing Half-Life Alyx in VR. Unfortunately I'd say that it's currently unwatchable due to absolutely terrible audio balancing between Jeff and the game, which he seems clueless about and isn't showing any signs of checking in or having any support to let him know while he's strapped in.
I think he's stuck not seeing a bright red lever to pull on a puzzle device because of color blindness
yay he figured it out, yeah it looked indistinct to him
The codex stuff is also a big step down from Doom 2016. In Doom 2016 they were all done as UAC corporate reports and blurbs. So you had the juxtoposition of corporate jargon and workplace culture, and occult hell stuff that got progressively more and more off the wall. In Eternal, they're mostly just dry info dumps. Very disappointing.
Hey, Off-Book uploaded the Seattle live show as an episode this week! It was a really good one to watch live, so you should listen to it with your ear holes to commemorate one of the last times I was allowed outside!
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"I have only read very few comic books, but God have I read a lot of comic book wikipedia pages."
I relate
Put that on my tombstone.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Yeah, it's awesome.
(spoiling because no one should have to be subjected to "person whines that someone doesn't like a game they do" without opting into it)
But like...isn't that From Software's whole thing that everyone loses their shit about
I'm genuinely asking, I haven't played through those games because I don't like how they feel, but my understanding was that the story in Dark Souls is like half obscured and the only way to put it together is through item descriptions and shit
be on the right side of history
vote for an episode on the movie Jack
And the last recap made a pretty strong case for why his narrative would be unique— he does “one for me, one for them,” but flipped— he makes small prestigious films so he has an excuse to make the big blockbusters that he’s passionate about
Patreon vote is Elm Street vs Living Dead and I gotta sit this one out, I know nothing about either of those
it's maybe the ultimate miniseries
it's the highest of highs and the lowest of lows
I liked the codex a lot in Doom 2016. Haven't hopped on the Eternal train yet so I have no idea about it though.
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
Those are all relatively true and also a lot of people think the Souls games are perfect, flawless gems crafted by a master and gently bestowed upon humanity so that we may be blessed by their brilliance, far outshining all others. So, like, that's also another reason why.
And DOOM's are just more straightforward codexs that you'd find in Horizon or Halo or Wolfenstein that are MOSTLY just added info and MOSTLY just left randomly in the world as floating pages of fire to pick up.
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
EDIT: Like, 2016 had a very big air of the plot just being nonsense to justify shooting endless hordes of demons and the game knows and embraces it. Doom Eternal feels like it's high on it's own supply and that it thinks it's heavy metal scifi epic is just the raddest shit in the world and you can either sit back and enjoy it in all of it's gory details, or just skip the cutscenes like one of those people.
The air of "The Doomguy does not give a shit about the plot" is almost entirely gone, replaced with "Doomguy has to chill out repeatedly so plot and exposition can happen." It puts the onus of not taking the plot too seriously away from the Slayer and puts it back into the hands of the player, which removes one fo the best things about 2016.
This is the most interested I've ever been in Giant Bomb.
Like I love Del Toro to an unhealthy degree. To a point where his flaws transfer to idiosyncrasies I kinda of like in their own way instead.
But yeah. The variety of Coppola is absolutely way better material for a podcast.
I think he's stuck not seeing a bright red lever to pull on a puzzle device because of color blindness
yay he figured it out, yeah it looked indistinct to him
You love to see it
To me? The show is good
Steam
Does Ishtar have Will Smith fighting a giant robot spider