Professor Video Games

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    1 hour ago, Vasari said:

    You know when you're filling out a web form and you accidentally hit back on the page, or close the tab, and all the text you entered is lost? Lazarus Form Recovery saves all the text you entered so you can instantly refill the form. If you use any software like JIRA then this thing is an absolute lifesaver. There are firefox and safari versions as well.

     

    Not compatible with the latest version of Firefox :(

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    You guys talk about the future Missing Pieces for Dougie's Mitchum Brothers Gym Set conversation, but the scene I want to see is Dougie somehow ordering a cherry pie in a giant box. Did he have a Mr Jackpot moment where there was a glowing light over the cherry pie or did he just Magoo his way towards it (and the huge box) with his boss and some poor barista. I have to know!

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    19 hours ago, SecretAsianMan said:

    I continue to have a love/hate relationship with Dan.  About half the time I find the dumb shit he says amusing (mostly because he continues to not be aware of even the simplest things like having a remote idea what an electrical breaker is or understanding that weight is a concern when going to space) but the other half of the time I'm infuriated at his "I don't know what this thing is so it must not be important and is therefore dumb" attitude.

     

    Same. Dan has gotten a lot more open minded since he joined GB, which is great, and like for example recently he actually acknowledged how fucked up his time in college was whereas the last time it came up when I'm pretty sure he said something like "I don't see why anyone works hard in college and how I got through is good and cool", but sometimes the "I thought the screwdriver bit was the one you used to drill holes in the wall" or "what is a mortgage" type of stories/questions are just too much for me.

     

    What I'm saying is fire Dan, hire Jeremiah.

     

    On an unrelated note, did anyone else watch the latest Mario Sunshine video? Their struggles on the first FLUDD-less level were...impressive.

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    5 hours ago, TheLastBaron said:

     

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    Did anyone else find Kevin Spacey's about-face at the end really fast/unearned/weird?  In a minute he goes from "sorry I can't help you" to "I loved somebody, once.  I'll die for you"

     

     

    Yeah I remember being puzzled by that when it happened

    especially when just a bit earlier doesn't he threaten to go after Debra or Baby's family or something if he won't do that last heist? Or does he just threaten Baby? Either way!

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    16 hours ago, Nappi said:

    I liked Beast in the East. I was interested to see what Yakuza games were like, but knew that I would probably never actually sit down and play one of them, so I found this a good substitute. Giant Bomb crew banter was a nice added bonus. Dan's playstyle did not bother me at all, but then again I don't give a shit if someone is not exploring "the full potential of the combat mechanics" or whatever. He died like once during the entire game, so it is not like you have to watch them try and fail again and again. That playthrough is really long, so if you have no interest in the story, then it may not be for you, but otherwise go ahead.

     

    Yeah it was mainly that there were mechanics he never understood or used. Typical internet stuff. I'll have to make it my lazy weekend morning programming from here on out.

     

    5 hours ago, twmac said:

    Oh god, Dan's little rant about Ass Creed is perfect. Vinny making a half-hearted defence of it... I was so pleased to hear someone on a podcast finally say it. I thought I was alone.

     

    I love Vinny but his love of Lore is often his undoing. I'm surprised he hasn't read the Assassin's Creed novels...

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    Is Beast in the East worth going through? At some points I read some people getting frustrated with it for various reasons (mostly Dan's playstyle), but then people always complain about that stuff so I dunno how much credence to give it.

     

    Agreed the energy and enthusiasm on the east coast is really great. I haven't watched a Unprofessional Friday since Ben joined but the ones I saw before that were snoozefests.

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    There are some posts in the megathread about it but why have a dedicated thread for freaking Split and not this? Anyway, the action is great and easy to follow and the way everything syncs to the music is a lot of fun, but outside of the action itself nothing really left an impression on me at all. I guess the thinness of the plot and characters really held it back for me. That said I still had a lot of fun and wouldn't mind seeing it again to pay closer attention to the choreography since on the first viewing I was mostly just focused on following what was happening.

     

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    no way he's getting out in five years. How many cops got murdered over the course of the movie? I don't care how many purses you give back, they're gonna throw the book at you.

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    On 6/23/2017 at 11:37 AM, RubixsQube said:

    If Jake is worried about power generated from genie food, you don't need to burn the food to generate the energy. If you have a series of people generating their allotment of food at some point where that food has potential energy, then it can be used to power turbines and still disappear entirely. Hell, it can even be dropped down the power chute and then collected at the bottom and eaten, thus providing unlimited free energy and still working within the spirit of the wish. 

     

    I came here to post this. This is just basic science guys...

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    I like doing baked tofu for sandwiches. The baking gives a chewier texture I guess? It's a good deli meat replacement. You can also marinade it in various things for a few hours beforehand to blast some flavor in there.

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    22 minutes ago, marginalgloss said:

     

    'Perhaps I'll have a quick go on Destiny,' I thought over the weekend; I hadn't played it in a few months and I was vaguely aware that I still had loads of stuff to do in it. So I played some Destiny.

     

    I take a look at my quest list. I don't understand half of what I am being asked to do, but maybe that's okay. I do a story mission from The Taken King; it's fine. I potter around on Venus for a bit, doing patrols and looking for some Taken to spawn in so I can finish another TTK side-quest. They don't show up. It's fine.

     

    I think about doing some PvP. I pull up my list of quests and find one that asks me to be on the winning side in a set number of matches for a particular game mode. That seems achievable! Except then I go out to orbit to discover that this particular game mode is no longer an option in the Crucible. No clues as to where it might have gone, or when it'll be back, or what I should do with this half-completed quest. It's just - gone.

     

    I will be the first to admit a certain weariness with the excessive tutorialisation in many modern video games, but in this case I was just completely baffled that the game would do this to me. Presumably the expected reaction from a seasoned player is 'oh, I guess it doesn't really matter'. And I get that it doesn't matter because I guess now you can do just about anything in Destiny and expect to get better gear out of it, albeit at varying rates. But in this case I was suddenly just struck by an overwhelming feeling of pointlessness. This is stupid - even as I write this now I am thinking 'this is stupid' - but it's how I feel. I would rather play Overwatch with no quests in mind beyond those I set for myself. 

     

    Anyway, I turned the game off and played the latest Shovel Knight expansion instead. It's great. Faith in games restored. 

     

     

    Yeah I think some of the overworld dependent quests/events may not spawn anymore or if they do it's only in a few very specific locations and some PvP modes rotate in and out each week. Like most things in that game, they're not very well communicated.

     

    On that note, I remember this point after The Taken King had come out that I was working on getting an exotic sword, and it involved getting some rare materials. I was just running laps in one of the moon zones opening chest after chest (the locations are semi-random and maybe one in ten would give me the Moon Dust or whatever the fuck it was I needed) and I sighed and said to myself "what are you doing" and I just turned it off right there for good. Repeatedly running strikes or raids for gear is one thing since it's still fun to shoot stuff with folks, but there's a point where The Grind becomes very bad that I refuse to engage in. Hopefully Destiny 2 will be good about this...

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    If we are plugging Andy Daly stuff, I will mention his insanely good (and also just insane) job as L. Ron Hubbard on the now defunct Dead Authors Podcast. The first part being so bananas they ended up having to bring him back for a second episode to wrap things up.

     

    http://thedeadauthorspodcast.libsyn.com/chapter-45-part-1-l-ron-hubbard-featuring-andrew-daly

    http://thedeadauthorspodcast.libsyn.com/chapter-45-part-2-l-ron-hubbard-featuring-andy-daly