Frenetic Pony

Huh, might take a look then. One of my favorite books is Neuromancer, and the entire thing is what you described, except on crack and several hallucinogens. It took me at least two readthroughs to even understand what it is that's being described or is even happening most of the time, and I enjoyed it for that.

Frankly I love that they do that. I absolutely hate just watching the same episode again and again, except now the names of the secondary characters are changed. Which is what most TV seems to be, and why I don't watch it. So I'm fine with "things actually happening and changing". I also think the series jumped over several sharks after Moriarty came in. If a gay Heath Ledger style Joker in a mystery series doesn't jump the shark then I'm not sure what would. Is it that the tone of the series changed from being self serious to not so much that has everyone up in arms? I see all the "jump the shark" posts, but I'd love to know specifics of why other think the series has.

This is essentially what Pillars of Eternity (I.E. Project Eternity) is doing. They keep track of who like and dislikes you, both in your party and as a group, as well as several axis of how it is you behave in general (violent, diplomatic, etc.) I don't know of course how well it will be implemented, Obsidian is uneven to say the least and the game's not out yet. But it sounds cool enough in concept. I also hated the morality in Dishonered. The stealth is so easy once you learn how to abuse the teleport that I beat the final mission in 2 minutes on my first try (oh, hello teleporting from roof to roof, my how easy you are) while the actual combat looked like a blast, but I wanted to get the "good" ending.

Eeeeurgh. Ok, I get them for like, God of War and other brawler type games. That's where boss battles are from, that's what those games are there for. And I can understand them in Zelda. But any boss battle in an FPS is a bad boss battle, same with many other genres. That's why my favorite boss battle of all time is Fable 2. The main bad guy just stands there blubbering and babbling on and on and on, and anything you hit him with kills him instantly, which is hilarious when you don't expect it and are just trying to get him to shut up.

Just because I made it Do you choose the red tron? Or the blue tron?

That's what I got from it. Warning, may actually spoil things for part 2.

Was wondering if a monocle would work. Turns out not so much. At least to me. Oh well, or rather telle est la vie. Also for Subbes Time traveling ninja edit- Thirded!

I say, combine Allard and Kotick... with lightsabers. No large rush here.

Oh, also think about this. Twenty years ago was 1994. Go tell a your age person then that the fucking internet will be the greatest invention of mankind, that Snowcrash's virtual world will happen and be one a million virtual worlds, that the 3D glasses from it will be showing up on late night talk shows. That self driving electric cars will be what everyone will talk about and expect to buy in a decade or less, and that China will be the second biggest economy in the world. As Arthur C. Clarke put it, "If I make predictions that you believe, then I'm not doing my job. If I make predictions that you find unbelievable, then my goal is accomplished." And all those predictions are for twenty years from now. My story is sent almost a hundred. Shit be cray cray

Don't worry, it'll all be in a post scarcity economy. Also I'm ahead of people in believing this in general, and people who believed in Bitcoins ahead of time are fucking billionaires. I don't believe in the singularity, I want to do a paper in fact that disproves the fucking singularity is possible. Simple thought experiment: You produce a computer that's smarter than a human. Except that computer took years to develop, and billions of dollars to make, and took thousands upon thousand of humans to make it. So what if its somewhat smarter than a human good for it! How will it suddenly produce a smarter computer than itself instantly? Also the head in the jar thing is a joke about cryogenically freezing only heads, while your body is chopped off. Thanks for the replies! Also population control is going to be a huuuuge thing. Riots, people hating everyone. In fact in my story that leads to a huge upsurge in interest in space exploration. Some people still want to have kids, can't do it on earth, sign me up for space right? I certainly don't think EVERYONE will be in the Matrix. Otherwise I wouldn't even have the story I do. But I'm sure it'll be a thing, and I'll live to see it.

Yes Also quick mockup of Allard with a fucking lightsaber (like 2 minutes)

Hey mind if I modify the Nick somewhat? Send me like TIF, I've got an idea... Anyway, listening to the podcast. Their talking about the portrait, and about the hope for a J. Allard and Kotick stuff. What's just, not a canvas, but a nice place to print out prints? Doesn't need to be canvas... just saying put the Kotick portrait alongside Allard, then put lightsabers in their hands and have them fighting. Obviously blue for Allard and Red for Kotick.

Ok whatever, not helpful for my science fiction novel Regardless of me going through a thousand citations, could you just pretend its happening and tell me your reaction?

Hey guys! We're all going to live forever, or at least we'll stop aging. Also in 20 years you won't have a job because robots will do it all, and we'll all be in The Matrix, except the good kind, and it will be impossible to tell what is and is not a human because 1 nanometer thin all optical transistors running at twenty terahertz. What do you guys think about all this? Like, the science is just there, easy peasy. So just keeping in mind that its happening and in a decade you'll be popping your anti telomere degradation pills before putting on your Oculus 8k. You'll look out your window to drought in your state and the self driving electric car in your driveway, and you'll know you could well be alive a hundred years from now and be fine. What do you say to that?

This was my entire problem with the ending, I didn't even want to do it at all, and it felt weird to be forced too to get to the end. I suppose that's an interesting thing to do with games. In movies you can have a fucked up protagonist, but in games you can force the player to be the fucked up protagonist. I'm imagining something like "The Voices" an upcoming indie film where Ryan Reynolds views the world as a bright and cheery happy go lucky place, where his talking cat tells him to kill people because he's insane. And yeah, it was a good game. But the AI is boringly dumb (in what game is it not? Half Life 1 maybe?). One section that requires you to take on a bunch of guys in one area saw me hiding in the same room, strangle or shoot a guy, all the AI would come running to see what the noise was, "Ok split up gang!", and they would with only one AI dude coming into the room to look, who would then be strangled/shot/whatever to repeat the process. The visuals range between pretty damned good and pretty damned blocky, and the story ranges from excellently executed to far too derivative to uncomfortable. Still, at times it works really well. I got into a great desperate zombie fight, where I had to continuously run and switch weapons and etc. before they finally stopped. At another time I screwed up a stealth takedown and got into a fight that looked like a fantastically choreographed action movie scene. Sometimes the story even hits hard and perfectly, like when you chase Ellie down to the ranch.

Bah, I still insist you old people are behind the times. Trolling can have a sub meaning of not being shitty, because that's the way some people use it now whether you like it or not! You can't undo the evolution of language, Stephen Fry himself won't have it, and you wouldn't want to disappoint this face now would you? I thought not. Obviously this was done with the intention of the thumbs guys getting the joke, which is not in the usual spirit of trolling. But then the video I linked showed even dumbass xbox live Call of Duty kids can get a joke that's in the literative description of "trolling". So trolling it could be considered, and would be by some! Therefore and thus that is the only requirement of a words usage to be correct. Though that it failed so hard, in an admittedly small sample size, suggests it may not be the primary meaning. Therefore I acquiesce to the aforementioned meaning of trolling as coming after and secondary to "intentionally antagonistic shittiness on the intertubes".

But when the expensive gift, and these things are damned expensive, is a bizarre painting of ones self in a style that no one but a madman would ever actually consider getting done? Like, if it was candy then it wouldn't be trolling, and I do use that word lightly. Or a car. But not the aforementioned.

I would narrow the meaning down to Trolling: Verb. An action taken upon an intended victim(s) in order to elicit a specific, to the troll(ers) intentionally comical response. This action may or may not elicit an negative emotional response from the victim. Synonym: Prank. Not that I'd call it a "prank" necessarily, but a close synonym. For example, this is generally accepted as "trolling" now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsA4qm0wmHc It's not exactly shitty, but it does have a kind of victim. I'd consider getting a bizarre giant painting of myself in the mail both amusing and a bit weird at the very least.

Well what would you call it then?

Still insist Nick have at least one finger to the onlookers IE Either way, great work all for this... uhhhhh. Supremely weird and creepy troll. And that's said with full approval.

Yah, same here. A few hours maybe clocked. But I bought it quite a while after it came out for like $10, and my brother beat it and enjoyed the whole thing. I'll probably do the same with this after I buy a PS4 to play The Last Guardian and Uncharted 4. I mean it certainly looks pretty, but for Superhero games Saints Row 4 is just kinda more fun. I want to be a SUPERhero. Not Assassin's Creed dude with awkward controls and some weird what would just be guns in another game.

Along with a giant picture of Gabe Newell watching you morosely. That's going to be the new Valve Steam title thingy by the way. The dude with the Valve in his head will turn around, and be Gabe Newell, and it will zoom out to this whole 1984 Giant head on a screen watching you. This will also be the new background for the steam overlay.

Loved the beginning of that movie, but it kinda lost me as it went on. One of the final big fight scenes, where they're double teaming the big crazy dude in the concrete room, just kind of dragged for me. "Oh look he's been kicked in the head like twelve times, but there's no blood and he seems fine! Wonder if he's hacking or something." Shame since there are a lot of kickass scenes in the beginning and middle. Hope the second one keeps it with the faster paced, less dragged out fights all the way through.

Let's see, other announced triple A releases this year: Dark and Gritty Skyrim (Aka Witcher 3) Call of Duty with robots (Aka Titanfall) Boderlands minus the jokes (Aka Destiny) Car game go vroom (Aka Driveclub) Open world superhero sequel (Aka Infamous 3) Demon Souls again (Dark Souls 2) Metal Gear solid who the hell knows (Aka Ground Zeroes) Generic Wow clone #infinity (AKA Elderscrolls Online) Assassin's Grand Theft Auto (AKA Watchdogs) The list goes on. But this gets called out as a cash in... why? Because people haven't copied it enough yet that you're just used too it and accept it? Not a single one of these is a "cash in" according to anyone, this has no reason to be a cash in anymore than a first person shooter is a cash in on Doom.

Ok, Iet me explain to ya'll how to react to things: Attempts at originality in a Triple A game: This is bullshit why the fuck would I play this? Give me back what it is I always buy or fuck you! Attempts at copying a successful formula that hasn't been copied that much yet: This is bullshit man, a total ripoff of X, why can't you be original or something??? Copying a successful formula that's been copied a lot: Oh it's that genre, ok I hope they do something interesting with it. Attempts at originality in an Indie game: Man that's cool, so brave. I hope they pull it off even though it's never been done well before. Following the lore of a successful IP that you like to the T: Oh man I'm so excited, they even got the height of (Obscure archetype) right to within a 2% margin of error *nergasms Following the lore of a successful IP that you're not interested in to the T: Meh Not following the lore of a successful IP that you're interested in: I WILL GUT YOU LIKE A STUCK PIG!! Not following the lore of a successful IP that you aren't interested in: Meh Ok, I think I've cleared up everyone's opinions on everything about this game. We can end the thread now.