Badfinger

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  1. Posted

    5 hours ago, twmac said:

     

    In my innocence I honestly thought you were secretly googling how to get a thread locked and then apologised for exposing your plans to the rest of the Idle Thumbs group.

     

    Was it originally, something a bit more porn-y?

     Porn-y? I have literally no idea what you're talking about or how you could pull what I said into that.

     

    It wasn't a joke though, this thread should probably be locked.

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    I'm sure the folks here that aren't interested in any stuff with Dan in it didn't listen to Danswers, but that show ended up being surprisingly boring because every answer ended up being "we realize we're white men of privilege so there's only so far any advice we give anyone who isn't literally all of those things will go, but as people who suffer from anxiety and depression the thing you should do is reach out for professional help because there's no substitute. If you're having an issue with a relationship the best thing you can do is talk to your SO about it, writing into a podcast isn't going to produce magic answers." 

     

    I seriously can't believe how often I defend fucking Dan Ryckert in these, the pages of the idle thumbs forums, but I have heard from his mouth over and over again how getting over the stigma of having anxiety and accepting that he could go to a doctor, see a therapist, and talk to his friends and family to help him was the biggest part of what he's done.

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    On 7/20/2017 at 4:43 AM, 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.

    Dan's throwing stones from glass houses.

     

    He holds up the least coherent video game story of all time on a pedestal as the pinnacle of game writing and then goes after Assassin's Creed, which is at least explainable.

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    On 7/9/2017 at 1:51 PM, mikemariano said:

    RE: Jake's problem with "teens together -> teen getting stabbed and turning into Jason" resulting in giving Jason too much information on teen locations, maybe a cooldown period for Jason to actually appear might be enough to let the teens scatter?

     

    I swear I saw a post that said this, but that's almost exactly how the match starts. There's a cutscene that shows Teens around a fire, Jason appears and eviscerates someone, and the Teens scatter to their starting locations hidden behind the cutscene load. It's not as player driven as suggested, but it's note for note how it works.

  16. Posted

    2 minutes ago, SecretAsianMan said:

    I'm kind of bummed about Super Metroid losing prominence as well but I suppose it's inevitable given how long that game has been run.  But they've had some really great closers in the last few marathons so I can't complain too much.

    I really don't care about 2d JRPGs, so it doesn't matter how good the Finals Fantasy, Chronos Trigger, or Unders Tale they end with I tune out at that point. In the same way I lose interest in the FPS level breaking, the intricacies of manipulating the programming of them is totally lost on me.

  17. Posted

    I wanna see Hollow knight, because I want to see how the hell you beat that game in an hour. A differently-mapped Doom run is also interesting. Dishonored was neat but I'm willing to bet Dishonored 2 is going to be the same thing - finding seams in the level geometry, blinking to exploit them, using mana potions properly. It's impressive but not crazy exciting to watch.

     

    OH I want to watch someone beat Divinity: Original Sin as fast as possible too. I hear there's some crazy barrel tech.

     

    Little bit sad that they've run out of ways to make Super Metroid the true finale, Save vs Kill is one of my favorite parts. TBF they also killed their own hydra with the way they handled it live at AGDQ this winter.

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    I don't like the oil weapon at all, because it's modifying in the wrong direction. I'm going to use my abilities and skills and THEN hit something with my weapon. Once I'm right up in a face I'm swinging, not stopping to use fire bombs which have a wind up animation. Ah well.

  23. Posted

    Phaser/rapier is basically broken. If you get any other multipliers stacked on top it does massive amounts of damage. I did 7k on the first hit of the combo to the bridge troll this morning using Attack Power/Phaser/Rapier.

     

    If you get the timed doors during normal play yeah go ahead, but it seems usually not worth it. I did find a blueprint behind the door once.

  24. Posted

    It's less that the response is necessarily good or bad and more that it's almost verbatim the same response they gave two months ago on the max fun drive episode. Just a bit frustrating that no one seems to have made any progress since then.

  25. Posted

    http://theadventurezone.tumblr.com/post/161367685782/on-the-adventure-zone-graphic-novel-blue-taako

     

    I'm not sure how I feel about how far down the rabbit hole they've gone on this. If the 3 characters are all white men that's an issue. If he looks like a latin man that's an issue. I understand this! Ok so their solution seems to have been make the character a non-human coloration and now people are mad about Lore. I suppose I'm of two minds. One is that I respect their attempts to avoid real world comparisons that could be problematic, and two that once you give a concrete shape to an abstraction people are going to disagree about what you did because it's different for them.

     

    I kinda feel like the extra work of listening to every single voice has really bitten them in the ass, because in attempting to placate everyone they've managed to satisfy no one. Now in service of their art they've worked themselves into a real pity party and are wallowing hard in it. Taako's not going to look like SOMEONE expected no matter what.