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There's a lot of little subtleties that go into painting the tone of a piece and affecting how a person interprets potentially the same actions of a given character. The protagonists from Drive and Batman Begins are both overwhelmingly cool men: they drive cool cars, they wear cool clothes, and they're out to take down the mob and get the girl. But one of them is classically aspirational and the other one, while still arguably a good person, is someone you would never want to be, doing things you would never want to do.

"Cool party of fun guys" sounds like something Dan Ryckert would say.

"One day I'll be dead and THEN you'll all be sorry." -- (Terry Pratchett, 28 Nov 1992, on alt.fan.pratchett)

Jesus. This is a bad couple of weeks for nerd icons. I've been a big fan of Pratchett ever since high school. It's sad to see him go. Not to change subject, but I also just wanted to mention that I may have found a job in Halifax. Yay.

See, I can't wait for the police to get phased out and replaced with robots. Robots don't shoot unarmed black teenagers because they're scared or torture people for fun. For as much as I like to play up the "future is horrifying" aspect of this thread, I don't think there's any horrible act that a robot could commit that humans in their same position wouldn't also try (and, in every single case, have already tried).

the best Ratchet and Clank title was the one they had to change to "A Crack in Time" because it went too far: Ratchet and Clank: Clock Blockers

I considered downloading it before it got pushed onto my system, but decided that I absolutely shouldn't. I'd say it's safe to describe myself as having an addictive personality. I'm not about to willingly walk into thinly-veiled gambling if it means spending real money.

It's just the icon and not the actual game. Just try to open it and it'll ask if you want to download the game. If you choose no, you can choose to delete it.

I'm surprised he didn't include "omelette."

He turns out alright in the end and his Tobias Funke-esque approach is enough to get me laughing. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dMkTke8U9o

Have you played it at all? You can wear him down to haggling positions through story events.

This is old, but I don't see it shared often and it never fails to make me laugh.

Oh, also, on Steven Universe:

Fuck. I had the cradle in my cart and everything this morning and decided to hold off on it for a while. I loved the one I had for my old XL.

Goddamnit Nintendo, I was willing to overlook your shitty, insidious microtransaction game; but then you force the icon onto my system through Spotpass? That is way over the line.

I've generally been enjoying Danswers, but I had to stop listening to this latest one. If your podcast's audience primarily seems to be people looking for relationship advice, maybe don't invite on a guest who says things like "back in college, I just wanted someone to rape me" or hooks up two friends for sex because one of them is drunk.

Holy shit, Gravity Falls. Holy shit.

Guys, I've been thinking about my ideal Thumbs-themed game. It is the near future of 1997. This is Neo York. *the camera pans from the sky down as a helicopter flies past the Statue of Liberty, now equipped with a giant futuristic eyepiece. Standing on the shore looking out toward the statue, Steve "H0T_5C00P5" Gaynor touches his NFC-enabled cyberlighter to his ecig and takes a long drag* "It's time to put an end to the tyranny of Lord Remo."

One of my favourite things ever is the legitimately endearing way that Japanese game devs are seemingly obsessed with making slight changes to the way they do things and then describing them as an entirely new system with its own ridiculous name, and I think that this one from Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters might be the best I've ever seen. I love everything about it, from the fact that it's just Vanillaware-style animation under a new name to the fact that they really tried their damnedest to make an acronym out of it.

I'd say he's scaled up to iPad now. Also, a ten thousand dollar watch is usually handcrafted by some savant hermit in Switzerland who lives alone in the mountains and does nothing but spend months making a single watch. The Watch Edition is literally the regular one with a different material for the strap and a small amount of gold instead of a small amount of aluminum or steel. The target demographic for it is just a Powerpoint slide labeled "Kanye West" and I don't really get why they even bother letting the average consumer know about it. It's like having a black Mastercard.

I'm not interested in starting with The Phantom Pain, just in playing it. All the stuff they've shown has had a very nihilistic and somewhat surreal tone that I've been enjoying a lot, but I know that the series has a reputation for callbacks and grand reveals that are only apparent to people who have been following every game and I'm trying to decide what level of prior knowledge seems most reasonable. That is to say: do I try to play the whole series? Just the numbered entries in the Solid series? Just the Big Boss stuff? Just MGS3? Would I be okay if I just watched a whole bunch of Metal Gear Scanlon? It's hard to tell what level of prior ignorance is acceptable when entering a Kojima game. Also, if I only get to spend like an hour as this fucked-up version of Big Boss who -from my understanding- has lost everything from his organization to his arm and doesn't know what to with himself anymore, I'm gonna be sad. Oh, and the version of MGS1 I'd been playing was the PSone classics version on Vita/PS3. Despite my difficulties with it in its original form, I've heard from multiple sources that Twin Snakes is a poor way to experience the first game. The only one besides Phantom Pain that looks really interesting to me is MGS3 and maybe Peace Walker, but I'm not sure whether the PS3, Vita, or 3DS is the one I'd want (I'm not gonna bother ebaying a Gamecube copy).

Nnnnnnnope.