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  1. Posted

    I think the problem here is that you mean 'presenter' as a synonym of 'speaker', where Ubisoft usually gives a microphone to at least one person who should never be given a microphone, whereas I mean 'presenter' as a synonym of the MC, where it's the person who introduces the speakers and acts as the glue of the show. EA's presenters are usually much worse than Ubisoft, although I think everyone's taken a turn.

     

    I know what I mean, and I mean I hate Aisha Tyler's performance during these things.

     

    EA's "the feels" guy from last year was pretty awful though.

  2. Posted

    Oh wow, (unnecessary) burn on Aisha Tyler.

     

    Even when Ubisoft chooses people who are otherwise fine, they usually deliver the most grating material/performance. The free space stays.

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    IT'S (almost) THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN, FOLKS! In just two short weeks, we'll all get to worship at the altar of rampant consumerism and cheer at grown men announcing toys on a stage in front of increasingly elaborate projector setups.

     

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    We're gonna be talkin' 'bout E3 in Thumbs IRC this year instead of Steam Chat. Remember how to join?

    Huh, what's this?

    If you're interested in discussing video games, amateur video game development or secret hints, you need to join #idlethumbs on QuakeNet! It's an internet chat room like in the 90s, and we discuss things and issues on there, like what video games are fun, how to do a thing in Unity or post Vines of how our next racing game is coming along.

     

    #idlethumbs? Sounds like a hashtag to me, old man!

    No, this is a channel on IRC.

     

    Okay I'm sold. How do I join?

    Joining is easy and free! You'll need an IRC client, such as:

    Install or start the client, join a QuakeNet server. You can find the closest one to you here. After connecting, join the channel #idlethumbs.
     

     

    I've got my traditional bingo card all set.

     

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    I would argue there is no such thing as a serious competitive game that isn't enhanced by actually being able to talk to your teammates. I would argue this vehemently and without ever backing down.

     

    You're also in a convenient position in which there aren't really any slurs that apply to you.

  6. Posted

    I'm sure this game would be greatly improved if I could hear twelve-year-olds swearing the entire time instead of the fantastic music.

     

    An aside: Splatoon is the game that's going to make me spring for the extended life gamepad battery

  7. Posted

    I'm fine with the idea of deciding not to buy something because you disagree with a creator or company's principles. I dunno if you wanna take that as endorsing the idea of boycotts or not. I don't think of it as such, but I guess it probably is.

     

    I guess I just haven't found a piece of art or product that I feel is more valuable to me than the idea of, say, "all people should be treated like human beings."

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    So I've been collecting all the Sunken Scrolls in single-player, which give you tiny pieces of flavour text and artwork that serve to contextualize the setting, and holy shit.

     

    Splatoon takes place in a postapocalyptic hellscape.

     

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    The good games in that series weren't proper platformers though!

     

    That first game was this delightful little adventure game with time management and light platforming elements, plus a sort of awkwardly-inserted checklist of things that had to be in a video game at the time (drive a car, fly a spaceship, shoot a gun). It's unpolished, but really charming, and the only sequel that took the ideas of the first game and ran with them was the Japan-only third game for DS.

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    For anyone like me who's interested in trying the two-player local multiplayer but thinks it would be unfair for only one person to be able to use the combination motion control and sticks that the gamepad does, if you go into controller selection and hold down on the d-pad, then hold down B, and then press ZL and ZR, you can unlock... this.

     

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    I am dead serious.

  15. Posted

    I don't know what you're talking about. You joined a game i was in, right? Is this about that? I got DC'd in the middle of that. I've had some connection issues today, seems like.

     

    Aw, boo. Here I was all excited that my team beat yours nearly 4:1 in ink coverage.

  16. Posted

    It's probably worth making a Splatoon thread at this point.

     

    It sure is!

     

    So this is the best thing Nintendo's done in a long, long time. As someone who normally never plays shooters, I'm strangely really good at this? I played a dozen or so matches, only lost once or twice, and was pretty consistently the MVP despite usually being the lowest-level player. Neat.

     

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    in-game name: teg

    (19.2% Sno? You can do better than that)

  21. Posted

    You mean Mako? Maiko is the idol that Maho and Anna work with.

     

    Having another bad coming out experience so soon after reading this made it hurt so much worse. I hope things at least work out okay for Nitorin. There's a lot of terrible shit that could happen in the next volume and I don't want to see any of it happen to that poor kid.

     

    An aside, the ending gave some nice development for Sarashina too. She's been pretty flat until now, it's nice to see her supplement the fact that she pretty much likes everyone by having her actually giving good advice and support.

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    A new Chibi-Robo got announced in a Japanese Direct this morning, with an amiibo and everything!

     

    It's an uninspired-looking sidescrolling platformer.

     

    Why is every sequel to Chibi-Robo a monkey's paw version of what I want?

  24. Posted

    Fuck :( What happened?

     

    So, my email covered a lot of ground: I told him about my being gay, detailed the abuse I had to go through at the hands of my parents, and summarized my financial and work history up until now. I asked if he would be willing to provide me any help, even if it was just a reference for a resume.

    The response had a bit of dancing around my sexuality without ever really addressing it or how he felt about it, "personal beliefs" about the importance of family and how I wasn't giving mine enough regard, refusal to give me a reference because he didn't know anything about my work, and a brief lecture about how he spent two years as a young man pulling himself out of student debt that his parents had helped cover.

     

     

    I don't get it. I don't think I'm wrong. I get that parenting is hard, but I don't think my parents deserve regard for the way they treated me. Not even admonishment for their actions. And it's pretty condescending for someone who recovered from debt in two years with their parents to talk down to someone who's battled with it for five without any family.

     

    I don't know how I'm going to get by on my own. I've done my best to try to live without family, and I just keep sinking down. And then I finally turn to a relative for help and they let me down like this. I don't know what to do with myself anymore. I don't want to rely on anybody but myself, but I can't do it.