Patrick R

I constantly get lost in FPS that aren't event oriented corridors like Half-Life 2 or CoD. I owned Halo 3: ODST for two years before I ever played it because the first four times I booted it up I could not figure out a way through the opening hub world. I'm playing F.E.A.R. right now and about 5 hours of it takes place in the same office building with the exact same textures everywhere, and it was insanely disorienting. But I think it's because I actually have a terrible sense of direction. Neither of those games have nearly the amount of repetitive environments that Wolfenstein 3D has.

I think as far as pure movement empowerment goes, zooming around the walls and ceilings of levels in AvP as an Alien also feels pretty great.

Doom is my choice. Whenever I start a new FPS it always takes me an adjustment period to get used to the default run speed. EDIT: But I don't know if I can count it since 99% of my experience with Doom is through gzDoom, which adds mouselook and jumping, which I don't think were in the original game.

Are there other genres where people's preference for specific movement paradigms gets so solidified? Like, if were all to count to 3 and say which FPS feels the best to move around in, would we all name drastically different games?

If you want these pods to still be free, I'm not sure. But if you want to pay for hosting, Libsyn provides a good service. EDIT: Also: yay, new episode!

I will play Thief and Deus Ex alongside you when/if you get to them. I've never played Thief, but Deus Ex is my all-time favorite game and I've played through it maybe a dozen times now.

This is so upsetting to me. Is anyone here super into roller coasters? My fear of heights generally keeps me away. Are roller coasters at all scary for people who are into them or is it just pure fun?

Heater.

Well that site was mostly folk/anti-folk people, so the word generally worked it's way into the lyrics and could be anything like "Hand", "Stingray" and "Keep". If this is going to be mostly instrumentals (which I think most people in this thread stick to), perhaps a word more evocative of a mood or tone would be better. It's your proposal so I'll let you come up with it. Also I am going to do this if only because being able to finally write a song that uses more than three chords will be very cathartic.

Do you want to set a theme for the songs? On my old music collective's site we use to do monthly songwriting compilations where the prompt was a single word.

There's a moment in Blackhat where the characters are flat-out sprinting towards a gunfight and the camera follows them at full speed because it's just a Go-Pro strapped to the cameraman who is running with them. That movie is not great but I am feeling super into the digital aesthetic Michael Mann has been cultivating for the past 10 years.

Awesome, thank you.

It is weird to me that, out of all the insane roles Goldblum has played, Malcolm is the lasting one.

This is probably a dumb question, but does this game have full subtitles? I am hard of hearing and very interested but afraid I won't be able to get it fully.

Rick and Morty is a goddamned treasure.

I don't know how I feel about those "taste exactly like root beer but are actually pumped with crazy amounts of alcohol" beers. I really don't. I guess people seem to like them, since there's so many different kinds, so I guess I'm happy for those people. But I don't know if I consider them actual beer. But my partner flew to the East Coast to attend a wedding so I bought 1.75 liters of super cheap store brand rum that I am going to drink this weekend while watching slasher movies and Judy Garland musicals. I am happy because I just saw on the DVD. I love this period of horror movie trailers. I have had a fair amount of super cheap store brand rum already. I am going to watch Visiting Hours. I am pretty happy despite not being able to afford flying out to attend the wedding.

I had a customized lullaby cassette tape that my parents got from mailing Pampers UPCs to a PO Box. "Patrick...it's time to go to sleep Patrick."

I never feel too sad for the media conglomerates whose copywritten work gets ripped off, but I do feel sad that "Calvin and Hobbes, except they're [Random Nerd Shit!]" is apparently a catnip formula for so many people.

The politics aren't that overt and there's no sex scenes. The violence isn't that explicit, but it's pretty gross and gruesome throughout.

This is where I am. I figure no one inquiring actually wants me to explain my sex life to them, so I mostly just describe myself as queer. It's quicker and much less hassle. Also, on a totally dumb note, there's something I find phonically off-putting about the term "pansexual" and I feel weird referring to myself in that way. For some reason it always brings to my mind some sort of Dinonysian bacchanal. Like it implies my sex life is much more exciting and decadent than it actually is. Which absolutely nonsensical, but there you are. It's probably just a holdover of guilt instilled in me from the kind of gay/straight people who don't like bisexuals and insist they must "pick a side". Or something.

I feel like that's definitely the case for something like Mad Max. I think also a lot of filmmakers want to make black and white films but are unable to because they're so much less marketable. Like how Frank Darabont wanted to do The Mist in black and white, so he included a B&W version of the Mist on one of the DVDs. On the other hand, the Coen Brothers shot the entirety of The Man Who Wasn't There in color at the insistence of USA Films as a sort of marketing safety valve, but it looked so amazing in B&W that a color version was never released.

The Decline of Western Civilization films are finally coming to dvd in a Shout Factory box set. I saw a screening of the first two last night with director Penelope Spheeris in attendance and it was marvelous. If you have any interest in punk at all Part 1 (about the LA hardcore scene) is absolutely riveting and vital. And even if you have absolutely no interest in hair metal, Part 2 is one of the funniest and best documentaries ever made. CHECK THEM OUT.

Leviathan is very good.

We still got two people who need to join this game before we can start!

Remember in the first 25 or so episodes where even really basic sex stuff made them uncomfortable? They're three straight dudes from West Virginia. They seem like good dudes, but putting that much content out there all the time about those kinds of topics really just lays bare every single thought and inclination that is inside you, especially when you try to cover it up. The real crime is Griffin's interminable ironic bro speak, but maybe he doesn't do that anymore. I haven't listened in years.