Zeusthecat

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  1. Recently completed video games

    I did a non-violent playthrough followed immediately by a super violent playthrough. Highly recommended. Also, going through it a second time made me realize how non-linear the levels were, even if you were primarily going the stealthy route. There are a surprising number of alternate ways to get through a level that you never really realize on your first playthrough. The level design in this game is among the best in my opinion.
  2. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    As far as revenue sharing goes, yeah, I don't think tip sharing really makes sense. Besides, is there even a way to determine what tips were intended for what videos or are they just done at the channel level? The way I see it, the revenue sharing really makes the most sense when it comes to ad revenue generated by views. Similar to music royalties racking up whenever a song is played, it gives some basis for the number of views that video generated. Considering these ad agencies or whatever are out there paying these Youtubers for giving them another avenue to market to people, it makes sense that these companies should also pay a portion of that to the game creator since the game is most definitely a critical component of any given Youtube video and is undoubtedly responsible for some percentage of those views. Looking at it that way makes it way less of a contentious issue for me. It's less about Youtubers having to share their revenue in that case and more about these ad agencies adequately compensating the parties whose content generated the views to give them an audience to market to.
  3. Feminism

    Completely agreed. Ninety-three, I do appreciate your perspective on certain things but I don't think this is the place or the topic for you to start aggressively asserting your dissenting opinion on rape culture. And I find your constant insistence to not agree with anything unless you can draw a direct causality line between two things to be naive and immature. It's a complex world with countless things have countless effects on countless other things. Just because a thing doesn't have a direct effect on another thing, doesn't mean that it doesn't contribute in other indirect ways.
  4. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    I'm not sure I understand the question but are you basically asking if someone would be totally fine to make a Let's Play of a Let's Play and profit off of it without having to pay royalties/license fees to the original Let's Player? That's probably not what you're asking but it would be interesting to see how Youtuber's would react if someone did a Youtube video of their Youtube video with commentary over it. Would they try to demand a cut of the profits?
  5. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain

    There is no joke. I just keep seeing her face right next to Quiet's on Kotaku today and just wanted to share my desire to have a scantily clad religious bigot who denies marriage licenses instead of a scantily clad sexy super soldier in my super awesome spy game. You should know by now that a large percentage of my posts make little to no sense.
  6. The Dancing Thumb (aka: music recommendations)

    Unfortunately, I have not really enjoyed their latest stuff all that much so you might not be missing a whole lot (but I still want more in the hopes that they pull it back together). But they have such a deep catalog of great songs that I still regularly go back and give them a fresh listen. S.C.I.E.N.C.E., Make Yourself, Morning View Sessions, and A Crow Left of the Murder were all incredibly solid albums for me. Brandon Boyd's vocals are top notch.
  7. I Had A Random Thought...

    All natural lashes baby! One lash falls into my cereal and two more spring up in its place.
  8. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain

    So since this is on PC I really hope someone makes this as an alternate character skin for Quiet (but still with the lack of clothing): If someone does this, I will upgrade my PC and purchase this game immediately.
  9. I Had A Random Thought...

    You know what I hate? When I'm eating a bowl of cereal or granola and look down at my spoon to see ONE OF MY FUCKING EYELASHES just sitting there in a shallow spoon pool of milk. I know it's my eyelash but I don't want to fucking eat that.
  10. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    That's case closed in my mind. It really isn't at all an unreasonable thing to expect.
  11. Feminism

    The only MGS game I played was MGS 4 and it was a pretty good game as far as gameplay is concerned. That being said, I don't get what the big fuss is over Kojima's legacy and he just comes across as a gross pervert to me. It's really hard to respect a person's work when they put such a big emphasis on boobies, even when it clashes really hard with everything else that is going on. I mean, boobies are fine and all but Jesus, the last thing I need when everything is going to shit in a game and there's all these life or death scenarios is for a half naked woman to come into the scene just to sexy everything up. It's so childish.
  12. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    For what it's worth, I think I'm convinced by syntheticgerbil's argument that it is totally fair for developers/publishers/whatever to take a "royalty" cut from Youtuber's that create content based on their games. Songwriters receive royalties whenever their song is played on the radio. So it stands to reason that a Youtube personality that creates content based on another person's work should also pay a royalty to the original creator whenever someone views their video. Sure, they inject their personality and everything but the video game they are playing is a core part of their production and they would have nothing without it. Seems pretty straightforward and fair to me. Honestly, I haven't given this much thought until now and tended to take the side of the Youtube personalities. But after giving it some thought, is it really that unfair for a Youtube personality to have to pay a royalty to broadcast someone else's content to the internet?
  13. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    I was actually quite happy with a lot of those comments. The hypocrisy is just so palpable and obvious that pretty much everyone has to see it.
  14. Baby Got Backstory - A trope creation thread

    Metal Gear Solid: not at all a dong euphemism.
  15. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    http://kotaku.com/ftc-slams-youtube-group-for-deceptive-xbox-marketing-ca-1728237588 Come on gamergate. It's right there in front of you.
  16. Baby Got Backstory - A trope creation thread

    It also makes sense that nanomachines, like nerve endings, would be most concentrated in guy's weiners. They really should all be wearing crotchless pants if they want to get the most out of their nanomachines.
  17. The Dancing Thumb (aka: music recommendations)

    I went to an Incubus concert tonight. My second ever concert with my first being Radiohead a few years ago. It was pretty incredible and reaffirmed why Incubus is my favorite band. I wish they'd get back into the swing of things and put out a new album or two.
  18. Share Exceptional Articles You Have Read

    Man, that does sound like my cup of tea. But oh well. Probably never gonna happen.
  19. Share Exceptional Articles You Have Read

    Wow. Okay, so I have almost no knowledge or exposure to D&D or other tabletop style games so this article is super confusing. Do people just like make up their own rules and stories or is there some kind of framework they are supposed to follow? It all sounds so random and arbitrary and like a big game of pretend. That being said, it sounds totally super awesome and fun if you had a good group of people. It's kind of sad knowing that I probably completely missed out on having some of these kinds of experiences. At 30, chances are pretty low that I would find even a single person I know that would be down.
  20. Mega Man is still Mega, Man. (Mega Man Legacy Collection)

    I have the Mega Man Collection for the Gamecube and I think it has 1-8 on it. I had a friend over a few months ago and we spent a couple hours playing Mega Man 2 and it was great. I'm thinking now that I should go back and spend some more time experiencing these games. I've never played any Mega Men before aside from Mega Man X on SNES and that was the first time I had popped the GCN collection in after owning it for over a decade.
  21. Ouran Boast Club - Planning an Anime Podcast

    Regarding Vegeta's mustache. I never watched more than a couple episodes of Dragon Ball GT so I was never fortunate enough to witness the mustache for myself. But I really hope that he went super saiyan at least once while he had the mustache. Even better, I hope it was one of those slow transformations where his mustache started twitching and glowing and turned gold before the rest of his hair. On Saiyan hair, the only thing that is ever mentioned is a throwaway line from Vegeta that Saiyan hair never grows any longer from the moment they are born. I think this basically implies that even if they got a haircut or shaved their heads, they would never grow that hair back. So the mustache is a great Dragon Ball Mystery. My guess is that it is honey + cat hair.
  22. Destiny

    If you're on later tonight, around 10 pm your time I think, I might be down to join you. I only have one Skolas victory under my belt and wouldn't mind having another go.
  23. Life

    It hurts, I know. You really are a solid dude though for having the strength to realize the situation and make the right call though. Very few people would have had the guts or the introspection to be able to do that and would have instead just kept plowing forward and gambled on everything just somehow working out. Totally awesome that you were able to do such a difficult thing in the face of strong and confusing emotions. And just take some time to feel shitty about it. Better to confront and process those feelings now so you can come to terms with them and let them run their course. As shitty as you feel though, don't second guess your decision. It was the right one.
  24. Life

    If you click 'more reply options' at the bottom of the page, it'll give you the option to browse and upload pics from your pc. Took me a while to first figure that out too.
  25. I Had a Random Thought (About Video Games)

    I wonder if The Witcher is ever going to get Horsebag support.