Zeusthecat

I don't know what it says about (American) humanity when the biggest tv event of the year, the Super Bowl, is watched by many people solely for the commercials. That is a really disgusting thing to me.

Good job everyone, that was the best!

Scarab, sorry I missed you last night. I was in a matchmaking session with another friend and couldn't accept the invite.

I hate those Progressive car insurance commercials with that stupid Flo character so much.

The Truman Show: The Video Game. You have a wife, best friend, job, etc. and your goal as you understand it is try to live your ideal, pre-ordained lifestyle. You go to work, spend time with friends and family, and do things that you supposedly enjoy to try to make the most out of life. As the player, you guide Truman through life and use your knowledge of his situation to steer the direction his life takes. The player's goal in this game is to try to obtain the highest ratings possible for The Truman Show, which is done in one of two ways. One way to obtain high ratings is to try to live your life in a way that fits with the vision of the show. As you do what you are "supposed" to, you are rewarded in certain ways. Maybe the show introduces new activities for you to participate in or maybe new characters are brought in for you to get to know, opening up new options and relationship dynamics. As you reach major milestones or achieve some tough goal you receive even better awards that help keep the game interesting and open up new avenues for increasing your ratings. If you follow this path through the entirety of the game, your true purpose in life is revealed to you on your deathbed and you die with the new knowledge that your life was a lie and you were the most influential/popular person in modern history. The other way to obtain high ratings is to try to break out of the confines of the show. You might do this by going places you aren't supposed to go or doing things you aren't supposed to do. By taking this approach however, the show's directors will try to throw weird and unexpected things at you to discourage you from deviating from the norm. These unexpected things could include radical shifts in weather, changes to the day/night cycle, and all sorts of unexpected interactions with other characters and the environment. Your ultimate goal in taking this path is to escape from the show and as you pursue this over time, Truman starts to piece together exactly what is going on and gets more adept at escaping from the cameras, which in turn gives him an opportunity to plan out and execute his escape from the show. This all culminates in a final push to escape where all kinds of shit is thrown at you as you try to make your escape. Then, at the end, you talk to the creator and a secret third option is revealed where you are given the choice to leave the show and make your triumphant exit or go back and continue to live your life, but with the knowledge of what your true purpose in life is. Somehow throughout this game you receive feedback on how you are impacting the ratings and there would be some direct correlation between how high the ratings are and what you can do or how much awesome shit happens. And the soundtrack would be even more amazing than the soundtrack for the movie. I don't know, that's all I have right now. Also, this game will use Unreal Engine 4 cuz graphics r king.

I'm not sure what I'm seeing. Is that a dude being launched 50 feet into the air by a rocket?

Unfortunately, a ton of stuff is locked early in the game and doesn't become available until later on in the story. For me, personally, the game got much more awesome in the second half. There were some fantastic missions later on and the world really came alive for me once everything opened up. It's just too bad that it takes so long to unlock everything because it really sells the world short.

I totally agree with this. I think there is a very real possibility that making a living doing something you love to do can diminish the enjoyment you get out of it. Not to say that that will necessarily happen for everyone but having an obligation to do something can definitely take the fun out of it, especially if it is a high stress situation, which is clearly common in the video game industry.

After thinking about that biscuit cutter for so long, I was finally able to push through that puzzle pretty quickly. Somehow I had never previously tried using it on that second rubber tree in the caber toss area and after obtaining a chunk of wood from doing so, I was able to throw some glue on my new plug and patch the hole in the boat. From here I jumped in the boat and went out to the pirate ship where some tweaked out dude and a bunch of monkeys made me walk the plank. It was clear that this sequence would repeat until I did something and I saw that I could interact with the plank and one of the ship windows from my boat, so I ended up using my serrated knife to cut the end of the plank off. Then I climbed onto the ship again and was tarred and feathered for my insolence. Then they sent me on my way and I had to stop playing before I could get any further. Now that I look like a chicken I'm thinking I'll either need to use my new disguise to capture one of the feral chickens from the beach or I'll need to use it to trick Blondebeard into thinking I'm that devil chicken that he's so scared of. I'm planning to dedicate a couple nights to playing this this week since I finally got past that roadblock so hopefully I'm close to the end of this chapter so I can start delving into the next area of the game.

Sweet. Feel free to send me a friend request. My PSN ID is in one of the posts above. I should be on around 830 my time as usual.

I'm on PS3 unfortunately.

Okay you win, I have yet to see that in 5.

This is one of the many reasons why 5 is better than 4. http://kotaku.com/http-youtu-be-lwqbuhizrle-gta-cargo-check-out-this-a-1517911161

So I got my buddy to join the Idle Thumbs crew and we've been on every night this week and should be on each evening this weekend starting around 8:30 PM Arizona time. If there is anyone out there that is even remotely interested please join us. GTA Online is stupidly fun and having more people would be awesome.

Yes.

Okay, one more:

I just realized something:

Okay, I've been running this over in my head for the last several hours and ruining my productivity at work but I think I have almost all of the pieces in place. First, based on Guybrush's comment about the biscuit cutter shape matching the shape of the hole in the boat, I clearly need to use the biscuit cutter on some object in the environment (pretty sure I already tried it with everything in my inventory) to stamp out a block of wood or something that I can use to plug the hole. As part of this process I think I will probably also need to use my chewed gum or glue as an adhesive. Once the boat is repaired, I think I will need to use it to get to the nearby pirate ship where I will hopefully find some chicken or some other food since Blondebeard had previously delivered food to this location (I also expect there to be monkeys on the ship based on the handprints back on the beach where Elaine was stolen). Once I get the food I think I will need to dump it in the fryer to make it crispy and then give it to Blondebeard. At this point, I expect that he will either lose his gold tooth biting down on something too hard or he will want the gum when he is finished and lose his tooth that way. Since I am able to pan for gold in the mud outside I expect that through the process of losing his tooth, it will somehow end up in the mud and I will have to use the pie pan to get it out. Then I will give the gold tooth to the third barber so he will join my crew. At this point I'm hoping that some new options will open up that will lead me to obtaining a ship or I will be able to take the ship from Danjer Cove since it is manned by monkeys. I could be totally off on all of this but I am very confident that I am at least on the right track with the biscuit cutter. I just need to find some tree or wooden object somewhere that I can use it with which might be tough because I've already used it just about everywhere I can think of.

http://kotaku.com/flappy-bird-is-making-50-000-a-day-off-ripped-art-1517498140 Question: What the fuck is Flappy Bird and how can I replicate this success so I can retire by the age of 32?

I've used that thing all over the place but I probably haven't been quite exhaustive yet. I will now ponder this all day, thank you!

Poor mister kitty. Hope he pulls through.

Unfortunately I will never experience the joys of Netrunner because I have no friends that live within 100 miles of me (that is meant to be read to the sound of a tiny violin playing).

Here's a free video game idea for whoever wants it: A two player game where one person plays as a pyromaniac that uses various abilities to try to burn down a building and another person plays as a firefighter using various abilities to try to put the fire out. There would be various buildings with different layouts and each one would have a dollar value assigned to it. The pyromaniac is scored based on how much damage they do and the firefighter is scored based on how much they save. Whoever has the higher dollar amount of damage done or property saved at the end of a match is the winner. This game would have some sort of a combo system where chaining together different abilities would unlock limited use special abilities that are much more powerful. This game would have ultra realistic fire propagation and water effects and would run on Unreal Engine 4 because graphics r king. (I fully expect that a game like this already exists somewhere and that this is not an original idea)

Still stuck. And I've tried plugging the boat with everything I have but I am obviously still missing something. The gum I have seems like the most likely candidate for plugging the hole but according to Guybrush I don't have enough. He also commented that the half eaten biscuit and the biscuit cutter were the right shape for the hole but couldn't be used to plug it for whatever reason. I've also tried using the gum with everything else in my inventory, thinking that maybe I would need to put the gum on something as an adhesive to make it suitable for plugging the hole. So right now I am inclined to think that there is something I am missing in either the beach area with the feral chickens or Danjer Cove. Those are the only two areas where nothing really substantial has happened yet and there are still items in the environment that haven't come into play. Unfortunately I've already gone through almost every possible item combination (I guess I haven't tried using all of my items with the sign or banner in this area) in each of those areas and nothing has happened so I'm still completely stumped on what I could possibly do. Maybe I just need to do some pixel hunting.

I don't know what you guys are talking about. Graphics are clearly king and that is why Killzone 3 is the pinnacle of console shooters.