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Okay, so as I said earlier, I have zero familiarity with Chait's work, but wat da fuq? Why are we paying any attention to this asshat? That's just the lazyist, most simplistic description and analogy I've ever seen. Which pretty much fits with Doyle's critiques of his first piece in the article Apple Cider linked.

Ummm, tater tots and hashbrowns, two of the best uses for a potato ever made.

Not to derail from the conquests of the smiling bee army, but Pokemon x Twilight.

And conquers the world with a bee army.

Does the conversation about games and movies aging change if you were to restrict it to say...the 25 best games/movies of a particular decade? So if the 80s of games is comparable to like the 30s or 40s of movies, would many of those games feel like they felt like they held up as well as those movies? I think they might. My gut reaction is to agree with Chris, that games age worse than movies. But then I think about some bad movies from the 80s that I simply now find unwatchable. I know as soon as the conversation came up, my mind kind of filled in example movies and games, and I think it auto-filled with some of the worst game examples (like Doom 2). I'd suspect that games which were technical masterpieces of their respective year would actually be the ones that aged worst, while games relying on established tech or design would fare better.

Oh, this whole thing has been going on for weeks, I think this Laurie Penny piece got posted here back in December, but I'm not sure I realized the full context of it at the time. And damn Twitter is the worst for trying to follow a conversation.

I'm pretty sure his dad lives like 20 miles from me. Maybe I can go get Taco Bell with him and smoke some cigarettes. Make a black and white YouTube series out of it, "Me and Dan's Dad".

It's a bit more complex than that. It starts with this article, which is a response to this comment, which is part of a discussion (that I didn't read all of), which has apparently spawned a bunch of responses. Blow's tweets look real bad, even in context. If you can read that first article and arrive at the conclusion that you're "being dismissed" well...I don't know what to say to that.

Jamestown was actually the last shmup I played, and I liked a bunch of things about it. Except I wasn't able to beat the final stage, and I finally rage quit after 20 or so attempts, especially once I realized it was a multi-stage final boss fight. It had like 4 or 5 difficulties, but on the last few stages, it made you play on Hard. It just felt like a super unnecessary brick wall. @Mington, I'm willing to try anything, and I don't know that I've ever given any of the Cave games a shot. I just know I've picked up a few shmups in bundles over the last few years, and Jamestown was the only one I enjoyed at all, and I still ended up hating it because of that last level.

My (limited) experience with high level bullet hell games is that they rely too much on memorization and familiarity with patterns than being able to skillfully adapt on the fly, which is fine, just not my type of game. Maybe that's a poor understanding.

I certainly think of the leer as being a standard Indy facial expression. Still, it's a good face to mock, because it is kinda ridiculous every time.

Yeah, I like the idea of mixing an action game with adventure gaming (something like StarCon2), but specifically schmup doesn't sound that attractive to me. Mostly because I'm not a big schmup fan.

Huh, it's a week of remastered editions. I think I might actually be more inclined to play Fahrenheit first over Grim Fandango, since I've never played it.

You guys are making me want to play Super Metroid.

Sorry, I worded that poorly, I'm just shocked the cartoon didn't have a better song given how catchy the game show song was (and I'm pretty sure the game show song predates the cartoon show). I don't think I ever watched the cartoon.

I wonder if those won't seem so bad like 25 years from now though, or to people born after they were made. Like watching movies from the 50s or 60s that are "hi-tech" for their times, and are just charmingly old now.

Happy Kansas Day everybody!

Fuck, was the Rockapella version not just used throughout the entire run? That's the only song I remember.

A Jurassic Lego game is probably the first time I've been super excited about a Lego game in awhile. I really like the Lego games, but can't say they get me super jazzed at new ones usually.

I use parenthesis way too much (and I even know when I'm doing it and am too lazy to use a better, more appropriate sentence structure).

I'd vote Wii U. Developmentally, a 5-year-old is going to be engaging with things more often as a toy to be played with than a game with goals and rules (that's not universally true, but true enough). And while almost any video game can be approached as a toy, I suspect the Wii U is going to be much, much more fitting. And there are still going to be plenty of dance/music games on the Wii U. The X1, as a console, would be very hard for me to try and justify if you already do PC gaming. Outside of the Kinect games, there are very few games worth playing that won't also be available on PC.

I just see another disconnect between score and review. His review reads fine to me, he praises a bunch of parts of it and then explains the things that bugged him. Cool. Then the score is just kind of "Da fuq?"

I don't think I'd ever seen Burch's blog before. The KU game tonight was a miserable mess (even though we won), so I spent the better part of two hours reading it. Absolutely captivating examples. I did think of one of my Dark Souls 2 runs that really was a challenge, which was a whips only characters (named Devo). The rule was whips only, which presents some massive challenges early on, as there are really only two good whips and one average whip, and they all have downsides. The Old Whip is the best whip in the game, but it's hard to get (it's a rare gift from the crow girls), which means you have to farm items to trade with them, and it's got the durability of tissue paper (in part due to a bug in the PC version), and can easily break mid-battle. The Spotted Whip is a late game weapon and fabulous, but not available for much of the run. The Bloodied Whip is the only real choice for regular use, and its okay, but it's an infuriatingly rare drop that only drops from 1 or 2 specific enemies in the entire game, and they aren't particularly close to a bonfire. Whips have a few advantages in combat, but are realistically the poorest weapon class in the game compared to anything else. That run was a ton of fun though, it forced me to rethink approaching combat as the timing and spacing is considerably different from any other weapon.

Is Citizen Kane in the public domain? Can we just make Citizen Kane: The Game? It can have a sledding minigame, a newspaper management Sim, etc.

Exclamation points are a cardinal sin in journalism, therefore I get a little illicit thrill from using them. !