BusbyBerkeley

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  1. General Video Game Deals Thread

    Does maybe this topic need its own thread?
  2. Other podcasts

    Ooh, exciting! I really want a good weekly (or at least regularly updated) dotacast, so I'm sure I'll be disappointed when most of those episodes are about HotS or Hearthstone or whatever.
  3. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    I can't imagine that dude's mindset at all. "I'll own this stranger from the internet. I'm going to call them and leave a voicemail full of memes. This is what sane, well-adjusted people do, I am certain! hehe, yeah." Also fuck 4chan and garbage internet holes for coopting feminist language and turning it into fucking memes. Like, they are trying to poison the well so that people can't even talk about these things, and it's working. "Problematic," for example as near as I can tell was used generally to call people out without saying directly "hey that's kind of sexist/racist" because people go on full defense when those words come out, and now if you write "problematic" anywhere in a comment on a general audience site people aren't sure if you're joking or not. The internet is garbage.
  4. General Video Game Deals Thread

    I mean, games are more expensive than other hobbies in a lot of ways. If you want to stay current with talking points and the general community it is much more of a money sink than keeping up with the general film community. There's also the upfront cost of buying hardware and keeping that current. Like every week a new game comes out that sounds cool but I can't afford to get them all. I have enough of a backlog that I feel perfectly comfortable waiting for sales prices and generally feel that $60 is way too much money for me to spend on a single game. I stay away from G2A but do semi-regularly buy off of GMG or in Steam Sales. Anyway, Nintendo is running a sale on refurbished (Old)3DSXLs including some with special edition cases for $110. Solid deal if you don't care about not having a New3DS
  5. Windows 10: "It wouldn't be right to call it Windows 9."

    Is there anything cool I can put in the new metro tab of the start menu? I cleared everything out thinking it might collapse down, but now its just empty space. Unless there's a new classic shell for 10 already?
  6. The Nintendo Wii U is Great Thread

    Miiverse is still the secret killer app (or feature i guess?) for the Wii U. Wish it was better integrated on 3DS as well. Maybe next gen.
  7. What is the Nadir of the Simpsons?

    The rake joke was never my favorite but I do love the hell out of "HEYBARTYOUWANNASEEMYNEWCHAINSAWANDHOCKEYMASK?"
  8. To chime in on the rocket league chat, someone on The Crate & Crowbar pointed out that because you yourself are only one player on the pitch with full control of your movement/body it feels much more exciting than playing as omniscient god-coach of fifa and the like. To execute a bicylce kick you have to learn how to flip yourself around and then position yourself properly and execute it and it makes it so regarding to actually do anything in the game because you are putting in all the inputs to physically manipulate the ball/other players using your car in the game world. So good.
  9. Rocket League

    I dunno what to tell you. I don't think it's great or anything but its fine. I always feel like I have control over the outcome of a round.
  10. Recently completed video games

    They upgraded it to the "HD" version a while back, but yeah it was broken at launch. Didn't run at all for me. Seems to work fine now though.
  11. Favorite Level in a video game

    Dota (2) - The Lord's Pitch Yoshi's Island - Raven boss fight, Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy. Portal - that part where glados lowers you into the furnace and you escape.
  12. Rocket League

    I think the face off thing is fine in 1v1? You can just rush it and both hit it at the same time sending it flying off, or hang back and let them shoot it at your goal and just punt it back. I have spent most of my time in 1v1 and haven't really had an issue with it that wasn't my fault.
  13. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    What a fucking joke. I can't wait for these idiots to implode. Any month now, right?
  14. Movie/TV recommendations

    I feel weird that Fincher/Nolan/etc are canon(?) directors now because I honestly don't care for them much, even though I'm right in the age bracket and love movies and watched their films as a teenager getting into movies. They make fine movies, but I just don't love them and can hardly even muster much enthusiasm when they put out something new. I've still not seen Interstellar or the last Batman!
  15. Social Justice

    Yeah, the joke is "lol this dude looks like if this person was trans. How embarrassing for them! They are ugly and look like a girl!" It's shitty and definitely transphobic. You don't need to play devil's advocate for everything.
  16. Movie/TV recommendations

    Is there any youtuber that provides nuanced criticism that comes from a place of deep knowledge and appreciation for cinema? They are almost always "epic takedowns!" And the like, or going over all the plotholes or something equally asinine.
  17. Obligatory Comical YouTube Thread II: The Fall of YouTube

    I'm a big dumb idiot because this video of people falling down cracks me the heck up.
  18. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    Steam kind of does hold a monopoly on PC gaming though. I like what GoG does a whole lot and think they are really cool in ways that Steam isn't. Also I just made some throwaway trolly tweets with the gg hashtag and people bit on them if you want to browse my twitter mentions. These people are so strange.
  19. Rocket League

    I've pulled off some sick saves by rocket flying, and I can feel myself get better at it. I tend to play more defensive than most people though, so I'm still pretty bad at rocket flying to score a goal, I can just hit it away from something, not towards anything in particular. I am loving playing 1v1 ranked though. Less people eratically driving straight towards the ball regardless of which team they are on or where they are facing makes things a lot easier for me.
  20. Rocket League

    Oh god how old am I?
  21. Rocket League

    I've been using ball cam exclusively but I'm going to try toggling it mid match and see how that goes. I have some issues with seeing other cars near me when the ball goes flying as is. I'm getting decent at rocket flying to get a high save or print it away from the crowd though, which I don't see a lot of other people doing online. Is there a skill match rating system when playing non ranked?
  22. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    The steam 'community' shit they added is largely obnoxious as fuck for me. I love video games but lord the people who engage with that shit are just the most garbage people and I would rather be able to browse video games for sale without being subjected to dumbfuck memes in the tags and curators and reviews and shit. Anyway, It seems GG is currently after frequent 3MA guest and generally cool dude Rowan Kaiser for calling out TB as a jerk and serial harasser. Good job on showing them you guys aren't bullying pieces of garbage by combing through peoples twitter feeds because they don't like you're man-baby leader. TB has a legion of mouth breathing toadies who will latch on to anything said by him or about him and he doesn't just tell them to stop fucking attacking people in his name. He's shit. Everything he touches is shit. That he gets people worked up about inane garbage like framerates is shit. Fuck that guy.
  23. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    Infuriatingly, TB used damn near that SAME JOKE on his detractors like a week after that. It's like that dude was engineered in a lab to be the smarmiest, most annoying person on the internet.
  24. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    Co-signed.
  25. Rocket League

    HOLD UP, does this game has splitscreen multiplayer? Miiiiiiiiiiight have to pick this up on Steam very soon.