Jake

wrong thread for wrong grammar corrections

Wowwww cool it down grammar nazi. Know who else was a nazi? Hitler.

I fought this for years saying gee you eye, but eventually succumbed to the gooey.

Oh I thought Nick's first doi was off mic. Listening now. Doi

No, a more classic scenario unfolded: Nick said "doi" once and then I kept saying it, and somehow in the edit Nick's creation and quiet instigation of the mess that ensued was left out of the story.

Idle Thumbs 264: A Very Pretty Pipe Dream This week we're throwing away our traditional hyper-competitive leaderboard and focusing on hand-selected stats that show us what we've accomplished. Chris plays Overwatch and discovers that, after years away there's still a Blizzard for him. Nick goes to Disneyland, comes home and finds a new release of Planet Coaster. "This means something," he says, burying his theme park under mountains of dirt. Alone, late at night, Jake builds the Nublar. Discussed: Wizard Jam, Overwatch, Planet Coaster, Imbroglio, Hitman (2016) Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

Sly Bootles Idle Thumbs 267: Real Slyboots It's E3 time again. This is a weird E3, landing in a transitional time when everyone might have preferred to not come but felt the obligation all the same. We untangle our own understanding of Sony and Microsoft's announcements, get stoked about Zelda, and visit the world's largest bag of Doritos. Discussed: Xbox Scorpio, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Overland, Itch Refinery, The Haunted Mansion: Ghost Post Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

When the Polytron site was hacked, which was GG outbreak week one I'm pretty sure, it was hacked with a Five Guys reference, so all that stuff was happening basically on top of itself.

Yeah "5 guys" + "gate" back to back, is hard to defend. There is always a chance that it wasn't intended, but there's also a chance regardless of what Nintendo says, that it was deliberate, because those two references have no business being next to each other for any other reason.

I'm editing this stupid thing this week sorry for the huge delay! get *tinkly John Williams chimes* excited

By having a PC that you can/want to/know how to upgrade, you're basically out of the market MS/Sony care about anyway. There are tons of people (MS/Sony's core market) who game only on phones/tablets and their consoles.

Oh man yes that stuff! I meant to bring up the twilight princess glitch pixel neon aesthetic, as that seems really really related to the technology elements in the new game, but we talked about so many Zelda Things that I didn't have time, or the conversation steered away.

Someone from itch.io said they were investigating the empty/black background in the app!

Oh man yes obviously that one. Also smash bros etc whatever haha.

CEJ I will finish and release Build The Nublar if you finish and release this!

Sorry I should have said "is small," not "doesn't exist," as you're totally right what I said was not at all accurate. That said I would love to learn more about competitive TF2 and I bet others would too. Any interest in writing to questions@idlethumbs.net about it?

Idle Thumbs 265: A Chill Hell This week we're joined by special guest Danielle Riendeau to wander the abandoned hallways of Mars, where we create a Hell of our own, one where there's no one to bother us and all the time in the world to relax and take it in. Meanwhile, Chris takes a risky assignment in Marrakesh and is killed on the toilet, but makes it home to regale Jake with accounts of how good Overwatch is. Discussed: Hitman (2016), Doom (2016), Overwatch, Team Fortress 2, World of Warcraft, Soft Body, The Idle Fiction Jam, Mouth Feel: The Summer Wizard Cocktail Jam, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

Fair enough. This conversation is one that would be so so quick when said aloud. I feel like everyone is digging themselves deeper instead of resolving things and I'm contributing to that failure. Maybe I'm straight up causing it. Sorry if I wasn't arguing in good faith. (I do think the claims that people using shorthand are people who mean it as shorthand for "bad" or are people who think anime is a lower form of entertainment or something, is also not a good faith position to take, as for all you know they don't mean "bad" or they just have passing familiar with anime and maybe even more familiarity with parodies of anime than legit anime, or they just don't find it to their tastes, which are very different from seeing it as low work, but only one of those positions comes from a place assuming an attack/bad faith.) Anyway, sorry for being dismissive or flippant to the point of frustration. That wasn't my intention.

Yes "not all anime" -- I know there is good anime but for the purpose of shorthand of explaining the presence of that bundle of tropes in a non-anime work, I don't care, and I don't think anyone else does either, because it communicates what it intends to communicate quickly. If anyone is so dumb to think "oh all anime is like cheesy anime" then they have preconceptions that aren't going to be saved by someone's defending post on an Internet forum.Your point about the 90% thing feels like you're arguing against yourself when it comes to using a genre or medium's label to shorthand explain to someone that "this has characteristics which are more commonly found in this other medium." If you're wishing people would only use the mediums or genres you like in discussion to advocate for the things about them that you like, and never use them as negative examples, good luck to you. It's true that I don't watch a lot of anime but I've watched a lot more than none. I like some of it. I definitely don't appreciate it the way many people do but I also recognize a bunch of tropes that are undeniably unique to, or born from, anime which are adopted by other genres. I don't know what to say about that other than we're going to disagree about how appropriate it is top point that out while simultaneously not enjoying the presence of those tropes in the non-anime work. It seems like that's just how it is. I'm sure you do the same things about things I like and you don't. This conversation is such an Internet forum conversation holy shit.

I think saying people were using the word simply to mean "bad" (when I'm pretty sure people were using it as shorthand for some common, if negative, traits associated with anime) is reductive and unnecessarily defensive. People do that for a lot of things, positive and negative. But whatever you're right, sorry for continuing to talk about it.

There are some tropes that just show up a lot in anime more than other mediums. Lots of mediums have that. Like if I said "that's totally an adventure game" referring to something that was not literally an adventure game but relied on a bunch of overwrought lateral thinking constructs or too-cheeky-and-winky-and-self-aware-for-its-own-good writing and characters, people would jump down my throat and present a lot of one off examples of wonderful subtle art in the adventure game genre... but also my comparison would still be totally valid and descriptive shorthand because a ton ton ton of adventure games carry those tropes and give that genre its reputation. There's no need to defend anime. - Oops I was a page behind so ignore all that. Except the last part about letting go of the need to defend anime (as a person who spent what seems like a decade defending adventure games).

Idle Thumbs 263: Disable Enemies to Reveal Enemies In the middle of an awkward conversation you accidentally press down the left and right sticks at the same time. It turns out to be for the best: Your buddies look completely ridiculous frozen mid-sentence and you decide this is a perfect moment to preserve as a photo. You try to clear up the shot by setting any enemies to hidden... and find yourself suddenly alone in the room. Realizing you have no friends, you go load up Steam and play Doom for eight hours without interruption. Discussed: Uncharted 4, Doom (2016), Dark Souls 3, DevGAMM, Planet Coaster, Parkitect, RollerCoaster Tycoon World, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

Yes there are two Build The Nublars now. I'm very excited about this! Check out nkornek's Build The Nublar here. Build The Nublar You are Dodgson. In an alternate timeline when Nedry comes through with the dinosaur embryos, you are immediately tasked by your umimpressed boss with the construction of their own Nublar. (He keeps calling Jurassic Park a "Nublar") Your boss is sitting in the conference room back home, logged into the company mainframe, waiting to see your latest version of a Nublar park tour. As his demands get higher and higher, can you build a tour that meets his needs? We think this will be basically Pipe Dream/Pipe Mania, but with your boss's Jurassic Park tour jeep instead of water flow, and a bunch of bullshit laid on top of that. Team so far: Nick Breckon, Jake Rodkin, Olly Moss: Design, art, implementation (we're all doing a little bit of everything I think) We may need programming help at some point but if we do I will update this thread! More updates coming soon!

omg that webcam

We're going to do a good amount of prep for the stream, including downloading the latest versions of everything, running them once to make sure the inputs work on our PC, etc. I would like it to be a very smooth presentation of wizardjam's output. If I get my shit together I want to also showcase WizardJam 2015 and Winter Wizard Jam too, but I can't promise that yet.