MrHoatzin

Aaaaand he made all those sales because the TF2 team sang an ode to Minecraft on their dev blog, drawing attention to the game.

Ok, jesus. What a load of cock paypal is. That man is gonna make me join Twitter just so that I can leave my 2¢, considering that is the only method of getting in touch with him. :/

Where did you learn this?

I DON'T think the cheapo stuff means he is minding the bottom line and therefore is a businessman, I think it is an honest artistic compromise of I can't make this with the money I have, so let's try to mix it up with all this found footage and try to make it cohesive.

I hope the paypal debacle ends well. Poor guy.

The wife has been on a Ralph Bakshi kick. You're probably familiar with his animated Lord of the Rings movie from the 70s, but he made another half a dozen really important movies. He was big on rotoscoping and his movies at times look really cheap, but overall they give the impression he just wanted to finish all his ideas on the budget that he was provided with. I also dig his use of live-action backgrounds and incidental footage. Just a few: Coonskin :tup: — A retelling of the Song of the South. u_18I936Kag American Pop :tup: — story of American music told alongside the story of several generations of Russian Jewish immigrants. 3RL2LbIw_FQ Wizards :tup: — a bizarre sci-fi fantasy blend, wizards with guns. BDWSzTMR7Gk

Ahahahhahahha! Oh, christ, I had a moment of complete stupid and I think there is no going back to the map I spent most of my time on so far. I guess that could be for the best. Last night a friend told me one of the new friday changes was that lava could now power ovens. Sure enough it worked. So I made two more buckets (they get used up in the process too), went back to the depths of hell, grabbed some more lava and made my way back up to my den. You know how when you USE some object, be it a door or a chest or an oven, the miner dude may hit it with whatever tool he is holding at the time? That is usually not a big deal, because one hit of a mud cube will not dislodge the door from its hinges or whatever, but an issue arises when that object is A BUCKET FULL OF LAVA. I emptied a bucket of lava in front of my oven in an attempt to use it, and didn't really notice what was going on for a fraction of a second because the oven interface had popped up and hid the screen from me. Then my dude started freaking out, but the lava was gooey and I couldn't pull myself out in time, so I died and my whole inventory was spilled all over the living room, and most of it burned up in the fire. I respawned a little ways away from the base and ran back as fast as I could. The bucket hadn't burned up in the lava and I managed to grab the hot block and save my workshop. Then I accidentally emptied the lava on the floor again, and died again. When I got back to the den the second time, I noticed that the lava was blocking the entrance. So I had to do some careful jumping to avoid it, and failed. I got to running and dropped into this waterfall that I thoughtfully had in the corner. When I looked around, I couldn't find a bucket, It burned out. There was this pile of 60 steel ingots bobbing in the corner that were in my inventory when I died earlier, but I couldn't get to the workbench because in my infinite wisdom I had embedded it in the floor and was now under the lava. My spare work bench had been in my inventory when I died the first time and was probably among the first casualties. With it also went my relatively new diamond pick and my diamond shovel and all kinds of useful goodies. I was standing there, with probably 1½ hearts in the health bar. All of my decorative bookshelves that I worked so hard to make had burned down (I thought it was a riot to build these bookshelves above and around the oven). I had about 30 wheat in my pocket and no place to make bread. At arms length from the work bench, sitting in the lava, I had two double-wide chests full of all kinds of fun loot (but utterly useless in the current predicament; there was at least about 150 units of redstone dust which I haven't yet gotten to using). Just as the realization set in that I will not be able to make a bucket, the chests burst into flames. And I say fuck it. Now, thinking back, I could've hacked open a hole in the glass ceiling of my den and let the fountain flooding my roof extinguish the lava, but meh. I've made peace with closing up shop already. I think it is time to wait for a less crappy multiplayer to materialize before I go into it again. Hey Erkki, wanna set up a Thumb server? :tup: Minecraft is most fun I've had playing a game in a while.

This is what we call soft imperialism.

Japanese business culture is kindof weird. What was that blog back in the day by that Brit who worked in the Japanese video game industry?

Looks astoundingly boring thus far.

Firstly, oversaturate is 1 word. Secondly, I am in the same camp as ThunderPeel. The only games I have played in a long, long time are Telltale games and Minecraft. Aside from that, a little DS in airports and on long trips. And yes, I am sick and tired of developing new skills of limited usefulness. I guess by and large, I got over games. Only those that pique my interest or do something new may get played. A problem also lies in the fact that I too haven't upgraded from my PS2, and as for my computers, the laptop runs Ubuntu and sits plugged into the TV most of the time, the Mac is a PowerPC, and the Windows machine runs XP and is eight years old.

Wellp, they've just rendered all musicians obsolete.

Man, what a load of bullshit, and the knee-jerk reactions in the comments make me want to choke some people.

Hahaha. Man, wait for the game to be released forever and then when it is within reach, start wondering if you really need it, if the protagonist is something you even want to see again. I guess I kindof agree, Duke Nukem is a relic and in many ways an epitome of what is wrong with video games.

WTF, jeez. I stopped paying attention to Cartoonbrew when I got tired of most of those other cartoon blogs, and all for the same reason: the Great Big Cal Arts circle-jerk. There seemed to be no one in the extended community of blogs who wasn't pooped-out by Cal Arts.

We still don't know absolutely ANYTHING about this game, so all this beard-stroking wisdom you're dispensing about what it is and isn't going to be like is substanceless.

I think they all did that, maybe? It is called Interface for interface's sake, it is a design movement.

Man, if I were Steve, I would be emo right now.

That doesn't hold much water.

I suspect they took the source and just finished the game, rather than starting from nothing.

WUXTRY!! DUKE NUKEM CANNED NO MORE!! WTF Wrapped up by Gearbox, to be released soon.

I finished it too and I am not entirely certain I understand where I really love it when they take abstract shit and represent it metaphorically, such as , or in the Tales of Monkey Island, the thief's secret as a box on a table. It is The Thing that sets the Telltale games apart from other adventure game traditions. I am indeed looking forward to seeing how this theme will intersect with Back to the Future. Or Jurassic Park for that matter. Also, I hope the next thing they do is an ORIGINAL PROPERTY, WTF, ARGHGHGHG. :(

I dig.

Maybe whoever made that didn't know shit about Texas Hold'em. Maybe it is regular poker and they have yet to pick up all their cards. :fart: :fart: :fart:

Yeah, 'cause the movie is all about driving the car around and blowing shit up. There is absolutely nothing that an adventure game could bring to the table that an open world in which you can tommygun nuns can't.