MrHoatzin

Oh hah, I remember that. That was quite a weird freakout. What is Alex up to anyway?

Jesus, what the fuck, guys? I mean, yay Bethesda, DC is rad, congrats Nick, and all that—but no reason to just kill the cast. It is soo good and you're going to abort it this far in? This is the damned fate of Idle Thumbs, just as it gets rolling, it KEELS OVER DEAD. Just draft Steve and carry on. Or pitch the show to NPR and bring industry guests every week. Pity for all that fancy recording equipment to go to waste. :( This is the first time ever for anything, that I am feeling that annoying fan entitlement. Do you have any idea how boring gyms are? Do you expect me to watch Lou Dobbs or that dude on Fox who looks like Laura Palmer's father? See what you're doing to me?!

I can safely say I have no idea what you mean.

idlethumbstellsyouhowtoplaybrutallegendreallygood.info?

In general, I am wary of rationalizations on this subject of piracy/copyright/file sharing. I am especially wary of moral arguments because they tend to be manichean and fail to comfortably address a large number of real world situations. Why do we feel we have to explain how stealing something is a just act? Why can't we just make peace with the fact that we're parasites with demonstrable disdain for other people's hard work and/or compensation structures? Edit/contd: Maybe if we accepted this, we could come up with new models of thing-at-large-making that would address our concerns and allow us to pay for things we enjoy, and receive fair compensation for things we create.

I dunno, NOLF2 was pretty intense, what with all the sneaky missions and respawning enemies. When you just shoot dudes it is less intense than when you have to stay unseen for large stretches of the game.

I dunno, man, that dude is uniquely challenged. Maybe she should start with something a little less intense than a FPS, something like Beyond Good and Evil?

I stepped too hard on the dick pedal there, sorry guys. I was just awestruck by the raw sadomasochistic nature of the slider puzzle and freaked out.

A buddy of mine recently bought at some Goodwill store a Carcassonne clone marketed towards Christian folk called Ark of the Covenant. Why Christians would need their own version of a game so very, thoroughly un-satanical is beyond me. Unfortunately the tiles don't quite connect with the regular Carcassonne tiles, otherwise it would be a neat expansion.

Hmm. I want to like it. It looks simultaneously interesting and mundane as fuck. Maybe that is the bane of all "fantasy" stuff.

Happy birthday! Also, I endorse the recycling of birthday threads! And a happy birthday to Erkki, I somehow missed that one!

Half Life. The original. Or maybe the sequel. They are a lot of fun, exciting, varied, and not too hard-core.

Jesus, wtf? You people really like to waste money on domains and time on weird, unfun antifun scriptalicious demos. Maybe Jake should open a plzPayOurBandwidth@idlethumbs.net paypal account and tempt you people with it instead.

It was sweet. Enjoyed it quite a bit. :tup:

Man, I would like it more if it were just spoken words set to music, but the whole autotune thing is overstaying its welcome.

Having read the entire thread on the gbxforums (for fun!), I gotta object here! They don't write that abysmally. You are no better than they are, sir! Fie!

For that to make sense, I had to pronounce it with an affected French accent.

Oh, and some Gearboxers fan (douse?) the flames: http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?p=1543443#post1543443 KAPOW! This is more fun than it should be.

Oh, lordie! These duders are a hoot! http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?p=1543171#post1543171 [EDIT]I guess next podcast is when all the "piss on Nick" fan-mail will come! http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?p=1543347#post1543347

Man, those are some harsh ad hominem reviews of our beloved thumb there (hint: we love the idle one). I don't know what kind of thumb these people have been listening to if their reactions are so crazily skewed towards unabashed annoyance. Is this dude actually accusing you of being a large magazine in a franchise rut detached from the tastes of the people? Jesus!

Wiki page for "Moondog": Moondog was the pseudonym of Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), a blind American composer, musician, cosmologist, poet, and inventor of several musical instruments. Although these achievements would have been considered extraordinary for any blind person, Moondog further removed himself from society through his decision to make his home on the streets of New York for approximately twenty of the thirty years he spent in the city. The public began to appreciate the extent of Moondog's talents only in the final decades of Moondog's life, primarily because of his stubborn refusal to wear anything other than his own home-made clothes,[citation needed] all based on his own interpretation of the Norse god Thor. He was known for much of his life as "The Viking of 6th Avenue".[1] This reads like someone hijacked the beginning of the article and threw a bunch of ridiculous stuff into the entire first part of that paragraph.

Now I will not feel like the universe is retarded, when in it a guy with a Family Guy avatar can poo-poo me for bad taste and whatnot. Now you have acquired a sheen of good judgement. :shifty:

I don't really read much about games (save this site, shack, gamasutra), but I would like to nominate wonkette.com as an example of good internet writing. It is very much internet, and it is very much good.

Are we talking internet writing in general, or writing about games on the internet specifically?

Might be a bit of an overlap, but I am not sure I really agree in the meaningfulness of the test sample. The ancient race of Thumbites that spilled over here in the early days from Mixnmojo and Adventure Gamers ARE those who are interested in games and genres OTHER than LEC and adventure games, the ones who are more genre-promiscuous.There is a lot of people who stayed behind, tho; who stayed behind because they didn't care to change what they're familiar with, and I doubt these people are all that into weird new film stuffs in general. And nowadays we have a lot of Shackers, Goons, neogaffers and the like trickling in who are not necessarily from the same Spaff-Maximar audience pool. Aw, c'mon, that is not what I meant. I was looking back at myself and my pool of friends and acquaintances when I was a dumb teenage fuck with questionable tastes.