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It's possible I know of one, but knowing the guy it'd be disgustingly dirty and have a bunch of marijuana around.

Hahah, if only I really had the last name Gerbil. I think I'll do what you said though, probably get some stuff for them come tomorrow.

Yeah I finished it on normal yesterday and started a game on Survivor for the later Grounded mode but realized that playing this way was at odds with me getting the rest of the collectibles and upgrades, so I knocked it back down to hard for my second playthrough. I guess I figured since Survivor mode removes the hearing and almost everything kills me instantly anyway, why not do it with the harder mode which I think only removes the HUD on top of it. I finished about three chapters on Survivor and was crafting almost nothing and was only able to get past certain areas by just being sneaky and never engaging the enemy. If you're trying to have conversations, get more mechanical parts, and pills, it's in no way a play style that meshes. Loved the game, glad I played it even though survival horror isn't my thing. I don't know what to say about the story, the ending was good, but unexpected. Made sense even if it was sort of a Oh and this is yet another game that does collectibles right. I'm glad it followed suit of Uncharted Vita, because Uncharted 1-3 are great examples of how to do collectibles badly. In Last of Us, everything is in a place that usually makes sense and is an identifiable model. It's not just a bunch of audio logs, it's a variety of objects, recordings, journals, and photos that say things about the world. Even better was the comments characters would make on items after examining them. The notes in underground tunnels left by Ish made me sad.

Maybe you'll have better luck with Pajama Sam or Moop and Dreadly? Otherwise Day of the Tentacle might be fun. Hoagie says "Bitchin'" a lot though.

Oh yeah I should have said the geography makes no sense, my friend admits they mess with that just that the used some photo reference of certain intersections and squares and just highway name dropping. He said the bridge is just random bridge. I don't think that's supposed to be the 360 bridge, he said he thinks it was just a random bridge. I *think* Armadillo Theatre is based on a Drafthouse, who knows. It doesn't exist. I'm guessing this probably how they did the other cities as well, but those were in ruin so it seems easier to get away with.. I'm just inferring Joel was born in Austin since I have no other info. My guess was because they got to 71 pretty quickly they were within city limits, but like you said it's fudged.

I don't know, it was a measly 30 fps.

Haha, honestly Dropsy creeped me out first time when he showed it even though the animation is gorgeous. I think I changed my mind and want to see what's going on here. https://www.idlethumbs.net/forums/topic/6030-life/?p=300823 Woo, found his posts! I feel kind of bad for saying his clown is creepy. I mean that's the point though right? The animation is still beautiful.

I'm about halfway through on normal, had to stop reading this thread about page 8, will check the rest when I finish. I don't think I fully agree with toblix, but it is somewhat bland on some areas of gameplay. I think because this game seriously stresses me out and keeps scaring me, I didn't know I scared so easily, but I guess I play no survival horror games and had no idea I was getting into one (thought it was an action game). I do want to see the next part of the story though, so I keep going. I'm also really bad at aiming in anything so this adds to the stress and frustation should I get caught and everyone freaks out to try to kill me. It's gorgeous, well acted, great characters, that stuff is so easy to say I wish I could be more descriptive about things like that. One thing I don't like about the environments is the amount of dark ones. Besides the scariness, I have to pick up a lot of shit to craft with because I suck and I start feeling like I have to vomit (and start feeling a headache coming on) when I have to turn on the flashlight and keep moving the camera down to shelves and corners. I have gotten motion sickness in some games before, but it's somewhat rare, I guess I need a focal point to trigger it. Most other notable time I felt like i was going to was the rollerball stuff in Psychonauts while trying to collect all those bastard figments. Also it was hilarious on page 3 or so that Mington called Ellie's role. One funny sidenote is I am somewhat friends with an environment artist at Naughty Dog, we went to school together and he's from Austin, where Joel is from (and where I live now). I was asking him if they consulted with him for some of the areas that were somewhat real chunks of highways from around here and he said yes and was also telling me a lot of the Californians there had weird ideas about what Texas houses were like. He had give some pointers, as Austin isn't rural so it's not really that kind of imagery. Also if Joel was born in Austin, his accent is unrealistic. I find most people in the major Texas cities do not have these country accents at all and instead sound much flatter. Joel sounds like he's straight out of Arkansas or even more east than that. I'm used to this though.

Sorry, just kidding around, it doesn't really need the wind up. Is there some kind of story mode in Mario Maker? Or are there levels by various designers by other companies the way Warioware DIY had? I have no interest in actually making levels, but I would play others, so I'm wondering if I should get this.

A type teacher I had said that 80s Macs had spacing issues as well, and that a lot of the standard fonts were typographers trying to get stuff set up for automatic kerning and such to fix those issues. I can't seem to find any evidence of that searching Google though, so maybe? Maybe not?

Yes, I think Zeus just said it best. It's the United States, corporate interest sucks on a level way beyond copyright. You and Problem Machine (less you) seem to be under the impression by twisting things I'm saying to extremes and acting like there's a logic to every aspect of our opposite opinions of the current system that you're somehow going to capture me in a "gotcha" moment and I will just start agreeing. And yeah, the article was definite goading, which I contest is aimed at me in some respects considering I spent like five pages blabbing in chunky paragraphs and fails to even be on topic of ethics in games journalism or Gamergate even less so than the first time around. It's pointless, it's all really pointless here. So exhausted

It's missing the wind up.

Saw that Shaun the Sheep movie yesterday and it was nice to see a kids movie the way I remember kids movies. I think the only thing that took me out of it is it had one or two jarring pop songs, but I guess according to the awful trailers for CG movies I had to sit through, kids love Lady Gaga. The intense craftsmanship is the usual Aardman fare, but I find it extremely interesting to watch a "silent" cartoon movie in this day and age. The only other ones I can think of in recent times are Triplets of Belleville and Illusionist, both which I also love. There were a lot of quainter Charle Chaplin style laughs in Shaun compared to the humor in those two. One part in the restaurant scene had me in tears.

This too!

What the hell is that high heel?!

That video is fucking amazing, but that original cutscene must be idiotic as all fuck. Here is D-Dog version:

I think I started getting my neighbor's mail. I got a letter like a week ago with some USPS driver writing, "is this you?" on it because they had the same last name. Since I can't respond to them since that is a very one sided conversation, I threw they letter away. Another factor is I thought they were trying to send mail to my uncle (who is named Kelly) but maybe thinks my wife took my last name and her name is Kelly? But as I received more mail I start to notice these look like bills. I am thinking of going and asking the neighbor about it, if there is a Kelly with my last name, but then I don't want to mention I have already thrown away some of the mail. Also I am wondering if they will feel I need to call USPS to sort this out and that I am a bad dude for not having done so already.

Yes DeadPan, I love big corporations because they are the only ones who own copyrights. Guys, I can't do this anymore, just PM me if you really want to know my personal opinions on everything (why even though?). This is sucking up so much time every time and it's the same thing again. I shouldn't have said anything in the first place but I felt like Twig was goading the original argument back up, because I guess no longer is this thread even related to Youtubers making fat cash (ones involved in Gamergate to boot), but it's about defining copyright law?

It's an ethical transgression if they charge, why are you always missing like half of the things I say? If they don't want fan art depicting whatever it's also within their right if it's not protected by parody or criticism. That I PERSONALLY might not feel good about but what I think doesn't matter. I just feel like people/companies/whoever ought to not be bad people for exercising their right. There's so many avenues you can take to not bite on copyrighted material that I'll never understand why it's such an outrage when things get taken down. If all this video game streaming stuff should really mean changing or (re)defining copyright law, then I guess you'd better get to work. Maybe Disney already has since they are already making the most money off of streaming games. I'm sure the mouse would love more.

Hah, oops I meant Ursula. Now I had wish I had known about the loadouts in Peacewalker, I could have used that in all those hours and hours of extra ops. Errrghgh.

Personally I'm not a fan of anyone who does exclusively fan art, but just about every artist I like has made some fan art at some point in time, including myself. What is not okay is when people profit off of it, which generally is just print sellers anyway. Fan art (to me) is supposed to be a fun thing, not something to pay your bills, both for respect and legal reasons. Why does that have to be only exclusive to corporate interests, though? I can think of many characters in the comic space owned exclusively by one person, including big ones licensed among a multiple pieces of media, many who don't like prints being sold of someone elses drawings of their work. Mike Mignola still owns Hellboy after decades of games, movies, and animation. Steve Purcell, the same. This doesn't happen much in games because they are a team effort so it's a bit different, but even something as huge as Prince of Persia is still owned by Jordan Mechner himself, although I think in that case the rights were coowned by Broderbund, I don't know if they all completely reverted to him or not. If you read his making of book on it he was very adament on having the rights. Probably giving all that kickback profit to Jordan Mechner was more than it's worth and I think that's sort of why Ubisoft Montreal may have turned that planned Prince of Persia game into Assassin's Creed. It's for the best though.

It's half finished and it's going to suck.

No and no. Sherlock is public domain, as I stated before, ownership needs to run its course and I'm against bloated corps like Disney licensing and reselling IPs until the end of time. Perfect demonstration of how it should work is Little Nemo. Winsor McCay makes good money in his time, owns his IP, and dies before the 75 years are up. Now anyone can compete against each other to reprint these amazing old works in best quality and also IDW has started up a new line of Nemo stories. No one is competing against Winsor McCay and the IP is more than dead otherwise. I'm not going to argue for the logic to extension to 120 years for corporations or 75 plus life of creator because I have issues with it, but Steve Gaynor wrote something interesting about it last year in reference to licensing music from a record label. It's kind of besides the point because I see exactly why Nintendo would crack down on stuff they feel is competing with their recent release. And last, I'm not even sure why you would think I have something against anyone hired by DC to make Batman stuff. That's how business works. Wha?

Morality can be pretty subjective though. And since a ton of people out there seem to not understand fair use, I'd say a lot of people don't know it's in their right, hence some of this entitlement. The Kotaku article on the matter is much better because the commenters there have a much clearer idea. Someone brought up that the reasoning here is most likely that Nintendo does not want people to mix up what you can and can't do in Mario Maker with a rom hack. Whether you want to give weight to everyone's smarts to distinguish the difference or read the description is up to you, but I'd guess Nintendo erred on the side of most being ignorant.

The person who made Dropsy posted here a few times before, not sure if they still read the forums.