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Did you get to the board game thingy yet? That's my favorite part.
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Cyberpunk Cop Killah (aka The Last Night)
syntheticgerbil replied to singlespace's topic in Video Gaming
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My wife and I love the Bright Eyes Christmas CD. The Pink Martini one is pretty good as well. I'm also a fan of Goldfrapp's Winter Wonderland and XTC's stupidly cheesy Thanks for Christmas. But in general, almost all 80s and on Christmas music can go fuck itself. Also I hate giving presents because ultimately I feel like I'm wasting a bunch of money on myself because of the nature of gift exchange. Money I never seem to feel good about parting with. I would probably like Christmas more if it got significantly colder in Texas sometimes. I remember being much colder when I was younger.
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Cyberpunk Cop Killah (aka The Last Night)
syntheticgerbil replied to singlespace's topic in Video Gaming
I guess because my experience with it in 4chan is it's usually targeted towards other guys on the site in sort of a demeaning way, as like a "sissy." Not that anal sex is exclusive to gay people. It often seemed to be used in combination with "butthurt faggot." I don't know I suppose Google searching it all, it seems in favor of the the less harmful definition, with Knowyourmeme citing earlier stuff and not mentioning the rape part and Encyclopedia Dramatica going vulgar as possible. Well I guess now I know not to take it that way necessarily. It also appears you can no longer type butthurt on /v/. Odd. -
Cyberpunk Cop Killah (aka The Last Night)
syntheticgerbil replied to singlespace's topic in Video Gaming
I'm pretty sure it originated from 4chan as that, back when I was much younger and used to frequent the site, like a spin on "Surprise butt sex." Maybe not? I don't know. All I have to go on is either other forums where people argue about it being about rape or about someone falling on their butt and like two Urban dictionary entries that support it. -
Hmm... drive to Austin, I'll let you use my TV for an evening. I bought one long ago with like 6 different input options for all of my old consoles. S-Video and VGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Cyberpunk Cop Killah (aka The Last Night)
syntheticgerbil replied to singlespace's topic in Video Gaming
But I for the last two years think there has been a lot of talk about women in games, how women are portrayed in games, and general sexism in games. I was enjoying that. Then suddenly it all turned nasty and stupid based on one woman and man's relationship drama and a nonexistent ethical breach. And I agree there's no way to even discuss ethics under the Gamergate hashtag. It's just a hate category. I don't know why if these people want to discuss ethics so badly they don't separate themselves, but I suppose now is not the time. I mean that's the thing, you link to a site I absolutely hate, I can't even read anything on there without a large degree of annoyance. I only had to scroll down and see an image mean and "butthurt" (which I consider a gay slur) to know the article is not for me. Jezebel et al under that Gawker umbrella are all just gossip sites filled with clickbait at their core, Kotaku included. I feel like they are just one step above the celebrity trash magazines on the stands. I suppose this year Kotaku has made an effort to be more relevant and way less puerile, but I have associated that site with bottom of the barrel journalism since it's beginning. But I guess now I'm derailing this thread when it should be in the Ethics one in Idle Banter, but I would rather not go there to discuss it. Mission accomplished in this one. Soret got his feedback, so hopefully he sees another side more clearly if anything no matter the tone. Maybe not, maybe he is truly coming from Paris where it's more progressive and patriarchy stuff truly does seem foreign to him, I can't speak to that, I have only been to Paris once for a week and I don't know if anyone else on this forum lives there and can vouch for the culture, if it does truly matter to anyone where he is coming from. -
I think as of right now, you can actually still install the Homebrew stuff in the Wii portion. I don't think Nintendo seems intent on fixing this ever since the Wii part is more there as a convenience. I'd probably move my stuff over as well and install Homebrew again if I didn't need my Wii to play Gamecube since I got rid of my Gamecube for a Wii. Instead of trying to borrow a converter can you maybe borrow a TV or something from a friend or go to their house and set stuff up for the transfer?
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Cyberpunk Cop Killah (aka The Last Night)
syntheticgerbil replied to singlespace's topic in Video Gaming
I guess I take issue because I would probably personally consider myself more middle ground in all of this. All I mostly see is just two extremes of Twitter drama constantly. I wish people would stop using fucking Twitter at this point, it's impossible to keep up with and it's like a convoluted message board at this point with absolutely no accountability or moderation. Like Gamergate, even though at it's core it's a stupid movement that people should move away from the label and spurred from false pretenses about Zoe Quinn and some sort of corruption from video games journalism, I do feel like at the end of the day beyond all of the constant abuse, death threats, and blatant misogyny, there's still a discussion to be had about these fucking Youtube celebrities, games journalism ethics and the tendency to create clickbait and gossip over substance, video game developer buddies and their cronies displaying overwhelmingly one demographic, and feminism and how it pertains to games. I feel like at some point when people calm down a middle ground can start to emerge. Idle forums is just beginning to exhaust me with this stuff as it starts to feel like constant preaching to the choir, but maybe it's because I feel this OCD need to click all bold threads and make sure all messages are read or at least skimmed. I have started to get the feeling if anyone doesn't 100% agree with a lot of the sentiment around here with be bombarded with way too many messages and some just kind of quietly exit the forum (you can often check their latest posts and once they engage in the feminist thread they tend to be gone) or they get too mad and ornery and get banned (which is fine if they are pricks about it). I personally give up on a lot of this stuff because I'm pretty shit at arguing well. I'm actually worried me typing more in this very thread is going to really upset me and I'll probably feel this need to type more and just feel stressed about coming here and clicking on the thread where I left a more controversial opinion no one seems ready to agree or at least agree to disagree. It doesn't feel good. But that's the thing, I honestly don't think he would have registered at all had he not felt the need to clarify anything. I don't know why you guys don't think he didn't come here in good faith. I don't think it really read as an advertisement but instead a response since we all seemed to have liked the Game Jam (?) version before his opinions were known. -
Neato! Where do those patches come from?
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Cyberpunk Cop Killah (aka The Last Night)
syntheticgerbil replied to singlespace's topic in Video Gaming
I am not sure if you were referring to Tim Soret or not, but I don't feel like he is necessarily representing one extreme, even though some of his tweets seem to say so. Seems like his biggest problem is with Anita even though she didn't do anything wrong and the backlash is not her problem. Otherwise nothing he really has said says he is "Gamergate" like he seems to have been accused to be here in this thread. If you guys really want someone to consider changing their mind, I don't think multiple forum goers berating them with dozens of long paragraphs works. I kind of keep seeing this around here lately. If anything if someone is going to write some long impassioned post disagreeing with someone's worldview, maybe it would be best for a bunch of you guys not to jump in right after and say the same thing multiple times right after? It's incredibly overwhelming to a lot of people who are newer here. Oh, and on a side note, I hate separating the art from the artist, I'm glad to see this is a trend most people are not following anymore. -
I think I'm going to wait to get a PS4 to own this now that Halloween has come and gone and I didn't buy it in time. But that's how I played the first one, a year after release, later October, then Grubbins a month later. It was a nice holiday experience.
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How many catch-all threads like this are we going to have?
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I'd rather them fix their fucking archaic save backup methods and inability to link purchases and games to an account instead of a system. That's what's way more alarming to me these days. Maybe it's because my friend was recently burglarized and he lost 600 hours worth of Pokemon as well as his WiiU and all downloads, saves, and purchases. Of all of the ancient gaming practices Nintendo still involves itself in, region locking is at the bottom of the list of priorities for me.
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Don't you unlock cheats if you have a previous finished saved game? Just replay with the cheats on.
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Really good/older games found in 2nd hand shops
syntheticgerbil replied to watters50's topic in Video Gaming
I think it's just you. I've never heard of any games in any kind of shops. Are you a robot? -
Wobert Cwampett
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It does look pretty good. She might be right.
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Damn it, but computers have become really complicated
syntheticgerbil replied to Erkki's topic in Idle Banter
Throwing out a link for www.microcenter.com which is a store out of Houston and a few other places in Texas. Sometimes they are the cheapest around for parts, but often the way to do that is to live in Houston and subvert the shipping costs. Either way, I don't live in Houston anymore and I used them recently for a part for my newest rig that was cheaper than Newegg, Fry's, and Amazon. -
So who the shit is this Mike Cernovich guy and why is he famous? I tried to look it up but it seems like all of my points of reference for why he's a big deal comes from his embarrassingly bad website or people making fun of things he wrote on the website. He's a lawyer, so he's probably not famous for that. What has he done other than have a huge fucking neck?
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So I started this a few weeks ago with a friend of mine and so far it's gold. Peacewalker is very obviously built from the Portable Ops engine (which I fucking hated, see earlier part of thread) but all tedium is removed, level design is no longer a disaster, excessive controls are refined and simplified (in a good way) to an extent no Metal Gear has done before, and YOU DON'T HAVE TO FUCKING DRAG A GOD DAMN BODY TO A FUCKING TRUCK EVER AGAIN. I don't think anyone here played Portable Ops, but collecting soldiers for your army and getting your stats up was the worst chore ever because gathering soldiers during missions was just a tedious mess of slowly moving all guards to the one fucking truck halfway across the huge open map filled with almost nothing. In Peacewalker, I just hilarious strap a balloon on everyone, prisoners and enemies alike. It never gets old. The soldier collecting got kind of useless after a while in Peacewalker because really all you were trying to do was get the stats up high enough to get stealth camo among other items, Peacewalker has added an upgrade system for all weapons and items, making it much more interesting. Oh and the auto assign function, such a life saver when you have a bunch of useless E ranks where you just need to round out the stats on the team quickly. It's weird because I've been approaching Peacewalker with anticipating tedium as conditioned by previous Metal Gears. I sit and wait between patting soldiers down for items until recently I realized I could just spam the pat really fast. I also realized you can also stick someone up the second they wake up, instead of waiting for them to stand up so you can shout, "Freeze!" It's really convenient to do it this way, if not really fucking goofy. This game is feels more silly and weird than usual as well, I love it. Just odd touches like 12 different colors of pants for when you're half naked, doing R&D on doritos, shocking your friend over and over with the stun gun, POWs shouting "Woohoo!" when they have a balloon strapped to them, getting a trophy for shooting a guard right in the center of his butt (like yes, the exact center), airstrikes, CQCing guards into a wall, multiple weird conversations focusing on the Sony Walkman cassette player, the cardboard box being called a "love box" and you co-op walk around in it with your friend for useless results, manual supply call ins where you have a cardboard box dropped on your head and are knocked out while you must wait for a friend to revive you (after this you move and never do that again), sending a friend a gift box that plays a stupid song of your choice, and also spamming all of these preset phrases that Snake yells to both players in game much to everyone's annoyance. I haven't even gotten close to the bizarre Monster Hunter missions yet. It kind of all just makes me sad knowing how stupid and dark MGSV is going to get, when it's all of the silly touches that attracts me to the series. As usual I love the Ashley Wood art and this style of cutscenes, the only high point of Portable Ops. I love the Big Boss storyline, so no complaints there. I'm probably only a fourth to a third through so I can't comment much on the story yet. I don't really understand why almost everyone in this game is fucking white and blonde. Is this what Kojima Productions think people born in Costa Rica look like? There is not a dark skinned person to be found anywhere. Paz is not from Costa Rica so that makes sense, but for everyone else, what gives? I do like that every codec conversation is on a tape between missions and is marked on whether you have listened to it or not. Finally this series does away with spamming calls to one particular person to hear every piece of dialogue (although this is probably something only OCD me does). Also I was really skeptical on how well co-op would work out in this game. Metal Gear doesn't seem like a series that would ever work in co-op, but I've had a blast with my friend so far. Perhaps the only tedium is watching cutscenes or listening to codecs when you have a friend around and you want to get to the next level. Usually it's only on main missions though. Also the HD collection on PS3 doesn't have a way to stay in voice chat with your friend between missions. Every time you end a mission and mess with your troops and items inbetween, you can't voice chat until you start the next. This doesn't matter on 360 where you can just make a party chat outside of the game, but there's no way to do that on PS3, so we just use Skype chat on something else while playing instead. But yeah, co-op of course works very well on killing bosses quickly and getting those S-ranks, but the levels are also designed in such a way where there is usually two or three paths to take so that you can split up and clear out areas efficiently. Plus you can mix your supplies per mission and take something the other can't. So while I figured you'd just enter into a mess of someone constantly getting caught because of one path like single player MGS, instead it's a very streamlined and addicting experience that makes you feel like a well oiled machine. Like if you miss your shot and a guard is about to call in an alert and suddenly you have to reload, you're friend is probably there to deal the final headshot and put the guy to sleep just in time. Luring is much easier as well as you can follow someone who is checking out what your buddy is doing and knock 'em out with CQC. Also this game has more incentive than any Metal Gear to not perform kills, as you might need your enemy in your ranks, plus they removed lethal CQC moves like neck snapping and throat cutting. The stungun is now in place of the knife. Anyway, thought I'd gush for a bit. Who knows, I might hate this game as I get close to completing all of the missions and slogging through those S ranks, but no problem so far and I've finished 30 of the 160.
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Hmm, I think I still get the yellow pages (which I duly throw into the recycling), but it is pretty odd that the white pages used to be such a staple. Why would you ever need anyone's phone number and address if you didn't already have them? The only time I ever used them was to look up girls I liked and then call them and get scared and hang up (haha like pre-high school if that makes any difference on how creepy).
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I'd be interested in knowing what you think of Sanitarium now. Am I crazy or did it really just fall off the deep end after the first two chapters? And it's weird because all of the chapters are like self contained little games. It's almost like a different team did each chapter.
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Who are these people? Where is the bald dude who always talks in front of his skull and hates black people a lot?