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  1. Something True 2: Class Clowns

    juv3nal replied to Chris's topic in Something True Episodes

    As someone who can neither confirm nor deny that one of the items in our high school senior year scavenger hunt (a tradition at the school) may have been an eight grader...well it doesn't sound like much exaggeration to me.
  2. It's a good pod, Bront.

  3. Mass Effect Andromeda - Thumb Drive Engaged!

    juv3nal replied to Bjorn's topic in Video Gaming

    While I disagree with Gerstmann on this, I feel this kind of reaction is just a bit knee jerk defensiveness. It's a valid opinion to hold that if Bioware is going to devote x amount of money/resources to a game, where x is greater than y, the amount spent on the last instalment in the series, it was a mistake to do so if the new title isn't a significant improvement on the old title(s) (which, again, a matter of opinion, but one he should be allowed to have without some claim to authority other than "I am a dude what played the old games and then played the new one"). That is a lot of money/person-hours that goes into something like Andromeda, aren't you the least bit curious what else Bioware could have done with it if they weren't making a mass effect?

  4. Mass Effect Andromeda - Thumb Drive Engaged!

    juv3nal replied to Bjorn's topic in Video Gaming

    I have been thinking about this, and while I understand the criticisms of the portrayal, I wonder if it was an attempt to depict some kind of utopian future in which deadnaming yourself just isn't a big deal, just another biographical detail you might include if you were already inclined to tell the pathfinder which planet you grew up on etc. That's going to ring false as not anything that someone in our current/real political context/milieu would ever do, but in some idyllic imagined future? I dunno.
  5. I haven't played a ton of it, but one thing I liked about Dragon's Dogma is that the day night cycle is not kidding around. I mean yeah, sure, some deadlier monsters only come out at night, but more than that it can get dark as heck. It's not like other games where light from the moon and stars is basically enough to get by...if your lantern actually runs out of oil in the middle of night it can be really hard to make out stuff at even moderate distance.
  6. Going to be totally honest here, while it's possible for a decent show to be fashioned out of these characters, on a superpower level they basically are all just good at beating people up which seems like a recipe for a dull team up.

  7. New website!

    juv3nal replied to Jake's topic in Idle Banter

    has there been some recent change (gonna guess within the last month)? I find I am getting logged out all the time now, whereas before my session would be kept. It's not a huge deal because my browser saves username/password, but just curious.

  8. I Had A Random Thought...

    juv3nal replied to Zeusthecat's topic in Idle Banter

  9. I Had A Random Thought...

    juv3nal replied to Zeusthecat's topic in Idle Banter

    Well, it could be the median, what it definitely isn't is the mean.
  10. re: choose your own adventure style books. There have been books with both bugs and embedded easter egg type things. In the former case, it was often just a case of a misprint, meaning if you took a certain path, the passage you were directed to did not correspond at all to the context from which you came. I don't recall any such errors rendering a book uncompletable, so presumably at least some kind of critical path testing took place. For the latter, I have seen two types: in one, there is the odd isolated passage that isn't linked to from anywhere else in the text and the text tongue-in-cheek chastises the reader for cheating. The other variation I've seen is not a single passage, but actually a sequence of linked passages that loop around themselves (the one example I remember is a passage that curves endlessly to left or right) that are unreachable by normal play.
  11. I love Poirot, but actually one of my favourite episodes is one of the late season ones, despite the absence of the supporting cast: the The Labours of Hercules. As I understand it, it's not a huge favourite of hardcore Agatha Christie fans because it's one of the ones that departs the most from the original text(s), but the reason I'm tickled by it isn't even because it's a well told mystery/Poirot story, it's because the setting is nearly a perfect match to Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel. It's a hotel somewhere in the Alps (maybe?), with a funicular leading up to it and a spa; there's even a hotel employee named Gustave. Not actually related other than they are both shown on PBS Mysteries, but I'm a HUGE fan of Foyle's War as well which is about a detective in WW2 Britain (in the last season or two he gets drafted into postwar secret intelligence) if anyone is looking for a mystery series to get into. edit: just getting to the Murder She Wrote section, and having watched a lot by osmosis from hanging out with my folks, I am pretty sure that within the #lore of the series, J B Fletcher's novels get licensed into films or tv which lends an extra layer of something to this notion that they could hypothetically visit the set in the episode being discussed.

  12. Night in the Woods

    juv3nal replied to osmosisch's topic in Video Gaming

    Only about an hour in I think but it's rad.

  13. The McElroy Family of Products

    juv3nal replied to jennegatron's topic in Idle Banter

    it's a shame that the rest of the show is going to be on seeso which is (short of proxy trickery I guess) unavailable in Canada

  14. Casablanca (1942)

    juv3nal replied to Patrick R's topic in Movies & Television

  15. Political Animals

    juv3nal replied to ryansumo's topic in Strategy Game Discussion

    1. I'd read about it here: https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/here-are-two-great-political-games-to-help-you-get-through-election-day 2. no because I hardly play anything on PC these days. I do have a wishlist, but if it's any indication there is at least one title on my wishlist with a free demo that I haven't even bothered trying. If there were an iphone port political animals sounds like something I might consider, but I'm mostly gaming on phone or ps4.
  16. Gravey over on gamerswithjobs raises a good point re: the theme song with this new shift in topics:
  17. My favourite Neil Cicierega project is haircut (it's a CYOA thing so you'll need to watch with annotations on): Art is by his sister Emmy

  19. Modest Tech: The NX Generation (Nintendo Switch)

    juv3nal replied to dartmonkey's topic in Video Gaming

    Huh. Somehow I spaced that there was a Syberia 3 in the works. I bounced off of 2, but have fond memories of the first one. Also I had no idea Rime was so close to being done.
  20. re: frog fractions 2, heavy spoilers (presumably, I haven't watched it as I want to have a crack at it myself), but there is a ~15min speedrun of it
  21. I feel like this one wasn't as outright hilarious as fiasco primarily due to the presence of two actually competent characters in FLITZ and Serenity, but it was still a good time.
  22. I've read it in earnest since then, but I might be able to find the time for a reread. It's worth mentioning that it's on gutenberg in case anyone is holding off because of $ reasons.
  23. haha this book i have an asshole juv3nal story about this book... It was an assigned book in a uni course, one we had to write a paper on. I showed up at lecture not having read the book, underlined every passage the prof quoted from in his lecture and then proceeded to get an A+ on a paper I'd left to the last moment by coming up with some bullshit that tied together those quotes (having totally not taken any other notes and forgotten the context in which those quotes had been discussed) without ever having read the remainder of the book. I basically personified every worst stereotype STEM students have about liberal arts majors "they're all lazy slacker bullshit artists etc."
  24. I get that the yearbook thing isn't going to be everybody's cup of tea, but I thought it was fine barring the fanfics featuring characters from games I hadn't played (which I just skipped). Don't know about the rest of the staff, but Austin had a "normal" goty thing?