Coods

The thing about the Wizard joke is that the actual controversy they joke about is in episode 2, while the song Chris makes in response is in episode 5. MIGHT AS WELL JUST START FROM THE BEGINNING MY FRIEND

bump my hulu+ sub ends in like a week, gimme one more movie

whatt?? i honestly had no idea the trailer was going to be that sexy. a lot of the material released so far has left an "eerie, introspective" impression, but its interesting that at some point the game gets very intense.

Firewatch panel in progress. Look at them! Watch here: http://www.twitch.tv/pax2

Having light music play behind live-reads is so entertainingly dainty that I hope it keeps happening. Appreciated the entire first section of this podcast, not only for the summary of events but also the cogent arguments presented against it. Beyond that, hearing Jake and Chris' philosophy about being wrong on the internet and in real life struck a chord. I'll say this as a younger thumb fan (still south of drinking age) that's been listening since I was in high school: whereas flaming twitter might be the worst way for a kid to spend time on the internet, being in this community might be the best. It's honestly hilarious how much useful life advice I get from this video game podcast now; being a part of this community has been a strangely formative experience. P.S. I'm pretty sure I'm also better at articulating thoughts and my vocabulary is bigger (bespoke) just because I listen to this podcast. If you guys offered diplomas for things I could quit school and delete all my other bookmarks.

This movie is crazy, guys. The second feature of the director most recognized for his debut The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player is an erratic, meandering and frankly hilarious story about a washed up piano player sucked into a crime drama. I had wanted to see some Truffaut that wasn't 400 Blows, but this ought to be a good time to talk about both this and his first movie, as I assume many are familiar with it. Shoot the Piano Player is like a collection of memorable scenes strung together to Truffaut's liking. He himself stated about the film: "I refused to be a prisoner of my own first success. I discarded temptation to renew that success by choosing a "great subject". I turned my back on what everyone waited for and I took my pleasure as my only rule of conduct." I can't say holistically whether this movie is good or not, but I surely enjoyed many of its strange interactions. The crime story seemed to appear only momentarily, taking a back seat to a couple scenes worth of goofy dialogue. The movie begins with a standard pitch-black chase through the streets, but then quickly takes a break as Charlie's brother and a stranger talk about love and marriage. The lack of actual crime in this movie is also emphasized by the fact that the sole two villains in this film are shockingly inept. Apparently their characters became increasingly more dumb as Truffaut became increasingly more intolerant of gangsters. The "swear on my mother" scene had me on the floor with a Monty Python kind of bluntness. I'm not sure what to think of the extended flashback, or the murder of the bar owner, or the ending, so I'll save those thoughts for later. What'd you think? Is Shoot the Piano Player a film-noir injected masterpiece, or a dull tune played over a few broken keys? (My attempt at a shitty review tagline before the pagebreak)

more accurately, these videos are like Smash claymation. The maker usually goes frame by frame and manipulates the input in an inhuman way in order to achieve really unusual knockback directions and precise parries. The moments under the stage are achieved by the fact that if you are hit while in the air, you are given back your b-recovery moves. That whole segment is just side-bs and up-bs. This all of course is still completely impossible in actual play, but the beauty of Smash's mechanics is that if players dig deep enough (and they do), they find incredible things.

I buy that it could be interpreted as "realistic", in that most events that happen in reality are not the only things happening to you at a certain time. The funny thing is, I'm conditioned by most movies to expect all the excess or "unrelated" content to be skipped or only mentioned briefly, where only the scenes vital to the story are present. This film began with a certain tone and implied a certain kind of story, but then took a narrative turn into his personal life, the purpose of which was not immediately clear (to me). I understand that the movie is liked more by diehard film fans, so there is surely some sort of known interpretation of it. I haven't read any of it personally, save for some interviews with the cast in prep for this post.

A place to present some of the cool noises that come out of your games sometimes. Also some context as to the desired effect of the track for your game would be nice. Here's a song I have for a top-down game about exploring abandoned space ships. The song is intended to play during the actual exploration. https://www.dropbox.com/s/fudc5jcood5am3z/theme%20of%20space.mp3 heres a screenshot of the main characters little personal ship that you spawn in at the beginning of the level:

I interpreted his fight with the bartender as the moment where he chooses to act instead of passively withstand the things going on around him. It's actually that screenshot I put at the top of this thing: he's tempted to ignore the drama and do what he finds comfortable, and just when we're led to believe he's given up he starts fighting the bartender. I think my favorite part this movie that had a serious tone was everything in the flashback concerning the relationship between him and his late wife, simply because it all happened at once. The rest of the movie didn't feel very coherent to me at all, but the interesting thing is that the scattered nature contributed to the unique tone of the movie. It definitely was very fun to watch and frequently weaved through various ideas and moods.

I read this as some sort of Allard pseudonym, Avery Jallard.

It's Francois Truffaut's sophomore film, Shoot the Piano Player.

The post will be up tomorrow, sorry for the delay.

it was the AOTY.cx

While we're on Tyson Hesse, here's him and the creators of Kill la Kill trading art.

The answer is probably yes to one of those.

some of them escape me but i love all of them

I had to jump back a few chapters in Gunnerkrigg to catch up. The Mort story is really good. Hell, these one-shot chapters do a lot more for me at this point in the story's development. The world has become so rich over these past few stories.

So you guys finally inspired me to finish this one I started when episode 70 came out, so probably almost 2 years ago at this point. I'm lazy. Coincidentally enough it's also sort of a Sean thing, but it's also one of those moments that both Jake and Chris also start riffing on. I don't know enough editing to properly animate so it ended up being a very slideshow-y thing, which took up a lot of time for me. If anyone has some good workflow tips, please reveal (i use photoshop and premiere)

On that Clementine point:

I think episode 4 might have been a little messy compared to the other 3 in the season, but gotta admire how 50/50 those choices look.

In a sad turn of events, the podcast's recent migration over to soundcloud coincides with my being in China, where both youtube and soundcloud are blocked

God this is such a good episode. It feels like Nick Breckon was in the process of losing his mind ever since people started attaching an expletive to the front of his name, but I'm pretty sure at some point (possibly in the Idle Thumbs hiatus period) he actually did lose his mind, and now we just get to enjoy Breckon's weird ass psyche.

then yeah fuck that shit