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yo wild wild west is NOT terrible you TAKE THAT BACK

 

WIKKI WIKKI

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"what was the last thing logged on his Google glass?"

 

we need a technology that detects when your heart stops beating and then deletes your porn folder

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I beat Tetris Attack last year on all of the hardest modes and got all of the hardest endings out of my Mario completion thing that runs forever. God the AI in that game is fucking cruel. I don't think i want to play Tetris Attack ever again unless it means someone is going to give me money, like that time I won second place in a Wario's Woods competition.

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I really respect the acknowledgement that the Far Cry discussion may not have expressed what the hosts wanted to. I'm probably never going to play the game, but it was interesting just to hear the opinions about the presentation.

And internship! God, that'd be awesome. If only I didn't have a day job.

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From what I remember, Johnny Simmons had never played a Zelda game before, and Edgar Wright was all, 'well time to fix that', so the actor was playing the game between takes as well.

 

Edgar Wright is one of the most meticulous filmmakers currently making movies. I'd love to see him do a Hong Kong action film or something.

 

I'd argue that Scott Pilgrim works best when viewed as a Hong Kong action film.

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I'd argue that Scott Pilgrim works best when viewed as a Hong Kong action film.

It certainly doesn't work as well as an adaptation of the comics, no.

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I am pleased that the internship is paid because unpaid internships are capitalism at its most nakedly greedy.

 

My favourite field-trip-gone-wrong story is our excursion (that is what they're called in Australia) to the bohemian part of Sydney to see a performance of Macbeth, because they were doing Macbeth. It made the witches writhing lesbians and gave Macbeth a dog collar. This last was especially ironic because one of the big things the teacher wanted us to examine in the play was how Shakespeare blurs who's most culpable for Macbeth's deeds, and how a case can be made that both Sir and Lady Macbeth are more culpable than the other. Not according to that director!

 

The teacher, bless her heart, came up with the idea to treat it as a teachable moment, and hesitantly explained to the class how to assess a bad performance.

 

"what was the last thing logged on his Google glass?"

 

we need a technology that detects when your heart stops beating and then deletes your porn folder

 

I'd like it to secretly be a technology that detects when you heart stops beating and then posts all your porn to your Facebook account.

 

We could call it a killsnitch

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I'd like it to secretly be a technology that detects when you heart stops beating and then posts all your porn to your Facebook account.

Posthumous DDOS.

Which is also my rap name.

or would be, if I could rap. :(

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I'd like it to secretly be a technology that detects when you heart stops beating and then posts all your porn to your Facebook account.

 

We could call it a killsnitch

 

I have a friend who at one point wanted me to go clear out a bunch of stuff from his house if/when he dies so his family wouldn't find out what all he's into. But in the last couple of years, he's decided that it will be much, much funnier if they do.

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yo wild wild west is NOT terrible you TAKE THAT BACK

 

WIKKI WIKKI

 

I agree, I love it because, and in spite, of how incredibly dumb it is. 

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I experienced the Tetris Effect recently with Crypt of the Necrodancer, where I got so into performing actions on the beat that when I stopped playing it, I felt like I had to do everything else in time. I get it occasionally when I play games with particularly strong mechanics; After playing Jet Set Radio I was so used to looking for grind paths that I would walk around town and think things like, "I could grind along here, jump off the rail and then wall-ride up onto that roof". With puzzle games it's slightly different, because I tend to see the mechanics in my head, but because they're more abstract they don't have any real-world implications, like rolling up lamp-posts after playing Katamari. I saw Meteos blocks in my head a lot after playing it, and it was like my brain was passively working on better play strategies, but I didn't really feel the need to reorder real-world shapes.

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"what was the last thing logged on his Google glass?"

 

we need a technology that detects when your heart stops beating and then deletes your porn folder

 

You could probably set up some sort of script that required you to send a password or email or something every 24 hours, and failure to do so would assume your death and trigger the bomb rigged inside your computer a system format.

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You could probably set up some sort of script that required you to send a password or email or something every 24 hours, and failure to do so would assume your death and trigger the bomb rigged inside your computer a system format.

 

I am 99% certain that already exists. I'm talking about a purely automated process, with an NFC tag embedded in your heart or some shit.

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I wanted more of Jake talking about Smash Bros., but perhaps he doesn't have much to say? Maybe next week he'll get into it with Patrick? 

 

I do want to hear Jake and Patrick have a Jurassic Park-off. I want to send in a reader mail trivia contest for them both. 

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oh yay thanks! I also really to see this.

 

Also this episode was great, I the patrick interlude was fun, look forward to having him on the cast next week too.

 

 

Also, for the tetris effect thing, I'm not sure if this is the same, but I get that, not with visuals or what actually happened in a game, but with mechanics. I remember it particularly well with Braid, I would get into a particular mode of thinking about things to solve the puzzles, but then continue thinking like that after stopping playing.

 

Also also, I thought about applying for the internship -- I meet most of the requirements, I basically live at 16th an mission, but I have a fulltime job and trying to split that would be rough, and I don't need the money anyway, my main motivation would just be to hang out with the thumbs crew.

 

 

anyway, thanks for the great cast

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Posthumous DDOS.

Which is also my rap name.

or would be, if I could rap. :(

 

 

I am going to share a secret with you:

 

rapping is not the necessary component to having a rap name

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My most horrendous experience with the Tetris effect is courtesy to Kurushi.

(aka IQ: Intelligent Qube, apparently) for Playstation the original. Interestingly, I never owned the full version of the game, and only played the demo a couple of times.

 

As a child, I was regularly sick with bronchitis and similar diseases, and often had fever in the 40 °C range (about 104 F). It wasn't nearly as bad as it would be now, to be honest: I could just lie in bed, eat, drink, and listen to audiobooks without having to worry about anything really, as my parents did all of the worrying.

 

The only thing I had to face alone were the nightmares and, sure enough, they would be come practically every time I went to sleep during high fever. In the one recurring nightmare I had, I was standing on a narrow strip of cubes which was suspended in air and extending to the horizon. In order to traverse that strip I had to perform some simple but laborious and repetitive task involving the cubes. It wasn't exactly the gameplay of Kurushi, but the cubes and the strip - that endless fucking strip - definitely had its origins in the game. The thing that made the dream an absolute nightmare was the fact that I could see my family and friends, or at least imagine, in the background while some invisible force, possibly one that was inside me, was pushing me forward. I had an understanding of sorts that the strip would eventually lead me back home, perhaps having circled the earth, but I already knew how hopeless and long the task would be, and how unlikely my return. There was nothing that interested me on that strip and I had absolutely no motivation to carry on. But I had to. I had no choice. It was completely devastating, mostly because I understood perfectly well how completely pointless my endeavor was and yet I couldn't simply stop, turn around and walk back to my house, my family, who were still not very far at all, in fact, painfully close.

 
Eventually, the strip would fade out and be replaced by my soaked pillow and sheets (fortunately not checkered), but my fever would cause  the dream and the reality to get blended together, and I wouldn't feel relieved for a long time after, especially if it was still night and I had to get some more sleep. For many years, that dream was the worst part of being ill, and probably because I dreaded it so much, it would always come back to haunt me one of those high-fever nights.
 
I haven't thought about that dream for a long time. In hindsight, there is something quite touching and true, I think, in the dread I experienced in that dream. At the time, however, it was just horrible. Variations of this nightmare could be quite common for all I know, so I cannot seriously blame it on Kurushi. However, that particular nightmare was definitely Kurushi-themed, even if the strip of cubes in that game did not push you farther and farther from everyone you loved and cared about. 

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