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Dr. Buttass posted:You know, my dad once told me that you need the "stimulus" of a laugh track to help you know when something in a sitcom is funny. What irony?
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my dad posted:What irony?
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Feb 18, 2014 23:33
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So I'm watching the first Retsufrash and I'm dying laughing because I normally skipped over the flash stuff. God this is amazing. 
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Feb 18, 2014 23:40
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Turtlicious posted:So I'm watching the first Retsufrash and I'm dying laughing because I normally skipped over the flash stuff. God this is amazing. Watch the Trapped trilogy!
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Feb 19, 2014 00:00
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slowbeef posted:Watch the Trapped trilogy! That or Ambition.
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Feb 19, 2014 00:13
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So like, DSP gets a monthly check from the government, right?
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Feb 19, 2014 00:19
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my dad posted:What irony? God drat, I forgot you were here, I can't breathe
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Feb 19, 2014 00:52
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This just popped up on my subscriptions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1vLIN7pXHA jus' gonna leave it here.
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Feb 19, 2014 01:34
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slowbeef posted:Watch the Trapped trilogy! Mr DJB posted:That or Ambition. These are both amazing because lack of large groups of people to say "No that's a bad idea" can cause flash games to have levels of insanity far above most video games. MDickie works on the same principle.
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Feb 19, 2014 01:36
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I whole heartily agree. also, semi-  for manly physique.
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Feb 19, 2014 01:49
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Princess Sheepy posted:I whole heartily agree. What did I just watch? 
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Feb 19, 2014 02:59
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So the Two Best Friends team just finished their IHNMAIMS LP, and I gotta say they did a really good job. It was a huge deviation from their usual MO, but seeing both the Newbie/Veteran viewpoints alongside Pat's college analysis reactions was really great. If Slowbeef indeed gets Pat on a Retsutalk, he should bring up that LP. It'd be something interesting to discuss since its a neat direction to take that kind of a LP in.
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Feb 19, 2014 03:07
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frozentreasure posted:The thing that I take away from that image is that he's going to be doing an LP of Final Fantasy 13-3. I mean, we already know that he only ever does games that his viewers ask for because viewers and money is more important than what he actually enjoys, but who would even ask him to play that, of all loving games? As someone who's this deep into the FF XIII well, and is bloody-mindedly continuing, through a combination of actually kind of enjoying the gameplay and laughing at the melodrama in the plot, it'll actually be kind of hilarious, as XIII-3 can't be beaten by grinding. Well... it can, but it'd take a LONG time. Not as hilarious as him playing the first XIII though. He MANUALLY SELECTED COMBAT ACTIONS for every turn, for approximately a million videos. (If you've never played the game, that is A Dumb Way To Play)
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Gaz-L posted:As someone who's this deep into the FF XIII well, and is bloody-mindedly continuing, through a combination of actually kind of enjoying the gameplay and laughing at the melodrama in the plot, it'll actually be kind of hilarious, as XIII-3 can't be beaten by grinding. Well... it can, but it'd take a LONG time. Not as hilarious as him playing the first XIII though. He MANUALLY SELECTED COMBAT ACTIONS for every turn, for approximately a million videos. (If you've never played the game, that is A Dumb Way To Play) No it isn't. The auto fight is pretty dumb in a lot of situations, so you do want to take manual control a fair amount.
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Genocyber posted:No it isn't. The auto fight is pretty dumb in a lot of situations, so you do want to take manual control a fair amount. Yeah, for the 30 hours that I've so far been playing it with my brother-in-law, I've actively avoided auto-battle every time. Partially because it barely even does anything that useful, partially because I want at least some modicum of interactivity in the game. EDIT: Also, I think the bigger issue people had with DSP when he switched from camcorder footage to direct capture is that he was adamant that direct capture was inherently terrible, and had videos stating as much up to, like, a week before he switched. And once he switched, he never brought it up, never admitted that direct capture didn't have any of the drawbacks that he claimed it did (having to sit at a laptop, hunched over with headphones on looking at a tiny video feed), never acknowledged people bringing it up to him. It's exactly the same as the bit with the M9 in MGS2; he even did that regarding the iPad, claiming something along the lines of "I'll never ever buy one" and then trying a daily app review series a few short months later. frozentreasure fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Feb 19, 2014 |
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Genocyber posted:No it isn't. The auto fight is pretty dumb in a lot of situations, so you do want to take manual control a fair amount. Depends on what role you're playing, really. The AI can handle jobs that mostly do straight damage (ie Commando, Ravager), it's when you head into territory where you actively need certain things to happen (Synergist, Saboteur, possibly Medic depending on your situation) where it's better to take control. I mean, if the enemy is weak to fire, I'm going to pick four Fires, there's no reason the game can't do that for me.
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Yeah, the Interactive Part of XIII's battles is more the Paradigm Shift menu than the action menu. XIII's combat menu was also pretty horrible to actually use in a system as fast paced as it was. Honestly, unless you want to get Super Efficient™ with buffs Auto Battle is almost always adequate. The only Problem Situation is Medics who sometimes get confused when you're in very bad shape and have to manage raising, curing and healing all at once. Even then, Auto Battle, being an AI, is a lot better at prioritising horrible numbery stuff like when to use Cure vs Curasa etc. Seeing DSP try to play XIII-3 is going to be hilarious, though, both because of the aforementioned thing where you can't just grind to victory (unless you count grinding sidequests, with DSP won't do because come on), and between failing out of battles due to them being Actually Action Game Hard and generally running around like an idiot without any idea where to go, he'll inevitably run out of time and get kicked back to the start of the game. Unless he plays on Easy Mode. Well, maybe even then. I don't actually know how much easier it is.
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Princess Sheepy posted:I whole heartily agree. I don't care if it isn't collector's edition quality plastic taking it out of the container ruins the value.
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Fedule posted:Yeah, the Interactive Part of XIII's battles is more the Paradigm Shift menu than the action menu. XIII's combat menu was also pretty horrible to actually use in a system as fast paced as it was. Honestly, unless you want to get Super Efficient™ with buffs Auto Battle is almost always adequate. The only Problem Situation is Medics who sometimes get confused when you're in very bad shape and have to manage raising, curing and healing all at once. Even then, Auto Battle, being an AI, is a lot better at prioritising horrible numbery stuff like when to use Cure vs Curasa etc. It's more a case of not wasting your time when buffing/debuffing. The game places value on things like vigilance and veil much more than it should. The Auto Battle also encourages you to do your own inputs by doing things like Fire/Firestrike/Fire/Firestrike which makes you have to switch animations and makes a five second sequence closer to 10 or 12 and uses your STR attribute on a MAG based character. The best thing is just to put the best commands in and use the repeat function. Auto Battle works, but it makes fights take forever what could be over in half the time.
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Aurain posted:The Auto Battle also encourages you to do your own inputs by doing things like Fire/Firestrike/Fire/Firestrike which makes you have to switch animations and makes a five second sequence closer to 10 or 12 and uses your STR attribute on a MAG based character. That was the main thing that I noticed in the LPs that seemed utterly pointless; the animations take way too long already, and sometimes the game's insistence on showing a flashy animation has killed me. But that's more for another thread. I wouldn't count DSP out of beating the game just because you can't grind to victory. Even if only through the assistance of his chat, I'm pretty sure he beats basically everything unless he well and truly rages out of the whole shebang. What was the last game he just refused to keep playing?
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Feb 19, 2014 11:59
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frozentreasure posted:What was the last game he just refused to keep playing? Kill Zone: Shadowfall, I want to say. He just dropped the LP without any explanation as far as I know.
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Feb 19, 2014 12:25
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Roar posted:This just popped up on my subscriptions. I really hate you.
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Feb 19, 2014 23:17
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Bitcoin has decided to try and cash in on the TPP hype. Live stream:  Instead of writing commands in the chat you send money to different accounts!
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Boxturret posted:Bitcoin has decided to try and cash in on the TPP hype. This is just sad.
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Boxturret posted:Bitcoin has decided to try and cash in on the TPP hype.
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Feb 20, 2014 23:09
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You do realize that it's a joke, right?
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Feb 20, 2014 23:14
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David D. Davidson posted:You do realize that it's a joke, right? See I thought this too, then I googled it and uh
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Feb 20, 2014 23:25
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David D. Davidson posted:You do realize that it's a joke, right? There are no jokes in the world of bitcoin.
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Feb 20, 2014 23:27
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It is? WHY? 
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Feb 20, 2014 23:33
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David D. Davidson posted:It is? Because. Bitcoin. #RonPaul2016
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Feb 20, 2014 23:35
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Well at least there's gotta be less Start spamming since it actually costs money right? Right?
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Feb 21, 2014 00:03
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At least it appears to be mostly dead. Not enough idiots to fuel it i guess.
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Feb 21, 2014 00:25
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If you look, since that screenshot, they have moved one spot to the right. With two presses of start. HUGE SUCCESS!
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Feb 21, 2014 00:52
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Red is not leaving Pallet Town.
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Feb 21, 2014 02:26
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Bitcoins have a small hanging issue out there at the moment. You see, the U.S. government in a few raids seized some computers/servers that happened to have a combined total of more than 174,000 bitcoins on them. So, if the feds were to try to sell all $139,200,000 worth of their bitcoins it would crash the Bit-market.
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Feb 21, 2014 03:00
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The question that remains is why the gently caress are they not doing so immediately
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Feb 21, 2014 03:01
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Mr DJB posted:Red is not leaving Pallet Town. Of course they skipped the name input screen too, I bet. That would've been a lot more embarrassing.
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Roar posted:The question that remains is why the gently caress are they not doing so immediately Why would you want them to mess with the free market at work? 
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Roar posted:The question that remains is why the gently caress are they not doing so immediately Because that isn't how you fence currency. They wouldn't try to sell them on the open market if they wanted to cash them in. What you do is sell the whole wallet to a third party for a percentage of what it's "worth". That third party then gets the risk/profit from selling it off piecemeal slowly. That's assuming they actually care to sell them.
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unfair posted:Because that isn't how you fence currency. They wouldn't try to sell them on the open market if they wanted to cash them in. What you do is sell the whole wallet to a third party for a percentage of what it's "worth". That third party then gets the risk/profit from selling it off piecemeal slowly. That's assuming they actually care to sell them. I think he's saying "why don't they sell them all at once and crash the market." Which would be the ideal situation.
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