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Gus Hobbleton posted:the whole thing was pretty the short stories and novellas go pretty dark places. the full length novels are mostly rollicking good times.
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Jun 30, 2014 04:07
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Long time lurker, first timer poster (for the pos) I just finished DS9 and it has the best ending.
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Jun 30, 2014 06:21
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i just read the plot synopsis for transformers 4 
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Jun 30, 2014 07:08
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it sounds like boring garbage idgi?
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Jun 30, 2014 07:18
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The first three movies exist, were you expecting any different? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rfup0XKx7o Also this is kind of amazing when the story beats just match exactly.
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Jun 30, 2014 07:19
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Harok posted:Long time lurker, first timer poster (for the pos) I just finished DS9 and it has the best ending. i'm a big scifi fan and haven't finished ds9 or bsg i heard they ended badly so i just kinda quit watching i respect the good things rdm brought to the franchises and the genre though
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Jun 30, 2014 07:22
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Babylon 5 didnt even know if they'd get a season 5, so they rushed to finish everything for the end of season 4. Then whoops they got renewed and basically thumb twiddled for a whole season. Just watch til the end of 4.
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Jun 30, 2014 07:31
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i like ds9 but the ending is ultra stupid
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Jun 30, 2014 07:32
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transformers series synopsis: robots come to earth. some are good most are bad. bad robot fight good robot. government mad at robots but good robot win
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Jun 30, 2014 07:38
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lol i just remembered people unironically liked prometheus
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Jun 30, 2014 07:41
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stop trying to justify far cry 3 as a parody of lovely video game protagonists or whatever. its not. its a bad game, a terrible game in fact
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Jun 30, 2014 07:44
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it's really too bad that you can't cause your douchebag whitebread friends to die
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Jun 30, 2014 07:52
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blood dragon is a masterful satire of the modern infatuation with the 1980s
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Jun 30, 2014 07:56
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:it's really too bad that you can't cause your douchebag whitebread friends to die most of them anyway
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Jun 30, 2014 08:25
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Far Cry 3 was an unintentional satire of video games in that the writer thought he was making satire without knowing what that entails and ended up creating the exact same idiotic bullshit as everybody else with no challenging of ideals or preconceived notions.
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Jun 30, 2014 08:28
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if you want a game that really fucks with the genre conventions without being lazy satire then play "spec ops: the line" i'm amazed it got published, i would have expected 2k to look at the final product and just fire everybody for making it
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Jun 30, 2014 10:07
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Pwnstar posted:the exact same idiotic bullshit as everybody else with no challenging of ideals or preconceived notions fun fact: you can *always* read this as satire if you try hard enough
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Jun 30, 2014 10:07
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Heresiarch posted:if you want a game that really fucks with the genre conventions without being lazy satire then play "spec ops: the line" i've only seen clips but i want to play this literally the most correct vidya game about war
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Jun 30, 2014 10:12
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Heresiarch posted:if you want a game that really fucks with the genre conventions without being lazy satire then play "spec ops: the line" iirc the reason its like that is because the devs realized they were making a boilerplate 3rd person shooter and decided to make the best of it
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Jun 30, 2014 10:13
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syscall girl posted:i've only seen clips but i want to play this it's still on sale on steam for $10 for the next six hours or so the ad copy is terrible but eh i guess 2k had to try to sell it to the call of duty/battlefield market Jonad posted:iirc the reason its like that is because the devs realized they were making a boilerplate 3rd person shooter and decided to make the best of it well it worked, whatever happened
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Jun 30, 2014 11:23
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Heresiarch posted:if you want a game that really fucks with the genre conventions without being lazy satire then play "spec ops: the line" oh my god lol
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Jun 30, 2014 15:14
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spec ops: the line is the most hackneyed derivative bullshit i've ever even looked at
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Jun 30, 2014 15:15
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spec ops the line replaces PRESS Y TO RANK UP with PRESS Y TO BE A WAR CRIMINAL HAHA YOU'RE THE BAD GUY!!!
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Jun 30, 2014 15:28
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it's subversive because most war criminals press Y NOT
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Jun 30, 2014 15:52
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Nintendo Kid posted:spec ops the line replaces PRESS Y TO RANK UP with PRESS Y TO BE A WAR CRIMINAL HAHA YOU'RE THE BAD GUY!!! yes and?
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Jun 30, 2014 15:52
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what, did you expect a game that tried to talk to call of duty players to be subtle?
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Jun 30, 2014 15:53
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Heresiarch posted:what, did you expect a game that tried to talk to call of duty players to be subtle? oh god. yep. this is what passes for satire amongst the terminally disengaged narcissist crowd folks. that theoretical other who are worse than me. that mass of normies who i've chosen to characterise collectively as "COD fans", that undifferentiated mass that i've never personally interacted with on any level, those guys need a lecture for being definitely, definitely stupider than me. and I'm the consumer for that lecture. I'm the only one here who can really appreciate what that lecture means watered down conrad. this is art
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Jun 30, 2014 15:56
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blue stymie is wrong in that most videogame consumers really are terminally stupid irredeemable fucklords he is correct, however, in that spec ops the line is a bad video game.
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Jun 30, 2014 16:32
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and snow crash is a bad sf novel. that's sort of the point
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Jun 30, 2014 16:53
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also please don't quote blue stymie even indirectly
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Jun 30, 2014 16:59
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look specs op the line isnt like convention-crushing or anything but i dunno it was refreshing to play a war game that didn't pan out like a god drat miachel bay movie. its fun, it looks great, and the campaign is well made. it had raelly good level design the ending was terrible and the game would have been great had he just died in the desert instead tho
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Jun 30, 2014 17:15
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reminder that the piece of satire most often pointed to is one about literally eating babies to make a point
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Jun 30, 2014 17:15
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basically what im saying is there is a nic emiddleground between it being a poo poo game and being teh best war game EVER it is merely a 'p good game' wisdom 
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Jun 30, 2014 17:18
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computer parts posted:reminder that the piece of satire most often pointed to is one about literally eating babies to make a point irish ones though so not really unreasonable
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Jun 30, 2014 17:23
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i never said i thought it was the best game or anything, i just think it's cool that the devs hosed with genre conventions to take what is essentially just a very generic military shooter and turn it into a game that's actually got something to say about perceptions of heroism it's a pretty simplistic message but that's more than any other games in the genre have
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Jun 30, 2014 17:30
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nigga crab pollock posted:the ending was terrible and the game would have been great had he just died in the desert instead tho there are 4 endings -get extracted (the writer hinted in an interview that this is a hallucination somewhere but I can't find it now) -get killed by your own rescue team -become the new desert warlord -shoot yourself which is a hell of a lot better than the choice most war games give you: -shoot the bad guy, war ends, everybody goes home and lives happily ever after
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Jun 30, 2014 17:35
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i keep wanting to write something sci fi or fantasy ish that boiled down to the truth is in the middle but its probably really difficult to make that interesting and has been done before i'm sure still want to do it
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Jun 30, 2014 17:45
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Amethyst posted:spec ops: the line is the most hackneyed derivative bullshit i've ever even looked at You must save hella electricity posting with your monitor switched off.
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also, I feel somewhat grubby, having read seven and a half of Barry Eislers 'John Rain' airport thriller books over the past fortnight and p. much enjoyed them all 
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