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Bug Squash posted:I'd actually prefer for Kole to be as literary as he wants. It's genuinely interesting to hear about really high end interpretations and concepts about Dark Souls. To clarify, making fun of Kole for saying Cycle of Samsara is not me making fun of him for being literary, it's for making the same literary allusion many times over. And lest that make me come off as mean, I also make the same references over and over and fully expect to be made fun of as well.
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SoulChicken posted:I just got so loving owned. Hahaha this is so loving great. I'm not making fun of you, but I just love that people are still falling for The Onion and Clickhole articles. Bonus points for you being the first person I've ever seen fall for a Clickhole article....
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EC posted:Hahaha this is so loving great. I'm not making fun of you, but I just love that people are still falling for The Onion and Clickhole articles. Bonus points for you being the first person I've ever seen fall for a Clickhole article.... Hundreds of Gamergate dumbies fell for this. http://www.clickhole.com/article/summary-gamergate-movement-we-will-immediately-cha-1241
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Woffle posted:To clarify, making fun of Kole for saying Cycle of Samsara is not me making fun of him for being literary, it's for making the same literary allusion many times over. And lest that make me come off as mean, I also make the same references over and over and fully expect to be made fun of as well. That's enough backseat Podcasting though. You guys do a fantastic job and I wouldn't want to tinker with a winning formula.
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Jan 13, 2015 22:07
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Bug Squash posted:Oh heavens, no, I don't think anyone could walk away from from any of your podcasts thinking you were being mean. The interplay between you guys is an absolute delight. I was just thinking recently that Kole wasn't making as many of his high brow observations as he seemed to in the earlier WoFF and BFSC episodes, and I was missing them. Him getting made fun of for those observations is also my favourite parts of those episodes so I thought we're missing out on two fronts without them. Kole probably stopped himself. As early as our 6th or 7th episode, I made a bingo card of stuff we said too much. We're both really wary of broken recording. Also, I wasn't offended or anything. Thank you for the support, my friend.
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I'm self conscious about coming across as pretentious. I know that's a danger for me, and people have called me out on it, so I try and temper my references and my college words. At least somewhat. There's also the fact that you can only beat the drum for certain words and concepts for so long before it starts to sound like that's the only thing you know about.
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EC posted:Hahaha this is so loving great. I'm not making fun of you, but I just love that people are still falling for The Onion and Clickhole articles. Bonus points for you being the first person I've ever seen fall for a Clickhole article.... Backstory - Patrick Rothfuss posted it on his Facebook, I clicked the link, read very little and thought "wait until the SA gaming podcast thread hears about this. I will compare it to Dan not knowing about mortgages! Haha it's going to be awesome" I didn't see it was clickhole but I clearly I was asking for it!
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SoulChicken posted:Backstory - Patrick Rothfuss posted it on his Facebook, I clicked the link, read very little and thought "wait until the SA gaming podcast thread hears about this. I will compare it to Dan not knowing about mortgages! Haha it's going to be awesome" No worries, I got rick-rolled by a fake Ant-Man trailer the other day, but not before emailing it to several other people. BadGoonsUnite
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Whoever said that Gary and Kole should stop reading Gamefaqs posts on Abject Suffering is dead wrong. That stuff is gold, and I hope that someone will honor MY memory by writing a faq of a lovely NES game when I die.
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Jan 14, 2015 01:22
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Woffle posted:Hundreds of Gamergate dumbies fell for this. http://www.clickhole.com/article/summary-gamergate-movement-we-will-immediately-cha-1241 Thousands of Gamergate dumbies fell for "It's about ethics in game jounalism"
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Whoever said that Gary and Kole should stop reading Gamefaqs posts on Abject Suffering is dead wrong. That stuff is gold, and I hope that someone will honor MY memory by writing a faq of a lovely NES game when I die. Oh god, it's embarrassing to dig up the old gamefaqs contributions now and again.
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Re: The latest Retronauts, I think my biggest game "purchase" regret was the Christmas where I used my one allotted wishlist spot for games to ask for Shadow the Hedgehog  Most embarrassing moment related to spending money on games was the time I went apeshit in a Blockbuster because they didn't have a copy of Mega Man X3 for rent. Granted I was a dumb 7-year old but I didn't even go apeshit on my parents, my poor babysitter had to put that fire out and despite being a good friend of my mom's I don't think she ever babysat me again.Best gaming purchase was during Gamestop's GC/GBA/PS2 liquidation sale a few years ago, where I picked up a Gamestop Pikmin case, took it the counter, and the dude said "I don't have Pikmin, will you take this Pikmin 2 disc instead?". I haven't tried playing it yet 
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Woffle posted:To clarify, making fun of Kole for saying Cycle of Samsara is not me making fun of him for being literary, it's for making the same literary allusion many times over. And lest that make me come off as mean, I also make the same references over and over and fully expect to be made fun of as well.
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Here's what a PS3 supercomputer actually looks like btw: A researcher there posted in the Thumbs forum about it.
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ja2ke posted:Here's what a PS3 supercomputer actually looks like btw: That's not a PS3 supercomputer, this is:  (This is a US Air Force test for the 1700 console cluster they were planning shortly before Sony dropped Linux support.) edit: Oh, they actually built the 1760 unit cluser -- it was the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world at the time and analyzed satellite imagery. pseudorandom name fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Jan 14, 2015 |
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Funkmaster General posted:I really want to play Puyo Puyo Tetris now. Japan gets that while the rest of the world gets hot Ubisoft garbage  . At least it's importable.
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Funkmaster General posted:I really want to play Puyo Puyo Tetris now. I... may have imported a copy 5 minutes into the Giant Bomb Quick Look.
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RetroHelix posted:I... may have imported a copy 5 minutes into the Giant Bomb Quick Look. I almost did. Then I put on the bombcast today and it just had to happen.
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Inspired by all the Dan talk in this thread, most of my contribution to this week's Idle Thumbs is talking about how much of an idiot I am, and what dumb situations I get myself into, when it comes to doing things normal people seem to understand. Hopefully it generates like 6 pages of hate and bafflement towards me.
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ja2ke posted:Inspired by all the Dan talk in this thread, most of my contribution to this week's Idle Thumbs is talking about how much of an idiot I am, and what dumb situations I get myself into, when it comes to doing things normal people seem to understand. Hopefully it generates like 6 pages of hate and bafflement towards me. It might take ten or eleven straight weeks of this to have the desired effect. I wish you well on this voyage.
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ja2ke posted:Inspired by all the Dan talk in this thread, most of my contribution to this week's Idle Thumbs is talking about how much of an idiot I am, and what dumb situations I get myself into, when it comes to doing things normal people seem to understand. Hopefully it generates like 6 pages of hate and bafflement towards me. Naw people will start reading the old episodes, be shocked on how you act and talk and then accuse you of being a mean-spirited stupid poopyhole. Then of course you guys will do a short google/robot/year of the PS3 news segment and a recent archive reader with no concept of running jokes or running gags will flip their poo poo on how you are beating the dead horse and its no longer funny.
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Danielle saying "they suck your happiness" made me chitter like a monkey. I am literally five years old
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ja2ke posted:Inspired by all the Dan talk in this thread, most of my contribution to this week's Idle Thumbs is talking about how much of an idiot I am, and what dumb situations I get myself into, when it comes to doing things normal people seem to understand. Hopefully it generates like 6 pages of hate and bafflement towards me. Going to start a new podcast on the IT network in addition Thumbs proper and Twin Peaks Rewatch called Mortgage Walk With Me where you talk to an institutional lender about the finer points of borrowing money?
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This got turned around quickly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py__kssV_fE
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ja2ke posted:Inspired by all the Dan talk in this thread, most of my contribution to this week's Idle Thumbs is talking about how much of an idiot I am, and what dumb situations I get myself into, when it comes to doing things normal people seem to understand. Hopefully it generates like 6 pages of hate and bafflement towards me. If you only ate Taco Bell for like 20 years exclusively before branching out to other parts of their menu then maybe you would reach Dan's level. Maybe.
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Captain Novolin posted:The reason his car was full of burger king wrappers is that secretly that's all Jake's eaten in his entire life At least he understands how a car loan works.
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Captain Novolin posted:The reason his car was full of burger king wrappers is that secretly that's all Jake's eaten in his entire life Sorry I think you mean Richard.
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Swagger Dagger posted:Richard is... Ricky Rodkin is a fantastic name.
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Gonna need a animated segment on the Venn diagram discussion in the new Thumbs, that was awesome. That whole episode was great, in fact.
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Hey Bob, I've enjoyed reading (and listening) to your pieces on Majora's Mask. I'm now pumped to actually play it. I was one of those people back in 2000 that was turned off by it's weirdness, yet in 2015 I'm one of those people that enjoys Zelda but is so sick of the standard formula that it sounds like just what the doctor ordered. One problem, I don't have a 3ds nor the funds to pick one up anytime soon (just got a Wii U and PS4 recently). My wife actually has an N64 in storage with Majora. My question is this - do I just wait until eventually picking up a 3ds sometime next year to play it OR do I head to our storage unit and find the 64 version. The answer to this seems like it would be simple (duh, go play the version I have access to) except that in all those videos the visuals look they have improved so much that I'm wondering if I should just wait to experience it "the best way" first. Some of those comparisons of the original to the remake look startling. The poor N64 version looks hideously ugly. What would you (or anyone else that wants to chime in) do?
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Szmitten posted:Ricky Rodkin is a fantastic name. Dick RodKing.
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:Hey Bob, I've enjoyed reading (and listening) to your pieces on Majora's Mask. I'm now pumped to actually play it. I was one of those people back in 2000 that was turned off by it's weirdness, yet in 2015 I'm one of those people that enjoys Zelda but is so sick of the standard formula that it sounds like just what the doctor ordered. One problem, I don't have a 3ds nor the funds to pick one up anytime soon (just got a Wii U and PS4 recently). My wife actually has an N64 in storage with Majora. My question is this - do I just wait until eventually picking up a 3ds sometime next year to play it OR do I head to our storage unit and find the 64 version. The answer to this seems like it would be simple (duh, go play the version I have access to) except that in all those videos the visuals look they have improved so much that I'm wondering if I should just wait to experience it "the best way" first. Some of those comparisons of the original to the remake look startling. The poor N64 version looks hideously ugly. What would you (or anyone else that wants to chime in) do? I dunno, I still think Majora's Mask is pretty playable on the N64, even if it's kind of fugly. If you have a Wii or Wii U, you can always get the Virtual Console version, which looks a bit better—it's also on a GameCube Zelda compilation disc, but that version is known to lock up, and I'm not exactly sure how expensive it is. Honestly, though, if you're going to be picking up a 3DS anyway, it might be best to wait, since it'll be a much better experience (and you've waited this long anyway). Anyhow, I'm glad I was able to convince you!
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bobservo posted:I dunno, I still think Majora's Mask is pretty playable on the N64, even if it's kind of fugly. If you have a Wii or Wii U, you can always get the Virtual Console version, which looks a bit better—it's also on a GameCube Zelda compilation disc, but that version is known to lock up, and I'm not exactly sure how expensive it is. Honestly, though, if you're going to be picking up a 3DS anyway, it might be best to wait, since it'll be a much better experience (and you've waited this long anyway). Anyhow, I'm glad I was able to convince you! Thanks for the input. I'll probably just hold off since like you said...it's already been about 15 years. I actually had a 2DS up until a couple months ago when I sold it to put the cash towards a Wii U. I just wasn't a fan of the smaller screen and cramped button layout. I'm looking forward to eventually getting one probably next fall. That'll be something to look forward to I guess. Anyways, thanks.
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Also, I don't know when it dropped but I'm just now getting around to the WOFF Rock Band episode. I didn't own Rock Band but being in college in the late 200Xs meant I played a grip of it during that time. I also had Guitar Hero III (on Wii) and a love of this kind of music which certainly helped foster a love for these games while they were in the public eye. And I was in band & orchestra in high school and college so I had some rhythmic ability. I had actually been thinking about digging my GH3 controller out of my garage and noodling around with it this weekend, between your episode and Giant Bomb talking about new Rock Band DLC I went down there and found it. And you guys mentioned a few of my favorite songs from that game which I didn't know were also in Rock Band, like Paranoid, Reptilia, and Cities on Flame With Rock & Roll 
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