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Beefstew posted:This needed to happen several pages ago: Without clicking I knew what this link was gonn be.
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Jun 23, 2015 13:50
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So does anyone else follow Jim Sterling? I love his squinty play videos, looking at the worst of steam green light and early access. I did disagree with him that it's Steam's job to weed out the utter garbage stuff from it, but now I'm starting to come around when he started talking about asset flipping and people outright selling games they didn't make.
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Jun 23, 2015 16:13
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BigRed0427 posted:So does anyone else follow Jim Sterling? I love his squinty play videos, looking at the worst of steam green light and early access. I did disagree with him that it's Steam's job to weed out the utter garbage stuff from it, but now I'm starting to come around when he started talking about asset flipping and people outright selling games they didn't make. I remember when Unepic couldn't get on Steam initially because it didn't meet their quality standards. Now there's asset flips, stolen games and of course Kill the human being.
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WickedHate posted:They really aren't any better than the person their obsessed with. They actually went through trash at one point after her house burned down to find old high school papers. It's abhorrent. loving hell... I know internet trolls aren't exactly respectful of other people's privacy, but finding out where somebody lives, finding your way to that address, and then digging through the charred remains of their home to find old homework from about 15 years ago? Chris Chan or not, that's a level of stalker I can't even fathom.
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Jun 23, 2015 17:48
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Hey now pinning this all on 4chan is unfair. The people who got married through their shared obsessive hatred of Chris-chan were members of our very own Something Awful.
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Jun 23, 2015 17:51
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BigRed0427 posted:So does anyone else follow Jim Sterling? I love his squinty play videos, looking at the worst of steam green light and early access. I did disagree with him that it's Steam's job to weed out the utter garbage stuff from it, but now I'm starting to come around when he started talking about asset flipping and people outright selling games they didn't make. I don't watch him regularly, but he's good people. I like that the guy who I mainly remember as the sorta-troll reviewer on Destructoid is making good videos now.
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Jun 23, 2015 18:19
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I like him. His videos are very polemic, but he normally backs it up with good reasoning and also distinguishes between the trolling and the actual arguments.
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Jun 23, 2015 18:32
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To be honest the first time I saw him was his Sim City video. I first found him a little arrogant but once I got past the facade I thoroughly enjoyed listening to his talking points.
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Jun 23, 2015 19:33
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Annointed posted:I first found him a little arrogant but once I got past the facade I thoroughly enjoyed listening to his talking points. It started out grating to me, but over time it's become kind of lovable, possibly because he also 1) makes fun of himself and 2) will admit when he's been wrong and/or dumb and change opinions. I like the Jimquisition the most, mainly because I tend to prefer heavily scripted and edited stuff over the extemporaneous, but pretty much everything on his channel is fun.
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Jun 23, 2015 20:41
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Who are the good game reviewer types similar to Jimquisition? About the only vidja gamez people I follow are him and Bunnyhop guy, who is great for different reasons.
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Jun 23, 2015 21:04
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Impermanent posted:Who are the good game reviewer types similar to Jimquisition? About the only vidja gamez people I follow are him and Bunnyhop guy, who is great for different reasons. Kimble Justice posts in the thread and is pretty great. If you want a nice variety of topics explored, including tv shows about video games, Kimble's a great choice.
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Jun 23, 2015 22:44
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Anyone remember the guy who did the Call of Duty retrospective? He's got a new video on comedy games, looking at South Park: Stick of Truth, Brutal Legend, Far Cry Blood Dragon, Portal 2, and Goat Simulator. Interesting stuff.
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Alacron posted:Anyone remember the guy who did the Call of Duty retrospective? He's got a new video on comedy games, looking at South Park: Stick of Truth, Brutal Legend, Far Cry Blood Dragon, Portal 2, and Goat Simulator. Interesting stuff. The dude is indeed pretty awesome. He is actually an amazing critic, since he seems to be able to separate his personal opinion from his 'professional' one. It's really interesting to listen to him.
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Impermanent posted:Who are the good game reviewer types similar to Jimquisition? About the only vidja gamez people I follow are him and Bunnyhop guy, who is great for different reasons. Errant Signal is a favorite of mine. They don't come out as fast as Bunnyhop or Jim but there's usually two episodes a month.
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Impermanent posted:Who are the good game reviewer types similar to Jimquisition? About the only vidja gamez people I follow are him and Bunnyhop guy, who is great for different reasons. They don't do reviews but I like Extra Credits. They more talk about game design theories and how certain aspects of the industry work.
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BigRed0427 posted:They don't do reviews but I like Extra Credits. They more talk about game design theories and how certain aspects of the industry work. Just don't mention Red 5 and Firefall. Seriously though their extra funds project was a complete bust, and fell to the wayside without even a murmur. Annointed fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Jun 24, 2015 |
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Jun 24, 2015 04:20
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Extra Credits has always seemed bland as poo poo at best. And their Hared video was just kinda moronic on top.
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Annointed posted:Just don't mention Red 5 and Firefall. Seriously though their extra funds project was a complete bust, and fell to the wayside without even a murmur. Oh man, I forgot Extra Funds was even a loving thing. What a disaster.
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Jun 24, 2015 07:29
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Genetic Toaster posted:Oh man, I forgot Extra Funds was even a loving thing. What a disaster. What was it? Did they beg for money or something?
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Jun 24, 2015 08:29
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JB50 posted:What was it? Did they beg for money or something? Yeah, their original artist needed surgery on her hand so they held a fund raiser. Which was an issue all in of it self. They were on the Escapist at the time and they felt they deserved a cut of what they raised. This led to them leaving the site, The fundraiser was successful but had a lot of money left over. So they decide they are going to use the money to fund some Indy project. I don't think anything came of it.
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Jun 24, 2015 12:54
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BigRed0427 posted:So does anyone else follow Jim Sterling? Something about his voice grates for me and I really don't care for his Jimquisition persona but the man does know what he's talking about. I think I enjoy his written stuff more than his videos by far.
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Jun 24, 2015 13:00
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There's a new Movie Nights--and it's Prehysteria! If I remember correctly, the exclamation point is, in fact, part of the title. You have no idea how much I loved this movie when I was a little kid. Cute little animatronic pet dinosaurs was my jam. This is another one I watched a lot of (and now own): Remote
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Mr. Fowl posted:There's a new Movie Nights--and it's Prehysteria! If I remember correctly, the exclamation point is, in fact, part of the title. Hell yeah, Full Moon Features's kids film department. I saw few of these, but saw trailers for them ALL THE TIME
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Moonbeam features were awesome. Along with Prehysteria!, I used to rent the Josh Kirby films a lot.
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Jun 24, 2015 18:40
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I forgot about the extra funds project. I don't blame them one bit for leaving the escapist after they tried to yank all the donation money, but its a shame nothing came of their indy project funding. At least they tried, even though therre was no feasible way they would be able to keep funding going off their extra donations for allison's surgery. I still like extra creditsn though nowadays that is mostly for their extra history segments on saturdays. Much more fun listening about historical stuff than hit and miss game analysis.
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Wait, so the Escapist held a fundraiser for one of it's producer's to get surgery...and then they tried to take all the money? What the hell. 
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Jun 24, 2015 19:26
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WickedHate posted:Wait, so the Escapist held a fundraiser for one of it's producer's to get surgery...and then they tried to take all the money? Edit: Well, I seem to have misremembered some parts. Arcsquad has the better explanation. Alacron fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Jun 24, 2015 |
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Jun 24, 2015 19:37
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I remember Prehysteria! from when I was a kid.  I think I remember the second one more, though.
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WickedHate posted:Wait, so the Escapist held a fundraiser for one of it's producer's to get surgery...and then they tried to take all the money? What the hell. Okay, so ec's artist needed wrist surgery or she couldn't continue doing art for the show. Ec went to the fundraising site rockethub and set up a donation box for her, and then asked the escapist if they would consider letting ec promote the donation drive on the site, same as loading ready run had done for their desert bus campaigns. Escapist said yes, and even offered some stretch goal rewards like t-shirts for high paying donators. The donation drive was a huge success and made a couple hundred thousand dollars, way more than was needed to cover the surgery. And that's where poo poo fell apart. Ec decided that with the extra money, they would use to fund extra credits and an indy game, putting the money to use getting a developer off the ground. But then the escapist came knocking demanding a big cut of the extra funds, citing the t-shirts and promotion they provided as grounds to sieze the money. After this happened, james, ec's main writer, revealed that the escapist hadn't actually paid them for their content for months. The ec team had agreed to this with the promise that escapist would pay them later after their financial woes striaghtened out. So here comes the escapist suddenly demanding all the extra cash people had donated to the surgery be handed over, after months of not paying their contributors$ It got even worse when a bunch of other contributors came forward and mentioned that "hey, we haven't been paid either!" And that the escapist had actually stiffed about four or five shows and comic strips at once. Escapist quietly dropped their threats against extra credits and then ec migrated to penny arcade and then to youtube. None of the contributors that had been short changed are on the site anymore.
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 That is some Universal Studios vs Nintendo level poo poo right there.
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The Escapist is a lovely site, the forums there are even worse. Don't bother going there.
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PassTheRemote posted:The Escapist is a lovely site, the forums there are even worse. Don't bother going there. Agreed, they couldn't be more scummy if they tried. They really make me sick.
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PassTheRemote posted:The Escapist is a lovely site, the forums there are even worse. Don't bother going there. I never went back since Jim sterling when solo, I don't miss it mush, and every story I heard it just sounds like a horrible place. I mean it makes TGWTG sound like google in term of being run smoothly.
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At least TGWTG doesn't pretend to pay its content producers, which doesn't make them less scummy but it does at least make them not crooks. Though TGWTG makes up for it in emotional abusiveness.
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The worst part was watching those videos where they twist the situation to make EC sound like they were just as wrong, as wrong as the guys trying to take money from an artist's surgery fund when they haven't paid their people. Granted the videos claimed that ad revenue went down a boatload during the time of the EC fundraiser, but I highly doubt that claim.
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Jun 24, 2015 23:24
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I haven't been back to the escapist since they cancelled game dogs. what a great show
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Mr. Fowl posted:There's a new Movie Nights--and it's Prehysteria! If I remember correctly, the exclamation point is, in fact, part of the title. I'd never seen the movie, but I vividly remember the box cover for some reason. Seems like it was better than one would think. As Lupa touched upon, I appreciate anything made for kids that doesn't talk down to them.
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dreezy posted:I haven't been back to the escapist since they cancelled game dogs. what a great show Not even the editor in chief of the site was safe from the cancelation spree.
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dijon du jour posted:At least TGWTG doesn't pretend to pay its content producers, which doesn't make them less scummy but it does at least make them not crooks. Didnt they discourage using patreon for a while?
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